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Measuring Family Business Performance: A Holistic, Idiosyncratic Approach, Ralph I. Williams Jr Jun 2015

Measuring Family Business Performance: A Holistic, Idiosyncratic Approach, Ralph I. Williams Jr

Doctor of Business Administration Dissertations

For any type of organization, performance represents the measure of outcomes, goals, and aspirations vital to various organization stakeholders; thus performance is an important research variable (Seijts, Latham, Tasa, & Latham, 2004, Simon, 1964). Family businesses are different from non-family businesses in that the family subsystem and the business subsystem overlap and interact to form the family business system. The desired outcomes, goals, and aspirations of each family business are a product of its particular family and business sub-systems. Thus, in family business, especially privately owned entities, performance is of particular interest since families can set their goals in their …


La Importancia De Implementar El Área De Recursos Humanos En Las Pymes, Luz Amparo Rocha, Eva Paola Rodríguez Martínez Jan 2015

La Importancia De Implementar El Área De Recursos Humanos En Las Pymes, Luz Amparo Rocha, Eva Paola Rodríguez Martínez

Administración de Empresas

Se estudia la importancia y el papel decisivo que cumple la presencia del “área de recursos humanos” en las Pymes. A pesar de lo que revelan las prácticas deficientes de un porcentaje significativo de Pymes en Colombia (30%), este artículo muestra primero las razones que justifican la existencia de esta área. Luego estudia las dificultades que surgen de la ausencia de esta área en una empresa. Finalmente estudia sus funciones específicas, mostrando cómo éstas se entretejen con -y afectan a- todos los niveles de la dinámica empresarial. El artículo busca poner en evidencia tanto las ventajas, en caso de existencia, …


Aspects Of Goals And Rewards Systems As Antecedents Of Abusive Supervision: The Mediating Effect Of Hinderance Stress, Mary Bardes Jan 2009

Aspects Of Goals And Rewards Systems As Antecedents Of Abusive Supervision: The Mediating Effect Of Hinderance Stress, Mary Bardes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this study, I draw on research on goal setting, stress, and aggression to examine contextual antecedents of abusive supervision. I suggest that a characteristic of the supervisors' goals (viz., goal difficulty) can contribute to abusive supervisory behaviors through the effect it has on the supervisors' level of hindrance stress. I also propose that this mediating process is moderated by two characteristics of the supervisors' rewards (viz., goal-contingent reward and reward interdependence). Thus, I suggest a moderated mediation model predicting supervisors' hindrance stress acts as a mediator of the relationship between supervisors' difficult goals and abusive supervision. Moreover, I also …