Complexity science ideas have recently begun to be applied to organizational dynamics. This set of ideas, primarily learned from the natural sciences, appears to hold great promise for improving organizational functioning. At this early stage, it has not been obvious how to apply some of these...

Spirituality and its relationship to workplace leadership is a compelling issue for management practitioners and researchers. The field of study is still in its infancy and as such is marked by differences in definitions and other basic characteristics. Much of what has been written on this...

The purpose of this study is to explore the evidence related to the influence of Leader–Follower dyadic relationship quality (DRQ) on follower task and contextual performance and to assess the role of moderating variables on this DRQ/performance relationship. Using an evidence-based approach...

This study has three main purposes. First, it introduces the Executive Coaching Work Behaviour Survey and takes the initial steps in validating this instrument. It then explores the frequency of specific work Behaviours executive coaches use in their client interactions and examines the...

The belief that people resist change is widely held in organizational life. This paper will explore that belief in a number of ways. The phrase "resistance to change" is unmasked by briefly deconstructing the term. A review of the literature suggests that there is no commonly held definition for...

Beginning in the 1940s, the work of several groups of scientists began to coalesce around a set of ideas which represented a departure from standard scientific thought at the time (this departure from classical science continues today). Foremost on the list of these ideas is the role that...

chapter 1. Fundamentals of strategic management -- chapter 2. Industry competition -- chapter 3. The external environment : political-legal and economic forces -- chapter 4. The external environment : social and technological forces -- chapter 5 The organization : ethics and corporate social...