Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 5 Issue 1

Communications and Job Satisfaction: — A Case Study of an Airline's Cabin Crew Members

Susan Vinnicombe

Despite all that has been written about organisational communications, its relationship to job satisfaction has received little attention. There are at least three notable…

What Have Managers Learned from the Recession?

Anthony C. LaRusso

The ancient Chinese believed that the most severe curse was to be condemned to live in interesting times. They define such times as being fraught with rapid change and turmoil…

Some of the Reasons for Quality Circle Failure: Part I

B.G. Dale, S.G. Hayward

The search for methods of improving the efficiency and competitiveness of manufacturing industry in the UK has been intensified during the present recession and has led many…

Team Management Synergy

Philip R. Harris

In this post‐industrial period of human development, traditional organisational models and managerial styles are gradually being replaced. They are inadequate and unproductive…

Leadership as a Productive Strategy in Negotiation

R.E. Fells, L.K. Savery

Collective bargaining can be perceived as a form of joint decision‐making between groups, and the process by which agreements are reached can be analysed through the accepted…

Developing the Skill of Time Management

Tom McConalogue

In a recent survey of managers (conducted at the Irish Management Institute, Dublin, early 1983) more than 80 per cent considered time as a problem for them. Although time is the…

Re‐organising for a Meaningful Future

Leopold S. Vansina

The problems our western societies are confronted with nowadays are too easily classified under the general denomination of “economic recession”. Although no one can deny the…