We study the effect of firing threats in a virtual workplace that reproduces features of existing organizations. We show that organizations in which bosses can fire up to one third of their workforce produce twice as much as organizations for which firing is not possible. Firing threats sharply decrease on-the-job leisure. Nevertheless, organizations endowed with firing threats underperformed t...

The aim of this paper is to develop a self-actualizing spirituality model. It examines the place of selfactualization in the experience of workplace spirituality of Sri Lankan business leaders. The primary method of data collection was in-depth and face-to-face interviews with 13 Sri Lankan business leaders. Within the qualitative tradition and case study method, grounded theory and data triang...

The digital workplace is widely acknowledged as an important organizational asset for optimizing knowledge worker productivity. While there is no particular research stream on the digital workplace, scholars have conducted intensive research on related topics. This study aims to summarize the practical implications of the current academic body of knowledge on the digital workplace. For this pur...

Recently, many organizations have attempted to build hypermedia systems to expand their working areas into Internet-based virtual workplaces. Thus, it is important to manage corporate hypermedia documents effectively. Metadata plays a critical role for managing these documents. This paper identifies metadata roles and components to build a metadata schema. Furthermore, a meta-information system...

This year, more than one million U.S. workers will be kicked, pushed, punched, threatened, or otherwise victimized in the workplace. According to the Bureau of Justice, 1.7 million U.S. employees suffer nonfatal workplace assaults annually.1 A 2006 study of U.S. workers found that 41.4% of workers were psychologically victimized at least once in the past year, and 13% reported that they were vi...