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- 1From:Community Care (Issue 428)case study arilyn Thompson is an education welfare officer in the Central South Swindon integrated locality team. She is responsible for supporting home-taught children and is assigned to one of the pupil referral...
- 2From:Journal of Business Strategy (Vol. 19, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOrganizational behavior experts Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones believe that there is no 'correct' corporate culture. Goffee defines culture as the way things are done in an organization, which Jones contends is an important...
- 3From:Training & Development (Vol. 52, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTacit knowledge is the result of involuntary learning that guides how people behave and act. It is deeper than explicit knowledge because it is internalized when individuals are least conscious that learning is taking...
- 4From:Review of Business (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCompanies can survive difficult times by treating them as learning opportunities. The worst thing that they can do is to give in to their defensive inclinations, such as cutting costs and laying off people. Instead of...
- 5From:The McKinsey Quarterly (Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDesigning the corporate center How should the corporate center of today's multibusiness corporations -- the apparatus of CEO and other top managers, plus the staff advising them -- be designed? How should it operate?...
- 6From:CMA - the Management Accounting Magazine (Vol. 65, Issue 9)The performance assessment of management accountants can be effectively facilitated by using reporting on effectiveness, efficiency and economy (three E's) as a measure of accountability. The Canadian Comprehensive...
- 7From:The McKinsey Quarterly (Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed* Memo to a CEO Subject: Putting your organization on the move From: Mickey Huibregtsen Date: Autumn 1991 The other day you raised the question why CEOs of prominent companies -- such as Jack Welch of GE, Robert...
- 8From:Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (Vol. 67, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt has recently been proposed that a valuable concept for the analysis of organizational behaviour is that of event management (Peterson, 1991; Smith & Peterson, 1988). According to this approach, events are all those...
- 9From:Directors & Boards (Vol. 19, Issue 4)In a recent survey conducted by the National Association of Corporate Directors, corporate performance emerged overwhelmingly as the top business priority in the minds of CEOs. More than 50% of the respondents in the...
- 10From:The McKinsey Quarterly (Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEconomic webs are informal partnerships between companies whose economic self-interest drives them into a web-like behavior. Although these companies seem to support each other, each company within a web functions...
- 11From:Industrial Management & Data Systems (Vol. 97, Issue 5-6) Peer-ReviewedThe Ingersoll Engineers' 1996 survey of manufacturing trends indicated that the 'focused-firm' has become the dominant mode of organizational structure for about 60% of UK manufacturing businesses. Companies with...
- 12From:Management Accounting (USA) (Vol. 79, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBenchmarking can help companies identify weaknesses in their operations and therefore implement corrective measures to improve their quality, productivity and competitiveness. This process entails measuring financial and...
- 13From:Business Forum (Vol. 21, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedManagement and workers need to adopt a holistic approach to enhance productivity. Such an approach involves not only the structural concept of productivity, which refers to the amount of goods and services produced for...
- 14From:Leadership & Organization Development Journal (Vol. 16, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedOrganizational and managerial behaviors in less developed countries (LDCs) are very traditional and strongly dependent on the prevailing social environment. While western organizations are either classified as...
- 15From:Journal of Management (Vol. 22, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA study was conducted to investigate the reasons behind and the consequences of the adoption of simple, competitive strategies in two very different contexts: the stable furniture industry and the volatile software...
- 16From:Journal of Management Development (Vol. 16, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedThe effectiveness of a team building program in terms of promoting trust and value among employees and of bringing about better group or organizational performance is evaluated. The effect of a particular team building...
- 17From:Leadership & Organization Development Journal (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA theoretical model for situational analysis has been designed to provide a detailed perspective of the organization and its complexities. The model is constructed in blocks of factors such as individual behavior,...
- 18From:American Review of Public Administration (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhat do administrators do when established procedures get in the way of getting work done? They change the procedures. Because procedures, however, may have been originally installed to impose controls that ensure...
- 19From:Abhigyan (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedManufacturing organisations achieve excellence in their performance only when they attune themselves to customer expectations. The comprehending importance of ISO 9001 standard for superior performance is more...
- 20From:Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEntrepreneurial activity does not always lead to economic growth. While improvements have been made to human capital, property rights protection, and access to financial capital in abject poverty contexts with the...