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Managing Transformational Change: The Role Of Human Resource Professionals, Thomas A. Kochan, Lee Dyer
Managing Transformational Change: The Role Of Human Resource Professionals, Thomas A. Kochan, Lee Dyer
Lee Dyer
[Excerpt] Can the United States maintain its traditional position of economic leadership and one of the world's highest standards of living in the face of increasing global competition? Concerned observers cite the following negative news: lagging rates of productivity growth, non-competitive product quality in key industries, structural inflexibilities, and declining real wage levels and flat family earnings (Carnavale, 1991). Further, they offer a plethora of proposed solutions covering both broad public policies and more specific firm-level policies and practices.
Understanding And Leading Learning, Geoff Masters
Understanding And Leading Learning, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
No abstract provided.
Nurturing Failure: Re-Conceptualizing Library Leadership To Embrace Change And Encourage Innovation, Christopher A. Sweet
Nurturing Failure: Re-Conceptualizing Library Leadership To Embrace Change And Encourage Innovation, Christopher A. Sweet
Christopher A. Sweet
No abstract provided.
Keynote: What Makes A Difference?, Gina Milgate
Instructors Lead By Example, Sherry L. Early
Instructors Lead By Example, Sherry L. Early
Sherry Early
Transactional Leadership, Marco Tavanti
Transactional Leadership, Marco Tavanti
Marco Tavanti
Transactional leadership in a continuum with transformational leadership. This chapter offers an overview and introduction to the key concepts and study of transactional leadership in organizational management and in workplace relations.
Entrepreneurship And Leadership - Prerequisites For A Winning Organisation, Graeme Cocks, Jens Mueller, Magdalena Hadji
Entrepreneurship And Leadership - Prerequisites For A Winning Organisation, Graeme Cocks, Jens Mueller, Magdalena Hadji
Graeme Cocks
Effective leaders strive to attract and develop the right people with the right attitude in the right positions aligned to their organizational strategy. From this premise, we identify a driver of winning performance created by developing future leaders from within and at all levels of the organization in an effort to produce a self-sustaining leadership culture and team. We speculate that the addition of an entrepreneurial culture to this leadership domain will create superior organizational performance. Entrepreneurship and leadership performance are contrasted on the basis of current literature and empirical evidence gained from assessments of high performing organizations over the …
More Fully Human: Principals As Freirian Liberators, Brian R. Beabout
More Fully Human: Principals As Freirian Liberators, Brian R. Beabout
Brian R. Beabout
This article calls for an investigation into a new breed of urban school leadership consistent with Freirean notions of dialogue, praxis, and pedagogy (Freire, 1993) in work with youth. Critical theorists have called for educational practices that emphasize the political role that teachers and students play in the educational process. Their vision of education calls for students to locate themselves in the historical process that has left them with little to count on and to struggle against social reproduction that gives life to the inequality that is so pernicious in capitalist American society. The central question is: How can principals …
Commentary, Session 1: Deciding To Become A Dean, Linda L. Ammons
Commentary, Session 1: Deciding To Become A Dean, Linda L. Ammons
Linda L. Ammons
Deciding to become a dean is a difficult decision. How do you know when you are ready and how do you need to prepare? Mentorship, leadership skills, risk-taking, vision, and energy are just some of the attributes needed by deans in today’s law school environment.
The Impact Of Culture On Inter And Intra Organization Supply Chains At Nissan, Carol Gill
The Impact Of Culture On Inter And Intra Organization Supply Chains At Nissan, Carol Gill
Carol Gill
This paper examines how national and organizational culture influences supply chain management. To do this it reports on the case of Nissan Motor Company and finds that Japanese national culture had a significant impact on Nissan’s inter organizational supply chain. In addition to this, national culture influenced organizational culture which had a substantive impact on Nissan’s intra organizational supply chain. This article also analyses how Nissan was able to integrate its internal supply chain through culture change that successfully introduced Anglo business and human resource management practices into a Confusion Asian culture. It concludes that Nissan's organization culture had a …