Leadership & Organization Development Journal
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Organisational Change and Leadership in a University: A Business School Case
Tập 2 Số 3 - Trang 21-26
A new definition of university organisation structures has begun to emerge. Customers in the form of students determine what the senior university departments offer. Staff members work in programme teams to manage and organise delivery. A professor is simply one grade of staff within the university available to teach or left to his own devices in research. Vice Chancellors now spend much of their ......
The psychological contract, organisational commitment and job satisfaction of temporary staff
Tập 21 Số 2 - Trang 84-91
The proportion of the workforce on temporary contracts of employment is increasing, as organisations use non‐permanent staff as a flexible resource. Rousseau and Wade‐Benzoni suggested such temporary staff have a different psychological contract with the organisation than their permanent counterparts. Temporary staff, it is argued, will have a transactional contract, with the emphasis upon the eco......
Empowerment within the UK construction sector
Tập 23 Số 6 - Trang 333-342
The feasibility and success of empowerment are to some extent determined by factors relating to the culture and structure of the industries within which organizations are embedded. The UK construction industry is an example that has a unique socio‐technical context, some aspects of which seem well‐suited to empowerment strategies. However, despite support for empowerment, it has not yet been unive......
The relationship between charismatic leadership behaviors and organizational commitment
Tập 21 Số 1 - Trang 30-35
This article reports on a study to measure the relationship between the six leadership behaviors identified by Conger and Kanunago and the two organizational commitment components identified by Porter and Smith. A total of 245 respondents from six organizations in south‐eastern USA participated in the study. Pearson correlations of the factors from the two scales were computed and revealed tha......
TRANSFORMING ORGANISATIONAL VALUES AND CULTURE EFFECTIVELY
Tập 9 Số 1 - Trang 13-16
Many researchers have been investigating the subject of corporate culture, which has become a buzz word of the 1980s. All results have not been in agreement but a variety of changes to accommodate a change in corporate culture have been observed. Usually the change is effected in order to increase company profitability, and the strategy chosen depends on the existing culture, the company's stage o......
Is personality associated with perceptions of LMX? An empirical study
Tập 28 Số 7 - Trang 613-631
– The paper seeks to investigate whether or not leader‐member exchange (LMX) is influenced by the personality of subordinates and/or supervisors., – Previous literature from the general leadership, personality, and LMX domains was used as a theoretical background for proposing certain types of relationships between the personality traits that make up the Big Five and employees’ perceptions of LMX.......
MRP Systems: Using New Technology in Manufacturing
Tập 4 Số 2 - Trang 26-29
Material Requirements Planning systems are complex and sophisticated and can bring about great changes; they have much to offer manufacturing industry but must be carefully implemented.
Who is a ″Good Manager″?
Tập 13 Số 6 - Trang 3-7
Examines the practical utility of research on managerial behaviour
and managerial effectiveness for training and development programmes.
Casts doubt on the relevance of models in the literature that tell
managers what they should do. Reviews studies of effective managers.
Concludes that the design of programmes in particular settings requires
a study of who is an effective manager in that setting;......