August 2010
A comprehensive model for identifying factors impacting on development of organizational citizenship behavior
The purpose of this paper is formulating the comprehensive model for identify factors that have impact on development of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in Iranian petrol national company. To achieve the purpose mentioned above, questionnaire survey method was used. In this research, impacts of five factors such as leadership, personality, structural, cultural and value factor on development of OCB...
August 2010
Charismatic leadership and organizational commitment: An Indian perspective
The aim of this study is to further our understanding on the relationship of charismatic leadership and organizational commitment in Indian organization. A total of 147 employees from eastern and northern India participated in the study. Pearson correlations of the factors from the two scales were computed and revealed that five of the six Ck-factors were significantly correlated with the commitment factors....
August 2010
Participation in formal mentoring programme in South African construction industry: A perspective of new knowledge workers
This study examined mentoring relationships within organizations, important characteristics of mentors, important mentoring functions, effectively achieved mentoring functions, potential negative outcomes or problems in mentoring relationships as reported by new knowledge workers and the implications of cultural divide in relation to gender and race. A descriptive survey was used to conduct this research,...
August 2010
Corporate governance in the Asian countries
Corporate governance (CG) has assumed greater limelight with the series of corporate failings, following which the markets, investors and society at large have begun to loose faith in the infallibility of these systems. Nowadays, the conduct of those who take care of ‘public’ money is being questioned since they are being tested on ‘ethical’ standards. The study has advocated an...
August 2010
The influence of perceived environmental uncertainty, firm size, and strategy on multiple performance measures usage
The balanced scorecard (BSC) is regarded as the most popular performance measurement system in providing a superior combination of financial and non-financial performance measures. This study empirically investigates the influence of perceived environmental uncertainty, firm size, and business strategy on the use of multiple performance measures among 120 Malaysian manufacturing firms. The balanced...
August 2010
Decoding organizational culture: A study of Malaysian construction firms
The paper studies the cultural practices influencing business performance in over 327 Malaysian contractors. A national-wide questionnaire survey has been conducted to determine the current enterprise culture, leadership styles andenterprise axiology in Malaysian construction contracting organizations. Findings reveal that the “monkey...
August 2010
User preferences on transformations of shopping centers into private urban public spaces: The case of Izmir, Turkey
With the spread of globalization, shopping centers are becoming a part of the urban lifestyle in many countries, including Turkey. Their numbers are increasing rapidly in metropolitan areas. In addition to their retail outlets, these newly designed, well-kept shopping centers offer facilities that enable people to pursue leisure activities and engage in social interaction. The study demonstrates that Turkish...
August 2010
Designing an organization assessment model based on European foundation for quality management using multiple criteria decision making
European foundation for quality management (EFQM) excellence model has been suggested by 14 European companies in 1988. It has been several years that this model has also been used by Iranian industry officials namely, ministry of the industry of the Islamic Republic of Iran to recognize and solve the problems of Iranian organization. In this model, evaluating is done by qualitative variables but there are...
August 2010
Designing an organization assessment model based on European foundation for quality management using multiple criteria decision making
European foundation for quality management (EFQM) excellence model has been suggested by 14 European companies in 1988. It has been several years that this model has also been used by Iranian industry officials namely, ministry of the industry of the Islamic Republic of Iran to recognize and solve the problems of Iranian organization. In this model, evaluating is done by qualitative variables but there are...
August 2010
Employee empowerment and customer satisfaction: Empirical evidence from the banking sector of Pakistan
Employee empowerment is a key feature of the modern management style. Empowered employees are expected to perform more effectively as compared to those working in traditional or authoritarian organizational cultures. Keeping in view the significance of the issue, a comparative study was planned to examine the impact of employee empowerment on customer satisfaction. A multistage cluster sample of 644 bank...
August 2010
An analysis and a solution for the existence of Turkish leather industry
Leather industry is one of the leading sectors of the Turkish economy in terms of industrial production and employment. The gradual transformation of leather companies towards automation in their production processes, and towards transferring a portion of the company and product promotions to the Internet via computers can be considered as the early steps of e-commerce entrepreneurship in this regard. This...
August 2010
Labour exploitation and division of labour: A meta-analysis of divergent ideological perspectives
Division of labour has been acknowledged and praised by conservatives as the source of wealth to nations, without considering its exploitative effects on labour. Conversely, social progressives believed that division of labour is inhuman and demeaning in nature, particularly towards labour. The authors of this paper harmonises more with the social counteractions that, division of labour is a form of...
August 2010
Socio-economic analysis of the migrant labourers in Punjab: An empirical analysis
Labour migration is a complex phenomenon and encompasses different streams which vary in duration, nature of origin and destination areas and characteristics of migration process. Based on the primary and secondary data, this paper analyses the socio-economic conditions of migrant labourers in Patiala city; studies the nature, size, type and other characteristics of migrant labourers; analyses to what extent...
August 2010
An optimal algorithm for type-I assembly line balancing problem with resource constraint
In this paper we consider resource-constrained type-I assembly line balancing problem (RCALBP-I) in which resource of different types, such as machines and workers, are required in processing tasks. The objective of RCALBP-I is to minimize not only the number of workstations needed, but also the number of resource types required. A shortest route algorithm is proposed to find the optimal solution for...
