Lawn care companies, in response to the cultural norm of a green, weed-free lawn, are providing services that can negatively impact both ecological and human health. Since these companies have widespread impacts and are relied upon for their expert decisions, it is useful to understand factors...

According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals...

In a globalised world economy, small and mediumsized companies (SMEs) are now entering the global software engineering (GSE) arena, but their involvement is more often opportunistic than carefully planned. Considered until a few years ago a major destination for outsourcing/offshoring, Ireland...

While there is considerable theoretical and empirical research in the marketing ethics literature, a major void exists in the examination and understanding of consumers' perceptions of unethical behavior.

While academic research has begun to probe Internet users' underlying beliefs, attitudes, and purchase intent toward Internet advertising, there has been no attempt to develop an underlying theory comparing male versus female users' Internet versus print advertising content information...

Feedback has been a widely used procedure in many Performance Management interventions. Despite the popularity of feedback as an intervention, few systematic analyses of the functions and effects of feedback used alone have been conducted. The present study was designed to investigate the...

The study had three objectives: (a) to determine the causes of turnover among particular career service employees in the Departments of Corrections (DC), Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV), Health and Rehabilitative Services (DHRS), and Agriculture and Consumer Services (DA & CS); (b) to...

This dissertation investigates the nature of the relationship that exists between job satisfaction among temporary workers and general customer perceptions of service quality, customer-based appraisal of specific service provider performance, and customers' future behavioral intentions...