Search results for "IPA"

High-involvement management practices and the productivity of firms: Detecting industry heterogeneity

2020

The aim of this article is to clarify the links between high-involvement management (HIM) practices, productivity and branches of industry. The data combine a representative survey (N = 787) of private-sector firms in Finland and register-based firm-level data on sales per employee in the year following the survey. The authors analysed the data using mixture regression and identified two clusters in the association between HIM and productivity. In one cluster, high-involvement management and productivity were positively associated, while in the other cluster, the association was negative. The association between the intensity of HIM utilisation and productivity is not always additive; the b…

Impact of organisational practices and language on an international business cooperation : the case of a German-Slovakian corporation

2015

In the course of the EU integration process, Slovakia became a target of choice for German investors. The percentage of German foreign direct investment has increased sharply since 1995. A growing number of German small to medium sized enterprises discover Slovakia as profitable location for outsourcing and offshoring. However, little is known about German-Slovakian corporations and expatriate management in Slovakia. The aim of the study is to get an understanding of the impact of organisational culture and language on one specific case of a German-Slovakian business cooperation. During the study, the research question is divided into three sub-questions: How is the organisational culture c…

Kuntien johtoryhmien kertomuksia työuupumuksesta

2021

Burnout Narratives of Municipal Management Teams.This study aims to gain an understanding of personal experiences of burnout phenomenon among members of municipal management teams. Fourteen managers were interviewed. Four types of burnout narratives were iden-tified: denier, persevering, recovered and de-fender. These data were analysed using Labov & Walezky’s model of the structural types of narra-tive clauses. The analysis reveals similarities and differences of burnout experiences within each of the identified narrative types. Particularly, the study explores the role of workplace community in burnout recovery.

Pedagoginen synkronointi : vaikeus johtamispäätöksissä yläkoulunrehtorien kokemana

2014

Kuntaorganisaation viranhaltijoiden ja poliitikkojen valmistelutyö fantasiointina

2017

Both the management and decisionmaking in municipal organizations may be characterized as tensional. Previous scholarly work has tried to identify (cf. Haveri, 2010; Luomala, 2003) and solve (Pynnönen, 2015) some of the sources of tensions. In this empirical study we focus on the orientations of political decision-makers and office-holders towards preparation in municipal decision-making in a relatively large municipal organization. According to our findings, both politicians and office-holders resort to the principles of new public management (NPM) including management accounting ratiocentered functional planning, but also to more subjective, value and attitude-based metaphorical symbolic …

Palvelusetelitoimintojen johtaminen : case: Mikkelin kaupunki

2016

Kuntien sote-menot ovat yli puolet kuntien käyttökustannuksista ja siksi sote-palveluiden tuottamiseen etsitään uusia kustannustehokkaampia tapoja. Kes-keiseksi hallituksen teemaksi on noussut asiakkaan valinnanvapaus terveys- ja sosiaalipalveluja valittaessa. Palveluseteli on yksi tapa toteuttaa asiakkaan va-linnanvapautta sote-palveluissa. Palveluseteli on ollut käytössä Mikkelissä vuodesta 2009, mutta sen käyttö ei ole kasvanut toivotulla vauhdilla, vaikka eri osapuolet suhtautuvatkin myönteisesti siihen. Palvelusetelin kasvun esteitä tarkastellaan kuntajohtamisen viitekehyksessä, pohtien johtamisen vaikutusta palvelujen tarjoamiseen asiakkaille ja palve-lusetelin positiota muiden palvel…

Johdon laskentatoimen hyväksikäyttö ja kehittämistarpeet erilaisissa kunnallisissa toimintayksiköissä

2001

Tiedolla toimiminen johtamisen tukena

2023

An exploration of team flow in an Israeli youth basketball competitive team

2009

Les priorités politiques dans la pratique de la justice municipale, l'exemple de Dijon et de Lyon, à la fin du Moyen Age

2007

Cette contribution analyse les conditions dans lesquelles les gouvernements municipaux sont appelés à exercer le pouvoir de juger, les libertés et les entraves qu'ils éprouvent, afin de comprendre en quoi de telles données politiques et institutionnelles modifient ou orientent leur pratique de la justice. L'exemple de deux villes comme Dijon et Lyon, à la fin du Moyen Age, présente l'avantage de comparer deux systèmes municipaux fort différents et de lier dans l'étude deux cités qui appartinrent à des clans ennemis pendant le XVe siècle, lors du conflit des Armagnacs et des Bourguignons puis de l'opposition de la Bourgogne à la France (Ligue du Bien Public, guerre de Louis XI contre Charles…