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Traditional vs Self-Managed Teams
What are Traditional Teams? What are Self-managed Teams? a self-managed team is a group of employees who work collaboratively to complete a project or reach a defined outcome with little to no direct supervision from a boss. Many...
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Total Quality Management
What is Total Quality Management or TQM? Total quality management consists of organization-wide efforts to "install and make permanent climate where employees continuously improve their ability to provide on demand products and services...
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Theory of Constraints
What is the Theory of Constraints? The theory of constraints is a management paradigm that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints.
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Theory E and Theory O
What is Theory E? What is Theory O? Theory E is change based on economic value. Theory O is change based on organizational capability. Both are valid models; each theory of change achieves some of management's goals, either explicitly or...
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Theories of Group Formation
What are the primary theories of Group Formation? This article throws light on the four important theories of group formation, i.e, (1) Propinquity Theory, (2) Homan's Theory, (3) Balance Theory, and (4) Exchange Theory.
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The Thinker's Keys - Creativity Tool
What is the Thinker's Keys? How is the Thinker's Keys used as a creativity pool? The Thinkers Keys are 20 powerful strategies for teaching children to think. Specifically designed to be used by 8 to 14 year-olds, they are placed into two...
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The Balanced Scorecard
What is the Balanced Scorecared Approach? A balanced scorecard is a strategic management performance metric that helps companies identify and improve their internal operations to help their external outcomes. It measures past performance...
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Team Tasks
What are Team Tasks? Production Tasks - This means creating or delivering something, such as a product, service, plan, etc. Idea Generation Tasks - Creative tasks, such as idea generation or process refinement. Problem-Solving Tasks -...
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Team Roles
What are Team Roles? Plant, Resource Investigator, Co-ordinator, Shaper, Monitor Evaluator, Teamworker, Implementer, Completer Finisher, Specialist
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Team Management Profile
What is the Team Management Profile? The Team Management Profile is a psychometric tool (measuring things like aptitude and personality) that has been used in personal and team development for over two decades. The profile consists of 60...
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System Archetypes - Management
What are System Archetypes in Management? System archetypes are common and usually recurring patterns of behavior in organizations. These patterns almost always result in negative consequences. You can use system archetypes to...
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Survivorship Bias
What is Survivorship Bias? Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not. This can lead to incorrect conclusions because of...
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Structured and Unstructured Problems
What are Structured Problems? What are Unstructured Problems? Unstructured problems are those that do not have a clear definition, solution, or process. They can be challenging and frustrating, but also rewarding and stimulating.
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Stress (Organizational Behavior)
What is Stress? How is it related to Organizational Behavior? Stress occurs when a demand exceeds an individual's coping ability and disrupts his or her psychological equilibrium. Stress occurs in the workplace when an employee perceives...
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Strategic Cost Management
What is Strategic Cost Management? Strategic Cost Management is an approach focusing on making a business more competitive by reducing costs of operations. More specifically, it integrates cost information into the decision-making...
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Stakeholder Management
What is Stakeholder Management? Stakeholder management is a critical component in the successful delivery of any project, programme or activity. A stakeholder is any individual, group or organization that can affect, be affected by, or...
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Stacey Matrix
What is the Stacey Matrix? It is designed to help understand the factors that contribute to complexity and choose the best management actions to address different degrees of complexity.
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Special Employee Provisions - Term Sheet
What are the Special Employee Provisions in a Term Sheet? The parties often negotiate numerous employee-related provisions into the term sheet. These provisions serve as control mechanisms to either incentivize current management or...
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Soft System Methodology
What is the Soft System Methodology? Soft systems methodology is an organised way of thinking that's applicable to problematic social situations and in the management of change by using action.
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Socio-Psychological Theory (Neo-Freudian)
What is Socio-Psychological Theory? What is Neo-Freudian theory? These theorists, referred to as neo-Freudians, generally agreed with Freud that childhood experiences matter, but deemphasized sex, focusing more on the social environment...
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Social Networks in Organizations
What are Social Networks in Organizations? Social networks are visual maps of relationships between individuals. They are vital parts of organizational life as well as important when you are first looking for a job.
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Social Network Analysis
What is Social Network Analysis? Social network analysis is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. It characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes and the ties, edges, or...
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Social Loafing
What is Social Loafing? social loafing is the phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when working alone. It is seen as one of the main reasons groups are sometimes less productive...
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Social Choice Theory
What is Social Choice Theory? Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a collective decision or social welfare in some...