Interpersonal communications often fail to communicate the intended message. Language, contextual, and cultural differences between the sender and receiver of the message influence the receipt of the intended message exacerbates a lack of understanding when the message contains inexact words and...

This exploratory study mapped work values in European countries and examined socio-economic and cultural explanations of between-country differences in the relative importance of various work values. The data from the latest wave of the European Values Study (EVS) covered 45 European countries....

Although the e-mail is considered to be a fundamental element of organizations' communications layout, most researches had focused on the "positive" aspects of using e-mail, which is more likely to imply better proficiency and efficiency. However, this "positive" point of view has led most...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between person-organization uncertainty management (UM) fit, and two outcomes in an innovative workplace: job satisfaction and innovation. Design/methodology/approach – This study analyzes data gathered through self-report...

Driven by a philosophy of shareholder value, mergers and acquisitions form a new economic, social and cultural environment. It is only by a profound understanding of the success factors in mergers and acquisitions that they are able to improve transaction management and create new economic...

Financial innovation is essential for the economic development and growth. Even more, practice proved that any sustainable economic development requires more than a “receptive” economy to financial inflows inputs. The bitter global competition changed the knowledge into the vital force of...

This paper presents how, during a period of four years, the management a football league changed its organization structure from vertical to more horizontal, by redesigning it towards a Transactional Network Structure. The transactional network structure allowed more knowledge to be exchanged in...

Banks employees are one of the most important resources available to it. The need to invest in this resource is becoming stronger in the current conditions where the workload is high and the stress is a word used particularly by employees to describe their work. The overall aim of the...

The aim of the article is to find out what personality traits are attributed to Estonian school teachers by members of society compared with the teachers’ own personal assessments and the characteristics of the entire Estonian population. Data was collected between 2003 and 2010 from 460...

Human Resource Management (HR/HRM) is closely connected to the social and economic environment in which a given organization or company operates. On this basis it may be interesting for foreign potential investors to understand both the differences and similarities in the application of HRM...