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- Keeping It "All in the Family:" Does Nepotism in the Hiring Process Really Benefit the Beneficiary?
- The purpose of this paper is to examine the consequences of being perceived as having benefited from a family connection during the hiring process. One hundred and ninety-seven upper-level undergraduate students reviewed materials describing three candidates jot a managerial position. Selection method (merit vs. nepotism) and gender of the person...
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- Reconceptualizing Social Skills in Organizations
- The study presented in this paper applies a three component model of communication competence (motivation, knowledge, and skill) within an organizational context and analyzes the relationship between job performance, position level, and communication competence. Data analysis revealed high job performers had significantly higher levels of motivation to adapt communication and...
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- The Importance of Organizational Context on Employees' Attitudes
- Organizational context is important in the determination of attitudes and behaviors. This paper presents the results of a study conducted with employees of branch banks and main o/rice banks' regarding their job-related attitudes. It is hypothesized in this paper that employees in the branch banks will have lower levels of...
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- Moral Leadership in a Postmodern World
- This paper examines the gap between moral purpose and moral performance as a problem created in part by the alienation of spirituality from civic life. This is a nation of privatized morality that places corporate and civic leaders in a labyrinth of uncertainty when they try to establish a moral...
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- Attitudes Toward Workplace Fun: A Three Sector Comparison
- The study presented in this paper examined the issue of "Fun at work" across three sectors: public, nonprofit, and private. Specifically, the paper examined employees' attitudes toward fun, their perceptions of what is and is not fun, and the role of trust in the supervisor and coworkers. While there were...
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- Re-Examining Current Career Development Experiences of Non-Euro-American Male Aspirants Toward the Academy
- Current research and scholarship asserts inevitable projected trends of highly diverse student population demographics within the landscape of post-secondary institutions over the next decade while simultaneously forecasting a paradoxical ebbing of non-minority faculty members from that same landscape in academe. Such portrays current and future hiring trends of minority or...
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- Dispositional Antecedents and Consequences of Emotional Labor at Work
- The authors' examined individual difference variables as antecedents of perceived emotional labor, as well as affective and behavioral consequences. Full time employees who had at least five years of work experience completed two separate surveys. Respondents were asked to indicate negative affectivity and political skill, and perceived emotional labor at...
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- Medical Practice Software: Tips for Success
- In this paper, the author recommends ways that medical practices can protect themselves from problems when buying medical practice software. One should build into the contract terms and conditions regarding satisfaction and performance. One should spread out payments to protect himself or herself. One should consider getting fewer seat licenses...
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- Almost Got the Job?
- If an individual has made it to the final interview the hiring company is obviously satisfied with the hard data gathered so far from the person, and his or her resume, and references. At this stage they are looking for the person to fit the intangible factors like culture and...
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- Leadership Survey
- Development Dimensions International surveyed more than 1,500 leaders and more than 1,400 associates from 14 countries around the world for its "Leadership Forecast 2003-2004" report. This paper provides a recap of some of its findings as they pertain to the role of a supervisor. One of the finding was that...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Ten Tips for Managing Creative Types
- Managing a group of creative people is challenging but rewarding work. While all employees are capable of being creative, and most work calls for some degree of creativity, there are special things to consider when managing self-identified right-brain thinkers. This paper provides tips for managing "Creative types" in the workplace.
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- Motivating Employees of Small Businesses
- To motivate means to use available methods or resources to persuade someone to work harder or excel at what he or she does. If successfully done, it is a means of enhancing the success of one's overall business. One of the simplest and least costly methods of motivating employees is...
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- Recharge Your Passion for Leadership
- Leading a business is time-consuming, stressful, and demanding work, which can drain a person's excitement for the job and leave the person frustrated and exhausted. Regardless of how much enthusiasm a person will have when first starting out, there eventually comes a point when the wear and tear of everyday...
- White papers
- Emotional Intelligence as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Conscientiousness and Performance
- The study presented in this paper investigates whether the relationship between conscientiousness and performance is stronger for individuals who are high on emotional intelligence. The results of hierarchical moderated regression analyses supported the hypothesis by demonstrating that the relationship between conscientiousness and work performance is positive for individuals high (versus...
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- Chief Executives From 1960-1989: A Trend Toward Professionalization
- There has been a long-standing debate whether the field of Management is deserving of professional status, rather than simply status as an occupation. Critics claim that the absence of a required educational background and a professional organization with its own code of ethics are what keep management from joining established...
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- The Effects of Positive Affect and Gender on the Influence Tactics - Job Performance Relationship
- Influence tactics are goal-oriented behaviors that individuals use to obtain desired outcomes. Thus, it is important that managers understand subordinates' use of influence tactics and the effects of these tactics on organizational outcomes. This paper argues that Positive Affect PA will moderate the relationship between upward influence tactics and job...
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- The Effects of Nationality, Work Role Centrality, and Work Locus of Control on Role Definitions of OCB
- In a study of 116 Chinese managers of state-owned businesses in Shanghai and Tianjin and 109 American managers attending an Executive MBA program, nationality, work role centrality, and work locus of control were examined as possible reasons for why an individual might include behaviors typically characterized as Organizational Citizenship Behavior...
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- Establishing Workplace Rules
- The article emphasizes on establishing workplace rules. One of the great things about running your own business is that you make the rules. The trick is to make good ones. Bad rules can be oppressive, confining and inefficient, whereas good rules can help you and your employees avoid confusion...
- White papers 1999-01-22
- Nine Effective Management Techniques
- "Almost everybody thinks that they're good managers. But according to a Gallup Poll, 25 percent of U.S. employees would fire their bosses if they could. That means that at least one in four of you are failing. But that number's not surprising when you consider how few...
- White papers 1999-01-07
- Consequences If You Don´t Perform a Background Check
- There are good reasons to look into an applicant's background, however. Before you decide to trust applicants with your business's money, equipment and reputation, you should be sure that their history doesn't indicate they'll take advantage of that trust. Moreover, you make a substantial investment in a new worker's training...
- White papers 1999-01-11
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