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This study evaluates the adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) by IT Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the UK. The growing popularity and acceptance of OSS continues to draw much attention in research and practice. However, researchers and IT practitioners within the UK SME sector...
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Lean manufacturing has been widely adopted by many production companies. Apart from the operational difficulty associated with conversion from a traditional, functional based operation, adoption of Lean manufacturing involves significant organizational transformations. It requires formation of...
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Abstract The examination of the behavioural responses of the reciprocal first name exchange as a policy in firms in Nigeria was the main objective of this research. It was also the intent of this empirical work to highlight the challenges and issues of the transferability and applicability of...
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This paper is reviews accident causation, prevention and occupational health and safety (OHS) management as an opportunity for improving organisational performance. A theoretical framework based on a periodization scheme is introduced first. This is then used to examine theoretical and practical...
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doing so, it proposes that learning, language and leadership, herein defined as the ‘3Ls’ represent critical mediating …
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manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach …) organization, positive leadership correlated with employee optimism, engagement, and project performance. When we looked at a … data support the claim that positive leadership is correlated with employee engagement and performance, and further extends …
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In important conflicts such as wars and labor-management disputes, people typically rely on the judgment of experts to predict the decisions that will be made. We compared the accuracy of 106 forecasts by experts and 169 forecasts by novices about eight real conflicts. The forecasts of experts...
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This slide presentation describes the origin, approach and deliverables of course Org. Dynm.633, on “Leadership from … organizational challenges and realities and then in designing an idealized leadership approach in class. Between classes students …
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In an earlier study (Moores & Barrett 2002) we found successful CEOs had learned leadership of family controlled … 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 …
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and perhaps managing these paradoxes took them on a learning journey to leadership in which they progressively learnt …
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