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The Economic Pay-Offs To Informal Training: Evidence From Routine Service Work, Rosemary Batt Sep 2007

The Economic Pay-Offs To Informal Training: Evidence From Routine Service Work, Rosemary Batt

Rosemary Batt

This study examines the relationship between informal training and job performance among 2,803 telephone operators in a large unionized U.S. telecommunications company. The authors analyze individual-level data on monthly training hours and job performance over a five-month period in 2001 as provided by the company's electronic monitoring system. The results indicate that the receipt of informal training was associated with higher productivity over time, when unobserved individual heterogeneity is taken into account. Workers with lower pre-training proficiency showed greater improvements over time than did those with higher pre-training proficiency. Finally, whether the trainer was a supervisor or a peer also …


Wall Street Reaction To Women In Ipos: An Examination Of Gender Diversity In Top Management Teams, Theresa Welbourne Aug 2007

Wall Street Reaction To Women In Ipos: An Examination Of Gender Diversity In Top Management Teams, Theresa Welbourne

Theresa M. Welbourne, PhD

No abstract provided.


Asymmetrical Effects Of Positive Job Experiences And Generalized Workplace Harassment On Well-Being, Grace Lemmon Jul 2007

Asymmetrical Effects Of Positive Job Experiences And Generalized Workplace Harassment On Well-Being, Grace Lemmon

Grace Lemmon

No abstract provided.


Segundo Congreso Nacional De Organismos Públicos Autónomos, Bruno L. Costantini García May 2007

Segundo Congreso Nacional De Organismos Públicos Autónomos, Bruno L. Costantini García

Bruno L. Costantini García

Memorias del Segundo Congreso Nacional de Organismos Públicos Autónomos. "Autonomía, Profesionalización, Control y Transparencia"


Identity’S Role In The Relationship Between Abusive Supervision And Family Outcomes, Grace Lemmon Mar 2007

Identity’S Role In The Relationship Between Abusive Supervision And Family Outcomes, Grace Lemmon

Grace Lemmon

No abstract provided.


Building Genuine Trust Through Interpersonal Emotion Management: A Threat Regulation Model Of Trust And Collaboration Across Boundaries, Michele Williams Mar 2007

Building Genuine Trust Through Interpersonal Emotion Management: A Threat Regulation Model Of Trust And Collaboration Across Boundaries, Michele Williams

Michele Williams

I introduce the construct of threat regulation as an agentic interpersonal process for building and maintaining trust. I examine threat regulation as a specific dimension of interpersonal emotion management that fosters trust and effective cooperation by allowing individuals to understand and mitigate the harm that their counterparts associate with cooperating—in particular, harm from opportunism, identity damage, and neglect of their interests. To explicate the microprocesses of threat regulation, I draw on social cognitive theory, symbolic interactionism, and the psychology of emotion regulation.


Innovative Teaching Ideas For Hrd Education (2007), Susan R. Madsen Mar 2007

Innovative Teaching Ideas For Hrd Education (2007), Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

This innovative session is sponsored by AHRD’s new Program Excellence Network (PEN) dedicated to strengthening HRD programs and promoting excellence in teaching HRD. The primary purpose of this session is to promote excellence in teaching HRD by providing participants with benchmarks for effective and creative teaching in higher educational settings. It will provide a forum for the discussion of teaching methodologies, activities, and assignments that will enrich classroom environments and facilitate increased student learning.


Toward An Understanding Of The Link Between Work-Family Enrichment And Health, Misti Stoddard, Susan R. Madsen Mar 2007

Toward An Understanding Of The Link Between Work-Family Enrichment And Health, Misti Stoddard, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

Decades of research have focused on the negative impact multiple roles can have on workplaces and homes. Little attention has been given to the individual benefits that may result from simultaneous participation in these roles. Fortunately, a recent construct (i.e., work-family enrichment) has emerged which considers positive influences that one domain (i.e., work, family) has on another. This study utilized the 18-item Carlson et al. (2005) scale to study work-to-family enrichment, health, and selected demographics.


