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For Managers, Praise Can Be a Dangerous Thing: The Find: Praising employees after a mistake in an effort to boost their self-esteem can make them even more likely to screw up again, according to new research from the Kellogg School of Management and the London Business School. The Source: "The Promise and Peril of Self-affirmation...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Jessica Stillman, hiring; Blog posts 2008-04-09
The Seasoned Executive's Decision - Making Style: The research shows that senior managers analyze and act on problems far differently than their more junior colleagues do. Those whose thinking does not evolve may not advance. The job of a manager is, above all, to make decisions. At any moment in any day, most executives are engaged in...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making, job; White papers 2008-01-01
The Myth of Splitting the CEO/Chair jobs: By now, it's the perceived wisdom that people who are chief executive officers should not also be chairmen of the board. Institutional Shareholder Services and all sorts of rating agencies state, with complete conviction, that the job should be split--at all times, and at all companies. But...; Tags: Corporate governance, Recruitment & Selection, William J. Holstein, board, job, Lafley; Blog posts 2008-02-15
Step Back To Succeed In Decision Making: All of the greatest leaders in world are man-managers. Without exception, they command respect from those who work with them and for them. The best managers follow the framework which is explained in this paper and make a decision in seconds. Once you have learnt how to, and practiced enough,...; Tags: supervisor, decision-making, leader; White papers 2007-12-01
The Future of Innovation Management; Hamel and Bryan Speak: Gary Hamel and LowellÂ Bryan offer similar perspectives on the future role of management in their respective books, "The Future of Management" and "Mobilizing Minds" (co-authored by Claudia Joyce). Each calls for organizational changeÂ so managers an direct employees with the sameÂ innovative energyÂ that is devoted to product development -- minimizing complexityÂ and harnessingÂ every...; Tags: Strategy, Workforce management, Lori Deschene, talent, knowledge; Blog posts 2007-11-20

Better Decision-Making: How Smart Companies Win With Performance Management: Decision-makers need to be able to quickly get a handle on the issues that influence business performance and secure the resources to deal with them efficiently and effectively. It is central to rising above the competition and securing profitability. Unfortunately, creating this decision culture hasn't been easy. With data pouring...; Tags: performance management, decision-making, information technology, performance; White papers 2007-02-01
Endogenous Attention Costs And Intertemporal Decision-Making: Recent contributions on intertemporal decision-making and self-control have focused on the impact of cognitive constraints on the way people behave over time. In particular there is evidence on the fact that exerting cognitive effort on the job, adhering to some specific behavioral plan and self-regulating behavior is fatiguing so that,...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Performance management, decision-making, worker, performance, job, environment; White papers 2006-05-15
Benefiting from the Balanced Scorecard: Harvard professors Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the balanced scorecard to help translate vision and strategy into action. This technique can make strategic planning a core part of any business. They showed that financial analysis, which is largely a look backward over past performance, isn’t enough to guide long-term...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Balanced Scorecard, feedback loop, investment decision, business process, technique, financial analysis, organizational culture, team, BPR, Total Quality Management, performance, standards, Strategic Planning, decision-making, business strategy, motivatio; Articles 2007-10-03
Manager, Financial & Administrative Systems: The Manager, Financial & Administrative Systems job description template includes the following job summary: Plans, designs, and implements new systems or changes existing data processing systems to support management control and decision-making activities. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, data-processing, job, financial, decision-making; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Vice President, MIS Job Description: The Vice President, MIS job description template includes the following job summary: Plans, directs, and manages the MIS Department in order to ensure the development and implementation of cost-effective systems and efficient computer operations to meet current and future decision making requirements. As a corporate officer, the incumbent provides companywide...; Tags: MIS, vice president, data-processing, job, computer; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Senior Programmer And Analyst Project Manager Job Description: The Senior Programmer And Analyst Project Manager job description template includes the following job summary: Oversees the planning, designing, and implementing of new systems or changes in existing data processing systems to support management control and decision-making activities. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, project manager, data-processing, job, decision-making, analyst; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Complex Business Situations And Decision Making: Elements Of The Workplace: In the Business Environment, there are numerous complex situations in which one must understand in order to maximize the benefits of success. Complex Solutions is a way that Management Personnel can better understand changes in their Business. If the understanding starts with the Complex Solutions, each Business can approach any...; Tags: decision-making, workplace, benefit, environment; White papers 2006-09-07
Managing for Results: Enhancing Agency Use of Performance Information for Management Decision Making: The Government Performance and Results Act GPRA of 1993 has laid a foundation of results-oriented agency planning, measurement, and reporting in the federal government. Performance planning and measurement have slowly, yet increasingly; become a part of agencies' cultures. The report identifies how federal agencies can use performance information to make...; Tags: Performance management, Advertising & Promotion, Government Accountability Office, management decision, agency, performance, decision-making; White papers 2005-09-01
Guide to Performance Measurements: Integrating performance measurement into the Tennessee Department of Transportation TDOT management practices and decision-making processes will be a complex undertaking. It will require a significant investment of staff resources and a commitment to business and cultural change, as well as investment in new technology and processes. The purpose of this...; Tags: Performance management, Tools & Techniques, performance measurement, decision-making, performance, investment, agency; White papers 2004-06-01
Devolving Decision Making: Delivering Better Public Services - Refining Targets And Performance Management: The Devolving Decision-Making review contributes to the Government's wider agenda of public service reform. The work has been carried out in close collaboration with other Government reviews. The findings of this paper are consistent with the emerging findings of the efficiency review as well as other work carried out by...; Tags: public service, performance management, decision-making, collaboration, strategy, performance; White papers 2004-03-01
Talent Management: Fact-Based Decision Making: Organizations today are rushing to reinvent their succession management programs. They recognize that typical succession programs only tell them what to do if they need to fill an opening. However, organizations today need to go beyond this, they need to manage the pool of available talent for true competitive advantage....; Tags: Workforce management, Tools & Techniques, Aon Corp., talent, talent management, decision-making, P&L, downsizing, competitive advantage, job; White papers 2003-10-01
Managing Business Ethics: Introduction: It may not be practically possible to count the number of misconducts at a workplace. However, effective ethics management in business can minimize misconduct and cynicism at workplace. It may seem far from being true. But, for this white paper, which not only educates the reader with business ethics, also...; Tags: Leadership, Rowan University, business ethics, ethics, workplace, decision-making; Presentations 2003-01-01
Tips and Strategies for Hiring Marketing Professionals: The article is about hiring the right marketing professional, this can be the difference between sinking and survival to your business. Sales is everything you do to get the prospect to buy your service or product. Sales usually involves tactics and logistics, and involves the prospects actual decision-making process, Marketing...; Tags: Sales strategy, Tools & Techniques, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing research, decision-making, hiring, marketing, logistics, sales, strategy; White papers 2003-01-01
People Portfolio Management: Decision-making is the process of choosing a suitable solution to a problem from amongst a number of different solutions. This choice is based on a detailed analysis of the pros and cons of each of the aforesaid solutions. Executives are engaged in making critical decisions regarding the new talent required...; Tags: HR.com, decision-making, talent, analysis; White papers 2003-01-01
Strategic Decision-Making - Reach And The Holy Grail: When organizations and their executives finally tire of funding dozens or hundreds of projects that never deliver, they begin to seek projects and project managers whose efforts reach into and affect the outside world. But the question is, how do we stimulate them? How do we weed out the weak...; Tags: project manager, Holy Grail, decision-making, team, performance; White papers 2003-01-01