Many organizations have implemented various types of initiatives within the last few decades in an effort to deal with diversity. A possible missing vinculum (link) between how an organization deals with diversity and its impact on the bottomline is a corporate diversity strategy that is...

In order to meet the challenges of the marketplace, senior management needs to ensure that an organisation employs highly skilled and well‐motivated staff, and there is a commitment to establishing a learning organisation. Simulation exercises can be used to develop the skill base of...

Purpose – To validate conceptual frameworks for strategic management development. Also, to test the hypothesis that the objectives and design of a strategic management development programme need to match the organisation's level of commitment to strategic management and the degree of maturity...

Purpose – Companies are increasingly using management development (MD) initiatives as a means of enhancing their capability to realise their business goals. Therefore, the linkage between MD and strategic management should be better understood. Aims to examine this situation....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find out wheter the cognitive style of the manager affect as his view of the viable strategy for a firm. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses data from 70 managers in the spa industry. Findings – Concludes that managers' cognitive style...

Purpose – In this interview, Tom McManus and Dr Harold Lazarus explore transparency as both an approach and an outcome in the management of organizations, and the relation of transparency to corporate strategy. The interview aims to offer context and perspective on transparency....

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to share with executives, public policy makers, and securities analysts some key behavior constraints on transparency seldom addressed in the professional literature. Focus is on unexpected and perhaps counterintuitive issues of transparency and full...

Purpose – The paper seeks to identify the key environmental forces and competitive drivers influencing the strategic management of a business school, and to give guidance about strategic choices as the business school evolves in the new knowledge economy. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the semantics of the language of management in order to seek clarification of the terminology and how it is used and misused in the strategy literature. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive review of the literature was undertaken....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that the epistemology of the strategic literature is dominated by a Modernist (scientific) and Cybernetic system approach and that other epistemological options especially critical management studies and complex self‐adapting systems, might...