organizational decline and recovery. Proposes that heuristics used by managers such as: availability, representativeness, adjustment … to adjust these heuristics and change the cognitive processes of the existing managers instead of replacing the top … management team in declining organizations. This change in cognitive processes could help increase the ability of a declining …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the potential role that performance management could play in … that applying this framework will: enable adaptability to change; and provide an ongoing management function that enables …, yet it does reveal interesting implications in terms of the apparent role of performance management in both developing …

Based on recently proposed principles of total quality management (TQM), takes a system‐oriented perspective with … regard to the design of performance management systems in organizations. The underlying premiss of this orientation is that …

questions were carefully constructed and answered by top managers according to a four‐point scale. The three hypotheses were …'s distance. Firms implement incremental changes when top managers use either short‐ or long‐distance analogies within the … strategic formulation process, whereas radical changes are implemented when top managers apply medium‐distance analogies …

, i.e. a “manager′s model”. Secondly, the model′s focus is concerned with how a manager can go about initiating a “change …

stability′s sake, and the manager′s dilemma in having a foot in each camp, both disciplined and informal. It is concluded that …

programme was targeted at the top management teams. The programme consisted of a number of different OD techniques combined into … a composite package of four parallel sub‐programmes: educational (the theory and practice of management), realization … (learning from the experience). The top management group was the nucleus of each change programme. The programme was …

has been done to assess the changing situation for the managers of Soviet enterprises. This 1990 study of 108 Soviet … managers employed in large state‐owned enterprises (including aviation, precision instruments, construction, light industrial … enterprise; and (4) human resource management. Results indicate that they perceived meaningful change in their authority since …