This is the second article on the empirical study of Drucker’s knowledge-worker productivity. The first article examined productivity in the context of the 21st century, focusing on Drucker’s six major factors determining knowledge-worker productivity. From these six factors, a...

This paper investigates the impact of corporate board diversity on the financial performance of Nigerian quoted firms using a panel data of 122 quoted Nigerian firms. Aspects of board diversity studied comprise board nationality, board gender and board ethnicity. The Fixed Effect Generalised...

Transformational leadership has been defined as a process by which leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of morality and motivation (Burns, 1978). This paper examines the concepts of transformational leadership and intercultural communication competence. A deeper insight is...

Within the theoretical and practical management and entrepreneurial fields a wide range of approaches tried to explain and present the conflict evolution and its impact over the organization’s performances. This article deals with a mechanism designed to outline a methodology able to lead us...

Interpersonal communications often fail to communicate the intended message. Language, contextual, and cultural differences between the sender and receiver of the message influence the receipt of the intended message exacerbates a lack of understanding when the message contains inexact words and...

The organization is a social system in which people interact to achieve common goals. We observe an acceleration of change in the value systems worldwide, an adoption of new attitudes, new goals, and aspects leading to rapid change of the society. To survive and develop, an organization must...

This exploratory study mapped work values in European countries and examined socio-economic and cultural explanations of between-country differences in the relative importance of various work values. The data from the latest wave of the European Values Study (EVS) covered 45 European countries....

Although the e-mail is considered to be a fundamental element of organizations' communications layout, most researches had focused on the "positive" aspects of using e-mail, which is more likely to imply better proficiency and efficiency. However, this "positive" point of view has led most...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between person-organization uncertainty management (UM) fit, and two outcomes in an innovative workplace: job satisfaction and innovation. Design/methodology/approach – This study analyzes data gathered through self-report...

Driven by a philosophy of shareholder value, mergers and acquisitions form a new economic, social and cultural environment. It is only by a profound understanding of the success factors in mergers and acquisitions that they are able to improve transaction management and create new economic...