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Wang, Jia – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore a successful case of a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) as it applied western organization development (OD) approaches. Specifically, this study seeks to answer two questions: How has western organization development and change (OD/C) been applied in one Chinese SOE? and What lessons can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Development, Organizational Change, Business Administration
Chaston, Ian – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of second tier UK universities in relation to the effectiveness of their knowledge management systems and involvement in open innovation. Data were acquired using a mail survey of academic staff in social science and business faculties in second tier institutions. The results indicate that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, Business Administration Education
Lien, Bella Ya-Hui; Hung, Richard Y.; McLean, Gary N. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2007
Organizational learning (OL) is about how individuals collect, absorb, and transform information into organizational memory and knowledge. This case study explored how six high-technology firms in Taiwan chose OL as an organization development intervention strategy. Issues included how best to implement OL; how individuals, teams, and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Management Systems, Intervention
Dealtry, Richard – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose: Experience shows that there are problems arising from the implementation of learning management systems (LMS). Indications are that they are too e-learning technology driven, emphasising the virtual component and neglecting the precursory development of a vibrant and committed formal learning organisation culture and infrastructure. This…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Management Systems, Intervention, Methods
Lee, DongHun; Kang, Sunwoo – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2005
This article introduces two studies showing the perceived usefulness reported by the participants of Intranet Based Learning (IBL) (N = 226) and the effectiveness of IBL measured by the outcomes of two instructional groups and the control group in a Korean private company (N = 132). It is suggested that additional aspects of IBL need to be…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Control Groups, Organizational Development, Web Based Instruction
Hall, William – 1992
This booklet is written for the general reader who wants to understand important trends in vocational education and training. The first part is a description of the subject matter in a manner intended to be clear to any interested layperson. It defines quality and then discusses these changes in organizations to respond to the demand for good…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Foreign Countries, Industry
Halachmi, Arie, Ed.; Bouckaert, Geert, Ed. – 1995
This book addresses in different ways the prospect of improving the performance of government and nonprofit organizations. The chapters are clustered around enduring management challenges that may influence productivity in the public sector. Fifteen chapters discuss the challenges to productivity posed by immediate and distant changes in the…
Descriptors: Agencies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Government (Administrative Body)

Miller, Richard I. – Higher Education in Europe, 1996
Discussion of various quality control strategies in American higher education looks at and compares Total Quality Management (TQM), outcomes assessment, Deming's 14 points, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the ISO 9000 series, restructuring, reengineering, and performance indicators. It is suggested that colleges and universities will…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
Kohn, Robert – 1983
This report discusses world-wide efforts to provide health services in centers that are outside institutions and provide ambulatory care in the patient's home. Emergency services, although a form of primary care, are dealt with only to the extent that they are part of an organization designed to provide general primary care, but not where they are…
Descriptors: Community Centers, Decision Making, Delivery Systems, Financial Support
Lehari, Elga; Stehr, Christoph; Lemmer, Ruth – BASIS-Info, 1999
These three articles come from the series "Course 2010--A Decade in View" published in the Handelsblatt (Duesseldorf and Frankfurt/Main), an influential German business newspaper. "The Labor Market: With Flexibility into the Service Society" (Elga Lehari) states that the key to more employment in future is a service society…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Projections, Foreign Countries
Kidger, Peter; Jackson-van Veen, Margot; Redfern, David – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2004
A key issue in international management is the extent to which management practices are converging in response to the pressures of globalisation, and the ready availability to managers in all parts of the world of the same concepts of what constitutes best practice in the different management disciplines. In some instances convergence may be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Media Adaptation
Further Education Development Agency, London (England). – 1995
This document, which is intended for individuals responsible for planning and management at further education (FE) colleges, summarizes the factors that contributed to or obstructed implementation of strategic plans in 10 FE colleges in England and Wales in 1994-95. It presents key questions and illustrations that FE colleges can use for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Check Lists, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Beck, Mark W. – Business Officer, 1994
The Japanese model of business management and Total Quality Management principles being applied to higher education as well as businesses are often ineffective because of the application of packaged ideas without consideration of the subtleties of individual organizations. The cowboy model of teamwork stresses the individual's role and better fits…
Descriptors: Business Administration, College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Cesnich, Janine – 1992
Integrated or flexible manufacturing is a management strategy that integrates training and the organization of people with the modernization of hardware. It would allow Australian manufacturing organizations to produce value-added goods for niche markets and be competitive. Manufacturing organizations that identify and change their production…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries