Strengthening the Middle Line: Overcoming Motivational Gaps, Supporting Promising Managers

OR managers facing challenges of gaps in the surgical schedule.

Developing female middle managers in Australian universities

Universities should be developing female middle-managers for reasons of gender balance (Aitkin 2001), the skills shortage, pending mass retirements (Chesterman 2004) and sustainable, postbureaucratic organizations (Kira and Forslin 2008). Investigating the learning and development of women managers is timely. Research assumes that women in academe have the qualifications, experience and skills ...

Are Experienced Managers Experts at Overcoming Coordination Failure ?

This paper studies experiments set in a corporate environment where a manager attempts to overcome a history of coordination failure by employees using either financial incentives or communication. I compare the choices of subject managers drawn from a standard undergraduate population with subject managers drawn from the executive MBA (EMBA) program at Case’s Weatherhead School of Management. ...

Informal assessment for library middle managers

Schirmer Middle Managers - Masters of Change Politics

Towards a different view of middle managers and their roles in strategic decentralisation processes-(7350 words) Summary Middle managers have often been blamed for being inflexible status quo defenders in organisational change processes. However, research results reported in this paper, drawn from in-depth case studies of company restructuring in Germany during the nineties, suggests that middl...