Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relations among soft skill, information technologies and Big Data for building a possible bridge able to link human and technology dimensions for increasing firm performance. Design/methodology/approach: Using the Business-focused...

As a subject of academic interest, organisational learning has been around for a long time. However, in the 1990s, there was an upsurge of interest in the topic from both academia and industry. Indeed, there are many writers who are now claiming that organisational learning is the new paradigm...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how big data collected from social media contribute to knowledge management practices, innovation processes and business performance. Design/methodology/approach: The study used 418 questionnaires collected from firms that...

Examines the role of senior managers in total quality management (TQM) and provides some pointers as to why they should become involved in TQM. These pointers include the strategic nature of TQM, their personal impact on the credibility of TQM, and their influence in changing the behaviour and...

Introduction Working in organisations not only provides a large section of the population with life‐sustaining income, but also exerts its own pressures and stresses on them, which can ultimately have negative consequences both for achieving the goals of organisations and meeting the needs of...

Over the years there have been numerous attempts in social psychology to examine the process of influence between change agents (e.g. parents, teachers, clinicians) and objects of their influence (children, students, patients). There has not been a concomitant effort to do the same in the field...

This is a study of the factors leading to stresses/anxieties and satisfactions in the relocation of executives and their families. A number of variables make moving a more or less painful business for the manager concerned. The attitudes of the manager, his wife and children are seen to be...

The dual career family, which at one time was considered a rarity, is a lifestyle being accepted by more and more couples today. The postwar period has seen a boom in the employment of married women, a situation which will be enhanced by the forseeable drop in the birth rate, the hastening of...

Women managers have to cope with greater pressures than men managers. If employers recognised and tackled this both women and men managers could do their jobs more effectively.

Research on nearly 120 chief executive officers (CEOs) and their spouses from among The Times 1,000 European companies is explored. The research found that many CEOs are showing increasing signs of stress, and that the main difficulties are associated with the job interfering with family and...