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MAKING DECISIONS ON PEOPLE IN BUSINESS: MEASUREMENT AND METHOD

Ziyal, Leyla - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 6 (1991) 5, pp. 3-9

The aim is to take decision making about people beyond “gut feel” and to make psychological measurement relevant to the … of psychological economy to forecast the success of the self‐in‐context . How psychological measurement accomplishes …

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Peak performance and higher states of consciousness

Harung, Harald S.; Heaton, Dennis P.; Graff, William W.; … - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 11 (1996) 4, pp. 3-23

Investigates higher stages of human development in some of the world’s most accomplished performers. Indicates that far more frequent experiences of a silent, expanded, restfully alert and non‐attached state of heightened awareness characterize those individuals who display outstanding skill...

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Implementing a job change: the impact of employee focus of attention

Siegall, Marc; McDonald, Tracy - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 11 (1996) 4, pp. 35-42

Examines the relationship between focus of attention ‐ how much a person thinks about job and off‐job factors during work ‐ and people’s reactions to change. Survey respondents were 205 telecommunications repair technicians who were being trained to use a new computerized job assignment...

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Managerial risk interpretations: does industry make a difference?

Pablo, Amy L. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 14 (1999) 2, pp. 92-108

Decision‐making studies incorporating risk have typically used risk measures that are generic across industries. Responding to calls for finer‐grained approaches, a recent study used a qualitative approach to discover how managers interpret risk in different industry contexts. Managers from...

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Overall job satisfaction: how good are single versus multiple‐item measures?

Oshagbemi, Titus - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 14 (1999) 5, pp. 388-403

Managers interested in finding out the overall job satisfaction levels of their workers often face the problem of the appropriate measure of job satisfaction to adopt: single versus multiple‐item? This study sets out to compare the results of a single versus a multiple‐item measure employed...

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The measurement of religiosity and spirituality

King, James E.; Crowther, Martha R. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 17 (2004) 1, pp. 83-101

After a history of mostly ambivalence and neglect, organization‐focused research has shown a steadily growing interest in religiosity and spirituality over the past decade. While organizational scholars have been slower to incorporate religion and spirituality into their research,...

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Organizational change in stakeholder business systems: the role of institutions

Cheng, Philip; Millar, Carla C.J.M.; Ju Choi, Chong - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 19 (2006) 3, pp. 383-392

about corporate ethics; to focus on the importance of measurement costs and its influence on organizational change in … stakeholder systems; and to provide a framework for overcoming the inherent ambiguity and increased measurement costs associated … certification and indirect measurement indicators, which are defined as indices to develop a dynamic framework capable of evaluating …

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Measuring the organizational responsiveness through managerial flexibility

Verdú, Antonio J.; Gómez‐Gras, José‐María - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 22 (2009) 6, pp. 668-690

– The research proposes a measurement scale of organizational responsiveness through four types of managerial flexibility … the organizational responsiveness of firms and developing a measurement scale. …

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Conceptualisations of trust in the organisational literature

Connell, N.A.D.; Mannion, R. - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 20 (2006) 5, pp. 417-433

Purpose – This paper evaluates the non‐healthcare organisational literature on conceptualisations of trust. The aim of the paper is to review this diverse literature, and to reflect on the potential insights it might offer healthcare researchers, policy makers and managers....

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Conceptualizing and measuring the economic value of human capital of the third kind

Flamholtz, Eric - In: Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting 9 (2005) 2, pp. 78-93

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to deal with the conceptualization and measurement of the economic value of what … human resource accounting and value measurement. Research limitations/implications – Based on this finding, we can conclude …

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