In this paper, we develop a model that links the antecedents of trust, trust itself and outcome success. We test the model using data from a questionnaire and present the path analytical results. The data suggest that performance outcomes are based on both direct effects from objective supplier performance and indirect effects through trust. However, many of the “people oriented” trust enablers...

Issues in the macro-environment are affecting the historic relationships that have existed between hospitals and their medical staffs over the last half century. Rising healthcare costs, deteriorating relationships, unexplained variations in clinical outcomes, transparency in healthcare outcomes, medical tourism, competition between hospitals and physicians, and reluctance by hospitals and phys...

P research has shown how outcomes in interorganizational relationships are influenced by the characteristics of the individual relationship in question. Focusing on relationships between suppliers and their organizational buyers, we augment this perspective by positing that relationship outcomes are also influenced by social comparison processes involving perceptions of a supplier’s practices a...

OBJECTIVE The findings from several studies suggest that palliative care patients with advanced cancer experience multiple symptoms, and that these symptoms may be related to demographic and clinical factors as well as to patient outcomes. However, no systematic review has summarized the findings from studies that assessed multiple symptoms, predictors, and outcomes in these patients. The purpo...

objective: to compare the effect of the physiologic and facilitated labor on the mother and neonate outcomes in the prim gravid women referring to arash hospital. materials and methods: this clinical trial study was performed on 200 low risk pregnant women referring to arash women's hospital in 2012-2013. mothers were divided into two groups of 100 patients using a simple random sampling method...

Citation: Kafetsios KG and Gruda D (2018) Interdependent Followers Prefer Avoidant Leaders: Followers’ Cultural Orientation Moderates Leaders’ Avoidance Relationships with Followers’ Work Outcomes. Front. Commun. 3:9. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2018.00009 interdependent Followers Prefer avoidant leaders: Followers’ cultural Orientation Moderates leaders’ avoidance relationships with Followers’ Work Out...

Person- and context-oriented definitions of age were used to predict three sets of work outcomes: work attitudes, performance ratings, and reports of developmental practices. The five age measures included employee chronological age, employee subjective age (i.e., self-perceptions of age), and social age (i.e., others' perceptions of age), as well as self- and supervisors' perceptions of the em...

We investigated the role of subjective factors in the information search process. Forty-eight participants each conducted six Web searches in a controlled setting. We examined relationships between subjective factors (happiness levels, satisfaction with and confidence in the search results, feeling lost during search, familiarity with and interest in the search topic, estimation of task difficu...

This study investigated the relationship between student-faculty informal relationships and three freshman year educational outcomes. After controlling for the influence of 14 student pre-enroilment characteristics, such as high school academic performance, academic apti tude, personality needs, and expectations of certain aspects of college, eight measures of the frequency and strength of stud...

Copy Abstract: The present study demonstrates a novel way of exploring the relationship between personality and social outcomes by examining an understudied intermediate step: situational construal. Construal is assessed in terms of the degree to which one’s description of a situation agrees with others’ descriptions of the same situation (normativity) and the degree to which the description is...