Group & Organization Management articles from December 1996

Group & Organization Management archives from December 1996

Differential effects of survey-guided feedback: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
December 1, 1996... The vast majority of previous organization development (OD) intervention efforts have been directed at changing organizational members' attitudes and behaviors. One strategy for assessing attitudes, identifying discrepancies among members'...

Contingent supervisory behavior: a practical predictor of performance.
December 1, 1996... The elements of effective supervision have been studied and debated for many years. In a review of the literature, Bass (1990) concluded that although our understanding of leadership has increased, the research has not yet produced a science...

Determinants and process of the choice of goal difficulty.
December 1, 1996... It is unrealistic to assume that individuals in the workplace will always accept the goals assigned to them. They do sometimes choose their own goals and differ from one another in the choices they make. What factors influence, and by what...

Value congruence between co-workers and its relationships to work outcomes.
December 1, 1996... In the current climate of increasing concern for diversity in the workforce (Adler & Ghadar, 1990), complexity of jobs, and the need for individual discretion on the part of employees (Kanter, 1990; Mintzberg & Quinn, 1991), interest in the fit...

Failed upward influence attempts: predicting the nature of subordinate persistence in pursuit of organizational goals.
December 1, 1996... The suggestion that interpersonal influence in organizations is increasing in importance (Keys & Case, 1990) is supported by recent attention in the organizational literature (e.g., Barry & Watson, 1996; Pfeffer, 1992; Rao, Schmidt, & Murray,...

Organizational politics and employee attendance.
December 1, 1996... The phenomenon of organizational politics has received a great deal of attention from scholars in various disciplines. These researchers have pursued a number of perspectives in their attempts to provide explication of the intricacies and...