BACKGROUND It is of importance and urgency for hospitals to retain excellent nursing staff in order to improve patient satisfaction and hospital performance. However, it was found that simply increasing the salary is not the best method to resolve the problem of lacking nursing staff; it is necessary to focus on the impact of non-monetary factors. The delicate relationship between organizationa...

In financial decision making, perceived fairness can have substantial influence on individuals’ choices. In this paper, we investigate process and outcome dimensions that moderate perceived fairness for a variety of financial products. Our hypotheses draw from the existing fairness literatures in marketing, economics, and organizational behavior, and relate the fairness concepts from those exis...

Although fairness is critical to effective human resource management, little effort has been made to assess the role fairness plays in facilitating positive and preventing negative employee outcomes in government agencies. Using data collected through a survey of 764 professional employees from a large state agency, this study examined the relationship between perceived organizational justice a...

The literature on new product development has examined several important determinants of collaboration among project members. However, we are not aware of any study that links top management decisions with project members’ collaborative behavior. To address this significant gap, this study examines how perceived procedural justice in top management decisions regarding new products is related to...

current research examines the impact of perceived justice (including distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice) on perceived service quality and customer behavioral intentions (including word of mouth, trust and revisit intention).statistical sample comprises 120 customers of iran insurance company in shiraz holding automobile insurance and have record of visiting the c...

Electronic knowledge repositories represent one of the fundamental tools for knowledge management (KM) initiatives. This research examines organizational and dyadic factors that determine the effectiveness of knowledge refinement, the process of evaluating, analyzing and optimizing the knowledge object to be stored in a repository. A survey study with a matched-triad design was conducted with 3...

The study describes the development of the Social Justice Scale (SJS). Practitioners, educators, students, and other members of the community differ on their attitudes and values regarding social justice. It is important to assess, not only individuals' attitudes and values around social values, but also other constructs that might be related to social justice behaviors. The implication of Ajze...