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Human resource management (HRM) has become for SMEs a critical factor of adaptation to an increasingly complex and … environmental and organisational context. Survey data analysis of 176 manufacturing SMEs revealed three configurations of HR systems … context. …
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A critical reading of the academic literature shows that the relationship between human resource management and firm effectiveness is a phenomenon with major implications on organizational performance. A study realized by Bryson (1999) in the UK over 178 SMEs revealed that different practices of...
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Empowerment (giving others, within operative levels, a certain degree of decision-making power) is one of the requirements to execute quality management programs. The autonomy afforded by empowering others could be detrimental to systems where complexity and variability is high, as local...
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been on internal business operations, assuming a defined and stable context in which the processes are designed to operate …. Yet, a lack of context-awareness for external change leads to processes and supporting information systems that are unable … propose a conceptual framework that facilitates the identification of context change. Based on a secondary data analysis of …
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been on internal business operations, assuming a defined and stable context in which the processes are designed to operate …. Yet, a lack of context-awareness for external change leads to processes and supporting information systems that are unable … propose a conceptual framework that facilitates the identification of context change. Based on a secondary data analysis of …
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Organizational changes are often achieved through disciplined project management. Change management and project management are two disciplines that draw upon different theoretical frameworks but rely on each other to achieve an organizational goal. While organizational change deals with...
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In this thesis I investigate how boards of directors strategize, how they manage strategy and how context affects this … adequately addressed actual board behaviour in strategy and the impact of context on this behaviour. With this argument in mind … situated (context dependent), socially accomplished flow of activities that characterizes how boards manage strategy …
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