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What Types of Organizations Benefit from Team Production, and How Do They Benefit?

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2012

Using data from a large cross-section of British establishments, we ask how different firm characteristics are associated with the predicted benefits to organizational performance from using team production. To compute the predicted benefits from using team production, we estimate structural...

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Level of Job Satisfaction and its Association with Demographic Variables

Thusyanthy, Vadivelu - 2013

The study mainly focuses on assessing (a) the level job satisfaction and (b) whether the groups of a demographic factor have mean difference between them. The main objective of this study is to provide a basic idea of using T-test and ANOVA test. However, the survey results show that overall job...

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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance

Cuñat, Vicente - 2014

This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder “voice” by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder-sponsored SoP proposals. Adopting SoP leads to large...

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Measuring Human Resources : A Case Study in Small and Medium Enterprises

Anantadjaya, Samuel P. D. - 2014

The effective utilization and management on intangibilities, mainly on the firm's human resources, have proven to play a crucial role in ensuring firm's viability. Knowledge-based firms, which are mostly dominated by information technology firms, including other firms that put forth intellectual...

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Personality and leadership the short-form revised Eysenck personality questionnaire : a Greek edition (EPQ-RS-GR)

Morfaki, Christine - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 71 (2021) 3/4, pp. 13-22

A number of studies have linked personality variables and other stable personal traits to leader effectiveness, giving a solid empirical foundation for the claim that qualities are important in the prediction of leader effectiveness. Instruments for the assessment of the Eysenck's factors of...

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Design of an Indicator for Health and Safety Governance

Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2009

Occupational Health and Safety Governance (OHSG) is a branch of Corporate Governance by which the board directs and controls labor risks created by their own enterprise. The OHSG concept is relatively new; unlike Occupational Health and Safety Management, which is mostly related to the work of...

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Knowledge Creation : Revisiting the 'Ba' Humbug: People and 'Latent' Knowledge in Organizational Learning

Nordberg, Donald - 2006

Knowledge management theory has struggled with the concept of knowledge creation. Since the seminal article of Nonaka in 1991, an industry has grown up seeking to capture the knowledge in the heads and hearts of individuals so as to leverage them for organizational learning and growth. But the...

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Corporate Organization in Japan and the United States : Is There Evidence of Convergence?

Jacoby, Sanford M. - 2004

We investigate the changing structure of Japanese and U.S. companies and ask whether there are signs of national convergence in corporate organization. We present three types of evidence to address this question: longitudinal data, cross-sectional survey data, and structural equation modeling...

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Does Congruence between Audit Structure and Auditors' Locus of Control Affect Job Performance?

Hyatt, Troy A. - 2001

control and the extent to which the employing audit firm uses a structured audit technology. We distributed an instrument that … measures locus of control (quot;internalquot; vs. quot;externalquot;) and other key constructs to staff and senior … supervisor-assessed job performance is positively associated with the quot;fitquot; between individual auditors' locus of control …

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Conscious Capitalism vs. Rapacious Capitalism : Lessons from King Leopold II

Friedman, Hershey H. - 2017

created by some European investors that was headed by Leopold II, whose personal control of the country was unrestrained …

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