Follower Behaviors Abstract Deriving from the literature on values, we propose a model which answers the call from scholars to examine the underlying processes through which authentic leadership impacts followers’ behavior and performance. We propose that by developing intrapersonal and interpersonal continuity in their followers’ values (value salience and person-supervisor value congruence respectively), authentic leaders could enhance followers’ task performance and organizational citizenship
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ISSN: 2247-6172; ISSN-L: 2247-6172 Review of Applied Socio- Economic Research (Volume 5, Issue 1/ 2013 ), pp. 53 URL: http://www.reaser.eu e-mail: editors@reaser.eu Employee motivation and organizational performance Ovidiu-Iliuta Dobre 1+ 1 The Bucharest University of Economic Studies Abstract. The majority of organizations are competing to survive in this volatile and fierce market environment. Motivation and performance of the employees are essential tools for the success of
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IIBM Institute of Business Management Subject Code-B-103 Financial Management Section A: Objective Type (30 marks) ================================================================================= Part one: Multiple choices: 1. a. Job involvement 2. d. self disclosure 3. b. Distributive bargaining 4. b. Interpersonal skill 5. d. Reward power 6. b. Unfreezing 7. a. Sensitivity 8. c. Artifacts 9. b. The Pre-arrival stage 10. d. Leadership style =================
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70) contingency theory is one of the most recent theories in organizational structure, it argues that there is no "one best way" of structuring an organization. Instead contingency theory suggests that the best way to structure a particular organization is contingent(dependent) on a number of factors such as the attitudes of the managers and employees, the nature of the task performed by the organization and the nature of the environment. The basic premise of Contingency Theory is that there is
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Industrial Organizational Psychology Paper Edward Oliver, Jr. 435/ Industrial Organizational Psychology May 23, 2012 Dr. Keisha Pou Industrial Organizational Psychology Paper In the 21st century various companies in the United States and internationally have used Industrial Organizational Psychology (I/O) in the workplace. For example, AT&T use extrinsic rewards programs to motivate their sales representative
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Toward a Theory of Organizational Creativity Richard W. Woodman; John E. Sawyer; Ricky W. Griffin The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 18, No. 2. (Apr., 1993), pp. 293-321. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0363-7425%28199304%2918%3A2%3C293%3ATATOOC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G The Academy of Management Review is currently published by Academy of Management. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms
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scientific field that pursues to understand the nature of individual behavior in social situations. It uses science to find out how people interact with people and how people think about others. When we think of science, many people feel that it has always been around when in actuality the field of social psychology has only come about in the twentieth century. Since then a form of psychology emerged they study every part of social behavior and social thought. Social psychologists often use experimentation
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elimination of obstacles to organizational and individual performance. HPT is a body of techniques and knowledge that has been proved to be effective and useful in organizing the conditions of performance to enable targeted results to be achieved consistently. HPT uses many interventions from other disciplines which includes human resources management, instructional systems design, total quality management, behavioral psychology, process improvement and organizational development (Piersol & Paris
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tasks. The people who can influence the behavior of others without having to rely on force, those are accepted by others as leaders. So a manager is necessarily a leader, but a leader may not be a manager. Leadership: The word leadership comes from the word “LEAD” which means to guide, to conduct or to direct. In general, Leadership is the ability to influence others. Leadership is the process of directing the subordinates to accomplish the organizational goal in a way that the group members are
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employee behaviour is motivation. Motivation is a key element in organizational behavior because employee needs to be motivated in order to exhibit an attitude or behavior that will help achieve the goals and objectives of the organization and thereby improve performance over time. This paper will attempt to examine motivation, its definition, theories and how it improves employee performance as a determinant for achieving organizational performance. MOTIVATION DEFINED Motivation is a psychological
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