managers

As the new sales director for a national computer firm, Alex Gordon was looking forward to his first meeting with the company's district managers.

He decided to end the meeting with the conversation about the importance of the district managers to the company's plans

Later he spoke with one of the senior managers.

Half of our managers are women

The important part played by district managers.

One third of them were senior managers

Office managers knock down walls to encourage team building.

Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set.

Even Intel experimented in 2007 with conferring four uninterrupted hours of quiet time (no phone or e-mail) every Tuesday morning on 300 engineers and managers.

A prime example Schweitzer and his colleagues cite is the 2004 collapse of energy-trading giant Enron, where managers used financial incentives to motivate salesmen to meet specific revenue goals.

Business leadership means that managers need to "put first things first," which implies that before leading others, you need to be clear on your own values, abilities, and strengths and be seen as trustworthy.

To be good leaders, managers must pay close attention to their own values, abilities and strengths

So what can be done to create more effective managers of the commercial world?

In a division of electronic engineers, who were designing equipments so advanced that they work in teams of up to 150, co-workers and managers were asked to nominate the standouts- the stars in productivity and effectiveness

For this to happen, he suggests the multi-cultural managers exhibit understanding of their own and others' cultural influences and limitations.

It's possible that some hiring managers may be drawn to candidates with a particular educational resume, but it's no guarantee.

So senior managers enjoy their jobs more than people working under them.

The central figures in the Chicago schools strike are neither strikers nor managers but 350, 000 children.

This is surprising when you consider the prevailing emphasis by scholars and trainers and managers on the importance of cultivating close interpersonal relationships at work.

A recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative, to make decisions on their own without asking managers first.

After de-layering in this way, a company may be left with just a top level of senior managers, front-line managers and employees with direct contact with the public.

Anna just emailed to say that the managers' meeting is put off till next Monday.

Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship.

Any given performance takes a tour bus full of artists, technical experts, managers, musicians, or writers to create an appealing piece of art.

In any case, despite so much evidence to the contrary, many managers still agree to theory X.

Now we need volunteer managers aged 25-75.

Project managers evaluate the performance of the team members in terms of what they produce for projects, rather than the amount of time they spend on them.

Some experts say that women will become more effective managers than men because they have the power to reach common goals in a way that traditional male managers cannot.

This, of course, makes for authoritarian managers.

We have such roles as project managers, mountain leaders, and communication officers.

A turbulent business environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.

But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms'efficiency.

The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors attribute to "less codified decision making process" and the possible presence of "younger and less experienced managers who are more likely to b

These rules say they must value some assets at the price a third party would pay, not the price managers and regulators would like them to fetch.