British Journal of Management‚ Vol. 10‚ 335-350 (1999) Why do Managers Do What They Do? Reconciling Evidence and Theory in Accounts of Managerial Work Colin Hales Westminster Business School‚ University of Westminster‚ London NWl 5LS‚ UK This article seeks to show that there has been surprisingly little interest in developing a causal explanation of the consistently documented common characteristics of managerial work and attempts to sketch out such an explanation. It is argued that researchers
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The Decision-Driven Organization Harvard Business Review – June 2010 The subject discussed in the article “Decision–Driven Organization” is that structural reorganizations should be done based on the decisions that matter the most to the organization instead of the goals that the organization is trying to reach. The coauthors stressed on how important this issue is and that it should be taken into consideration by organizations while preparing for reorganization since. As shown in the examples
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not teachers should teach values addresses the wrong question. Education already is a values-infused enterprise. The larger question is how to train teachers for positive character formation. Two teacher education strategies are presented in this article. A “minimalist” strategy requires teacher educators to make explicit the hidden moral education curriculum and to reveal the inextricable linkage between best practice instruction and moral character outcomes. The “maximalist” approach requires preservice
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In the article “The Date of Interbreeding between Neandertals and Modern Humans” written by Sriram Sankararaman and his co-authors‚ a research of genomic relation between Neandertals and Modern Humans was conducted. The paper states that the genome of Neandertals is genetically closer to modern non-African humans than it is to modern African humans. The reason given is because of an interbreeding possibility between Neandertals and Europeans or West Asians. The first trace of Neandertals found outside
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Journal article critique Staff turnover and recruitment in hospitality (Mind Perk‚ 2013) Student Name: Steven Hwang (Hyun woo Hwang) Student Number: 17670644 La Trobe University in North Sydney Campus Lecturer: Vicki J Hetherington Tutor: Peter Lipman * Table of Contents 1: Introduction 2 2: Literature Review 3 3: Methodology 3 4: Data collection Tools 4 4.1: Data collection tools 4 4.2: Methodology and data collection tools 4 5: Ethical Issues 4
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Research Question: In the “CEO personality‚ strategic flexibility‚ and firm performance” article‚ Nadkarni and Herrmann (2010) are trying to answer the question of how CEO personality affects firm performance through influencing the firm’s adaptability to rapid‚ impactful‚ and unexpected changes. The main aim of the study is to extend previous literature that has studied the relationship between CEOs characteristics and firm strategic choices and performance by studying the underlying relationship
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Article Review #1: Location‚ Location‚ Location: The Strategy of Place SEC 1: SUMMARY In this article‚ a teacher in Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School whose name is Professor Juan Alcácer talks about the necessary function of taking and considering a long-term geographic strategic view in expanding business whether in a nearby town or around the world expansion. This article also highlighted the tactical checkers‚ discusses the importance and essential role of time consideration to
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naturally walk in circles The article ¨People naturally walk in circles¨ by Emily Sohn‚ represents an important research when trying to completely understand human behavior and specifically‚ to have an idea of how our brain manages decision making‚ order of actions‚ communication and reasoning. Humans‚ apparently start walking in circles when we cannot see an external focal point‚ the moon and the sun represent some examples. In fact‚ when I first read the article‚ I was hoping to find a concrete
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Journal Article Review Public Performance & Management Review Article: “Assessing Governance with Electronic Policy Management Tools”‚ Fanie Cloete‚ Public Performance & Management Review‚ Vol. 26‚ No.3 (Mar.‚ 2003) (pp. 276-290) Author ID: Fanie Cloete‚ is currently the director and professor of Public Policy Analysis in the School of Public Management at the University of Stellenbosch. He has an extensive career experience in the public sector and he is also an advocate of the Supreme
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In the article of Columbus‚ the Indians and Human Progress‚ Zinn writes on how he believes society learns the history of Columbus and his discoveries. The writer suggests that even with the annihilation of human race‚ many see the success of progress and discovery. In the conclusion he also suggests that many people are telling the story of success and history through the leaders or conquerors eyes and not the minority. Zinn argues that today we read in history books what was discovered or
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