Research Area -- Management/OB Resources

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR INTERNET RESOURCES  
 
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• Above and Beyond
  http://www.aboveandbeyondintl.com/

  Above and Beyond is a group of organizational development specialists. Their site will give you a good idea of the kind of work and approach to work that OD specialists take. A look at their Organizational Profile link shows that they focus on such areas as improving communication, leadership, a better understanding of one’s personal style, trust and team building. Their unique approach is to combine traditional indoor workshops on these topics with what they call OET, or Outdoor Experiential Training. This includes rock climbing, kayaking, and wilderness expeditions. The "Team Development" link has some photos of these programs in action, as does their "Leadership Programs" link, but an excellent, detailed description of what these programs are like (along with more photos) can be found by clicking on the "Organizational Profile" link and scrolling to the bottom and clicking on "magazine articles". Here you’ll find two articles that appeared in Teamwork and Incentive magazine. Both describe participants’ experiences in a workshop by Above and Beyond.

• A&E Television   
• Academy of Management Online   
• ACIRRT - The Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training   
• AFL-CIO   
• Alliance Management International, Ltd.   
• American City Business Journals   
• APICS Online: The Educational Society for Resource Management   
• ASQ: American Society for Quality   
• ASTD-The American Society for Training and Development   
• Asia Pacific Business Forum   
• Asiaweek Online   
• ASSE American Society of Saftey Engineers   
• Australia World Direct - Australian Trade Commission   
• Australian Newspapers on the Internet   

     B

• Barriers to the Implementation of Strategic Information Systems Plans   
• Basic Budgets for Profit Planning   
• Benefits Link   
• Better Business Bureau   
• BizSquare   
• BPR Online Learning Center   
• Building a Visionary Organization is a Do-It-Yourself Project   

• Business Process Reengineering
  http://www.brint.com/BPR.htm

  Business Process Reengineering (BPR) has been equally glorified and vilified by managers and management writers. This page, from the very useful BRINT site, gives you guidance in delving into the necessary detail. After a general overview, it helps you to make up your mind about the effectiveness of BPR by presenting various views. For example, the need to conciliate the necessary drive towards efficiency with the need to think in terms of whole system. The page also refers to the related issue of Strategic Capability Architecture.

• Business Process Redesign; an Overview   
• Business Survey: Women make better bosses   
• Business Week   
• Business Women's Network   

     C

• Can I Quote You?   
• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety   
• CareerWeb   
• Center for Creative Leadership   
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention   
• Center for the Study of Work Teams   
• Competitive Intelligence Guide   
• Connecting Performance with Culture: A case example of change within Procurement at British Aerospace Airbus   
• Corporate Governance   
• Creativity Home Page   
• Customer Satisfaction Process   

     D

• Decision Analysis Society   
• The Dilbert Zone   
• Douglass: Archives of American Public Address   

     E

• Emotional Intelligence   
• Employee Ownership   

• The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission
  http://www.eeoc.gov/index.html

  The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission maintains a website which has a great deal of information about civil rights laws and regulations. If you click on "Facts about Employment Discrimination" you’ll be brought to a page with links which explain the commission’s stand on a variety of discrimination issues such as race/color, age, religious and sexual discrimination. You’ll also find the complete Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

• ErgoWeb   
• Executive PayWatch   
• Expatriate Exchange Home Page   
• Expectancy Theory   
• Exploratorium Exhibits   

     F

• F.E.D.net   
• Family and Medical Leave Act   
• FastCompany   
• FEDSTATS   
• Financial Data Finder   
• Forbes   
• Fortune Magazine   

• FreeEDGAR
  http://www.freedgar.com

  This web site provides up-to-date Excel spreadsheets of financial data for the twenty-eight public companies that are included as cases in this 7/e. (For a listing of the companies, see the TOC page 'ix' in your text). Go to this site and review it so to understand how it works. Once you understand "FreeEDGAR", click on 'Search Filings' to find the financial resources for the company of your choice.

