A meta-analysis of procrastination’s possible causes and effects, based on 691 correlations, reveals that neuroticism, rebelliousness, and sensation seeking show only a weak connection. Strong and consistent predictors of procrastination were task aversiveness, task delay, selfefficacy, and impulsiveness, as well as conscientiousness and its facets of self-control, distractibility, organization, and achievement motivation. These effects prove consistent with temporal motivation theory, an integrative
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Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ Servant Leadership: A Review and Synthesis Dirk van Dierendonck Journal of Management 2011 37: 1228 originally published online 2 September 2010 DOI: 10.1177/0149206310380462 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/37/4/1228 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information for Journal of Management can be found at: Email
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Environmental Threat and Opportunity Profile (ETOP), Organizational Capability Profile – Strategic Advantage Profile, Corporate Portfolio Analysis – SWOT Analysis, Synergy and Dysergy – GAP Analysis, Porter’s Five Forces Model of Competition, Mc Kinsey’s 7s Framework, GE 9 Cell Model, Distinctive competitiveness – Selection of matrix while considering all models discussed above, Implementation of strategy: Analysis and development of organizational policies-marketing, production, financial, personnel
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| Brand Loyalty and Its Measurement | | Literature review | | Brand Loyalty and Its Measurement | | Literature review | Contents Brand Loyalty 2 Advantages of Brand Loyalty: 3 The Four Pillars of Brand Loyalty Marketing 4 Keep Your Loyal Customers Loyal 4 The Sale Is Not the End of the Marketing Task 4 Branding Policy Is Business Policy 4 Three Dimensional Model of Brand Loyalty 5 Measures of Brand Loyalty 6 Trust-based Commitment model 7 The Multidimensional
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Nature and Purpose of Planning - Objectives - Strategies, Policies and Planning Premises - Decision Making - Global Planning. Unit III The Nature of Organizing and Entrepreneuring - Organizational Structure: Departmentation - Line/Staff Authority and Decentralization - Effective Organizing and Organizational Culture -Global Organizing. Unit IV Co-ordination functions in Organization - Human Factors and Motivation - Leadership - Committees and group Decision Making - Communication - Global
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locus of control orientation would interact with their degree of JIT involvement to affect managerial performance. The results of a survey of 60 managers employing JIT, demonstrate that an increased degree of JIT involvement leads to a more positive effect on managerial performance for internal locus of control managers than for external locus of control managers. Keywords – just-in-time (JIT); locus of control; degree of JIT involvement; managerial performance INTRODUCTION The adoption of Just-in-time
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together with the government to cope with this issue in a smooth manner by providing free bus services for those who were affected. Also, alerting passengers about this issue through media and the internet was successful. Through the study of Organizational Behaviour (OB), we are able to understand how situation like this would impact the organization and at the same time understand the actions and attitudes of people in the organization who are handling this issue. Possible causes of behavior Individual
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Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ Servant Leadership: A Review and Synthesis Dirk van Dierendonck Journal of Management 2011 37: 1228 originally published online 2 September 2010 DOI: 10.1177/0149206310380462 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/37/4/1228 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information for Journal of Management can be found at: Email
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Accounting, Organizations and Society 29 (2004) 709–737 www.elsevier.com/locate/aos The effects of the interactive use of management control systems on product innovation Josep Bisbe a a,* , David Otley b ESADE Business School, Universitat Ramon Llull. Avda, Pedralbes 60-62, 08034 Barcelona Spain b Department of Accounting and Finance, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YX, UK Abstract SimonsÕ Ôlevers of controlÕ framework indicates that an interactive use of management control
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conducting long-term investigations of behavioral change related to climate change communications (a vital and underresearched area). The research reported is a longitudinal panel study of the impacts on UK viewers of the climate change movie The Age of Stupid. The heightened levels of concern, motivation to act, and sense of agency about action that were initially generated by the movie did not measurably persist over the long term. The results also show that behavioral intentions do not necessarily translate
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