This article explores the similarities and differences between coaching and other methods for developing professional … and personal skills, like: consulting, mentoring and therapy. Issues covered include the definition of coaching, asserted … by genus proximum et differentia specifica. Article consider also important factors that determine coaching, as process …

introduce a model, in which managers and agents exert effort in a joint production, after the manager decides on the allocation …

Netherlands, we show that firms have higher shares of managers in their personnel if they employ more flexible workers. This fits … bureaucracies than "Rhineland" countries with more regulated labour markets. We also find that percentages of managers in younger … firms do not differ from those in older firms, while smaller firms have relatively more managers than larger firms. Moreover …

organization and group. The importance of team member attributes varies with domain and within a profession. Team managers may … display different preferences as to the ideal composition of qualities possessed by good team members.To enable managers to … demonstrates that while a set of characteristics can be identified for a domain, different managers are concerned with different …