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Developing personal responsibility and leadership traits in all your employees: part 1 – shaping and harmonizing the high‐performance drivers
Smith, Peter A.C; Sharma, Meenakshi - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 8, pp. 764-774
traits of personal responsibility and leadership in all employees. Contends that this is feasible and describes how it can be …
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Developing personal responsibility and leadership traits in all your employees: part 2 – optimally shaping and harmonizing focus, will and capability
Smith, Peter A.C.; Sharma, Meenakshi - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 9, pp. 814-822
traits of personal responsibility and leadership in all employees. Contends that this is feasible and describes how it can be …
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Downsizing: an examination of some successes and more failures
Appelbaum, Steven H.; Close, Tamara G.; Klasa, Sandy - In: Management Decision 37 (1999) 5, pp. 424-437
, level of trust and level of leadership, since it has a profound effect on a company’s downsizing strategy. Examines case … employees to be listened to. In the case of these downsizings, the surviving employees were successfully shown that they should …
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HRM and the commitment rhetoric: challenges for Africa
Gbadamosi, Gbolahan - In: Management Decision 41 (2003) 3, pp. 274-280
This paper highlights some contemporary issues in the commitment research as it relates to HRM. A comparative evaluation of the meaning of commitment as espoused by academics and managers was also made. Some African empirical evidence was reported and examined with its implications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014932386
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Organizational flux and its destabilizing influence on employee identity
Curry, Barbara K. - In: Management Decision 41 (2003) 6, pp. 558-569
. Concludes that leadership and members should both pay attention to the problems that arise for employees to benefit.  … among employees, managers and employers. Aims to explore the need to increase management sensitivity to experiences of … employees during the change process, and to consider possibilities for future exploration in the areas of significance …
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Does the talk affect your decision to walk
Brunetto, Yvonne; Farr‐Wharton, Rod - In: Management Decision 42 (2004) 3/4, pp. 579-600
compare the impact of changes post managerialism to organisational processes on outcomes for different types of employees. The …
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Study on staff management practice of multinational company affiliates in China
Zhou, Yuanqiang; Lu, Lei; Jiang, Bo - In: Management Decision 43 (2005) 4, pp. 516-522
Purpose – More and more foreign companies, including multinational companies, open business in China. The staff management under the local culture of China is one of the critical points affecting the success of foreign invested companies in China. This paper aims to illustrate the effective...
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Measuring organizational responsiveness: the development of a validated survey instrument
Hoyt, James; Huq, Faizul; Kreiser, Patrick - In: Management Decision 45 (2007) 10, pp. 1573-1594
Purpose – The paper aims to develop the survey utilized in this research as a data collection tool for the study of organizational responsiveness. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing from the operations and strategic management literature, measurement scales were developed in order to...
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Management implications of foreign players in the English Premiership League football
Madichie, Nnamdi - In: Management Decision 47 (2009) 1, pp. 24-50
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how one of the biggest phenomena of the twenty‐first century is the internationalisation of professional sports and how premier league football epitomises this. With the influx of foreign players, managers and now owners, European League...
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Auditing employee ownership in a neo‐liberal world
Reeves Knyght, P.; Kouzmin, Alexander; Kakabadse, Nada K.; … - In: Management Decision 48 (2010) 8, pp. 1304-1323
Purpose – Employee ownership has attracted much attention across the globe. Whether affected by the global financial crisis (GFC), or not, this paper seeks to canvass what is known about employee ownership in neo‐liberal political economies. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a...
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