Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the way leadership influences an organization to become humane through its features and behaviors; as well as the organizational circumstances in which humane leadership can be nurtured. The first empirical case study, in the fields of Human Resource Development (HRD) and hospitality management, to…

The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to examine HR executives' perspectives on employability enhancement for employees and how it is operationalized in their workplace. The exploratory questions that guided the study were, What are the perspectives of HR executives regarding employability enhancement for employees, and In what…

This study explores the utility of employing knowledge management as a framework for understanding how public managers perform ecosystem management. It applies the grounded theory method to build a model. The model is generated by applying the concept of knowledge process to an investigation of how the urban ecosystem is publicly managed by civil…

Determines whether a relationship exists between type of newsroom management style--authoritarian or democratic--and journalists' attitudes toward their newspaper supervisors, jobs, readers, and community. Finds that differences in management style do not appear to influence the relationship with editors or attitudes toward their audience. (RC)

Attitude survey techniques used in the study enable management to identify dissatisfaction in advance of visible signs of unrest and take corrective action. (MS)

Reports results and implications of a questionnaire administered to employees, measuring their perceptions of fair treatment by an organization and relates these perceptions to absenteeism and turnover. Enables professional personnel and industrial relations people to expand their roles in developing more effective organizations. (TA)

Demonstrates that perceptions of ethnic discrimination during layoffs are moderately correlated with perceptions of selection fairness and information access during the layoff process. Shows that, in the company studied, both minority and majority ethnic group members felt equally discriminated against. (SR)

Explores communication behaviors and reactions of employees during crisis periods, using a qualitative case study of Eastern Airlines pilots. Finds that useful theories for crisis communication can be developed only after sufficient inquiry into the communication needs and behaviors of message receivers. (MS)

Presents an analysis of the predictive relationships of managerial behavior and work group climate on employee outcomes; 1,428 survey responses were collected during an organizational change in the marketing and sales division of an international pharmaceuticals company. Behaviors of managers and work group members were found to be significantly…

A case study of two metropolitan newspapers examined whether there was a relationship between type of newsroom management style--"authoritarian" or "democratic"--and journalists' perceptions of management style and leadership, editors' roles, career goals and job satisfaction, readers' news source contact, and community…

This guide from Library Association Publishing has been designed to assist those wishing to review mentoring for its application to a particular workplace, the library. Often making use of a question and answer format, it discusses the roles of both the mentor and the protege, including potential benefits for each party and behaviors each party…

This study on job enrichment was undertaken because the participation of workers in the management of their employment is a matter of rising interest in several countries of various political, economic, and social states, some of which have only recently entered upon industrialization. The study contains four parts. Part I, Theoretical background,…

The 1981 unionization of service and maintenance employees at Cornell University marked a growing trend. The university's policy and procedure throughout the process is chronicled and discussed from the perspective of maintaining good personnel relations. (MSE)

A case study examined employee perceptions of the communication climate within a newspaper. Using qualitative and quantitative techniques, data were collected from 150 employees in 7 departments of a small newspaper organization, "Southwestern Newspapers". Results indicated that this newspaper can improve its communications climate by…

Case studies of 15 leading employers in the United Kingdom were conducted to examine their career development practices. Employees, line managers, executives, and human resources professionals in the finance, energy, high technology, manufacturing, service, and public service sectors were interviewed regarding the career development practices and…