Submit Article

If you would like to submit an article, click the button below.

Navigation

or create your own custom RSS feed from our site!

Management

• A Few Paragraphs on How We Could Have Improved Team Management
  (Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:10:50 PM, by Karen Cole-Peralta) In the last quarter of 1980, I was working at an apartment building called Center Park in south Seattle. Center Park was the first building of its kind built specifically to accommodate the needs of people in wheelchairs who could live independently w...
• Six Important Managerial Skills for Successful Leadership
  (Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:10:50 PM, by Barbara White) A mark of a good leader is to be able to provide consistent motivation to his team encouraging them to attain excellence and quality in their performance. A good leader is always looking for ways to improve production and standards. Here are six manag...
• HOW TO REJECT A JOB APPLICANT
  (Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:10:50 PM, by Michael Mercer, Ph.D.) A Nightmare That Really Happened Many years ago, when I worked as a manager at a major corporation, I received a call from a headhunter about a magnificent job opening. It sounded like the perfect job for me. So, I went and was interviewed by the v...
• The Death of the OD Practitioner
  (Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:10:50 PM, by Mike Beitler) In my recent book, “Strategic Organizational Learning,” I made some controversial remarks about the continuing decline in the field of OD. Let me be blunt here: “OD is dead.” My comments and the comments of others, such as those of Jerry Harvey, hav...
• What's Trust Got To Do With It?
  (Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:10:50 PM, by Marnie E. Green) Mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, reorganizations, change. . . all of these modern-day business phenomenon have had a tremendous impact on the level of trust in most organizations. Gone is the era of lifetime employment. Today, organizations consider th...
• Crisis Management - or managing the crisis?
  (Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:10:50 PM, by Clive Simpkins) There’s a world of difference between having a strategically crafted crisis management plan in place and simply having to manage a crisis, “from the back foot.” The world was served a painful reminder on the subject, by the inept and vintage cold-...
• Setting Mutually Developed Performance Goals with Employees
  (Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:10:50 PM, by Marnie E. Green) Performance goals should be set with employees, not for employees. The purpose of setting performance goals is to give employees targets on which to focus. If the employee has not participated in the establishment of these goals, they are less likely...
• Just What is a "Performance Problem" Anyway?
  (Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:10:50 PM, by Marnie E. Green) Many times managers tell me they have an employee with a performance problem and they just can’t seem to get the employee to fix it. This is always funny to me because upon further discussion, I often find it is the manager who has the problem, not th...
• Goal Setting Time! Where Do I Start?
  (Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:10:50 PM, by Marnie E. Green) If you establish performance goals during the annual performance evaluation process and have often wondered where to start, here is a little guidance. I work with many supervisors and employees who see goal setting as the opportunity to list the classe...
• Getting Through
  (Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:10:50 PM, by Marnie E. Green) If you are a supervisor, you have likely faced this common dilemma. You ask an employee to complete a task that seems simple to you. And, what you get is not what you expected. For whatever reason, the employee did not complete the job to your standar...

Sign In