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  • 1
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    Visualising and mapping stakeholder influence (2005)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Management decision 43 (2005), S. 649-660 
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    ISSN: 0025-1747
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to offer insights into a tool that one of the authors has developed to help map, and thus visualise, stakeholder power and influence within the performing organisation. Design/methodology/approach - The concept described in this paper has been tested at several large international gatherings to well over 200 active professional project managers. The feedback to date has been very positive. This positive feedback led to testing of these ideas through research being conducted during 2004/2005 by one of the authors who is a candidate for the doctor of project management (DPM) at RMIT. Findings - The research is centred around this tool, the stakeholder circle, as a means to provide a useful and effective way to visualise stakeholder power and influence that may have pivotal impact on a project's success or failure. The stakeholder-circle tool is developed for each project through a methodology that identifies and prioritises key project stakeholders and then develops an engagement strategy to build and maintain robust relationships with those key stakeholders. An example of the tool is presented. Originality/value - Future papers will provide case study examples currently under way of the use of this tool. The implication for this tool's use is that project managers can clearly visualise and map stakeholder influence patterns that have significant impact on stakeholder outcome expectations.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00251740510597680
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    Effective conflict management: use of the behavioral style model (2001)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Leadership & organization development journal 22 (2001), S. 230-242 
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    ISSN: 0143-7739
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: A primary key to successful organizational leadership is effective conflict management. This article addresses the use of the behavioral style paradigm as a tool to manage conflict effectively for the benefit of the individuals and the organization involved. An actual case is used, involving a conflict between a president and vice president for finance. The concept of behavioral style, with its various interactive dimensions and four basic styles, is introduced and analyzed. The strengths, weaknesses, and communication orientations of each of the four styles are also analyzed and applied to the case situation. Finally, the importance of understanding the primary backup styles of individuals and the key role of Style Flex in conflict management are thoroughly discussed and analyzed.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01437730110396375
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    Age discrimination and public policy (1997)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Personnel review 26 (1997), S. 307-318 
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    ISSN: 0048-3486
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Reviews government and employer policies towards older workers and shows that there has been a massive decline in economic activity among older workers over the last two decades. The major cause is identified as economic recession which has encouraged employers, with the support of government, to target older workers for redundancy. In addition, older workers have been over-represented in declining industries. Once out in the labour market older workers face considerable age discrimination. Recently, population ageing has encouraged all political parties to revise their policies on age and employment. Each now recognizes the value of older workers, although there is fundamental disagreement about the best means of encouraging employers to change their practices. The then Conservative government favoured a voluntary approach while the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats have been more favourably disposed towards comprehensive legislation outlawing age discrimination. Argues that a combination of both approaches is desirable and, moreover, that it will also be necessary to revise policies on training, pensions and social security.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00483489710172097
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    Graphical Analysis for Machine Replacement: A Case Study (1994)
    Bingley : Emerald
    International journal of operations & production management 14 (1994), S. 54-63 
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    ISSN: 0144-3577
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Describes the advantages of combining a Windows(TM) database package anda Visual Basic(TM) program for graphical analysis of machine replacementproblems. The database allows the regular and easy updating of the costelements associated with the purchase, operation and disposal of amachine. The Visual Basic(TM) program provides a simple user interface,requiring only the use of a "mouse" for input, program control, andgraphical analysis of output. The program has easy access to appropriatedatabase, spreadsheet and word-processing packages. Illustrates the useof the program in considering the graphical analysis of the replacementof an ambulance fleet.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443579410067252
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    Systematic approach to activity based costing of the production planning activity in the book manufacturing industry (2000)
    Bingley : Emerald
    International journal of operations & production management 20 (2000), S. 103-115 
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    ISSN: 0144-3577
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: This paper justifies the need for moving indirect production planning costing in the book manufacturing industry toward direct production planning costing. Principles of activity based costing are utilized to accomplish this feat. This paper develops a methodology to break down the various tasks required in planning a job for production in the book manufacturing industry and to apply time measurement to these activities. These time measurements can then be used to individually cost the planning process of any book manufacturing company. The methodology is tested and justified through extensive data collection and application in a major book manufacturing firm. Thus, this industry can now effectively apply cost to activities of the planning process for each individual job as a direct cost, rather than an indirect one.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443570010301119
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    Temporary but seeking permanence: a study of New Zealand temps (2003)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Leadership & organization development journal 24 (2003), S. 141-152 
