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Architecture is emerging as an important concept in training and development. This covers all the design elements … congruent; that reward and incentive structures are in line with training objectives; that a cost‐benefit approach to knowledge … materials, are properly designed to complement all the above. These various aspects of training architecture are discussed, and …
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orientation, goal orientation and leadership quality, in an effort to provide the basis for the development of theoretical …
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine the performance of firms in Peru in relation to entrepreneurial orientation and involvement in open innovation. Design/methodology/approach – Data were acquired through a survey of middle and senior managers employed in Peruvian companies....
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Argues that the ways in which managers learn experientially are unnecessarily painful and will remain so without significant change in the shape and patterning of organizations and the wider socioeconomic infrastructure. First identifies distinct sets of experiential learning patterns from...
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the development of theories explaining the organisation and its integrants’ behaviour. In comparison with other … training and organizational culture. Its application also achieves to lay the foundations of the models and to make explicit … findings and the role of the methodology in the development of the theories in the organisation is discussed: finalising with a …
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This paper focuses on the relationship between a particular social practice – local exchange trading systems or schemes (LETS) – and what we here call the “mainstream” marketing paradigm. It begins by discussing some of the key principles that are thought to set LETS apart from other,...
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This paper describes case vignettes of the practice of vision development in eight financial services organisations …. Important observations emerge about current practice; for example, formal methodologies are rarely adopted in vision development … service, and yet do not involve the deliverers of that service in the process of vision development. Weaknesses in internal …
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The case will test two hypotheses regarding three variables influencing the level of employee satisfaction and organizational citizenship at GAMMA, a manufacturer of plastics. Two hypotheses were developed from a review of the literature and initial results from exploratory research (  H1 :...
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Purpose – This paper aims to specify a set of methodological stages to conduct case studies. It presents a graphical representation of these stages, describes how it assists management researchers to build theory from data gathered in the field, and outlines its value for achieving sound...
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are assessed first through an examination of the development of British management thought, in particular the …
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