The Key Role of Human Resource Practices for the Promotion of Creativity and Innovation: A Spanish Case Study
Management literature suggests that employee creativity can contribute substantially to organisational innovation, effectiveness and survival. In addition, the ability to innovate has also emerged as a basic strategic option. Innovation models express the need to implement specific human resource practices (HRP) for the development of skills, knowledge and innovation-oriented behaviours. Human resource practices can be extremely important when organisations intend to foster creativity and innovation which are key factors in competing effectively. With this aim in mind, we suggest that the existence of certain HRP such as training, performance appraisal and reward systems have a positive eff…
Changing the strategy formation process in a service cooperative
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to concern the strategic changes a firm needs to incorporate in order to deliver a complex service such as providing assistance to the socially disadvantaged. The paper seeks to analyze the development of such a process considering the ability of managers to exploit resources and foster new opportunities for the firm.Design/methodology/approachThe qualitative methodology applied is that of a case study. The organization analyzed was a service cooperative. A semi‐structured questionnaire was used to gather the information along with documents and additional information thereafter, thus facilitating the triangulation process.FindingsNon‐profit service organ…
LAS DISTINTAS PERSPECTIVAS DE TOMA DE DECISIONES EN EL PROCESO DE FORMACIÓN DE LA ESTRATEGIA Y EL MIDDLE MANAGEMENT ROLE
<p>Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar los temas relacionados con las distintas perspectivas de toma de decisiones en la organización: top-down, bottom-up y middle-up-down y el papel del directivo medio en ese proceso. Para ello se busca delimitar los conceptos derivados de estudios empíricos e teóricos seminales, cruzando diferentes líneas de pensamiento, pretendiendo formar un marco teórico conceptual en torno a la perspectiva integradora en el proceso de formación de la estrategia. En cuanto a la forma de desarrollo del estudio, este se caracteriza como un ensayo teórico, al revisar estos conceptos y teorías de manera que del análisis se pueda obtener una propuesta de aplicac…
Como gerentes de nível médio contribuem para o processo de formação de estratégia: conexão entre processos estratégicos e práticas estratégicas
The role of middle management is essential when managing integrative and emergent strategy formation processes. We stand out the importance of its role connecting micro and macro organizational level offering a very important contribution when examining the strategy-as-practice perspective and integrative strategy formation process. The main goal of this research is to analyse the relationship between the integrative strategy formation process and the roles of middle management under the strategy-as-practice perspective. To check it out we adopted a qualitative methodology droving a case analysis in a Spanish University. Data was collected by means of personal interviews with members of dif…
The strategy formation process in the EFQM Excellence Model: a critical review and new perspectives
The adoption of an integrative strategy formation process becomes a way of developing a strategic capability that contributes to generating positive results and sustainable competitive advantages. In today's environments, many companies are also using the EFQM Excellence Model (EEM) to try to develop such a strategic capability. This paper presents an exhaustive review of the literature on the strategic process debate and on the strategic capability of the EEM. As a result, we offer to practitioners a conceptual framework which shows the EEM as a useful driver to facilitate the development of an integrative strategy formation process, and we propose a set of dimensions and variables (the le…
High-commitment work practices and the social responsibility issue: interaction and benefits
Human Resource Management (HRM) has a potentially vital role to play in addressing the new challenges that companies have to face and in delivering initiatives in the framework of corporate sustainability. Our work attempts to shed light on the strategic role of High-Commitment Work Practices (HCWP) as a Corporate Sustainability (CS) partner and, more specifically, to analyze the implications of their integration on the competitiveness of the firm. With this purpose, we apply a qualitative methodology, using a single case study, to explore and explain why and how the interaction between HCWP and CS takes place. The results show how this interaction encourages the formulation and implementat…
Integrative strategy formation process and the management of complex work - a microorganizational analisys
The goal of this study is to analyse how the strategy formation process takes place; studying the relevance of the integrative perspective and the use of the variables rationality, involvement and vision; Verifying the relationship between an integrative strategy formation process and the management of work and the consequences of this relationship in terms of performance, identifying the causes for a better fit; Also, verify the propositions that have been formulated and looking for new variables that could affect the relationship between strategic process and work management. It has been adopted a qualitative methodology through a study case. After the case analysis it has been identified…
TQM and Teamwork Effectiveness: The Intermediate Role of Organizational Design
A quantitative study conducted in an engineering firm developing advanced total quality management practices examines how design variables help improve team effectiveness. Results show that this management philosophy has created a set of values that ha..