This website uses technical, customisation and analytical cookies, both first-party and third-party, to anonymously facilitate browsing and analyse statistics on use of the website. Learn more
Default Category
-
Leadership in Work Teams (French Version)
Cardona Soriano, Pablo; Miller, PaddyTechnical Note FHN-325-FRLeadership and People ManagementThis technical note offers a guide that may help the process of learning the secrets of winning teams. First, it defines what a team is, distinguishing it from other types of working groups. Second, it shows what characteristics the team members need to have to form a winning team. Then it goes through the stages of team development and reviews the basic processes teams need to master in each stage. Finally, it explains how to build team commitme...Starting at €8.20
-
Conflict Management (French Version)
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-53-FRLeadership and People ManagementThis technical note is intended to help develop the competence of conflict management. We all know from experience that conflict is a fact of life. And it is not always a bad thing. On the contrary, it can be very positive and stimulating, provided it is kept within certain limits. There are two dimensions to any conflict: rational and emotional. Problems arise when emotional harmony is disrupted. Conflict is a dynamic phenomenon and goes through...Starting at €8.20
-
Using Hypothesis-Driven Thinking in Strategy Consulting (French version)
Liedtka, Jeanne M.Technical Note DARDEN-BP-0565-FRCorporate GovernanceThis is a French translation of the March 20, 2006 version of UVA-BP-0486. This technical note describes the process of hypothesis-driven thinking, using examples from strategy consulting, medicine, and architecture. Associated with the scientific method, hypothesis-driven thinking focuses on the creative generation of alternative hypotheses and on their subsequent validation or refutation through the use of data. Hypothesis generation asks the c...Starting at €8.20
-
Introduction to Personnel Management: Rules of thumb (French Version)
Stein, Guido; Cervantes, Ángel; Cuadrado, MartaTechnical Note DPON-121-FRInnovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThis technical note aims to acquaint readers with the main personnel management policies found in enterprises. It is intended not to be exhaustive but to serve as a reference for managers in charge of their own teams, regardless of their position or department. It was not written specifically for human resources experts, although they too may find this direct academic approach - reinforced by daily practice - rather useful. The line between arbi...Starting at €8.20
-
The Matrix Organization: Basic Aspects, Problems, Competencies, and Tools (French Version)
Lavezzolo, Sebastián E.; Rodríguez-Lluesma, CarlosTechnical Note DPON-122-FRLeadership and People Management, StrategyThe matrix structure is envisioned as a way to overcome the limitations of functional and divisional organizational models, making the best use of each of them while also avoiding their main flaws. We identify a matrix organization fundamentally by recognizing two or more dimensions, implementing a dual reporting system with responsibilities assigned to functional and production departments, pertaining to customers or markets, where matrix manag...Starting at €8.20
-
Multilateral Financing (French Version)
Soley, Jorge; Sánchez de León, CarlosTechnical Note FN-621-FRBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, FinanceMultinational financing can be defined as financing from regional development banks whose goal is to achieve economic, social, and institutional improvements in emerging countries. This note focuses on the activities of the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the International Finance Corporation. It stresses that SMEs can also receive this kind of loan - contrary to the widespread belief...Starting at €8.20
-
The Roots of Leadership (French Version)
Stein, GuidoTechnical Note DPON-109-FRInnovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn this note we approach leadership, first, from the point of view of the myths that obscure the reality. We then look at the characteristics of people who have followers, given that leadership becomes a solitary exercise if it has no impact on other people. Second, we illustrate those characteristics through the story of the Persian king Cyrus, as depicted by Xenophon in his Cyropedia, a work which the world's foremost management scholar, Peter ...Starting at €8.20
-
Challenges for New Managers (French Version)
Stein, GuidoTechnical Note DPON-60-FRLeadership and People ManagementBecoming a manager usually means achieving a professional and social position that brings with it certain rights and privileges other jobs cannot offer. The position gives money and rank, but more importantly it also entails obligations and responsibilities. It is important to understand that these obligations and responsibilities are the essential part of management, while money and rank are just the derived benefits. As in other professional ma...Starting at €8.20