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Dilemmas in sustainability
Canto de Loura, Isabel - In: Journal of Management Development 33 (2014) 6, pp. 594-602
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contextualize the potential contribution that experiential learning and a learner-centred pedagogical approach may have when aiming to embed sustainability-focused and corporate social responsibility issues in businesses throughout the core curriculum...
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Diversity factors and preferential treatments in selecting employees
Taap Manshor, Amat; Jusoh, Mazuki; Simun, Maimun - In: Journal of Management Development 22 (2003) 7, pp. 643-656
This study examines the effect of hiring managers' demographic characteristics on employee selection preferences, and the strength of the manager's selection preferences towards candidates' demographic characteristics when the candidate's relative qualification changes. A sample of 156...
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Managing diversity using a strategic planned change approach
Friday, Earnest; Friday, Shawnta S. - In: Journal of Management Development 22 (2003) 10, pp. 863-880
Many organizations have implemented various types of initiatives within the last few decades in an effort to deal with diversity. A possible missing vinculum (link) between how an organization deals with diversity and its impact on the bottomline is a corporate diversity strategy that is...
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Top managers' national diversity and boundary spanning
Caligiuri, Paula; Lazarova, Mila; Zehetbauer, Stephan - In: Journal of Management Development 23 (2004) 9, pp. 848-859
Using a sample of 76 US‐based multinational firms, this study tests two hypotheses: whether top management teams' national diversity, and the number of countries of operation worldwide are related to other established indicators of internationalization. Results suggest that both hypothesized...
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Developing an empirical typology of diversity-oriented human resource management practices
Meena, Kavita; Vanka, Sita - In: Journal of Management Development 36 (2017) 7, pp. 915-929
Purpose The significance of human resource management in managing workforce diversity has been emphasized by researchers and various practices have been identified and prescribed in literature. However, there is lack of HR typologies to understand different diversity management alternatives....
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Making wise decisions: leadership lessons from Mahabharata
L. Kaipa, Prasad - In: Journal of Management Development 33 (2014) 8/9, pp. 835-846
along with data effectively can help leader using this framework make wise decisions. The stories of leadership success and …
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Mentoring Revisited: An Organizational Behaviour Construct
Appelbaum, Steven H.; Ritchie, Stephen; Shapiro, Barbara T. - In: Journal of Management Development 13 (1994) 4, pp. 62-72
, interpersonal and work group processes, and organizational structure. Pays specific attention to leadership, corporate culture …
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The aftermath of downsizing
Appelbaum, Steven H.; Leblanc, Manon; Shapiro, Barbara T. - In: Journal of Management Development 17 (1998) 6, pp. 402-431
, satisfaction and morale in this particular hybrid case and field study. Attention was given to changing culture leadership …
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The teaching of leadership on UK MBA programmes
Mellahi, Kamel - In: Journal of Management Development 19 (2000) 4, pp. 297-308
This study investigates the compatibility of leadership values taught on MBA programmes in the United Kingdom (UK) and … the expected, accepted and effective leadership values in three non‐western cultures. The study was conducted on 272 full … reveals that leadership curricula on MBA programmes is broadly conceived in the US corpus and assumes universality. The …
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Co-operation – the missing value of business education
E. Witte, Anne - In: Journal of Management Development 33 (2014) 4, pp. 357-373
and leadership. Without the moral and methodological goal of being co-operative for the greater good, organizations waste …
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