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Abstract Purpose – Recent debates within the literature and amongst practitioners of coaching have been focussed on defining the scope and practice of coaching as a form of organizational intervention that can facilitate organizational and individual change. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate about what coaching is by reviewing an emerging comparative conceptual framework of coaching...
Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of self as applied to leadership and propose an understanding of how a leader should form conceptions of self, and use these in his or her own development. Similar Products: Powered by Leadership Under Construction: Creating Paths Toward Transformation :: Amazon Every construction project requires both contractors...
Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how teams work and learn in Web 2.0 environments. Web 2.0 technologies enable geographically dispersed teams to work in synchronous and nonsynchronous modes of interaction in dynamic, self-directed ways, within and across team boundaries, thereby avoiding some of the limitations of earlier generations of electronic communication. ...
When should you let your employees embrace entrepreneurial behaviors and initiative? You shouldn’t, counsels Stefan Lindegaard. A large majority needs to just focus on their job and keep the corporate engine running. However, every employee should be given the opportunity to work with innovation via idea generating campaigns and other initiatives. Go to Source ...
Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this article is to clarify the concept of self applied to leadership, and propose an understanding of how a leader should form conceptions of self, and use these in his or her own development. Similar Products: Powered by Youth Leadership: A Guide to Understanding Leadership Development in Adolescents (Jossey-Bass Education Series) :: Amazon Based...
Absorptive capacity (ACAP) refers to a firm’s ability to acquire, assimilate, transform, and exploit new knowledge. Research has yet to acknowledge the possibility of limits to the financial returns of this important strategic construct. This study suggests an inverted-U shaped relationship between ACAP and financial performance. Based on data from 285 technology-based small and medium enterprises, we...
Because of the importance of human capital, a firm’s choice of diversification targets will depend on whether these targets offer opportunities for leveraging existing human resources. We propose to quantify the similarity of different industries’ human capital or skill requirements, that is, the industries’ skill relatedness, by using information on cross-industry labor flows. Similar...
