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Asset management (AM) discussions frequently come around to how to prepare compelling investment cases to Top Management in a language that they understand. The objective of this paper is to propose a way in which the AM concept itself may be made more compelling to Top Management and Leadership. The paper argues that a macro representation of asset management in a general organizational context may...
This interpretive grounded theory (GT) study describes and analyzes emotions in leadership in a Nordic inter-organizational information system (IOIS) project which spanned four user organizations, two suppliers, one national organization, a research organization and a Ministry. This study shows how GT can be used to gain significant insights into a case study, and generate new concepts. We identified...
The promotion of safety is often carried out from safety management perspective which plays an important role in safety work. Moreover, safety leadership is increasingly being seen to be in a significant role in the development of safety culture, climate and performance and the attainment of overall improvement in the field. The goal of this study is to create innovative research approaches into safety...
Succession has always been the everlasting theme of family enterprises, and the smallest oversight may cause bankruptcy. Therefore, in the era of knowledge-based economy, chief emotional officer plays significant role in the process of encouraging the emotion and improving the leadership. They are crucial in the relational governance, and may influence the stability and sustainability of family enterprises...
Pathology and measurement of factors effective on knowledge management (KM) in organizations is the aim of the present research activity. The main question of the present research was posed as follows: “How is the situation of knowledge management and its effective factors at Islamic Azad Universities of East Azarbaijan Province?” All staff and personnel of Islamic Azad University centers and its...
Innovation in processes products, and services is a key to success in knowledge based economy where quality measures alone are not sufficient to bring competitive advantage to small companies in developing countries. While product and process quality measures are often stressed upon, readiness for innovation and knowledge management initiatives in small enterprises needs to be explored critically...
In this turbulent business environment of global recession, traditional organizational structure is reaching its limits. In order to accommodate itself to these changes, managing informal communication beyond old framework is indispensable. It is critical for innovation management to recognize communities of practice and informal leaders. In previous studies we have demonstrated our method was effective...
Service organizations account for a substantial portion of the output of a growing number of economies. Based on the criteria for Excellence Performance of China and survey data, the relationships among "leadership, 'strategy planning', 'customers and market', 'information, analysis and improvement', 'resources management', 'process management', and 'performance results" in service industry...
Taking 63 private third-party logistics enterprises in Zhejiang Province as samples, the paper makes empirical analysis on their success factors and explains them clearly in hierarchical way by structural model. It finds out: in the dual time structure, the success factors varies from past to future; leadership is always the deepest effect factor; talents are the basis of success. After detailed analysis...
This paper is about an industry independent template used to analyze real life project case studies. This template has been used by graduate students post-project to analyze over 650 case studies. Any project can be analyzed with this thorough template. The design is flexible and comprehensive. Scale is easily integrated into but does not influence the analytical outcome. There are over seventy analytical...
Knowledge has been cited as the most important strategic asset for managing innovation in the hyper-competitive environment of the 21st century. However, the sharing and creation of knowledge at the organizational level is a difficult process that will not proceed without incentives and conscious efforts by management. The complexity of knowledge management is further compounded by the influence of...
If agile is to be successfully introduced on a medium or large scale into any organization it is vital that there is a symbiotic relationship between line management and the agile teams that carry out the work. Line management form the organizational hierarchies and silos in any major corporation and their interaction with the cross functional Agile teams, either permanent or temporary, that are formed...
Global teams are an important work structure in software development projects. However, little is known about how to handle the conflicting roles a global software team manager should play when delegating. This study investigated delegation practices in global software teams. It was found that global software team managers delegate more like a manager than a leader by delegating primarily to competent...
In today's business environment, organizations must innovate or die. Companies that can't adapt quickly aren't able to keep up with all of the changes that are occurring. Powerful forces such as advancing technology, global economies, and political instability produce an environment in which change rather than stability is the norm. Successful IT leaders understand this. They provide the change leadership...
The paper used data from insurance agents and their supervisors from a multi-unit insurance company to test the effects of a mediator over the relationship between empowering leader behavior (ELB) and agent organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Results showed that, among the three types of approaches to empowerment, leading by example was the strongest predictor in agent perceived job meaning,...
This article identifies and analyzes operational risks for farmerspsila associations in Taiwan, revealing the relationship between risk and operational efficiency. Using the concept of risk management, this paper identifies five types of operational risk currently affecting farmerspsila associations: external environmental risk, financial risk, organizational risk, leadership and decision-making risk,...
The paper gave the research on the liaison and collaboration of leadership with the organizational culture in the enterprises system. On the basis of analysis for the three stages of collaboration, the paper generalizes five collaborative mechanisms between leadership and organizational culture, which are integration, fitting, coupling, evolution and succession.
The dynamic and uncertain scenarios that economic organizations have to face force them to deeply rethink themselves and their structure through an internal innovation process aimed at making them more reactive and proactive. Organizations can be viewed as systems whose components (people, team, groups, organizations) are joined by formal and informal relationships, and any process of internal change...
This paper outlines an organizational paradigm that influences the existing organization which desires to innovate and assure its continuity. Being in the epicenter of major organizational decisions requires from the leadership to enhance its awareness of the priorities and value dimensions during the organizational renewal. The organizational design and provided continuity concept do not target generalization...
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