Francisco J. Lara

How innovation climate drives management styles in each stage of the organization lifecycle: The human dimension at recruitment process

Organizations that offer services based on knowledge and innovation consider their recruitment process as strategic. The purpose of this paper is to consider that organizational lifecycle is related with the management styles through innovation climate and human dimension of recruitment.,The authors utilized two methods proposed by Adizes (1976, 1979, 2004). The first one is an inductive, exploratory method with a quantitative approach. The second one utilizes a qualitative approach through semi-structured interviews. The quantitative approach was performed with a questionnaire via internet. The target was executive managers from organizations with more than ten employees, which are offering professional, scientific and technical services. The authors obtained 170 responses.,Results show that the majority of organizations balance open innovation and control, trending to the first one. During the first stages of the organizational lifecycle, decision-making principally relays on the founder’s open innovation strategies, whereas in the last stages administrative-based control is predominant.,The authors must highlight that this study has been performed for the case of services companies placed only in Mexico. Then, the extrapolation and generalization of results should be dealt carefully.,The authors consider the questionnaire very useful for the introduction of open innovation strategies for human resources managers, since it takes into account organizational lifecycle in their human dimension of recruitment processes, it helps to design training and retention programs for employees, and avoids premature aging of the company.,Given that today, knowledge management and innovation have become strategic assets of companies, it is necessary a change of mentality in many organizations that facilitates a new perception on the development of innovation. This will only be possible with the firm support of the management of the company and the involvement of all employees in this new task.,Several studies analyze management styles in each stage of organization lifecycle, although they do not link the obtained information to open innovation and human dimension of the recruitment process. The authors work applies the questionnaire of Adizes (1976, 1979, 2004), which relates the organizational life cycle and the management style and discloses the proper management styles with recruiting, training and retention programs to keep flexibility above control to nurture open innovation.

Search Engine Optimization and Ethical Leadership Strategies

The information technologies and media organizations embody the twin challenges of business ethics and leadership strategies. This chapter study of ethical leadership strategies (ELS, in advance) in media company management and their relationship with the search engine optimization (SEO, in advance). Analysis of the strategies and tactics used in the SEO and its results in the medium and long term. Comparative of ethical and unethical behavior in organizations based on information technologies. Deep studies through the strategies followed by search engines recognized in the market for information management. Analysis of the correlation between ethical behaviors in Web positioning strategies, and tangible and intangible results at information based organizations. This correlation would partly explained by a number of key factors such as integrity, commitment, people orientation, and transparency in communication. Finally, this chapter establishes a user guide that enables companies to have basic reference information on which to act at the strategic and operational on the SEO of your organization, taking into consideration the ethical codes of behavior.

Basic Approaches to Leadership: Their Relation with Capitalism and Globalization

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze and explain the main differences between leadership and management, focusing our attention on the evolution of the different leadership theories and their relation to capitalism and globalization. The underlying research question is, therefore, whether there are differences between the models of leadership and management, depending on the approach to capitalism or the understanding of globalization. We assume that there is an interconnection between management and leadership models, as well as between the different understandings of knowledge and ethical perspective.