Journal of Management Development articles from May 1997

Journal of Management Development archives from May 1997

What happens to the team during teambuilding? Examining the change process that helps to build a team.
May 1, 1997... Introduction For many years there has been a preoccupation with the need to evaluate the effectiveness of teambuilding interventions (TBIs) in organizational development projects. Often these evaluations attempt some kind of measurement of...

Implications of the response-shift bias for management.
May 1, 1997... Introduction In organizational research, certain interventions can change subjects' understanding or awareness of the target concept and the estimation of their level of functioning with respect to that concept in a way that has important...

The effect of personality type on team performance.
May 1, 1997... Team approach to IS development The development of innovative solutions to complex problems has become increasingly challenging. The modern information systems (IS) development model includes the use of cross-functional teams, which comprise...

Predictors of performance at business school and beyond: demographic factors and the contrast between individual and group outcomes.
May 1, 1997... Introduction Studies of performance in graduate school have primarily identified undergraduate performance and standardized test scores as predicting variables[1-4]. For years, graduate schools of business have used standardized tests, in...

The progression and future of open learning: a stakeholder perspective within management development.
May 1, 1997... Introduction The findings to be discussed in this paper are part of a research project focused on examining the relationship of major stakeholders in open learning within management development. In particular, it is concerned with addressing...

Japanese Business Leaders.
May 1, 1997... Until very recent years, the whole thrust of publications and teaching about Japanese management was: what could firms in countries like Britain and the USA learn and adapt from Japan? And here it was frequently argued that both the "short...

Bridging the Performance Gap.
May 1, 1997... The corridors of business schools are currently full of academics and practitioners talking about "competences". However, as our natural science colleagues have shown us, "every action produces its opposite and equal reaction". Indeed there are...

Leisure and work beliefs of British senior managers.
May 1, 1997... Introduction In a programmatic series of studies, Kirkcaldy and co-workers have examined the occupational stress, work satisfaction and work attitude profiles of British (and German) adults. Some studies have focused on stress and coping,...

Management development and management NVQs. (National Vocational Qualifications)
May 1, 1997... Introduction Occupational standards for first-line managers (Level 1) were published by the Management Charter Initiative (MCI)[1] about 1990 and subsequently incorporated in the National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) Level 4 in...

Building a winning organization: the mind-body diagnostic framework.
May 1, 1997... The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body (Descartes, 1995). For centuries, philosophers have described the human being as being composed of two...

Designing effective development programmes.
May 1, 1997... The decision has been taken. The Board has committed itself to a development programme for its senior managers, so that they will be better equipped to implement the corporate strategy of increasing quality and customer service. The Human...

Bringing management reality into the classroom - the development of interactive learning.
May 1, 1997... The separation of theory and practice in operations management Despite the continuing efforts to bring management education closer to reality and an increasing amount of training within work itself, the media of learning still tend to...