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In form of a qualitative single case study this thesis examines what people from industrialized countries such as Germany can learn about sustainability from Lynedoch EcoVillage, South Africa, and the associated 'Sustainability Institute', a non-profit trust based at and operating from Lynedoch...
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.The literature review covers areas that releates to how managers responded to change in areas of leadership, culture, structure and … Bellville was used as a case study, and focus was primarily with first line managers at the call centre. The motivation for the … providers. The ultimate objective of the study is to provide generic guidelines of how managers should respond to change on …
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leadership; and (ii) whether or not their views correspond to classical management theory.Methodology/approach: An exploratory … management and leadership as being the same and their views correspond to the theory underpinning classical management … managers to ensure the preferred competitive positions of their organisations.Originality/value of paper: This paper focuses …
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Although South African companies seem to make an attempt to employ more women to meet the required employment quotas …, not enough is being done to allow women to grow beyond certain levels in their jobs, and it appears that women are still …. In an attempt to assist m bridging the gap of gender inequality in corporate S.A., professional women may be branded as a …
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study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how they exercise leadership and entrepreneurship in the family firm … assumptions about women's and men's approach to leadership, suggests there are some characteristic ways women leaders learn FCB …In an earlier study (Moores & Barrett 2002) we found successful CEOs had learned leadership of family controlled …
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firms. A few small-scale studies, notably Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002), describe the varying roles that women … adopt, but without explaining why they adopt such roles. Our research aims to examine the career progression of women … and perhaps managing these paradoxes took them on a learning journey to leadership in which they progressively learnt …
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Despite their numerical and economic significance to Australia, family businesses have not been extensively researched. This paper reports results from a nation-wide study of Australian family owned businesses that sought to ascertain and understand their management and control practices. In...
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). Because the sample we used for that study did not include many female CEOs, our present study focuses on women in leadership … understand the pathway to leadership in family firms that women travel. Based on interviews with an international sample of women … firms (e.g. Dumas, 1998; Sharma, 2004). Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002) describe the varying roles that women …
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, perceived leadership style, experienced frustration and optimism, organization-based self-esteem and organizational commitment … of gender combination and leadership style on the emotions, self-esteem and commitment consequence variables. Further … commitment. The results showed that gender combination was independent of leadership style and had a direct impact on …
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