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Assessing Your Organization's Innovation Capabilities - - 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.

The Balanced Scorecard and Performance Improvement - - Using the balanced scorecard to combine viewpoints of company success.

Don't Let TQM (Total Quality Management) Drain You Dry - - 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.

The Enduring Skills of Change Leaders - - Rosabeth Moss Kanter explains why organizational change is inevitable and the essential qualities of people who succeed as leaders during change.

Exercising Authority in the Workplace - - The manager's true authoritative role in the workplace: benevolence, subservience, security. By Michael Gaspard.

How Jack Welch Runs GE - - Business Week profile on famous management guru Jack Welch explains how he managed General Electric and gained guru status.

How to Coach ‘Problem’ Employees - - 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.

Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge - - Article by Warren Bennis discusses how companies lack leadership, and four strategies to improve corporate leadership.

Make Performance Appraisal Relevant - - Winston Oberg identifies the flaws of nine performance appraisal methods, and suggests choice of method depends on desired outcomes.

ManagementFirst - - Management articles for professionals, researchers, and academics.

The Titanic Disaster: An Enduring Example of Money Management vs. Risk Management. - - Academic article showing how cost-savings meant certain death.

TQM And Organizational Change And Development - - Thomas Packard outlines key aspects of implementation of large­scale organizational change which may enable a practitioner to more thoughtfully and successfully implement TQM.

Training Workers In The Workplace - - 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.

A Viable System Model: Consideration of Knowledge Management - - 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.

What Bandwagons Bring: Effects of Popular Management Techniques on Corporate Performance, Reputation, and CEO Pay. - - Examines how adopting popular management techniques affects companies. Concludes companies using TQM, teams, and empowerment did not necessarily receive economic benefit.

Work911.com - - Articles on management and all aspects of work life including communication, conflict and performance appraisal.