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Needs and outcomes in an executive development program: a matter of perspective

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This article examines the processes and outcomes of an executive development program. The authors, evaluating 104 executives in a field setting, maintain personal attributes, such as motivation and self-efficacy, contributed to success, and situational factors, such as interpersonal support, also contributed to success.

Author: Bernthal, Paul; Cook, Kevin; Smith, Audrey
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 2001
United States, Personnel administration, Training, Executives

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Specific factors underlying reemployment self-efficacy: comparing control belief and motivational reason methods for the recently unemployed

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The two methods for assessing the specific factors underlying people's reemployment self-efficacy (RSE), are compared. The first method uses control belief measures to make reemployment more easy or difficult, while the second method uses motivational reason measures to explain their overall reemployment self-efficacy.

Author: Westaby, James D., Braithwaite, Kenneth N.
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 2003
Unemployed workers

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The use of questions in organizational consulting

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Organizational consultants use questions based on comprehensive classification scheme to analyze the actual questions that consultants are observed to ask, and then, they are compared with other conceptual schemes. The findings are recommended, to increase the understanding and practice of consulting.

Author: Dillon, J.T.
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 2003
Management dynamics, Management, Practice, Company business management, Consultants, Consultants (Persons)

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Subjects list: Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Research, Influence, Organizational behavior, Motivation (Psychology), Organizational behaviour
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