Showing 1 - 10 of 71
Three manufacturing facilities of an international consumer products company were studied to determine cross‐cultural differences in how managers address employee participation. Despite nearly identical products, a common company culture, and other similarities, European managers demonstrated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014888317
Examines two temporal elements of organizational culture, polychronicity and speed values, and their effects on organizational performance. The study of these dimensions of culture and their effects on firm effectiveness is especially relevant for leaders who are responsible for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014888533
Psychoanalysis has nothing to say about firms or management as such; inversely, psychoanalytic coaching can aid … psychoanalytic framework, psychoanalytic coaching must meet certain criteria in order to justify a psychoanalytic filiation: amongst … risks involved for all parties concerned (the manager, the firm and the analyst), psychoanalytic coaching offers a way of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014888506
The paper investigates the effectiveness of codes of ethics to influence the behaviour of employees. Vignettes are not part of the methodology as the core data come from the direct observations of behaviours reported by 25 top managers and 545 employees from eight large Australian enterprises....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014887790
Redundancy, delayering, downsizing and various other forms of organisational change, often accompanied by the managerial fad of the moment, have become increasingly prevalent over the last ten years. This paper is based on the results of a four‐year University of Manchester Institute of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014887854
This paper gives an overview of major issues in trust research, identifying common foundations and multiple constellations of organizational trust. In doing so, the paper also addresses important implications of theory development and empirical research. First, it provides a historical sketch of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014887882
Research into interpersonal trust within organisational contexts tends to concentrate on managers as a referent, largely ignoring the potential social benefits of trust amongst co‐workers. Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate the influence of co‐worker trust on selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014887885
One challenge for multinational organizations is to manage inter‐organizational relationships with customers, collaborators, competitors, governments and other important stakeholder organizations. Negotiations can be seen as a process to manage interdependence and conflicts of interests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014887887
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the effect that work locus of control has on perceptions of trust, perceived organizational support, procedural justice and interactional justice. Design/methodology/approach – Survey data were collected from 679 alumni of a university in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014887964
Purpose – This paper aims to describe how organizational culture is manifested in behavioral norms and expectations, focusing on 12 sets of behavioral norms associated with constructive, passive/defensive, and aggressive/defensive cultural styles. Design/methodology/approach – The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014887980