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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"middle managers"”.
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Developing Leadership in Middle Managers
… company and the journey of four cohorts of middle managers from a wide range of different specialist sections within that international company.<br/><br/>The research has been cast as Action Research (McNiff 2013, Easterby-Smith et al 2012, Morton-Cooper 2000) and as such was designed to …
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Leadership Practices of Middle Managers in Selected Secondary Schools in Jamaica
… schools by examining how leadership at the middle tier is conceived and implemented. This focus was predicated on the increasing demand to acknowledge the layers of leadership that exists in schools. Additionally, there is a growing need to direct attention to this tier by building their …
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Middle Managers’ Emotional Perceptions of Customer-Centric Strategies, Policies, and Goals
This purpose of this study was to examine customer-centric organizational change through the theoretical lens of social exchange theory (SET). The focus of this study was employees who constantly weighed the perceived organizational benefits or punishments in response to their behavior. SET …
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The relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership among middle managers in Namibia
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Making sense of incentive experiences: a discourse analysis of middle managers’ accounts
… are a pervasive and persistent feature of middle management compensation in spite of on-going challenges to their efficacy, cost, and more recently, their impact on employees. Most research to date focuses on the achievement of organisational outcomes with very little examination of …
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"No particular place to go": A poststructuralist feminist reading of middle managers' subjectivity
AbstractThis thesis examines the changes in managers’ construction of their identities during the last two decades of social and organizational change. It is based around a detailed interpretative study of middle managers in three companies, Carlux, Larts and Nylons. The three in-depth case studies …
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CONCEPTUAL MODELS FOR DEVELOPMENTAL NEEDS OF ACADEMIC MIDDLE MANAGERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
… Education Institutions (HEIs) in which academic Middle Managers (MMs) are the balancing drivers who execute organization’s vision and mission and contribute towards its goals. At faculty level, academic MMs roles include Deans, Head of Departments, Subject leaders and Principal …
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Medical School Middle Managers Learning To Successfully Work With Leadership To Navigate Organizational Change
<p>There is a lapse in research exploring middle managers at medical schools during an organizational change. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to examine the perceptions of middle managers during an organizational change to mitigate burnout and build resilience. The …
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The roles of middle managers in schools: A study conducted in the Itsoseng Circuit
… of the Department of Education and Training. Middle managers are responsible for quality of teaching and learning. For them to monitor teaching and learning effectively and efficiently, they should be able to manage specific tasks such as planning, leading and evaluating successfully. Middle …
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Towards successful e-government initiatives: exploring the adaptation strategies of public sector middle managers
… examination of the adaptation strategies of middle managers in public bodies when new e-government initiatives are implemented in their workplace, focusing particularly on Saudi Arabia. The public bodies considered in this research are: (i) the Commercial Register Office of the Ministry of …
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Changing times : the role of the Curriculum middle managers within Colleges of Further Education
… increase in interest of the role of academic middle leaders within education in recent years. However, little research exists on the specific role of curriculum middle managers within colleges of Further Education. This study explores the role of curriculum middle managers within three …
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Stuck in the Middle: The Impact of Implementing Corporate Decisions on Middle Managers' Justice Perceptions
… perceptions in a previously unexamined group, middle managers. Recent studies have argued that specific dimensions of justice influence the development of an individual’s overall justice perceptions and that a focus on overall justice may provide a more complete understanding of the justice …
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Analysis of Employment Outcomes and Leadership Practices for Middle Managers Completing a Leadership Development Program
… of graduates from a Leadership Excellence for Middle Managers program conducted at a state-operated university from 2007 to 2014. The target population of the leadership development program graduates included representatives from the public and private sector, males and females, and various age …
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The Dilemmas Of Public (Middle) Managers Under NPM: Implementing Public Service Outsourcing In Ghana’s Health Sector
… to redefine the role of politicians and public managers, redesign public organisations for enhanced autonomy and effectiveness, and restructure service delivery by integrating private organisations to ensure competition believed as necessary for efficiency. Premised on tensional forces of public …
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Middle managers in ambidextrous organizations : the challenges of being led, leading others and obtaining personal support
Purpose – Middle managers play a central role in the strategic process and current understanding of their role in ambidextrous organisational contexts is limited and does not capture the nuances and distinctions experienced by this level of management. The purpose of this paper is to examine the …
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Universal Empowerment: A Qualitative Exploration of Contributing and Defining Factors of Cognitive Empowerment of Middle Managers
The universal model of empowerment was developed as a model which builds on the Thomas and Velthouse Model (1990) and is an extension of the Siitonen and Robinson Model (1998). It was named because of its physical characteristics and inclusiveness, not because it makes any claims to being an …
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Can traditional Japanese companies reinvigorate middle managers to improve their competitive advantages in a world of uncertainty?
… and thrive. Innovation can be realized when middle managers bridge the gap between top management's ideal and frontline staff's reality. This is what Nonaka and Takeuchi call “middle up-down management” in The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of …
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Factors related to the implementation of developmental activities following participation in a diagnostic assessment center for middle managers
The assessment center is a contemporary approach to identifying managerial potential for purposes of selection, placement, promotion, or development. This research determined the extent to which participants actually implemented developmental activities following assessment. The organization …
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