MANAGING DIVERSITY IN ORGANISATIONS TO GAIN COMPETITIVENESS

Managing cultural diversity: implications for organizational competitiveness

Managing Stovepiped Organisations - a Comparison of Public and Private Organisations

Stovepiped systems and difficulties associated with managing cross-functional boundaries are problems that are hindering the successful implementation of customercentred systems and processes within public organisations. The present study covers public organisations, and discusses and analyses the results in relation to those from a previous study in the banking sector. While problems with stov...

Managing Conflicts of Interest in Virtual Organisations

In this paper, we present a formal model of virtual organisations that incorporates the concept of conflicts of interest. The model, which follows an incremental development approach using Event-B, focuses on goals and organisations at the abstract level and introduces resources at the concrete level. The model is motivated by the type of virtual organisations used in the domain of scientific e...

Affirmative Action or Managing Diversity - What is the Future of Equal Opportunity Policies in Organisations?

Equal employment opportunity policies were introduced in Australia from the 1980s in response to women’s disadvantaged workforce position. Australia’s unique form of affirmative action was underpinned by legislation and aimed to promote gender equity in the workplace via employer action. Throughout the 1990s there has been a policy shift away from collectivism towards individualism and away fro...

Managing networks of twenty-first century organisations

On this topic, Bob Hudson w1x previously observed that ‘‘It is now de riguer to talk of the shift from hierarchy to network in public sector governance « but what is often lacking is an understanding of how to analyse network governance’’. In literature, many commentators indeed point out that networks are unlike markets and hierarchies. However, the current authors argue that such forms are no...