Do CEO values matter? Most researchers say yes, but few have been able to empirically prove that. Using the Q-sort method to measure CEO values and HLM to test the effects of CEO values played on middle manager responses in 42 Chinese companies, we found that CEO values affect the manager’s attitudinal responses, but not their job performance as rated by their superiors. Our results also show t...

This paper will discuss key aspects of collaborative practice for researchers and professionals, who use or intend to use collaboration in practice or research. It will introduce our understanding of collaboration, then briefly review supporting research, explore how researchers collaborate with teachers and related professionals, and explore how teachers have integrated peer collaboration into...

Virtual Teams (VTs) offer great advantages but have different challenges compared with co-located teams. This study explores using blogs and email to see if improvements can be made to virtual team effectiveness. This preliminary study is qualitative in nature and uses a quasi-experiment to compare 2 teams performing the same project; one uses email while the other uses a blog tool. Once the pr...

Harmonic identification by using Adaptive Tabu Search (ATS) Method embedded in the active power filter is proposed in this paper. The use of the ATS identifies harmonic components more accurately and precisely. Besides the accuracy and precision, it is able to select only some particular harmonic orders that cause severe consequences to the system for elimination. This principle thus leads to t...

The study of how people’s psychological health and well-being can be connected to wood used in appearance applications is a new and relatively unexplored area of inquiry, despite strong theoretical support, intuitive reasoning, and a growing recognition of the importance of healthful living. This research attempted to better understand this phenomenon by mapping out people’s perceptions of wood...

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.08.013 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, United States. E-mail address: [email protected] (D.G. Serfass). 1 While a large body of research using Q-Sorts follows the procedure prescribed by Stephenson...

This paper aims to use the previous work related to the DELPHI method, and, in particular, the Q-Sort method for information retrieval of a panel of experts, to provide a new and simple algorithm to generate Q-Sort matrices that adjust to the size of a given survey to have more questions whose weight is null for the outcome of the round, giving experts the need to prioritise some questions abov...

Trust highlights as an important factor in helping citizens to overcome the perceived risks. Accordingly, the in-depth investigation of citizen’s trust has become a necessity for researchers and practitioners to understand citizens' acceptance of e-government in developed countries in general, and developing countries in particular. This research paper proposes a theoretical model to achieve th...

Until recently, there has been very little naturalistic study of what gaming experiences are like, and how gaming fits into people's lives. Using a recently developed structural characteristic taxonomy of video games, this study examined the psycho-structural elements of computer games that motivate gamers to play them. Using Q-Sort methodology, 40 gamers participated in an online Q-sort task. ...