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Formal Controls and Team Adaptability in NPD Projects
Detzen, Nina - 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of two formal controls, namely target rigidity and process autonomy, on team adaptability and project success in new product development (NPD) projects. Target rigidity refers to performance goals that are non-negotiable once they...
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Realising potential: the new motivation game
Gee, Chris; Burke, Maria E. - In: Management Decision 39 (2001) 2, pp. 131-137
This article establishes the role played by the manager in motivating his or her employees on a consistent basis. The restructuring of the economy in the 1980s and 1990s directly challenged the manager’s task in motivating employees by increasing the sense of job insecurity and eroding the...
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TDM grid: an effective tool for implementing strategic plans in academic institutions
Korey, George - In: Management Decision 33 (1995) 2, pp. 40-47
Quality of academic institutions depends on how well academic activity is integrated with the right process. This involves the development of all administrative structures and efficiency of managing the institution. Team decision‐making (TDM) grid will be of value in strategic planning –...
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Transformation through teamwork: the path to the new organization?
Drew, Stephen; Coulson‐Thomas, Colin - In: Management Decision 34 (1996) 1, pp. 7-17
Teamwork is one of the most widely recommended tools for organizational transformation. Initiatives such as business … process redesign, total quality management or new product development almost always depend on effective and high‐energy group … efforts. Presents a new study of team management practice, and the corporate objectives served, in a broad cross‐section of …
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Going for the gold
Burdett, John - In: Management Decision 35 (1997) 2, pp. 119-124
Likens the world of top‐class sports and team playing with business organizations. Discusses player development, leadership, players’ assumptions, partnerships with customers and employs Tamrock, a multinational corporation based in Finland,as a case in point.
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Developing self‐directed work teams
Clifford, Gavin P.; Sohal, Amrik S. - In: Management Decision 36 (1998) 2, pp. 77-84
Over the past decade many manufacturing organisations around the world have been changing their structures from the traditional hierarchical pyramid structure to a flatter, more responsive and lean structure. Team work and employee participation have become the key tasks for managers in all...
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Teamworked organisational engineering: getting the most out of teamworking
Tranfield, David; Parry, Ivor; Wilson, Sarah; Smith, Stuart - In: Management Decision 36 (1998) 6, pp. 378-384
. New research in the Change Management Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University has identified why this is the case … requisite teamwork arrangements.  …
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Unpacking the relationships between conflicts and team innovation
He, Yuanqiong; Ding, Xiu-Hao; Yang, Kunpeng - In: Management Decision 52 (2014) 8, pp. 1533-1548
Purpose – Teamwork is important for innovation, but it often incurs conflicts. Previous literature has reported … explore how to improve team innovation using conflict management styles. Design/methodology/approach – This study collects … cooperative conflict management styles and dominating style (one of competitive conflict management styles) moderate the …
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Towards a stoic interpretation of controllability
Pesqueux, Yvon - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 1, pp. 5-12
Ethics – both within philosophy and in the new disciplines of “applied ethics” and “business ethics” – is a vogue subject these days and, as such, calls for a few cautionary words. The resurgence of ethics has engendered two main schools of criticism: one which sees it as a passing...
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Business improvement through quality management systems
van der Wiele, Ton; Dale, Barrie; Williams, Roger - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 1, pp. 19-23
model, as two examples of management fads which have survived for a long period of time. The literature suggests that two …
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