Texas Christian University

About: Texas Christian University is a education organization based out in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3245 authors who have published 8258 publications receiving 282216 citations. The organization is also known as: TCU & Texas Christian University, TCU.

The Role of Professionalism in Determining Job Satisfaction in Professional Services A Study of Marketing Researchers

Abstract: The services literature extols the importance of the link between satisfied customers and satisfied employees. In this study, the authors develop and test a job satisfaction model that examines the role of rewarding professionalism. Specifically, they examine whether rewards for professional behavior foster professionalism and esprit de corps (a set of enthusiastically shared feelings, beliefs, and values about group membership and performance) in order to further understanding of job satisfaction for professional service providers. Using surveys from marketing researchers, the authors assess the importance of rewarding professional service providers for professional behavior by examining the links between reward structures, esprit de corps, and job satisfaction. Research findings indicate that as organizations reward professional behavior they help foster the development of key aspects of professionalism. The findings are that a reward structure favoring professional behavior directly leads to higher esp...

Are “Real Options” Actually Used in the Real World?

Abstract: The inability of classic NPV analysis to capture the future value of options in a capital budgeting analysis is now well documented by Trigeorgis (1993, 2005), Copeland and Antikarov (2001), and others. In spite of this, traditional NPV analysis continues to be described as a normative approach. The author surveys Fortune 1,000 companies to see if they have picked up on the use of real options to complement traditional analysis. Out of 279 respondents, 40 were currently using real options (14.3%). While the percentage is small, the number is higher than in previous studies. The author goes on to describe in what manner real options are being used and, of equal importance, why they are resisted by many. Somewhat encouraging is the intent of well over half the nonusers to consider the use of real options in the future.

Interpersonal affect and performance appraisal: a field study

Abstract: Interpersonal affect has been found, in prior laboratory research, to be related to ratings of job performance. Such findings have been taken to mean that affect creates bias in ratings. The present study was conducted to determine if this relationship would hold up in a field setting. The present study was also designed to examine how structured diary-keeping, and the nature of the appraisal instrument, might be related to affect-appraisal relationships. The results for 85 raters, and 404 ratees, suggested that affect was significantly related to all ratings, but more strongly related to trait-like ratings than task/outcome-like ratings, and that having raters keep performance diaries actually increased the strength of the relationship between affect and ratings. We concluded that affect may not be a biasing influence on ratings, but may be a result of better subordinate performance. Results from an analysis of the diary content supported this conclusion. Implications for the role of affect on ratings and the nature of the relationship between past performance and interpersonal affect in field settings are discussed.

Triethylborane-Initiated Room Temperature Radical Addition of Hypophosphites to Olefins: Synthesis of Monosubstituted Phosphinic Acids and Esters

Abstract: A novel and practical approach to monosubstituted phosphinic acid (alkylphosphonous acid) derivatives from hypophosphite salts or esters is described. Phosphorus-centered radical formation is initi...

The Open Cluster Chemical Analysis and Mapping Survey: Local Galactic Metallicity Gradient with APOGEE Using SDSS DR10

Abstract: The Open Cluster Chemical Analysis and Mapping (OCCAM) survey aims to produce a comprehensive, uniform, infrared-based data set for hundreds of open clusters, and constrain key Galactic dynamical and chemical parameters from this sample. This first contribution from the OCCAM survey presents analysis of 141 members stars in 28 open clusters with high-resolution metallicities derived from a large uniform sample collected as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment. This sample includes the first high-resolution metallicity measurements for 22 open clusters. With this largest ever uniformly observed sample of open cluster stars we investigate the Galactic disk gradients of both [M/H] and [?/M]. We find basically no gradient in [?/M] across 7.9 kpc ? R GC ? 14.5?kpc, but [M/H] does show a gradient for R GC < 10?kpc and a significant flattening beyond R GC = 10?kpc. In particular, whereas fitting a single linear trend yields an [M/H] gradient of ?0.09 ? 0.03?dex?kpc?1?similar to previously measure gradients inside 13?kpc?by independently fitting inside and outside 10?kpc separately we find a significantly steeper gradient near the Sun (7.9 ? R GC ? 10) than previously found (?0.20 ? 0.08?dex?kpc?1) and a nearly flat trend beyond 10?kpc (?0.02 ? 0.09?dex?kpc?1).