The Elephant and the Flea
Charles Handy discusses the increasing segregation of the working world into large organizations and independent workers and the associated implications. Also discussed is America’s optimistic spirit.
Content: Article | Author: Pegeen Hopkins | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: International – Americas, Organizational Behavior
Six Fairy Tale Futures for British Business Leaders
Though the title and some of the examples focus on the UK, this short article is really an identification of organizational trends and the associated leadership models needed to deal with them.
Content: Article | Author: Hay McBer | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior
Creating a Strategic Culture
Strategy and culture are arguably the most used and abused words in the business lexicon. So to discuss the creation and sustenance of a strategic culture as a source of competitive advantage is inviting trouble. Yet it is necessary to do so since this notion is a valuable one for strategists. Read on for Kepner-Tregoe’s 12 key drivers to ingrain this strategic culture.
Content: Article | Author: Mike Freedman | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Strategy
Circumventing The Glass Ceiling: Women Entrepreneurs & Other Emerging Trends
Male-led organizations will benefit from adopting structures and strategies similar to those now being created by women entrepreneurs that are sensitive to their employees ever-developing sense of how to make their careers and personal lives more compatible.
Content: Article | Author: Stacey van Hooven | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Women in Business
No Theory … No Learning
Unless we fully understand the theory or thinking that we held true when we created practices and procedures that we use presently, we will be forever condemned to create different versions of what we have always done.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Tate | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
Dennis Postle’s Hierarchy of Learning Modes
Do’s and Taboos Around the World for Women in Business
Content: Book | Authors: Margaret Corcoran, Roger E. Axtell, Tami Briggs | Subjects: International, Women in Business
Why Good Management Ideas Fail – The Neglected Power of Organizational Culture
Why do some management ideas take root and remain viable and others wither and die? This article offers four fundamental reasons:
– All organizations are, fundamentally, living social organisms;
– Organizational culture is more powerful than anything else;
– System-focused interventions work; component-centered interventions usually do not;
– Interventions clearly tied to business strategy work; interventions not … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: William E. Schneider | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
The Organization as a Theatre Company
A summary of key points found in the book ‘Change Is the Rule
Practical Actions for Change: On Target, On Time, On Budget’ by Winford E. “Dutch” Holland, Ph.D.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
Thomas Paine
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior
Women in Business Statistics
First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis
Content: Book | Author: Allison Rossett | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Why C.E.O.’s Succeed (and Why They Fail): Hunters and Gatherers in the Corporate Life
This article is much more substantive than the title suggests, offering an anthropological analysis of organization types and their implications, drawing a corrolary to boards of directors in the end which leads to the discussion on CEO performance.
Content: Article | Authors: Edward F. Tuck, Timothy Earle | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Organizational Behavior
Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents
Content: Book | Author: Lynne C. Levesque | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
A brief history of the selection interview: may the next 100 years be more fruitful
Mildly scientific in its original conception, the selection interview first came into vogue around 100 years ago and remains the primary tool for hiring new employees. Researchers continue to debate how well this time-worn process works to find the best candidate for the job, and indeed if it works at all. M. Ronald Buckley and colleagues examine a century’s worth of theory and practice.
Content: Article | Authors: Amy Christine Norris, Danielle S. Wiese, M. Ronald Buckley | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right And Right
Thoughtful managers sometimes face business problems that raise difficult questions. Sometimes these questions are matters of right versus right, not right versus wrong. There are three basic types of right-versus-right problems: those that raise questions about personal integrity and moral identity; conflicts between responsibilities for others and important personal values; and, perhaps the most challenging, those involving responsibilities that a company shares with … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Managing Negative Responses to Change
The Peter Principle
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
– In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.
– Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Business Rules, Organizational Behavior
Apius Claudius
Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Accountability
Women leaders and women managers in the global community
Global women leaders or global women managers? Women in leadership positions in the political arena around the world challenge not only leadership and management theories but also question the need to make a distinction between leaders and managers as well as the validity of such a distinction. Their paths to power are as varied as their socio-economic, educational, religious and family backgrounds as well as … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Karin Klenke | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Leadership, Women in Business