in this article the role of creativity and innovation in the survival of corporations, the major factors in fostering and development of potentiality and talent for creativity and innovation. the role of managers in nurturing -such talents have been vowed as an important one. managers with their behavior and leadership approach would-be able to-make the people to become creative and innovative....

In this paper we focus on the relationships among cultural diversity, perceived work atmosphere, and intra-group conflict in global virtual teams. We report the findings of a laboratory experiment that was conducted involving the subjects who were geographically dispersed. The participants used IBM's Lotus Sametime to perform a group task. The findings of the study reveal that in virtual teams,...

Knowledge collaboration is an effective management method to promote the appreciations of intellectual capital and social capital. In a virtual team, team atmosphere, team network and the individual attributes, etc. shall affect the performance of knowledge collaboration (KC) in different degrees. The paper will build the theoretical framework that affects the performance of virtual team’s know...

Teamwork requires quality two-way communication in a team, both formal and informal, which can only be achieved by increased engagement of senders recipients information the process. Quality removes, or minimizes, psychological, semantic, physical technical obstacles to Successful functioning team constant exchange between members, creating favorable organizational climate (team atmosphere), mo...

Stroke Surveillance: The Concept of Stroke Team in Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention • The Stroke Project in the Sacramento Medical Center has had two primary objectives. These were: (1) to create an atmosphere of stroke awareness by continuous feedback of relevant and reliable information to physicians who care for stroke patients, and (2) to introduce the concept of the stroke team in daily...

nowadays in consequence of widespread changes of corporate governances, chairman of the board has more real authorities on company decisions and due to his significant role in board leadership, is under the pressure of performance expectations. however, these changers are not made as it deserves in iran and in spite of various effects of chairman leadership on board culture – especially team pr...

In recent years, by population expansion and consequently expansion in service industries, competition has grown in retailing industry more than ever. Retailers can overcome competition in retailing industry by creating attractive, enjoyable, and even more exciting store environment. The purpose of this study is to help marketers, managers and retailers to create an enjoyable and memorable expe...

This paper presents a longitudinal case study at Smartner Information Systems, a small software product company operating in a dynamic and uncertain environment. Smartner successfully combines flexibility and control in their product development process. Flexibility is gained with monthly sprints, after which new decisions about project scope can be made in planning the following sprint. Contro...

This study extends recent research investigating organizational stress in elite sport. Fourteen international performers (7 men and 7 women) from a wide range of sports were interviewed with regard to potential sources of organizational stress. Consistent with Woodman and Hardy’s (2001a) theoretical framework of organizational stress in sport, four main categories were examined: environmental i...