In this study, nine managers of a Dutch multinational engineering company were interviewed on the success and failure … managers mainly spoke about failures and how to avoid these in future. The focus of this study was on the cognitive map … structure of the perspectives of managers as disclosed by the interview data. Three different collective maps were found …

male counterpart, exposure to powerful networks. However, we also found that for women managers, unlike men, such exposure …

perspective of the individual experiences of a sample of managers located in Portugal. Portugal, together with the other Southern … by managers, both Portuguese and foreign, on the basis of “time as money” assumption. The articulation of the macro and …

Purpose – To explore the relationship between managers' cognitive maps and their performance as managers at the same … level in the same organisation. Design/methodology/approach – Field study involving 30 branch managers in a financial … these maps were then related to business‐unit performance. Findings – The managers who were higher performing have maps that …

average performing managers were compiled. These were based on behavioural event interviews (BEIs) from which job, person and … particularly suitable to measuring managers' performance in dynamic team‐based environments. Research limitations …

contained with the conceptual model, managers can learn how to change themselves. Originality/value – The paper departs from the …

Purpose – Most managers are heavily affected by the relationship between their professional and their private life … contradiction of private and professional requirements. Managers use a range of individual strategies to deal with this conflict … how managers perceive work‐life‐balance. Real types of handling work‐life‐conflicts are revealed. Based on these findings …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how, and the degree to which, superior and peer managers exerted … pressure on middle managers' work cross‐culturally. Design/methodology/approach – Australian ( n =251) and Singaporean ( n =340 …) health managers, respectively of Anglo and Confucian‐Asian cultures, rated the pressures exerted on them by managers …

qualitative design based on interviews with 20 managers on a global career path involving multiple international assignments … of managers. First, the interviewees reported that their global careers had strongly increased their knowing‐why career …‐cultural differences. Finally, in terms of knowing‐whom capital, the results of the study indicate that the contact network managers …