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The future (and past) of work psychology and organizational behaviour: A personal view
Furnham, Adrian - In: Management Revue 15 (2004) 4, pp. 420-436
This paper offers a personal and perhaps side-ways view on the past and future of two closely related semi-disciplines: work psychology and organisational behaviour. The paper first addresses the terminological confusion in the area and discusses 10 terms often used inter-changably. It then...
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The Spot Market Matters : Evidence on Implicit Contracts from Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2005
Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991), this paper investigates the relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical work is carried out separately for males and females with individuallevel data taken from the...
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Do the selfish mimic cooperators? Experimental evidence from finitely-repeated labor markets
Roe, Brian E.; Wu, Steven Y. - 2009
Experimental studies have consistently shown that cooperative outcomes can emerge even in finitely repeated games. Such outcomes are justified by existing reputation building models, which suggest that cooperative outcomes can be sustained if some subjects have other-regarding preferences. While...
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Implicit contracts, unemployment, and labor market segmentation
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2010
We analyze the impact of imperfect contract enforcement on the emergence of unemployment. In an experimental labor market where trading parties can form long-term employment relationships, we compare a work environment where effort is observable, but not verifiable to a situation where explicit...
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Innovative behavior and the reciprocal exchange between employees and organizations
Pundt, Alexander; Martins, Erko; Nerdinger, Friedemann W. - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 24 (2010) 2, pp. 173-193
In this study, we investigated if employees' innovative behavior can be explained in terms of social exchange between employees and organizations. We developed a research model based on the Organizational Support Theory (Eisenberger et al. 1986). The model explains how innovative behavior among...
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Organizational Citizenship Behaviour: Darstellung und kritische Würdigung
Reichwald, Daniela - 2012
Mitarbeiter gehören zu den wichtigsten Ressourcen einer Organisation. Dabei ist der Erfolg einer Organisation besonders von der Leistungsbereitschaft abhängig, welche über die juristisch fixierte Jobbeschreibung hinausgeht. In diesem Zusammenhang liegt seit den 1980er Jahren ein Fokus auf der...
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Organizational Synergy, Dissonance and Spinoffs
Shrivastava, Mili; Ramamohan Rao, T.V.S. - 2010
, talented individuals may find it necessary to team up with others to utilize complementary knowledge and generate synergies. On … the other hand, some types of team production environments may have dissonance and motivate individuals to leave the team … specifications of team production functions. This framework explains the necessity to form a team, stability of teams, and the …
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Motivation in organisations: Searching for a meaningful work-life balance
Guillén, Manuel - 2021
Motivation in Organisations: Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance extends the current motivation models in business education to include motives of human behaviour that have been neglected for decades. It debunks some of the myths about human motivation (self-interest as the dominant...
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New directions in organizational behaviour?
Martin, Albert - In: Management Revue 15 (2004) 4, pp. 410-419
Organizational behaviour research possesses some endemic problems which constrict its progress. This introduction to Management Revue's special issue on organizational behaviour debates six deficiencies in the current research: an unclear conception of how to understand the 'organizational' in...
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