SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from March 2005

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from March 2005

From the editor-in-chief.
March 22, 2005... This issue contains six articles addressing consumer privacy, organizational hypocrisy, commuter marriages among dual-career couples, partitioning damages in harassment cases, harnessing organizational history, and evaluating internal...

Current issues in consumer privacy policies.
March 22, 2005... In November 2000, the Financial Services Modernization Act, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, became law. It eased state and federal restrictions on affiliations among financial institutions. Almost immediately, privacy issues arose,...

A factor analytical study of perceived organizational hypocrisy.
March 22, 2005... Intuition and common sense suggest that hypocrisy in management--"do as I say and not as I do"--will have negative effects on employees. The same goes for inconsistencies between the organization's stated mission and values and management's...

Organizational commitment among married dual-career employees: traveling commuter versus single residence.
March 22, 2005... Once a rarity, commuter marriages among dual-career couples are increasingly common. Many choose to maintain separate residences instead of living in hotels. Employers sometimes worry that such arrangements will hurt their employee's...

A new look at harassment by supervisors: focusing on partitioning damages rather than assigning liability.
March 22, 2005... From 1998 to 2003, the murky area of legal responsibility for harassing behavior by supervisors was shaped by two U.S. Supreme Court decisions: Burlington Industries Inc. v. Ellerth, and Faragher v. City of Boca Raton. These found that...

Profiting from past triumphs and failures: harnessing history for future success.
March 22, 2005... Dismissing past events with a "that's history" attitude can be costly to managers and their organizations because a thoughtful examination may save future mistakes. Ironically, past successes are not as instructive as mistakes, since success...

Evaluating internal operations and supply chain performance using EVA and ABC.(economic value added analysis, activity-based costing )
March 22, 2005... Most firms know that the performance of their supply chain partners directly affects their own performance, and vice versa. Nevertheless, most analytical tools are focused internally. By combining dyadic economic value added analysis (EVA) with...