... predicted to be reported as having more effective organizations. Design/methodology/approach – Data from 135 executive organizational leaders and 221 of their subordinates were collected from 52 various nonprofit organizations across USA. Leaders completed measures of leadership behavior and perceived...

... and training tool. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Leadership Values Non‐profit organizations USA Rokeach (1973) defined a value as “an enduring belief that a specific mode of conduct or end‐state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct...

... Limited 1999 Leadership Politics Men Women USA Today’s political arena calls for strong leadership. As technology facilitates information sharing, constituents are becoming more vocal in governmental affairs. Legislators are now expected to be transformational leaders who envision...

... with job‐performance orientation. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Australia Human relations Japan National cultures Performance USA Understanding people with different cultural backgrounds can be achieved by understanding the value systems or perceptual systems which they have acquired through...

... trade Leadership Management development Telecommunications USA While the work of Hofstede (1980, 1991) and others (Hampden‐Turner, 1993; Hickson and Pugh, 1995; Jackson, 1995; Trompenaars, 1993) has been particularly important in developing our ideas concerning cross cultural differences...

..., and personal commitments (CAP, n.d./a). Armed forces Commitment Morale Personnel psychology USA Voluntary organizations Excerpt from fieldnotes: At the Group Meeting there was fervor over the announcement of the change in uniform for CAP members (Civil Air Patrol, unpaid non‐military...

... Management culture Organizational change USA Early on, several associate directors at LANL attended Phil Crosby’s Quality College in Orlando, Florida. Although these senior lab managers were intrigued by many of the concepts, the feeling was the “one size fits all” approach that was taught did...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1997 Leadership Philanthropy Succession planning Top management USA In essence, poor organizational performance, high performance expectations by the board, board allegiance to stockholders, not the incumbent, and the availability of qualified external candidates...

...Allan H. Church; Gary C. McMahan Reports the results of a recent survey that investigated the contemporary practice of organizational development among the USA’s fastest growing firms (as identified by Fortune magazine). States that although the project received a 31 per cent response rate...

... extent. Sixty‐eight per cent of respondents reported that they had been educated in Japan and 32 per cent outside Japan (mostly in the USA,though certain other countries were reported, and the assumption was made that these respondents were local US nationals). For the purpose of providing a point...

... a measure of your openness to new learning? © MCB UP Limited 1995 Ethics Leadership Perceptions Philosophy Re‐organization Responsibility Society USA Values BL Can we start with the core messages of your book (1992)? RT I am arguing that a basic issue we all have...

..., “it turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order ... and, yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an eerier type of order” (quoted in Gleick, 1987). Conflict Conflict resolution Interpersonal communications Personnel psychology USA As the level of interpersonal, inter...

... modification Counselling Employee assistance programmes Individual behaviour Interventions Leadership Management development Managers Personnel psychology USA Emerging from developmental psychology (Miller, 1983), clinical psychology (Woititz, 1983),family practice (Black, 1989), employee...

... Sociotechnics Systems redesign USA Work design Competitive trends of the global business environment are causing executives to rethink traditional design configurations and work design. One of the key challenges for managers and organizational scholars in the 1990s is to ensure an adequate business...

... they must (1) free themselves from themselves, (2) free themselves from the artificial systems of organizations, and (3) take specific responsibility for their actions. Leadership Managers Organizational change USA Serious physical illness often requires surgery to realign, remove,repair...

... experiences within game play and a short review of research validating games as learning environments. Experiential learning History Management development Management games USA INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT GAMES 25 Management games have become progressively developed and popular and are used as part...

... change Team building USA ...

..., medical staff. The techniques used are described:recognise individuals; communicate effectively; show appreciation by gifts, cards, awards, etc.; find out what others′ real needs and complaints are – and visibly respond; give praise. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Hospitals Health care Psychology USA...

..., the medical staff, and others in the health care community will be described subsequently. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Creativity Health care Hospitals Stress USA Employee communications 28 LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL 12,4 Creativity and praise are effective mechanisms...

...Dahlia Hackman; Brian H. Kleiner The nature of Singapore′s political, economic and socio‐cultural environment is first discussed. Then the transferability of US management practices as described in In Search of Excellence is explored. Effectiveness Singapore USA Management theory...