In response to a variety of challenges, accounting firms are reorganizing and re-engineering their core audit services to capitalize on technology advances and to deliver more value-added services to their clients. Critics, however, have voiced concern that the changes underway undermine...

Research on the impact of performance evaluative style on managers' behavior suggests that organizational interest is best served if a high budget emphasis evaluative style is used in a high participatory environment, whilst a low budget emphasis evaluative style is used in a low participatory...

A predictive, nonexperimental design was used to test Kanter's work empowerment theory in a random sample of 412 Canadian staff nurses. Empowered individuals reported higher affective commitment and work satisfaction. Moreover, empowered employees experienced greater organizational trust, which...