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• - Using the balanced scorecard to combine viewpoints of company success.
  
• - Authors explain why companies that have tried total quality management (TQM) have often not received the expected return on investment. In depth survey results are included.
  
• - Article by Warren Bennis discusses how companies lack leadership, and four strategies to improve corporate leadership.
  
• - Provides a framework that can be used to assess an organization's ability to determine whether an organization has the capabilities to implement upcoming changes.
  
• - Management articles for professionals, researchers, and academics.
  
• - Examines how adopting popular management techniques affects companies. Concludes companies using TQM, teams, and empowerment did not necessarily receive economic benefit.
  
• - The manager's true authoritative role in the workplace: benevolence, subservience, security. By Michael Gaspard.
  
• - Business Week profile on famous management guru Jack Welch explains how he managed General Electric and gained guru status.
  
• - Training workers is not always so simple as a classroom lecture and test. We humans aren't practically equipped to consistently absorb and apply information in such an ideal manner.
  
• - Describes the Coaching strategy for dealing with performance problems. Included are guidelines for diagnosing problems, how to conduct a coaching session, a practice exercise, additional resources and training programs.
  
• - Winston Oberg identifies the flaws of nine performance appraisal methods, and suggests choice of method depends on desired outcomes.
  
• - Thomas Packard outlines key aspects of implementation of large­scale organizational change which may enable a practitioner to more thoughtfully and successfully implement TQM.
  
• - Rosabeth Moss Kanter explains why organizational change is inevitable and the essential qualities of people who succeed as leaders during change.
  
• - Guide explains the balanced scorecard methodology with special reference to application in government. Contains seven chapters of detailed information.
  
• - Learn about a performance manager's responsibilities, including assessment, referral and guidance. From the UCSD Human Resources department.
  
• - Author Allenna Leonard indicates that individual and organizational knowledge is difficult to value and therefore difficult to manage, and suggests a method to map management capacities.
  
• - Academic article showing how cost-savings meant certain death.
  
• - Articles on management and all aspects of work life including communication, conflict and performance appraisal.