This research examines an entertainment website, Jezebel.com, to understand how the site’s use of a virtual newsroom and computer-mediated communication influences organizational dynamics and culture. By employing a case study of Jezebel, this research utilized in-depth interviews and observations to examine the role of instant messaging (IM) in organizing work and shaping organizational cultur...

Copyright © 2003 International Communication Association Scholars of organizational communication have begun to focus diligently on organization as gendered, yet we continue to neglect the ways in which it is fundamentally raced. With this article, we seek to stimulate systematic attention to the racial dynamics of organizational communication. We argue that the field’s most common ways of fram...

Organizational integration between intraand inter-organizational subsystems is an important factor of operational coordination, innovation, and strategic effectiveness. Scholars have mainly focused on the organizational integration of three sub-systems: production/operations, marketing/sales, and R&D. This study explored the organizational integration of the organizational unit in charge of the...

abstractthe aims of the present research included, investigating the possible relationships between the four aspects of cultural attitudes based on the hofsted model(masculinity, power distance, uncertainity avoidance and collectivism) and the staff's creativity in the ministry of welfare and social security. therefore, a statistical sample of 150 people was chosen from the employees of th...

The Australian public sector has recently faced a sweep of reforms. Initiatives such as National Competition Policy (NCP), economic rationalism, accrual accounting, financial management initiatives and value-based management are some of the many reforms that Australia has adopted. This renewed focus has inspired reforms in the actual operations of the public hospitals. This paper aims to invest...

Information systems institutionalisation is a process through which technology becomes aligned with the organizational environment and, thus, becomes an integral part of the organization. Technology implementation in contemporary business organizations should not be viewed as one off endorsement of technology. Instead it is an important ingredient in the ongoing process of organizational evolut...

Transformational leadership has both personal and professional domains. Key concepts and research related to transformational leadership are explored, as well as a framework for personal and professional leadership, in relation to leadership of self, leadership in relation to others, and leadership in relation to systems. A review of the issues and trends facing nurse executives results in iden...

With more organizations looking for employees who take the initiative and respond creatively to the challenges of the job, empowerment becomes important at both individual and organizational levels. Empowered employees are generally more satisfied with their work, committed and effective at work. According to Kanter's structural empowerment, this study examines the role of access to opportunity...

One of the main issues in agent organizations is the specification of coordination mechanisms between agents playing roles in a regulated social environment. Both in Organizational Theory as in MAS, the concept of role plays an important role in the specification of coordination. We present a role-based model for organizations that integrates both views. Role hierarchies define the links throug...

Enterprise systems are used to facilitate the seamless integration and exchange of data between the various departments within an organization. In order to achieve this, rigidly defined control mechanisms must be in place in the system, which safeguard the company’s data and protect the company against unauthorized and unintended uses of the system. This is ideal for total control; however, is ...