HEC Montréal

About: HEC Montréal is a education organization based out in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Vehicle routing problem. The organization has 1221 authors who have published 5708 publications receiving 196862 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montreal & HEC Montreal.

Leadership as boundary work in healthcare teams

Abstract: This paper proposes that boundary work is inherent to leadership practices in healthcare settings, and explores this phenomenon in interprofessional healthcare teams. Specifically, the study focuses on leading through and across boundaries in four interprofessional healthcare teams operating in the area of mental health services. We give special consideration to the specific contexts of these teams, and address the boundaries that are constructed and managed in interactions. Our qualitative study revealed that leadership can be exercised by different members and at different levels within the teams, and that it involves managing the boundaries between (a) roles of different members of the leadership constellation, (b) leadership and clinical roles, (c) formal leaders and other members of the team, (d) different professions, (e) personal life experiences and professional work, and (f) the team and what members consider to be the environment. We identify different types of boundary work tactics that involve...

The Effectiveness of Cigarette Warning Label Threats on Nonsmoking Adolescents

Abstract: This experiment investigated three levels of threat in cigarette warning labels: no warning/text warning only/text + graphic warning. Teenagers in Canada and the US were exposed to one of these labels in a web-surfing environment. Participants surfed a website sponsored by a familiar cigarette brand or an unfamiliar cigarette brand. After surfing, three dependent measures were assessed: brand attitude, website attitude, and smoking intent. Results indicated that the graphic label was the most effective for Canadian participants, leading to negative attitudes and lower smoking intentions, but the graphic label was least effective at lowering smoking intentions for US participants. Despite the efforts of many health organizations in the United States and Canada, smoking among adolescents continues to be a major health problem in both countries that has consequences for future smoking behavior. For example, in the US, 90% of adult smokers began smoking before the age of 21 (American Lung Association 2008) and in Canada, 85% of adult smokers began smoking before the age of 19 (Health Canada 2008). In the US, 20% of seniors in high school, 12% of 10th graders, and almost 6% of 8th graders smoke daily (American Lung Association 2008). In Canada, 20% of teenagers aged 15–19 become adult smokers (Health Canada 2004). These statistics emphasize the importance of messages, including cigarette warning labels, targeted in part at nonsmoking adolescents in an effort to reduce the numbers of those who pick up the habit. The US and Canada have taken different approaches to the types of warning labels mandated for cigarette packaging. In the US, warning

Operators and visionaries: differences in the entrepreneurial and managerial systems of two types of entrepreneurs

Abstract: Following an empirical study of the managerial systems of 116 entrepreneurs, the subjects were divided into two types. A total of 42 were classified as operators and the remaining 74 as visionaries. The managerial systems of all the sample entrepreneurs were analysed using Filion's empirical systems modelling methodology with consideration for Fayol's management key basic elements: planning, organising, commanding and controlling. Each of the two types had its own activity system. For the operators, the activities were selecting, performing, assigning, allocating, monitoring and adjusting. For the visionaries, they were visioning, designing, animating, monitoring and learning.

Role of commitment to the supervisor, leader-member exchange, and supervisor-based self-esteem in employee-supervisor conflicts.

Abstract: Using survey data from 240 employees working in a variety of organizations, the authors examined the relations among commitment to the supervisor, leader-member exchange, supervisor-based self-esteem (SBSE), and relationship and substantive supervisor-subordinate conflicts. They found affective commitment was negatively related to both types of conflicts; perceived lack of alternatives commitment was positively related to relationship conflicts; and leader-member exchange was negatively related to substantive conflicts. SBSE was negatively associated with both types of conflicts. In addition, when SBSE was low, affective commitment was more strongly related to both types of conflicts, and normative commitment more strongly and positively related to substantive conflicts. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for the understanding of employee-supervisor conflicts.