... leadership/management and the extent to which women adopt a style which is different to that of men. Liz Doherty can be contacted at: l.doherty@shu.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Women executives Gender Universities Promotion Management styles United Kingdom...

... involvement Management styles Developing countries Eritrea Research in comparative management suggests that cross‐cultural insight is required to understand successful and appropriate organisational management approaches (Jackson, 2004), and is the right way to understand HRM (Yagoubi, 2004...

... the need to harmonise the positive contributions of both the younger and the older workers and giving respect to the contributions of both groups. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Age groups Leadership Managers Management styles United Kingdom There have been several research...

....) © MCB UP Limited 1999 Employee relations Management styles Small firms Trade unions Studies of employee relations have traditionally been located in large organisations. It is only recently that research has started to focus on small‐to‐medium sized enterprises (Goss, 1988...

...Patrick Gunnigle; Thomas Turner; Michael Morley This paper considers the impact of collectivist and individualist management styles in employee relations on levels of strategic integration in employee relations. The findings indicate a positive relationship between individualism and strategic...

... of flexibility? © MCB UP Limited 1997 Flexibility Management styles Organizational structure Organizational theory Sustainable development Organizational flexibility is one of the “hot issues” in today’s management theory as well as management practice. Sometimes the concept...

... requirements, societal changes and the values and expectations of employees. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Corporate culture Employee relations Employment contracts Management styles Organizational change Personnel psychology In recent years, organizations have come under increasing pressure...

... of interest to study how executives coped with management styles and modes of communication different from their own, once they were transferred or recruited abroad. In this way, management styles and modes of communication became part of the research, which in turn led to a comparative study. Corporate...

... in a fully fledged capital‐intensive, high‐tech manufacturing plant, where high machine utilization is crucial. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Apprenticeships Flexible manning Management styles Motor industry Teamwork Training Japan Germany Note: This paper was subsequently published...