The paper explores the effects of organisational change on UK managers' perceptions of their organisation and on their … not delivered productivity gains and have had a negative effect on managers' well-being. The effects of change were … perceived differently by directors and other managers. Despite continuous cost reduction, productivity in the UK remains below …

of competence, work culture on service quality, to find out the effect of competency, work culture on satisfaction … Modeling (SEM).The results of the study indicate that there is an influence of work culture and competence on service quality …. There is the influence of service quality on satisfaction. There is the influence of work culture and competence on …

firm performance and the weight given by the popular press and financial community to the importance of the management of … on the firm or industry but is reflective of the strength of the beliefs held by managers. This implies that the "black … box" approach that is characteristic of much management research may be problematic because it fails to measure the …

This article describes a programme of practice-grounded empirical management research set within an NHS Trust Hospital … management using critical incident technique and factor analytic methods. The results are compared against those from an … management and human resource development within the case-study NHS Trust Hospital, and possibly beyond. …

Emotions in workplace settings and emotional intelligence are hot topics in management today. Leading business journals … in the workplace than just emotional intelligence. The aim of this article is to acquaint managers with intriguing new … within many broad human-resource functions such as selection, performance management, and training, as well as implications …

Data provided by 7380 middle managers from 60 nations are used to determine whether demographic variables are … correlated with managers’ reliance on vertical sources of guidance in different nations and whether these correlations differ …. The implications for theory and practice of the use of demographic attributes in understanding effective management …

In the past ten years there has been considerable debate on thesubject of leadership and management development … firstly the place ofBusiness Schools in developing leaders and managers (Cornuel, 2005;Marrington and Rowe, 2004; Grey, 2004 … as a response an industry identifiedneed to develop an applied leadership practice program at postgraduate level suited …

of leadership in the local organisations surveyed in Rosebank. Many owner/managers, regarded as leaders, held … present analysis, it is apparent that many firms lack leadership, leadership styles, managerial, computing and technology …

but highly interconnected competencies: leadership and innovation. These are the two fundamental attributes that have … postulated that the stewardship of innovation and leadership determines the potential success and the rate of advancement of a … two characteristics of leadership and innovation and how they create value through integration and how we as a society …