..., and communication. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to report on a total quality management (TQM) implementation as a sample motivational case to support the need for a new work from anywhere (WFA) stakeholder framework that can be used by other companies as they build, maintain, and continuously improve...

... such as a non-executive director of a public body. It could be useful as a reader on a public sector management module, where some of the big issues around funding, performance and political intervention are to the fore. However, the book is less strong as a reporter of the work of the unnamed middle manager...

...Gary Slater Edited by Keone, B., Garsten, C. and Galais, N. Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work Routledge 2014 205pp. 978-0-415-89581-1 £85.00,Hardback © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 --> Management Organisation Agency...

...John Leopold; Luchien Karsten Introduces the special issue on time and management which draws together analyses of these issues from across the European Union. The concept of hora management has been inspired by the three benevolent Greek deities who served as guardians of work. As their task...

...Lynette Harris As home‐based teleworking grows in the UK, more evidence is needed of how working from home shapes the employment relationship and the implications this may have for those line managers responsible for a home‐based workforce. The reported experiences of a sales team and their line...

... Performance appraisal Statistics Competences Management The increasing complexity of a manager’s job in today’s workplace has contributed to substantial interest in multi‐source ratings as performance improvement tools (Brutus et al., 1998). Organizations have increasingly turned to multi...

...Stuart Dawson C.L.   Cooper , S.   Palmer . Conquer your Stress . London : Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development   2000 . pp. 89 , ISBN: 0 85292 853 X   £5.95 (pbk) © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Management Human resource management Organizational...

...Stuart Dawson C.   Mill . Managing for the First Time . pp. 75 , ISBN: 0 85292 858 0   £5.95 (pbk) One manager is quoted saying that “communication is where most managers fall down”, and Mill is right to emphasise the need for personal contact with your team over and over...

...Stuart Dawson A.   Bell . Transforming your Workplace . pp. 86 , ISBN: 0 85292 856 4   £5.95 (pbk) © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Management Human resource management Organizational change Stress Personal development plans Office layout These three books...

...Jacqueline McIntyre The retail sector faces a major challenge to its store management strategies as a result of changing trading conditions and recent legislation allowing extended opening hours. Previous work by the author has considered the possibility of utilising part time female managers...

...Martyn Wright Management industrial relations policy and management style are examined in a panel of 50 highly unionised companies between 1979 and 1991. Management policy in panel firms in 1979 was relatively uniform, centred upon collective bargaining and the closed shop. A much broader spectrum...

...Deborah Jones; Judith Pringle; Deborah Shepherd Argues that the discourse of “managing diversity”, emerging from the US management literature, cannot be simply mapped on to organisations in other cultural contexts. It uses the example of Aotearoa/New Zealand to show that a “diversity” based...

... the diverse needs of its workforce. But to what extent does the reality match the aspirations? Using questionnaires and in‐depth interviews, the expectations and experiences of part‐time staff in a large public sector organisation and their managers are explored. The findings reveal practical difficulties...

...David Collins This paper offers an account of empowerment as an ideological construct. Rejecting management accounts of empowerment as limiting and logically inconsistent, the paper offers a dynamic analysis of empowerment as an essentially ambiguous concept. Based principally upon an analysis...

...Titus Oshagbemi A number of research findings have suggested that managers are, in general, more satisfied with their jobs than are workers. This study aims to investigate the job satisfaction of academics and their managers, and to find out whether academics who hold managerial positions...

...Denise Skinner; Christopher Mabey Describes an ongoing research project investigating how human resource strategies are conceived, designed and implemented in organizations as perceived by the managers involved. Data has been gathered using questionnaires completed by 723 managers studying the Open...

...Irena Grugulis Presents a critical account of the implementation of the Management NVQ in three case study companies. Deals with two main themes: first, the way in which the candidates reacted to the management standards, reinterpreting their own roles and adopting the concept of a “real” manager...

...Jean Woodall Considers corporate culture management as an area where ethical concern and analysis has been weak. Examines justification of corporate culture management as an essential ingredient for corporate success, and finds little evidence to support a consequentialist ethic. Proceeds...

...‐term basis through maintaining the staffing resource and coping with the conflicts and contradictions which arise wherever and whenever people are employed[ 1, p. 154 ]. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Development Management Organizational processes Organizational theory Post‐modernism...

...‐west of England, which employed 650 staff at two main sites and at small outpost offices. The performance appraisal scheme was one of a number of activities initiated by the chief executive in the human resource management area. This scheme was launched in a company, and an industry, which had seen...