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ADVANCED
MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
VOLUME 61
NUMBER 3 SUMMER 1996
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Building Effective Learning Teams: Lessons from the
Field
Successful companies in the 21st century are likely to
feature structures that are more horizontal than vertical and will be organized around
processes rather than tasks. This implies a greater use of' learning teams to
accomplish goals - teams that learn together, share ideas and skills, and progress upwards
in capability and productivity. With Digital Equipment as an example, four critical
success factors in team creation are identified and discussed.
Charlene D'Andrea-O'Brien and Anthony F. Buono
Current Trends in Performance Appraisal: An Examination of
Managerial Practice
Due perhaps to an increase in litigation, employee appraisal
techniques seem to shift away from collaborative approaches toward move traditional
quantitative techniques between the 1970s and 1980s. A survey by the authors found a mix
techniques in use today, determined by the company's culture and the use it makes of the
results. When choosing an approach, managers should keep in mind that appraisals
have real effects on employee morale and productivity.
Brien N. Smith, Jeffrey S. Hornsby, and
Roslyn Shirmeyer
Hong Kong at the Crossroads: Will Reversion to China Spell
the End of Entrepreneurship?
On July 1, 1997, one of the greatest success stories of
modern capitalism, Hong Kong, will come under the direct control of China's authoritarian
regime. Despite the "one country, two systems" promise, entrepreneurship as
practiced in the past is unlikely to endure, since virtually all of its underpinnings will
cease to exist. Businesses may still enjoy success, but only by accommodating a
radically different operating style and ethic.
Yim Yu Wong
Distributive and Procedural Justice as Related to
Satisfaction and Commitment
The connection between organizational effectiveness and
organization justice is widely recognized; less well understood are the roles of
distributive justice (concerned with ends) and procedural justice (concerned with
means). A survey showed that the former is linked with satisfaction with pay,
promotion, performance appraisal, and job commitment, while the latter affected
satisfaction with supervision, job involvement, and also performance appraisal and job
commitment.
Thomas Li-Ping Tang and Linda J. Sarsrield-Baldwin
Innovative Work Environments: The Role of Information
Technology and Systems
Companies trying to establish total quality management may
need to go back a step and assess their overall work environment to make sure it fosters
creativity - a prerequisite for TQM. Information technology can help establish an
innovative environment by facilitating the sharing of data, experience, problem-solving,
and by building computer-based decision support. Employees should be given
considerable freedom to explore various uses of information systems to achieve creature
solutions.
Omar E. M. Khalil
Viewpoint
Reengineering: Clarifying the Confusion
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F.B. "Fess" Green and Victor B. Wayhan
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