The purpose of this study was to examine the relations among conflict management styles and target and instigator incivility and job performance, organizational commitment, and turnover intent. Data from 270 employees suggested that experiencing and instigating uncivil behavior occurred frequently. Using an integrative conflict management style was positively associated with job performance and...

A blended learning model was developed to enhance lecture delivery in a large, diverse introductory psychology unit, introducing the use of an online, personalized learning system for lecture preparation and using lecture time to extend students’ understanding. Changes to the assessment included diagnostic, formative and summative online quizzes. Using hierarchical multiple regression to accoun...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the determinants of intention to adopt 4G mobile services and to understand if gender is a moderator in the adoption of 4G mobile services. Data collected from 466 respondents in India were tested against the research model using Correlation and Hierarchical regression analysis. The proposed model was partially supported by the empirical data. However...

This study suggests that individuals’ technology adoption decisions in the context of online collaboration tools are based on individual-level assessments of the technology, as well as on group-level attributes of the team with which one needs to work. Thus, a multilevel model of online collaboration technology adoption is proposed and tested, using hierarchical linear modeling techniques appli...

The decline of party membership and party activism in European Democracies has been well established, but this phenomenon has not been effectively explained. This is partly because a full test of any explanation requires longitudinal comparative survey data which does not exist. This paper suggests that generational replacement explains the decline of party activism, so that existing party acti...

Applying the Hierarchical Bayesian Regression model to weekly aggregated sales history data from 92 retail stores located around Tokyo, I calculated price elasticities by item, week, and store. These elasticities are more stable than figures calculated using the Hierarchical Regression or Bayesian Regression models. Furthermore, using Google Earth, I visualized the calculated price elasticities...

The aim of this study is to propose and empirically examine multilevel models of students’ time management in online collaborative groupwork. Studentand group-level predictors of groupwork time management were analyzed in a survey of 204 graduate students from 61 groups in the Southeast of U.S. Results from the multilevel analyses revealed that most of the variance in time management occurred a...

C5.3.1 Random slope model .................................................................... 23 C5.3.2 Example of random slope for a continuous explanatory variable: allowing the relationship between hedonism and age to differ across countries ............. 25 C5.3.3 Centring in a random slope model .................................................... 28 C5.3.4 Example of random slope for a d...

(2005). The impact of role assignment on knowledge construction in asynchronous discussion groups: A multilevel analysis.