Individual self-management: analysis of professionals' self-managing activities in functional and cross-functional work teams

Article Abstract:

A comparative analysis of professionals' use of individual self-managing activities in functional and cross-functional units found that individual self-management was beneficial for effectiveness in functional units but not in cross-functional units. The study also explored the effects of interactions of individual self-management and unit type (functional or cross-functional) on team members' overall levels of job satisfaction and perceptions of bureaucratic obstacles. Results suggest a need for a contingency model of self-management and a need to pursue the multidimensionality of the self-management construct. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Analysis, Work groups, Teamwork (Workplace), Participatory management, Works councils

---

Power in top management teams: dimensions, measurement, and validation

Article Abstract:

Top managers' power plays a key role in strategic decision making. However, although numerous scholars have recognized its importance, very few have attempted to measure the phenomenon. In this article, I present a set of dimensions measuring top managers' power and suggest a measurement methodology to facilitate empirical inquiry. Data from a group of 1,763 top managers in three industries were used to assess the validity and reliability of the power dimensions in three studies. Results demonstrate strong support for the proposed power dimensions. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Research, Planning, Executives, Authority, Office politics

---

Superman or the fantastic four? Knowledge combination and experience in innovative teams

Article Abstract:

Innovations in comic book industry are analyzed, finding that factors similar to those affecting high-performance innovations affect innovations with extreme success and failure. Innovations with greater variations in value are produced by multimember teams and teams with experience working together, but individuals are able to combine knowledge diversity more effectively than teams.

Periodical Publishers, Periodicals, Comics, Innovations, Works, Cartoonists, Cartoonists and animators, Comic books, strips, etc., Comic books, Animators

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Quality networking initiatives in Europe: classification and conditions for success. The future of the networked company
• Abstracts: Acquisition risk assessment and valuation. Paying attention to real options. Forecasting creditworthiness: logistic vs. artificial neural net
• Abstracts: Initial attribution and information-seeking by superiors and subordinates in production variance investigations
• Abstracts: An emerging distributed work arrangement: an investigation of computer-basedsupplemental work at home
• Abstracts: An analysis of stability in a Keynesian economy with Ricardian consumers. The monetary aggregates and the velocity of money

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.