Cash transfer (CT) programmes are increasingly being used as policy instruments to address child poverty and child health outcomes in developing countries. As the largest cash-transfer programme in Africa, the South African Child Support Grant (CSG) provides an important opportunity to further understand how a CT of its kind works in a developing country context. We explored the experiences and...

Correspondência: Max Grinberg • Rua Manoel Antonio Pinto, 04 ap. 21A, Paraisópolis, CEP 05663-020, São Paulo, SP – Brasil E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Artigo recebido em 31/08/12, revisado em 09/11/12, aceito em 09/11/12. Palavras-chave Ética Médica, Doença das Valvas Cardíacas / história, Próteses Valvulares Cardíacas. Recentemente, o artigo 29 do Código de Ética Médica, brasi...

The purpose of this study was to identify the pattern of organizational culture and investigate a link between organizational culture and job satisfaction in the Korean Professional Baseball League (KPBL). The findings of the present study revealed that the baseball clubs in the KPBL tended to emphasize a market culture. The results of this study also suggest that the clan culture has a signifi...

This paper proposal is focusing on an interdisciplinary subject, correlating the field of social conflicts within the complexity of organizational culture inside the organizational space of local public agencies, considering their vision, structure and formalism. The main objective of the research is to find out if organizations’ size as the number of the employees, on one hand and different ty...

The goal of this paper is to present the constructive confrontation approach to management of organizational culture. The approach provides for transformation of confrontation caused by differences between the new values of a declared organizational culture and the current values of employees in constructive process. Constructive confrontation allows for the concentration of energies and capaci...

Purpose – Business Process Management (BPM) requires a holistic perspective that includes managing the culture of an organization to achieve objectives of efficient and effective business processes. Still, the specifics of a BPM-supportive organizational culture have not been examined so far. Thus, the purpose of our paper is to identify the characteristics of a cultural setting supportive of B...

Successfully integrating workers with disabilities into their organizations is both a challenge and an opportunity facing managers today. Despite laws and business practices prohibiting discrimination against those with disabilities, people with disabilities are consistently underutilized in organizations. This article applies theories of demographic diversity in organizations to assert that a ...

In this Special Issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management on Managing in Ethnic Chinese Communities, we seek to shed light on the complex and dynamic relationships existing in many ethnic Chinese businesses around the world. This is an exciting time to study ethnic Chinese business. Ethnic Chinese business used to mean Overseas Chinese firms, that is, enterprises run by Chinese business p...