Journal of Management articles from March 1996

Journal of Management archives from March 1996

Executive scanning and perceived uncertainty: a multidimensional model. (includes appendices)
March 22, 1996... Environments pose important constraints and contingencies for organizations: firm competitiveness and even survival can depend on the ability to monitor and adapt to environmental trends. Informal environmental scanning by executives is one...

Reactions of diverse groups to politics in the workplace.
March 22, 1996... Projections for U.S. organizations in the future suggest that the workforce will be less homogeneous in nature, reflecting instead a greater proportion of diverse groups. Indeed, the estimates of a workforce that is older, more female, and...

Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to study managers: a literature review and research agenda.
March 22, 1996... More than five decades ago, Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers began work on an instrument to operationalize Jung's (1921/1971) theory of psychological types. Today, over three million people a year (Center for Applications of Psychological...

Artificial intelligence in HRM: an experimental study of an expert system. (includes appendix)
March 22, 1996... Expert systems are artificial intelligence (AI) applications that have shown great promise as decision aids across several functional areas of management (Feigenbaum, McCorduck & Nii, 1988; Ernst, 1988). An expert system is "a computer program...

An information processing approach for deciding upon control strategies and reducing control loss in emerging organizations.
March 22, 1996... During the past decade, many managers discovered that traditional forms of managing were not able to cope with an acceleration in the pace and intensity of change they faced. Solving this problem becomes critical in a post-industrial economy...

Analysis and design of multitrait-multirater performance appraisal studies.
March 22, 1996... A good deal of research has addressed the analysis of multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) data. In a recent comprehensive review, Becker and Cote (1994) compared the performance of three models: the general confirmatory factor analysis model (CFA),...

Estimating latent variable interactions and quadratics: the state of this art.
March 22, 1996... In studies involving categorical independent variables (ANOVA studies), interactions and quadratics are routinely investigated to aid in interpreting significant main effects. In studies involving continuous variables and regression,...