This paper explores the effects of three managerial ideologies on the degree of psychological contract breach perceived in connection with a downsizing event. Results from surveys conducted in the U.S. and Singapore suggest that a strong belief in the ideologies of market competition or shareholder interest reduces the perceived contract...
As taking environmental consideration may be considered to be a bizarre activity for organization actors, efforts to present environmental activities as business-as-usual emerge. A dominating rhetoric used by environmental advocates is the metaphor of competition. Environmental adaptation is a race; rewards for the winners include more innovative product development, barriers...
While a business must continually adapt to its competitive environment, there are certain core ideals that remain relatively steady and provide guidance in the process of strategic decision-making. These unchanging ideals form the business vision and are expressed in the company mission statement. The mission statement communicates the firm's core...
This study investigates the moderating effects of three managerial ideologies on the relationship between change in profitability and subsequent downsizing. Results of a moderated regression analysis reveal that the managerial ideologies moderate the relationship between change in profitability and downsizing in a consistent manner. Strong belief in the ideologies increases...
President signals historic shift in Gulf policy Moving to avoid war in Iran in the final months of his administration, George Bush has approved the highest-level American diplomatic contact with its ideological enemy since the humiliating US embassy hostage crisis of 1979. Shifting from...
WASHINGTON -- For years, supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have touted his social programs known as "missions" as a model of social justice. But this narrative is a myth, according to a comprehensive study by the Latin American Institute of Social Research. The authors, Yolanda D'Elia...
In response to Ellen Hindman's letter about the movie "WALL-- E" (Readers' Forum, July 14), I think she is letting her political views get in the way of a touching story. "WALL-- E" dealt with the environment and humanity's consumption and waste. Its message was one of environmental respect, personal...
Academic says that thinly veiled portrait of her is by female writer 'who holds feminism in contempt' Feminist academic Germaine Greer has branded the writer of a comic play reportedly based on aspects of her life an "insane reactionary" who "holds feminism in contempt". ...
WASHINGTON -- John Paul Stevens still plays tennis at 88. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, works out regularly in the Supreme Court gym. The oldest two justices -- half the court's liberal wing -- top the list of those considered likely to retire during the next presidential administration....
PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela AFP — The presidents of Venezuela and Colombia, Hugo Chavez and Alvaro Uribe, put aside months of animosity to meet in northwest Venezuela with the aim of normalizing ties. "As of now, a new stage begins with Colombia," Chavez told a joint press conference Friday....
LEGAL OPINION The call for automatic prison sentences to combat violence on our streets has become deafening in the past few weeks. But, pleads Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, politicians mustn't act until they have considered the evidence It has become all too easy...
BUENOS AIRES AFP — Argentina's military is to take on protecting the environment and interests in Antarctica under a shake-up being proposed by President Cristina Kirchner. The reform aims to assert Argentina's sovereignty over its natural resources, but could also create friction as competition intensifies between countries looking...
Why are we asking this now? For Turkey's more radical secularists, there is a war going on between the defenders of Kemalism - the mix of authoritarian secularism, statism and nationalism that is still Turkey's official ideology - and a government intent on imposing Islam on the...
TEHRAN AFP — Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have embarked on a new round of war games to sharpen their combat readiness, amid continued tensions over the Iranian nuclear drive, the Fars news agency reported. "The Great Prophet Manoeuvres III are being held by the missile divisions of the...
HITLER'S EMPIRE by Mark Mazower Allen Lane, £30, pp.725, ISBN 9780713996814 £24 (plus 2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 As we now know, the unimaginably awful Third Reich did not spring fully formed from Hitler's mind. Its antecedents can be traced to the predominantly upper-class and reactionary...
Sir: Rod Liddle (Liddle Britain, 28 June) is mistaken to suggest that only Guardian journalists objected to articles published in the Sunday Telegraph under the pseudonym Will Cummins. My Sunday Telegraph colleague Alasdair Palmer and I both of whom have written frequently to attack Islamic fundamentalism and Islamist terrorism protested...
Monday morning blues are a figment of the imagination, according to Australian scientists, who also say Friday euphoria is a chimera too. Psychologists at the University of Sydney collected information from hundreds of locals, who were asked on which morning and evening they felt best and worst....
Lessie Jo Frazier, Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Photographs, maps, figures, bibliography, index, 388 pp.; hardcover $84.95, paper $23.95. Carlos Huneeus, The Pinochet Regime. Translated by Lake Sagaris. Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 2007. Photographs, chronology,...
DR. LOVE IS STRUGGLING. Oh, the business side of things is going well. There's the couples cruise, the magazine, the singles nights, the self-authored sex ideology he calls "bio-communication." And the international media still can't get enough of him: A few years back, seemingly every wire service in the world...
Black October Ralph L. Cates Mystic Publishers 850 South Boulder Highway, Suite 436, Henderson, NV 89015 9781934051245, $24.99, www.mysticpublishers.com Although a work of fiction, with names, characters, and incidents created by the author's imagination, "Black October" is a political, financial,...
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