Middle Managers, Strategic Sensemaking and Discursive Competence [PDF]
, 2011 This paper seeks to better understand the way middle managers contribute strategically to the development of an organization by examining how they enact the strategic roles allocated to them, with particular reference to strategic change.
Rouleau, Linda, Balogun, Julia
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The Emotions of Management and the Management of Emotions: A Case Study of Middle Managers in a Change Context [PDF]
, 2006 The over-rational portrayal of middle managers has the intended or unintended consequence of masking and marginalising the emotional dimension demanded in this role.
Moore, Caroline
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Middle managers’ role in organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviours [PDF]
, 2015 “Any motivated behavior, either preparatory or consummatory, must be understood to be a channel through which many basic needs may be simultaneously expressed or satisfied.
Landa, Clive H.
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Management perceptions of competencies essential for middle managers
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2004 The aim of the study was to establish whether managers at different levels of the organisational hierarchy perceive different managerial competencies as important for middle managers, and whether there were differences between the perceptions of males ...
Bongani Mbokazi +2 more
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Managerial Survival: Middle Manager Sense-Making during Organisational Change
International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning, 2022 Purpose: The lived experiences of middle managers within the messy realities of change offer valuable insight into how middle managers deal with disruptions. The purpose of this research was to explore the lived experiences of middle managers within the
Sherry Samson +2 more
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South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021 Background: This study was designed to explore teachers’ and middle managers’ experiences regarding their principals’ instructional leadership practices aimed at improving curriculum delivery in schools.
Grace Chabalala, Parvathy Naidoo
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Oral communication capabilities of managers: The case of Iranian middle managers
Cogent Social Sciences, 2016 Sharing of information through oral communication has increased in significance among different occupations specifically among managers. This has resulted in the need for an instrument to measure managers’ oral communication capabilities.
Fariba Khorvash, Akbar Afghari
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Middle managers in secondary schools: rhetoric and reality. [PDF]
This thesis is concerned with contrasting the rhetoric and the reality experienced by teacher middle managers. A significant number of teachers interviewed in the study see this rhetoric as being generated at and promulgated from the 'centre.
Robertson, R. D.
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Changing times : the role of the Curriculum middle managers within Colleges of Further Education [PDF]
, 2009 There has been a significant increase in interest of the role of academic middle leaders within education in recent years. However, little research exists on the specific role of curriculum middle managers within colleges of Further Education. This study
Chambers, Nigel Noel
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Absorbing Continuous Change: Middle Managers’ Lived Experience of Digital Transformation and AI in the Romanian Market [PDF]
Revista de Management Comparat InternationalDigital transformation, accelerated by the rapid use of artificial intelligence, made change a constant condition of organisational life. While research increasingly recognises middle managers as critical actors in transformation, limited attention has
Daniela-Aida IONESCU
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