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Showing 1 to 20 of 179 for “"Senior managers"”.
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Commissioning executive coaching for directors and senior managers
… offering development services for directors and senior managers in the UK. There is a paucity of theory about executive coaching, despite its widespread purchase and use in practice. The research and thesis examines current practice from two different perspectives - suppliers and commissioners - …
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Exploring the Belief Systems of Senior Managers: Antecedents of Managerial Discretion
… provided evidence to support the position that managers influence firm outcomes. Upper-echelons theory posits that, as managers are boundedly rational and selectively perceptive, a behavioural component derived from their idiosyncratic characteristics should be evident in organisation outcomes. …
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New Perspectives about Financial Intermediation: Disruption by Senior Managers and Financial Technologies
… policy styles and systemic risk-taking among managers, I find that credit risk-taking is more sensitive to the bank's systemic risk if the manager exhibits a preference for systemic risk. Asset-innovating managers (exhibiting a preference for non-traditional forms of income and assets) take …
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An exploration into senior managers' effectiveness: the case of the Muscat Municipality, Oman
… institutions. The role and effectiveness of senior managers play a significant part in the overall success of their organisations and the development of their nations. The main concern of this research is to explore and identifying the behavioural influences which contribute to the increased …
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Women's employment equity in South African local government : a study of senior managers
… in meeting the objective of gender parity in senior management positions. The study draws extensively on the literature covering the historical evolution of women’s movements and feminists theories. It reviews empirical evidence on the implementation of gender equality initiatives in South …
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Senior Managers' Perceptions of the Role of Inspection in College Improvement: a Further Education Case Study
… the use of semistructured interviews with 13 senior managers. The researcher had an extensive professional involvement with the college, and the implications of this are explored in the methodology, but this allowed access also to supporting documentation and information. The findings showed …
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Pollution control investment decisions and policy preferences of senior managers of the Southern African fish processing industry
… of a census consisting of twenty-seven senior managers responsible for making pollution control investments in the demersal and pelagic sectors of the fish processing industry. The first questionnaire was directed at establishing the relative importance of factors that influence waste …
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An exploration into senior managers' perceptions of strategic management. The case of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Libya.
The purpose of this thesis was to explore senior managers¿ perceptions of strategic management, with the specific context being the National Oil Corporation in Libya. As such it represents a ground-breaking study at PhD level. An extensive literature identified key themes and models of strategy …
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The perceptions of private health insurance administrator senior managers about the National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa, Cape Town
… aim: This study explored the perspectives of senior managers in the health insurance administrator industry about the implementation of NHI in South Africa and their perceived role in it. This may contribute towards informing current policy initiatives underway to establish and implement an …
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Change and the perception of psychological breach : a case study of the impact of change on the psychological contract of senior managers in an acquired organisation
… of this research study was to discover whether senior managers experience changes that result from the acquisition of their company as a breach of their psychological contract. An embedded case study design was deemed appropriate due to the need to understand the experience of change over a …
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A study of management development and parameters of managerial effectiveness in the Iranian car manufacturing industry
… is a growing need for competent and effective managers. This first time study explores ways and means to identify and improve the managerial effectiveness and competencies of top and senior managers, at personal and organisational levels, in the car manufacturing industry in Iran. To achieve …
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Role Modelling for Organisational Citizenship Behaviours in Not-for-Profit Organisations: A Phenomenological Investigation in Tanzania
… what extent Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and senior managers promote organisational citizenship behaviours in not-for-profit organisations in Tanzania. The study attempted to find out how role modelling for OCBs influences the subordinate staff's willingness to engage in similar behaviours. …
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Training and development : management attitudes and practices in the New Zealand hotel industry
… Little attention in the past has been given by senior managers to the role of training in linking human resource needs with strategic needs. Differences in training practices and resource allocations among organisations can be explained to a large degree by senior managers' attitudes toward the …
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Exploring factors influencing competencies of scientific laboratory technicians and recommendations for improvement: A case study of a Scientific Laboratory based in a resource constraint setting
… groups were conducted with the technicians, managers, and senior managers. From thematic analysis, eight themes emerged: Communication, Contextual factors, Education, Hierarchy, Interpersonal, Leadership, Operational systems, and Organizational climate/culture. A central theme underlying all …
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Provincial Government of the Western Cape : senior management perceptions of their social-structural and psychological empowerment in the workplace
… endeavoured to explore the perceptions senior managers of the Provincial Government of the Western Cape had on their psychological and social-structural empowerment using Sprietzer ( 199S) and Kanter's ( 199 3) em power ment principles in combination as a theoretical framework. A …
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An Exploration into Senior and Middle Managers' Effectiveness. The Education Programme, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees, Lebanon.
… and even determine the work of middle and senior managers in the public and private sectors, NGOs, and international organizations such as the UN. Yet, despite this overall agreement, the study of ¿managerial effectiveness¿ has remained relatively neglected and unexplored particularly …
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Leadership competencies to address the Fourth Industrial Revolution: case studies of the preparedness of owners and senior executives of South African SMEs.
… for the 4IR among South African SME owners and senior managers. Using a targeted literature review, the study assesses the validity of the six key leadership capabilities from the Molecular Leadership Competency Model: Intelligence Quotient (IQ), Emotional Quotient (EQ), Digital Quotient (DQ), …
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Company “Doctors”: Do higher academic qualifications make for “better” managers?
… academic achievement (qualification) of German senior managers and their British counterparts?” Secondly if so, “why should this be so?” These two questions lead to a third, “what impact, if any, do these differences have”? This third question, whilst it is not the focal point of this research, …
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Recruitment and retention of children and family social workers: a case study
… technique group interview with twenty eight senior managers combine to illuminate the issues at the heart of recruitment and retention of social workers. Although capture of the ecology of social work practice in a universal sense is beyond the aims of this study, a realistic ‘snapshot’ of …
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