Value Added As A Measurement Of The Effectivness Of Business Enterprise, Anna Ujwary-Gil Jan 2007

Value Added As A Measurement Of The Effectivness Of Business Enterprise, Anna Ujwary-Gil

Anna Ujwary-Gil

The primary purpose of this article is to evaluate the operational effectiveness of the company from the angle of the generated value added in relation to its tangible resources (physical capital) and intangible resources (human capital) compared with the financial success of its European competitors. The measurement of value added and matching indicators, which will be presented here, are based on the financial data of Budimex, a company operating in the construction and engineering industry, listed at the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The results obtained will then be analysed in the context of the competitive construction industry in Europe, which will …


Person-Situation Predictors Of Maximum And Typical Performance Jan 2007

Person-Situation Predictors Of Maximum And Typical Performance

L. A. Witt

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Dichotomous Worlds Hypothesis: Towards A Plurality Of Corporate Governance Logics, Jordan Otten Jan 2007

Beyond The Dichotomous Worlds Hypothesis: Towards A Plurality Of Corporate Governance Logics, Jordan Otten

Jordan Otten

The dichotomous worlds hypothesis holds that corporate governance systems worldwide are either based on the Anglo-American shareholder model or the Eurasian stakeholder model. We suggest a more fine-grained classification, based on five corporate governance logics –socially constructed, historical patterns of material practices, assumptions, values, beliefs, and rules by which all parties involved in economic productive activities structure their material interdependencies and provide meaning to the social reality of corporate life. These logics are discovered through a content analysis of the corporate governance reform codes of 38 countries.


Theories On Executive Pay: A Literature Overview And Critical Assessment, Jordan Otten Jan 2007

Theories On Executive Pay: A Literature Overview And Critical Assessment, Jordan Otten

Jordan Otten

Executive pay is a major issue in the corporate governance debate. As well in practice as in theory debate still exists how executive pay levels and structures can be explained. This paper provides an overview of 16 theories that have been used in the literature to explain the phenomenon. The theories can be classified into three types of approaches; 1) the value approach; 2) the agency approach; and 3) the symbolic approach. A critical assessment of the theories shows that the dominant use in the literature of the perfect contracting approach of agency theory neglects: 1) the socially determined symbolic …


Women University Presidents: Career Paths And Educational Backgrounds, Susan R. Madsen Jan 2007

Women University Presidents: Career Paths And Educational Backgrounds, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

The purpose of overall research study was to explore the “lived experiences” of women university presidents in developing (throughout their lives) the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies required for successful leadership in higher education. The objective of this particular paper is to report qualitative research results focused on the career paths and educational backgrounds of these women presidents.


Leadership Philosophies And Styles Of Women University Presidents, Susan R. Madsen Jan 2007

Leadership Philosophies And Styles Of Women University Presidents, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

Although progress has been made, it remains clear that women are still underrepresented in administrative positions in all types of higher educational institutions throughout the world. While the issue is often now addressed in the literature, there are still few articles reporting research findings on the experiences and perceptions of university presidents, particularly women. Ten women university presidents were interviewed using the phenomenological research methodology. This paper reports the results of this research related to the presidents’ perceptions of their own leadership styles and philosophies.


Carelessness And Discriminability In Work Role Requirement Judgments: Influences Of Role Ambiguity And Cognitive Complexity, Erich Dierdorff, Robert Rubin Dec 2006

Carelessness And Discriminability In Work Role Requirement Judgments: Influences Of Role Ambiguity And Cognitive Complexity, Erich Dierdorff, Robert Rubin

Erich C. Dierdorff

Fundamental to effective human resource systems is the capture of data regarding work role requirements. However, previous research on factors that influence work role requirement judgments has been largely equivocal. From a sample of 203 incumbents, representing 73 unique occupations, we investigated 2 cognitive sources of influence on carelessness and discriminability in work role requirement judgments. We hypothesized that incumbents perceiving high role ambiguity would provide ratings that were more careless and showed less discriminability, and cognitively complex individuals would provide more careful and discriminating ratings. These influences were hypothesized to vary across different work descriptors and rating scales. Results …


Consensus In Work Role Requirements: The Influence Of Discrete Occupational Context On Role Expectations, Erich Dierdorff, Frederick Morgeson Dec 2006

Consensus In Work Role Requirements: The Influence Of Discrete Occupational Context On Role Expectations, Erich Dierdorff, Frederick Morgeson

