Journal of Management articles from March 1995

Journal of Management archives from March 1995

The influence of general perceptions of the training environment on pretraining motivation and perceived training transfer. (includes appendix)
March 22, 1995... Wexley, K. N. & Baldwin, T. T. (1986). Posttraining strategies for facilitating positive transfer: An empirical exploration. Academy of Management Journal, 29: 503-520. Wexley, K. N. & Latham, G. P. (1991). Developing and training human...

Antecedents and effects of outside director's awareness of CEO decision style. (chief executive officer)(includes related article)
March 22, 1995... The role of outside directors in the strategic decision-making process is hotly debated by both practitioners and academics. On one hand, outside directors bring an objectivity to the process that is legally and practically necessary (Andrews,...

Combined effects of normative information and task difficulty on the goal commitment-performance relationship.
March 22, 1995... A core premise of goal setting theory is that goals are immediate regulators of human behavior. Locke and Latham (1990) indicate that the positive goal difficulty-performance relationship continues to be well supported. The major explanation...

Spillback effects of expansion when product-types and firm-types differ.
March 22, 1995... How readily should firms undertake major expansion to their core businesses? And what impact does such expansion have on their existing core activity? Several ecological studies (e.g., Hannan & Freeman 1977, 1984, 1989; Miner, Amburgey &...

The effects of politics and power on the organizational commitment of federal executives.
March 22, 1995... The use of politics and power is endemic to organizations. People come to work situations with many goals, not just one unified goal. These goals invoke conflict and competition among workers for the expenditure of scarce resources. This...

Testing for cross-situational-consistency: a confirmatory factor analytic approach.
March 22, 1995... The question of whether behavior is consistent across diverse situations (cross-situationally consistent [CSC]) or specific to these situations (cross-situationally specific [CSS]) is as salient a concern today as it has been throughout a long...

Trends in research design and data analytic strategies in organizational research.
March 22, 1995... In planning empirical research, choices have to be made about research design (experimental vs. nonexperimental), research setting (e.g., laboratory vs. natural setting), measures (e.g., questionnaires, observations of behavior), and data...

The impact of method effects on structural parameters in validation research.
March 22, 1995... Predictor-Related Criterion Bias Investigators have been concerned with the relevance of criteria since the beginnings of personnel research (Austin & Villanova, 1992). The usefulness of performance ratings, possibly the most common...