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Responsabilisation de l'individu au travail: le role actif du manager lu par le modele triangulaire de responsabilite
Individual responsibility enactment by employees is a challenge for any work organization, which needs predictable behavior and individuals capable of accounting for their actions if its activities are to be efficient. In the context of role theory, an employee's predictable behavior is the result of a process of mutual influences with his or her manager. This article explores operational leeway for managers to promote the exercise of responsibility by their employees, a subject that has been the subject of little empirical research.
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Exploring the Role of Managers in Nurturing Disruptive Innovations
This paper presents a conceptual framework of managerial activities to foster disruptive innovations. Despite wide recognition of managerial role at middle and lower tiers of organization towards shaping its long-term strategy, the existing research, so far, has lacked in explicitly explaining the managerial activities directed towards the development of disruptive innovations. Authors explored the extant literature on disruptive innovation theory and identified three phases of the disruption process where managers at the middle and lower tiers can play an active role. The authors named this role of managers as their disruptive innovation activities (DIA). Furthermore, manager's DIA is explored in the context of existing antecedents of manager's strategic activities and a conceptual framework is proposed along with a resource map for future research, in this direction.
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MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION IN INDUSTRIES: A SURVEY OF MOROCCAN COMPANIES/GESTAO DE MANUTENCAO E INOVACAO EM INDUSTRIAS: UMA SURVEY EM EMPRESAS MARROQUINAS
The purpose of this paper is to present the maintenance management status in Moroccan companies. The first part is based on the literature; it reviews the main maintenance models. The second part is resulted from a pilot survey about management maintenance in Moroccan companies. The study was performed by conducting a survey within 15 Moroccan companies, questionnaires were submitted to maintenance managers or production managers of those companies. The main objectives of this paper are to study the correlation between success factors of maintenance management in Moroccan companies and to give a global picture about maintenance management level in Moroccan companies.
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The role of the professional football manager
Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager, surprisingly little is known about their role. This title provides an unprecedented insight into the chronically insecure and vulnerable world of the contemporary professional football manager. Drawing on original research, it explores the complex challenges and skills of the football manager in an increasingly cut-throat, ruthless and results-based industry. Written by a former professional footballer, the book examines how personal contact networks and the social mobility of different actors within the industry influence various elements of the manager's role.
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Power to the middle : why managers hold the keys to the future of work
If you're thinking of cutting your midlevel managers in the new world of work, think again. 'Middle manager.' The term evokes a bygone industrial era in which managers functioned like cogs in a vast bureaucratic machine. In recent decades, midlevel managers became a favourite target for the chopping block - underappreciated, often considered a superfluous layer of the organization. Not only does this outdated perspective need to change, but the future demands it. In 'Power to the Middle', McKinsey thought leaders Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field call for a profound reimagining of managers and their roles. They explain how middle managers are uniquely positioned close to the ground but with a crucial connection to company strategy, enabling them to guide their organizations through periods of rapid and complex change, as well as to help shape the new world of work.
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Integrated reporting and internal mechanisms of change
Purpose
This paper investigates the internal mechanisms employed by early adopters of integrated reporting in Australia to manage their reporting process and explores whether integrated reporting is stimulating innovative disclosure mechanisms.
Design/methodology/approach
The study was based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with organisations in varying stages of implementing integrated reporting. Twenty-three interviews were conducted with sustainability managers, finance managers and communications managers across fifteen organisations. A content analysis of the interviews was undertaken using qualitative coding techniques.
Findings
While the organisations that are producing some form of integrated report are changing their processes and structures, or at least talking about it, their adoption of integrated reporting has not necessarily stimulated new innovations in disclosure mechanisms. This study did not uncover radical, transformative change to reporting processes, but rather incremental changes to processes and structures that previously supported sustainability reporting.
Research limitations/implications
A major limitation of this research study was the small sample of organisations and stakeholders that participated, and the single-country focus. Finance, accounting and strategy people were particularly under-represented in this study, as well as external stakeholders, and the conclusions can only be tentative until further tested.
Practical implications
This paper sheds light on the practices of early adopters of integrated reporting, and their learning could inform other organisations considering an integrated reporting approach.
Originality/value
As an emerging phenomenon, there are few empirical studies exploring integrated reporting practices and this paper provides some insights into integrated reporting in Australia.
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