Showing papers in "Journal of Management in 1999"

TL;DR: In this paper, a review selectively examines the theoretical and empirical organizational change literature over the past nine years (1990-early 1998), focusing on content issues, contextual issues, process issues, and criterion issues, dealing with outcomes commonly assessed in organizational change efforts.

TL;DR: The literature that serves to define health and well-being is reviewed and important future directions for future theory, research, and practice regarding health andwell-being from an organizational perspective are highlighted.

TL;DR: A review of the development of the field of strategic management and its current position examines the field's early development and the primary theoretical and methodological bases through its history as discussed by the authors, which is a good starting point for this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive model of relationships between transformational and transactional leadership, procedural and distributive justice, trust, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review analyzes how the changing nature of careers can be conceptualized by examining two major categories of careers research, namely, the developmental stage theories of Super (1957) and Levinson (1978, 1986, 1996) and the boundaryless career concept (Arthur & Rousseau, 1996).

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of social support in work-family conflict and found that social support may be best viewed as an antecedent to perceived stressors, thus, indirectly affecting family conflict.

TL;DR: In this paper, an extension of Byrne, Shavelson, and Muthgn's (1989) procedure for identifying non-invariant items is proposed, which solves the standardization problem by performing a systematic comparison of all pairs of factor loadings across groups.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the principal findings of over 200 studies of work motivation published between January 1990 and December 1997 and conclude by examining trends in research in the field overall and considering the implications of these trends for the future role of motivation in organizational behavior research.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated framework that considers the sources, mechanisms, outcomes, and strategic implications of embeddedness is presented, including cross-level issues (such as collective cognition and nesting), as well as issues related to temporality, networks, and methodology.

TL;DR: The field of Human Resource Management (HRM) has evolved considerably over the past century, and experienced a major transformation in form and function primarily within the past two decades as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a model that applies the concept of restorative justice to the enactment of revenge and forgiveness in organizations was proposed and tested, and all but two of the predicted pathways in the model were upheld.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that limitations inherent in demographics-based TMT studies preclude their use in specifying how top managers influence their firms, and they suggest "next steps" for improving the usefulness of future top management team (TMT) studies by incorporating more substantive heterogeneity constructs, such as within-TMT power distributions, psychographic variances, and judgment differences.

TL;DR: In this article, a literature-based model is presented to define how task and person conflict modify the relationship between positive goal interdependence and decision-making effectiveness in management teams.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a selection test for staffing work teams based on knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) for effective teamwork (Stevens & Campion, 1994) to develop a paper-and-pencil test of teamwork situations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of two mood dimensions (positive affect and negative affect) on employees' withdrawal behavior, specifically, on their absenteeism and turnover from an organization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors surveyed the post-merger perceptions of the top managers of firms acquired in friendly, related deals and used a two-stage data collection design with the attempt to explain turnover in the first three years following the acquisition and also predict it in the fourth year.

TL;DR: Using both agency theory and comparative national culture frameworks, this article investigated factors determining the degree and type of control used by American and Japanese MNCs on their Korean subsidiaries, and found that the usefulness of agency theory in explaining the degree of management control exerted.

TL;DR: In this paper, a synthesis of transaction cost economics and institutional theory is presented, which explores conditions under which one or both theories may be most appropriate in explaining decision behavior, focusing on two important situational factors -the degree of ambiguity surrounding transaction cost analyses and the organization's temporal survival orientation.

TL;DR: In this article, the concept of relatedness has been used to represent the cultural diversity that may hinder efforts to integrate and coordinate efforts as required by global strategies, and the theory posits that cultural diversity among international divisions of a global firm may actually impede efforts to merge activities and expertise between those units.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the impact of three kinds of uncertainty on product line simplicity, namely environmental state uncertainty, organizational effect and decision response uncertainty, on the range of product variations a firm offers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined two widely cited, yet disparate, theoretical views of the relationship between poor performance and subsequent organizational action appear in organizational research and concluded that there is no support for the behavioral theory of the firm.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether conscientiousness and ability interact in the prediction of job performance and found that ability does not moderate the relationship of conscientiousness to job performance, while conscientiousness is positively associated with high ability and negatively with low ability.

TL;DR: In this article, an ethical decision-making model of individuals' reactions to social-sexual behavior that they witness at work was proposed and tested, which revealed the influence of both the moral intensity of the behavior and the ethical ideology of the observer on recognition of the behaviour as an ethical issue and intentions to intervene in the behavior.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a survey across a two-year period to examine the attitudinal effects of skill-based pay (SBP) plans in a consumer products company in the Northeast region of the United States.

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship of positive and negative affect (PA and NA) with multi-dimensional pay satisfaction and found that PA explained significant variance in pay satisfaction after controlling for actual salary levels, overall job satisfaction, and other individual characteristics.

TL;DR: In this paper, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to create a measure of managerial efficiency in an attempt to reassess the conflicting theories concerning the impact of organizational performance on managerial firings, and the counter-theories concerning the effect of manager hirings on organizational performance.

TL;DR: Kipnis and Schmidt (1988) challenged the traditional between-person focus in upward influence research by the clustering of tactics to identify four broader styles individuals use in influence attempts as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework of divestiture built around the core concept of seller responsiveness, defined as the readiness of the management at the selling firm to respond to the need to divest.