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Showing papers in "Journal of Management in 1979"


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TL;DR: A survey of the literature on response inducement techniques in mail survey research can be found in this paper, where the authors examined 12 of the most frequently researched techniques for increasing response rates.

113 citations


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TL;DR: The Ohio State Leadership Studies as mentioned in this paper have contributed in general to the fields of management and organizational behavior, and specifically to the field of leadership, and their contributions can be summarized in several categories: process contributions include the use of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of leadership phenomena as well as a consistent emphasis on performing high quality research.

48 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, Rensis Likert discusses early influences on his thinking, the university-connected Institute for Social Research and the criteria on which it was based, as well as the first leadership and management studies of the Survey Research Center.

39 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the validity of the male managerial stereotype and found that high achievement, high dominance, and low nurturance support the stereotype, since these traits appear to be associated with both males and females who have attained a managerial position.

27 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, cognitive style perceptions are suggested as possible explanations for the communication barrier often found to exist between system specialists and the users of information systems, and empirical studies are presented which demonstrate that perceptual differences can be observed for specific cognitive styles and between subjects possessing contrasting educational backgrounds.

23 citations


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TL;DR: A personal recollection of Ralph M. Stogdill is presented, and the contribution of the OS U Leadership Studies to the understanding of leader behavior is reviewed with respect to the intermediate phase between the leader-trait and situational approaches to leadership.

22 citations


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TL;DR: This paper examined relationships between job characteristics, alienation from work, and work-related behavior for a group of professional-level technical and managerial employees of a large manufacturing firm and found that a lack of significant relationships between the nature of jobs and experienced work alienation.

20 citations


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TL;DR: A multidisciplinary program of leadership research was initiated at Ohio State in 1945 as mentioned in this paper, where leader behavior in organizations was the principal thrust with relationships shown to other sets of variables.

19 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the predictive power of two models (work unit structure and job design) in association with employee job satisfaction were compared, and the results indicated the work unit structure did not have a significant association with employees' job satisfaction.

13 citations


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TL;DR: It is suggested that the consistency and value of future research results on the technology-structure connection can be considerably enhanced if researchers take greater care to specify their organizational levels of analysis as well as the way in which they operationalize their technology and structure variables.

13 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, union officials and managers from several federal facilities rank-ordered 11 elements identified as necessary for successful union-management relationships and developed a three-tiered hierarchy of importance of the elements.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempted to reconcile inconsistencies in the literature concerning the job attribute preferences of full-time and part-time workers, revealing that the worker's sex and occupation influence preferences.

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TL;DR: In this article, the results of tests of two hypotheses which investigate relationships between a firms industrial location, perceived strategic challenges, and strategic responses are reported. But, similar perceived challenges do not necessarily elicit similar strategic responses.

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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of flexible work hours on first-line supervisors was investigated, focusing on a significant and neglected issue -the impact of Flexi-Time programs on firstline supervisors.

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TL;DR: A survey of wage and salary administrative practices for a sample of business firms is reported in this article, including a descriptive analysis of labor market surveys, job evaluation, and the pattern of decision making in a number of activities for each responding firm.