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Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity
Lenz, Rainer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Most prevalent theories in cross cultural management reduce the variability of individual relations to one single category, the national culture. Based on the assumption that the national cultural values determine individual behavior the individual’s behavior in different national cultures...
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Soft skills: from university to the work environment. Analysis of a Survey of Graduates in Portugal
PEREIRA, Orlando P. - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 13 (2013) 1, pp. 105-118
In knowledge based economy, soft skills format pro-active and entrepreneurial behaviors. Once they provide answers to complex company questions, the academic curriculum should highlight a diversity of skills in graduates to build an open and flexible mind to uncertain and volatile market...
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Team building and hidden costs of control
Riener, Gerhard; Wiederhold, Simon - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2012
This paper investigates the interaction of intrinsic and extrinsic incentives. We propose a simple principal-agent model with control that incorporates the existence of social groups resulting from common experiences in the past. Our laboratory experiment shows that agents with previous common...
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The value of top-down communication for organizational performance
Brandes, Leif; Darai, Donja - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
We design a laboratory experiment to identify causal performance effects of top-down communication between managers and their subordinates. Our focus lies on communication that resolves uncertainty about the work environment but does not provide task-specific knowledge. Recent articles in the...
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Luxury sales force management : strategies for winning over your brand ambassadors
Merk, Michaela - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
Sales teams can often make or break the success of a new luxury brand or product. As competition between retailers and brands grows, it becomes increasingly important to stimulate the sales team's motivation for higher sales performance and stronger commitment to their own organization. In...
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Appreciative Inquiry based organization development intervention process on satisfaction and engagement of senior patients and sustainability of Sukavet Institution: a case study o...
HIRUNWAT, Piya - In: Revista de cercetare si interventie sociala 33 (2011) June, pp. 56-71
elderly patients. The main needs were to increase the satisfaction and engagement of senior patients and create the … sustainability of the institution. The final results were that there was a significantly positive increase of the satisfaction and …
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Level of Satisfaction of Educational Services Consumers.  Impact and Consequences for the Responsibility of an Economics Faculty
Savoiu, Gheorghe; Necsulescu, Consuela; Taicu, Marian; … - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 16 (2014) 35, pp. 88-88
components, and to quantify the level of satisfaction of specific consumers in academic organizations specializing in economics … satisfaction of educational services consumers, for the first three and six main service categories, defined by 36 variables marked … concerned with the requirements expressed in the complex concept of satisfaction of those trained through the programs and …
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An empirical study of antecedents of super-measure management affecting employee?s performance and satisfaction
Talukder, A.K.M. Mominul Haque - In: KASBIT Journal of Management & Social Science 4 (2011) 1, pp. 48-60
performance and satisfaction in the organizations. Introduction: An organization?s long-term success in meeting its strategic … employee performance and satisfaction are positive and significantly related with firm?s service guarantee, customer … may provide organizations with the potential to improve performance and satisfaction of employees. …
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An empirical study of antecedents of super-measure management affecting employee?s performance and satisfaction
Talukder, A.K.M. Mominul Haque - In: KASBIT Journal of Management & Social Science 4 (2011) December, pp. 48-60
performance and satisfaction in the organizations. Introduction: An organization?s long-term success in meeting its strategic … employee performance and satisfaction are positive and significantly related with firm?s service guarantee, customer … may provide organizations with the potential to improve performance and satisfaction of employees. …
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A “Human Growth” Perspective on Organizational Resources and Firm Performance
Sacchetti, Silvia; Tortia, Ermanno C. - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2012
We define immaterial satisfaction as the degree of wellbeing that workers derive from creativity, autonomy, and … personal growth, overall self-fulfillment. These are dimensions of satisfaction that we relate, from American pragmatism, to … the use of creative intelligence. The paper deals with the mediating role of immaterial satisfaction between …
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