.... It includes eight coworking spaces founded and managed by a steering committee composed of social enterprises, local municipalities, a civic association and a trade union. The network consists of about 50 coworkers. The scope of the network is to develop a “solidarity-oriented” model of coworking, aiming...

.... Design/methodology/approach The paper begins with an explanation of important concepts: research‐based and practice‐based knowledge, four levels of action and two modes of learning. Two mini cases concerning managers in the public sector in Sweden then provide an illustration of how research‐based...

...Michelle Wallace When a workgroup of educators determines to develop an online teaching capability, a number of fundamental change issues become apparent. For the manager, the issues relate to effecting a change process that is inclusive, sustainable and strategic. For the educators, the issues...

...Richard Dealtry Previous articles in this series, on the evolution of the corporate university as a dynamic future state business development platform, have described processes and methodologies for achieving both organisation and strategic learning re‐orientation for success. “Managing...

...Chan Veng Seng; Estelle Zannes; R. Wayne Pace This paper argues that increases in workplace learning may occur concomitantly with ways in which knowledge is managed in an organization, and knowledge management effectiveness may be a function of how successfully an organization is able to put...

... in quality implementation is based on developing solid conceptual skills for managers in the first place, managerial commitment to quality and the sharing of quality thinking in the entire organization. Discusses these factors and describes how positive and negative learning cycles develop and lead...

...Jay T. Knippen; Thad B. Green Discusses some of the problems inherent in moving into a management position in an anecdotal fashion. Describes potential areas of difficulty in style, communications, handling problems, job expectations. Concludes with a series of recommendations as to how best...

... dimensions). Leadership Management Motivation A common feature of modern perceptions of leadership is that leadership is a good and positive thing. In the modern era, Burns (1978) cast leadership as action uniting leaders and followers in the pursuit of significant and morally desirable...

...Jay T. Knippen; Thad B. Green Being a good team player is a highly sought‐after skill. Demonstrates how to become a better team player within your organization by following some simple guidelines. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Communications Employee relations Management To be a team...

...; and follow‐ups. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Communications Employee relations Management I can’t believe it. He’s done it again. He’s told my employees to do something without telling or asking me to tell them. Who’s in charge around here? Me or him? If he’s going to tell them everything why...

...Bruce Kirkcaldy; Adrian Furnham In a weekly managerial newspaper survey the abbreviated German version of the Occupational Stress Indicator’s Coping scale was completed anonymously by over 200 readers. Of these we selected only those who were categorised as management (n = 160) in our...

... crew until it’s perfect. A lot of times it just sits there while we wait for the fork lift. In fact, that’s what happened yesterday when I snapped back to you. To illustrate a person effectively handling a conflict, note the following example where two managers have been angry with each other...

... difficult to achieve such clarity in addressing the more ambiguous challenges of encouraging managerial and leadership effectiveness. The problems of managing and leading are rarely simple matters of skill‐building or knowledge‐inculcation. Rather, managing involves judgement, best guesses...

...John Thompson; Melissa Cole Proposes that, in the chaotic organizational environments of the 1990s, managers must be able to design winning competitive paradigms and then change these continuously and sometimes discontinuously if their organization is at least to stay crisis‐averse and ideally grow...

...‐to‐use steps can aid you in understanding and coping with your boss’s pet peeves: © MCB UP Limited 1997 Identification Management Strategy You: (To yourself.) I will certainly warn anyone meeting with the boss for the first time about his smoking preference. I will make sure...

... and beliefs become the company “philosophy”. Warns that if top executives become impaired by alcoholism, drug addiction or emotional difficulties, the entire organization is affected negatively. Describes a process for evaluating the managing executive, both self‐referred and company mandated. © MCB UP...

...Paula Cook Scrutinizes the pace of change in society as a whole, and points out that successful management of change in the workplace is a continual struggle. In view of this: defines true change management and lists the expected results of successful change; continues to consider our reactions...

...David Johnson The “stress management industry” has developed whereby organizations and individuals offer stress management interventions. These interventions claim to address a problem, about which there is still a great deal of uncertainty. Most of the literature about stress and its management...