viable strategy for a firm. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses data from 70 managers in the spa industry. Findings … – Concludes that managers' cognitive style and particularly their way of taking in information (sensing or intuition) have effect … on strategies they tend to prefer. Intuitive managers tend to view the prospector or the analyzer strategy as the most …

Based on personal observations of several thousand managers, in both business and simulated business settings, four … organisations run by the managers in our study when the elements had been developed in proportion to each other. Too strong a focus …

In today′s rapidly changing and high‐pressured environment, managers need to learn to think more strategically about … what they should be doing in their jobs. Shows how managers can take a strategic view of their work by first recognizing … help many managers review their choices. Suggests how managers can view more strategically the different lines of action …

Describes a simulation that provides an alternative method for teaching managers about the organizational renewal …

Examines how potential manufacturing managers are educated in 19 Taiwanese universities. It looks at undergraduate … had ambitions to become manufacturing managers.  …

societal priorities of the new reform context and espoused work goal priorities of very senior Indian managers in key economic … sectors. The paper attempts to capture the shift in work goals of senior managers during the period of current reform …. Empirical evidence gathered through a survey of 421 senior Indian managers sponsored by the Indian Institute of Management …

Examines the role of key players such as front‐line and middle managers as well as executives in implementing and …

First‐line nurse managers in the Canadian healthcare system are facing many challenges due, in large part, to reduced … that leave nurse managers with greater pressures to do more with less. A two‐round Delphi study was conducted with a panel … of 41 Canadian nurse managers selected from hospitals, with at least 100 beds, in the province of Alberta. The Delphi …