One cloudy morning last March, an associate dean for faculty affairs booted up her laptop for a standing meeting. “Elaine” (a pseudonym) was leading an ambitious new project — a core pillar in the ...

Any student or practitioner of management would be best placed if there is early recognition in their minds and behaviour that there is major distinction between responsibility and authority. They may ...

I write a lot about roles and role clarity. Role clarity is so important, yet often overlooked. For example, before you can have what I call an effective performance collaboration, managers first need ...

In case no one has noticed, recent fatal events have revealed a curious juxtaposition of organisational and reporting relationships in comparator public sector organisations. In one instance (Ministry ...

The odds are you’ve never heard of William L. McKnight. William McKnight joined Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) in 1907 as an assistant bookkeeper. At the time, the company was only ...

The first step in developing a cybersecurity response for your business is to establish the scope of the cybersecurity response in terms of the hardware and software included, which in turn requires ...

Businesses have traditionally operated using a top-down, hierarchal structure known as a vertical organization. An alternative is to implement a horizontal organizational structure consisting of fewer ...

The UB Emergency Management Program effectively coordinates university, community, and other external resources to protect life and property before, during, and after emergencies. The UB Emergency ...