The aim of the present study is to investigate the extent to which perceived organizational support and coworkers' conflict and work-family conflict play a role in the performance of three types of organizational citizenship behaviors. A cross-sectional design was used comprising a sample of 164...

The job demands of university academic staff members leave them susceptible to the experience of work-leisure conflict (WLC). WLC is often studied as a composite construct despite its multidimensional nature and findings suggest it negatively affects employee psychological wellbeing. This study...

This paper considers the use and impact of sanctions in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It proposes an alternative route to establishing and maintaining peace between Russia and Ukraine, using three types of human capital as a framework. This paper also identifies difficulties that must...

Professionalism is often viewed, in the management literature and in practice, as a desirable sought-after trait in employees and managers. This belief, however, does not consider a potential dark side of professionalism. A high self-concept of professionalism often coexists with a shallow...

This study explores how the level of relational leadership of team leaders, as well as their ethnicity, influences conflict management and team coordination in temporary organizations. The research extends relational leadership theory into conflict management theory to identify their effects on...

Workplace deviant behavior (WDB) and workplace ostracism (WO) have emerged as one of the most toxic behaviors that breed self-protection and self-interest in today’s organizations. However, limited evidence is available on the underlying factors, such as organizational conflict (OC),...

The increasing density and entanglement of international law and institutions leads to a growing potential for collisions between norms and rules emanating from different international institutions. It is an open question, however, when actors actually create manifest conflicts about overlapping...

Purpose: It is well known that knowledge sharing amongst employees contributes positively to an organisation's competitive advantage, but that individuals are sometimes, for various reasons, reluctant to share knowledge. Although various types of conflict may influence employees'...

As occasional conflict is almost synonymous with human organizations, the business sector is not an exception of this inevitability. The effect of organizational conflicts on the growth of business is of judicial notice. Some Organizations had gone into extinction because of incessant conflicts,...

This paper is meant to capture the main themes that have featured in Kariuki Muigua’s work, his contribution to the academia, policy and legal development in Kenya. It traces the running thread through his work with the aim of demonstrating that conflict management and environmental matters...

We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...

We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...

Despite the panoply of rights set forth in international and domestic legal frameworks and the proven benefits associated with women’s presence in leadership roles, global percentages of women in positions of power remain low. A number of factors account for this phenomenon, including...

The purpose of this work is to present evidence which illustrate the significant effect of leadership and conflict management on employee satisfaction in a range of professions. Leadership and conflict management have a significant effect on job satisfaction. This is illustrated with examples of...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is a pilot study of e-communications in three Russian firms to assess the culture of conflict resolution and the impact of strategies on employee retention at these firms. Design/methodology/approach - Qualitative and quantitative research through a...

Many situations in the social and economic life are characterized by rivalry and conflict between two or more competing groups. Warfare, socio-political conflicts, political elections, lobbying, and R&D competitions are all examples of inter-group conflicts in which groups spend scarce and...

The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between conflict resolution strategies (accommodating, avoiding, compromising, collaborating, and competing) with workplace frustration and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) with the moderating role of trait emotional...

This study finds that the Top Management Team (TMT) conflicts and a coalition are of great importance and an essential component of any organization. This has numerous significant motivational or disenchanting implications because they may envisage work and performance in ways that are...

This study probes the link between workplace bullying, emotional exhaustion and presenteeism in employees of public and private sector service organizations. Based on affective events theory, this study found that emotional exhaustion mediates the relationship between bullying and employee...

Purpose: Grounded to social identity and information decision theories, the study develops and empirically verifies a fresh theoretical model on the possible mediating effect of emotional and task conflicts toward the associations between diversity (work, social, and ideology) and project...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the leadership behaviors of managers of virtual teams (VTs), particularly in the areas of trust building and conflict management. This study aims to expand the research of VT performance by offering first-person accounts from VT leaders on...

How is group conflict over a public-good prize affected when individuals are active members of multiple groups simultaneously? To investigate this question, I introduce a simple model of Tullock group contest: individuals are partitioned into two groups in two dimensions each, the group-level...

Two individuals are involved in a conflict situation in which preferences are ex-ante uncertain. While they eventually learn their own preferences, they have to pay a small cost if they want to secretly learn their opponent's preferences. We show that there is an interval with an upper bound...