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- Towards a Deterministic Theory of Selective Individual Performance. Amin, M. Ruhul // Journal of Management Research (09725814);Aug2003, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p61
A complex organizational behavioral model explaining selective individual performance (i.e. individual contributing more than what is required) has been proposed in this paper. Data are collected from employees of 14 private and publicly held organizations to determine the efficacy of the model....
- THE IMPACT OF TECHNICAL CHANGE ON THE NORMS OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS AMONG WORKERS. Sainsaulieu, Renaud // International Studies of Management & Organization;Fall71, Vol. 1 Issue 3, p292
This article presents a study that examines the impact of technical innovations or conversions on the norms of interpersonal relations among workers. Changes in equipment and the methods of organizing work constitute a major transformation for a firm, an upheaval which goes far beyond simply...
- THE ROLE OF THE FIELD STAFF REPRESENTATIVE. Joseph, Myron L. // Industrial & Labor Relations Review;Apr59, Vol. 12 Issue 3, p353
Studies of collective bargaining in the mass-production industries have given much attention to pattern-setting negotiations, which usually take place at the major levels of management and union government. Far less is known about collective bargaining at the secondary level, despite the large...
- Politics, Organizations, and Choice: Applications of an Equilibrium Model. Roos Jr., Leslie L. // Administrative Science Quarterly;Dec72, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p529
A simple model of consumer behavior is used to structure data on environmental change, organizational mobility, and satisfaction taken from studies of Turkish and French �lites.� Despite the widely different subject matter of the two data sets, a microeconomic formulation proved conceptually...
- Predicting Prejudicial Attitudes: The Importance of Affect, Cognition, and the Feeling-Belief Dimension. Haddock, Geoffrey; Zanna, Mark P. // Advances in Consumer Research;1993, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p315
Applies the attitude concept to the domain of intergroup attitudes, in order to discover the relative importance of affect and cognition in predicting prejudice. Zanna and Rempel (1988) formulation of the attitude concept; Prediction of prejudice as a function of individual differences on the...
- Reason vs. 'Chicken Little' Bernstein, S. // Advertising Age;2/24/92, Vol. 63 Issue 8, p16
Explains the `Chicken Little Awards,' given to groups and individuals who have scared the daylights out of people with dubious claims, ushering in National Anxiety Month (April). The National Anxiety Center also hopes to act as a clearinghouse for those seeking information on how to cope wwith...
- People are slowly discovering that the virtue of niceness doesn't really exist. Byfield, Link // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;3/15/93, Vol. 20 Issue 13, p2
States that what people really believe in falls into three categories. `Naturalist' group, from which come virtually all of the nut-case ideas which confuse and afflict us on all sides; `Supernaturalists' who believe that there is a larger eternal reality to be reached after death; The Niceness...
- The trouble with liberalism is that it doesn't know up from sideways. Byfield, Link // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;7/19/93, Vol. 20 Issue 31, p2
Argues that the moral liberal doesn't ask if abortion, divorce, or capital punishment are `good' or `evil,' he asks whether it is `contemporary' and `self-fulfilling' and `progressive.' Goodness and sin are intellectual conclusions or deductions; Conservatives recognize that moral reality...
- If Madame Justice McLachlin is right, we aren't going forward but backward. Byfield, Ted; Byfield, Virginia // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;7/19/93, Vol. 20 Issue 31, p32
Argues that if the only reason we behaved decently was that the law would put us in jail if we didn't, then obviously most of us would not behave decently. Law does not substitute for morality, it reinforces it; People kept honest by public disapproval of dishonesty; Moral foundation of society...
