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Organizational And Individual Effects On The Reporting Of Wrongdoing In The Workplace, Brian M. Stumpe
Organizational And Individual Effects On The Reporting Of Wrongdoing In The Workplace, Brian M. Stumpe
Theses and Dissertations
The study focuses on the organizational context in which the act of whistle-blowing occurs within organizations. The study suggests that many aspects of the context in which whistle-blowing actually occurs may be within the span of control of managers. Thus, management can possibly take steps to after certain aspects of the organizational context and ensure that organizational members are willing to report wrongdoing observed within their organization. To fulfill this objective, the study analyzes survey responses taken from military members' and civilian employees' responses to a 1997 survey distributed throughout the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC), Wright Patterson Air Force Base …
Managing The Information Overload : A Case Study Of Managerial Staff In A Government Department, Kerttu Hamilton
Managing The Information Overload : A Case Study Of Managerial Staff In A Government Department, Kerttu Hamilton
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Research shows that the amount of information has grown vastly and information technology has greatly increased its availability. This has caused changes in the organisational environment, placing greater and greater demands on the individuals' and organisations' capacity to absorb and process information. Since information is considered to be a valuable and necessary asset, and as time for processing information is limited, an individual will have to make choices about what information to process. An exploratory case study was conducted to ascertain what rationale do individuals in an organisational setting use for making decisions about what information to process from the …