) organization, positive leadership correlated with employee optimism, engagement, and project performance. When we looked at a … subset of this data prospectively, with 39 employees and 14 managers, manager optimism predicted project performance. Our … the importance of optimism in the workplace. …

. However, pre-action, no such difference occurs. I term this inconsistency in optimism in the pre and post-action stage, the … decisions based on malleable information. On the other hand, research on situated optimism has demonstrated that people exhibit … a high level of optimism for events they consider more desirable and they distort the available information to make the …

accident risk and cannot accommodate optimism (ambiguity loving) or pessimism (ambiguity aversion). This paper presents a …) with ambiguity if he is optimistic (pessimistic) and decreases (increases) with his degree of optimism (pessimism). The …

of the research: questionnaire of demographic characteristics, Life Orientation test-Revised to measure optimism, NEO … distinguished by higher optimism, greater extroversion, higher counsciousness and lower neuroticism than the unsuccessful ones. …

, perceived leadership style, experienced frustration and optimism, organization-based self-esteem and organizational commitment … subordinates' levels of frustration and optimism. Female manager-female subordinate had the largest probability of optimism, while …

The present research, using data from 163 undergraduates, examines the role of optimism on time preferences for both … losses and gains. It is argued that optimism has asymmetric effects on time preferences for gains versus losses: one reason … in the future. Optimism about outcomes affects time preferences for both gains and losses, such that low optimism reduces …

that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …