The Nominal Group Process is one of a group of techniques that has been formulated to supplement the interactive group process. The NGP can be directly used to identify specific problems or areas of organisational concern. The technique has the secondary effect of facilitating overall...

This article presents a case study in the fields of marketing and business problem solving in general. The formal disciplines of structured creative problem solving were used to solve a substantial problem and simultaneously to identify ways of exploiting the opportunities that lay within it....

The issues of culture and leadership in the Asian context are discussed and the cultural perspectives related to Asian management style are reviewed. A qualitative research study is presented in which two different groups of Asian managers describe their best or worst leader. The results...

What behaviour is induced in leaders/managers when subordinates are unco‐operative? In this Nigerian study 25 managers were divided into three groups, each with a leader appointed from the members – who were then secretly briefed to be troublesome. Leaders exhibited the behaviours of...

Advises on development of political acumen in employee development: limitations of analytical approach; politics as an art; categories of ideologies; top management checks and balances on power and self‐interest; impact of functional interests; role and limitations of personnel function; how...

Philosophical discussion of the origins and interaction of attitudes, enterprise ethics and changes in ethics post‐war. The move has been from authoritarian to democratic; the democratic organisation presents particular problems. Demands on leadership go beyond traditional skills and include...