Search Results - subject:"Management structure"

Downsizing: measuring the costs of failure

Appelbaum, Steven H.; Lavigne‐Schmidt, Suzanne; … - In: Journal of Management Development 18 (1999) 5, pp. 436-463

A five‐year review of the literature on the management practice of downsizing and its related costs published between 1994 and 1998 is used to analyze the positive and negative outcomes attributable to downsizing. The article examines downsizing to assess its impact on both the individual...

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How does your top team perform?

Kippenberger, T - In: The Antidote 2 (1997) 3, pp. 23-24

Comments on senior management teams and factors that affect their performance. Describes the top management team as the dominant coalition of senior managers at the top of an organization. Cites different management needs and the factors affecting performance such as: team purpose; team process;...

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Internet conference on telecommuting

Davies, Rod - In: Career Development International 1 (1996) 5, pp. 29-37

Describes in detail an Internet conference in which the particpants discussed issues arising from the growth of telecommuting as a viable work and career function. Describes the nature of telecommuting and its implications for society, organizational culture and the individual. Discusses the...

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An alternative to privatization: the listing of H‐shares in Hong Kong

Lin Chan, Hing - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 9 (1996) 3, pp. 40-50

Details how, in a bid to invigorate its state‐owned enterprises, the Chinese government allows some of its large state‐owned enterprises to list on the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and New York. Reports that, although at the beginning the stocks were very well received, the H‐share prices...

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Team performance management

Natale, Samuel M.; Libertella, Anthony F.; Rothschild, Brian - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 1 (1995) 2, pp. 6-13

Explores the shifting values and infrastructures which characterize recent changes in US managerial systems – from a traditional hierarchical approach to an emerging team management concept. Success will come to those companies which place innovation and team spirit back into the work...

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Organizing for total quality : case research from Japan

Westbrook, Roy - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 12 (1995) 4, pp. 8-25

Research on quality in Japan has emphasized technical issues, but there is much to be learned from more organizational elements. Presents material from major Japanese corporations on the role of the centre in quality, the organizing of quality training, and long‐term planning for quality. The...

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« AMOUR, GLOIRE ET RUPTURE » Une étude longitudinale du rôle de la gouvernance dans la création et le partage de la valeur dans une joint-venture internationale.

Sebti, Hicham - Université Paris-Dauphine

specific structures to manage alliance relationships. The aim of this article is to understand role of relationship management … structure in the processes of value creation and value appropriation. for that purpose we carried a longitudinal case study of … an alliance in the retail sector. Our results suggest the existence of a relationship life cycle in which the management …

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Stop the Organization – I Want to Change It! Part 1

Grubb, Irene M.; Silvestro, Norrie W.; Ward, David F. - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 26 (1994) 1, pp. 23-27

The first of two articles, discusses the problems of seeking to introduce organizational development interventions into a major Health Service organization. In particular, the paradox is that the leaders of major change issues are themselves caught up in the instability that the interventions...

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Stop the Organization – I Want to Change It! Part 2

Grubb, Irene M.; Silvestro, Norrie W.; Ward, David F. - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 26 (1994) 4, pp. 15-21

Describes and reviews one major initiative within the context of a ten‐year organization development strategy. Outlines the key steps involved in extending a performance management and planning process to over 600 supervisory and clinical staff. Indicates that high levels of external...

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HRM – The Reinvention of Modern Management?

Clark, Ian - In: Personnel Review 23 (1994) 5, pp. 15-24

Critical and prescriptive evaluation of human resource management (HRM) tells us little about the direction in which its practice and rationale purport to push management. Contends that the prevailing course of HRM ventures to make management more entrepreneurial. Distinguishes between the...

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