This study synthesizes the research findings of 82 empirical studies on user participation in information systems development (ISD). Various ISD outcomes are addressed using a classification scheme involving two broad categories—attitudinal/ behavioral outcomes and productivity outcomes. The results demonstrate that user participation is minimally-to-moderately beneficial to ISD; its effects ar...

Employee attitudinal outcomes are integral to the organization’s stability and functional coherence. Such dispositions toward organization significant others imperative for health overall cohesion of workplace. This paper identified effective leadership as playing a crucial role in perceptions expectations workers thus impacting on employee outcomes. The was designed theoretical paper, specific...

Using meta-analysis, we compare three attitudinal outcomes (i.e., job satisfaction, affective commitment, and turnover intent), three behavioral outcomes (i.e., interpersonal deviance, organizational deviance, and work performance), and four health-related outcomes (i.e., general health, depression, emotional exhaustion, and physical well being) of workplace aggression from three different sour...

Loyalty concept is analyzed under different points of view such as brand, customer or store loyalty. Furthermore, due to the advancements in relationship marketing concept and the raising prominence of building relationship with the customers, this study focuses on the store loyalty aspect and aims to investigate the relationship between store loyalty and the customers’ relational benefits (soc...

A visual information feedback mechanism for group decision making (GDM) problems with triangular fuzzy complementary preference relations (TFCPRs) is investigated. The concepts of similarity degree (SD) between two experts as well as the proximity degree (PD) between an expert and the rest of experts in the group are developed for TFCPRs. The consensus level (CL) is defined by combining SD and ...

BACKGROUND Education is integral to reducing stigma toward the mentally ill. Medical educators have a key role in delivering education that reduces that stigma. Undergraduate psychiatric training and specific education programs are both effective in reducing stigma. However, many students are exposed to concepts of mental illness at a much earlier stage in their education. No previous study has...

Using a system of structural equations, this paper empirically examines the relationship of residential neighborhood type to travel behavior, incorporating attitudinal, lifestyle, and demographic variables. Data on these variables were collected from residents of five neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1993 (final N 1⁄4 515), including ‘‘traditional’’ and ‘‘suburban’’ as well as mix...

BACKGROUND Medical tourism is the term that describes patients' international travel with the intention of seeking medical treatment. Some medical tourists go abroad for orthopaedic surgeries, including hip and knee resurfacing and replacement. In this article we examine the findings of interviews with Canadian medical tourists who went abroad for such surgeries to determine what is distinctive...