Leadership & Organization Development Journal articles from July 1996

Leadership & Organization Development Journal archives from July 1996

A three-track process for executive leadership development.
July 1, 1996... I am very concerned when I think about how this company will be led during the next 10 or 20 years. We have a lot of bright, productive people in the next level down from the current executive committee - but most of these people are bright and...

Managing safety: an attitudinal-based approach to improving safety in organizations.
July 1, 1996... Introduction Human factors have been widely recognized as playing a significant role in the safety performance of organizations. Initially, interest in the contribution of human factors to an organization's safety performance focused on...

Analysing business performance: counting the 'soft' issues.
July 1, 1996... Introduction The business performance measurement "revolution" which is now under way has identified that traditional financial measures do not give a "true" reflection of corporate performance (Brown and Laverick, 1994). "Soft" issues,...

Why employee empowerment is not just a fad.
July 1, 1996... Introduction The world is moving too fast for the old, traditional means of control. Customers are demanding more than ever. The rapid advances in technology are making it necessary to adapt constantly to change. Rapid change has shortened...

Role sets and organization structure.
July 1, 1996... Introduction Organization theory in the twentieth century has focused predominantly on the macro and systems aspects of organization design. Weberian bureaucracy (Freund, 1972; Weber, 1947), as interpreted by Talcott Parsons, emphasized the...

Developing effective college leadership for the management of educational change.
July 1, 1996... Introduction Michael Barber (1995) recently outlined his vision for the improvement of teaching and learning in schools and colleges, and raised the notion that an improvement agenda was critical. This paper focuses on further education, and...

Power, responsibility, leadership and learning: the need for an integrated approach.
July 1, 1996... This paper is concerned with raising some fundamental questions about two of the most important issues in the world today: first, questions about the nature and relationship between power, responsibility and leadership; Second, the whole...

Answers to questions most frequently asked about organization development.
July 1, 1996... This book comes out of the NTL stable and is the fruit of reflection on questions, misunderstandings, misinformation and confusion about what organization development (OD) is. There are ten chapters, each built around a series of questions, and...

'Perfect plc'?: The purpose and practice of organizational learning.
July 1, 1996... The concept of the" learning company" is an intriguing one for any organization striving for excellence. The logic is simple - to attain and then maintain excellence the company must grow and learn. Yet the most simple of concepts can be...