Table of contents
Sub‐optimisation and Resistance to Change:How to Channel “Political Energies” by Means of Structure and Skills
Willen F.G. MastenbroekThe problems of sub‐optimisation and resistance to change are chronic in organisations. Sub‐optimisation is endemic in horizontal relations, resistance to change in vertical…
An Approach to the Evaluation of Management Training Exercises
W.A. Evans, D. SculliMany lower‐level management jobs do not allow managerial talent to manifest itself. Management training exercises are required to identify and develop this talent. These exercises…
OD Practices in France: Part II
A. DesreumauxThe vagueness of consultants' ideas as to what OD is, their diverging opinions as to its technical contents and the underground nature of the practice make OD in France rather…
OD for Managers: Some Fall‐out from Empirical Results
A.R. Cahoon, J.I.A. RowneyOrganisation development encompasses a host of strategies ideally reflecting a systematic approach aimed at more closely linking the human resources and potential of an…
Winning the Productivity Battle: Roles and Responsibilities for HRD Practitioners
Woodrow SearsThe cost of money has changed the organisational world in very fundamental ways. Management practice too often fails to reflect those changes. Until managers begin to understand…
Managing Up in the Multi‐national Firm
John R. DarlingWhen multinationals bring together individuals within the organisation who are from different cultural bases, interpersonal behaviour is an issue of major importance, particularly…
Congruent Leadership
J.R. NichollsA congruent leadership model is developed. It is a corrected situational model independent of its origins as a correction of Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership model…
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0143-7739Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Professor Martin McCracken
- Prof Paul Humphreys