Occupational A Practical Guide For Managers 16 pptx

... when and how the organization will respond. 3.3 Aspiration levels and adaptation Is it helpful or harmful for organizations that managers use performance feedback and aspiration levels to manage ... Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback as well as other variables such as satisfaction, so it clearly is an alter- native way of making employees pursue given goals (Ashford and Sak...

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... Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback aspiration levels. There is already some evidence that a combination of performance feedback and managerial cognition theory can give aspi- ration ... performance can make performance feedback dysfunctional. This advice goes against the in- stincts of managers who want frequent performance feedback, and it is also against rational notions...

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... 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 change ... well-trained managers 70 Occupational health behavioural problem which can be controlled by the individual. It is not always easy for the manager to make a decision as to which of thes...

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... 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 ... which are altered substantially or relocated. A workstation already in use on 1 January 162 Occupational health to the chemical dibromochloropropane. It has been suggested that there is a...

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... medical examination is generally a waste of time, many organisations want it and are prepared to pay for it. External providers may find it difficult to move an organisation towards a more proactive ... 6 and disabled 146–9 European 169 –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 Provis...

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... be- haviors are regulated by comparisons of performance and an aspiration level presumes that some agreement exists on the organizational goal and variables for measuring progress along that goal. ... uncertainty of means-ends relations Foundations 19 activities. Such goals are easier to form coalitions around than maximiza- tion goals. Second, the bargainers are unable to calculate the opt...

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... party. Mass media generate and publish rankings on many forms of organizational performance, since magazine and newspapers readers have an interest in rankings in general, and in particular rank- ings ... Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback available information. The information may be biased, such as when in- formation is more readily available for high-performing organizatio...

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... 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- ganizational decisions, but managers ... showed a somewhat higher propensity to risk than non -managers have, the results suggest that managers acting as man- agers take more risks than manager s acting as individuals...

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... 175 make claims on what kind of goal managers will have. Still, it derives much of its relevance for management practice from the fact that man- agers have been paying attention to performance measures ... inves- tigation once they are satisfied with the basic findings, and performance feedback research could potentially end up as a sprawling affair that seeks to inform a wide range of...

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... References Latham, Gary P. and Lise M. Saari. 1979. “The effect of holding goal difficulty constant on assigned and participatively set goals.” Academy of Management Journal, 22: 163 168 . Ledford, Gerald ... of Innovation. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School. Levinthal, Daniel A. and James G. March. 1981. A model of adaptive organiza- tional search.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organi...

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