SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from June 1996

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from June 1996

Building effective learning teams: lessons from the field.
June 22, 1996... The demands of the 21st century will require business organizations to become more customer focused, using employee talent to create, share, and utilize information as part of a broad-based competitive strategy. Another part of this transition...

Current trends in performance appraisal: an examination of managerial practice.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Performance appraisal continues to be a subject of interest and importance to human resource specialists. For decades, performance appraisal has received considerable attention in the literature, from both researchers and...

Hong Kong the crossroads: will reversion to China spell the end of entrepreneurship?
June 22, 1996... Under the terms of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, Hong Kong will revert to China on July 1, 1997. Because Hong Kong has been the world's entrepreneurial capital and because entrepreneurship depends upon political and economic freedom,...

Distributive and procedural justice as related to satisfaction and commitment.
June 22, 1996... For the past two decades, managers in human resources have recognized the important relationship between organizational justice and organizational effectiveness (Cropanzano & Folger, 1991). There are two forms of organizational justice:...

Innovative work environments: the role of information technology and systems.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Recently, total quality management (TQM) has been championed as a strategic tool for efficient and competitive management of organizations. Yet many organizations have been frustrated because they have failed to achieve the...

Reengineering: clarifying the confusion.
June 22, 1996... Revolutions in business practices have been few and far between since Frederick Taylor helped to redefine the industrial revolution with his emphasis on the principle of the division of labor and the emergence of Scientific Management. In fact,...