Concepts and practical applications are used to explore motivation from the perspectives of auditors, managers and … encourage managers to make organisational improvements is addressed.  …

with strategy type and performance. Design/methodology/approach – Senior executive managers were interviewed and a … managers within Dubai local government, and sought information regarding their personal characteristics, perceptions of … statistically to assess the extent of alignment and congruency with performance. Findings – Prospector managers have, on average …

driving managers in the selection of KIPs. The model draws upon the consideration that KPIs can be evaluated and selected on …/value – Often managers choose KPIs without an accurate approach. The paper offers a novel model for driving managers towards the …

likely to change due to a number of factors. Managers identified objectives that they prioritised for future success, which … were positively correlated with intuitively appropriate strategies. The managers also identified the skills and abilities …

and frontline employees to generate brand benchmarks. These benchmarks are sets of perceptions on how managers envision … most important strategic decisions that managers make concerns positioning of a corporate brand in the minds of key …-structured interviews with 22 senior managers from the three car manufacturers based in Australia and engaged in the corporate branding …

managers in Australia and New Zealand. Findings – A review of the literature has resulted in an original distillation of 18 …

interactions. The purpose is to develop a model of how and why managers perceive and mobilize (new) MA numbers/metrics in a … empirical study shows that MA numbers and metrics are essential when semi-distant managers strive to solve problems and achieve … a number of mechanisms as to why managers (inter-)act the way they do to produce such change. Originality/value The …

accounting artefact but also by management style, organisational values and routines and managers’ previous experiences of … generalisability. However, insights into the elements involved in managers’ understanding of timeliness provide a basis for further …

in interpersonal contacts with operational managers when trying to exert influence on them. Design … operational managers is used as the basis for a micro-level analysis of situated face-to-face interactions and communicative … “meta-positioning” to suggest certain measures to operational managers that have proved successful in other units and – by …