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A new form of organizational structure is helping the giant Philips electronics company to gain more improvements and innovations from workers on the shopfloor at one of its components plants. Philips Components has adopted the mini‐company concept at its Roermond factory in The Netherlands....

All employers asked to name the single most important factor in their success story would doubtless sing the praises of the organization’s most vital resource – their staff. It follows, then, that attracting and retaining real talent has to be the big issue facing companies. They need to...

Purpose – To provide a framework for how to conceptualize and create high‐performance environments (HPEs). Design/methodology/approach – The article concentrates on four key factors in the quest to establish an HPE: defining high performance; leading high performance; enabling high performance;...

Purpose – Examines how electrical retailer Dixons developed a “can do” approach and an attitude of “daring to be different” among managers who were previously seen as by senior executives as a little too cautious. Design/methodology/approach – Describes the “What If?” training...

Purpose – Describes the “tangible culture” approach in promoting culture change, and smoothing the way to successful integration, which consultants and researchers devised to resolve some of the issues IBM faced over the $3.5 billion acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting in...