Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore what it means to be a manager in the context of working from home, or “flexworking”, as an increasingly common work practice. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is located within an interpretive interactionist perspective, drawing on...

Outlines the conflict‐handling style of a representative sample of 303 Singaporeans. Using the Thomas‐Kilmann conflict mode instrument, investigates some interesting gender, age, role and occupational differences in conflict‐handling style. Suggests that, while Western thought and practice...

Purpose – An increasingly popular method of facilitating employee and leadership development is via a career community (Parker et al. , 2004), where individuals self-organize to obtain career support. This study was driven by the following research question: how do external peer coaching...

Management development (MD) is defined as the system of personnel practices intended to ensure that an organization can rely on timely availability of qualified and motivated employees. The article reports on a survey of 92 Dutch companies concerning their MD policy and practice. Results...

In the last couple of years, attention to organisation socialisation has increased greatly; this is the learning process by which newcomers develop attitudes and behaviour that are necessary to function as a fully‐fledged member of the organisation. After all, the more effective and efficient...