r 'j ,, The United Stltes is under siege. The country had a 3175 billion trade dericit in 1986; the accumulated federal government debt is 52.3 trillion. Since 1979, annual productivity in the service sector has increased only O.'5percent, according to an article by Patricia Galagan (Training & Development journal, July 1987). Eighty percent of American corporations face competition from abroad...

Software production has become an industrial task usually involving teams of programmers working on complex problems to produce large, even huge software systems. A growing share of all software development work is being done by globally distributed teams. The management of software engineering teamwork, especially of a temporally and/or spacially distributed team, presents an enormous organiza...

In order to develop successfully, an organization needs a model of what is required to be built. Flamholtz (1986; 1995) has developed a model for organizational growth, which identifies the key “building blocks of successful organizations.” In this growth model, organizational “form” or structure consists of six key components or “building blocks”: markets selected, products (including services...

learning rapidly and competently has become a pre-eminent strategy for improving organizational performance in the new knowledge era. improving dynamic learning capability is an exclusive strategy for corporate success in construction industry. thus engineering design firms should implement ol to accomplish a state of readiness for change and develop a competence to respond and identify future ...

Employees are expected to perform specific roles in an organization as specified by their job descriptions and superior’s expectations. Bidarian Jafari (2012) found that employees play important role activities the organization, such social interaction with colleagues leaders conduct activities. These extra-role behavior’ behaviors termed Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB). Although many...

Computerization of the workplace is beginning to gather momentum in India. The capabilities of computers—what computers can do for us—are discussed at length, but the effects of computers—what they do to us—are not aired so widely. If full benefits of computerization are to be realized, the way computers affect employees needs to be understood and tackled. In this article, Kakoli Saha shows how...

Leader self-development enables leaders to adapt to the continually changing environment both within and outside of the organization. The purpose of this paper is to describe the construct of leader self-development and the processes by which it can serve as an organizational leadership development strategy. We framed the paper around a multi-level model of leader self-development linking organ...