Large investments into sophisticated knowledge management systems and repositories are not sufficient to transfer the knowledge held by individuals to organizational level. People are often reluctant to share their knowledge for various reasons, and a culture of knowledge hoarding is one of the largest obstacles to knowledge management. Since knowledge is personal, people cannot be forced to sh...

Ž . The balanced scorecard BSC has emerged as a decision support tool at the strategic management level. Many business leaders now evaluate corporate performance by supplementing financial accounting data with goal-related measures from the following perspectives: customer, internal business process, and learning and growth. It is argued that the BSC concept can be adapted to assist those manag...

Inter-organizational collaborative product development relies heavily on Internet-based technology. As heterogeneous computer environments are typically used in such cases, problems related with data sharing and work coordination at the global level are basic obstacles for widespread implementation of the concept of virtual engineering teams in global product development. In this paper, a softw...

Agile software development methods reduce project costs and development time by simultaneously enhancing quality. But despite these advantages, agile principles are rarely adopted by the whole organization. In order to gain a deeper understanding of this issue, we conducted an initial exploratory qualitative case study in one medium-sized company. The goal of this study was to find out whether ...

As atop-level national policy agenda, the Experimental Finland initiative (2015-2019) opens up an opportunity to investigate politics of nationally promoted experimental turn. We examine how state launched agovernmental-level project aiming for whole nation become experimental. The was Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s governmental Spearhead Programmes 2015-2019. This paper explores underlying revea...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a new concept and a type of intelligence that is described as “the ability to understand exactly, evaluate and represent emotion”. Many studies were evaluated the effect of emotional intelligence on work satisfaction and performance. The results were shown that the employees with high level of emotional intelligence are valuable property for their orga...

Computational analyses of organizational behavior employ either intellective or emulative models [1]. The model described in this paper 1 is an intellective models. Intellective models are usually abstract, small, relatively simple, and incorporate only a few parameters. They help modelers make general predictions about trends and the relative benefit of organizational changes, identify the ran...

Teaching is a profession that requires a variety of skills and attributes that can be used to improve classroom practice. This research used peer coaching to help support the development of skills through dialogue and discussion. The research group were PGCE Science Students training to become teachers in the UK. They were introduced to peer coaching during the course. This article describes th...