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Difference between Perceived and Desired Leadership Styles
Savery, Lawson K. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 8 (1993) 6, pp. 28-32
Describes a study which was conducted within the state headquarters of a statutory body of the Australian Federal Government. It measured the level of perceived and desired autonomy people either received or wished for in decision making, level of job satisfaction and level of organizational...
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Reactions to Incongruency: Job Expectations and Reality
Savery, Lawson K. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 3 (1988) 4, pp. 8-12
research studies the employees of a major local government in Western Australia comparing several suggested outcomes. The …Burnout of employees has been a major concern of researchers in management for a number of years. Much of the work …, however, has tended to concentrate on professional people rather than employees with various level of skills. This present …
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Vision effects in customer and staff satisfaction: an empirical investigation
Kantabutra, Sooksan; Avery, Gayle C. - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 28 (2007) 3, pp. 209-229
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the relationships between vision attributes (of brevity, clarity, challenge, stability, abstractness, future orientation, and desirability or ability to inspire) and content (relating to customer and staff satisfaction imageries), and...
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Job Satisfaction and Nurses
Savery, Lawson K. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 4 (1989) 5, pp. 11-16
The research reported in this article was conducted among nurses in a teaching hospital in Perth, Western Australia …
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The Contributions of Psychology to the Study of Administrative Behaviour
Mustafa, Husain - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 5 (1992) 4
Discusses psychology′s contributions to understanding administrative behaviour. Beginning with a general theoretical search for what moved people to act, psychologists provided analytical and descriptive content to understanding individual and group behaviour. They observed individuals in real...
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Managing the changing psychological contract
Hiltrop, Jean M. - In: Employee Relations 18 (1996) 1, pp. 36-49
which are in line with business requirements, societal changes and the values and expectations of employees.  …
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The Pygmalion effect
Loftus, Paul - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 27 (1995) 4, pp. 17-20
Aims to answer the questions: What is the Pygmalion effect? How can it be used to advance careers? How can the negative effect be broken? Uses Rosenthal′s four‐factor theory to provide some answers to those questions.
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Expatriates and host country nationals: managerial values and decision styles
Ali, Abbas J.; Azim, Ahmed A.; Krishnan, Krish S. - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 16 (1995) 6, pp. 27-34
Investigates managerial value systems and decision styles among expatriate and indigenous managers in the UAE. Provides support for the proposition that differences among expatriate and host country nationals are manifested in their value systems. Indicates that Arab expatriate and national...
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Factors affecting the implementation and success of TQM
Mann, Robin; Kehoe, Dennis - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 12 (1995) 1, pp. 11-23
. Identifies as a result, seven prime factors affecting the implementation of TQM: process factors, type of employees, shared … values, management style, organizational structure, number of employees and industrial relations. Recommends that …
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Promoting organizational effectiveness by defining managerial conduct
Ghiselli, Richard; Ismail, Joseph A. - In: International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 11 (1999) 6, pp. 294-302
In executing their duties, food service managers are confronted with a number of situations that may challenge their integrity. Using vignettes this study attempted to gauge the ethical concerns that food service mangers have with potential responses to a number of difficult situations. The data...
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