Normative aspects of organization culture, the distribution and total amount of control, employee performance and perceived quality of service were investigated in a cross-sectional study (n = 823) involving subjects from 159 organizations. A model integrating these constructs is presented, followed by an empirical investigation of hypothesized linkages. Significant relationships were found between organization culture and control distribution, culture and total amount of control, culture and service quality, culture and employee performance, and total control and service quality. Contemporary organizations are making substantial financial and human resource investments in training in problem analysis and problem solving techniques, within the context of Total Quality Management (TQM) programs and, in some cases, culture change efforts (Beer, Eisenstat, & Spector, 1990). These investments are being made in the belief, rooted partly in the "human relations management" movement (Fayol, 1946; Likert, 1961; McGregor, 1960), that the participation and involvement of all hierarchical levels will result in higher product/service quality and, subsequently, improved organization performance.

This article examines an attempt to introduce experiential learning methods in a business strategy course. In organizational behavior and industrial/organizational psychology, experiential teaching methods have been so widely adopted that some authors have suggested dropping the distinction between experiential and traditional teaching. Although intuitively appealing, experiential methods have not yet become popular among professors teaching strategy to traditional-age undergraduate students. It seems that heavy reliance on case-based teaching has resulted in a lack of emphasis on experiential learning tools for strategic management. In this study, the Winter Survival Exercise was used to introduce, concisely and effectively, the strategic management framework to 97 traditional-age undergraduate strategic management students in three different sections over three semesters. Statistical analysis supported the efficacy of this teaching method. Implications for teaching business strategy using experiential methods as a complement to rather than a substitute for traditional case studies are discussed.

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PurposeGiven the substantial resources of the United States, the failure of the American federal response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been both tragic and avoidable. The authors frame this response as an artifact of power-addiction among administration officials and examine the US federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of maladaptive denial by government officials, including President Trump.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use qualitative research methods for this study by analyzing key events, public statements by administration officials from multiple credible media reports and US federal government websites. The authors analyzed these data using Weidner and Purohit's (2009) model describing maladaptive denial in organizations and power-addiction among leaders.FindingsThe authors' analysis identifies maladaptive denial – and the concomitant power-addiction – as significantly contributing to the Trump administration's failed response to COVID-19. Maladaptive denial and power-addiction characterized Trump as a candidate and for the three years of his presidency preceding the COVID-19 crisis. Whatever normative “guardrails” or checks and balances existed in the American system to restrict the administration's behavior before the crisis were ill-equipped to significantly prevent or alter the failed federal response to the pandemic.Originality/valueThe article applies the model of maladaptive denial in organizations (Weidner and Purohit, 2009) to the public sector, and explores the lengths to which power-addicted leaders and regimes can violate the public's trust in institutions in a crisis, even in the US, a liberal democracy characterized by freedom of political expression. While organizations and change initiatives may fail for a variety of reasons, this case revealed the extent to which maladaptive denial can permeate a government – or any organization – and its response to a crisis.

Kleinhirntumoren besonders friih und intensiv einen starken Hirndruck hervorrufen. Sterling, Bruns, E. Mfiller, Pfeifer lehnen die lokalisatorische Bedeutung vollkommen ab, w~hrend Knapp, Schuster, Redlich, der letztere besonders in bezug auf die Stirnhirn-und Balkengesehwiilste, ihr einen gewissen Wert beilegen. Nach Schusters Zusammenstellung sind psyehische Sthrungen bei linksseitigem Tumorsitz h~ufiger als bei rechtsseitigen Geschwiilsten.Die Erh6hung des intrakraniellen Druckes fiihrt nicht immer nur zu allgemeiner Herabsetzung der seelischen Leistungen bzw. zu Benommenheit, sondern kann auch als Reiz wirken, besonders auf die corticalen Zentren und auf die Hirnnerven, und vermag so Sinnestguschungen, am t~ufigstcn solche des Gesichts, Geschmacks und GehOrs zu bewirken.Am h~ufigsten gehen Reizwirkungen auf die HirnneIven yon Tumoren des Kleinhirns und der Briickengegend aus. Fumarola gibt Gehhrshalluzinationen geradezu als Herdsymptom der Kleinhirnbriickenwinkeltumoren an. Da sich an Sinnest~uschungen Wahnvorstellungen im Sinne yon Erklgrungsideen anschliel]en khnnen --a]lerdings wohl nur unter der Voraussetzung einer wenn auch nur lcichten al]gemeinen psychischen Sch~digung --mul~ auch ein indirekter Zusammenhang zwischen Tumor und halluzinatorisch-paranoiden Symptomenbildern zugestanden werden.Die H~ufigkeit psychischer St6rungen bei Hirntumoren fiberhaupt wird versehieden, z. T. sehr hoch berechnet. H. di Casparo beziffert sie auf 50%, Gianelli auf 56,8%, Knapp auf 75%, Schuster auf 50--60%, Sterling auf 40%.Der Art nach fiberwiegen --wenn ich der hierin mal]gebenden Darstellung von Pfeifer folge --Benommenheitszust~nde und der Ko r s s a ko wsche Symptomenkomplex, seltener fanden sich Delirien, D~mmerzustgude, Stupor, psychomotorische oder ~ngstliche Erregungen, d. h. durchweg heteronome Symptomenbilder. Sehr selten sind manische und melancholische Zust~nde beschrieben. Was die ebenfalls recht seltenen wahnbildenden Syndrome anbelangt, so scheint es sich nie um echt paranoische Bilder mit Mil~trauen, persekutorischen Eigenbeziehungen und systematischem Verfolgungswahn ohne Sinnest~uschungen gehandelt zu haben. Nach der Zusammenstellung yon Schuster, der unter 775 F~llen yon Hirntumor mit psychischen St6rungen 19 paranoiaa~tige Erkrankungen z~hlt, lag nur in 8 F~llen eine genguere Beschreibung der psychischen St6rungen vor. Nach derselben handelte es sich in keinem Falle um ein paranoisches Bild im engeren, oben umsehriebenen Sinn, sondern die Kranken litten an ,,Beachtungs-und Verfolgungswahnsinn", veibunden mit Halluzinationen in den verschiedenen Sinnesgebieten, mit Umdeutung von