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SUMMARYData obtained from 164 proteges in managerial and professional positions in public and private sector organizations in Singapore were used to examine the impact of career‐oriented mentoring on three work commitment attitudes (career, organization and job) and career satisfaction. Factor analysis of the 15‐item career‐oriented mentoring scale (Ragins and McFarlin, 1990) revealed a five‐factor solution – coach, sponsor, protection, challenging assignments and exposure. These career‐oriented mentoring roles were differentially related to job involvement, organizational commitment and career satisfaction, and explained modest amounts of the variance in these outcome variables.T‐test results indicated that mentored respondents (N = 164) reported significantly higher levels of the outcome variables than non‐mentored respondents (N = 225). Limitations of the study, directions for further research and implications of the finding

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1994.tb00076.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARY‘Flexibility’ became a management buzz word in the mid‐to‐late 1980s. Environmental pressures drove firms in many industries towards more flexible structures – away from internal, classical hierarchies towards agent networks brought together on individual project‐task grounds. The goal of many organizations, according to proponents of this trend, became that of seeking ‘flexible specialization’– integrating specialist resources in a dynamic, flexible fashion. Critics of the drive towards flexibility argue that the phenomenon has been overemphasized, and that large‐scale bureaucracies geared for mass production are still the dominant structural form. This paper overviews the arguments concerning flexibility and related arguments concerning the emergence of networked forms of organization. Flexibility trends within the UK television industry are then explored to illustrate the emergence of ‘flexible specialization’ and a ‘dynamic network’ form of organization. Television thus serves as an important counter‐factual to the dismissive claims

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1994.tb00077.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYThis paper studies two companies in a period of turbulent technological change. Based on historical data for the 1980s, it examines the technology and human resource strategies of Lucas Industries PLC and Robert Bosch GmbH both at a group and plant level. It draws two main conclusions: first that stability in company strategy is a key to understanding competitive performance and second that the way in which strategy is transmitted to the individual plant level and diffused into actual working practices is similarly central to effective performance.

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1994.tb00078.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYThis paper presents the results of a statistical analysis of the 1992 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE92) for the 85 business and management departments in UK institutions of higher education. The aims of the paper are, first, to construct a set of quantitative indicators of research outputs and inputs which can be used by individual departments for comparative purposes and second, to investigate the extent to which variations between departments in the research rating obtained in the RAE92 can be explained by these indicators of research outputs and inputs. One of the main findings is that around 80 per cent of the variation in the research rating obtained by business and management departments are accurately predicted by a regression model that contains only a small number of regressors. These include: size of department, articles in refereed academic journals, research students and research income.

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1994.tb00079.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYDrawing on a realist ontology and epistemology, a metatheory of management is outlined in this paper as a way of (a) redescribing the nature of management, and (b) delineating the scope of application of various perspectives on management. Four perspectives are briefly reviewed, and the claim is put forward that each one of them deals with issues arising at a different ontological layer of management. Management is shown to consist of four layers with each one exhibiting its own characteristics and dynamics. Deeper theoretical descriptions penetrate deeper into the nature of management and capture new layers. The metatheoretical outline proposed here moves beyond the ‘either/or’ polarization that management literature has exhibited so far, namely conceiving management either as a collective institutional necessity or as a set of individual practices. Indeed, it is argued that management is both of these things plus a few more, and that an appreciation of its nature is possible within a realist ontology and epistemol

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1994.tb00080.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYThe paper offers a reappraisal of the empirical study by Mather and Peasnell (1991) of 13 UK brand‐capitalizing companies. It argues that the findings of this study can be questioned on a variety of grounds including: method appropriateness, indirectness, timing and data issues. Specifically, it is suggested that their use of market reaction testing on this topic fails to capture the wide variety of economic consequences that may flow from brand capitalizatio

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1994.tb00081.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY