Stakeholders in the livestock industry are in a position to make critical choices that directly impact on animal welfare during slaughter and transport. Understanding the attitudes of stakeholders in livestock-importing countries, including factors that motivate the stakeholders to improve animal welfare, can lead to improved trade relations with exporting developed countries and improved anima...

organizational culture and managers' personal attitudes play a crucial role in conducting change initiatives, especially strategic change. in this regard, middle managers' commitment to change is of great importance and cynicism is the biggest obstacle in forming this commitment. in the present study, it is investigated whether organizational justice dimensions, senior management supp...

Managers today are under tremendous pressure to uncover factors driving customers’ attitudes and behavior that can serve a source of competitive advantage. Unfortunately, traditional methods of generating customer insights suffer from well-known limitations, and have remained largely unchanged since their introduction decades ago. As a result, there is growing interest in brain-based approaches...

This paper empirically examines commercialization of university faculty inventions through startup firms from 1994 through 2008. Using data from the Association of University Technology Managers and the 2010 NRC doctoral rankings, our research reveals several findings. We find that university entrepreneurship is more common in bad economic times and that engineering department quality and biolo...

Job attitude and behavior data were collected over the period of a year fo,' 69 managers in a retail sales organization. Expectancy attitudes were found to be significantly related to some measures of effort and performance. However, weighting expectancy attitudes by valence measures did not increase the ability of expectancy attitudes to predict behavior. Crosslagged correlational analyses wer...

This study examined the influence of attitudes and self-monitoring on leniency (elevation accuracy) of performance ratings and personnel decisions. In addition, moderating effects of self-monitoring on the relationship between attitudes and accuracy of ratings and decisions were investigated. Attitudes and self-monitoring tendency of 210 managers-professionals were measured, and ratings provide...

This study sought to examine the pro-organizational attitudes of hotel middle-managers. The ability middle-managers contribute effectiveness and performance their hotels is often dependent on job satisfaction affective commitment organization. By introducing concept psychological ownership, this particular seeks understand determinants middle-managers' commitment. Additionally, examines whether...

T oo often health care managers spend their time dealing with conflict in the workplace. Many leaders I work with tell the same story: Their teams are affected, to one degree or another, by infighting, negative attitudes, cliques, back-biting, gossip, and angst. In the highly charged environment that is health care, stress comes with the territory, but when team conflict is pervasive, the roo...

Although most secondary schools use management information systems (MISs), these systems are primarily used for clerical purposes and are not used to a significant extent to support higher order managerial activities. This situation is less than desirable, as schools are receiving more discretion in developing school policies and MISs could be offering important assistance in this respect. Our ...