This paper discusses the social dimension of information quality in the context of knowledge management. For that purpose, the main epistemological concepts of Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, as the theoretical founders of a constructivist, interpretative sociology of knowledge, are introduced and operationalized. Within knowledge management theory the transformational process, which produces situ...

A key role of clinicians is to motivate their patients to initiate and maintain beneficial health behaviors. This article integrates research on transformational leadership, clinician-patient communication, and health behavior to introduce a novel approach to understanding and improving clinicians' effectiveness as motivators. We describe three dominant clinician styles or patterned approaches ...

This study tested the recent path-goal leadership theory prediction [House, R.J., 1996. Path-goal theory of leadership: Lessons, legacy, and a reformulated theory. The Leadership Quarterly, 7, 323–352] that leader contingent reward behavior negatively moderates relationships between transformational leadership and subordinate performance and job satisfaction at the individual level of analysis....

In the literature, there are various approaches of leadership (also called styles or theories) identified as distinct ones. The two most referred ones are transformational and transactional leadership approaches. This research compares and contrasts the two theories of leadership in terms of their impact on IT supported organizational performance. The main objective of the study is to assess th...

logical form or covert syntax is a syntactic level introduced in recent generative approaches. using the ideas of first-order predicate logic, it interprets the strings whose elements cannot move in s–structure, because an element moves if it does not acquire its necessary scope. but unlike the predicate logic, logical form is based on syntactic principles and rules. therefore, logical form is ...

Syntax is a branch of linguistics that explains sentence structure. This study aims to discover what types sentences are used in motivational quotes, which frequently emerge and describe structure utilizing tree diagram. research employs the descriptive qualitative technique. The involved multiple processes data collection, including; reading novel's text, choosing quotes contained novel Atomic...

This study examined how transformational leadership directly and indirectly relates to supervisory-rated performance collected over time including 437 participants employed by 6 U.S. banking organizations in the midwest. Results revealed that one’s identification with his or her work unit, self-efficacy, and means efficacy were related to supervisor-rated performance. The effect of transformati...

We examined the underlying processes through which transformational and active transactional leadership affects followers’ organizational identification in a survey study. Using a sample of managers across different industries, we found that followers’ psychological empowerment, including competence, impact, meaning, and selfdetermination, partially mediated the effect of transformational leade...

Based on social exchange theory, we examined and contrasted attitudinal mediators (affective organizational commitment, job satisfaction) and relational mediators (trust in leader, leader-member exchange; LMX) of the positive relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Hypotheses were tested using meta-analytic path models with correlations fr...