Employee portals are systems that provide employees with the timely and relevant information that they need to perform their duties and to make efficient business decisions. Although their use is widespread, the question on how benefits of these portals are materialized for their users has not been fully answered yet. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the util...

This paper explores how loss-framed incentives affect behavior in a multitasking environment which participants have more than one way of recovering (expected) losses. In real-effort laboratory experiment, we offer task that are framed as either reward (gain) or penalty (loss). We study their responses along three dimensions: performance the incentivized task, theft, and voluntary provision hel...

Numerous scholars and practitioners claim that motivational factors can facilitate successful knowledge sharing. However, little empirical research has been conducted examining the different kinds of motivation (extrinsic and intrinsic) used to explain employee knowledge sharing behaviors. By integrating a motivational perspective into the theory of reasoned action (TRA), this study examines th...

We examined the association of creativity with creative personality, domain expertise, non-controlling supervision, and organizational learning culture, as well as cross-level interactions in R&D organizations. Using HLM, domain expertise and non-controlling supervision were found to be positively associated with creativity. Practical implications and recommendations for further research are pr...

Employees’ failure to comply with IS security procedures is a key concern for organizations today. A number of socio-cognitive theories have been used to explain this. However, prior studies have not examined the influence of past and automatic behavior on employee decisions to comply. This is an important omission because past behavior has been assumed to strongly affect decision-making. To ad...

Background and Objectives: Appropriate attitude about Enjoining good and forbidding evil (EGFE) as two fundamental topics in Islam that are known as a social phenomenon can use as a powerful tool in Islamic organizations to promote happiness, management improvement and correction of defficiencies. The objective was to assess attitude of hospital staff regarding enjoining good and forbidding evi...

structure. Social media and virtual teams are transforming the way employees interact and accomplish organizational objectives. Values and self-leadership are replacing commandand-control management. Companies are looking for employees with emotional intelligence and team competencies, not just technical smarts. Organizational Behavior, Seventh Edition, is written in the context of these emergi...