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The role of affective commitment in the relationship between social support and turnover intention

Fazio, John; Gong, Baiyun; Sims, Randi; Yurova, Yuliya - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 3, pp. 512-525

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to argue that affective commitment plays a significant and complex role in the relationship between social support and turnover intention. Design/methodology/approach Surveys were returned by 217 hospital employees with an average tenure of 11.55 years...

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Revisiting of Theory X and Y : A multilevel analysis of the effects of leaders’ managerial assumptions on followers’ attitudes

Gürbüz, Sait; Şahin, Faruk; Köksal, Onur - In: Management Decision 52 (2014) 10, pp. 1888-1906

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of leaders’ Theory X and Y managerial assumptions on subordinates’ attitudes and behaviors. Design/methodology/approach – Military leaders ( n =50) completed a questionnaire with Theory X and Y scale and their...

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The role of customer participation for enhancing repurchase intention

Chen, Chih-Cheng Volvic; Chen, Chih-Jou - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 3, pp. 547-562

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of customer participation in the service delivery process by designing and testing an empirical model with the customers’ point of view in mind. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected from 176 customers in the context of...

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Examining the relationships among trust, silence and organizational commitment

Dedahanov, Alisher Tohirovich; Rhee, Jaehoon - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 8, pp. 1843-1857

Purpose – Previous studies examined the relationships between trust, organizational commitment and the unitary construct of silence. The authors believe that previous studies’ primary shortcoming is the lack of an understanding of the motives of employees in withholding work related issues...

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Towards a stoic interpretation of controllability

Pesqueux, Yvon - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 1, pp. 5-12

Ethics – both within philosophy and in the new disciplines of “applied ethics” and “business ethics” – is a vogue … subject these days and, as such, calls for a few cautionary words. The resurgence of ethics has engendered two main schools of … warnings of the other two, expresses a genuine interest in ethics – an interest stimulated paradoxically by a number of well …

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Cracking the code of business

Emiliani, M.L. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 2, pp. 60-79

Large public companies restructure themselves on a regular basis with the primary goals of achieving better financial performance and demonstrating responsiveness to shareholder interests. However, it is well know that such discontinuities typically result in great stress and confusion amongst...

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Business ethics in the European Union: a study of Greek attitudes

Peppas, Spero C.; Peppas, George J. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 6, pp. 369-376

Globalization and economic integration have focused attention on the topic of ethics in international management. At a … time when the European Union is attempting to harmonize standards in many areas, the issue of ethics within the EU deserves … different ethical orientations in different EU countries. In an effort to gain an understanding about ethics in an EU country …

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The stakeholder manager

Vinten, Gerald - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 6, pp. 377-383

All managers and directors are faced with real, or imagined, conflicts of interest or competing demands for time and resources, between shareholders and stakeholders. This has always been the case, but the contemporary emphasis on stakeholders has brought this to a head. Although the more astute...

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The oath of management

Emiliani, M.L. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 4, pp. 261-262

Compares the management profession with the medical profession, in particular examining the Hippocratic oath. Suggests that as managers are the physicians of business, they should also abide by an oath, which is then proposed by the author.

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Convergence of ethics?

Richter, Ewa Maria; Buttery, Ernest Alan - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 2, pp. 142-151

Two pillars of Western culture are the free market doctrine and democracy. The ability of these pillars to generate behavior that converges to a global ethical system is investigated. The market mechanism is no longer as described by Adam Smith, it is oligopolistic. Strategic architecture is...

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