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    Belated Recognition for Work Flow Entrepreneurs: A Case of Selective Perception and Amnesia in Management Thought

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    Recent trends, such as reengineering, require work flow entrepreneurship. Important principles about these practices were recognized in post-World War II field research, but by the 1970s this work suffered neglect. Amnesia was caused by deeply held assumptions of scientific management, and by a search within business schools for academic legitimacy at the expense of praxis, which skewed the perspectives with which organizations were viewed

    The Changing of the Guard: The New American Labor Leader

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    This article analyzes recent changes in the leadership of international unions. There has been a trend toward leaders who are lifetime bureaucrats rather than rank-and-file members with charisma. This change toward more technocratic leadership is due to the different environment and new challenges that labor currently faces. The United Mine Workers is a good example of a union that has had many changes in the type of person who has become president, from the labor giant John L. Lewis to the 33-year-old lawyer Richard Trumka. The United Auto Workers is an example of a union whose leadership has been consistently drawn from the union hierarchy. The AFL-CIO has made a change in leadership from George Meany to the labor bureaucrat Lane Kirkland. There will probably be an increase in the number of women and minorities in top leadership positions in unions, but this will be a gradual increase.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66627/2/10.1177_000271628447300107.pd

    EFFECT OF RINGER\u27S SOLUTION ON TAIL-REGENERATION IN THE TADPOLE OF RANA PALUSTRIS

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    ORIGIN OF THE MESODERM AND BEHAVIOR OF THE NUCLEOLUS IN REGENERATION IN LUMBRICULUS

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    Managerial behavior administration in complex organizations

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    BUDS INDUCED IN CLYMENELLA TORQUATA BY IMPLANTS OF NERVE CORD AND NEIGHBORING TISSUES DERIVED FROM THE MID-BODY REGION OF WORMS OF THE SAME SPECIES

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    Volume: 82Start Page: 154End Page: 16

    Leadership what effective managers really

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    Leadership : what effective managers really do ... and how they do it

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