...Chet E. Barney; Brent B. Clark; Serge P. da Motta Veiga Purpose The main purpose of this study was to examine which job resources are most valuable for research productivity, depending on varying teaching demands. Design/methodology/approach Data was collected from 324 management faculty...

...Kay Maddox-Daines Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the mid-career experience of female managers within a small higher education institution in the UK. It considers how managers manage “self” within this phase of career. Design/methodology/approach – This study takes...

... and to their organisations. The mishandling of a redundancy situation is presented as a case study. Drawing on survivors to disasters who overcome the trio of trauma, life crisis and loss, a study was undertaken of 50 senior and middle managers in private and public sector organisations which had recently undertaken major...

...Alison Tyler; Stephen Swailes This paper reviews the literature on knowledge management in the context of a major organisational change. The organisations studied provide statutory public services and are responsible for providing advice and guidance to young people. A postal survey of 123 managers...

...Sharon Leiba O’Sullivan; Steven H. Appelbaum; Corinne Abikhzer Provides an in‐depth description of the expatriate management practices of four Canadian multinationals in order to determine how closely Canadian practices correspond to the “best practices” described in the international HRM (IHRM...

... that training and support provided by host units is a more common form of expatriate training than pre‐departure training. Thus, existing research may exaggerate the lack of expatriate training when focusing only on pre‐departure training. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Expatriates Management Training...

... be underestimated. Career development Theory Gender Women Management Women’s career development does not simply lag behind that of men but may proceed in a completely different manner (Larwood and Gutek, 1987) and yet, to date, only a few career models attempt to incorporate women’s varying life...

...Karel Pavlica; David Holman; Richard Thorpe Kolb’s theory of experiential learning has proven extremely popular and useful in management education. However, despite its usefulness it is not entirely unproblematic and, using social constructionist perspectives, this paper critiques Kolb’s model...

...Mark David Nevins The shape and makeup of a corporate university in a management consulting firm remains a vexed question: what should it look like, and what should it do, to develop its professionals most effectively? There is not a great deal of literature on this topic ‐ or on management, human...

...Andrew Sheridan May Discusses the need for effective business process outsourcing, and starts by identifying core and non‐core activities. Common tasks of outsourcing are identified and each task is examined, in turn, to identify the management competences required. Presents a framework...

...David Collins This paper is written as a reply to the paper “Applying empowerment: organizational model” written by Baruch. The paper argues that Baruch’s account of empowerment, in spite of its attempts to educate managers actually works to obscure understanding. Mounting a challenge to Baruch...

...Yehuda Baruch Empowerment is not merely a new buzzword introduced to capture the imagination of current trends in management science. It comprises an innovative approach to working with people and a shift from top‐down management styles which have dominated control mechanism and managerial concepts...

...Chiang Kao; Liang‐Hsuan Chen; Tai‐Yue Wang; Hong‐Tau Lee Discusses the external supply for industries of particular skill groups from academic institutions and illustrates this with a case of industrial management. Essentially, students graduating from academic institutions constitute the major...

... of strategic human resource management and employment contracts (Arthur, Hall and Lawrence, 1989). © MCB UP Limited 1997 Australia Career development Dual‐career couples Management Careers commonly begin within the salaried ranks of an organization, providing paths for advancement...

...Chiang Kao; Tzai‐Zang Lee; Shyanjaw Kuo Appropriate job selection and career planning largely determine successful career development. Investigates some aspects of career development in industrial management from a sample survey conducted over the manufacturing industries in Taiwan. Derives...

...Charles M. Russam Examines the progress of interim management over the last five years. Presents key statistics to show that the size of the market for interim managers has doubled and that the technique has gained greater recognition. Considers threats to the continuation of this growth. © MCB...

...Juergen F. Deller; Ute Flunkert Presents a German viewpoint of the approach chosen by large Japanese enterprises to recruit and develop future managers. After a short introduction to the Japanese educational system, presents the different stages of the selection of up‐and‐coming managers in Germany...

...Allan H. Church; Wes Siegal; Miriam Javitch; Janine Waclawski; W. Warner Burke Managers and executives need to have a better framework for thinking about and understanding organizational change. Presents a summary of research, based on data from 1,840 managers and executives worldwide...

...Trevor Pullen A personal view by a “new” managing director who describes his own experiences in taking on the challenge of a very different dual role in a new organization. He joined GHN, a specialist consultancy providing executive coaching and mentoring almost a year ago from a top position...

...James S. Lawson Although the nature of work undertaken by managers of organizations has been widely studied, the influence of personalities of managers,particularly in the public sector, appears not to have been examined in detail. The personality characteristics of 50 senior Australian public...