The University of Tampa Center for Leadership offers extensive leadership development activities, many of which are based on concepts derived from theories collectively referred to as “new science”. New science – those discoveries in the physical and biological sciences during the...

Describes international management development programmes at the University of Hawaii. The programmes prepare business people for economic development in the Asia Pacific region and the international marketplace. A unique feature is the strong interaction of participants with multinational and...

Although the proportion of women entering management has increased greatly in the last two decades, their subsequent promotion into executive positions has not materialized. Explores how management development training may impede women′s progress. Examines factors that may hinder women′s...

Examines the way in which management has denied training and development the prospect of making a full contribution to corporate renewal. Concentrates on the structural obstacles inherent in the internal environment. The organizational climate within firms must alter radically if training and...

Outlines the importance of dissociating change issues from transition issues within organizations. Presents some transition triggers and shows how they can affect people in their job. Describes a five‐stage model of the transition dynamic, with examples of how people live through...

Examines the Singapore executive in the service sector – insurance, financial and banking – in terms of the level of stress experienced, coping styles, and personality (Type‐A/Type‐B). Tests the relationship between personality type, perceptions of stress and psychological wellbeing....

Outlines the conflict‐handling style of a representative sample of 303 Singaporeans. Using the Thomas‐Kilmann conflict mode instrument, investigates some interesting gender, age, role and occupational differences in conflict‐handling style. Suggests that, while Western thought and practice...

Addresses the vital issue of effective meetings in today′s organizations. Compares and contrasts the differences between using traditional brainstorming and electronic brain‐storming (EBS) in meetings. An analysis of EBS and its uses will furnish organizations with an insight of this...

Addresses the issues of work ethics and work‐related attitudes in the USA and Canada. Two‐hundred‐and‐ten individuals from various organizations participated. The results indicated that US participants were found to be more committed to the Protestant and contemporary work ethic than...

Criticizes Belbin′s team‐role theory on the basis that roles are only appropriate in highly static organizations. Also argues that most teams have no set roles and that every member often takes the roles of others. Rather than assign roles, it is more empowering to teach all team members how...