role in satisfying the customers. Top-performing managers recognize that having high-performing employees is essential for growth and survival in business (Harvard Business Review, 2013). Three out of four managers consider employee engagement as the key factor to the overall success of an organization (Harvard Business Review, 2013). Employees that are positively engaged in the company’s business have higher productivity and end up bringing more profit. It, essentially, engages the workers to perform
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To appear in: Oxford Companion to the Affective Sciences Oxford University Press Personality and Emotion William Revelle Department of Psychology Northwestern University Klaus R. Scherer Swiss Center for Affective Sciences University of Geneva Personality is the coherent patterning of affect, behavior, cognition, and desires (goals) over time and space. Just as a full blown emotion represents an integration of feeling, action, appraisal and wants at a particular time and location so does
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Accounting and Economics 39 (2005) 509–533 www.elsevier.com/locate/jae To blame or not to blame: Analysts’ reactions to external explanations for poor financial performance$ Jan Barton, Molly Mercerà Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Received 3 March 2003; received in revised form 17 March 2005; accepted 4 April 2005 Abstract Managers often provide self-serving disclosures that blame poor financial performance on temporary external
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XXX10.1177/1529100612436522Finkel et al.Online Dating 2012 Research Article Online Dating: A Critical Analysis From the Perspective of Psychological Science Psychological Science in the Public Interest 13(1) 3–66 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1529100612436522 http://pspi.sagepub.com Eli J. Finkel1, Paul W. Eastwick2, Benjamin R. Karney3, Harry T. Reis4, and Susan Sprecher5 1 Northwestern University; 2Texas
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Clarke's (2009) article examines the effects of a two day training programme on emotional intelligence (EI) within the community of project managers in the short and long term. According to Goleman (1998) EI is the capacity to recognise our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in us and in our relationships. Building commitment and trust rapidly is of the essence to work effectively together within a project (Burgess and Turner, 2000) thus knowledge
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Chapter 1 1. Introduction “A highly successful organization is built on the strengths of exceptional people. No matter how much technology and mechanization is developed, no organization could survive and prosper without them”. --- Luszez and Kleiner, 2001 The most important corporate resource over the next few years will be talent: smart, sophisticated business people who are technologically literate, globally astute, and operationally
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customer satisfaction and studies, which examined entirely different aspects of customer satisfaction, and synthesize valuable new information. Objectives The objectives of the study can be summarized as follows: * Contribute to the emerging literature on pricing and consumption in examining and defining the key perceived values. * Interpret and expand existing consumer behavior models. * Generate a framework to help marketers to build and monitor the pricing of products. * Stimulate
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University Brian E. Becker State University of New York at Buffalo In this article, the authors focus on the challenges and opportunities associated with integrating the macro and macro domains of the strategic human resource (HR) management literature. Their specific focus is on the development of a differentiated HR architecture in support of strategy execution as a key organizing theme. A focus on strategic capabilities and strategic jobs as the focal point of workforce management system design
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Literature Review Sample on Bullying Posted by Vic Fabe at 7:40 PM Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE This part of the study will be discussing the relevant literature connected with the study of the bullying in high school. This part of the study accounts the works that has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and researchers. All this would allow the readers to map the field and position your research within the context. Moreover, this part of the study justifies the reason
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effort be spared in resolving organizational conflicts and communication problems as soon as possible (636). Through proper communication skills, solutions can be found. This literature review provides a discourse on the solutions to communication problems within organizations. Causes of Communication Problems A review of literature on solutions to communication problems would not be complete without giving a brief overview of the causes and examples of these problems. Poor communication in organizations
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