The purpose of this paper is to focus first on the literature that links leadership to employee wellbeing within the field of organizational behavior, and then turn the attention to a survey on healthcare professionals’ perceptions of the leadership style in three Italian hospitals. The classification of leader behavior is based on the sharing of decision making between leader and follower in t...

the purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the factors affecting female’s psychological empowerment in the information and knowledge services. this paper is based on applied research and mixed method including descriptive and survey. first by using qualitative approach, for expanding and explaining effective factors of pycholigical empowerment of women librarians and informationist, n...

Complementary investment in information technology (IT) and organizational work practices enable a firm to respond strategically to competitive challenges. Specific combinations of these investments, as called for in organizational programs, are implemented in a coordinated manner to bring about a change more consistent with the external environment, resulting in improved firm performance. Whil...

This study investigated the extent of the relationship between participative decision making and employee performance in selected hotels in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. The specific objective determined the relationship between leader behavior and employee commitment. Descriptive survey and questionnaire was adopted as instrument for data collection. The total population of the study comprised o...

This paper adopts a view of organizations as complex adaptive systems and makes a case for making organizations more complex internally through the use of a fairly simple managerial rule—using participative decision making. Participation in decision making enhances connectivity in organizations, which in turn, gives the organization the opportunity to self-organize and co-evolve in more effecti...

This paper adopts a view of organizations as complex adaptive systems and makes a case for making organizations more complex internally through the use of a fairly simple managerial rule using participative decision making. Participation in decision making enhances connectivity in organizations, which in turn, gives the organization the opportunity to self-organize and co-evolve in more effecti...

E-collaboration, through group support systems (GSS) and other forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC), is increasingly used in organizations. GSS and CMC technologies offer organizations new ways to communicate information and knowledge, to interact synchronously or asynchronously, and to generate ideas, make decisions and solve problems. Although a sizable body of literature has develo...

This paper reviews the interest of using context for participative simulation in virtual environment for training. Our aim is to simulate some cognitive mechanisms in order to obtain credible agent’s decision-making. Another interesting aspect is the explanation needed when the learner makes a mistake. We argue, in this article, that context is a good concept to give better explanations. We des...