Erich C. Dierdorff

Although role theory has long described how expectations shape role behavior, little empirical research has examined differences among work role requirements and how features of the discrete occupational context may influence the extent to which role expectations are shared among role holders. The authors examined consensus in work role requirements from a sample of over 20,000 incumbents across 98 occupations. They found that consensus systematically decreased as work role requirements ranged from molecular tasks to responsibilities to molar traits. In addition, they found that consensus in these work role requirements was significantly influenced by the amount of interdependence, autonomy, and …


Placing Peer Ratings In Context: Systematic Influences Beyond Ratee Performance, Erich Dierdorff, Eric Surface Dec 2006

Placing Peer Ratings In Context: Systematic Influences Beyond Ratee Performance, Erich Dierdorff, Eric Surface

Erich C. Dierdorff

Performance evaluation research indicates that variance in ratings may be attributable to systematic sources beyond the actual performance of the ratee. However, the majority of prior work compares ratings across sources and uses ratings from a single rating event. Using confirmatory factor analysis and multivariate latent growth modeling (MLGM), we specifically examine peer ratings from 740 participants on 5 performance dimensions across 3 distinct performance situations for systematic sources of variance beyond ratee performance. Results demonstrate that both ratee performance and the performance context have systematic effects, with contextual effects varying by how “strong” or “weak” the situation is for …


Does Prevalence Mitigate Relevance? The Moderating Effect Of Group Level Ocb On Employee Performance, William Bommer, Erich Dierdorff, Robert Rubin Dec 2006

Does Prevalence Mitigate Relevance? The Moderating Effect Of Group Level Ocb On Employee Performance, William Bommer, Erich Dierdorff, Robert Rubin

Erich C. Dierdorff

This article explores multilevel relationships between group-level OCB, individual-level OCB, and work performance. We also discuss conceptualizing OCB with regard to context and multiple levels of analysis. We hypothesize that group-level OCB moderates the relationship between individual-level OCB and job performance. Results based on 100 work groups in a manufacturing firm indicate that group-level OCB significantly moderated the relationship between individual-level OCB and job performance. Comparing contexts in which group-level OCB was rare with those in which it was prevalent, we found that high individual-level OCB yielded greater significant increases in job performance ratings when group-level OCB was rare.


Workforce Gender Diversity: Is It A Source Of Competitive Advantage?, Ali, Isabel Metz, Kulik Dec 2006

Workforce Gender Diversity: Is It A Source Of Competitive Advantage?, Ali, Isabel Metz, Kulik

Isabel Metz

No abstract provided.


Aacsb's White Papers On Deploying Aq And Pq Faculty, Daniel Koys Dec 2006

Aacsb's White Papers On Deploying Aq And Pq Faculty, Daniel Koys

Daniel J. Koys

No abstract provided.


Global Competition’S Perfect Storm: Why Business And Labor Cannot Solve Their Problems Alone, Denise M. Rousseau, Rosemary Batt Dec 2006

Global Competition’S Perfect Storm: Why Business And Labor Cannot Solve Their Problems Alone, Denise M. Rousseau, Rosemary Batt

Rosemary Batt

A perfect storm is a conjoining of forces that intensifies effects. This commentary addresses the economic perfect storm that the United States and many other developed countries face as they attempt to become globally competitive. Its forces conflate strategic change with the erosion of employment and income security as firms shed labor and old institutional arrangements, in turn degrading quality of work and family life for workers as well as the futures of retirees. We evaluate the responses of our commentators—Louis Uchitelle, J.T. Battenberg III, and Thomas Kochan—who assess the current crisis and possible solutions to it. Their responses and …


Scanlon Principles And Processes: Building Excellence At Watermark Credit Union, Dow Scott, P Davis, C Cockburn Dec 2006

Scanlon Principles And Processes: Building Excellence At Watermark Credit Union, Dow Scott, P Davis, C Cockburn

Dow Scott

No abstract provided.


Reward Programs: What Works And What Needs To Be Improved, Dow Scott, T D. Mcmullen, R S. Sperling, B Bowbin Dec 2006

Reward Programs: What Works And What Needs To Be Improved, Dow Scott, T D. Mcmullen, R S. Sperling, B Bowbin

Dow Scott

No abstract provided.