Showing papers in "Journal of Management in 1978"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the continued usage of non-replicated measures may be doing a great disservice to the job satisfaction field not only by failing to provide fair tests of conceptual propositions but also by precluding the incremental building of knowledge across studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between job satisfaction and employee orientations of professionals in small rural hospitals and found that organizational loyalty was the predominate orientation predicting job satisfaction.

TL;DR: The authors compared three methods of treating missing data with respect to the results obtained, the informational value of each method, the population to which the results can be referred, and statistical power.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of environmental conditions on evaluative interpersonal judgments were investigated in a small-scale study with 20 male undergraduate students who were randomly assigned to two conditions: (a) noisy (taped office noise played at 70-80 decibels) and (b) quiet (ambient noise at 55-57 dBs).

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship of managers' descriptions of organizational climate to their participation in informal helping interactions at work and found that organizational climate had an influence on several aspects of the informal helping process as it existed in work settings.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined role clarity in terms of its relationships with personal outcomes and organizational effectiveness and found that role clarity was positively related to perceptions of job satisfaction, personal influence, organizational effectiveness, and task-oriented leadership.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test whether apparent relationships between job scope and employee reactions which have been isolated by previous research may be confounded by pay and by intercorrelations among employee reactions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make management and organizational behavior researchers aware of the nature of the communication apprehension construct, research conducted to date, and some of the implications for on-going organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, a sample of scientists and engineers from 15 R&D organizations participated in a study designed to assess the moderating influences of facets of perceived cohesiveness and collaborative problem solving on the task characteristics-individual performance relationship.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the contention that variations in the focal organization's context, reflecting strategies of co-opting, competing, capitalizing, and corpulating, constrain the periodicity of succession in the office of chief executive within the setting of 58 petrochemical companies.

TL;DR: This article presented a conceptual model that synthesizes communication concepts and Adams' equity theory using a receiver-oriented approach, organizational communication is seen as having reward value that is subject to social comparisons.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the development and three studies to test the reliability and validity of an instrument to measure the technology level of jobs and subunits in an organization.

TL;DR: In this article, the typical management professor has 12 years of managerial experience and 7 years of non-managerial experience, but most of this experience was obtained prior to 1970, and other factors pertaining to the managerial experience of management professors were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, Adams' theory of inequity has been extended to predict the results of allocation experiments and the complexities of determining allocation strategies from post hoc examination of reward distributions are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the consequences of positive, negative, and no leader feedback were examined following collective group failure, and it was found that positive leader feedback, following collective failure, is a more effective strategy than negative leader feedback to increase group integration, perceived task motivation, and leader endorsement.

TL;DR: This paper used an incremental version of expectancy theory and the conventional model to predict intended effort and performance using an incremental algorithm and found that the incremental algorithm was consistently superior to the traditional model.

TL;DR: This paper provided an alternative methodology for projecting MBA's to 1990 by compounding a series of five past ratios, including costs, benefits, institutional factors and changes in the age-eligible population.

TL;DR: This paper found that perceived supervisory influence was significantly related to perceptions of supervisory effectiveness, influence over valued rewards and the task, and one's feelings of personal influence in the workplace.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the ROQ inventory model with the EOQ model, which is based on a criterion of maximizing return on investment in inventory, and showed that the ROQL model may lead to unrealistically high order frequencies.