65 Posts found for Source: TheWorkingManager.com

This article offers a difficult message because it asks us to reverse many of the recent motivations in business. It asks us to seek selflessness rather than selfishness. It uses old-fashioned words like “duty” and re-interprets Maslow’s concept of self-actualization in a most enlightening fashion. It asks us to take responsibility for what we do. At one point, the author says:

“Mere work ethic is not … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: M.P. Bhattathiri | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Ethics, Management

Information technology has helped reduce boundaries between cultures and nationalities, adding fillip globally to organizational change. The impact on women as a representative group however, has not been as distinctive. On the one hand, transformations in social structure and relations have driven changes in roles and behaviour patterns. On the other hand, there are (gendercentric) resistances to change, perversely also on the part of women … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jharna Sengupta Biswas | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Women in Business

In this article, Professor Robin Stuart-Kotze gives a basic linear progression of leadership models, focusing on those that are applicable and practical, in the process discussing his own Transformational Leadership Style Inventory (TLSI) and Momentum Radar work.

Content: Article | Author: Robin Stuart-Kotze | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Leadership

We hear a lot about effective behaviour in management … but what about bad behaviour? Bad behaviour gets in the way of productivity, of efficiency and of effectiveness. It upsets people and causes them anxiety and frustration so that they, in turn, divert time and energy away from what they should be doing – and maybe upset more people.

Why do people indulge in negative, bad … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robin Stuart-Kotze | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

I keep six honest serving-men.
(They taught me all I knew,)
Their names are What and Why and When,
And How and Where and Who

Content: Quotation | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Education, Knowledge

“Do you have an annual appraisal system? Why? Before expending energy on a process so complicated and potentially controversial, it makes sense to ask what you hope to achieve. Most companies do not know why they have one. They just do.

What is an appraisal for? To provide feedback? To provide a measure of `how you are doing’? To identify prospects for promotion? To decide … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David West | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Does job performance decline as we age? Or can it even improve?

Content: Article | Author: David West | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Career success demands that managers analyze and understand how different corporate cultures operate. Upwardly mobile managers who want to assume greater responsibility need to know what behaviors are most promotable in each culture. Such climates and cultures develop out of top management’s beliefs about how the organization should operate. Understanding culture dynamics helps managers and professionals maximize their potential in which ever culture they work. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert F. Pearse | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

In this article, Professor Luis Bastias from the Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso and Universidad de Vina del Mar in Chile, has undertaken a theoretical analysis of the nature of the business organisation, drawing heavily from the work of Dr. Aquiles Limone.

Content: Article | Author: Luis E. Bastias | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Organizational Behavior

This article examines several Leadership Education Models in light of information age organizations and change leadership needs.

Content: Article | Author: Robert F. Pearse | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

In organizations today we need to be able to learn together from collective experience. And, insofar as knowledge today is in constant flux, it is equally important for us to be able to (un-learn) prior beliefs that have become barriers to perceiving things fresh.

Editor’s Note: article offers an interesting (mostly common sense) list of organizational learning disabilities.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Albano | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

This article discusses the Enneagram, a simple model of nine personality types and how you can spot these types in team members, co-workers, etc. The article also presents five traits of outstanding managers, as determined by the Gallup organization.

Update: You can now find out what Enneagram type you are with a short 10-question exercise (ignore the fact that it suggests 2 hours to take … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Eric Garner | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The world is becoming a more technical place and we will all have to work with technology and technologically brilliant people.

Content: Article | Author: David West | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Organizational Behavior

“… a practical guide to account management. It puts the reality into phrases such as building a business partnership a concept claimed by many companies but achieved by few. It tries to explain in usable terms what goes into an account plan and the other forms and processes of account management.

Using three continuing case studies, personal action points and accounts of actual successful (and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ken Langdon | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Marketing / Sales

A short excerpt of the book, First Among Equals, that poses five questions to reflect upon:

1. Do you show a genuine interest in what your group members want to achieve?
2. Do you show an interest in the things that mean the most to your people in their personal lives?
3. Are you there for your people in their times of personal or professional crisis?
4. Do you … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David H. Maister, Patrick J. McKenna | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Management

“My thesis is that we are in transition from the Traditional, through the Transitional and into the rapidly emerging Transformational organizational culture model. To succeed, many managers and professionals will have to adapt to the inconsistencies associated with working in Mixed Culture organizations. The ability to read these mixed signals and to build effective power and influence support systems is crucial to maximizing career and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert F. Pearse | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

The article by a professor teaching and researching in Cuba combines the role of supply/demand, the Theory of Constraints, extreme situations, and managing change in an interesing way.

Content: Article | Author: Gelmar Garcia Vidal | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Management

“I link motivation to the other major dimensions of managing by focusing on McClelland’s three most important motivational needs in an organisational setting – the need for achievement, the need for power, and the need for affiliation. These three basic needs tend to manifest themselves in either Green, Amber or Red behaviour.”

Editor’s Note: You should read Mach One – Managing Yourself and Others before … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rick Roskin | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A look at three dimensions important in appraising a decision’s potential effectiveness – Logic, Acceptance and Time, as well as three styles of decision making – command, consultation, and consensus.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Roskin | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Here is an interesting series of articles by Professor Rick Roskin, of Memorial University in Canada. They are based upon his research on the subject of management style, which he calls Mach One. It is powerful but simple to remember, being based on an analogy with traffic lights – red, amber, green.

Editor’s Note: An interesting extension of this model would be its usefulness in … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rick Roskin | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior