This article peers into some of the myths and misconceptions in current management practices in motivating technical professionals. A questionnaire survey was carried out on 376 development engineers. The foregoing analysis clearly suggests that engineers in industry are generally dissatisfied...

Purpose – Globalisation and technological developments are creating uncertainty in both the private and public sectors. There are calls on all sides for increased productivity. Measures for improving productivity involve staff retention and support and the development of an organisational...

Purpose – Businesses have increasingly relied on educators to train students on teamwork skills that are valuable in a highly competitive marketplace. But what are students actually getting from these initiatives? Are they seeing the linkage between teamwork skills and goal accomplishment? Are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address and gain a more complete understanding of the effects on relationships between perceived team support (PTS), team commitment and intent to leave the team. Design/methodology/approach – Team commitment was examined as a mediator between...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine within college coaches the effects of pay satisfaction and work‐family conflict (WFC) on occupational turnover intentions. Specifically, it predicts that WFC would mediate the relationship between satisfaction with pay to occupational...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the relationship between leadership behaviors (transformational and transactional), satisfaction with the leader, and voluntary turnover intentions. In particular, it aims to investigate the mediation effect of satisfaction with the leader on the...

Purpose – Building on a social‐technical approach to project management, the authors aim to examine the effect of action‐centered leadership attributes on team member's learning, knowledge collaboration and job satisfaction during IT‐related projects. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate into the relationships among citizenship behavior within medical and nursing teams, cooperation among these teams within hospital units and job satisfaction of members of those teams. Design/methodology/approach – Data were gathered via...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on teamwork by focusing on the influence support systems, like industrial relations, have on teamwork. Teamwork is conceptualized through three dimensions; technical, governmental and normative. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of organisational culture and job satisfaction on the quality of services provided in higher education and to raise questions about the successful implementation of quality assurance and evaluation systems recently launched in...