Benchmarking |
This is a concept of identifying, understanding, and adapting outstanding practices and processes from other organizations. |
 |
| Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) |
This is a concept of establishing real long-term high value visionary goals. |
 |
Charrette |
This is a concept of design and development of a community development project that engages stakeholders in the planning. |
|
| Equity Theory |
This is a concept of motivation on the job and how we seek "equity" between effort and rewards for what we do. |
|
| Five Roles of a Change Agent |
Change agents fill five functional roles depending on the needs of the group or organization engaged in a change effort. |
 |
| Hierarchy of Human Needs |
This is a concept developed by the noted psychologist, Dr. Abraham Maslow, in 1943 to describe five levels of motivation from Survival to Self-Actualizing. |
|
Issue Resolution Ladder |
This is a concept developed for Partnering around how to solve project problems and when to advance those problems up in the organization. |
|
| Principles of Improv |
This is the concept of a spontaneous performance with a key toward fast thinking on your feet. |
 |
JoHari Window
|
This is a concept with four quadrants of the whole individual representing what is known and unknown to the individual themself and in relation to others. |
 |
Ladder of Inference
|
This is a concept that describes how an item or experience is observed through five steps up the ladder to action. |
 |
Locus of Control
|
This is a concept that tests the extent to which an individual possesses internal or external reinforcement beliefs. |
 |
Motivation & Hygiene Factors
|
This concept poses that job satisfaction has two factors - Motivation (intrinsic value) and Hygene (physiological) Needs. |
 |
| Occam's Razor |
This is a concept that poses that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed to explain a phenomenon. It is the parent of the KISS Principle. |
 |
| Open Space Technology |
This is an approach to conducting highly participatory conferences and events where the participants decide the topics in an opening plenary session. |
 |
| Pareto Principle |
This is a concept attributed, incorrectly, to Vilfredo Pareto that is used to describe how 80% of something (crime) was created by a small percentage, 20%, of a population. |
 |
|
Scientific Management |
This is a concept of organizational design and management using the principles and methods of science characterized by time studies and work design. |
 |
|
Servant Leadership |
This is a concept of leadership marked by the leaders feeling a calling to serve and becoming a leader as a way to serve more effectively. It is a concept that is marked by 11 characteristics. |
 |
|
SWOT Analysis |
This is a concept developed by Michael Porter to examine the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats to an organizations competitive position. |
 |
Two Factor Theory
|
This is another name for the Motivation-Hygene concept which poses that job satisfaction has two factors - Motivation (intrinsic value) and Hygene (physiological) Needs. |
 |
 |
More articles are loaded monthly. Sign up for our FREE newsletter to keep informed of new articles as they are loaded. |
|
|
|
|