provides three specific sources of conflict as recounted by sample managers. The implications of our findings include …: selecting expatriate managers with high emotional intelligence, providing extensive pre‐departure cultural training that … reasoning, utilizing sensitivity training techniques to better prepare managers for new situations, and sending the expatriate …

Purpose – To demonstrate two distinct leadership requirements for project managers and establish a theoretical basis … managers who focus on proactive leadership behaviour will be more successful in completing projects on time, on budget and to … managers need to pay more attention to the progress of their projects and forestall any problems rather than just being …

, capitalist system. Should managers and management educators be concerned with the way the system works? If the great guru of … must. This viewpoint challenges managers to think about their role as social trustees for a just society. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper explores the author's thinking about the problem Findings – Concludes that managers and management educators …

that managers form this reality. Individuals' bounded rationality, the complexity of the observed reality and the influence … of the managers' beliefs are among the factors that give rise to these discrepancies. Thus, one can distinguish between …. Findings – The study reveals that managers' perceptions do not coincide with the information obtained from other bibliographic …

Leadership Institute developed 2,200 managers from Fujitsu Services from 13 different countries. Findings – This case story … reveals: how highly focused one‐day interventions can create immediate impact in managers' performance; the effect of a … management development initiative for 2,200 managers throughout Europe; how multinational development initiatives can be …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that participants read vignettes in which managers were assigned … different roles. The vignettes depicted managers with two leadership styles (transformational/transactional) and two decision …‐making approaches (comprehensive/restrictive). The managers were then rated on patterns of organizational justice (social/ structural …

Purpose – This paper aims to show how western project managers operating in Asia can employ a survey based on cultural … based on a model of national cultural dimensions is described. Findings – The results for this group of project managers …

existing between younger and older marketing managers in Brazil. The study investigates how generational research can innovate … help explain marketing decision contexts, and second, if older cohorts find the younger cohort of managers today … phase asked managers to verify the values that came from phase one. The third phase advanced two questions. The first …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify how IT managers' decision styles affect their evaluation of … towards IT managers. Each style included two dimensions: confidence judgment ability and decision heuristic usage …

predictors. Situational judgment tests are also relatively easy to administer and score and are often well received by managers …