Identifies the three key challenges encountered on international assignments; their impact on assignment adjustment performance and satisfaction; the key skills required to deal effectively with the challenges; and issues associated with training in these skills for internationally assigned...

Identifies critical elements of the contents for design of an effective management education programme for international joint venture managers.

Addresses the critical need for managers to be trained in the use of current technology. Also discusses strategies to manage more effectively with technology in the international marketplace.

Reviews briefly the history of management games and outlines the main parts of a game. Lists the best known international management games being utilized in the United States. Provides a complete description of the Multinational Management Game (MMG) along with case histories of management...

Current changes in Australian and world economic and social climates have implications for business leadership, particularly at the middle and senior management levels. Surveys business executives attending a well‐known Australian management college during 1991 and 1992 and provides an...

Accepts that resistance to change by individuals in organizations is a natural phenomenon and is an essential element in understanding any change process. Holds that resistance has its origins in both the personality and the individual′s interaction with the environment and is a dynamic...

Provides a perspective for creating a more formalized mentoring programme and for developing a culture of mentoring within an organization. Describes certain principles which are applicable to all such programmes, derived from interviews with those who have been mentors and proteges. Identifies...

Argues that the effective management of technological change requires transformational leadership, and that one of the principal tools employed by the transformational leader is rites. Rites are elaborate, dramatic, planned sets of activities that promote change in individuals at both the...

Reviews the distinctive cultural patterns found in Taiwan, and then discusses the management practices of three “excellent” Taiwanese companies and explores their success in terms of the eight major characteristics discussed by Peters and Waterman in In Search of Excellence .

Describes a weekend workshop on contemporary organizational consultancy, held in April 1992. Themes explored included types and levels of consultation; styles of intervention; consultation as a facilitation, as education, as a political process; changing needs of organizational clients; and...