This article develops a strategic management model which is intended to serve as a prescription for any CEO involved in strategic planning. The model was developed as a result of interviews with CEOs of mostly public and some private organisations and ultimately redirected to benefit CEOs in...

The challenge facing human resource/compensation professionals in the people‐intensive, high‐technology industry, will be the development of a model and strategy intended to respond to the specific needs of unique professionals engaged in high growth organisations. This article examines the...

Career plateauing occurs when employees reach a position in the organization from which they are unlikely to be promoted further. Many reasons have been identified as causing plateauing including inappropriate abilities/skills, stress and burnout, flatter organizations, slow company growth, and...

Provides a comprehensive literature overview of the concept and use of self‐efficacy (a person’s self‐belief in his or her ability to perform specific tasks) as a theoretical construct, emerging from Bandura’s social learning (social cognition) theory. Examines, specifically, how...

This research was conducted in order to determine what variables would give small businesses (defined as any firm with less than 100 employees) an advantage versus larger businesses in attracting and maintaining employees while optimizing their performance. Job enrichment, employee recognition,...

The incidence of mergers and acquisitions has proliferated throughout the world including all sectors of our society, both municipal and industrial, private and public. However, the majority (60‐80 percent) of them do not reach their intended objectives owing to the fact that the merging...

Purpose – The primary intent of this study is to examine recent projects involving external management consultants at a North American telecommunications firm, from the employees’ point of view, to measure the extent to which the aforementioned “critical success factors” were perceived...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gather current (2011) arguments and counterarguments in support of the classic change management model proposed by John P. Kotter in his 1996 book Leading Change . His work was based on his personal business and research experience, and did not...

Describes an evolving dynamic relationship between protégé and mentor, which strongly impacts on the entire organization and those microcomponents associated with organizational behaviour in general. These include individual processes, interpersonal and work group processes, and organizational...