This article reports a study of the effects of higher-level managers'policies on unit members' behavior, which sought to determine whether the process of communicating and clarifying policies goveming absence from the job could reduce unauthorized absences beyond the effects of the...

A major criticism of research on technological innovation is the inconsistency of findings across studies. One explanation for this inconsistency may be the multiple conceptualizations of innovation used in the literature, in this study, four behaviors of innovativeness are reviewed. Factors...

Four independent sets of factors were identified from the literature as potentially influencing worker adjustment to technological change: actual job changes experienced on workers' jobs, perceived changes to the jobs, personal factors and management support. Four indices of adjustment were...