SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from March 1992

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from March 1992

Workplace homicide: prediction or prevention.
March 22, 1992... At about 8:30 a.m. on the morning of September 14, 1989, Joseph Wesbecker, a mentally disturbed worker on long-term disability leave from the Standard Gravure printing plant in Louisville, Kentucky, parked his Chevrolet Monza next to the main...

The Americans with Disabilities Act: an employer's perspective.
March 22, 1992... People differ in terms of the opportunities they have for acquiring wealth, status, and power. An individual's opportunities for success may depend, in part, on talent, luck, timing, experience, and training. Unfortunately, individuals may also...

Co-determination: its practice and applicability to the U.S.
March 22, 1992... Co-determination, as broadly defined and used in Germany, provides for worker participation in the management process through works councils and representation on the supervisory boards of private and, to a lesser extent, public organizations. As...

Performance appraisal effectiveness: a matter of perspective.
March 22, 1992... Performance appraisals have become a fact of organizational life. Recent research estimates that over 90% of all large organizations in the U.S. employ some form of systematic employee appraisal and review.|1~ This widespread use can be...

Planning for quality software.
March 22, 1992... Software Vigilance Pays Off Whether we find it fascinating or frightening, software is everywhere. It touches almost every aspect of our lives, from international business to personal banking. Evelyn Richards, reporting in The Washington...

Resuscitating the comatose firm: changing management responsibilities under Chapter 11.
March 22, 1992... Several articles on management under bankruptcy have appeared in the management literature concerned with issues of "image"|1~ and the characteristics of firms most likely to go bankrupt.|2,3,4~ This paper contributes to that literature by...

Managing distributors as off-balance resources in the American brewing industry.
March 22, 1992... The American brewing industry has changed dramatically during the past 20 years. From a nation of many smaller brewers, we have become a nation of several large brewers, who threaten to engulf the remaining small ones. What impact will these...

"Shoulds" and "oughts" in the workplace.
March 22, 1992... The most fundamental task of any manager is to enhance employee productivity and job satisfaction. Much has been written about how this can be done. Unfortunately, most of the recommended techniques have a serious shortcoming--they are very...