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Publication date: 1 May 1983

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of…

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In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

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Management Decision, vol. 21 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 January 1981

F.H.M. Blackler and C.A. Brown

In the early 1970s an account was published of how social scientists, in the mid 1960s, had worked with senior management of a major British oil refining company to formulate a…

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In the early 1970s an account was published of how social scientists, in the mid 1960s, had worked with senior management of a major British oil refining company to formulate a new philosophy of management. In this paper we seek to re‐examine the success of this project in the light of recent data, and to briefly explore the consequences of our analysis for social scientists concerned with strategies for organisational change.

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Personnel Review, vol. 10 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 1 February 1981

Frank Kirkman

In the last 15 years increasing attention has been paid to what has become known as the “quality of working life”. Job design, sometimes known as work design, work organisation or…

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In the last 15 years increasing attention has been paid to what has become known as the “quality of working life”. Job design, sometimes known as work design, work organisation or the humanisation of work, has emerged as a recognisable area of study. There are now innumerable articles which include such terms in their titles and a number of books which deal with the development and dimensions of the subject area. What are the chances that a discipline will develop? How likely is it that the discipline will be applied in practice? The answer to these questions rests upon the answer to the four main questions examined in this paper.

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International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 2 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-3577

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Publication date: 30 April 2019

Henk-Jan van Roekel and Martijn van der Steen

This paper aims to uncover how implementation practices affect the unfolding of integration as the ideal of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In this way, the authors…

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Purpose

This paper aims to uncover how implementation practices affect the unfolding of integration as the ideal of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In this way, the authors aim to provide a better understanding of the ways in which the ideal of integration affects the complexity of ERP systems.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper interprets a case study of the implementation of an ERP system in a Dutch company.

Findings

The paper highlights how different variations of an object of integration were enacted during an ERP implementation. The authors observe how the interests of the various actors were not always served by the variations of integration in circulation. They illustrate how this resulted in a failure of the network to be folded into a taken-for-granted configuration of constituent parts. Consequentially, having multiple variations of integration contributed to increased complexity of the system.

Originality/value

The paper highlights how multiple variations of a single object of integration are brought into circulation. Such perspective enables a better understanding of some of the complexities associated with ERP implementations.

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Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, vol. 16 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1176-6093

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Publication date: 1 February 1984

E.G. Harrison

This article examines the recent decline in Organisation Development (OD) in the UK. Its aim is to offer a modest contribution to the now urgent task of rehabilitating OD as a…

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This article examines the recent decline in Organisation Development (OD) in the UK. Its aim is to offer a modest contribution to the now urgent task of rehabilitating OD as a coherent and credible strategy for social change. My basic contention is that such a programme for the renewal of contemporary practice must rest on systematic and determined efforts to reassert the radical potential which I believe lies at the heart of the OD enterprise. By recovering and reaffirming a commitment to its original humanistic ideals, OD may avoid obsolescence and retain professional viability. In short, to survive, OD must rededicate itself as a radical agency for organisational renewal.

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Personnel Review, vol. 13 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 1 January 1985

P.B. Beaumont

In a series of recent articles, Lawler has argued that new established plants are especially likely to embody high (employee) involvement work systems. These work systems contain…

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In a series of recent articles, Lawler has argued that new established plants are especially likely to embody high (employee) involvement work systems. These work systems contain a significant number of mutually reinforcing arrangements and practices such as antonomous work groups, quality circles, gain sharing plans, etc. Indeed he goes as far as to content that in these new plants “… almost no aspect of the organisation has been left untouched. The reward systems, the structure, the physical layout, the personnel management system and the nature of jobs have all been changed and in significant ways” (pp. 6–7). There are certainly individual case studies of the arrangements of such plants in the United States, but in the absence of comprehensive survey data the extent to which they are representative of the population of newly established plants as a whole has been called into question.

