This research explores the impact of gender on managerial styles, especially the strategic typology employed by hotel managers in Canada during economic stressful times. Miles and Snow’s strategic typology framework of defender, prospector, analyzer and reactor was employed and explored...

Dans certains cas les missions de conseil en management n'atteignent pas les objectifs escomptés et provoquent d'incroyables gaspillages. Cette analyse présente les causes d'échec de la relation consultant-consulté.

The article shows a surprising way of how management consultant's daily practices play a role in managers' decisions. Beyond the traditionally recognized roles of consultants (high level staff, energy catalyst), we pinpoint the importance of information transmission and the ambiguity of this...

Kaizen is a philosophy of life that addresses to the best who want to be more and better. It is a process of improvement that never ends and it results in many advantages. The Japanese leadership model has shown that progress in small steps, but fast, conduces to doubtless long-term wins. Kaizen...

This paper presents an analysis of two American and Japanese management strategies, the reengineering and Kaizen strategies, which can be used successfully by the Romanian companies, too. Reengineering is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic...

This research identified the capabilities used by Canadian hotel general managers during a time of economic stress and examines the relationships between capabilities and hotel performance. The instrument used in this study was the New Zealand Management Capability Index (NZIMCI) and contains...

Borders of countries and continents have become more and more blurred by now, while distances have turned out to be less important. Markets of continents or countries are not separated anymore therefore competition between companies has gotten fiercer and much faster than earlier. What kind of...