Showing papers in "Journal of Management in 1986"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify six categories of self-reports and discuss such problems as common method variance, the consistency motif, and social desirability, as well as statistical and post hoc remedies and some procedural methods for dealing with artifactual bias.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the impact of cultural diversity on international organizational behavior and suggest that cross-cultural management would greatly benefit from comparative studies considering the cognitive aspects of culture on managerial practice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the relevance of argumentation and narration for organizational communication, which is the exchange of information among organizational participants from which meaning is inferred, and the links between argument and organizational rationality and between the narrative paradigm and organizational storytelling are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined job involvement and organizational commitment as interactive predictors of absenteeism and tardiness behaviors, and found that individuals with higher levels of job involvement exhibited less unexcused tardy and absenteeism than those with lower levels of involvement and commitment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of a negotiated belief structure to help analyze how political and information-processing forces work to create decision premises within a strategy-making group, defined as the beliefs or assumptions that underscore a strategic decision.

TL;DR: This paper examined the usefulness of performance feedback in shaping American and English workers' behaviors and found that workers valued and responded to praise and criticism differently, and that the influence of the feedback was partially mediated by a worker's trust in the feedback source and perceived importance of feedback.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors advocate a new approach to research in strategic management lbusiness policy, which is based on a critique of the existing ideological underpinnings of the field on five criteria.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the domain of strategy content research as embracing decisions about the goals, scope, and/or competitive strategies of a corporation or one of its business units, and they review and evaluate several important streams of strategy research (goals, diversification, strategic groups, market share, competitive strategy taxonomies, and stages of market evolution) in terms of the relationships among environmental conditions, strategic decisions, and performance results.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a meaningful definition of accuracy in the measurement of leadership, summarize the conclusions from existing research concerning leadership questionnaires, assess the consequences of this research, and offer several practical recommendations for the future of the leadership questionnaire.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review describes the evolution of personnel administration and human resource management (PAIHRM) and discusses current trends and issues in the field, such as changes from personnel to human resources, from administration to management, and from human relations to organizational effectiveness.

TL;DR: In this article, the first principal component introduces a negative bias into the resulting correlations that seriously compromises subsequent analysis, and the extent of bias is not reduced by increasing sample size; however, it is inversely proportional to the number of variables.

TL;DR: In this article, a path-analytic approach was used to conduct such an examination using the original data, which Mobley et al. derived from a sample of 203 full-time hospital employees from four general job categories: service, technical, clerical, and nursing services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the congruence between goal-setting strategies and socio-cultural values of the working environment was investigated in the kibbutz, public (Histadrut), and private sectors with respect to the goal setting strategies of group participation, participation by representation, and no participation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the role of differential perceptions, attributions, and inferences in how people, especially managers, think about implementation, and present a case of managerial innovation in one urban school district.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the curvilinear relationship between job performance and turnover in two diverse employee groups, using samples of 169 male accountants and 107 owner-operator truck drivers (average age: 38.4 years).

TL;DR: Context-free versus context-specific research orientations are discussed as researchers' cognitive styles that influence the way in which management research is conducted in this article, where the relationship of these orientations to methodological preferences is examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize the current content and direction of the BAPP field and describe five areas presenting critical challenges for both analysts and practitioners: (a) corporate governance, (b) organizational ethics, (c) the political influence of business, (d) the integration of BAPP analysis with strategic management, and (e) multinational business-society relationships.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of providing realistic job previews (RJPs) to applicants for the job of inventory taker and found that recipients were more likely to turn down a job offer, perceive the organization as being honest with them, cope with job demands, be satisfied with their jobs, and remain in their jobs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors manipulated the specificity of job descriptions and applicant qualifications contained in fictitious recruitment advertisements to determine their effect on the probability of response, and found that specificity of applicant qualifications had a significant negative effect on probability of responses for unqualified individuals.

TL;DR: A review of the organizational behavior literature posits that the prime research focus should be on the behavior of individuals in organizational settings rather than their affective reactions to those settings.

TL;DR: The authors compared the effectiveness of the NGT, unstructured group work (UNS), and pooled-individual efforts on an evaluation task and assessed the effects of NGT and UNS group work on interaction process.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of self-serving biases in leaders' and subordinates' attributions for group performance and their appropriateness ratings of various supervisory actions and found that leaders attributed low group performance to subordinates, whereas subordinates attributed low groups performance to leaders.

TL;DR: The authors examines the research methods used by Peters and Waterman in their book, In Search of Excellence (1982), and describes the results of empirical tests done to assess whether their exemplary firms are actually excellent.

TL;DR: The authors examined the work attitudes of American and Australian business majors in order to determine the effect of nationality on managerial attitudes and found that although each national group highly valued both intrinsic and extrinsic job factors, Americans placed greater emphasis on self-fulfillment, responsibility, and other intrinsic rewards, whereas Australians stressed extrinsics factors like income and job security.

TL;DR: In this article, four areas of research interest are discussed: organizational effectiveness, organization-environment interactions, organizational learning, and organizational growth and decline research prospects in each area are introduced and reviewed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how customer-firm interface mediates the relationship between information processing and task activities in service organizations and found that CFI was found to mediate the relationship of information equivocality and task activity.

TL;DR: In this article, the relevance of the literature on research methodology to understand the difficulty of linking theory and management practice, and the problems faced by the management professional in attempting to apply experience to new situations is analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the ways in which women perceive, experience, and cope with the initiation rites of the corporate tribe (gaining entry, establishing credibility, and managing gender identity).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the early career factors that affect the decision to move from a technical professional job to a technical management position and found that favorable job structure, access to mentorslsponsors, and entrepreneurial initiative characterized technical managers and technical professionals by choice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the potential of applying network analysis to attribution theories of leadership and suggested the use of network analysis in evaluating leader-subordinate relationships and leader behavior descriptions.