Addresses quality in schools, and looks specifically at teacher teams, and the problems facing them as they seek to … and use various interventions to “unfreeze” troubled or ineffectual teams.  …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how participatory decision‐making processes in top management teams …

Managing change is the crux of reducing the environmental impact of organisations. Teams are often used in large … communicating change can be different, is there still a rôle for change management through teams? The authors present case studies … in the field and compare it with teams used in these case study organizations. Describe how they choose priorities and …

‐organizational conflict. Argues that Graeco‐Roman and Confucian‐Buddhist‐based cultural and communicative codes are fundamentally antagonistic …, contributing to misperceptions and conflict between Western and Japanese management. Presents the briefing as a blueprint or … prototype for (a) identifying roots of Western‐Japanese conflict, (b) utilizing cross‐cultural data as a means for …

This paper examines the connection between influencing, negotiation and conflict‐handling. Using newly gathered data … area of conflict‐handling. The new data confirm the authors' view that negotiation is best seen as an aspect of influencing … and that, although both are associated with conflict‐handling, they go beyond this. The new findings reinforce concerns …

strongly suggest that recent behavioural findings might be used to improve the design of negotiating and conflict resolution … gains and losses, and related fairness determinations, are used in judging the acceptability of alternative negotiating or … conflict resolution proposals. Participants acted as arbitrators and selected their preferred resolution of conflicts …

’ ability to resolve conflicts and the teams’ openness in communication. Team members’ and leaders’ perceptions did not differ …

part, be explained by this dual nature of empowerment. It examines the case of a customer service programme in the Northern … adoption (and non‐adoption) of similar programmes among Safeway's competitors. It concludes that the dual nature of empowerment …