The importance of organizational context, II: An empirical test of work...

Public Administration Quarterly;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......of cohesiveness and group norms on group effectiveness given differences in...differ, depending on organizational context. They reaffirmed the...cohesiveness depends on the organizational division of labor in...specific aspects of organizational context. ...

Editors' preface: Some introducing remarks

Psychologische Beiträge;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the conference was ,Diversity and Group Effectiveness" and in the four days of the conference...addressed. The headline ,Diversity and Group Effectiveness" refers to theory and research done...of team member heterogeneity on group effectiveness. This reseach field is very important...

The influence of perceptions of organizational structure & culture on...

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......asserted that managers' perceptions of organizational context and personality influence their...between managers' interpretations of organizational context and their perceived transactional...the dynamic relationships among organizational context, leadership, personality traits...

Organizational context: The key to implementing successful cost-reduction...

Frontiers of Health Services Management;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......new insights into the role of "organizational context" in implementing cost reduction...satisfaction; and 3. implications of organizational context (i.e., culture, trust, and leadership...a discussion of what they term "organizational context"-culture, trust, and leadership...

Developing a theoretical model of intercultural small groups:...

Psychologische Beiträge;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......effects of cultural diversity on work group effectiveness. In the current paper, group effectiveness is conceptualized as having both...outcomes. A number of models of group effectiveness are described and evaluated. Based...

Organizational Constructs as Predictors of Effectiveness in Child Welfare...

Child Welfare;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Organizational context, including line worker characteristics...field of child welfare. Yet organizational context has been largely ignored in...upon the likely role of the organizational context in explaining service effectiveness...

Group effectiveness: A balance between heterogeneity and homogeneity

Psychologische Beiträge;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......proverbs. But which is true for group effectiveness? Is homogeneity in as many areas...taken into consideration. Key words: group effectiveness, diversity, heterogeneity, homogeneity...group, answering the question of group effectiveness is of central importance. In all...

(book reviews)

Administrative Science Quarterly;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......of persons or groups in larger organizational context. House, Rousseau, and Thomas-Hunt...separation of the individual from the organizational context in which he or she behaves. Van...are, in large part, products of organizational context, role, and task demands. Arrow...

Coaching caveats: Part 1: organizational context.

Human Resource Planning;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......problematic variables emerged: 1. The organizational context (i.e., issues external to the coachee...this Perspective, we look at the organizational context. In the next issue of Human Resource...characteristics of the coachee. Part I: The Organizational Context Five variables ...

EXTRA: LEADING FOR CHANGE

The Canadian Nurse;  May 1, 2006 ;     226 words ......sleeves to learn how to create research-based change in an organizational context. They were directed through several simulation scenarios...evidence to create, manage and sustain change within an organizational context. Such learning opportunities present a unique chance...

A practitioner's view of the future of futures studies.

Futures;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......favorable developments for FS in the organizational context. The main body covers how FS can...get FS firmly integrated into the organizational context. Our experience to date convinces...Favorable developments in the organizational context While there is a lot of lip service...

Web-based surveys for corporate information gathering: a biasreducing...

Technical Communication;  February 1, 2004 ;     170 words ......discuss the application of that research to the narrower organizational context. This article synthesizes from the literature on Web-bas...the statistical validity of Web surveys deployed in an organizational context. Empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of the framework...

The Determinants and Consequences of Subsidiary Initiative in...

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......theoretical model in which two levels of organizational context (corporate and subsidiary) promote...stated as follows: What facets of organizational context promote or suppress subsidiary...effect changes in the corporation' s organizational context such that subsequent ...

The ideal participative state: A prelude to work group effectiveness

Journal of Business and Management;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......process-orientated model of work group effectiveness and argue that the ideal participative...antecedent of, or precursor to, work group effectiveness. We explore the five constitutive...input-process-output models of work group effectiveness. Finally, we outline the ...

The effects of culture and cohesiveness on intragroup conflict and...

The Journal of Social Psychology;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......have the potential to influence group effectiveness and intragroup conflict. Group Effectiveness Scholars have directed significant...For purposes of this research, group effectiveness is defined as accuracy of a group...