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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that too often decisions concerning change are made on the basis of partial understanding, limited data and unreflective assumptions about people and organizations. In the discussion of the Socratic dialogue the aim is to uncover a useful method...
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As manufacturers contemplate changing or modifying outmoded operations systems, management must be aware of the key role played by workers in achieving a successful implementation. These new system strategies, such as just‐in‐time (JIT) and manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), rely on...
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Marketing “guru” Professor Philip Kotler′s address to a business school graduation ceremony exposed some of his views on issues such as the marketing and positioning of business schools, marketing strategy, and employee involvement in marketing. An anecdotal piece.
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’s largest experiment in empowerment went awry, however. A state‐supported neo‐Taylorism with a “thinking tank” and a separate … “working tank,” evolved which represented little real empowerment. By the 1980s, self‐management had become an impotent … lessons for understanding and managing empowerment efforts today.  …
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consistently attainable. Education and research should firmly alter its focus to concentrate on empowerment, a concept that has … understanding of empowerment (while instructing students/practitioners with our current knowledge), than by continuing to devote … teaching people what we know about using and encouraging empowerment than what we do not know about leadership, as …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess whether any meaningful lessons can be learned from South Africa's early twentieth century experience of White poverty and to what extent such lessons can be applied in order to combat Black poverty today. Design/methodology/approach – This...
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Purpose – This study seeks to investigate the impact of empowerment on both organizational citizenship behavior (OCB … influence, a dimension of empowerment, has a positive effect on supervisor‐rated OCB whereas attitude, the other dimension of … empowerment, has a positive impact on average check size per customer. In addition, OCB appears to be negatively related to …
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management programmes and zero defects were to quality improvement. Empowerment holds that promoting employee involvement … empowers workers to perform as whole, thinking human beings. Empowerment is the glue by which the elements of customer focus …
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Argues that real delegation and empowerment are skills which have to be learned. In the present turbulent environment …. Distinguishes between delegating work and delegating responsibility and suggests how successful empowerment can be achieved.  …
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The introduction of employee empowerment through a self‐managed work teams programme into an organization further …
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