Critiques the literature on learning organizations, arguing that it does not indicate how organizational learning relates to business performance or strategic realignment. Asserts that the key characteristic of the learning organization is creation and use of personal and corporate competencies. (SK)

Discussion of managers' information needs focuses on a study that examined information gathering behaviors of line-managers and compared their information behaviors to non-managers within the same environment. Suggests that managers tend to seek and accumulate information for which they have no explicit or known need. (Author/LRW)

Over one year, 43 employees participating in a formal mentoring program were compared with 30 who never had mentors. Formal mentoring correlated with significantly greater job satisfaction and a small, not significant effect on organizational commitment. The two groups did not differ in terms of work-role stress or self-esteem. (SK)

For women, success in shattering the glass ceiling lies not in adapting to a male workplace culture but in using career strategies such as self-knowledge, multiple mentors, integration of body and soul, and fluid, customized careers. (SK)

The concepts underlying learning organizations are valuable. But to succeed in a highly competitive global marketplace, companies need to change quickly; employees must be able to assimilate new knowledge and skills. Companies must become teaching organizations. (Author/JOW)

States that advanced planning and thorough documentation is required to prepare winning proposals. Shares suggestions for preparing better proposal documentation from the foundation, to the Capture Plan, to the final proposal product--all with a goal of increasing the number of contract wins. (PA)

Analysis of 18 worker education programs in several countries found that constraints of neoliberal globalization (funding, university-union relations, lack of grassroots outreach) outweigh enablers (commitment, technology, political changes, increased consciousness). Although constraints hamper union challenges to transnational corporations, the…

Women, about 2% of a sample of top executives, earned about 45% less than men. Three-fourths of the gap may be explained by women managing smaller companies and being less likely to be chair/president. Gender segregation or unequal promotion may play a role. Between 1992-1997, women nearly tripled their representation among top executives, mostly…

The New York state attorney general's office is close to announcing a settlement with the 525,000-member New York State United Teachers over a relationship between the union and ING Group, a large financial-services company based in the Netherlands. In that arrangement, the union's Member Benefits division--a separate trust that provides…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse knowledge transfers in transnational corporations. Design/methodology/approach: The paper develops a conceptual framework for the analysis of knowledge flow transfers in transnationals. Based on this theoretical framework, the paper propose's research hypotheses and builds a causal model that links…

For universities in industrialized nations such as the United States, globalization poses relatively little threat and offers many benefits. This article identifies and describes one trend emerging from globalization--how American colleges and universities are leveraging their curricula internationally through joint ventures between universities…

A university that consists of several thousand students and personnel is a major organization. But it is rather difficult to determine its place in the typology of the organizations that are studied by sociology. Until recently, sociology in Russia did not pay due attention to the study of the organizational aspects of systems of education. In…

Over the years, the author has discovered that learning how to write mini-grants helped him transition to writing successful major grants. In applying for a mini-grant, the author thinks of any grant going under $5,000. The important thing to understand is that many, many corporations and foundations have mini-grant programs. Accessing the…

While both the author and Norman Finkelstein were reviled by American Zionists for their opinions regarding Israel's policies in the occupied Palestinian territories when they came up for tenure, the author ultimately gained tenure at an Israeli university, while Finkelstein was denied tenure at an American one. Drawing on this experience, the…

Purpose: This paper attempts to examine the issue concerning human resource (HR) structures and the transfer of HR knowledge to discover whether and how HR structure facilitates the transfer of HR knowledge between subsidiaries of an MNC in China. Design/methodology/approach: The investigation, being of an exploratory nature, follows the tradition…