... --> Complexity theory Contingency planning Management technique The author, Gerard Fairtlough, is a biochemist who worked for the Shell Group for 25 years, with five of these years as CEO of Shell Chemicals UK and later as founder and CEO of Celltech. He has been advisor to governments and to academic...

..., 1992), regardless of the enormous variations in the characteristics of the type of change being implemented. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Change management Contingency planning Despite decades of research into organizational change, the results frequently fall short...

... Leadership Managers Contingency planning Management theory Prior to the mid‐1980s, there were very few studies that distinctly differentiated between strategic and supervisory leadership. Only recently it was confirmed that leadership appears to be perceived and practiced differently as a function...

... the organization and create a host of other complications. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Communications Contingency planning Crisis management Environment Planning Most crises do not occur suddenly. The signals can usually be picked up and the symptoms checked as they emerge. A company...

... Contingency planning Crisis management Decision making International trade Lysippis was a famous Greek sculptor. From a huge block of stone he had carved a singular statue. A passer‐by asked him what the statue represented and Lysippis replied, “It is the statue Opportunity”. “But why,” asked...

... the “fight” is to push the authority back into control. Thus counter‐dependence is really about establishing who is in control and of what. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Contingency planning Corporate culture Employee involvement Individual behaviour Management styles Organizational change...

... become insulated in their functional groups and fail to see or understand the other functions′jobs. This can lead to co‐ordination problems. As Wilson (1986) explained: © MCB UP Limited 1994 Contingency planning Leadership Managers Multinationals Organizational development...