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Backwoods Brewing Company: Learning To Tolerate Ambiguity, Elizabeth Mccrea, Elizabeth A. Cooper, Kristin Backhaus May 2005

Backwoods Brewing Company: Learning To Tolerate Ambiguity, Elizabeth Mccrea, Elizabeth A. Cooper, Kristin Backhaus

Organization Management Journal

Backwoods Brewing Company is an experiential exercise that provides a challenging, reality based business situation, requiring students to create a conclusion based on limited information. It is designed primarily for upper-division management students. A tolerance for ambiguity scale is administered, the debriefing of the exercise helps students develop a better understanding of their tolerance for ambiguity and teaches them some concrete tools to be used when dealing with ambiguity.


Spirituality: A Way To Alternate Subjectivity?, Mihaela Kelemen, Tuomo Peltonen May 2005

Spirituality: A Way To Alternate Subjectivity?, Mihaela Kelemen, Tuomo Peltonen

Organization Management Journal

This paper emphasizes the contribution of Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot to discussions of workplace spirituality. It is argued that their understanding of spirituality differs significantly from the mainstream management contributions: they view spirituality as a distinct form of post-modern subjectivity in organizations and regard the subject as continuous flow emerging and being constructed not so much at the crossroad of institutions and macro-structures but from within, with the help of self-formation practices. We term the latter spirituality and argue, firstly, that there are strong (albeit controversial) connections between spiritual practices, the history of Christianity, and the philosophy of antiquity. …


Editor's Introduction, David Tranfield Sep 2004

Editor's Introduction, David Tranfield

Organization Management Journal

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Editors' Introduction, Carole Elliott Sep 2004

Editors' Introduction, Carole Elliott

Organization Management Journal

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Editors' Introduction, Carole Elliott Sep 2004

Editors' Introduction, Carole Elliott

Organization Management Journal

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Recent Research Of Note, Tahira M. Probst Sep 2004

Recent Research Of Note, Tahira M. Probst

Organization Management Journal

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Recent Research Of Note, Tahira M. Probst Sep 2004

Recent Research Of Note, Tahira M. Probst

Organization Management Journal

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Complexity Theory As A Practical Management Tool: A Critical Evaluation, Aaron C.T. Smith Sep 2004

Complexity Theory As A Practical Management Tool: A Critical Evaluation, Aaron C.T. Smith

Organization Management Journal

Complexity theory is receiving increasing attention in both academic and popular literature as a potential management tool. As momentum gathers surrounding its popularity in practical management, complexity theory is poised to become a management ‘fad’, and potentially an influential paradigm for the future. However, much of the literature concerning complexity theory contains inconsistent terminology and a lack of operationally empirical definitions. This has made it difficult for researchers to specify empirical questions in order to frame complexity research, and for practitioners to acquire the key principles for implementation. It has also opened a Pandora’s Box of commentaries which proclaim that …


Managerial Knowledge As Property: The Role Of Universities, Raza Mir, Ali Mir, Nidhi Srinivas Sep 2004

Managerial Knowledge As Property: The Role Of Universities, Raza Mir, Ali Mir, Nidhi Srinivas

Organization Management Journal

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Complexity Theory As A Practical Management Tool: A Critical Evaluation, Aaron C.T. Smith Sep 2004

Complexity Theory As A Practical Management Tool: A Critical Evaluation, Aaron C.T. Smith

Organization Management Journal

Complexity theory is receiving increasing attention in both academic and popular literature as a potential management tool. As momentum gathers surrounding its popularity in practical management, complexity theory is poised to become a management ‘fad’, and potentially an influential paradigm for the future. However, much of the literature concerning complexity theory contains inconsistent terminology and a lack of operationally empirical definitions. This has made it difficult for researchers to specify empirical questions in order to frame complexity research, and for practitioners to acquire the key principles for implementation. It has also opened a Pandora’s Box of commentaries which proclaim that …


Editors' Introduction, David Richards, Steve Meisel Sep 2004

Editors' Introduction, David Richards, Steve Meisel

Organization Management Journal

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Managerial Knowledge As Property: The Role Of Universities, Raza Mir, Ali Mir, Nidhi Srinivas Sep 2004

Managerial Knowledge As Property: The Role Of Universities, Raza Mir, Ali Mir, Nidhi Srinivas

Organization Management Journal

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Editor's Introduction, David Tranfield Sep 2004

Editor's Introduction, David Tranfield

Organization Management Journal

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Success To The Successful: The Use Of Systems Thinking Tools In Teaching Ob, E. Anne Bardoel, Tim Haslett Sep 2004

Success To The Successful: The Use Of Systems Thinking Tools In Teaching Ob, E. Anne Bardoel, Tim Haslett

Organization Management Journal

This paper discusses the use of an experiential pedagogy based on two systems thinking tools that can be incorporated in the teaching of organizational behavior (OB) concepts and case studies. It is contended that combining causal loop diagramming techniques and the application of Senge’s archetypes provides useful tools in assisting students to understand interdependencies, difficulties of implementation, impacts of assumptions, and provide further insights into OB concepts. This paper demonstrates the insights that thesecsystems thinking tools can provide by using the “Success to the successful" archetype as an example.


