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...
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...
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.
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...
It's natural for an individual to want to pass the business on to someone exactly like himself or herself. Of course, that's not possible; so who is the best person to assume the responsibility? The answer depends on a number of factors including the direction the company is taking, the...
Benefits administration has many elements, not the least of which is one's group medical plan. First, a person should decide whether he or she should assign the group medical plan administration to an existing employee or whether the person will need to hire someone. In order to decide, the person...
