Many women are saying goodbye to the corporate worm in favor of creating their own through entrepreneurship. This paper explores some of the reasons why women in today's workforce change from the rise on the corporate ladder path to the worm of entrepreneurship. Issues such as job stress and one...
There has been increasing concern that gender bias has prevented women from advancing as rapidly and as frequently as men into management positions. Although the number of women managers has increased, they may experience difficulty moving into upper management positions. The purpose of the research presented in this paper was...
Using a racially diverse sample of 234 professional employees, the research presented in this paper investigated the impact of psychological contract breach and psychological contract violation on several work outcomes. Specifically, the research examined psychological contract violation as the key intervening mediating variable between psychological contract breach and various employee...
In an exploratory study using temporary workers, a model based on social exchange and social identity theories was developed and tested. Results revealed that, for both the temporary employee attitudes toward the client organization and the temporary employee attitudes toward the temporary agency, there was a positive association between job...
As part-time employees are typically a less costly source of labor, full-time employees may see part-time employees as a threat to their job security and a violation of the relational aspects of their psychological contracts. This paper proposes that to alleviate full-time employees' concerns, organizations will modify the compensation and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What HR functions can and should be outsourced? What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing so? This paper addresses these issues. This paper and the outsourcing model that is presented summarize many years of research on outsourcing. It also draws on evidence from the field that supports or contradicts...
Vendors also offer a plethora of ancillary features, the need for which depends on how far out onto the bleeding ledge of technology one wants to climb. They also relate to what kind of connectivity that a person needs to connect to other clinics in the group, to larger health-care...
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...
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...