Success To The Successful: The Use Of Systems Thinking Tools In Teaching Ob, E. Anne Bardoel, Tim Haslett Sep 2004

Success To The Successful: The Use Of Systems Thinking Tools In Teaching Ob, E. Anne Bardoel, Tim Haslett

Organization Management Journal

This paper discusses the use of an experiential pedagogy based on two systems thinking tools that can be incorporated in the teaching of organizational behavior (OB) concepts and case studies. It is contended that combining causal loop diagramming techniques and the application of Senge’s archetypes provides useful tools in assisting students to understand interdependencies, difficulties of implementation, impacts of assumptions, and provide further insights into OB concepts. This paper demonstrates the insights that thesecsystems thinking tools can provide by using the “Success to the successful" archetype as an example.


Editors' Introduction, David Richards, Steve Meisel Sep 2004

Editors' Introduction, David Richards, Steve Meisel

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.


From The Editor-In-Chief, Jeanie M. Forray May 2004

From The Editor-In-Chief, Jeanie M. Forray

Organization Management Journal

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Editors' Introduction, Carole Elliot, Steve Meisel May 2004

Editors' Introduction, Carole Elliot, Steve Meisel

Organization Management Journal

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Editors' Introduction, Theo Perdis, David Tranfield May 2004

Editors' Introduction, Theo Perdis, David Tranfield

Organization Management Journal

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Editors' Introduction, Anshu Prasad, David Richards May 2004

Editors' Introduction, Anshu Prasad, David Richards

Organization Management Journal

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Recent Research Of Note, Joseph Seltzer May 2004

Recent Research Of Note, Joseph Seltzer

Organization Management Journal

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Editors' Introduction, Mary Mallon, Randy Sleeth May 2004

Editors' Introduction, Mary Mallon, Randy Sleeth

Organization Management Journal

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Stranger's In A Strange Land? Reflections On Theory And Practice, Peter J. Daboul May 2004

Stranger's In A Strange Land? Reflections On Theory And Practice, Peter J. Daboul

Organization Management Journal

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Linking Theory To Practice: A 'Grand Challenge' For Management Research In The 21st Century?, David Tranfield, David Denyer May 2004

Linking Theory To Practice: A 'Grand Challenge' For Management Research In The 21st Century?, David Tranfield, David Denyer

Organization Management Journal

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Social Capital, Rosalind Edwards May 2004

Social Capital, Rosalind Edwards

Organization Management Journal

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Identity Theory, Stephen Desrochers, Jeanine Andreassi, Cynthia Thompson May 2004

Identity Theory, Stephen Desrochers, Jeanine Andreassi, Cynthia Thompson

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.


Community As Context For The Work-Family Interface, Patricia Voydanoff May 2004

Community As Context For The Work-Family Interface, Patricia Voydanoff

Organization Management Journal

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Gender: Work-Family Ideologies And Roles, Teresa J. Rothausen-Vange May 2004

Gender: Work-Family Ideologies And Roles, Teresa J. Rothausen-Vange

Organization Management Journal

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Julia's Dilemna, Andra Gumbus, Jill Woodilla May 2004

Julia's Dilemna, Andra Gumbus, Jill Woodilla

Organization Management Journal

Julia, a professional woman in her mid-thirties, has had relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis as a part of her life for the last five years. Now she must decide whether to disclose her hidden illness at work. Julia disclosed her illness to her manager in a prior employment, when her MS was first diagnosed, and experienced a supportive response. But she was always mindful that her performance would likely be carefully scrutinized since she was in a job that required strict deadlines. Julia made a career change about a year ago, and did not tell anyone in her new organization that she …


Practioner- Heal Thyself! Challenges In Enabling Organizational Health, Kathyrn Goldman-Schyuler May 2004

Practioner- Heal Thyself! Challenges In Enabling Organizational Health, Kathyrn Goldman-Schyuler

Organization Management Journal

In order to elucidate my approach to organizational health, I explore the inter-relationship between organizational health and the consultant’s state of being in the context of writings that have influenced the development of my work as an organizational change consultant over the past 20 years: the behavioral sciences and less traditional sources, such as studies with Moshe Feldenkrais, the writings of GI Gurdjieff and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, and recent research on the impact of meditation on leaders. This is placed in the context of Frost’s (1999, 2001) research on “toxic handlers”.