productivity. Management thinking, however, was slow to evolve during the century. The need existed to define what management was in the first instance as well as to operationalize it in meaningful terms for an organization. During this period two principal management theorists took up this challenge and emerged as the so-called Pre-Classicists of management thought. Pre-Classicists In the nineteenth century, Robert Owen and Charles Babbage seriously addressed the quest for the development of management theory
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AN EVALUATION OF CONCEPTUAL WEAKNESSES IN TRANSFORMATIONAL AND CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP THEORIES Gary Yukl* State University of New York at Albany Theories of transformational and charismatic leadership provide important insights about the nature of effective leadership. However, most of the theories have conceptual weaknesses that reduce their capacity to explain effective leadership. The conceptual weaknesses are identified here and refinements are suggested. The issue of compatibility between
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A Framework for Strategic Innovation A Framework for Strategic Innovation Blending strategy and creative exploration to discover future business opportunities ______________________________ by Derrick Palmer & Soren Kaplan Managing Principals, InnovationPoint LLC © InnovationPoint LLC www.innovation-point.com Page 1 A Framework for Strategic Innovation Authors Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a Managing Principal at InnovationPoint, where he works with
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Denis sincerely declare that this report is authentic and an original work of my hands, initiative and brain and has never been presented to any institution/university for the award of certificate or diploma or bachelor’s degree or any other qualification. Therefore it’s valid and my personal working. Students Name………………………………………………………………………………….. Signature………………………………………………………………………………………… Date……………………………………………………………………………………………… * APPROVAL; I do certify that this was under my supervision
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research project a step-by-step guide for the first-time researcher NICHOLAS WALLIMAN with Bousmaha Baiche SAGE Publications London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi To my wife, Ursula © Nicholas Walliman 2001 Chapter 2 © Dr Bousmaha Baiche 2001 First published 2001 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any
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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY – HCMC INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS DECISION MAKING STYLES OF BUSINESS MANAGERS IN HO CHI MINH CITY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of BACHELOR OF Business Administration Advisor: PHAN TRIEU ANH, Ph.D. Student’s name: DO TIEN THINH (BAIU08113) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2012 i DECISION MAKING STYLES OF BUSINESS MANAGERS IN HO CHI MINH CITY APPROVED BY: Advisor Committee APPROVED BY: Phan Trieu Anh, PhD., Chair
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of this study is to investigate, in an experimental setting, how favorable versus unfavorable organizational consequences influence managerial responses to an employee’s earnings management behavior. We focus on the following question: Do the ends of positive organizational consequences justify the means of earnings management? Earnings management is defined as ‘‘the choice by a manager of accounting policies so as to achieve specific objectives’’ (Scott 2003: 369). Earnings management can be fundamentally
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Chapter 1 Strategic Leadership: Managing the Strategy-Making Process for Competitive Advantage Opening Case Wal-Mart Wal-Mart is one of the most extraordinary success stories in business history. Started in 1962 by Sam Walton, Wal-Mart has grown to become the world’s largest corporation. In the financial year ending January 31, 2004, the discount retailer whose mantra is “every day low prices” had sales of nearly $256 billion, five thousand stores in ten countries (almost three thousand are in
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encourage increased performance is that there is an additive relationship between externally mediated rewards and rewards which arise out of task performance itself. Therefore, if either one or both types of reward outcomes can be increased, total motivation or performance behaviors can be increased. In the late 1940’s a psychology professor called Harry F. Harlow (Harlow, Harlow & Meyer 1950) conducted one of the first true intrinsic motivational experiments ever performed, using a simple puzzle where
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study of US companies. Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security, this year’s study is based on a representative sample of 56 organizations in various industry sectors. While our research focused on organizations located in the United States, many are multinational corporations. For the first time, Ponemon Institute conducted cyber crime cost studies for companies in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Japan. The findings from this research are presented in separate reports. Cyber attacks
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