..., to reclaim alternativity in decision-making and to develop richer, more differentiated strategies for dealing with dilemmas in complex environments. Originality/value The paper advances paradox and systems theory by reframing the classical tetralemma in terms of functional differentiation...

...Anders Fundin; Ingela Bäckström; Pernilla Ingelsson; Kristen Snyder; Love Westin Purpose Research has underscored the significance of quality culture in relation to employee performance and stakeholder value. This study aims to develop and assess an extended quality culture framework to align...

... value participants attribute to desired culture outcomes can function as a proxy for measuring culture shift over time, providing applied researchers and practitioners with a simple way to measure efficacy of change initiatives. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual article reviews...

...Maria Jose Parada; Georges Samara; Alexandra Dawson; Eduard Bonet Purpose Despite the great importance attributed to values in the family business, few studies have focused on their importance and on how such values influence the way family businesses behave over time. Using Aristotelian virtues...

...-based reforms create an environment in which administrative wrongdoing can occur. The principles of leadership found in NPLT, which advocates values-based, relationship-based distributed leadership provide a template for effective leadership that can reverse and possibly prevent leadership failure due...

...” as an emerging model of an organization that infuses a contemplative approach into the workplace. Such an organization strives to incorporate contemplative practices into all aspects of work; embody and explore organizational mission and values; move between cycles of action and reflection; balance product...

... of emotional expression is developed. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Employees behaviour Change management Storytelling Values USA While there is a growing literature pointing to the prevalence and importance of emotions in organizations (Fineman, 1993), organizations seem to maintain...

... Western society, with particular emphasis on how this affects organizations. The aims of the special issue are put forward and the papers within it are briefly discussed. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Organizations Beliefs Religion Values Research We are living in an unprecedented time, one...

... Environment Management Values Model Leading organizations are changing their stance on formerly intractable stakeholder issues. For example, General Motors (GM) and Ford are signatories to the CERES Principles (CERES, 2000). Both firms embrace voluntary environmental management systems, and subject...

... change toward higher order levels of concern, but the spread of wealth to a majority of the society’s people over time. Beliefs Self‐development Society Self‐esteem Values Organizational change There are so many new management ideas and practices occurring in businesses today...

.... The concluding section provides a brief speculative discussion of future developments. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Beliefs Organizational change Values This paper focuses on newer work life and organizational culture arrangements which improve the human experience and thereby help to achieve...

... into the workplace, can greatly enhance personal well‐being and creativity, organizational harmony, and long‐term business success. These are ultimate values, optimal human development, the art of transcendence, and spiritual psychologies, both ancient and modern. Full or optimal human development, or, to use...

..., the desire to integrate deeply held personal values with the leadership role, and spirituality as a source of courage when facing daunting challenges. Let me forthrightly state that my interest in spirituality in the context of business leadership did not flow from my own inner inspiration. Rather it came...

... values can be integrated into organizations and then assess how this model predicts organizational behavior in one company, Southwest Airlines (SWA). The application of this model provides insights into how and under what specific conditions spiritual values can positively impact both profitability...

...Kevin C. Wooten; Louis P. White The purpose of this article is twofold; first, to demonstrate a linkage between the tenets of justice theory and OD core values, assumptions and ethical beliefs and, second, to show the role of this linkage as it applies to postmodern organizations in terms...

...Thomas A. Bryant; Joseph E. Bryant The modern economy of North America has been built on nearly five centuries of natural resource exploitation. Wetlands have been part of that pattern, with drainage and filling used to convert them to higher economic values. Ecological research and social value...

... which are based on the notion of value. In environmentalism the value of economic growth per se is questioned. It challenges ideas about what society should consider to be valuable; about whether quality of life is more important than standard of living. Entrepreneurship is argued to be about...

... in organizational settings. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Management Organizational change Organizational theory Values Work There certainly appears to be evidence that the kinds of jobs that most employees have grown used to having for more than the past 50 years are either changing dramatically...

...Janet Gillespie; Gordon Meyer Living and living with the postmodern values of diversity,flexibility, voice, humanness, inspirational leadership, shared power,and global sensitivity can result in very different outcomes for organizational members. Discusses these potentially contradictory out‐comes...

...Janine Waclawski; Allan H. Church; W. Warner Burke Focuses on women in the field of organization development (OD),their consulting practices, motivators, values, and intended directions for the future. Reviews the current state of the field – focusing on both the inherent tension in values...