The article uses a qualitative case study of fifteen years in the production network that revolves about Fiat Auto to depict the “network firm” as a political coalition. The analysis touches on Fiat’s radical outsourcing of production in the 1990s, a short-lived and ill-fated alliance with General Motors in 2001, a descent to the brink of bankruptcy in 2004, a return to profitability by 2007, a...

The present study examines the relationship between Perceived Organizational Politics (POP) and self-reported Citizenship Behavior (OCB) focusing on three mediating variables, transactional leadership, transformational resilience. 210 employees from a variety of organizations backgrounds completed questionnaire containing standard measures variables. Analysis data using Amos statistical package...

Background: Nurses constitute one of the most important occupational groups and pillars in organizations who provide healthcare services in all countries. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between work-family conflict (WFC) and organizational intelligence with the mediating role of perceived organizational support and job performance of nurses. Methods: The s...

This article examines the place of organizational politics in general and ingratiation specifically as a tactic in which there is an attempt by individuals to increase their attractiveness and upward influence in the eyes of other organizational members (management). Four common tactics of ingratiators were identified: other enhancement, rendering favors, opinion conformity and selfpresentation...

Acknowledged by most researchers and scholars, human resource productivity is the most important factor in the resistive economy and business. On the other hand, Workforce diversity is one of the major challenges of this century; and perhaps for managers, managing diversity is more important than seeking diversity to maximize the human resource productivity. The present study aims to analyze th...