Perceived integrity of managers affects employee attitudes. Yet its impact on employee behavior and organizational performance is unknown. Addressing this gap, we examine the effect of perceived integrity in leadership on both subjective firm performance and objective employee productivity....

This chapter examines the interrelationships among pre-merger acquisition strategy, target resistance and post-merger integration and the effects of these interrelationships on post-merger performance. Perspectives from financial and strategic management theory are combined to suggest that an...

Friction and wear cost us in the UK something like £500m per annum, maintenance of plant and buildings £3000m, corrosion oyer £300m, mishandling of material a further 825m. The cost of production delays due to breakdowns has not even been assessed. With figures of this magnitude even a one...

Research has shown that there are two prime causes for the ineffectiveness of so much training. One within the course itself, and the other in the post course area. Particularly at management and supervisory level a great many courses are theoretical and do not give skills or usable tools....

The author is concerned to make the point that most of the excuses for the poor economic performance of the UK do not hold water. He argues a two‐fold thesis: that the failures are mainly failures of management; and that the cure lies in the hands of managers. Underlying this view is the very...

“The times they are a changing!” The song tells us. Training is often called a “change agent”, but it is questionable whether training is, at the moment, in the vanguard or the guards van. As a consultant in organisation development, I am called upon for advice on many issues. Recently I...

It is often said of Britain that we are good at two things — having good ideas, and then in failing to use them! Although the idea of Quality Circles was not originally British (it is said to have been American and not Japanese), we have in this country made some interesting developments upon...