Journal of Management articles from March 1992

Journal of Management archives from March 1992

Assisting the handicapped: the pioneering efforts of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. (includes appendix)
March 1, 1992... The article examines the work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth in relation to disabled veterans. It explores how the founders of the motion study method affected vocational rehabilitation of the handicapped. This article addresses the...

Commitment propensity, organizational commitment, and voluntary turnover: a longitudinal study of organizational entry processes. (includes appendix)
March 1, 1992... This study investigated the effect of commitment propensity (a summary concept comprising personal characteristics and experiences that individuals bring to the organization) on the development of subsequent organizational commitment and...

The measurement of work value congruence: a field study comparison.
March 1, 1992... Although research and practice involving a large number of individual and organizational-level processes requires making comparisions between different work-related values or sets of values (i.e., work value congruence), there is an absence...

Examining the link between leader-member exchange and subordinate performance: the role of task analyzability and variety as moderators.
March 1, 1992... Results from a field study with 152 members of a large urban hospital indicate that the relationship between the quality of leader-member exchange (LMX) and subordinate performance is moderated by perceptions of task analyzability and...

A competency-based model of sustainable competitive advantage: toward a conceptual integration.
March 1, 1992... This article the concept of sustainable competive advantage in the context of two theoretical frameworks: environmental determinism (which encompasses microeconomic and industrial organization traditions) and "strategic selection" (which...

Perceptions of organizational politics. (includes appendix)
March 1, 1992... The political nature of work environments has been discussed for quite some time; however, surprisingly little is known about the personal and situational factors that influence employees' perceptions of organizational politics. In this...

The responses of drug abuse treatment organizations to financial adversity: a partial test of the threat-rigidity thesis.
March 1, 1992... The article derives hypotheses from the threat-rigidity model about organizational responses to finiancial adversity. These hypotheses are tested in a national sample of 72 randomly selected drug abuse treatments organizations. We propose...

The financial cost of absence decisions. (includes appendices)
March 1, 1992... A theory of reasoned action (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980) and behavioral costing approach (Cascio, 1987; Marvis & Lawler, 1977) were used to estimate the variable financial cost(i.e., cost incurred by organization that vary positively with...

Examining the causal order of job satisfaction and organizational commitment.
March 1, 1992... Four hypotheses have been advanced regarding the causal relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment: (a) satisfaction causes commitment, (b) commitment causes satisfaction, (c) satifaction and commitment are...