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Look Over Yonder Wall - Managing Change
By Robert Bacal - An organization's ability to deal with drastic negative change will depend primarily on the degree to which management has demonstrated its competence in the past. If management has fostered a sense of trust and credibility, has communicated effectively, and has demonstrated effective planning and decision making skills, the change adjustment period will be shortened, and the organization will have a much easier time of normalizing what it does after the change implementation. (Added: 25-Apr-2001 Hits: 577 )Dealing With Human Speed Bumps!
By Robert Bacal - Mary is contending with a common situation, one that we have labelled the human speed bump syndrome. Many work groups and teams have at least one of these bumps in the organization, and they attempt to function just like those speed bumps in mall parking lots; encouraging others to slow down. In the worst cases the human speed bump seems to stall the entire organization, and can be relied upon to puncture any enthusiasm others may have about changes in the organization. (Added: 25-Apr-2001 Hits: 478 )Conflict
By Robert Bacal - In this article, we are going to look at some important elements of conflict, how it escalates over time, and suggest a few general strategies for dealing with it. (Added: 25-Apr-2001 Hits: 2779 )Organization Improvement: Cooperative Communication - Free Article
By Robert Bacal - The workplace is a complicated place. Imagine a spider web of people, managers, supervisors and staff members who need to work together, interacting in various ways to fulfil the organization's mandate. Disagreements and conflict are bound to occur; between staff members, between staff and management, and between clients and members of your organization (Added: 25-Apr-2001 Hits: 824 )Free Article - Are You Getting The Bad News You Need? (For Managers)
By Robert Bacal - One of the worst feelings a government manager, executive or supervisor can experience is that dreadful sinking feeling that occurs when it is discovered that something bad you should have known about wasn't conveyed to you in a timely and useful way. (Added: 25-Apr-2001 Hits: 433 )Why Employee Ranking Systems Lead To Disaster
By Robert Bacal - As with many performance management techniques, however, where you find a manager succeeding with a ranking system, we guarantee you will find a manager who would succeed with scribbling performance appraisals on toilet paper. In other words, in spite of the system! (Added: 5-Feb-2002 Hits: 552 )Pages Updated On: 13-May-2008 - 22:39:40
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