Posts Tagged ‘management’
Tips And Advice For Good And Effective Presentations
By Dr. Patricio Torres-Palacio —-It was the evening of September 26, 1960. America was witnessing a historic moment: the first general election presidential debate shown on television. After all these years, it has been mentioned that Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, won the debate, and with it the election, over Vice President…
Read MoreCreating Firm Value as a Team: A New Case Study From Turkey
By Dr. Gulfem Bayram–Executive compensation has been one of the most researched topics in business literature. There is even a sub-discipline within corporate finance that investigates corporate governance and executive compensation issues. Finance literature reports that corporate governance and executive compensation practices are closely related to firm value. While there are many different perspectives to…
Read MoreNo More Black Box Approach to Teams: Blending Team Diversity and Task Structure to Increase the Efficacy of Teamwork
There are various ways to classify and examine diverse attributes in teams as such diversity (team diversity) reflects a variety of demographic, cultural, experiential, and personal differences that individual members possess which in turn influences team processes and outcomes. For example, observable individual differences and underlying personal attributes are often used to examine various outcomes…
Read MoreWhy Are There Generational Cohorts?
Do you ever find yourself wondering about someone else’s behavior, speech, or dress? “What were they thinking?” “Did you forget you were coming to work today?” “Did you really think that was going to work for you?” Often, this happens when we look across generational boundaries. Simply put, generational cohorts are groups of people who:…
Read MoreHow Much Data is BIG Data?
A Fair Question. Everyone in business is talking about Big Data, but the term is impenetrably, wonderfully vague in common use. Certainly, it means dealing with large amounts of data, but businesses have been struggling with processing large amounts of data for eons. The current emphasis on ‘Big data’ has to be more than just…
Read MoreThe Millennials are Coming!
Actually, the Millennials are here, but many businesses are just now recognizing the challenges of managing the latest generation to enter the workforce. Generational cohorts are groups of people who are similar in age and exhibit similar behaviors. Different authors use slightly different classifications, but in general, the Silent Generation was born between 1925 and…
Read MoreExpert Power & Information Technology Specialists
In his classic treatise “Power In and Around Organizations” (Prentice-Hall, 1983), Henry Mintzberg describes three types of power in organizations – formal, informal, and expert. FORMAL POWER is power derived from one’s rank in the organization. A division director has more formal power than a departmental manager and less than the corporate vice-president. INFORMAL POWER…
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