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Should Organizations Pay for Quality?
Helga Drummond, Elizabeth ChellTQM creates a dilemma for organizations. The dilemma is that TQMimplies increased employee responsibility at shopfloor level. Increasedresponsibility traditionally equates with…
Experiential Learning at Work: Why Can’t it be Painless?
Robin SnellArgues that the ways in which managers learn experientially areunnecessarily painful and will remain so without significant change inthe shape and patterning of organizations and…
R&D – Personnel Management by Incentive Management: Results of an Empirical Survey in Research & Development
Peter MühlemeyerBased on an empirical study, proposes requirements for and measuresof the formation of internal incentive systems as instruments forinternal innovation management. Uses the…
The Myth and Destructiveness of Equal Opportunities: The Continued Dominance of the Mothering Role
Sue NewellUses data from a questionnaire given to 66 mothers of youngchildren (a cross‐section) to examine the relation between women’sexpectations and actual experience as they enter the…
Assessment Centres, Selection Systems and Cost‐effectiveness: An Evaluative Case Study
Tim Payne, Neil Anderson, Tom SmithDiscusses cost‐effectiveness of assessment centres (AC) in terms ofpredictive power, utility and financial benefit. Reports a case studyfrom the Ford Motor Company of an AC where…
Ending “Them and Us”: Profit‐related Pay and Promotion of a Community of Interest in Industry
Robert Luther, Paul KeatingThe 1986 Green Paper on Profit‐related Pay (PRP) saw the initiativeas contributing to the elimination of the “them and usmentality” from British industry. Considers the impact of…
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- Professor Eddy Ng
- Professor Pauline Stanton