This study employed the activity competency model (ACM) to investigate the perceived importance of the managerial activities, skills and knowledge required by top management in the healthcare sector. A survey instrument was designed based on the ACM for data collection. It encompasses 17 initial managerial activities and 14 managerial competences required to effectively perform these management...

Aesthetics relates to felt meaning generated from sensory perceptions, and involves subjective, tacit knowledge rooted in feeling and emotion. We believe the aesthetics of management is important, but little understood, aspect of organizational life. We propose that followers use their aesthetic senses in making these assessments. In this article we try to discover the role of aesthetic in man...

Green practices and integrated resorts are attracting increasing attention from industry practitioners academics. However, several barriers limit the growth of green practices, especially in Macau. The purpose this study is to identify major implementing Macau managers’ perspective using qualitative method. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 managers resort sector Grounded theory...

Telecommuting creates a host of opportunities and challenges for managers and workers. Based on the results of a 26 semi-structured interviews, we explore individual’s motives underlying the decision to telecommute. In addition, our purpose was to investigate and understand the advantages and disadvantages of telecommuting from the worker’s perspective. References to advantages, disadvantages a...

Abstract Public holiday weeks cause specific challenges in grocery retailing as sales are raising and working days for logistics processes reduced. The paper analyzes the operational planning solutions demand disposition well warehouse transportation management of retailers public seasons. A total 22 top managers representing 20 lines 17 30 Germany participated study. Semi-structured, face-to-f...

Human resource management has increasingly become one of the most important challenging issues in the pharmaceutical industry in general and in developing countries in particular to increase the access of societies to needed medicines. In this study, an attempt was made to explore the challenges of human resource management practices surrounding pharmaceutical firms in Iran, as a developing cou...