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Exploring a local council's change to an outcome measurement regime
Yie Tan, Chia; Lord, Beverley R.; Craig, Russell; Ball, … - In: Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 7 (2011) 4, pp. 391-407
pressures affect managers in a local government body. Design/methodology/approach – By means of semi‐structured interviews with … four managers and a councillor at a major city council in NZ, the authors elicit a better understanding of the process of …. Community consultation was regarded to be beneficial because it encouraged managers to be people‐oriented and reduced …
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Better Living through Measurement
Gordon, Jack - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 3 (1988) 2, pp. 26-30
As long as profit‐centred organisations have existed, the cultural issue concerning the delicate balance between profits and people has been paramount. At Citicorp, a world leader in the financial services industry, cultural change along these lines is ongoing. People management was...
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Making time off predictable and required (need for managers to take time off and be refreshed)
Perlow, L.A. - In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 2
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Ten steps to success
Lunn, Terry - In: Executive Development 3 (1990) 1
Presents brief results of a study into factors that successful managers use to increase productivity in the UK and USA …
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Repertory Grid as a Tool for Training Needs Analysis
Peters, W.L. - In: The Learning Organization 1 (1994) 2, pp. 23-28
unquantifiable”. In the training field repertory grid may be used to help define the performance that managers expect from their …
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Using the stepladder technique to improve team performance
Orpen, Christopher - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 1 (1995) 3, pp. 24-27
, suggesting that managers can use the technique to improve team performance in appropriate circumstances.  …
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DEVELOPING MANAGERS FOR THE EUROPEAN MARKET
Osbaldeston, Michael - In: Management Development Review 6 (1993) 1
Across Europe organizations in industry and education are grappling with the problem of identifying and developing the “competent international manager” who has the skills and abilities appropriate to the changing demands of a new business era. These organizations share one thing in common...
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Performance measurement as an obstacle to TQM
Sinclair, David; Zairi, Mohamed - In: The TQM Magazine 7 (1995) 2, pp. 42-45
Describes the results of a survey which shows that there is a gap between managers’ understanding of the importance of …
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Performance Determinants for Senior Managers: Rhetoric or Reality?
Vilkinas, Tricia; Cartan, Greg; Piron, Sophie - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 15 (1994) 6, pp. 24-32
senior managers. The study compares current findings in management competences (referred to here as performance determinants … the literature has focused on middle management rather than on senior management. Sixty‐six CEOs and senior managers in … model identifying the performance determinants for senior managers.  …
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Foreign subsidiaries’ competitive strategy: the impact of corporate support and local competition
Pehrsson, Anders - In: European Business Review 29 (2017) 6, pp. 606-627
Purpose The study draws on the resource-based view and the contingency view of strategy. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to international strategy literature by extending the current understanding of foreign subsidiary’s competitive strategy in terms of cost leadership and product...
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