First‐line nurse managers in the Canadian healthcare system are facing many challenges due, in large part, to reduced funding for healthcare since the early 1990s and the accompanying reorganization and downsizing of healthcare organizations that leave nurse managers with greater pressures to...

Most research in managerial effectiveness, or competence, focuses upon personal attributes of the individual. This understates the impact of context, which can assist or hinder job performance. A national (New Zealand) survey assessed the impact of 16 environmental variables, four management...

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...

The research examined the career progression factors of Aboriginal executives in Canada's federal public service to determine whether such factors as development opportunities, job assignments, education levels, mentoring, leadership experience, and networking increase the advancement of...

When organizations implement continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs, managers and employees are faced with massive change, often requiring a renegotiation of the psychological contract between employer and employee. This paper discusses generational differences in reactions to major...

This study analyzes the influence of individual (age, education level, and job tenure) and contextual factors (type of establishment and number of subordinates) on managerial competency needs. The sample is composed of 80 Spanish managers from tourist organisations. Results show that managers...