Occupational A Practical Guide For Managers 9 doc

... 176 Occupational health Radiation There is a continually expressed anxiety that display screens emit damaging ionising and non-ionising radiation. Exhaustive tests by the National Radiological ... risk As we have seen, in compliance with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 197 4 the employer is required to provide a safe place of work as far as is reasonably practicable. This was tak...

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... absence legislation, Access to Medical Records Act ( 198 8) 1 09 changes in 6 and disabled 146 9 European 1 69 70 health and safety 15–17, 28 9, 34 and HIV/AIDS 86–7 for manual handling of loads 192 –3 and occupational ... assessment 195 –6 individual capability 197 information and training 199 –200 legislation 192 –3 load 196 major activities: carrying loads 194 –5; handling whil...

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... Bayesian approach of updating an estimate of a stochastic variable as new information becomes available (Crawford 199 5), except that Bayesian updating requires adjusting A upward as more information is ... Porac and Thomas 199 0; Porac, Thomas, and Baden-Fuller 198 9; Porac et al. 199 5; Reger and Huff 199 3). For managers, making reference groups of similar organizations does not see...

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... Act ( 198 8) 1 09 changes in 6 and disabled 146 9 European 1 69 70 health and safety 15–17, 28 9, 34 and HIV/AIDS 86–7 for manual handling of loads 192 –3 and occupational health 205 Occupational Health Provision at ... absence. Unfortunately, this is not a role that occupational health has wanted to highlight as it may be perceived as a tool of management. In this, as in any...

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... 198 1 in male homosexuals in the USA. It presented as a wasting disease, associated with multiple infections, an unusual skin cancer known as Kaposis sarcoma and mental deterioration. Death was ... what they need and when. Feedback to managers can facilitate organisational change. Managing change No one denies that human beings prefer the status quo. Therefore, the introduction of any cha...

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... (Bandura and Jourden 199 1; Locke, Latham, and Erez 198 8; Martin and Manning 199 5; Vance and Colella 199 0). Thus, individuals who are adjusting a goal assigned by a manager use the same mecha- nisms ... Social comparison through networks can also influence concrete organizational behaviors such as allocation of resources and change of strategies (Galaskiewicz and Burt 199 1; Kraatz 199...

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... performance is below the aspiration level, they are less capable of taking organizationally risky actions. Many changes that are large financially are also large organiza- tionally, such as changing ... performance relative to the aspiration level affects organizational search, risk taking, and change. This broad impact makes performance a “master switch” that controls a range of organizat...

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... risk tolerance (McNamara and Bromiley 199 7, 199 9; McNamara, Moon, and Bromiley 2001). They found that decision makers were averse to risk as they perceived it (McNamara and Bromiley 199 9), which ... individual attitude measures that do not cap- ture how managers determine organizational risk levels. The image of the manager as a solitary decision maker may be accurate for some or- g...

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... the individual manager and the organization. Organizational risk is mainly a career risk for the manager proposing a change rather than a financial risk to the organization as a whole. For the organization, ... that uncertainty and bounded rationality make it hard for managers to choose an optimal strategy, agency theory assumes that managers are capable of choosing an optima...

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... programs, 197 9– 199 4.” Social Forces, 76(1): 2 29 2 49. Burgelman, Robert A. 199 1. “Intraorganizational ecology of strategy making and organizational adaptation: theory and field research.” Organization ... processes (Hannan and Freeman 198 4; Peli et al. 199 4). 178 Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback (Hannan and Freeman 198 4). These core parts are particularly central to...

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