Job burnout is a perennial issue for workers, but the most popular way to measure it has become widely critiqued. We utilise newest construct – Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) and provide New Zealand’s first data on managers. Importantly, BAT provides cut-off score representing severe (being burnt-out). Using from 840 Zealand managers, support found, 11.3 per cent of managers meeting burnt-out th...

This paper empirically examines commercialization of university faculty inventions through startup firms from 1994 through 2008. Using data from the Association of University Technology Managers and the 2010 NRC doctoral rankings, our research reveals several findings. We find that university entrepreneurship is more common in bad economic times and that engineering department quality and biolo...

As organizations continuously evolve, it is important to know who can lead and manage an organization to be effective, efficient, and productive. Managers with human skills are needed to help an organization mature and develop; just like a toddler needs a parent to help him or her mature and develop into an independent, sustainable, and self-sufficient adult. This study on 200 middle managers s...

The focus of this paper is to present an exploratory study on the level of awareness regarding green marketing and its managerial implications, among selected, South African Manufacturing Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs), in the province of KwaZulu–Natal (KZN). The concept of green marketing and thought provoking managerial implications are still an issue of concern in the South Afri...

An occupational interest scale was constructed for female research and development managers utilizing a criterion sample of 201 subjects. One hundred five occupations were scored on the resulting scale in an attempt to better understand the interest structure of the criterion group. In addition, female research and development managers were compared to technical specialist groups, male research...