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Appreciative Inquiry In Hospitality Leadership, Thomas A. Maier

Thomas A. Maier

Appreciative Inquiry based Leadership emphasizes the importance of positivist leadership theory. It builds the positive organizational core from within and relies on transformational leadership principles operating culture.

Court Of Public Opinion In And For The State Of Uncertainty, Kevin Farmer, Kathleen Kane, Steven Meisel, Joseph Seltzer

Organization, Leadership, and Communication

Our session has two goals. First, we aim to stimulate debate over a ubiquitous, yet largely unchallenged, instrument that purports to operationalize Jungian personality theory (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). Second, we suggest a platform for teaching management theories, the mock-trial, which manifests active learning as well as critical thinking and has been successfully utilized in other disciplines. With contributors playing key roles in the trial and volunteers from the audience serving as potential prosecution and defense witnesses as well as the jury, we hope the discourse on substantive theory and teaching process will provide the jolt OBTC 2008 envisions.

Examination Of Service-Firm Employee Perceptions Of Technology By Generational Groupings, Thomas A. Maier

Thomas A. Maier

Service firm technology and innovation play an integral role in organizational performance. This study examines multi-generational perceptions of Hospitality employees and their views of technology.

Generational Differences: An Examination Of Work Values And Generational Gaps In The Hospitality Workforce, Thomas A. Maier

Thomas A. Maier

The purpose of this study is to identify generational differences and similarities among hospitality employees and managers in order to develop leadership strategies and management styles that can be utilized to increase employee morale and productivity while enhancing recruitment and retention rates of highly qualified workers.

Organizational And Management Characteristics Of Peace Groups, Mary Anna Culleton Colwell

Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

The contemporary American peace movement is a mixture of many small and a few large organizations pursuing a wide range of goals. There has been almost no organizational research focused on these peace movement organizations (PMOs) or detailed studies of the goals, values, and activities of a large sample of PMOs.

The activity of these varied PMOs has had limited impact on public policy. Some authors cite the strength of external forces or the conservative American political culture as the key factors in this relative lack of success. There are few facts with which to evaluate these or …