This paper examines when jobs are autonomous in the labor process and under what kinds of circumstances workers achieve more control of their work process. The degree of skill, technology, and bureaucratization are addressed in previous literatures and are analyzed in this paper as sources of...

The aim of this research was to develop a model that represents how adolescents in the Western Australian context navigate their way to resilience. Resilience was defined as “the outcome from negotiations between individuals and their environments for the resources to define themselves as...

This study proposes an alternative travel decision making model and situates itsarguments in the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability (MOA) theoretical construct. The MOA modelsuggests that motivation, opportunity, and ability are major factors influencing decision making.Applying this model in the...

A dynamic self-regulatory perspective is useful to explain within- and between-person variations in job search behaviors (e.g., Barber, Daly, Giannantonio, & Phillips, 1994; Kanfer, Wanberg, Kantrowitz, 2001). However, few studies have incorporated models and designs appropriate for addressing when...

Companies, also financial institutions, realign, redesign, restructure and downsize on anongoing basis, increasing tension in employees to survive in the work environment. Besidescoping with the impact of recessions and layoffs, employees also have to cope with increasedworkloads and the...

In a new world of work characterised by competitiveness, benchmarking, technological innovation and efficiency, the South African chemical industry needs to function at an optimal level to meet the demands of its stakeholders and employees. The industry needs leadership of the highest standard...

Motivational interviewing is a client-centered, directive counseling approach aimed at promoting motivation in clients to change certain behaviors. Its effect is to reduce defensiveness and promote disclosure, engagement, and participation, thereby motivating the client to make behavioral...

In the evolving landscape of Indian higher education, there is a growing emphasis on integrating social entrepreneurship education to shape students who are aware of their roles in societal development. This research investigates the motivational dynamics influencing Indian undergraduates'...

Research on unemployment among managers and professionals has documented the experience of job loss as stressful not only because of economic strain, but because of the damage it does to valued identities and self-conceptions. Little research, however, has examined the processes through which...

We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms thatsell software and complementary goods or services. In addition totactical price competition, we allow firms to compete through businessmodel reconfigurations. We consider three business models: theproprietary model (where all...