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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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Would the outcome of a Global multinational organizations decision be the same if the same decision were to be made in different countries throughout the world? Within the same organization, we propose that national cultural differences can influence decision making in different countries and...
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manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT …) organization, positive leadership correlated with employee optimism, engagement, and project performance. When we looked at a …
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transitional period.The goal of this research paper is to explore the attitude of managers of rapidly growing companies toward … changes and conflicts and to examine those managers‘ styles of management and conflict handling. Thus the phenomenon of … leadership in changes and undergoing conflict situations is defined. In order to achieve defined goal, the author pursued four …
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on the firm or industry but is reflective of the strength of the beliefs held by managers. This implies that the "black …
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Conduct an exploratory study on operationally focussed managers within a South African company, using both quantitative …
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This article describes a programme of practice-grounded empirical management research set within an NHS Trust Hospital in the UK that was conducted as part of an HRD Professional Partnership of the kind advocated by Jacobs (1997). The research was concerned with identifying the criteria of...
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This paper introduces a unified model for organizational change that is designed to help change analysts think through the decision-making process. Most organizational leaders do not manage change effectively because they fail to acquire the minimum amount of information necessary to make a...
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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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This slide presentation describes the origin, approach and deliverables of course Org. Dynm.633, on “Leadership from … the Middle” (LftM). Course participants were middle managers taking responsibility without authority for producing results … organizational challenges and realities and then in designing an idealized leadership approach in class. Between classes students …
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