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The training challenges facing organisations resulting from changes over the next several decades are described. These include a decreasing umber of persons available for entry level positions including a growing proportion of undereducated young people. Also, jobs will become more complex as a...
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each instance, senior management recognised that, while their engineers possessed the “hard”, technical skills to fulfil … holistic approach to organisational change management.  …
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The green management literature repeatedly argues that in order to behave in a sustainable manner, organizational …
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and the different levels of management that interact in these change processes are also discussed. This leads to the …
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practice is to focus on the precursors in the management sciences field, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henri Fayol and Max Weber …‐technical and organizational‐development approaches to change management, by taking into better account the economic and strategic … dimensions of leadership management.  …
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Purpose – This paper aims to document how leaders with a highly‐developed meaning‐making system design and engage in sustainability initiatives. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 32 leaders and change agents were assessed for their meaning‐making system, or action logic, using a...
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Attempts to reformulate the notion of organizational control considering the new dictates of the post‐Fordist agenda. Ideology, as a control mechanism, takes on a secondary role with the body (re‐)emerging as the ontological priority for the examination of human subjectivity, or more...
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The failure rate of TQM interventions exceeds 75 per cent. Contends that it is missteps in the implementation of TQM – and other associated change efforts such as process re‐engineering – that undermine the likelihood that the intervention will contribute in a significant and lasting way...
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manage major change. Traces the development and evolution of the quality management paradigm, including the resistance of the … exerted by the business community to influence the business school curricula to include quality management. Research on … quality management was inhibited by the major paradigmatic shift required within organizations to implement quality programmes …
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