Management promotion decisions are of the utmost importance to an organisation. They determine the quality of future management and thus the continued vitality of the organisation.

What motivates someone to become a social entrepreneur? What are the competencies needed to be effective social advocates and agents for change? This book answers these questions in an accessible and practical way, providing comprehensive guidelines, numerous examples, and sources of information...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to analyze a framework of team learning that includes three learning processes (adaptive, generative, and transformative), factors that stimulate these processes, and consequences of them. The variables provided a field study of the model....

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to consider how exploitative and exploratory team processes contribute to adaptive and innovative outcomes. The paper integrates the team learning and team adaptation literature and examines factors that stimulate and support exploitative and exploratory...

Discusses abusive management – extreme behaviours that can result in a subordinate or work group being plagued by uncertainty, anxiety, and fear. Examines the prevalence of the problem and its implications for management development, in terms of both the development of abused employees and the...

Employee‐guided management (EGM) is the process of using information from employees to guide management strategies and incorporates elements of participative management, participative decision making, performance feedback, and survey feedback to outline components for comprehensive programmes...

Acknowledgments -- The performance management process and employee engagement : an introduction -- Understanding performance appraisal -- Building a climate of trust -- Setting meaningful and effective goals -- Meeting the feedback challenge -- Recognizing employee performance -- Learning about...