Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the process by which individual change occurs. Design/methodology/approach – This conceptual paper presents the intentional change theory (ICT) perspective on the role of positive and negative emotion in individual level intentional change....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present selected Buddhist concepts that are useful to leaders of business and to those that want to increase the performance of their businesses and of their organisations implementing practical wisdom from a Buddhist perspective....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamics involved in the emergence and change of management accounting routines. It seeks to provide an understanding of the ways in which these complex routines foster stability and change in management accounting practices....

Purpose – Modern society has found its nemesis in the terrorist, fundamentalist criminals attempting to halt progress and force society back into the Dark Ages. This article aims to build on the work of Pech, arguing that many acts of terrorism are rooted in mimicry of acts of violence....

Purpose – Futurists have tended to take little interest in the hard work of implementing changes necessary to reach particular futures. This paper aims to argue that the field should pay more attention to these issues, and to use the challenge of weight loss to illustrate how tools can be...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe the steps used to help any successful person change their interpersonal behavior at work and at home. Design/methodology/approach – Provides a review of “before‐and‐after” studies with tens of thousands of coaching participants from large...

Purpose – This paper aims to help coaches better understand their approach to coaching and to help those being coached to have a sense of options in selecting a coach. And, to overview the field of coaching and offer a typology of approaches. Design/methodology/approach – This paper lays out...

Purpose Through the use of effective training techniques and exercises, employees and users can be educated on how to make safe information security decisions. It is critical to the success of a total information security program that users are trained properly as they are a major layer of...

Many organisations have made significant progress in developing diversity strategies and have put in place robust polices and procedures to ensure fairness and transparency. However, those organisations at the cutting edge of diversity management have now began to focus on the behaviour of their...

Purpose – Aims to examine the two main groupings of definitions of executive coaching: those which focus on learning and development leading to performance improvement and those which are located around change. From there it follows the proposition that psychological‐mindedness is the...