... such as employee engagement, trust in GenAI and attitudes toward its implementation. This exploration is motivated by the ongoing evolution of GenAI, which presents managers with the crucial task of understanding and integrating this technology into their strategic frameworks. Design/methodology/approach We...

... communications Management Capital As organisational environments have become characterised by complexity, speed and fragmentation, economic efficiency and hierarchy are no longer taken as the guiding organisation principles (for example, Daft and Lewin, 1993 ; Clegg, 1999). In their place...

...Vesa Suutari The need for developing a cadre of global managers who are capable of working in international key positions wherever the needs of companies require it, has been widely stressed. Typically, the literature on international careers still deals with international assignments as “once...

...Erica Frydenberg; Ramon Lewis This study investigates the relationship between workplace context and how people cope with their concerns. It does so by examining the coping behaviour of a group of 137 Australian middle managers within one organisation and 236 community‐based adults, none of whom...

...‐operation, planning and overall effectiveness by managers themselves, their peers and their superiors. Indeed, over the past decade or so there has been considerable academic interest in multi‐rater or 360‐degree feedback (Beehr et al., 2001; Brett and Atwater, 2001; Mount et al., 1998...

...B.D. Kirkcaldy; R.M. Trimpop; S. Williams A large sample of German and British managers selected from the private and public sectors completed the pressure management indicator (PMI). The PMI is a 120‐item self‐report questionnaire developed from the occupational stress indicator (OSI). The PMI...

...Jim Paul; Christy A. Strbiak; Nancy E. Landrum This article presents a psychoanalytically informed diagnosis of top management team (TMT) dysfunction during TMT training in a public sector organization. Outdoor management development exercises and the psychodynamics of family groups increased...

...Yiannis Gabriel; Adrian Carr An overview is presented of some basic psychoanalytic insights into organisations that collectively reinforce the reasons why management studies should concern itself with psychoanalysis. The paper highlights the different psychoanalytically informed approaches...

...Adrian Carr Introduces Freud’s discovery of an active unconscious as at the heart of many psychodynamic processes. Also introduces the papers in this special issue. Overall, this paper alerts us all to a significant area of neglect and challenge for those who manage and seek to analyze...

... barely change. Four health service contexts are introduced here and psychodynamic processes operating therein are explored and contrasted. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Organisational change Health service Management United Kingdom Jaques (1953) proposed that social systems support...

...Leroy Lowe; Albert Mills; Jane Mullen By the very nature of its concerns (i.e. a search for deep‐seated meanings within our understandings of organizations and the people who enact them), psychoanalysis has much to offer management practice in the twenty‐first century. We contend that, given its...

... social psychology, public opinion studies, legal studies, behavioral economics, and clinical psychology. The recognition of the historic interdisciplinary evolution of the concept of ignorance plays an important role in the knowledge economy and learning organizations. If management is not aware...

...Margaret Linehan; Hugh Scullion Previous research has estimated that only 3 percent of international managers are women. From the limited extant research in international human resource management in Europe it is evident that female managers are not progressing to senior management positions...

... of leadership, management and political power within an organization and, particularly, the responsibility and power relationships between an organization and its board. The authors assert that if the patterns of power are well understood then some things can be said about the patterns that are likely to emerge...

... driver of interest has been the failure of IQ tests to account for sufficient variance in success criteria both in an educational and organisational context. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Individual behaviour Competences Personality Management Career development The current widespread...

... western models of management, and may not be well suited to the new environment. The research finds many differences in psychological profile between FSU managers and western managers, and finds a common Soviet manager profile, which is a poor match to western models of management. The implications...

...Peter Collett This paper is concerned with methodology in cross‐cultural studies of management. It raises issues about sampling, and then moves on to deal with two problems that threaten to undermine the value of cross‐cultural research. One is the popularity of models which reduce culture...

...). In this study, men and women are selected in equivalent managerial status. It is in their preferred mode of coping with potentially stressful job situations that men and women differed. Women in positions of responsibility in public sector management have no option but to more frequently apply methods...

...Robert T. Rosti, Jr; Frank Shipper Training programs are infrequently evaluated and when they are evaluated they often rely on pre‐experimental designs and feedback of the participants. This statement is also true of management development programs based on 360 feedback. In this study the effects...

...Yuwei Shi; H.K. Tang Based on Belbin’s model of management team role behaviour and the theories on organizational environment, proposes that managers’ team role preferences are influenced by the immediate social context, that is, the organizational task environment. Analysing the task environments...