Journal of Managerial Issues

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The invariance of leadership styles across four countries.
Leadership involves the ability to inspire and influence the thinking, attitudes, and behavior of other people (Adler, 1991; Bass, 1985; Bass and Stogdill, 1989; Bennis and Nanus, 1985; Kotter, 1988). . . .

State anti-corporate takeover laws: issues and arguments.
If there was one distinguishing characteristic of the U.S. business environment in the 1980s it was the emergence of a powerful corporate governance device--the hostile takeover. At no time in our h . . .

Employee reactions to temporary jobs.
The growth of the temporary workforce, both in absolute and relative terms, has been remarkable. Today, the number of temporary employees in the U.S. is 1.5 million, having tripled in size over the la . . .

Organizational size, company type, and position effects on the perceived importance of oral and written communication skills.
Researchers and practitioners have long recognized communication skills are critical to job performance, career advancement, and organizational success (Aranoff, 1989; Eckert and Allen, 1986; Harper, . . .

Absenteeism and performance as predictors of voluntary turnover.
Turnover is one of the more widely studied organizational behavior phenomena. Both the consequences and antecedents of turnover have received considerable attention in the literature. For example, Dal . . .

Using cash flow ratios to predict business failures.
Cash flow may be viewed as the lifeblood of a corporation and the essence of its very existence. Numerous empirical studies that use financial and accounting measures to predict business performance ( . . .

Gender differences in perceptions of stress-related variables: do the people make the place or does the place make the people?
For quite some time it has been assumed that some occupations are "female jobs," such as nursing and teaching, while others, such as management and administration are inherently "male jobs" (Martin an . . .

Expected utility theory vs. prospect theory: implications for strategic decision makers.
According to Bourgeois, strategic choice means that "the top management or dominant coalition always retains a certain amount of discretion to choose courses of action that serve to coalign the organi . . .

The ability to moderate recency effects through framing of management accounting information.
Management accounting is concerned with information that is obtained and provided to managers for use in the planning and controlling activities within an organization (Granof et al., 1993). Typically . . .

The effect of diversification on manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers.
The intense demand to search for growth opportunities and cost efficiencies has encouraged organizations to pursue diversification (Chandler, 1962, 1990). To the frustration of some, the effectiveness . . .

Advanced manufacturing technology, employee participation and economic performance: an empirical analysis.
Traditionally there has been little awareness of the need to link technology issues with human resource management issues. Technologies have been deployed to improve firm performance independent of pr . . .

Cultural alignment in response to strategic organizational change: new considerations for a change framework.
Most modern-day managers would quickly agree that the shared values, attitudes, commitments, beliefs, and overall patterns of thinking socially constructed among members of an organization have a trem . . .

Realistic job previews in the trucking industry.
Recruitment in the 1990s may become the most important function in human resource management (Lord, 1989). There are several reasons for this. One simply is that recruitment leads to the acquisition o . . .

Lone wolf at Weirton: Ernest Tener Weir. (steel industrialist)
SMOKE AND STEEL . . . A bar of steel - it is only Smoke at the heart of it, smoke and the blood of a man. runner of fire ran in it, ran out, ran somewhere else, And left - smoke and the blood of a man . . .

Sexually harassed and stressed out: the employer's potential liability.
When an employer receives a complaint of sexual harassment, the initial reaction is to worry about a suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act or under a state civil rights statute. However, recent . . .

Occupational safety in times of haste: lessons learned from American workers on the home front during World War II.
America was not prepared for World War II. Along with our misfortune at Pearl Harbor, American industry was ill-equipped to support the troops. Folklore of the period had it that some soldiers drilled . . .

The stability of individual grievance behavior: an examination of assumptions about grievance activity.
Assumptions about the degree to which individual grievance behavior is stable and consistent across time guides both research and practice (Bemmels, 1994). For example, practitioners sometimes assume . . .

Environmental attitudes and knowledge: an international comparison among business students.
While concern for the environment and efforts to improve it are today worldwide, it was in the U.S. where the environmental movement first took hold and where the earliest environmental efforts were m . . .

Growth strategy in corporate law firms: internal influences and performance outcomes.
Autonomous professional organizations, in which professionals not only provide services but also manage the organization--set goals, coordinate activities, evaluate performance, and determine compensa . . .

The effects of experience and the firm's environment on manager's project selection decisions.
This study is a first attempt to initiate a discussion of how profit center managers' project selection decisions are affected by their experience and the environment in which they make those decision . . .

Employee sabotage: a random or preventable phenomenon?
"I'll tell you what you can do," Mr. Watson said confidentially, leaning over the bar and handing Jones the beer. The other man at the bar bent toward them to listen; he had been silently following th . . .

Drug testing in labor arbitration: does it impact the decision-making process?
Drug testing in the workplace has received substantial attention in media publication and in management literature, particularly in those publications targeting practitioners (see, for example, Anders . . .

The combined effects of three pretraining strategies on motivation and performance: an empirical exploration.
With the rapid changes in the American economy, corporate attention has shifted toward establishing a more central role for the training function in U.S. firms (e.g., Carnevale, 1991). Of course, Amer . . .

Achieving focused management activities through formal performance evaluation: results from a field study.
Periodic performance evaluations are multipurpose tools for management control. Some of the benefits attributed to properly conceived and executed evaluations are: (1) accurate measurement and judging . . .

Linear programming as a decision aid for downsizing.
Downsizing, rightsizing, reduction-in-force, and demassing are being used to describe the planned reduction of a firm's work force and/or operations. While work force reductions have been common i . . .

How to include earnings-based bonuses in cost-volume-profit analysis.
Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis is a widely used tool for managerial planning. CVP analysis examines relationships among product prices, levels of output, variable costs, fixed costs, and target . . .

Activity-based management for the labor intensive manufacturer: a field study.
Many journal articles have documented the applicability of Activity based Costing (ABC) in a technologically advanced manufacturing environment (Cooper, 1990, 1988a, 1988b, 1989a, 1989b; Drumheller . . .

Investigating the dimensions of social responsibility and the consequences for corporate financial performance. (includes append
Corporate social responsibility as an area of scientific inquiry has received little attention in the popular and academic press during the last decade. Efforts to investigate social responsibility . . .

An examination of promotion opportunities and evaluation criteria as mechanisms for affecting internal auditor commitment, job s
A recent overview of the state of behavioral accounting research indicates that the reward system is one variable that has received "little, if any attention" in the auditing subfield of that resea . . .

The impact of interview process and context on performance appraisal interview effectiveness.
Many managers devote substantial time to the performance appraisal process and, in most instances, arrange formal meetings with employees to give them feedback (Eichel and Bender, 1984). Research has . . .

Is relevant research irrelevant?: on evaluating the contribution of research to management practice.
Let me admit right now, that I am trained as an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist. For some, this is synonymous with stating that I am interested in research topics that are irrelevant to practic . . .

The role of chance in employee disciplinary decisions: squaring attribution theory with "just cause."
The attribution theory of leadership has been utilized to provide insight into a variety of supervisory decision-making situations, including performance appraisal and pay raise decisions (Green and M . . .

Retail attributes: influence on shopping mode choice behavior.
Retailers are very aware of the importance of the consumer's store choice process. They realize that consumers can buy the same or similar merchandise in any number of outlets. Thus, they undertake a . . .

Why employers and physicians select HMOs: an analysis with management implications. (health maintenance organizations)
The beginning of the 1990s finds both the private and public sectors in the United States grappling with serious and growing problems in providing its citizens with quality health care at affordable p . . .

Generic strategies for subsidiaries of multinational corporations.
The growth of global industries and trading blocks has led to increased interest in international strategy. Most of what is known about multinational corporate (MNC) strategy is concerned with strateg . . .

Males and females in a discipline situation: exploratory research on competing hypotheses.
Gender effects in personnel decisions continue to be the subject of lively debate. The debate itself centers on several questions. Are there differences in the way males and females approach personnel . . .

Attracting applicants from a changing labor market: a strategic marketing framework.
An often overlooked area of human resource planning is trying to market a company to the current workforce. Traditionally, human resource planning models assume the labor market is a static, unchangin . . .

Patterns in the implementation of corporate responses to chronic problem products.
In today's health-wise, environmentally concerned society, an increasingly important issue to U.S. businesses is corporate social responsibility--a term that has become so prevalent as to have become . . .

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