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RESEARCH ARTICLES

To what extent are students as middle managers at a training hotel involved in strategic decision making?

Studenten en strategische besluitvorming

包机在加勒比海与实际应用在南非东开普省的好处 摘要

Pages 25-29 | Published online: 18 Jan 2017
 

Abstract

Research has shown that middle managers can exert major upward or downward influence on their organisation's strategy. In the practice department of our hotel school, senior students act as managers to train managerial competences. To analyse if this reflects reality, I have researched whether student managers do have strategic influence. The research indicates that students carry out a substantial number of strategic tasks as part of their practical training. However these tasks do not fit with existing theoretical frameworks regarding middle managers' strategic influence. This might be explained by the fact that putting students in a training situation stimulates non-routinised sensemaking behaviour of student middle managers.

Onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat middenmanagers grote opwaartse of neerwaartse invloed kunnen uitoefenen op de strategie van hun organisatie. Op de praktijkafdeling van onze hotelschool functioneren ouderejaars studenten als managers om zo hun leidinggevende competenties te trainen. Om te analyseren of dit de werkelijkheid goed reflecteert, heb ik onderzocht of studenten in een middenmanagement functie strategische invloed hebben. Het onderzoek wijst uit dat studenten tijdens hun praktijkstage een groot aantal strategische taken uitvoeren. Echter, deze taken passen niet binnen het bestaande theoretische kader wat betreft de strategische invloed van middenmanagers. Dit kan worden verklaard door het feit dat wanneer men studenten binnen deze trainingssituatie plaatst, dit vaak non-routine situaties omvat, wat de ‘sensemaking’ of ‘juiste interpretatie’ van de studenten middenmanagers bevorderd.

研究表明,如通用汽车 的中层管理人员能对他们组织的战略产生向上或向下的影响。在酒店管理学院实践部,高年级学生担 任经理,培训管理能力。为了分析这是否反映实际情况,我已经展开研究学生作为管理者是否具有对战略管理的影响。研究表 明,学生完成大量的战略任务来作为实习训练的一部分。然而,这些任务并不符合现有的理论框架中对于中层管理者的战略影 响。这可能被认为把学生置于训练情形中,从而启发学生中层管理者的非再利用决策意识行为。

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