M.Comm. / The people who make waves in today's business world aren't playing by yesterday's rules. They've jettisoned tradition. They've turned the old cosy business of being in business upside down and inside out. Towering corporate structures are crumbling. Middle managers are a dying breed. Successful â bosses now lead their troops from the front. People are becoming multiskilled. Enlightened businesses make this happen. Whatever it takes. Our society, facing momentous challenges in the closing years of the twentieth century, needs visions of the future so attractive, inspiring, and compelling that people will shift from their current mind-set of focusing on immediate crises to one of eagerly anticipating the future - a future where the health and well-being of the earth and its inhabitants is secure. As we round the corner of the millennium, questions about our future loom ever larger on the horizon. The decade ahead is sure to bring more radical changes in everything from marketing to enterpreneuring, resources, demographics, lifstyles and more. Success in 2000 and beyond will mean riding the crest of this wave of change- but if we are to catch the wave before it catches us, we must see it coming. This study have adopted Alvin Toffler's concept of waves of change, to serve as the framework for the vision of business in the twenty-first century. The First Wave of change, the agricultural revolution, has essentially ended. The Second Wave, co-incidental with industrialisation, has covered much of the earth and continues to spread, while a new, postindustrial Third Wave is gathering force in the modern industrial nations. A Fourth Wave is following close upon the Third

The purpose of this thesis is to develop a model of the role of a senior management services officer in one part of the National Health Service. It puts forward and discusses the deficiencies of other models of this role in order to identify parts of the role which a new model must seek to describe more adequately. The main parts of the role explored can be described as political and the expertise required to carry them out is usually said to be based on experience. The model put forward in the thesis is a two part model. The first part consists of a set of categories which describe the events which make up all the various aspects of the activities of a management services officer. The general properties and characteristics of these event categories are developed. The second part of the model is concerned with how such events fit together into projects. The main theme of this fitting together of events is the negotiation of order in large complex organisations. The model is based on a record of the change agent activities of one management services officer over a long period of time. Because of the present lack of understanding of this role and in order to include a wide variety of events in the analysis, an unstructured data collection method was used. Qualitative data is used in this study and appropriate grounded theory data analysis methods are used in the analysis. The generality of this model outside the context in which it has been developed is discussed.

Zugl.: Kassel, Univ., Diss., 2008

Zugl.: Kassel, Univ., Diss., 2008

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.B.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

Zugl.: München, Univ., Diss., 2006

Zugl.: Passau, Universiẗat, Diss., 2007.

Zugl.: Sankt Gallen, Univ., Diss., 2005

Zugl.: Augsburg, Univ., Diss., 2008

Zugl.: Krems, Donau-Univ., Magisterarbeit, 2005