Table of contents
Managerial capability in the professional firm ‐ assessing competences in the City
Rob GoffeeDiscusses how firms and, indeed, entire industries are likely to attract and reinforce particular skill profiles among their employees. Such biases are an inevitable consequence…
Productivity improvement: a working person’s view
Lawson K. SaveryConcerns an Australian working person’s view of the ability of the workforce to improve its productivity. Just under three‐quarters of the respondents believed they could improve…
Programming the MBA programme ‐ the quest for curriculum
Yehuda Baruch, Anne LeemingCurricula for MBA programmes are designed to meet business needs and are continuously monitored and reviewed as needs change with time. Examines the content of an MBA programme at…
Total quality management and its impact on middle managers and front‐line workers
Simon S.K. LamReports on a survey of 67 middle managers and 174 front‐line workers, conducted in Hong Kong, which aimed to investigate the perceived impact of total quality management (TQM…
The working executive: the developmental role of executive degree programmes
Arnie D. HilgertExplores the developmental role and meaning of executive degree programmes in the lives of working executive participants. Uses Levinson’s concepts of developmental stages, the…
Reinventing civil servants: Public management development and education to meet the managerialist challenge in Australia
John DixonAustralia began a comprehensive process of federal civil service reform in the 1970s, culminating in the introduction of a set of ambitious administrative reforms in the 1980s…
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0262-1711Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Associate Professor Magnus Larsson