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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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Leadership Styles and Human Resource Management: A Content Analysis of Popular Management Writings
Culpan, Refik - In: Management Decision 27 (1989) 4
management? What are the current themes of, and approaches to, management? Emerging leadership styles and human resource …
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A Human Resource Philosophy
Kilcourse, Tom - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 9, pp. 37-42
By subjugating the judgement of its managers to systems, or to the ego of a Messianic MD, modern organizations squeeze out the very human qualities for which they are paying. Argues for greater emphasis on value management, with top people demonstrating the ethics which they espouse. Gives...
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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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Effective Delegation
Hind, Matthew W. - In: Management Decision 29 (1991) 5
Effective delegation often fails, due to a misunderstanding about the difference between responsibility and …
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Cracking the code of business
Emiliani, M.L. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 2, pp. 60-79
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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Managers as kings: Shakespeare on modern leadership
Egan, Michael - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 5, pp. 315-327
Discusses Shakespeare’s Chronicles and their links to organizational behaviour. Highlights lessons from history for those seeking to exercise power successfully and manage both individuals and groups.
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Strategic change leadership
Graetz, Fiona - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 8, pp. 550-564
primary task of management today is the leadership of organisational change. Seeks to examine the role of leadership in … leading change effectively. Also investigates the view that effective change leadership involves instrumental and charismatic … the importance of blending the charismatic and instrumental dimensions of change leadership. The ability to conciliate and …
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A mathematical logic approach to the shareholder vs stakeholder debate
Emiliani, M.L. - In: Management Decision 39 (2001) 8, pp. 618-622
Uses an innovative approach to analyze the long‐standing claim that companies exist to maximize shareholder value. Five statements supporting this claim are tested using mathematical logic. Each one is found to be false. The community of business theorists, consultants, academics, and...
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Determinants of organisational creativity: a literature review
Andriopoulos, Constantine - In: Management Decision 39 (2001) 10, pp. 834-841
creativity, namely organisational climate, leadership style, organisational culture, resources and skills and the structure and …
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