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		<title><![CDATA[What are America's Stupidest Management Practices?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/entry-level/?p=688]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Management guru Bob Sutton is off to conference in Singapore this week and on his consistently thought-provoking blog Work Matters he's preparing for the event with a little thought experiment. Namely, he's attempting to brainstorm the stupidest management practices of U.S. companies that remain inexplicably popular despite plenty of evidence...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:27:48 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In Praise of Management Minimalism]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/bnet1/?p=1913]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  	The Find: Traditional management practices are "ill-suited to human beings" says a new book which argues for a hands off approach to managing.  	The Source: Stefan Stern, writing on the FT Management blog, takes a look at Management Rewired, a new book by the consultant Charles Jacobs....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 04:09:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Strategic Planning Processes And Hospital Financial Performance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=379226]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Many common management practices in healthcare organizations, including the practice of strategic planning, have not been subject to widespread assessment through empirical research. If management practice is to be evidence-based, evaluations of such common practices need to be undertaken. Three dimensions of the strategic planning process - having a strategic...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Organizational Response To Environmental Demands: Opening The Black Box]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314651]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper combines new and old institutionalism to explain enduring differences in organizational strategies. We propose that differences in the influence of corporate departments lead their facilities to prioritize different external pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents who interact with particularly influential corporate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Measuring And Explaining Management Practices Across Firms And Countries]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314184]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The authors have used an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Resolving Information Asymmetries In Markets: The Role Of Certified Management Programs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314650]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Firms and regulators are increasingly relying on voluntary mechanisms to signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found little evidence that they legitimately distinguish adopters as having superior management practices or performance. In...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial and Management Practice in a Voluntary Medical Insurance Company in the Developed World]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=167867]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The paper provides a summative evaluation of the financial and management practice of voluntary health insurance in UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland from the practitioner's view point. From a statistical perspective, the paper concentrates on Australia, as one of the few environments where there is a wealth of publicly...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[4+2 = Sustained Business Success]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=94978]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From the executive summary: ‘Researches indicate that most of the management tools and techniques do not have any direct implications on the superior business performance. However, what really matters is having a strong grasp of the business basics. Without exception, companies that outperformed the industry peers excelled at four primary...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reducing Winter Feeding Costs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=118625]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The use of supplemental feed hay or concentrate may be beneficial to livestock, especially for growing animals, animals in the latter stages of gestation, lactating animals, or during periods of reduced forage growth (i.e., drought, winter). Most producers could substantially reduce their winter feed costs by carefully considering their forage...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EPA Releases Best Practices Guide on Industrial Waste]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200304/ai_n21817567]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, April 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Promoting pollution prevention and fostering significant upgrades to the nation's waste management practices, EPA today announced the release of a comprehensive voluntary industrial waste management guide that identWASHINGTON, April 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Promoting pollution prevention and fostering significant upgrades to the nation's waste...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Otential Barriers to Organizations That Put Their Human Resource People First: Exploratory Study]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=174492]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The study presented in this paper explores certain management practices in which an organization treats its human resources as the most important asset. Despite evidence of a direct relationship between a company's performance (e.g., turnover) and its commitment to these management practices, organizations are moving away from these principles due...]]></description>
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