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Administrative decision making: a contextual analysis

Basi, Raghbir S. - In: Management Decision 36 (1998) 4, pp. 232-240

Administrative decision making is contextual both in terms of the type of decisions a position holder must make as well as how they should be made (style). This paper argues that the type of decision is a function of administrative level, and the style is a function of organizational culture....

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What happened is prologue: creative divergence and corporate culture fabrication

McLarney, Carolan; Chung, Edward - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 6, pp. 410-419

Culture is an overarching phenomenon that helps individuals make sense of their world. However, culture is not an unchanging “given.” Members of a society actively create culture and, through their activities and interactions, sustain or change this culture. In an organizational setting,...

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Managerial Problem Solving

Brooks, Ian - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 7, pp. 53-59

Illustrates how organizational culture can stifle effective problem solving and decision making. In the organization in question this had critical implications for quality, staff retention and organizational change. The myopic, non‐innovative generation of apparent solutions to major...

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Managerial behaviours over MIS growth stages

Lu, Hsi‐Peng - In: Management Decision 33 (1995) 7, pp. 40-46

To improve the likelihood of system success and user involvement, an MIS department manager has to deal with people and lead them under given user styles and organizational culture. For this reason, the managerial behaviour of MIS managers plays an important role in developing MIS. First...

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Riding a tiger: some lessons of Taurus

Drummond, Helga - In: Management Decision 36 (1998) 3, pp. 141-146

implications for management. …

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Managing the Information Explosion

Sharratt, John; McMurdo, Alistair - In: Management Decision 29 (1991) 3, pp. 6-55

The process of management, and the management of information as an essential element of general managerial practice, is … the effectiveness of management, and information technology can now transform the use of this information to give managers … organisation′s overall management and planning system rather than being controlled by specialist IT professionals and that the …

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How to Establish an Organisational Purpose

Reyes, James R.; Kleiner, Brian H. - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 7

difficult tasks facing management today. The value of developing a corporate mission statement with a vivid vision to enhance …

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Corporate Change Programmes: A False Panacea?

Nicoll, David - In: Management Decision 31 (1993) 5

Argues that groups within the organization play a significant role in enabling it to face a hostile environment. Describes how groups translate their culture into work patterns and argues that this is an important factor in any change programme. Questions the motives and effectiveness of culture...

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Acknowledge and Use Your Grapevine

Cathmoir Nicoll, David - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 6, pp. 25-30

implementation of the grapevine as a part of the employee communications mix, through management by walking about (MBWA) and …

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A Human Resource Philosophy

Kilcourse, Tom - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 9, pp. 37-42

out the very human qualities for which they are paying. Argues for greater emphasis on value management, with top people …

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