     G

• Game Theory: The Developer’s Dilemma, Boeing vs. Airbus
  http://www.strategy-business.com/briefs/98212/

  This document examines the issues involved in developing a strategy when the options being considered may be the same as another major competitor’s. It argues that game theory can help managers to identify the course of action that minimises risk. This page attempts to explain what game theory is and how it works by looking at the decision making process for the development of the Superjumbo by Boeing vis-à-vis Airbus’ competition, and how risk can be assessed as a result.

• Gay Workplace Issues   
• Giving an Effective Speech - Workbook   
• Glossary of Financial Terms   
• Government Executive   

     H

• Hoovers On-Line   
• Human Resource Management Basics   
• Human Resource News   

     I

• Inc. Online   
• Industrial Workers of the World   
• Institute for Business and Professional Ethics   
• Institute for Organization and Human Resource Management   

• The Institute of Work Psychology
  http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/I-M/iwp/1.html

  The Institute of Work Psychology is based in the UK and it is a site established by researchers who are dedicated to, "...examining how work can be organized to promote performance and innovation by individuals, teams and organizations." Two examples of their research can be found by clicking on their "Publications/Reports" link. Two articles there (Innovation in UK Manufacturing and The Performance of Information Technology and the Role of Human and Organizational Factors) are nicely organized with hypertext links to each section of the article. Surveys and interviews were used to examine these two topics. This new and growing organization is sure to offer an increasing number of research reports. Clicking on "Current Research" and then the down arrow at the top of the page leads to several areas of interest, with article summaries and complete references to the articles.

• The International Association for Human Resource Information Management   
• International Business Kiosk   
• International Business Resources on the WWW   

     J

• Job Analysis   
• JobNET   

     K

• Knowledge Management
  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roberttaylor/km.htm

  "… the knowledge that supports an organisation’s processes and decision-making capability is an absolutely vital resource, but it is a resource that usually suffers from under management. This is a major cause of sub-optimal performance and is a source of risk." This document identifies some of the major problems associated with knowledge management, and gives an overview of a new approach to managing it. Knowledge management as a competence is useful in most phases of strategic management, but is crucial to successful strategic control.

   L

• LaborNet@IGC   
• Leadership Strategies   
• The Learning Organization: the Concept and the Reality   
• The Let's Talk Business Network   
• Luddites Online   

     M

• Management Tips   
• Managing Your Boss   

• Manufacturing Study
  http://www.dtcg.com

  When carrying out environmental analysis, managers must be sensitive to likely changes in the economy. Manufacturing has a major importance in most advanced economies. This page, from the web site of Deloitte & Touche and Deloitte Consulting is a major investigation carried out in collaboration Aleda V. Roth at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler, into the present state of manufacturing. The study is the first to define this new era and offers one of the most comprehensive insights into the state of the manufacturing sector ever conducted. The site also contains other reports, ranging from Foreign Investment to the Health Care industry, many of them in an online version.

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs   
• Motivating Employees   
• M W Dale: Consultant in Organisation and Change   

     N

• National Alliance of Business     
• The National Center for Employee Ownership   
• The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)   
• National Institute of Health   
• National Safety Council   

• Networks of Learning Communities
  http://www.mcb.co.uk/topman/visitors/articles/tlo24.htm

  "How to Administrate the Networked Organization: Tips from the Theory and Practice of Management", by Bill Richardson.
  This article focuses on a topic of growing interest for leaders of modern organizations - the networked, learning organization. The need for innovation and responsiveness to innovation in the marketplace put increasing pressure on organisations to be more effective and efficient. The author explores the issues of how to facilitate a learning community culture, and how to manage a network of learning communities. Effective case examples are provided, to illustrate the points.