August 2010
The relations of organizational characteristics, customer-oriented behavior and service quality
Competition in the financial services gradually grows. In order to improve the competitiveness, more financial enterprises value issues relevant to the improvement of service performance for keeping and attracting customers. This paper investigated the influence of organizational characteristics from the perspective of employees on the behavior of employees as well as the relationship with the service...
August 2010
Situation and possibilities of improvement of voluntary pension insurance in Serbia as a developing country
Like many other countries, Serbia, too, has faced the necessity of introducing changes into the voluntary pension insurance. However, reforms of pension insurance in Serbia started with significant delay in comparison with almost all other countries of Eastern Europe. The key reasons for this were disintegration of previous state followed by several wars during the 1990s, the UN sanctions, and hyperinflation....
August 2010
The impact of the global crisis on ethical leadership: A case study of the South African public sector
The African economy has been impacted by the global crisis as it is integrated into the world economy. African governments have used their strengths, fiscal opportunities, financial regulatory frameworks and the resourcefulness of labour and institutions to address the challenges of the crisis. The aim of the article is to examine the challenges facing ethical leadership within the context of the global crisis and to...
August 2010
Cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire: Development of Turkish version of 18-item short form
The purpose of this study is to develop a Turkish version of the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (CERQ) short 18-item version. We translated and cross-culturally adapted the English version of the CERQ, and tested the reliability and factorial validity of the Turkish version (CERQ-TR). A sample of 317 Turkish university students completed the CERQ-TR. Following stepwise omission of the items with...
August 2010
An examination of employee retention strategy in a private organisation in Zimbabwe
Worldwide, a number of factors have been attributed to the increase in the level of employee turnover. The way people are paid, recognised and achieve salary advancement are critical factors in attracting, retaining, and motivating employees. The challenge for most organisations today is the formulation of an effective employee retention strategy that will help in retaining employees that are considered...
August 2010
Strategic supply chain framework for the automotive industry
The changing business conditions of the 21st century has led to companies facing issues ranging from globalisation, economic uncertainty to new technologies and increasing consumer demands. In the automobile industry, as manufacturers design and build vehicles globally, their supply chains become increasingly complex with challenges that often stand in the way of profitability and higher shareholder...
August 2010
Interventions affecting air transport passenger demand in Taiwan
All around the world, air travel has become a vital element in people’s lives, one that stimulates national economies, global trade and tourism. Nevertheless, the airline industry is highly vulnerable to exogenous shocks. The objectives of this study, therefore, are to apply Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) with intervention model (also known as intervention analysis) to evaluate the...
August 2010
The effect of workgroup heterogeneity on decision making: An empirical investigation
This research effort explored the relationship of workgroup heterogeneity and effective decision making within organization. Researchers tried to examine the influence of management heterogeneity on creative and qualitative aspect in decision making process. The research team used a survey questionnaire for data collection from employees of domestic private banks of Pakistan using stratified sampling method...
August 2010
Family factors and the creation of family businesses in developing countries: A case study of Iran's oil and textile industries
The goal of this study is to examine the effect that family factors (family relationships, family goals, family resources, family vision, family size and family tensions) have on the creation of family businesses. Data were collected from mangers/owners of 160 industrial businesses (family and non-family businesses) in oil and textile sectors of Iran based on structured questionnaires. Collected data were...
August 2010
Import demand function for Bangladesh: A rolling window analysis
This study aims to estimate aggregate import demand function for Bangladesh economy by using the data of 1980 to 2008. Estimation evidence provided by using autoregressive distributed lag (ADRL) approach to cointegration and rolling window regression method to estimate the coefficient of each observation in the sample by fixing the window size. The estimation result confirms long run relationship between...
August 2010
Factors effecting job satisfaction of employees in Pakistani banking sector
The job satisfaction has got tremendous attention in organizational research. The focus of this study is to determine the impact of various human resource management practices like job autonomy, team work environment and leadership behavior on job satisfaction. It also investigates the major determinants of job satisfaction in Pakistani banking sector. This study further evaluates the level of difference in...
August 2010
Towards virtualization: A competitive business continuity
The ultimate goal of all businesses no matter in which sectors they operate is to maintain their profitability and growth. There is a relationship among the capital, investment, and the personnel in order to achieve objectives for the performance of the organizational systems and it must be maintained without any deterioration. Companies have a chance to compete with other firms in the national and...
August 2010
An alternate approach to identify key service sectors’ contributors: Experiences from Malaysian economy
This study analyzes the direct and indirect rankings and contribution of service sectors in the Malaysian economy from 1987 to 2005. Two different methodologies, that is (1) direct service intensities, and (2) direct plus indirect service intensities have been used to calculate the service intensity of different industries. It is found that the contribution of overall service sectors is mostly positive and...
August 2010
The rise in the sales of counterfeit brands: The case of Turkish consumers
Counterfeiting activity is a worldwide phenomenon rapidly increasing in every country. Accounting for about 7% of global trade, counterfeit brands resemble the genuine goods but are typically of lower quality in terms of performance, reliability or durability. The size of the counterfeit brands market in Turkey is reported to be around 3 billion dollars. The prevalence of counterfeit manufacturing, the wide...
August 2010
What motivates people to search online? Antecedences and comparisons among different buyers
Human factors affect information-seeking behavior in online shopping. However, there are few studies that investigate the differences in product-selections on information seeking. This study adopts Baker’s theory with respect to consumer decision style (1999) to identify influential antecedents and contextual factors in web pages best explain consumer information-seeking behavior in the pre-purchase...
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