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The Academy of Management Executive (AOM)
The Academy of Management, based in the USA, is a professional society primarily composed of university professors who research and teach in management. The Academy fosters the general advancement of research, learning, teaching and practice in the management field. It publishes a journal as well as other materials and runs a job-placement service and hosts online discussion groups.

The Academy of Management, Management History Division
Research specifically concerned with the history of management thought.

The Age
Free, daily, except Sundays. Selected articles, archives to 30 days, searchable.

The American Productivity and Quality Centre
Practices in competitive intelligence.

Asiaweek
Free, weekly, selected articles, archives to 1995.

Access news and commentaries about the Pacific Rim. Find features, indicators and statistics for individual nations.

The Australian
Australia’s only national daily newspaper.

Australian Broadcasting Commission
The ABC has many branches to its site, offering up-to-date information from its radio and broadcasting services.

Australian Computer Society
Industry association for computer professionals

The Australian Financial Review (AFR)
Free for three weeks, archive to 1997, searchable, $2 per download.

Australian Graduate School of Management
The graduate school of management is jointly run by the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales and the site provides links to recent publications. It also has a career centre.

Australian Information Industry Association
A good source of information on the IT industry

Australian National Training Authority (ANTA)
Contains case studies on how organisations have used training.

Australian News network
Free, daily (updated throughout the day), searchable. This site is supported by News Limited and brings together the news from the company’s newspapers across the country, delivering national, state and local news. Links to selected articles from a variety of newspapers within the News Limited chain.

Australian Stock Exchange
Lists Australian companies.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission
The government body responsible for enforcing and administering Corporations Law and consumer protection law for investments, life and general insurance, superannuation and banking (except lending) throughout Australia.

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Baker Library, Harvard Business School
This is a good site to learn about Harvard Business School’s collections and information services as well as to gain access to links to further information.

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
This famous consulting group conducts research and practice in strategic planning and management.

Business Review Weekly (BRW)
Free, weekly, archives to 1996, searchable. Site includes links to the largest private and public companies in Australia, Australian market information, share prices and rates, as well as to other Australian business periodicals.

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Centre for Applied Ethics
This University of British Columbia research centre promotes bringing a moral philosophy into the public domain and acts as a community resource.

St James Ethics Centre (SJEC)

Site under construction

This independent, non-profit, non-political organisation, based in Sydney Australia, provides a forum for the promotion of business and professional ethics.

Center for Creative Leadership
Contains leadership assessments and simulations.

Centre for International Business History
Based at the University of Reading, CIBH is a business history research group. It lists events, publications and current research in the field.

Center for the Study of Work Teams
Research on team work.

CNN
Daily, US, international and general interest stories from CNN broadcast news service. Links are available to specialised topics.

Computerworld (Australia)
News on the IT sector in Australia and worldwide

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Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group
Looks at financial analysis and planning.

Deming Institute
This site is dedicated to W. Edwards Deming with the aim of fostering an understanding of his system of management thought.

The Dilbert Zone
Wry comment on poor interpersonal relations and communication in organisations.

Diversity Central
Publishes a journal Cultural Diversity at Work.

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Employer-employee.com
Lists 10 demotivators and 10 motivators to help employees tap their natural capacities. Do you agree with the lists?

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Frederick Winslow Taylor site
Further information on one of the founders of management theory, Frederick Winslow Taylor.

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GilGordon
This site looks at teleworking and virtual offices.

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Human Resources Positive Employee Relations Council
Offers a leadership simulation.

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IBM
Offers the IBM Leadership Development Handout.

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Life Colors
An online questionnaire that allows you to assess your personality.

Lippincott Library of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
More management library resources.

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McKinsey & Company
A global consulting group called in by top management to accelerate business performance.

Management General
This site contains a series of essays with a wide range of perspectives and philosophies on "what leaders should be thinking NOW". The author, Tom Brown, offers his own ideas through a series of experimental "e-books" collections of thoughts written on-line, one "chaplet" at a time, with input from readers.

Morgan & Banks
A famous HR consultancy firm operating globally.

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New Expatriate
An online magazine exploring issues relevant to international managers.

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Organisational Solutions
A UK based company offering the Performance Culture Audit — an employee survey instrument to assess organisational culture and the psychological contract. No sample is available but the background research is.

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The Planning People
Effective business plans to guide new businesses.

Praxis Consulting Group
A business ethics inventory sample.

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Real Work
Examines how the workplace is changing and the cultural challenges of diversity in the workforce.

Reengineering Resource Center
More information on reengineering and restructuring.

Society for HR Magazine
Contains articles relevant to issues in HRM.

The Society for Organizational Learning (SOL)
A global learning community (note that the Netherlands site uses the same Escher print as is used on the cover of Davidson & Griffin: Management — Australia in a Global Context).

Strategy & Business
This site has articles on strategy.

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)

Free, daily, except Sundays. Selected articles, archives to 30 days, searchable.

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Team Management Systems
Assessments for developing individual, teams and organisations, plus case studies.

Thunderbird American Graduate School of Management
A pre-eminent business school in the USA, home of the acclaimed Master of International Management Program and extensive library resources.

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Workflow and Reengineering International Association (WARIA)
Identifies issues common to reengineering.

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