SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from June 1993

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from June 1993

New realities in the corporate workplace: child care in the nineties.
June 22, 1993... Introduction United States businesses lose $3 billion annually from child care-related absences, according to the Child Care Action Campaign (Employee Benefit Plan Review 1991a). IBM is probably typical of many large companies: nearly 60% of...

Productive employment of the handicapped: compliance strategies for the Americans with Disabilities Act.
June 22, 1993... Introduction President George Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990, initially affecting employers with 25 or more employees but later extending to those with 15 or more employees. The ADA adopts all of the...

Managing the diversified workforce: current efforts and future directions.
June 22, 1993... Introduction The once all-white, all-male corporate culture of industry is transforming into a mosaic of cultural diversity. The Hudson Institute's Work Force 2000 report estimates that 85% of the net increase in the labor force by 2000 will...

Fitting in: issues of tokenism and conformity for minority women.
June 22, 1993... Traditional business organizations were developed along military lines, constructed by and for white males, creating and reinforcing a corporate culture with a uniform, rather than a diverse, work force. This model was reflected in the way jobs...

The central European three: opportunities and challenges.
June 22, 1993... After a long era of economic stagnation, the Iron Curtain suddenly fell. In 1989, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, commonly known as the Central European Three (CE3), finally moved away from the socialist system and opened up their markets to...

The etiology of organizational politics: implications for the intrapreneur. (includes appendix)
June 22, 1993... This paper is part of an ongoing stream of research that views organizations as "political-economies," and is investigating the importance of this perspective for managing the technological innovation process in manufacturing organizations. An...

Managing employees as if they were volunteers.
June 22, 1993... Introduction The keynote speaker at a recent meeting of the American Production and Inventory Control Society began her presentation by asking the question, "Who needs a boss?" Curiously, many of the managers and supervisors attending the...