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Peer reviewedMadzar, Svjetlana; Morrison, Elizabeth Wolfe – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1995
Madzar reviews literature on feedback seeking in organizations, examining motivation, contextual influences, barriers, and particular feedback-seeking behavior of newcomers and groups. Morrison comments on some misrepresentations and confusions in the literature review. (SK)
Descriptors: Feedback, Industrial Psychology, Job Performance, Management Development
Peer reviewedBrooks, Ann K.; And Others – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1992
Interviews with managers caught between traditional organizational culture and a shift to "learning organizations" show that individual development is important to organizational change; efforts to change managers to fit a culture defined by top management may not succeed if the vision is not shared; and spiritual and moral dimensions of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Developmental Psychology, Feedback, Individual Development
Verheyen, Leland G. – Training and Development Journal, 1979
Describes how data from an employee attitude survey were used by the city of Phoenix, Arizona, as part of its city organizational development effort, to generate over 400 organizational changes and to increase personnel development of over 200 management employees. Includes a summary of survey results identifying training needs. (MF)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Needs, Employee Attitudes, Feedback
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This packet contains three papers from a symposium on feedback systems held at a conference on human resource development (HRD). The first paper, "The Role of Feedback in Management Development Training" (K. Peter Kuchinke), reports on a survey-based study that investigated the role of feedback in nine management development training…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Administration, Educational Needs, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedMcGivern, Chris; Broomhall, Mike – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1978
Describes a change program developed for a small manufacturing firm to enable management to cope with organizational change and development. Intervention methods included data collection, anonymous questionnaires, a confrontation meeting, and introduction of change technologies using the organizational analysis approach. Benefits and problems…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Coping
London, Manuel; Wueste, Richard A. – 1992
This book is intended to help managers and human resource professionals understand organizational change and manage its effects on their own development and that of their subordinates. The following topics are covered in 11 chapters: organizational change, employee motivation, new managerial roles, human performance systems, upward and peer…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Career Development, Change Strategies, Feedback
2001
This document contains three papers on managerial performance issues. "Managerial Skill Requirements: Evidence from the Scottish Visitor Attraction Industry" (Sandra Watson, Martin McCracken) presents the findings from an exploratory study of those skills that managers in the Scottish visitor attraction sector considered most important…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education
