Kingdon's multiple streams approach has recently been applied to study implementation across sectors or levels of government. Building on these contributions, we suggest that two streams are especially important in shaping implementation: organizational problem constructions, and political pressure from the centre. These variables produce a four-way typology of implementation modes. We test the...

In this paper, we critically examine organizational representations of sustainable development in close to 200 publicly-available corporate reports spanning a 12 year period. Using a discourse theoretical approach, we analyze how these particular organizations have come to ‘know’ sustainable development, and we consider the conditions which have made this knowledge possible. Themes emerging fro...

BACKGROUND Organizational citizenship behavior just referred to a set of discretionary workplace behaviors that exceed one's job requirements. The main objective of this study was to determine the relationship between organizational perceived justice and organizational citizenship behavior. METHODS This cross-sectional study was done in Shahid Sadoughi Hospital in Yazd, Iran in 2013. A total ...

This article evaluated the natures of professional and organizational commitment in a sample of both elementary and secondary teachers. Also examined was the relationship of both commitment and perceived organizational support to a variety of self-reported attitudes and behavior possibilities. The author deals with the topic in a comprehensive manner. The body of literature in industrial/organi...

Background and Objectives: Motivated employees are probably the most valuable resource of the contemporary organizations. Evidence shows the significant impact of perceived organizational justice on the attitudes of employees, including their trust. To further investigate the issue in the context of health organizations, this study aimed to explore the relationship between perceived organizatio...

This paper addresses an aspect of organizational learning that has not been extensively developed – the impact of emotion on organizational learning. The study of emotion in organizations is seen as an important part of the development of organizational learning. The paper argues that attention to the emotional dynamics of organizing, and to the links between emotion and organizational politics...

background: ethical leadership represents the leader's proactive efforts to influence followers' ethical and unethical behavior and follower work attitudes such as perceived organizational support, affective commitment and normal behaviors. the purpose of this research was to test the relationship of ethical leadership and ethical context with affective commitment that mediating the r...