manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT … subset of this data prospectively, with 39 employees and 14 managers, manager optimism predicted project performance. Our …

As expatriate managers continue to be a viable means for exercising control over foreign operations, they can have a … expatriate managers. Each stage is discussed in terms of the successes as well as problems/failures associated with the … necessity to create new and/or enhance current practices relating to the development of expatriate managers' maximum global …

Nardelli, the lives of these high ranking corporate managers have been extensively scrutinized. However, despite the numerous … interview senior level managers and executives within local companies and see what their experience and success has taught them …

on the firm or industry but is reflective of the strength of the beliefs held by managers. This implies that the "black …

Management texts have long been prescriptive regarding management practice, recommending managers do this, and managers … gone into the field to observe just what managers actually do. Change management literature tends to be prescriptive … empirical information discussing what effective change managers actually do. This paper aims to present empirical data from a …

managers may be less influenced than senior women managers by the gender of the speaker in evaluating whether specific …-year female management students evaluated strategies for the same workplace dilemmas as senior women managers (Barrett 2004 …). Findings - For short and medium term dilemmas students, like senior women managers, regarded masculine communication strategies …

. Hence logistics operations require managers with a broad range of skills to cope with the challenges these supply chains … survey of 54 Chinese logistics managers are compared and contrasted with four case studies of European logistics managers to …

Discussions about deunionisation usually focus on lower levels of the workforce with managers seen as the initiators of … deunionisation strategies. Managers, however, occupy contradictory positions as agents of capital, employees and possibly trade …

achieved in 2011 with management teachers, trainers, consultants, specialists and with managers from the companies and …