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In the highly competitive business world of today, many managers have a tendency to micro manage their field sales employees. These managers have good intentions of trying to help the representatives accomplish the various tasks and directives that have been set by upper management. However,...
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the company’s performance evaluation and control systems. This paper reports new research sponsored by the EPSRC which has … and diagnose current organizational control practices and, where appropriate, intervene.  …
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The Godfather theory of management is a power and control model of leadership. Explains a process whereby leaders can …
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Institutional history is important in the context of understanding the control of pension systems. This history has …
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) perspective. Building on the results of previous studies that indicate, directly or indirectly, the importance of control in … staffing, the paper proposes that strategic control may be a critical driver that underpins IJV staffing. In conclusion, the …
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performing ventures. “Illusion of control” and “satisficing” theories were used to explain the individuals’ implicit paradigms.  …
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The early decades of the twentieth century witnessed a significant transformation in managerial control practices … store operations as inventory valuation, credit control and overhead expense allocation. Traditional positions of power were …
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Purpose – The study aims at clarifying whether locus of control may act as a bias in organisational decision‐making or …) participated in the study. They were asked to complete a booklet including a locus of control test and a couple of decision tasks …‐making. Findings – The results revealed that managers with low external locus of control used group consultative decision‐making more …
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control procedures. The internal co‐operation necessary in the purchasing/operations interface under JIT facilitates …
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Chaos theory is about to invade the thinking and vocabulary of practising managers and management academics. It will mark the major breakthrough in the 1990s, just as systems theory represented the great step forward three decades ago. Indeed, it may be regarded as a natural extension of systems...
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