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An Integrative Analysis Of Benjamin Bloom's Cognitive Domain And Bruce Tuckman's Developmental Model, Reginald Bell, Wally Guyot Ph.D., Philip Martin, Robert Meier Ph.D. Jan 2007

An Integrative Analysis Of Benjamin Bloom's Cognitive Domain And Bruce Tuckman's Developmental Model, Reginald Bell, Wally Guyot Ph.D., Philip Martin, Robert Meier Ph.D.

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

The purpose of the study was two-fold: (1) Do small group settings benefit students? (2) How can professors enhance the group environment through task related instructions? A 33-item Group Learning on Development Survey (GOLDS) was used to integrate Bruce Tuckman’s developmental model with Benjamin Bloom’s cognitive domain. Norming and Performing variables (Factor 1) contributed 31 percent to the total scale variance; furthermore, knowledge, comprehension, and application task variables loaded on the Factor 2, for 9 percent of the total scale variance. Significant p

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Intellectual Capital: A Balance Sheet Asset? (A Measurement Perspective), John Morgan, Frederic Ihrke, James Hurley Jan 2007

Intellectual Capital: A Balance Sheet Asset? (A Measurement Perspective), John Morgan, Frederic Ihrke, James Hurley

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Should financial measures of intellectual capital be placed on the balance sheet? If so how will intellectual capital be measured, and how will its inclusion on the balance sheet improve financial division-making? We examine, from a financial measurement perspective, a growing body of intellectual capital research calling for inclusion of intellectual assets on the balance sheet, and conclude the proposals are naïve in terms of accounting measurement realities, and confused in terms of purposes severed. Attempting to include dollar measures of intellectual capital on the balance sheet, from an accounting measurement perspective, is unworkable and will not accomplish what intellectual …

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Cover, Front Matter & Editorial Board Jan 2007

Cover, Front Matter & Editorial Board

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

No abstract provided.

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Dimensions Leader-Member Exchange: An Examination Of Outcomes, Brent Goertzen Ph.D. Jan 2007

Dimensions Leader-Member Exchange: An Examination Of Outcomes, Brent Goertzen Ph.D.

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study investigates the relationship of managers’ and direct reports’ perceptions of leader-member exchange (LMX) on organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). LMX was conceptualized as a multi-dimensional construct (Liden & Maslyn, 1998). Multiple regression analysis of data from 107 manager-direct report dyads of human resource development professionals indicated several relationships between LMX and OCB. Analysis indicated direct reports’ engagement in altruism OCB was related to managers’ perceptions of contribution dimension of LMX which accounted for a significant amount of variance above and beyond the control variables (position, organizational and dyad tenure). Additionally, managers’ perception of professional respect dimension of LMX was …

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Getting The Job Done: Moderating Conflict In Culturally Diverse Teams, Dennis Rittle Jan 2007

Getting The Job Done: Moderating Conflict In Culturally Diverse Teams, Dennis Rittle

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Conflict literature reveals that team diversity influences team member satisfaction mediated through affective conflict. This research proposal argues that the team diversity and affective conflict reduction (TDACR) model can moderate the negative influence of affective conflict by introducing a moderating variable, team ontology, which measures team functionality and member role comprehension. This proposal recommends collecting data from a culturally diverse airplane manufacturing plant, which utilizing teams that perform routine and non—routine tasks to test the hypotheses. The leadership implications of the TDACR model suggest increasing team ontology or decreasing team diversity to maintain positive levels of team member satisfaction.

