Organizational scholars have achieved broad consensus on two facts: the era of the loyal “organization man” is over, and traditional large bureaucracies are being replaced by new organizational forms. Commentators in both the popular press and the scholarly literature have documented the myriad ways that jobs at all levels are less secure and how both organizations and employees are less loyal ...

Personality measures were predicted to be susceptible to response distortion above and beyond volitional strategies of impression management. A 2 (Instruction Set) x 2 (Personality Feedback) x 2 (Mortality Salience) factorial design addressed social desirability biases in responding to personality measures. There were significant changes in all measures due to volitional (Fake Good) strategies....

Background: Trimethyltin (TMT) is a toxic agent that causes oxidative stress, a laboratory model for inducing hippocampal injuries. Pentoxifylline (PTX) inhibits phosphodiesterase, inflammation and oxidative stress. This study evaluated the neuroprotective effects of PTX on injuries induced by TMT in the hippocampus. Methods: Sixty male Wistar rats were divided into five groups of 12 each. Gro...

Bu araştırmada Dehşet Yönetimi Kuramı ve kuramın kavramlarını film analizi yöntemi ile incelemek somutlaştırmak amaçlanmıştır. İnsanı diğer canlılardan ayıran eşsiz entelektüel yetenekleri belli bir oranda doğaya hâkim olmasını, hayatını daha konforlu hale getirmek için buluşlar gerçekleştirmesini icatlar yapmasını sağlar. Diğer taraftan bu üstün insanın ölümlü varlık olduğunu fark etmesine de ...

This paper investigates how changes in firm degree of internationalization (DOI) are associated with the configuration of top management teams (TMT) based on a dataset of 41 large European firms in the banking and insurance industry, including detailed career profiles of the 264 executives that were serving on the TMTs of these firms at year-end 2002. Our findings suggest firms tend to match to...