摘要:

This article scrutinizes and explores recent tendencies of giving a salient role to national characteristics in the explanation and prescription of events inside and surrounding organizations, and examines the problems in re‐specifying the relations between national and firm levels of analysis. It is shown that there are significant zones of manoeuvre for organizations within the host society, which express themselves in an ‘ownership effect’, and that organization strategies must address the issue of matching international best practice to national predispositions, both directly and indirectly, through lobbying the local level and nation state. A multi‐level learning framework is p

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1996.tb00110.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Ideal science should conform to certain criteria or goals, among them the goals of universalism and commonality. Realization of these goals may be limited, however, through the dividing up of researchers in terms of geographical borders. In this study the general hypothesis is tested that there is a segmentation of the society of management researchers into a North American (US) and a European (E) segment, a segmentation which is furthered by differences in incentive schemes and in paradigms. Four leading management journals from North America and from Europe, respectively, and the 242 articles they contained published in 1993 were selected to represent the different geographical segments. The results provide: support for the existence of two such segments; support for differences in incentive schemes influencing the articles; support for their being paradigm differences between the two segments; and support for a paradigm effect being stronger in US‐journals than in E‐journals, US‐authors are more willing, however, to conform to the E‐paradigm than vice versa. We argue for methodological pragmatism in order to reduce the presumed counter‐productive effects of paradigmatic

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1996.tb00175.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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There is a growing literature which suggests that the 1980s witnessed significant, even unprecedented changes in the management of organizations. This paper contributes to that literature by providing questionnaire and interview‐based evidence of senior managers' perceptions of recent changes in management practice in large and medium‐sized firms in the UK. The findings cover three main areas: the changing context of management practice; change initiatives in the areas of human resource management (HRM) and management levels; and the degree of success in managing change. Our findings suggest that senior managers perceive rapid and continuous change within the UK corporate sector. We conclude by suggesting that the changes reported appear to be of degree rather than a radical break with past management practices and that inconsistent means of facilitating change are seemingly being deplo

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1996.tb00111.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

A number of investigations have focused on aspects of human resource management policy and their impact on employees. The study reported here examines the extent to which the main elements of performance management systems are associated with positive employee attitudes. Questionnaire measures of performance management variables and of employee attitudes were obtained from 860 staff in nine organizations, all of which had been ascertained to be operating performance management systems. The findings indicate that most elements of performance management did contribute to positive employee attitudes, and that between them they accounted for a substantial proportion of the variance in measures of organizational commitment and (especially) job satisfaction. Some differences in the data from public and private‐sector organizations were foun

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1996.tb00112.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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A questionnaire survey of career attitudes and intentions was administered to 1646 middle managers from eight organizations in the UK finance sector. Lengths of time in the organization, in previous and in present job were shown to predict career attitudes and intentions. Longer‐serving managers were less ambitious and were unwilling to accept various career options. Those who had spent longer in their present job neither expected any change nor were willing to accept it. While decreased inter‐and intraorganizational mobility are consequences of cost‐cutting and recession, it is argued that efforts to increase mobility are likely to pay dividends. Other measures may also succeed, given the finding that organizations differed in terms of their managers' career attitudes and intentions over and above the effects of mob

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1996.tb00113.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Over the past five years interest has grown in the use of competence‐based management development Although this has not been without its critics few studies have attempted to critically evaluate its use. This paper evaluates the use of a competence‐based management development programme, the Management Charter Initiative (MCI) Level 1. Initially the research was framed to reflect the debate surrounding the use and value of the MCI. However it soon became apparent that the context — the course was part of National Health Service reforms — was having an effect on how it was being experienced by the programme participants. The paper outlines the MCI and the debate surrounding its use. This is followed by a description of NHS management reform, how this has affected the role of ward managers (the programme participants) and the response of the Training and Development Department at Hospital A. The research process is summarized and the themes which emerged in terms of competence development, identity and discourse and social anthropology are discussed. Implications for management development are the

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1996.tb00114.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY