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Conducting Action Research: Relationships between Organization Members and Researchers
(Sage Publications, 1992)
Action research in an organizational setting draws researchers and the employees involved into a joint process aimed at meeting both research and intervention objectives. The active collaboration of participants has major ...
Interpersonal Compatibility and Workgroup Performance
(Sage Publications, 1975)
Schutz hypothesized in his theory of interpersonal relations that more interpersonally compatible groups will exhibit greater productivity. Until recently, this proposition has remained largely untested for workgroups. The ...
Dealing with Work Stress and Strain: Is the Perception of Support more Important than its Use?
(Sage Publications, 1988)
The authors conducted a study of the relationship between the perception and use of support in one's work environment and their effects on perceived stress and strain. The analytic sample consisted of 480 social workers ...
Higher knowledge for higher aspirations
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005)
With escalating expectations and opportunities for HR professionals to add greater value comes the mandate for greater knowledge about the fundamental driving forces of business. Business leaders and employees increasingly ...
Process Feedback in Task Groups: An Application of Goal Setting
(Sage Publications, 1992)
An experiment was conducted to test the effects of interpersonal group process feedback on interpersonal behaviors and task performance in task groups. The form of process feedback was based on research findings about ...
Inept, Misguided, or Caught between Competing Paradigms? A Reply to Locke and Latham and to Wells
(Sage Publications, 1992)
Embedded Intergroup Relations in Interdisciplinary Teams
(Sage Publications, 1997)
Many organizations are making a deliberate effort to use teams to carry out work as an alternative to more traditional, hierarchical approaches to defining jobs or supervising employees. The authors posit that structure ...
The Effects of CEO Succession and Tenure on Failure of Rural Community Hospitals
(Sage Publications, 1996)
Little research has examined the independent and interactive effects of CEO succession and tenure on organizational failure. In this study, the authors found independent effects of CEO succession and tenure on organizational ...
Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders
(Sage Publications, 1996)
The article describes a field study of a large-scale management development program designed to stimulate middle managerial change. The development of a change typology suggests that middle managers are capable of making ...