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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"line managers"”.
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The HRM role of line managers: A Malaysian case study
While HRM has long been part of the line manager’s role, it has now become a crucial component. Unfortunately, for many line managers, their HRM role is uncertain, in terms of their coverage and depth of involvement in HRM activities. It is therefore difficult to measure whether their involvement …
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Analysis of Motivational Attitudes of Line Managers Peoples Natural Gas Company Central Region
Motivation has been a popular word in practically every businessman's, psychologist's, and sociologist's vocabulary for the past three decades. Many profess a thorough understanding of motivation, while the more experienced admit there is considerable mystery surrounding the interpretation of this …
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Strategic orientations in practice:Exploring the strategic belief structures of line-managers embedded in practice
… strategic orientations of individual top managers and have pointed out these may be key in determining the direction and success of their organizations in terms of performance, but they have been unable to effectively operationalize this notion in empirical research and this is holding up …
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Relationships among Span, Time Allocation, and Leadership of First-line Managers and Nurse and Team Outcomes
… managerial capacity to support staff because managers may not allocate the same amount of time to staff contact. The purpose was to examine the influence of alternative measures of managerial span on nurse satisfaction with manager’s supervision and on multidisciplinary teamwork. The …
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Line managers' role in improving employee performance: A case study of the First Bank of Nigeria
The objectives of this research are to outline the benefits of involving line managers as internal coach in improving staff performance, to outline how the First Bank of Nigeria can motivate its line managers for more involvement in subordinate coaching, and give an outline of how the First Bank of …
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The perceptions of e-HR outcomes and line managers: a study in three UK based subsidiaries of global organisations.
… the perceived outcomes experienced by HR managers and line managers associated with the proposed implementation, and actual use, of e-HR. The research settings are the UK operations of Cable & Wireless Global, Schlumberger and T-Mobile. Both qualitative and quantitative data are used in a …
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The role of line managers in the implementation of skills development at a local municipality and its impact on service delivery
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Technology: Business Administration, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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An exploration of the significant issues at work for people with a diagnosed mental health issue, from the perspective of individuals and line managers.
… issues, from the perspective of individuals and line managers. There is growing awareness of the number of people in work with mental health issues; an estimated one in six workers (Elliott et al., 2008; McManus et al., 2016) and the organisational costs: an estimated £42 to £45billion per year …
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A study of pay for performance in China's non-public sector knowledge-intensive industries
… and functions of performance appraisal (PA) and line managers' involvement in PFP. A qualitative milti-case study apprach was applied to 12 non-public enterprises from investment, IT and pharmaceutical industries based in Shanghai consisting of more than 62 interviews with top managers, HR and …
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Examining the Impact of Human Resource Management (HRM) on Telework Participation Among US Federal Employees
… among generational cohorts, and the role of line managers. Chapter 1 presents the motivation for this dissertation, theoretical foundations, an overview of telework within the US federal government, and a summary of the three research studies conducted. Chapter 2 introduces the first …
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A study of the views of practitioners, managers and the professional body, on the purpose of support and supervision for guidance practitioners working as personal advisers
… and supervision. Ten personal advisers, three line managers and three representatives of the professional and training body were interviewed. Analysis employed the techniques of a grounded, thematic approach that searched for the most important themes for each group. Three main themes emerged …
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Developing Under Pressure: Experiencing Issues Related to Personal, Professional and Management Development in London's Public Parks
… management roles, some participants found their line managers to be at best unsupportive, and found exposure to micro and office politics to be a challenge. The study identifies that for the participants who participated in the research, working in the sector is certainly not a ‘walk in the …
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Investigation of the impact of change on social work manager-professionals after more than a decade of ideological shifts and legislative reform. 1979 - 2007
… The aim of the research was to explore first line managers' experiences of change in local authority social work, and to formulate some conclusions about the impact of New Right policies and ideologies on social work. The second stage critically reflected on the findings from the first stage …
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A Stakeholder Perspective On Hrm-Performance Linkages
… capabilities. Data were obtained from 2,849 line managers and 201 senior HR executives from 201 business units, representing North America, Latin America, Europe, China and Australia.
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Investigating the role of a manager as a facilitator of ongoing informal work related learning
… organisations need, and increasingly expect, managers to manage, and develop competent teams and to contribute to the capability development of their organisations. Line managers are required to actively develop the skills, experience and knowledge of workers so that they can maintain …
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Evaluation of a pay-for-performance system at a South African university
… if Cooperative Objective Setting with line managers were to take place, and if a PASS employee could show the output of this cooperation, namely an Existing Development Plan. It was however not known what variables would predict the occurrence of these two components.
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