Showing papers in "Journal of Management in 1981"

TL;DR: In this paper, the antecedents of perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU) were examined in two laboratory experiments to explore the relationship of PEU to environment and individual subjects' characteristic(s).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used self-and organizational responses to partition 384 middle level managers into various likelihood of promotion and degree of mutuality groups, and compared these groups are independent.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sample of 352 top, middle, and low-level managers from both large and small organizations in a variety of industries was asked to rate the various roles required by their positions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effets of MBO on measures of quantity and quality' of performance and satisfaction with the work and supervision among employees in a human services agency were examined and a field study was conducted.

TL;DR: The authors presented an account of personal and instructional factors that inspired my efforts to balance concern for theory with concern for empirical research and application, which resulted in the outline of the work pursued since 1948, shown in Figure 1.

TL;DR: In this article, factors identified in the literature as predictors of centralization/decentralization were used as potential discriminating variables among several decision-making configurations in university affiliated professional schools.

TL;DR: The psychometric adequacy of Steers and Braunstein's (1976) Manifest Needs Questionnaire is investigated in this paper, and the results indicate that the instrument possesses adequate stability but lacks adequate internal consistency.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the organization and work group climates by the use of identical questions for 112 managers in different business units, and found tentative support for the notion that organization and group climates are different constructs.

TL;DR: A large, diverse sample of national firms was used to investigate the relationship between specialization, formalization, and centralization in the functional work unit, finding that the three variables compose a single dimension of organizational structure.

TL;DR: A review of the present and potential uses of videotape technology in behavioral research is provided in this paper, with emphasis on research methodology and the value of incorporating videotape in current research practices.

TL;DR: This article found that participants' assessments of the anticipated effectiveness of their judgmental decisions were poorly and inconsistently related to objective measures of effectiveness, which raises a need for improved approaches to assessing judgmental decision and identifying participants who make more accurate judgmental judgments.

TL;DR: The authors found that task attribute manipulations have not consistently/represented the theoretical conceptualizations of the task characteristics, and the implications of these results for job design research are discussed in detail.