...Johanna Sax; Simon S. Torp Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the effect of psychological safety and participative leadership style on risk performance as well as its interaction with enterprise risk management (ERM) processes to evaluate if a decentralisation in the form of a safe...

...Isabel D.W. Rechberg; Jawad Syed Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether there is a tendency towards appropriation or participation of the individual in the literature of knowledge management (KM). Design/methodology/approach – This is a literature review paper. In terms...

...Neil Barnett Increasing participation in public service issues is a central theme in New Labour’s “modernisation” programme. This concerns service delivery issues but also connects to a broader concern for “democratic renewal”. Underpinning this is New Labour’s continuation of the attempt to re...

... to be revisited. Specifically, models will need to reflect a greater participation by the customer, a diminishing role for service personnel, and the blurring of the back and front office divide. There are an increasing number of contexts in which information systems are being used to support or replace...

... cross‐training). © MCB UP Limited 1994 Autonomous work groups Compensation Employee attitudes Organizational change Organizational structure Participation Top management Training They are called self‐managed teams, high‐performance teams, superteams,cross‐functional teams, self...

... Bureaucracy Ethics Management Participation Politics Society Standards The transition from the industrial era to the information age produced a paradigm shift which has created a second authority structure in the economy. The new construct, called a management system, provides for high output...

... in the context of their training models, the extent of autonomy of the teams as well as in the scope of the employees′ participation on teams. Considers the challenge for management finding the right extent to which monitoring and control should be applied to improvement teams as well as avoiding process...

... and motivation, but that the setting of goals does not require a complex and costly process. The use of any goal is better than no goal but outcomes are better in simple participative systems. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Goals Health care Human resource management Participation Performance 48...

...Phillip M. Heath This article discusses the nature of quality achievement in industry. The characteristics of the Japanese approach to quality and management are examined, and the importance of employee participation and involvement in contributing to quality achievement is noted. In this context...