For online articles related to management, including research material, how to improve, management development and related topics, like performance appraisal/management. 1. A Viable System Model: Consideration of Knowledge Management - Author Allenna Leonard indicates that individual and organizational knowledge is difficult to value and therefore difficult to manage, and suggests a method to map management capacities. 2. Assessing Your Organization's Innovation Capabilities - Provides a framework that can be used to assess an organization's ability to determine whether an organization has the capabilities to implement upcoming changes. 3. Exercising Authority in the Workplace - The manager's true authoritative role in the workplace: benevolence, subservience, security. By Michael Gaspard. 4. How Jack Welch Runs GE - Business Week profile on famous management guru Jack Welch explains how he managed General Electric and gained guru status. 5. Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge - Article by Warren Bennis discusses how companies lack leadership, and four strategies to improve corporate leadership. 6. Make Performance Appraisal Relevant - Winston Oberg identifies the flaws of nine performance appraisal methods, and suggests choice of method depends on desired outcomes. 7. ManagementFirst - Management articles for professionals, researchers, and academics. 8. The Balanced Scorecard and Performance Improvement - Using the balanced scorecard to combine viewpoints of company success. 9. The Enduring Skills of Change Leaders - Rosabeth Moss Kanter explains why organizational change is inevitable and the essential qualities of people who succeed as leaders during change. 10. The Titanic Disaster: An Enduring Example of Money Management vs. Risk Management. - Academic article showing how cost-savings meant certain death. 11. TQM And Organizational Change And Development - Thomas Packard outlines key aspects of implementation of large­scale organizational change which may enable a practitioner to more thoughtfully and successfully implement TQM. 12. Training Workers In The Workplace - Training workers is not always so simple as a classroom lecture and test. We humans aren't practically equipped to consistently absorb and apply information in such an ideal manner. 13. Work911.com - Articles on management and all aspects of work life including communication, conflict and performance appraisal. 14. How to Coach ‘Problem’ Employees - Describes the Coaching strategy for dealing with performance problems. Included are guidelines for diagnosing problems, how to conduct a coaching session, a practice exercise, additional resources and training programs. 15. What Bandwagons Bring: Effects of Popular Management Techniques on Corporate Performance, Reputation, and CEO Pay. - Examines how adopting popular management techniques affects companies. Concludes companies using TQM, teams, and empowerment did not necessarily receive economic benefit.

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