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Diversity in the workforce has become a demographic reality across the globe. There has been some debate amongst academics and practitioners over how to deal with employee diversity. Many agree that organizations should aim to manage diversity rather than simply value it or rely on affirmative...
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This paper opens by reviewing the market for NVQs in management, their status in higher education and evidence for … their effectiveness as vehicles for management development. The delivery and assessment of Management NVQs are then … considered against a value‐adding paradigm and it is proposed that Management NVQs focus on routine aspects of management and are …
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Purpose To mitigate negative human-induced impact on the planet, consumption patterns need to be changed urgently. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how companies can drive sustainable consumption patterns. Design/methodology/approach The paper discusses six illustrative cases of...
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Purpose – Corporate compliance practices are often “coercively” structured, coined by a legal discourse and derived … the basis for compliance arrangements. They form a necessary complementary element of functional compliance systems …. Practical implications – The covenantal logic of the Decalogue can orientate the formulation of corporate compliance programs …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reach more clarity regarding the notion of compliance, in particular with … compliance in the full sense of that word without integrity. Compliance without integrity is a pathological case of compliance …. Originality/value – So far, issues of compliance and integrity have either been treated as being essentially separate or as one …
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A specific decision support system, DSS manager, based on a computerized simulation business game was developed to teach executives how to make decisions following the new rules of market driven Polish economics. Describes the concept of using this “tailor‐made” DSS to help both senior and...
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manner. Innovative, customer‐driven organizations are more likely to succeed. Total quality management (TQM) is a management … establishment of the Malcolm Baldrige National Award in 1987 and Deming′s management philosophy have both contributed significantly … to organizations′ awareness of the use of TQM as a key element in strategic planning for competitivemess in the current …
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Unilever uses management development (MD) as a strategic tool to help the organization meet its short and long term … system worldwide; performance‐development related pay; and total transparency. In addition, performance development planning …
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that it is the live‐case orientation of the mid‐management seminar programme involved that provides effective linkage … method exemplifies and encourages effective organizational learning in action at both middle and senior management levels.  …
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Executives in the Caribbean are spending more time planning and attending meetings now than they did five years ago …
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