Essays about: "KIF"

Found 4 essays containing the word KIF.

  1. 1. Managing without managers: An interpretative case study of distributed leadership and employee motivation within a management consultancy firm

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Line Dedering; Kajsa Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : Distributed leadership; employee motivation; non-managerial structure; power dynamics; autonomy; responsibility; motivation triangle; interactive motivation; knowledge intensive organization; KIF; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to explore how distributed leadership is practiced and perceived by the knowledge workers in a management consultancy firm. Furthermore, we investigated the possible connection between the distributed leadership approach and employee motivation. READ MORE

  3. 2. Knowledge rhetoric in the “Big Four” consulting firms – the quest for legitimacy, and the peculiar case of similarity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Joachim Lindberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Knowledge rhetoric; normative; mimetic; isomorphism; legitimacy; KIF; Big Four; Deloitte; PwC; EY; KPMG; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the practice of knowledge rhetoric in knowledge-intensive firms (KIFs). The methodology applied to this qualitative study is based on the principles of a social constructivist paradigm. READ MORE

  4. 3. Two stories at ustwo - one too many?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Karolina Bernhardsson; Laura Neddermeyer; [2014]
    Keywords : Organizational Development; Change; KIF; SIT; Identity-work; resistance; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : A qualitative case study presenting a result of how two opposing stories during an OD change process can be understood as identity management in the form of control and support. The study's result contribute to the field of OD in adding an additional understanding of how a phenomena viewed as resistance in the field of OD can be understood in other ways. READ MORE

  5. 4. Organizational Culture in Student-Consulting Firms : Maintaining Culture Despite High Employee Turnover

    University essay from KTH/Affärsutveckling och Entreprenörskap

    Author : Peter Grundström; Johanna Lundin; [2012]
    Keywords : Organizational Culture; Knowledge-Intensive Firms; Employee Turnover; Socialization; Student-Consulting Firms; and Management Tools;

    Abstract : This study explores student-consulting firms and how a strong organizational culture can be a key to mitigate their particular challenge of high employee turnover and how their management can work with different dimensions of organizational culture as tools to embed a strong organizational culture. A student-consulting firm is a consulting firm operated by students still engaged in regular educational programs that can be considered a form of knowledge-intensive firm (KIF). READ MORE