General sites
-
The Academy of Management is the leading professional association for management research and education in the United States. Almost 10,000 members from organizations, businesses, universities and business schools around the world participate in annual meetings and listserver discussions. The Academy also publishes three scholarly journals.
- This homepage features the activities of the organizational psychology Division. A very interesting part of this site is the "links" section which gives the most recent table of contents of some scientific and professional journals.
- very informative homepage. You can read the newsletter, search for e-mail addresses, upcoming conferences, etc.
-
The Anbar Electronic Intelligence management library covers more than 400 of the top International management journals.
The Foundation pursues this mission through the presentation of conferences, video teleconferences, the annual Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation, and the development of management resources, partnerships, and publications.
A regional division of the Academy of Management, serves the professional needs of academicians and practitioners of management by supporting research, teaching and service. The SMA serves its members by distributing the Journal of Management and a regular newsletter to its members, and by providing research, publishing, and networking opportunities at its annual meeting and in its proceedings.
International
Association of Applied Psychology (I.A.A.P.)
The International Association of Applied Psychology is the oldest international association of psychologists.
European
Network of Occupational Psychologists (ENOP)
Leadership
- This site provides general background information about the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Research Project. GLOBE is a multi-phase, multi-method project in which investigators from all over the world (i.e., 61 countries) are examining the inter-relationships between culture and leadership. You also find manuscripts of the GLOBE research project on this site.
- As the name of this site implies, this is an excellent site to read a book review on leadership and other mangerial topics.
- Research Center affiliated
with the University of Ghent, director Rita Claes. This center
studies the role work plays in people's lives within the fabric of
industrialized societies. Focusses on work as paid employment in
traditional and new employer-employee contracts, work careers,
absence of work, and work-nonwork connections. Promotes advanced
HRM praxis using motivational programs, work stress management,
career development, diversity management, and global management.
-
The Organization Development Network is a values-based community which supports its members in their work in human, organization and systems development, and offers leadership and scholarship to the profession.
The Fifth Discipline brings word of "learning organizations," organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. Five disciplines are described as the means of building learning organizations. Case studies are provided to show how the disciplines have worked in particular companies.
The Stanford Learning Organization Web (SLOW) is an informal network of Stanford researchers, staff, and students along with colleagues and friends from the corporate world interested in the nature and development of learning organizations.
The Organization Development Institute is a non-profit educational association organized in 1968 to promote an understanding of Organizational Development.
Site with some articles about NLP and the impact of IT on organizational learning, links and books, …
The Learning Organisation is seen as a response to an increasingly unpredictable and dynamic business environment. Some key definitions are given by important authors.
-
The academy serves as the training, communications and development center for the total quality schooling (TQS) intitiative, performing core functions to support total quality schooling. The academy encourages and supports learning in TQS through basic training, assisting task teams with data analysis and the Superintendent's Quality Awards Program. This program provides schools with a process based on Malcolm Baldrige/Sterling criteria to self-assess their level of success with the deployment of TQS.
A pioneer and world leader in managing for quality since 1979, has helped companies (service industries) meet their strategic and business goals by providing innovative tools, techniques and principles for managing quality, customer satisfaction and organizational efficiency. Interesting articles for downloading, other quality sites, videos, books, …
The aim of The Institute is to foster understanding of The Deming System of Profound Knowledge to advance commerce, prosperity and peace. The Institute has four areas of focus: (1) Network and Support, (2) Research, (3) Education and (4) Development and Outreach.
Information on quality management, environmental management, ISO 9000 & ISO 14000 standards.
This service is provided in support of world-wide efforts in quality improvement and education in quality. Most files in this server may be freely distributed; some are identified within the files as restricted in some way.
Home site of Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award (USA). To assist US businesses and non-profit organizations in delivering ever improving value to customers, resulting in marketplace succes and in improving overall company performance and capabilities, utilizing the core-values and methods of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award framework.
Host of the largest collection of quality-related information, groups, discussion lists and resources on the Web.
ISO Easy is dedicated to helping organizations understand and implement the ISO 9000 model for quality assurance. Frequently Asked Questions About ISO 9000 and Related Standards, publications, case studies and commentaries and other ISO 9000 resources.
EFQM’s mission is: to stimulate and assist organisations throughout Europe to participate in improvement activities leading ultimately to excellence in customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, impact on society and business results; and to support the managers of European organisations in accelerating the process of making Total Quality Management a decisive factor for achieving global competitive advantage.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO, Switzerland) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 100 countries, one from each country. ISO is a non-governmental organization established in 1947. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity.
The Center for Quality of Management (CQM) is a nonprofit, member-driven consortium dedicated to the integration, implementation, and diffusion of the best management practices available today. On behalf of, and working with its member companies the CQM identifies, develops, refines, and integrates these practices to create a comprehensive management system that addresses the areas of strategic planning, operations, and managing change.
Centrum
voor kwaliteitszorg (in Dutch)This stite gives an overview of the activities of this center. You also find information on upcoming events, articles, etc.
Vraag
& Aanbod - Kwaliteit op Internet (in Dutch)An excellent source of information on quality. Links to quality sites all over the world, articles on a variety of quality topics, news groups, books and other documentation.
Very useful jumpstation for other leadership sites. This site divides the links in nonprofit leadership websites, leadership studies websites, educational leadership websites, commercial leadership websites, and miscellaneous leadership websites.
These webpages provide useful information for those of us interested in improving their understanding of leadership. There are a diverse group of pages representing a variety of leadership subjects.
These pages aim to expand the readers knowledge and understanding of the continuing debate in management studies about the role of leadership in the management of small teams and small projects.
Leadership Inc. was founded in 1994 by Mark A. Abramson to work with public and private sector organizations to develop leaders for the 21st century and to create organizations of the future. Leadership Inc. works with organizations to design learning and leadership experiences that enhance an organization’s ability to create the organization of the future. Some interesting articles.
Site with online questionnaires to test your leadership, your team’s response, your organization’s strategy. There are also many interesting papers concerning organizational and personel leadership issues.
Throughout the United States and around the world, people are searching for direction in improving education programs. Today’s youth must have rigorous and relevant academic skills to be able to function effectively in a technological, information-based society. The International Center for Leadership in Education was created in 1991 to serve as a resource and a catalyst for change in education.
Here you find a great range of articles on leadership.
Center
for Creative Leadership
The mission of the Center for Creative Leadership is to advance the understanding, practice and development ofleadership for the benefit of society worldwide.
Teams
The
Center for the Study of Group Processes
Interesting site with articles, case-studies, tips, on-line questionnaires, etc.
This Web site is a resource for businesses and organizations interested in harnessing the power of teams to achieve business objectives. Interesting sites with concepts, tools, resources, … .
The Center for the Study of Work Teams (CSWT), at the University of North Texas, is an excellent source for any number of things having to do with teams. They conduct some of the best team related conferences in the world. Take your time and enjoy this site.
This site is a great resource. There are numerous articles, case studies, books and periodicals, videos, and bibliographies listed. This is a must visit site !
The Center for Quality of Management (CQM) is a nonprofit, member-driven consortium dedicated to the integration, implementation, and diffusion of the best management practices available today.
Work
Meaning
of Work Research Center
Industrial Relations
Japan's Ministry of Labour was established in 1947 with the aim of "promoting workers' welfare and contributing to the stability of national life." From its establishment to the present, we at the Ministry have been pursuing these goals. During this period, Japan's economy has undergone dramatic development. Lots of nteresting information about labour relations in Japan.
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.
Organizational Development
Total quality