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Personnel Review, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 1 January 1985

M. White and A. Ghobadian

The design and administration of payment schemes present difficult problems for many large manufacturing organisations. These problems have been compounded in recent years by…

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The design and administration of payment schemes present difficult problems for many large manufacturing organisations. These problems have been compounded in recent years by external factors such as unfavourable economic circumstances, high inflation rates and the constraints of government legislation and pay guidelines. It appears, however, that relatively little effort has been devoted by companies to assessing the effectiveness of their payment systems in the face of these pressures. This article is intended as a contribution to the development of appropriate methods of assessment which could be applied within organisations, using commonly available accounting and performance data.

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Personnel Review, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 17 July 2009

Mervyn Conroy

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the background and an evaluation of a new health and social care leadership programme. Design/methodology/approach – The paper…

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the background and an evaluation of a new health and social care leadership programme. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes a three‐stage programme design methodology. First, participants were asked to narrate their stories of implementing change at a series of in‐depth interviews. Second, the dialogue was continued with these managers and others based around their stories of change to establish that their meanings of change and their support needs had been understood. Finally, their expressed needs and practical suggestions were analysed with the help of MacIntyre's virtue ethics schema. MacIntyre's schema was used for two reasons. First, because it is based on the notion of a narrative underpinning to social reality and to informing our moral standards, and second because strong resonance between the managers' narratives and the schema's underlying thesis of ethical conflict in modern institutions was found. Findings – The finding was that the programme exceeded expectations by influencing the participants' courage to lead change despite the complexity of their working environment. At the start of the programme many of the participants had reported feelings of powerlessness in face of central and local imperatives for reforms to their services. During the course of the six‐month programme their narratives changed from “mission impossible” to “mission possible”. Research limitations/implications – The main limitation is that this was a pilot study. However, the encouraging findings do support the view offered by Moore and Beadle that MacIntyre's thesis offers rich concepts for the furtherance of managerial and organisation studies and imply that a wider education programme based on this methodology and theorising would be worthwhile. Practical implications – The enthusiasm with which this pilot programme was received implies that public sector leadership education needs to pay more attention to narrative constructions of change, ethical conflict and engaging managers in concert with their constructed needs in the face of those conflicts. Originality/value – The study contributes a design methodology for health services leadership education informed by a narrative research methodology and a virtue ethics theoretical framework.

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Leadership in Health Services, vol. 22 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1751-1879

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Publication date: 1 August 2004

Ben S. Kuipers, Marco C. De Witte and Ad H. van der Zwaan

In this paper, we will show that the debate between advocates of lean production and the socio‐technical approach has concentrated too much on the design aspect of the production…

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In this paper, we will show that the debate between advocates of lean production and the socio‐technical approach has concentrated too much on the design aspect of the production structure, while neglecting the development aspect of teamwork. This paper addresses the question whether it is production design or team development that explains business performance and the quality of working life. The data are taken from four departments of the Volvo truck plant in Umeå (Sweden) that is redesigning from socio‐technical based assembly to line‐assembly. We conclude that good design of the production structure is necessary, but not sufficient for good performance; team development is just as important, although it requires a favorable context.

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International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 24 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-3577

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Publication date: 21 October 2013

Louise Valentine, Ian Fillis and Georgina Follett

The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of a research and development programme on improving craft practice through the provision of mentoring by academic…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of a research and development programme on improving craft practice through the provision of mentoring by academic practitioners, studio space and advice on marketing techniques.

Design/methodology/approach

Following an initial focus group investigation of issues which impinge on contemporary craft practice, recipients of a bursary associated with the research and development programme were assessed with respect to how their craft and marketing competencies have developed.

Findings

Practitioners can now reflect on their skills, experiment with techniques and consider the effectiveness of their approach and attitude towards marketing.

Research limitations/implications

The programme only extends to practitioners working with one art and design institution but has implications for those concerned with creative practice elsewhere.

Practical implications

There is wider potential to reinvigorate artistic and marketing practice across the creative and cultural industries, and the small and medium enterprise community in general.

Originality/value

This is a novel programme which challenges experienced practitioners to extend their creative abilities in craft and approaches to marketing.

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Arts Marketing: An International Journal, vol. 3 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2044-2084

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