Search Results - subject:"organizational restructuring"

The relation between strategic orientations and real opportunities for the Slovenian economy after the post-socialist transition period

Koncõina, Miroslav - In: European Business Review 14 (2002) 3

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Issues and remedies in Korean business restructuring

Woo Lee, Sang; Kang, Sung; Park, Kang H. - In: Managerial Finance 28 (2002) 10, pp. 47-66

Argues that increased insolvencies in Korean firms following the 1997 Asian financial crisis were due to low profitability and refers to relevant research on insolvency and failure prediction. Explains and discusses the private and legal types of restructuring open to Korean firms in trouble,...

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Gendered workplace bullying in the restructured UK Civil Service

Lee, Deborah - In: Personnel Review 31 (2002) 2, pp. 205-227

Surveys have demonstrated that men and women are the victims and perpetrators of workplace bullying. Consequently, most researchers have failed to explore the gender dynamics of this phenomenon. Draws upon qualitative interviews, which highlight the ways in which workplace bullying has developed...

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Work restructuring and technical change

Preece, David; Blosch, Marcus; Strain, John - In: Personnel Review 31 (2002) 4, pp. 449-464

argued to have contributed to this organizational restructuring, within the wider contexts and dynamics of change. …

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Rationalizing corporate downsizing with long‐term profitability – an empirical focus

Palliam, Ralph; Karake Shalhoub, Zeinab - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 5, pp. 436-447

This research empirically tests the rationale of corporate downsizing of employees as a cost reduction strategy on the long‐run profitability of a corporation. The sample for this study consisted of 185 large publicly‐held US‐based corporations which announced their intentions to downsize...

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A case study of the SMEs’ organizational restructuring in Taiwan

Fu, Hsin‐Pin; Chang, Tien‐Hsiang; Wu, Ming‐Ji - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 101 (2001) 9, pp. 492-501

SME whose profits had fallen dramatically and which successfully implemented organizational restructuring (OR). Discovers … that, although the SME in question did not make use of information technology to achieve the goal of organizational … restructuring, by adopting use of BPR concepts and methods it achieved its goal of transformation. The model used for the …

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Discharge in the electric industry

Yocom, Dennis; Helms, Marilyn M. - In: European Business Review 13 (2001) 3, pp. 137-151

The comparative potential impact of electric restructuring laws and attendant regulations on electric utilities and ultimately on their collective human resources in Ireland, Germany and in the Tennessee Valley, USA, is the focus of this research. It includes personal observations of utilities...

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Pressures and stress in a West Australian hospital

Duffy, Carol; Ching Ann Chan, Christopher - In: Personnel Review 30 (2001) 2, pp. 227-239

Using the Occupational Stress Indicator, the results from this study provided a comparative overview of Australian and UK hospital workers’ perceived responses to organizational sources of pressure, use of coping strategies plus outcomes of job satisfaction, mental and physical ill health. The...

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Realising potential: the new motivation game

Gee, Chris; Burke, Maria E. - In: Management Decision 39 (2001) 2, pp. 131-137

This article establishes the role played by the manager in motivating his or her employees on a consistent basis. The restructuring of the economy in the 1980s and 1990s directly challenged the manager’s task in motivating employees by increasing the sense of job insecurity and eroding the...

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Corporate restructuring: the pitfalls of changing industry structure

Proctor, Tony - In: Management Decision 39 (2001) 3, pp. 197-204

Industries have life cycles and the transition from one stage to the next can have considerable strategic implications for incumbent firms. Restructuring companies and other companies bringing about change in an industry have a vital role to play in the process of industry transition and...

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