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Developing personal responsibility and leadership traits in all your employees: part 1 – shaping and harmonizing the high‐performance drivers

Smith, Peter A.C; Sharma, Meenakshi - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 8, pp. 764-774

Proposes that to optimize enterprise performance and longevity, organizations must develop and sustain appropriate … traits of personal responsibility and leadership in all employees. Contends that this is feasible and describes how it can be … accomplished. Part 1 of this paper deal with shaping and harmonizing the high performance drivers. Part 2, which will appear in …

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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

Proposes that to optimize enterprise performance and longevity organizations must develop and sustain appropriate … traits of personal responsibility and leadership in all employees. Contends that this is feasible and describes how it can be … accomplished. Part 1 of this paper dealt with shaping and harmonizing the high‐performance drivers and appeared in Management …

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Building organizational citizenship

Brightman, Baird K.; Moran, John W. - In: Management Decision 37 (1999) 9, pp. 678-685

leadership strategies are designed to create specific business results; their effectiveness will depend on the creation of a …

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Leading well pays off: mediating effects and multi-group analysis of strategic performance

Chen, Qinglan; Eriksson, Tor; Giustiniano, Luca - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 2, pp. 400-412

strategic performance. In particular, both supportive and directive leadership styles partially mediate the effect of the … mediating effect of leadership style between strategy and performance. The paper fills the gap by examining the role of …Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal the mediating role of leadership style on the relationship between …

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Managing a riot: Chester Barnard and social unrest

Hoopes, James - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 10, pp. 1013-1023

This paper examines a key event in the life of Chester Barnard, a “riot of the unemployed” in Trenton, New Jersey in 1935 when Barnard was director of the state Emergency Relief Administration. In a later influential lecture at Harvard, Barnard used the incident to support the ideas of the...

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Strategic organizational change: the role of leadership, learning, motivation and productivity

Appelbaum, Steven H.; St‐Pierre, Normand; Glavas, William - In: Management Decision 36 (1998) 5, pp. 289-301

, leadership, learning, motivation and productivity. Depicts strategic organizational change as an integrative process with all …Presents an overview of strategic organizational change (SOC) and its managerial impact on leadership, learning …, motivation and productivity. Theoretical and empirical data presented are: the sources and determinants of strategic …

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Developing the Employment Package: Attracting and Retaining the Best Employees

Hind, Matthew - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 6

For organisations to attract and retain top quality staff in the 1990s they will need radically to change their thinking towards benefits offered to such staff. It is suggested that a targeted approach, reducing rather than increasing the traditional benefits offered, could pay dividends for...

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What managers should never want to hear: silence

Haskins, Mark E.; Freeman, R. Edward - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 6, pp. 1300-1311

Purpose – Every organizational member makes a daily decision to speak up or to be silent on a host of issues. Silence can be problematic. The purpose of this paper is to posit that managers should listen for the silence, not mistaking its presence for agreement or for understanding from those...

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Market orientation and market strategy profiling: an empirical test of environment‐behaviour‐action coalignment and its performance implications

Dobni, C. Brooke; Luffman, George - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 8, pp. 503-522

Organizational performance is greatly influenced by employee behaviours and the resulting market orientation that they … and performance is robust across several environmental contexts that are characterized by varying degrees of market … seeking to maximize performance in a high technology environment. This relationship becomes dynamic when one considers the …

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The strategic planning/finance interface: does sophistication really matter?

Phillips, Paul A. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 8, pp. 541-549

added value. The added value in this study is measured by enhanced performance (efficiency, effectiveness and adaptability …

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