Western ways of managing were increasingly applied in the non-Western world during the later part of the 20th century. There is more and more resistance to their application in the 21st century. The ideas have led to the marginalisation of human beings at work and the dehumanising treatment of...

Recent attention to competencies, especially the McBer approach, is reviewed. Different definitions focusing on personal qualities or task performance are outlined and it is proposed that neither macro‐competencies nor micro‐competencies are necessarily the practical route, and...

Few models have been developed to help clients to make sense of the variety of outdoor development courses and processes now available to them. Suggests that a consideration of focus, risk, facilitation type and reality may help with the differentiation between programmes.

Western ways of managing were increasingly applied in the non-Western world during the later part of the 20th century. There is more and more resistance to their application in the 21st century. The ideas have led to the marginalisation of human beings at work and the dehumanising treatment of...

Undergraduate students in general and business students in particular are the future leaders of both private and public corporations. To anticipate their future behaviour and to develop ideas about undergraduate business education, an understanding of student attitudes towards business ethics is...

Purpose – This research paper seeks to examine the important issues of performance measurement and reporting in a third sector community organisation. It aims to highlight the dysfunctional nature of funding body performance reporting criteria, which do not always align with the values and...

Purpose – For 40 years, it has been widely believed in the West that learning organisations would be healthier, flexible and more competitive than other organisations. By now, one might expect them to be widespread. However, fully developed learning organisations are rare in the West. In...