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This study, conducted in 2002, investigated the impact of sex on a leader’s decisions involving employee disciplinary situations. All leaders would like to believe that they make fair and impartial decisions. Some of the most difficult decisions leaders make involve people (i.e. subordinates),...
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providing quality leadership to employees. Traditional approaches to controlling absenteeism are discipline at progressive …
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Reassesses the role of the grapevine in employee communications. Argues that it has a role to play in socializing employees to a company, initiating behavioural change, disciplining employees and providing information. Discusses the implementation of the grapevine as a part of the employee...
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The study’s hypothesis posited that a supervisor would use more severe discipline when sales subordinates engage in … disciplinary action. In cases where the initial hiring decision was made by the personnel department, less severe discipline was …
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underpinnings of scientific discourse in general, with the epistemological foundations of the social sciences being called into …
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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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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how the tension between a firm’s CEO power features and externally … CEO power and hubris as reflected in their relations with the self, others and the world. Governance mechanisms do not …
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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 … warnings of the other two, expresses a genuine interest in ethics – an interest stimulated paradoxically by a number of well …
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Large public companies restructure themselves on a regular basis with the primary goals of achieving better financial performance and demonstrating responsiveness to shareholder interests. However, it is well know that such discontinuities typically result in great stress and confusion amongst...
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Globalization and economic integration have focused attention on the topic of ethics in international management. At a … time when the European Union is attempting to harmonize standards in many areas, the issue of ethics within the EU deserves … different ethical orientations in different EU countries. In an effort to gain an understanding about ethics in an EU country …
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