Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 16 Issue 1

Discontinuous change in the New Zealand police service – A case study

Michael Duncan, Suchitra Mouly, V. Nilakant

In a country that has experienced over 15 years of politically driven change, the New Zealand Police Service (NZP) is now in the midst of an ambitious change programme called…

Attitudinal and personality correlates of a nation’s pace of life

Bruce Kirkcaldy, Adrian Furnham, Robert Levine

This study looked at seven attitudinal and three personality variable correlates of three measures of pace of life. Pace of life was operationalised as three distinct measures;…

Examining the impression management orientation of managers

Richard J. Palmer, Robert B. Welker, Terry L. Campbell, Nace R. Magner

The motive to manage impressions has been broken down into protective and acquisitive orientations. A protective orientation exists when an individual is concerned primarily with…

The preference for predeparture or postarrival cross‐cultural training – An exploratory approach

Jan Selmer

Recent research suggests that cross‐cultural training should be timed with motivation to learn which may make postarrival training a more effective alternative to more…

Indigenising organisational change: localisation in Tanzania and Malawi

An Afro‐centric Alliance

In a supposedly “globalising” world, we offer a “localisation” counterbalance from Tanzania and Malawi. Our perspective is purposely anchored in the socio‐cultural perceptions of…