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    ISSN: 0143-7739
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Temporary employment, colloquially referred to as temping, is relatively new to New Zealand. Research is divided as to where the benefits of temporary employment lie - with the agencies, the employers, or the "temps" themselves. We review the literature on temporary employment, with particular reference to New Zealand. We also present some findings of a New Zealand survey of agency-employed temps. We present the demographic profile of this population group, their reasons for engaging in temporary employment, and their preferred type of employment. Most temporary employees in this study preferred permanent work, and undertook temporary work as a step towards more permanent employment. We discuss the implications of the research findings for organisations that are increasingly being faced with issues surrounding the management of temporary employees.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01437730310469561
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    Outsourcing: assessing the risks and benefits for organisations, sectors and nations (2005)
    Bingley : Emerald
    International journal of operations & production management 25 (2005), S. 831-850 
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    ISSN: 0144-3577
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Purpose - This research aims to assess the risks and benefits of outsourcing for organisations, sectors and nations. The literature on outsourcing contains little evidence of research on holistic issues of its impact at systems levels beyond the firm, notably sectors and nations. Design/methodology/approach - A Delphi study with senior strategists from private and public sectors captured perspectives and specific observations on benefits and risks of outsourcing. Emergent issues on outsourcing policy, strategy and decision-making processes were synthesised into a framework for analysing factors associated with outsourcing. Findings - The findings suggest that a more holistic view of outsourcing is needed, linking local, organisational issues with sector and national level actions and outcomes. In this way, aggregate risks and benefits can be assessed at different systems levels. Research limitations/implications - Future research might address the motivations for outsourcing; currently there is little research evidence to assess whether outsourcing is a mechanism for failing to solve internal problems, and moving responsibility and risk out of the firm. Additionally most outsourcing research to date has concentrated on an activity either being "in" or "out"; there is little research exploring the circumstances in which mixed models might be appropriate. Practical implications - The framework provides an aid to research and an aide memoire for managers considering outsourcing. Originality/value - This paper contributes to knowledge on understanding of outsourcing at different systems levels, particularly highlighting the implications of outsourcing for sectors and nations. Previously most research has focused at the level of the firm or dyadic relationship.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443570510613929
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    Through a gendered lens? Male and female executives' representations of one another (2003)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Leadership & organization development journal 24 (2003), S. 387-396 
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    ISSN: 0143-7739
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Executive leadership is constituted as a predominantly male domain, placing women in an antithetical position to executive power. In theorising this situation, a social constructionist model of gender suggests that in the corporate world, as elsewhere, perceptions of the behaviour of men and women are "automatically filtered through a gendered lens" and reconstituted within a more general discourse on gender difference, tapping into subconscious images of leadership to reinforce a masculinist construction of executive power. Yet today women are increasingly in executive roles. This study explores the relationship between a social constructionist model of gender and executive discourse by drawing on interviews with ten male and ten female New Zealand executives. Given that these executives hold comparable organisational status and power, the study examines whether or not a gendered lens still operates in their representations of one another, and if there are indications of gender and social change in the discourse.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01437730310498604
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    Measuring marketing performance against the backdrop of intra-organisational change (2004)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Marketing intelligence & planning 22 (2004), S. 59-65 
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    ISSN: 0263-4503
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Measuring the financial performance and contribution of marketing activity is a challenge increasingly faced by marketers globally. In this paper, we consider the potential effects of intra-organisational change, particularly employee turnover or "churn", on the measurable financial performance of an organisation and the ability of an organisation to sustain desired performance. We also discuss implications for research.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02634500410516913
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    The good, the bad and the ugly of butchers' shops' licensing in England - one local authority's experience (2002)
    Bradford : Emerald
    British food journal 104 (2002), S. 20-30 
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    ISSN: 0007-070X
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Butchers Licensing Regulations have been in force for two years. They require premises which handle unwrapped raw meat and sell raw meat alongside ready to eat foods to operate fully documented food safety management systems. These management systems are in keeping with the seven principles of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) as detailed by the Codex and are aimed at ensuring food safety and at improving consumer protection. This article focuses on the initial first year work undertaken by Derby City Council to get its 29 butcher's shops successfully licensed. Data collated and evaluated is presented which gives a clear picture of standards in premises before and after licensing. Standards in the majority of the premises significantly improved and butchers attitudes in general appear to be more positive towards food safety. However substantial costs have been associated with licensing. There are important implications from these costs if the government is to consider licensing the rest of the UK food businesses.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00070700210418712
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