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The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), in cooperation with the Czech Presidency, organised a conference addressing the theme of working conditions and social dialogue in Prague on 22-23 June 2009. The conference aimed to present the findings of...
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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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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 … 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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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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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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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explore the workplace behaviours of Australian project managers working in the … their expatriate project managers to succeed; in return, this will save the organizations thousands of dollars as well as …
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In search of competitive excellence, economic developers often ask for guidance and assistance on key enterprise management and operational issues relating to running a quality economic development program. They are interested in operating as effectively as possible, in making the highest...
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delivery."Professor Gilchrist coordinates the course for Not-for-profit Leadership at The University of Notre Dame Australia … which encompasses both the unique Graduate Certificate in Not-For-Profit Leadership and the Fremantle School of Business …
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