Business Horizons articles from May 1994

Business Horizons archives from May 1994

Espoused action: it's a matter of consistency. (management style)
May 1, 1994... Consider the cases of two general managers, Ted Hanson and Rita Collingsworth. Because of a major restructuring in both their organizations, they were asked by their respective COOs to decentralize a significant portion of their operations to...

ISO9000: the new strategic consideration. (International Organization for Standardization's quality standards)
May 1, 1994... In the lexicon of quality, a new word--ISO9000--has surfaced. It is not, as some have facetiously suggested, a new soap that reaches 9,000 parts of the body. Nor is it a new superfast film for 35mm cameras. And it is not, as has been seriously...

Career strategies for the 1990s manager.
May 1, 1994... The new global competitive environment has placed severe pressure on American corporations to reduce their management complements. Such activities have combined to shatter the old informal "psychological contract" many large bureaucratic...

The case against job satisfaction. (a satisfied worker is not necessary a productive worker)
May 1, 1994... Since the widely renowned Hawthorne studies of the 1920s and 1930s, the working hypothesis of the human relations movement in management has consistently proposed that the satisfied worker is a productive worker. In the past six decades,...

Successful promotions and the bucket of ashes. (basing promotions on future rather than past performance)
May 1, 1994... Jack sat down across from me, 20 days after he started working for me at IBM, and asked me to promote him to a recently opened management slot. When I inquired why, he told me he had put in three good years in this trench and had met his...

The management termination trap. (avoiding wrongful termination suits)
May 1, 1994... "When you fire managers these days you better have your ducks in a row if they come after you with a lawsuit....The problem is the way we deal with managers before we let them go can create a legal trap for the organization all too...

Rethinking the Corporation: The Architecture of Change.
May 1, 1994... Even though the nature of work has changed greatly in the past few decades, most corporations are still organized with increasingly inappropriate nineteenth century structures. This is the thesis of Robert Tomasko, a Washington, D.C.-based...

The making of multimillion-dollar executives.
May 1, 1994... The average total compensation reported by chief executives of the 25 largest U.S. industrial companies in 1992 was $9.7 million, compared with $3.2 million the year before. Chief executives were not the only ones reaping millions of dollars...

A dozen enduring myths about management.
May 1, 1994... "There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools." -- Nicholas Chamfort "If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." -- Anatole France Early in the 1990s, Earnest R. Archer...

Summing up. (dismantling of societal institutions) (Editorial)
May 1, 1994... Each spring, as the Ides of March approach, hordes of college students and faculty members, having endured the long, dreary winter days of cold and darkness, swarm south to Florida. They romp in the surf, roam the white beaches, and bathe in...