Journal of Management Development: Volume 23 Issue 5

The value of active scanning to senior executives: Insights from key decision‐makers

Michael Nastanski

This paper examines the elements of active scanning as a tool to interpret rapidly changing markets. Active scanning is the concerted effort of an organization to direct its…

Emotional intelligence: A key ability to succeed in the matrix organization

Thomas Sy, Stéphane Côté

Organizations continue to employ the matrix organizational form as it enables companies to use human resources flexibly, produce innovative solutions to complex problems in…

Discussing multisource feedback with raters and performance improvement

James W. Smither, Manuel London, Richard R. Reilly, Raymond Flautt, Yvette Vargas, Ivy Kucine

This paper hypothesized that ratees who share their multisource feedback with raters and ask for suggestions would improve more than other ratees. The participants were 5,335…

Characteristics of chief executive officers Views of their staff

John Wood, Tricia Vilkinas

This exploratory study investigated the characteristics that the direct reports of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) associated with the latter's success. A small number of direct…

Developing SME managers under fire: Negotiating obstacles and weaknesses in Palestine

Mohammed I. Al‐Madhoun, Farhad Analoui

In recent years, management training development has secured an increasingly important place in the life of the business managers. After the peace agreement, to find a solution…