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The incidence of mergers and acquisitions has proliferated throughout the world including all sectors of our society, both municipal and industrial, private and public. However, the majority (60‐80 percent) of them do not reach their intended objectives owing to the fact that the merging...
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Purpose – Business education should be seen as a form of professional education which assists the student to acquire the virtue of practical wisdom. This article seeks to discuss the issues. Design/methodology/approach – A middle level thinking (MLT) approach is taken to engage business...
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fundamental questions in SGM's business model: strategy, structure and mainly purpose, processes and culture. Findings – The … dialogues with key leaders of local communities in order to promote with them an enlightened culture of CSR and of development …
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Managers working for multinational companies need to be culturally sensitive, as do those responsible for training methods and materials in different cultural settings. The issues associated with the effectiveness of applying training and development techniques and processes across different...
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Different societies hold different views. Thus, a managerial style that works in one culture will not necessarily work … “my culture’s OK, your culture’s OK” frame of reference. But, proposes that the other’s culture is not really OK if it … be supportive (“really OK” culture) and those which might not (“really not OK” cultures). Concludes that expatriate …
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Asserts that coaching is the secret weapon of many successful organizations. Suggests that what is generally lacking in organizations is not the spirit of coaching but the delivery skills to carry through on good intent. Proposes 40 guidelines to coaching to aid this process.
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One of the most important transitions going on in the newly independent nations of the former Soviet Union involves training managers and their associates who are working to establish a free market‐based economy within a pluralistic democratic setting. This article highlights the problems and...
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Discusses the challenges of management development in post‐apartheid South Africa. The main issue is how to compensate for apartheid’s negative legacy and bring large numbers of the previously disfranchised black majority into the corporate mainstream. Achieving this goal will require South...
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Having shaken off the formal mantles of their British forebears, Australians and New Zealanders are eagerly embracing the latest management development (MD) approaches, adopting and adapting North American and European methods. Recent government reports highlight the need for both basic and...
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Managers involved in international business should be concerned with the cultural context of communication. A contrasting of the way the Americans and Japanese perceive reality and thus relate within their individual societies, highlights the danger inherent if one chooses to exist within a...
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