from Macromedia Inc., as well as grants from Telus Communications Inc. and the University of Alberta through its Social Science Research Program. The authors thank Terry Elrod for his valuable assistance, V. J. Carey for making available his S-Plus function for fitting GEE models, Barry Ard for his programming assistance, and Adam Finn, Julie Irwin, as well as the Editor, the Area Editor, and t...

: recently, productivity discussion has been considered in social and scientific discussions. in the extreme world of competition and growth of technology, policy makers and management consider increase of productivity as tool or as a goal occasionally (3) in this research it is intended to recognize effects factor on increase of productivity particularly factors such as providing essential nee...

The present study examined the relationships between leadership styles and decision-making styles among public schools principals. A total of 108 principals returned questionnaires from Russaifa Education District in Jordan. The Decision Style Inventory and the Administrative Styles Questionnaire were used in this study. "Directive decision making style" was predominant among school principals,...

This research review information acquisition and analysis processes in both marketing and education literature and will empirically test the applicability of the VAK (visuals, auditory, kinesthetic/tactile) perceptual learning styles model to customize online info presentation format. This is performed by studying the effect of matching distinct online presentation formats with consumers’ learn...

The impact of mood states on decision-making behavior has revealed two styles of decision making: heuristic and analytic (Fiedler, 1991). When the limited research on anxious moods and decision-making style is considered, conflicting results are found with support for both analytic (Raghunathan and Pham, 1999) and heuristic (Berns, et al., 2006) decision making existing in the literature. The c...

We present a laboratory experiment on the impact of price framing on consumer decision making. Consumer subjects face a search market where two sellers offer a homogeneous good. We examine six different price frames with linear perunit pricing (that is displayed as such) serving as a benchmark. We find that all frames deviating from the benchmark have some negative impact on consumer decision m...

BACKGROUND Studies of non-health-care work environments indicate that non-managerial employee job satisfaction is higher in companies that use participative (as opposed to autocratic) decision making. It has not been determined whether managerial decision-making style influences job satisfaction among respiratory therapists (RTs) and which managerial decision-making style RTs prefer. METHODS ...

Article history: Received 8 October 2013 Available online 16 February 2014 This study compared the relationship of parenting styles to the career decision-making of adolescents from a Western and an Eastern context. Specifically, 575 French high school students and 613 South Korean high school students completed a questionnaire assessing perceived parenting style, career decision-making difficu...