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Shame in the coaching relationship: reflections on organisational vulnerability

Cavicchia, Simon - In: Journal of Management Development 29 (2010) 10, pp. 877-890

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the particular human experience that is shame and its manifestations in the relationship that coaches and their clients co‐create. The paper aims to consider shame as a relational and contextual phenomenon, how it is experienced, how it...

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“He has told you, O man, what is good!”

Isaac Mostovicz, E.; Kakabadse, Nada K. - In: Journal of Management Development 31 (2012) 9, pp. 948-961

/theoretical one. Findings – The paper reveals the shortcomings of modern organisation and its members of not accepting the three … fundamental concepts that underpin Jewish thought and, in turn, the unwillingness of the organisation's members to resume …

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The Beer Distribution Game: Using Simulation to Teach Systems Thinking

Goodwin, Jack S.; Franklin, Stephen G. - In: Journal of Management Development 13 (1994) 8, pp. 7-15

Describes how the authors have effectively employed the Beer Distribution Game, a simulation exercise developed at MIT′s Sloan School of Management, to teach systems concepts and systems thinking to managers. Details a description of how the simulation works and how its typical results are...

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Leadership in a Global Village: Creating Practice Fields to Develop Learning Organizations

Stumpf, Stephen A.; Anne Watson, Mary; Rustogi, Hemant - In: Journal of Management Development 13 (1994) 8, pp. 16-25

For a practice field to be of greatest value in developing global leadership capability, it needs to be constructed so as to combine meaningful cultural and national issues with realistic interpersonal dynamics. Examines how two practice fields designed to facilitate systems thinking and...

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The influence of job characteristics on IT and non-IT job professional’s turnover intentions

Uruthirapathy, Aareni A; Grant, Gerald G. - In: Journal of Management Development 34 (2015) 6, pp. 715-728

Purpose – Information technology (IT) professionals and their intentions to leave an organization have been studied by …. However, the non-IT professionals had greater intentions to leave the IT organization than the IT professionals. Additionally …

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Making wise decisions: leadership lessons from Mahabharata

L. Kaipa, Prasad - In: Journal of Management Development 33 (2014) 8/9, pp. 835-846

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help leaders to reflect on how to make difficult decisions by developing practical wisdom based on Indian traditions. In complex scenarios, when leaders are is crisis, they often tend to rush into decisions without proper reflection, rely too heavily...

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Facilitating workplace spirituality: lessons from Indian spiritual traditions

Pardasani, Rupali; R. Sharma, Radha; Bindlish, Puneet - In: Journal of Management Development 33 (2014) 8/9, pp. 847-859

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek to propose that spiritual traditions of India have enormous wisdom to provide a wholesome spiritual foundation to the modern day management. It can also play a significant role in facilitating the dimensions of workplace spirituality as...

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Leadership by design: intentional organization development of physician leaders

Swensen, Stephen; Gorringe, Grace; Caviness, John; … - In: Journal of Management Development 35 (2016) 4, pp. 549-570

leadership and organization development philosophy and approach; second, to summarize a strategy for using intentional … organization design as a foundation for culturally aligned physician leadership development and third, to describe the Mayo Clinic … leadership development philosophy and approach. The authors reviewed the organization design and leadership development programs …

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Environmental management systems

Walker, David; Pitt, Michael; Jha Thakur, Urmila - In: Journal of Facilities Management 5 (2007) 1, pp. 49-61

Purpose – To demonstrate the importance of environmental management systems (EMS) in achieving overall sustainability within organisations, by reducing ecological impacts of economic activities and improving corporate environmental care. Design/methodology/approach – A range of published...

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Knowledge sharing: moving away from the obsession with best practices

Holdt Christensen, Peter - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 11 (2007) 1, pp. 36-47

Purpose – How companies can become better at knowing what they know, and share what they know have in recent years become dominant fields of research within knowledge management. The literature focuses on why people share knowledge, or why they fail to share knowledge, whilst the discussion of...

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