This paper discusses the impact of the dynamics of motivation on new organizational forms that are suited to forge value-creating knowledge transfers in teams and between organizational units and functions. Our aim is to develop the management of motivation as a source of distinctive firm competences. We argue that motivation is an endogenous variable and introduce it as a crucial link into the...

In this study, on the basis of G. Hofstede and G. England’s research on organizational and managerial values, it is aimed to determine which problems arise from organizational and managerial values in the organization. Research data needed to achieve the objective come from 166 administrators with academic and administrative authority at faculties, colleges and vocational schools of a public un...

Achieving efficiency in coordinated action in rapidly changing environments has challenged both researchers and practitioners. Emergency events require both rapid response and effective coordination among participating organizations. We created a simulated operations environment using agent-based modeling to test the efficiency of six different organizational designs that varied the exercise of...

This comparative case study assesses the effects of an empowered staff management model on staff perceptions of the delegation of authority, opportunities to participate in decision making, supervisory relations, supervisory relations, prison management, job satisfaction and burnout. Indices of staff work environment were created by factor analysis of responses of 149 staff to organizational cl...

International Manufacturing Joint Ventures (IMJV) are a challenge for managers when exploitingbundled resources for growth performances. From an intra firm perspective it is argued that because of lack of organizational memory in an IMJV, managers must construct an administrative framework which guides organizational members in replicating learning, on how to deploy machines and methods, and es...

Researchers of the Chinese bureaucracy generally believe that policy promotion depends on the power of the party committees because they have absolute authority in China. This intuitive argument, however, lacks support from rigorous empirical research and theoretical analyses. Through close observation of the Bureau of Justice, this paper analyzes how differentiated authority affects organizati...

This conceptual research paper reviews how positional authority affects the servant leadership-organizational performance relationship and provides insight on leadership can be implemented effective in absence of authority, i.e. through cultivation leveraging influence. A review literature is used to propose that positively associated with increased organizational performance. Through lens uppe...

This paper presents an experience-based account of the concept of authority in the context of recent and anticipatory developments in the air traffic management (ATM) domain where airspace capacity constantly increases and international programs plan on developing more technology to increase ATM safety. In this context, traditional individual human factors investigations shift toward new organi...

introduction: this research investigated the factors affecting implementation of activity based costing (abc) in operational budgeting of government agencies in isfahan province. methods: being an applied, cross-sectional and descriptive research, this study made use of a questionnaire for gathering data. governmental agencies that used provincial budget in isfahan province in 1388 comprised th...