Journal of Management Development: Volume 35 Issue 6

The importance of fostering alignment to ensure sustainable nation building: The role of HRD in large Palestinian organizations

Grace C. Khoury, Beverley McNally

The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of a study exploring the challenges confronting the provision of human resource development (HRD) in large Palestinian…

The mediating role of organizational identification in the relationship between qualitative job insecurity, OCB and job performance

Antonino Callea, Flavio Urbini, Antonio Chirumbolo

Employees need to feel secure to perform their job effectively, therefore job insecurity has an effect on organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) and job performance; however…

LIFE: an integrated view of meta organizational process for vitality

Sumant Kumar Bishwas, Sushil .

The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated framework for achieving high organization vitality by exploring the concept of vitality, identifying the effect of some of…

Motivation and the academic – where the drivers sit

Alan Johnston

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key drivers for motivation within a small team of academics within a relatively small UK university.

Leadership and organizational ambidexterity

Saša Baškarada, Jamie Watson, Jason Cromarty

The purpose of this paper is to answer calls for more research on how leaders may promote organizational ambidexterity (i.e. exploitation and exploration), and how such behaviors…

Finding the extraordinary and creating the unexpected: Gnome and genius combined in an exceptional ethical heuristic

Massimiliano Matteo Pellegrini, Cristiano Ciappei, Lamberto Zollo, Andrea Boccardi

The purpose of this paper is to present an integrated framework for ethical decision making in uncertain conditions, such as those of entrepreneurship. The model aims to build an…

A toolkit for women: the mis(sed) management of gender in resource industries

Dean Laplonge

The purpose of this paper is to show the extent to which work on how to manage gender in resource industries fails to draw on the body of knowledge which explores gender in the…

Factors fostering students’ spin-off firm formation: An empirical comparative study of universities from North and South Europe

Leire Markuerkiaga, Rosa Caiazza, Juan Ignacio Igartua, Nekane Errasti

The university is an institution with a long history and, over the course of the centuries, it has gone through several stages in its development. While initially conceived as an…