Showing papers in "Journal of Management in 1982"

TL;DR: In this paper, a macro, integrative theory of leadership is presented, which emphasizes the role of the leader in assessing the deficiencies in the follower's abilities, motivation, role perception or environmental conditions and in taking action to alleviate deficiencies which inhibit follower performance.

TL;DR: This article reported the results of an experiment designed to examine the possible impact of the corporate image of the advertiser and the degree of specificity of the candidate qualifications on the likelihood of reader response to a recruitment advertisement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the traditional moderated technique with a technique designed to increase the probability of the indication of a moderator variable, and found that the ability to detect a moderator also depends on the distribution of the moderator variable.

TL;DR: In this paper, a laboratory study was conducted using a 2 (facilitating versus inhibiting task settings) x 3 (low versus moderate versus high goal levels) experimental design, which supported the constraint x goal difficulty interaction prediction using a measure of self-set personal goals.

TL;DR: A review of a variety of research areas shows that attributions about the causes of another person's behavior are only moderately good predictors of behavior as discussed by the authors, and that social, task and situational factors seem to be as important in predicting this behavior as attributions.

TL;DR: In this article, an expost facto designed investigation compared employee affective and behavioral responses to four work schedules (a fixed-hour schedule and three variations of flexible working hours) and found that employees generally responded more favorably to any of the flexible hour systems as contrasted with the fixed hour work schedule.

TL;DR: In this paper, a structural-contingency model drawn from the innovation literature is applied to the particular adaptive situation created by Affirmative Action requirements, and it is argued that organic structural characteristics will be associated with success.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between instructional workload and the budgeting of personnel positions and how this relationship changes as personnel positions become more scarce and found that the tendency to use the bureaucratic model increases with personnel positions becoming more scarce.

TL;DR: The authors examined the effect of redundant feedback on intrinsic motivation to perform a task and found that redundant task performance feedback may not yield positive effects on attitudinal measures of intrinsic motivation, while such effects appear to be assumed in the literature.

TL;DR: In this article, two samples totaling 457 nursing department employees from four metropolitan hospitals were employed to test the impact of leader punitive behavior on employee satisfaction, with the correlated effect of leader reward behavior statistically controlled for.

TL;DR: Multidimensional scaling (MDS) as mentioned in this paper is a research methodology for use by organizational scientists and has been shown to be useful in the areas of construct development and schema recovery, as well as other areas of research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on union-management ideology as a potential explanatory variable in labor relations and demonstrate a comprehensive method for empirically measuring the ideology of union and management representatives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored professionalization as a phenomenon attendant to rational corporate management and found that engineers exhibit greater professionalization in an organization which was rationally managed than they would in one where rational management was not the norm.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of relative size in the analysis of both total dollar and manpower budgets and changes in total budget sizes when correlationallregression methods are used was examined.