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Engaged Model Of Board Orientation, Santo Marabella Jan 2007

Engaged Model Of Board Orientation, Santo Marabella

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

At the core of a successful not-for-profit organization (NFP) must be an effective board of directors. A reasonable approach to building a more effective board includes ensuring the board has a high level of participation among its members and that the focus of their participation is concentrated on governance. It is not a new notion that board orientation programs can create a climate that facilitates high board participation that is focused on governance; however, in this article, I offer what may be a new vision for developing and managing board orientation programs. The proposed model includes NFP-specific and general board …

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Xb: New-Paradigm Management Of The Classroom As A Complex Organization, Roger Putzel Jan 2007

Xb: New-Paradigm Management Of The Classroom As A Complex Organization, Roger Putzel

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Management instructors may abandon the lectern to engage students in activities, but many experiential approaches can still produce the teacher’s nightmare: passive, inarticulate bunglers, lost in the maze. This paper describes XB, a classroom organization that involves, orients, trains, and educates students.

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Real Deposit Insurance Coverage At U.S. Commercial Banks, Marieta Velikova, Kevin Rogers Jan 2007

Real Deposit Insurance Coverage At U.S. Commercial Banks, Marieta Velikova, Kevin Rogers

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Deposit insurance legislation currently being considered by the U.S. Congress proposes to increase the nominal level of insurance coverage for the first time since the passage of DIDMCA in 1980. Since that time, the fixed nominal amount of coverage has resulted in an erosion of the real amount of coverage due to continued inflation. This paper examines the relationship between real coverage and bank risk at individual banks over the last 10 years. The findings suggest that the change in real coverage over time has not been associated with a change in risk at commercial banks. This results implies that …

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An Analysis Of Branding Hr Department Activities For Strategic Value Creation, Catherine Giunta Jan 2007

An Analysis Of Branding Hr Department Activities For Strategic Value Creation, Catherine Giunta

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study explored Human Resource Executives’ (HREs) perceptions of HR branding actions and found that branding human resources creates organizational value. Additionally, the company and human resource alignment appeared to affect human resource branding. Many participants described HR programs and services that were implemented in their companies. Most examples provided, though, did not include branding, per se, of those HR activities. This finding strongly suggests that human resource branding is in an early stage of development. The study revealed that HREs perceive that branding is a beneficial tool to facilitate the demonstration of human resource strategic value creation.

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Teaching It In A Knowledge Economy Raising Tacit Productivity, Hans-Joachim Adler Jan 2007

Teaching It In A Knowledge Economy Raising Tacit Productivity, Hans-Joachim Adler

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

The growth of interactions represents a broad shift in the nature of economic activity. Interactions are defined as the searching, coordinating, and monitoring that people and firms do when they exchange goods, services, or ideas, for many employees today, collaborative, complex problem solving is the essence of their work, these “tacit” activates -- involving the exchange of information, the making of judgments, and a need to draw on multifaceted forms of knowledge in exchanges with coworkers, customers, and suppliers – are increasingly a part of the standard model for companies in the developed world.

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Examining Ethical Development And Training: Implications For Sarbanes Oxley, Donna Galla Jan 2007

Examining Ethical Development And Training: Implications For Sarbanes Oxley, Donna Galla

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is the legislative solution to the recent ethical scandals, such as Enron, ImClone, Adelphia, Tyco, Qwest, Global Crossing, and WorldCom, involving financial and accounting irregularities and fraud. This Act implements extensive changes to public accounting and corporate laws, and expands corporate governance extending the responsibilities of senior executives and board members to include responsibility for a company-wide ethics program. Because of the complexity of ethical behavior, this paper explores values formation and support for ethics training. This study looks to ascertain whether moral maturity is related to age more than it is to training, …

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An Active Learning Project In A Managerial Accounting Principles Class: Is It Time Well-Spent?, Rita Jones, Teresa Lang, Keren Deal Jan 2007

An Active Learning Project In A Managerial Accounting Principles Class: Is It Time Well-Spent?, Rita Jones, Teresa Lang, Keren Deal

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

The current active learning project involves students visits to area companies to collect information regarding the companies’ use or nonuse of Responsibility Reports (RRs). The students involved were attending a managerial accounting principles class at southeastern, regional university, and were given oral instructions by their teacher to complete the project. Sixty-two students participated, along with sixty-one companies. The average grade earned by the students was 15.58 of 20 points, and nine students earned a perfect score. The student findings were that 45 of the 61 companies, or 73.8%, use RRs. Based on the student performance, reports and feedback, the project …

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Cover, Front Matter & Editorial Board Jan 2006

Cover, Front Matter & Editorial Board

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

No abstract provided.

