SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from March 1998

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from March 1998

Redefining the rights of union organizers and responsibilities of employers in union organizing drives.
March 22, 1998... A union is attempting to organize your employees. An overzealous union organizer is demanding access to your employees at your facility during working hours to distribute union literature and obtain support for union organizing efforts. How much...

Doing business on the Internet.
March 22, 1998... Introduction The Internet was started in 1969 under the name of ARPANET by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency as a packet-switched network for the U.S. Department of Defense. By mid-1988, the number of computers connecting to the...

Toward a learning organization: the strategic building blocks.
March 22, 1998... The literature on organizational learning has been elusive in providing practical guidelines or managerial actions that practicing managers can implement to develop a learning organization. Some of the questions raised by managers about the...

ISO 9000 myth and reality: a reasonable approach to ISO 9000.
March 22, 1998... Is ISO 9000 just another imposing title on consultants' brochures or is it a system you must adopt to survive? ISO 9000 quality systems standards have undoubtedly become more prevalent over the last decade. More than 90 countries have adopted...

Meeting the expectations of key stakeholders: stakeholder management in the health care industry.
March 22, 1998... Introduction The 1980s ushered in an era of significant influence by stakeholders on the way businesses operated. The areas affected ran the gamut from corporate social responsibility to internal governance. The media emphatically underscored...