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Performance Improvement Intervention: Privatized and Public Sector Organizations
Ian ChastonUnited Kingdom employers in recently privatized and public sectororganizations are relying heavily on management training as anintervention mechanism to increase employee…
Leadership: The Swing of the Pendulum
Hugh D. Flanagan, David J.C. ThompsonDescribes a distinctive model of managerial leadership whichproposes an integrated framework of ideas and skills of potentialapplication to any leadership situation – and has been…
The Premack Principle: Professional Engineers
Peter J. Makin, David J. HoyleDescribes the application of Organizational Behaviour Modification(OBMod), and in particular the Premack Principle, to improving theperformance of a number of professional…
The Use of a Stress Audit
Valerie J. SutherlandResults of a stress audit conducted among personnel working in theoffshore oil and gas industry indicated that sources of stress varied asa function of employment, including the…
What Is Meant by a Competency?
Charles WoodruffeThe word “competency” stalked up on the unwary working in the human resources field. The catalyst for its use was Boyatzis's (1982) book The Competent Manager. He triggered the…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Professor Martin McCracken
- Prof Paul Humphreys