• The Nixon Hargrave Devans & Doyle   
• Nonverbal Communication   

     O

• What is Organization Design?   
• Organizational Development Network   
• Organizational Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning   
• Organized Change   
• OSHA   
• Outsourcing Institute   

     P

• Perception and Attribution   
• Performance Appraisal   

• The Performance Management Homepage
  http://www.dutch.nl/bart/index.htm

  The Performance Management Homepage has a very well designed website that has taken a very lively way of explaining how behavior management systems work. If you click on "The ABC Model, Effective Leadership" you’ll find an in-depth explanation of how the principles of reinforcement affect behavior on the job. The ABC model (antecedents, behavior, and consequences) is also well explained. If you click on "Practical Stories" you’ll get just that – interesting and unique examples of how organizations use behavior management principles.

• Personality Tests   
• The Platinum Rule   
• Positive Reinforcement: A Self-Instructional Exercise   
• Privacy and American Business   
• Productivity Paradox   
• Programming the Apocalypse   

   Q

• Quality Digest Magazine   
• Quality Resources Online   

     R

• Rate Your Management Skills   
• Recently Asked Human Resource Questions...and Answers!   

     S

• Saving the Chief Executive   

• Scenario Planning
  http://www.gbn.org/scenPlan.html

  Scenario Planning is a technique used to try and make some sense of a very uncertain future, where the uncertainty derives from few factors; the impact of these factors on the organisation however is assumed to be very considerable. The technique is successfully used by a number of multinationals, including Shell. GBN, a firm of consultants specialised in the use of scenario planning, host this page . It guides you through finding out what scenario planning is, how it is done, and contains real examples from the firm’s own experience. This is an extremely valuable site.

• Sigma Iota Epsilon
  The Honorary and Professional Management Fraternity   
• Simulation Training Systems   
• Single Currency: how should firms prepare   
• Smart Business Supersite   
• The Society for Human Resource Management: SHRM Online   
• SRB: Students for Responsible Business   
• The Standard Deviation   

• Strategic Gains from Horizontal Integration and Diversification
  http://www.agsm.unsw.edu.au/~timdev/main.htm

  Chapter 9 of this very valuable work on strategic management emphasises the need for strategists to seek competitive advantage through horizontal linkages that integrate the work of various parts of the organisation. Case examples illustrate the concepts and idea presented. This material is also very relevant to the issues of corporate strategy , in particular parenting. Many other chapters of this book are available online: they are well worth a browse.

• Strategic Management Club Online
  http://www.strategyclub.com

  This web site, created and maintained by the text author Fred David, provides an Excel template for creating strategic planning matrices such as the IFE, EFE, CPM, TOWS, SPACE, GRAND, BCG, and QSPM. Also found on this site is a student version of the Windows based CheckMATE Strategic Planning Software, up-to-date support links and financial ratio graphs for all cases, as well as important "getting a job" and "going to graduate school" links. This is a subscription based web site and the cost to join SMCO is $29 per student, per semester.

• Survey Research   
• SyllabusWeb   

     T

• Time   

• Time and Innovation
  http://www.agsm.unsw.edu.au/~timdev/main.htm

  As competition increases in most business areas, achieving and maintaining an edge on other players is increasingly difficult: innovation can be a valid source of sustainable competitive advantage. The volume from which this chapter is taken is a very valuable work on strategic management. This chapter in particular is useful in understanding the importance and role of innovation to achieve competitive advantage. The connection the author makes to the time dimension is particularly helpful. Many other chapters of the book are also available on line, ad a browse through can be very rewarding.

• Training and Development   
• Training & Development Resource Center   

     U

• U.S. News Online   
• UAW   
• United States Department of Labor   
• Utility Restructuring   

     V

• VIBES: Virtual International Business and Economic Sources   
• Vision 2003   

     W

• Welcome to Strategic Management   
• Women and Career Issues   
• Workforce Online: The Web Site for Leaders in Human Resources   
• Work and Environment Initiative   
• The World Bank Group    
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Knowledge Management   

 

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