Developing leaders and managing development
Management development and, in particular, developing leaders is a first priority in the management of international human resources today. Paul Evans identifies two current views and groups of leaders -- those who are 'expertise' oriented and lead by their technical authority, and 'generalists', who lead by management skills. They are distinguished in various ways such as their attitudes towards delegation and sensitivity to matching jobs and personalities. Leadership development is best pursued by encouraging managers to be mobile between functions. Changing careers significantly once or twice leads to a 'layered career development', allowing the development of individuals who are able to balance the skills of professional expertise and generalist leadership.
Knowledge creation through industry chain in resource-based industry: case study on phosphorus chemical industry chain in western Guizhou of China
Purpose 
 
 
 
 
This paper aims to provide a theoretical frame and practical experience for understanding and improving knowledge creation in the RIC. This paper proved through an empirical study that knowledge transfer, knowledge assimilation and knowledge sharing between firms in a resource-based industry chain (RIC) have positive influence on knowledge creation. 
 
 
 
 
Design/methodology/approach 
 
 
 
 
A theoretical model covering knowledge transfer, knowledge assimilation, knowledge sharing and knowledge creation is established in this paper. The research object is the phosphorus chemical industry chain in central Guizhou. 
 
 
 
 
Findings 
 
 
 
 
The findings of this paper provide a theoretical frame and practical experience for understanding and improving knowledge creation in the RIC. 
 
 
 
 
Research limitations/implications 
 
 
 
 
The subjective measures of knowledge capacities present a serious limitation. Another limitation is that the authors examined knowledge creation within the context of RIC. The cross-sectional design prevented the authors from studying causal relationships among the variables. 
 
 
 
 
Originality/value 
 
 
 
 
First, it contributes to the knowledge creation of inter-organization literature. Second, it contributes to the studies of knowledge creation in supply chains. Third, this study demonstrates the importance of investigating the strong network embeddedness and industry property of RIC, which have a critic effect on the capabilities of knowledge sharing, transfer and assimilation.
Promotions and Intraorganizational Status Differentiation among Japanese Managers.
This paper describes promotion patterns and the resulting status differentiation among managers in a large Japanese company. The detected trends are contrasted with several hypotheses on promotions in Japan, and their similarity with patterns reported in other countries is also discussed. A relatively early "elite identification" is observed.