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Determinants Of Option Spreads In A Multiple Listing Environment, Rebecca Abraham, Charles Harrington Jan 2006

Determinants Of Option Spreads In A Multiple Listing Environment, Rebecca Abraham, Charles Harrington

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study empirically determined the predictors of bid-ask spreads of equity options within the context of the current multiple-listed options market. Price emerged as the most powerful predictor followed by multiple listing. Price and volatility increased spreads, while multiple listing and volume reduced them. Multiple listing was more powerful than volume in explaining spreads. This study establishes that spread reductions prevail several years after initial multiple listing and supports the importance of competition over economies of scale in explaining spreads.

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Empirical Study Of Public Bureaucratic And Private Non-Profit Organizations And The Adoption Of A Market Orientation, Leslie Tworoger, Thomas Tworoger Jan 2006

Empirical Study Of Public Bureaucratic And Private Non-Profit Organizations And The Adoption Of A Market Orientation, Leslie Tworoger, Thomas Tworoger

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the uses of power bases by leaders of private non-profit organizations and leaders in a bureaucratic governmental organization and the adoption of a market orientation by the firm. The study was conducted on a state bureaucracy and the corresponding newly privatized agency taking over the developed services. Today, in till attempt to make government bureaucracies more efficient and economical, there is a major shift in governmental services to the private non-profit sector (O'Connell, 1996; Rosenthal, 2000; Alexander, 2000). These private agencies are expected to employ more business-like methods (Alexander, …

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Entrepreneur- Investor Negotiations: Investigating The Power Gap, Karen Page, Robert Sprague Jan 2006

Entrepreneur- Investor Negotiations: Investigating The Power Gap, Karen Page, Robert Sprague

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Federal Securities Laws are designed to ensure that investors are provided with sufficient information to make an informed investment. These Laws presume that investors are relatively naive and powerless compared to the relatively sophisticated and powerful sellers of securities. In the new venture arena, however, it is often the case that sellers, the entrepreneurs, are relatively naive and powerless compared to the investors, who tend to be expert in venture finance. This paper explores these heretofore unexamined power imbalances and presents attributes of the entrepreneurs and their resources that may affect entrepreneurs' ability to negotiate with venture capitalists.

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Neohumility And Business Leadership: Do They Belong Together?, Pareena Lawrence Jan 2006

Neohumility And Business Leadership: Do They Belong Together?, Pareena Lawrence

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This article looks at commonly accepted and newly emerging ideas of effective leadership in the literature. One such quality that has recently emerged in the discourse on leadership is "humility." Humility has traditionally been associated with weakness and even seen as antithetical to the leader persona. This article suggests a new view of humility, "neohumility," humility without weakness and transformed to fit the business world. It operationalizes the definition of neohumility and includes characteristics such as self-awareness, valuing others' opinions, willingness to learn and change, sharing power, having the ability to hear the truth and admit mistakes, and working to …

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Transformational Mentoring: What Role Does Mentoring Play In The Development Of Transformational Leaders?, Lynda St. Clair, Ronald Deluga Jan 2006

Transformational Mentoring: What Role Does Mentoring Play In The Development Of Transformational Leaders?, Lynda St. Clair, Ronald Deluga

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This paper introduces the concept of "transformational men to ring," an alternative to traditional mentoring, as a tool for developing transformational leaders. Transformational mentoring differs from traditional mentoring in its emphasis on risk-taking rather than refuge-seeking and its encouragement of self-sacrifice rather than self-promotion. Our conceptual model identifies key mentor actions, anticipated mediators, and expected outcomes of the transformational mentoring process. We argue that current organizational leaders will need to address both cultural and structural barriers to transformational mentoring if they wish to support the development of future transformational leaders in their organizations.

