SAM Advanced Management Journal back issues from March 2005:
From the editor-in-chief.
Mar 22, 2005; ... This issue contains six articles addressing consumer privacy, organizational hypocrisy, commuter marriages among dual-career couples, partitioning damages in harassment cases, harnessing organizational history, and evaluating internal operations. The first article by Peeples, ...
Current issues in consumer privacy policies.
Mar 22, 2005; ... In November 2000, the Financial Services Modernization Act, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, became law. It eased state and federal restrictions on affiliations among financial institutions. Almost immediately, privacy issues arose, since affiliated institutions naturally would ...
A factor analytical study of perceived organizational hypocrisy.
Mar 22, 2005; ... Intuition and common sense suggest that hypocrisy in management--"do as I say and not as I do"--will have negative effects on employees. The same goes for inconsistencies between the organization's stated mission and values and management's actual behavior. Can these effects be measured? A ...
Organizational commitment among married dual-career employees: traveling commuter versus single residence.
Mar 22, 2005; ... Once a rarity, commuter marriages among dual-career couples are increasingly common. Many choose to maintain separate residences instead of living in hotels. Employers sometimes worry that such arrangements will hurt their employee's organizational commitment. They shouldn't. A study of 82 ...
A new look at harassment by supervisors: focusing on partitioning damages rather than assigning liability.
Mar 22, 2005; ... From 1998 to 2003, the murky area of legal responsibility for harassing behavior by supervisors was shaped by two U.S. Supreme Court decisions: Burlington Industries Inc. v. Ellerth, and Faragher v. City of Boca Raton. These found that employers could be held liable for such behavior, but ...
Profiting from past triumphs and failures: harnessing history for future success.
Mar 22, 2005; ... Dismissing past events with a "that's history" attitude can be costly to managers and their organizations because a thoughtful examination may save future mistakes. Ironically, past successes are not as instructive as mistakes, since success may hide a company's vulnerabilities and ...