In the years 1987-1991, more than eighty-five percent of the Fortune 1000 companies downsized their white collar staffs (Cameron & Freeman, 1993). During the first seven months of 1993, 350,000 workers faced terminations due to reductions in force (Richman, 1993). January, 1994 had even higher rates of terminations. These have all been intentional reductions in the size of staffs undertaken wit...

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This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), United States Navy Grant No. N00014-97-1-0037 and by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IRI9633 662. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Office of Naval Research, the...

This article examines why organizations struggle with learning how to prevent discrimination against their employees with disabilities. To explore this issue, qualitative archival data were collected and analyzed from 53 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuits filed against 44 organizations. Theoretical analysis of the qualitative data suggests that several organizationally based learnin...

The concept of Learning Collaborative Networked Organizations merges both the CNO and the LO paradigms. It aims at augmenting the quality of decisionmaking and of corporate governance taking inter-organizational knowledge into account. The rationale behind the proposal is that CNOs are still lacking research and work for enhancing their agility where rapid decision-making is crucial for achievi...

introduction: old methods of administrating cannot cover the rapid changes today. these changes redounded new organizations like learning organizations to be formed. the purpose of this research is to study of relationship between the learning organization and organizational commitment among hospital managers. methods: this is a descriptive analytic survey. the population of study was 210 nursi...