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Leadership Effectiveness: A "New" Integrative Leadership Model, Raj Selladurai Jan 2006

Leadership Effectiveness: A "New" Integrative Leadership Model, Raj Selladurai

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

What makes an executive effective? Are effective executives born with some unique abilities and skills? Or do they learn and practice some special strategies that make them superior? This paper explores whether effective executives are born or made, and analyzes some leadership studies done over the years. Also, it suggests an integrative model of effective leadership that organizations may use to develop and enhance better leaders and that individuals may use to improve their organizational leadership.

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Continuing Confusion -Are Managers And Leaders Different?, David Curtis Jan 2006

Continuing Confusion -Are Managers And Leaders Different?, David Curtis

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This paper revisits the debate about whether managers and leaders are different It notes the assertion that managers do things right and leaders do the right thing. The paper, then, examines the discussions provided in the leadership literature, and the experiences described by successful executives to test the validity of the previously described claim. Also, this paper provides an alternative view that managing and leading are not as different as commonly asserted.

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Capstone Approach For Teaching Financial Instruments In Intermediate Financial Accounting, Konrad Gunderson Jan 2006

Capstone Approach For Teaching Financial Instruments In Intermediate Financial Accounting, Konrad Gunderson

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Since the release in 2003 of Statement of Financial Accounting Standard 150 (SFAS150), accounting for certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equity, intermediate accounting textbooks now include mandatorily redeemable preferred stock (MRPS) as a financial instrument requiring liability classification. MRPS is not legal debt in the traditional sense, but is classified as debt because its characteristics make it essentially equivalent to debt. This paper presents a series of teaching modules which, building on standard coverage of long-term debt and contributed capital, are designed to increase students' understanding of the essential characteristics of financial instruments. Completion of the …

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Cover, Front Matter & Editorial Board Jan 2006

Cover, Front Matter & Editorial Board

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

No abstract provided.

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Comprehensive Audit Of The Criteria Used For Scoring Applicants For Consumer Credit, Joel Jolayemi, Linda Carr Jan 2006

Comprehensive Audit Of The Criteria Used For Scoring Applicants For Consumer Credit, Joel Jolayemi, Linda Carr

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This paper presents a comprehensive audit of the criteria used for scoring applicants for consumer credit. The audit consists of two parts: the first part focuses on the criteria used in customized models, while the second part deals with those used in Fair-Isaac and Co (FICO) or generic models. This paper shows that most of the sets of criteria variables used in lending institutions and in literature are poorly selected and poorly defined.

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Effect Of Outcome Knowledge On Repeated Performance Evaluations, Russell Calk, Maryanne Mowen Jan 2006

Effect Of Outcome Knowledge On Repeated Performance Evaluations, Russell Calk, Maryanne Mowen

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Outcome information has been shown to have a significant impact on performance evaluations in a wide variety of decision settings. Studies of outcome effects on performance evaluation typically examine a one-time decision. Often, however, managers must repeatedly evaluate performance. This study examines how outcome information affects the revision of multiple performance evaluations over time. The results have important implications for research into the sensitivity of evaluators to the sequence of the receipt of positive and negative information. Implications of these results for performance evaluation in multiple areas of business are discussed.

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Leading The Virtual Organization: Success Strategies, Management Practices, And Skills, Stephen Stumpf, James Klingler Jan 2006

Leading The Virtual Organization: Success Strategies, Management Practices, And Skills, Stephen Stumpf, James Klingler

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Virtual organizations have inherent strengths and weaknesses relative to traditional organizational forms. Their success depends heavily on the leaders of the organization leveraging these strengths, and not letting the weaknesses threaten the organization's survival. We explore the character of virtual organizations and propose a value proposition as to why individuals seek employment in such organizations. We then examine several business strategies and management practices that have helped virtual organizations to succeed. Six leadership skills are discussed that the leaders of virtual organizations indicate are critical to their business success.

