British Nuclear Fuels plc, an organization employing around 15,000 people, entered the 1990s facing change on a number of business fronts, precipitated by the privatization of the UK electricity industry, the move from cost plus to fixed price contracts and the need to become globally...

Describes the training programme set up by Allrich, Inc. a highly successful manufacturing firm. The aim was to set up a training model which was sufficiently flexible to accommodate the needs of all individuals in the organization. It was set up on the basis of organization mission statements,...

Sets out to examine two questions: first, can an academic‐based approach contribute to benchmarking and self assessment and, second, can tools be developed for use in manufacturing, in particular those to do with technology management. Proposes and tests a procedure for developing and...

Offers a number of insights into the nature of spirituality in organizations and how employees can gain greater spirituality and purpose in their work. Specifically, proposes that a recent leadership theory, thought self‐leadership, can assist employees in influencing or leading themselves...

Reports on a development centre programme undertaken in collaboration with Criterion Partnership. Outlines the seven objectives, specifying the methods used, and summarizes the results together with typical comments from the participants.

We tested a model proposing that transformational leaders build committed and high performing work groups by enhancing employee self‐efficacy and cohesiveness. Questionnaires were completed by 303 fire department personnel following preliminary in‐depth interviews with fire rescue personnel....

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...