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Tietjen, Mark A.; Myers, Robert M. - In: Management Decision 36 (1998) 4, pp. 226-231

The movement of workers to act in a desired manner has always consumed the thoughts of managers. In many ways, this goal has been reached through incentive programs, corporate pep talks, and other types of conditional administrative policy, However, as the workers adjust their behaviour in...

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Organization redesign: the current state and projected trends

Douglas, Ceasar - In: Management Decision 37 (1999) 8, pp. 621-628

Redesign activity is taking place within organizations faced with rapidly changing business environments. In this article, the current state of organization redesign, the role of information systems, and the effect of redesign activities on job satisfaction and motivation are reviewed. The...

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Lancaster, Geoffrey; Simintiras, Antonis - In: Management Decision 29 (1991) 2

Field sales people have an unusual position in organisations in that they must be highly self‐motivated and self‐reliant, are largely unsupervised, but are often the major conduit for income into a firm. This article explores some theories of motivation in terms of sales staff, some sales...

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The Stress of the Executive Lifestyle: Trends in the 1990s

Cooper, Cary L.; Sutherland, Valerie J. - In: Management Decision 30 (1992) 6

Research on nearly 120 chief executive officers (CEOs) and their spouses from among The Times 1,000 European companies is explored. The research found that many CEOs are showing increasing signs of stress, and that the main difficulties are associated with the job interfering with family and...

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Engaging public servants

De Simone, Silvia; Cicotto, Gianfranco; Pinna, Roberta; … - In: Management Decision 54 (2016) 7, pp. 1569-1594

Purpose – Considering the ongoing international debate on the role of public administrations in economic systems, the interest around public service motivation (PSM) has significantly grown among practitioners and scholars in the past two decades. Following the research streams that have...

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Should retail trade companies avoid recruiting maximisers?

Liu, Yu-Lun; Keeling, Kathleen A.; Papamichail, K. Nadia - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 3, pp. 730-750

present job are restricted to certain groups. For recruitment information sources, while satisficers rely on their families … choices, this research recommends that retail trade companies should not exclude maximisers from their recruitment pools …. Retailers should enhance their candidate pools with both maximisers and satisficers by managing different recruitment …

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Towards a better understanding of the “buffering effects” of organizational virtuousness’ perceptions on employee outcomes

Nikandrou, Irene; Tsachouridi, Irene - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 8, pp. 1823-1842

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the buffering effects of organizational virtuousness. More specifically, the study investigates employee reactions (job satisfaction, intent to quit and willingness to support the organization) to organizational virtuousness’ perceptions...

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The moderating role of perceived organizational support on the relationship between emotional labor and job-related outcomes

Hur, Won-Moo; Han, Su-Jin; Yoo, Jeong-Ju; Moon, Tae Won - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 3, pp. 605-624

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to attempt to investigate how emotional labor strategies (i.e. surface acting and deep acting) affect job performance through job satisfaction. Another important objective of this study was to see whether perceived organizational support (POS) moderates...

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The effect of employer brand dimensions on job satisfaction: gender as a moderator

Tanwar, Karnica; Prasad, Asha - In: Management Decision 54 (2016) 4, pp. 854-886

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify key dimensions of employer brand (EB) and empirically examine the impact of different dimensions of EB upon job satisfaction. A six-factor EB model has been tested for reliability and validity through confirmatory factor analysis. The study...

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Job satisfaction survey among employees in small businesses

Davis, Grace - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 11 (2004) 4, pp. 495-503

This study applied Job Descriptive Index (JDI) to measure job attitudes among approximately 80 employees of four different small businesses. Through a standardized procedure, each employee filled out the survey form, responded to a structured interview, and then completed the survey form again....

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