New Work Styles Developed in Fujimi town, Nagano

Leadership Styles for Success in Collaborative Work

Environmental advocacy organizations work in coalitions or strategic partnerships with other organizations with similar missions for a wide variety of reasons. As with many other nonprofits, collaboration is a key organizational mechanism for advancing their missions. In these tight economic times, foundation funders also consistently call for advocacy nonprofits to think strategically and to c...

Changes in Work Styles of Office Workers in Satellite Offices

In order to reduce the long commuting times for office workers, Fuji Xerox began experimenting with satellite offices. In this paper I will report on changes in the work styles of office workers working in satellite offices. The changes relate to job planning, independence, computer literacy, information sharing, job task concentration, communication, productivity, skill specialization, and tim...

Sustainability 'Wars' in a New England Town

A research project into large group decision-making in a New England Town Meeting surprised us with the degree to which sustainability came to be the axis around which political debate revolved. We identified two very different yet overlapping conceptions of sustainability: one emphasized fiscal responsibility; the other asserted the merits of environmental stewardship. Each of the two concepti...

A New Town in the North

Adaption-Innovation at Work: A New Measure of Problem- Solving Styles

The study introduces a new measure of adaption versus innovation problem solving style (labelled the AI-W) that is validated using professional accountants. The AI-W consists of nine items and nonproprietary in comparison to the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI) of 32 items which is proprietary. An analysis of data from a large sample of practicing accountants suggests that reliability...