Stress among public middle managers dealing with reforms

Dealing with Incompatibilities among Goals

An intelligent agent may in general pursue multiple goals at the same time, which leads to arise some conflict among them. In this paper, we focus on these conflicts or incompatibilities among goals. Our approach is based on the model of Castelfranchi and Paglieri, in which, three forms of incompatibility and the criteria for selection of goals are defined. We characterise computationally the d...

Dealing with Futile Fears

بدون ترس شانس کمتری برای رسیدن به دوران تکاملی داریم. ترس منطقی به ما می گوید که از چه چیز پرهیز کنیم، به ما کمک می کند که با مشکلات روبرو شویم و ما را در مقابل خطرات حقبقی محافظت می کند. در طرف دیگر آن نوع ترس هائی که از مقوله ترسهای مرضی است، غیرمنطقی می باشد و آثار فیزیکی و روحی بی شماری را باعث می گردد.

Developing female middle managers in Australian universities

Universities should be developing female middle-managers for reasons of gender balance (Aitkin 2001), the skills shortage, pending mass retirements (Chesterman 2004) and sustainable, postbureaucratic organizations (Kira and Forslin 2008). Investigating the learning and development of women managers is timely. Research assumes that women in academe have the qualifications, experience and skills ...

Informal assessment for library middle managers

Schirmer Middle Managers - Masters of Change Politics

Towards a different view of middle managers and their roles in strategic decentralisation processes-(7350 words) Summary Middle managers have often been blamed for being inflexible status quo defenders in organisational change processes. However, research results reported in this paper, drawn from in-depth case studies of company restructuring in Germany during the nineties, suggests that middl...