Browsing by Subject "Organizational behavior"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Leadership has long invited explorations into the vagaries of its nature. Albert Ellis describes eight characteristics common to all leaders, each of which can be disrupted or negated by ones proneness to upset oneself ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This study examined the process of organizational commitment by developing and testing a comprehensive model of organizational commitment. The model was based on a review of the literature and hypothesized that organizational ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)The effect of bureaucratic structure on individual contributions to a public good is examined using a laboratory experiment. It is proposed that when individuals are placed in the context of an ideal-typical bureaucracy ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The determinants of salary are not well understood. The role that salary determinants play in influencing the male/female wage differential is even less well understood. As a result, the extent to which volitional employer ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)Existing models of organizational withdrawal and job adaptation have received equivocal support mostly due to the limited number of behaviors used to define these constructs. Fuentes and Sawyer (1989b) articulated a ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)This study examined the influence of procedural, interpersonal, and distributive justice on perceptions of fairness and workplace attitudes and behaviors for layoff victims and survivors. Self-report survey instruments ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Application of computer technology has greatly increased the manager's ability to make informed decisions about inanimate resources (e.g., money, materials, equipment, space and time). However, very little has been done ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)Determinants of business performance have been a major focus of research in the disciplines of marketing, strategic management and industrial organization economics during the last two decades. An examination of prior ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Public accounting firms have characteristics which set them apart from other professional organizations. These characteristics, which create a unique organizational setting, are a high percentage of professionalization, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The emergence of an idea champion is an essential ingredient in the process of strategic change. The idea champion provides energy to move the system, yet "we know practically nothing about this activity" (Daft & Bradshow, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between the demographic characteristics of strategic linking group members of organizations and the performance of the organization. Because the past experiences ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This study seeks to advance the audit structure literature by integrating concepts from the audit procedures and organizational structure literature. This study proposes that audit structure is a function of regulation and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This dissertation examined organizational control from a property rights perspective. The primary objective was to develop a framework which aligns technology, skills and organizational control, and test this framework. A ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The purpose of this study was to explore the potential utility of role theory in understanding organizational behavior phenomena and suggest administrative activities and practices that should reduce and/or maintain role ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)On February 8, 1979, the Ad Hoc Committee to Study Academic Business Operations of Texas A&M University, sent a report to Vice President for Business Affairs, Mr. Howard Vestal, recommending the creation of the position, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)A theory of turnover cultures is developed and examined based upon shared cognitions toward turnover. Shared cognitions evolve through exposure to similar information, behavior and events. Human resource management (HRM) ...