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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

The hotels are in the process of recruiting apprentices to join these programmes and all the vacancies are currently advertised on the UCAS website. Kind regards, Ian Like this article? You’ll find more fresh content on CMI Insights this week to help you drive delivery: Is your team engaging in “productivity theatre”? Interested?

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14 Leadership Studies – Quick Overview of Leadership

CO2

This theory was a hot topic in the mid-1970s and takes its roots in the larger social exchange theory, a social psychological perspective that explains social change and stability as a process of negotiated exchanges between parties. According to Burns’ book, transformational leadership exists in opposition to transactional leadership.

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. The next morning, he called McGregor's office and asked for a meeting with him.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business Review

A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. “Start with assuming positive intent,” says McGregor. What the Experts Say.

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The “String” Theory of Systems Management in Schools

Deming Institute

Coupling this attitude with the ability to establish, operationalize, and monitor effective work systems, processes and procedures will yield the greatest results and gains toward achieving the organization’s aim. This article was previously published in the ACSD Iowa newsletter. The Sitar Management Matrix. Contact Us today.

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Could Target Have Prevented Its Security Breach?

Harvard Business Review

In attempting to trace credit-card hackers and brokers throughout the world, the article''s authors hint that this particular breach and others like it are likely far from over. In response, Target acknowledged that its computer system had been alerted to suspicious activity.

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Building a Sustainable Organization Using Deming’s Ideas on Management

Deming Institute

The linked to article that aims to provides an overview of the essence of Deming’s approach to management and its continuing relevance to managers: The Model of Sustainable Organisation by Alan Clark. Deming is often misrepresented as promoting only continual improvement of products and processes.

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