TAXONOMY OF RELIABILITY PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH EMPLOYEE LOCATION MONITORING
Gundars Kaupins Boise State University ABSTRACT O*NET is a job description database that provides a taxonomy of major job characteristics. This paper uniquely uses the taxonomy in the analysis of employee location monitoring reliability problems. Employee location monitoring is becoming a more significant reliability issue because the employment status can be negatively affected if errors […]
FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT: FINDINGS FROM AN ATLANTIC CANADA STUDY
Mallika Das Elsie Henderson Mount Saint Vincent University ABSTRACT As today’s business students are tomorrow’s business leaders, it is important to examine the ethical perceptions of university students. While there have been several studies in the US on this topic, there have been very few in Canada and none that has focused on university students […]
USING MCKINSEY’S 7S MODEL TO EMPIRICALLY EXAMINE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AMONG THE NBA TEAMS
Bryant C. Mitchell University of Maryland Eastern Shore Lawrence D. Fredendall Clemson University ABSTRACT Many researchers have argued that implementing an operations strategy in services is primarily done through the use of human resources, both at the individual and organizational level. This study tests the proposition that operational performance of service firms can be empirically […]
MANAGER EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY: THE EFFECT OF SKILLS ON DIFFERENT LEVEL MANAGEMENT
Mehmet Sami Divleli Ercan Ergun Gebze Technical University ABSTRACT The management skills of supervisors and managers are detrimental when it comes to assessing how organizations are effectively run, especially during a time in history that is experiencing rapid change. The purpose of this study is to investigate to what degree management skills contribute to the […]
TEAM TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Jonathan A. Green LifeMAPS Consulting ABSTRACT The study of leadership goes back to generations continuing to evolve and develop to address the growing needs of industry, technology and society. As leaders we seek to implement the most suitable leadership approach to meet the needs of our situation, personality, and goals, or that of our organization. […]
USING THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEE VIEWPOINT SURVEY TO DEVELOP VARIABLES PREDICTING LEVELS OF EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION
David Notgrass Tarleton State University ABSTRACT This study examines correlations between the employee job satisfaction and five selected variables: Leadership interactions, manager’s focus on organizational goals and objectives, and manager’s focus on performance management, workplace protective measures, and perceived unit effectiveness. The study also investigates the same five selected variables’ predictability of the levels of […]
AN INCREASING UTILITY FOR THE EARLY MANAGEMENT THEORIES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Reginald L. Bell Daniel Kennebrew Lois A. Blyden Prairie View A&M University ABSTRACT The authors of this study found evidence that the utility for the early management theories has intensified tremendously over the past 50-years, when examined 5-years at a time, for 10 periods, from 1963-1967 to 2008-2012. The investigation reveals that these early theories […]
