Mentoring is generally touted as beneficial, yet not all mentoring is good, and the literature gives scant attention to the effects of quality of mentoring on career outcomes. Our study aims to close the gap by providing a comparison among three groups – employees with a good mentor, a bad...

"One of many objectives of leadership is upholding public values. But that objective may be quite different from other more conventional leadership objectives. This book discusses the requirements for effective leadership that promotes public values"--

Focused on academic departments in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in the United States, we attempt to map department chairs' awareness of family friendly policies and investigate the possible determinants of their knowledge levels. We propose that department...

Formal university technology transfer mechanisms, through licensing agreements, research joint ventures, and university-based startups, have attracted considerable attention in the academic literature. Surprisingly, there has been little systematic empirical analysis of the propensity of...

Full inclusion of women into the academics remains a daunting challenge in the United States. The situation is particularly acute within Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields where the underrepresentation of women and their career disadvantages attract a great deal of...

When employees fear punishment for taking initiative, organizations are likely to be less effective and, equally important, such fear extracts a human toll, often contributing to a variety of manifestations of unhappiness including diminished health. We focus on two different types of fears of...