Article history: Received 6 January 2012 Revised 21 January 2013 Accepted 1 February 2013 Available online 27 February 2013 Whatmakes people perceive a leader as charismatic, andhowdo team leaders obtain performance outcomes from their followers? We examine leaders in times of organizational change and investigate the mechanisms through which leaders' change-promoting behaviors are associated w...

The objectives of this study were to test the relationships between team goal commitment and 3 criteria of team effectiveness (i.e., team performance, quality of group experience, and team viability) as well as to examine the moderating effect of task interdependence and the mediating role of supportive behaviors. Data were gathered from a sample of 74 teams working in 13 Canadian organizations...

In this research, we examine the efficacy of a technological intervention in shaping distributed team members’ perceptions about their teammates. We argue that, by exposing distributed team members to electronic profiles (e-profiles) with information emphasizing their personal similarities with one another, distributed teams should experience lower levels of relational and task conflict. In tur...

in this research, we have investigated the relationship between psychological and social factors and green consumer behavior in tehran. with a sample size of 316, we have examined 15 hypotheses. the positive significant relationship between environmental attitudes, personal norms, perceived consumer effectiveness, and social (injunctive) norms with green consumer behavior dimensions (green purc...

BACKGROUND Current recommendations for strengthening the US healthcare system consider restructuring primary care into multidisciplinary teams as vital to improving quality and efficiency. Yet, approaches to the selection of team designs remain unclear. This project describes current primary care team designs, primary care professionals' perceptions of ideal team designs, and perceived facilita...

This paper explores the relationship between member satisfaction and effectiveness of virtual, self managed teams. Specifically, this paper studies the various perceptions of eight virtual team members. The study reveals eight major themes for how team members evaluate themselves and will provide a basis to evaluate the relationship between these factors and the effectiveness of the self manage...

Past research has widely regarded trust as unconditionally facilitating transaction behavior, and perceived risk as unconditionally detracting from it. This study advocates the necessity to examine trust and perceived risk within the broader perspective of the societal context. We propose the perceived regulatory effectiveness of online marketplaces to moderate the impact of trust on transactio...

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This study investigates decision support systems (DSS) in a simulated healthcare setting and assesses the factors that enhance DSS perceived effectiveness and their impact on company performance. Our analysis shows that perceived system effectiveness correlates to improved company performance. However, investing significant human resources in developing a system does not necessarily guarantee e...

The purpose of this study was to examine how trust between the team-members and identification with the team are related to the effectiveness of virtual teams. The literature suggests that both trust and identification are crucial for success of virtual teams but there is a lack of empirical studies to substantiate this assumption. We hypothesized that the identification-effectiveness link shou...