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A Viable System Model: Consideration of Knowledge Management
Author Allenna Leonard indicates that individual and organizational knowledge is difficult to value and therefore difficult to manage, and suggests a method to map management capacities.
http://www.tlainc.com/articl12.htm
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Assessing Your Organization's Innovation Capabilities
Provides a framework that can be used to assess an organization's ability to determine whether an organization has the capabilities to implement upcoming changes.
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/summer2001/christensen.html
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Don't Let TQM (Total Quality Management) Drain You Dry
Authors explain why companies that have tried total quality management (TQM) have often not received the expected return on investment. In depth survey results are included.
http://www.airacad.com/tqmroi.htm
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Exercising Authority in the Workplace
The manager's true authoritative role in the workplace: benevolence, subservience, security. By Michael Gaspard.
http://www.mdpme.com/authority.htm
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How Jack Welch Runs GE
Business Week profile on famous management guru Jack Welch explains how he managed General Electric and gained guru status.
http://www.businessweek.com/1998/23/b3581001.htm#Main Story
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How to Coach ‘Problem’ Employees
Describes the Coaching strategy for dealing with performance problems. Included are guidelines for diagnosing problems, how to conduct a coaching session, a practice exercise, additional resources and training programs.
http://home.comcast.net/%7edgrimme/newsletter/Vol_V_No_3_Jun_2004.html
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Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge
Article by Warren Bennis discusses how companies lack leadership, and four strategies to improve corporate leadership.
http://www.triangle.org/resources/leadership/lead-charge/index.cfm
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Make Performance Appraisal Relevant
Winston Oberg identifies the flaws of nine performance appraisal methods, and suggests choice of method depends on desired outcomes.
http://www.unep.org/restrict/pas/paspa.htm
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ManagementFirst
Management articles for professionals, researchers, and academics.
http://www.managementfirst.com/
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The Balanced Scorecard and Performance Improvement
Using the balanced scorecard to combine viewpoints of company success.
http://www.organizedchange.com/balancedscorecard.htm
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The Enduring Skills of Change Leaders
Rosabeth Moss Kanter explains why organizational change is inevitable and the essential qualities of people who succeed as leaders during change.
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/summer99/kanter.html
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The Titanic Disaster: An Enduring Example of Money Management vs. Risk Management.
Academic article showing how cost-savings meant certain death.
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~branderr/risk_essay/titanic.html
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TQM And Organizational Change And Development
Thomas Packard outlines key aspects of implementation of largescale organizational change which may enable a practitioner to more thoughtfully and successfully implement TQM.
http://www.improve.org/tqm.html
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Training Workers In The Workplace
Training workers is not always so simple as a classroom lecture and test. We humans aren't practically equipped to consistently absorb and apply information in such an ideal manner.
http://www.mdpme.com/training.htm
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What Bandwagons Bring: Effects of Popular Management Techniques on Corporate Performance, Reputation, and CEO Pay.
Examines how adopting popular management techniques affects companies. Concludes companies using TQM, teams, and empowerment did not necessarily receive economic benefit.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m4035/3_45/68217155/p1/article.jhtml?term=management+science
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Work911.com
Articles on management and all aspects of work life including communication, conflict and performance appraisal.
http://www.work911.com
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