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Board Composition And Control: An Exploratory Analysis Of Organizational Crisis And Prevention, William Donoher Jan 2006

Board Composition And Control: An Exploratory Analysis Of Organizational Crisis And Prevention, William Donoher

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Despite extensive scholarship on the subject of board control, the scandals of recent years suggest the need to revisit our assumptions - and our theories - regarding alternative board control mechanisms. This study uses an exploratory factor analysis comparing firms that successfully or unsuccessfully avoided governance failure and the onset of crisis to assess the consistency of board structures. Results indicate that there is some consistency among the successful firms, but that in genera/no common structural form can be linked to either success or failure. Thus, general rules cannot be relied upon, and a context specific approach to governance should …

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Impact Of Subordinate Threats On Leaders' Pay Allocation Decisions, Mark Fulford Jan 2006

Impact Of Subordinate Threats On Leaders' Pay Allocation Decisions, Mark Fulford

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

In many different context within organizations today, attempts are made by direct reports to influence the decisions of their leaders. In no context does the resulting decision hit closer to home for a direct report than those related to the allocation of pay raises. Under what conditions are attempts by direct reports to influence their leaders' pay allocation decisions most effective? Wit at effect does a threat by the subordinate have on the leader's decision? Does the severity of the threat used matter? In an attempt to answer these questions, a study was conducted of leaders' pay allocation decisions under …

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Treachery And Betrayal- An Analysis Of The Modern Fiduciary Behavior Of Corporate Directors And Management- The Need For Schooling In The Business Ethics Of Tomorrow, Gregory Huckabee Jan 2006

Treachery And Betrayal- An Analysis Of The Modern Fiduciary Behavior Of Corporate Directors And Management- The Need For Schooling In The Business Ethics Of Tomorrow, Gregory Huckabee

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This article examines the fiduciary relationship between corporate officers and directors, and the shareholders they serve. In recent years, the breakdown of the fiduciary relationship and the failure of the corporate model have received much attention, as the headlines of Wall Street's endless fiduciary scandals adequately illustrate. What is the root of this failure, and what, if anything, are the remedies? Case analysis will demonstrate the pandemic problem involving fiduciary responsibility, demonstrating the need for reform. This review will identify systemic corporate fiduciary weaknesses and underlying causes. Recommendations for change to alleviate fiduciary failure will be discussed, with focus placed …

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Drawing On Peer Evaluation Studies To Manage The Classroom, Roger Putzel Jan 2006

Drawing On Peer Evaluation Studies To Manage The Classroom, Roger Putzel

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

As global competition flattens hierarchies, management strives for productivity by delegating responsibility, notably including evaluation, to employees. Preparing generally apathetic students for this environment, teachers can manage classes in the same way. Traditional, hierarchical evaluation faces structural, managerial, and psychological difficulties. Peer evaluation, although reliable and valid, must additionally overcome peer group solidarity. Evaluators dread assigning low ranks because no one likes being below average. Peer evaluation challenges students and engages them in a work culture of distributed responsibility.

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Effective Use Of Computer-Based Instruction And Assessment, Gladys Swindler Jan 2006

Effective Use Of Computer-Based Instruction And Assessment, Gladys Swindler

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Advancing technology, increased emphasis on computer curricula, tech-savvy students, and shrinking budgets indicate that it is time to address the pedagogical issues of the introductory computing course. This study investigates the feasibility of using a hybrid instructional model of computer-based instruction with minimal classroom interaction when teaching an introductory computing course at a college or university. ANOVA reveals that computer-based instruction with minimal classroom interaction is as effective as a traditional model of lecture and hands-on instruction. Computer-based instruction provides a means to enrich students' teaming experiences, maximize faculty productivity, and effectively manage scarce resources.

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