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A longitudinal study of the effects of business school training on the motivation to manage of Masters of Business Administration (MBA) students was conducted using the forced‐choice version of the Miner Sentence Completion Scale (MSCS). Male MBA students had significantly higher levels of motivation to manage than female MBA students, with part‐time females registering the lowest managerial motivation levels among the MBA students. Managerial motivation scores were significant predictors of salary after graduation, but failed to predict programme completion and MBA grade point averages. Based on measurements taken at the beginning of the degree programme and after graduation, results indicated no significant difference in managerial motivation levels associated with business school MBA training. Implications of these findings are discus

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1987.tb00236.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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In spite of the increased interest in the role of situational factors as moderators of leader orientation‐performance relationships, the possible role of organizational transience as a mediating variable has been ignored. The authors used Fiedler's Least Preferred Co‐worker (LPC) Scale in a study of 39 construction site managers. It was found that these managers have a stronger task orientation than other occupational groups who are typically located in relatively permanent organizations. The degree of transience of construction sites (i.e. the length of projects) moderated the LPC‐performance relatio

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1987.tb00237.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Internal‐external locus of control is an individual difference characteristic which, it has been proposed, affects the turnover process. Using a sample of 119 nurses, this longitudinal study found that locus of control moderated the relationships between two facets of satisfaction, promotion and pay, both to withdrawal cognitions and turnover. In addition, locus of control moderated the relationship between withdrawal cognitions and turnover. Internals showed significantly stronger negative relationships than externals between these satisfaction facets and withdrawal cognitions and turnover. Internals also showed a stronger positive relationship than externals between withdrawal cognitions and turnover. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for helping to understand employee turnove

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1987.tb00238.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper uses a model drawn from the occupational stress literature to predict variations in the psychological experience of long‐term unemployed men. The model proposes that variations are mainly due to the stressfulness of the environment which is defined by the balance of problems, supports and opportunities existing in it. The model assumes, however, that the impact of the environment is modified by certain other variables such as social class and financial circumstances, and personal attributes such as coping tactics. The model is tested on a sample of 399 men who had been unemployed for between 6 and 12 months. Stepwise multiple regression is used to test the model, and it is shown that the severity of problems does predict level of psychological symptoms even when the conditioning variables and the personal attribute variables have been controlled. Some limitations of the study are noted in the conclusio

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1987.tb00239.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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This study examined the utility of self‐rating compared to supervisory and management ratings of training needs. Both self‐ and supervisory assessment of training needs were collected from 200 managers and professionals using a discrepancy model of needs assessment. Self‐ratings tended to be more lenient and evidenced less halo than supervisor ratings of subordinates. Self‐ and supervisory needs assessment of the subordinate were not significantly related. Self‐ratings of needs assessment resulted in three independent factors while supervisory needs assessment of subordinates resulted in only one general factor. These findings, coupled with evidence that supervisors projected their own needs when identifying subordinates' needs, suggested that self‐ratings of needs assessment may be an important component of a valid needs assessm

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1987.tb00240.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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This study examines the relationship between selected variables and the psychological health of strikers. The findings indicate that higher levels of savings, of non‐work activity, and of social support, and favourable attitudes toward the union positively affect the psychological health of strikers. However, increases in the expected duration of the strike adversely affect the strikers' psychological healt

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1987.tb00241.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Nine hundred and ninety‐one newly blinded and visually handicapped adults were tested with the Purdue Pegboard test of manual dexterity while they were undergoing vocational rehabilitation. Normative data were derived to enable comparisons to be made among various subgroups of the population on the basis of degree of residual vision, which together with the gender of the subjects is shown to be a significant determining variable. The results are also discussed in terms of the magnitude of the disparity between the performance of the visually impaired and the fully sighted adult subjects on whom the test was originally standardize

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1987.tb00242.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Leadership and Organisations. By ALAN BRYMAN.Contemporary Organization Development: Current Thinking and Applications. Edited by D. D. Warrick.Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge. By WARREN BENNIS&BURT NANUS.Women in Management2nd edition. Edited by BETTE ANN STEAD.Top Decisions: Strategic Decision‐Making in Organisations. By DAVID J. HICKSON, RICHARD J. BUTLER, DAVID CRAY, GEOFFREY R. MALLORY&DAVID c. WILSON.Performance Appraisal Revisited. By PHIL LONG.The Superteam Solution. By COLIN HASTINGS, PETER BIXBY, RAN CHAUDRY‐LAWTON.Testing Psychological Tests. By DOUGLAS SHELLY&DAVID COHEN.Trends in Ergonomics/Human Factors: II. Edited by R. E. EBERTS&C. G. ERERTS.Mentoring at Work'—Developmental Relationships in Organisational Life. By KATHY E. KRAM.Organizational Culture and Leadership. By EDGAR H. SCHEIN.Organizational Culture. Edited by PETER J. FROST ET AL.Gaining Control of the Corporate Culture. Edited by RALPH H. KILMANN ET AL.Implementing Organizational Change: A practical guide to managing change efforts. By GORDON LIPPITT, PETTER LANGSETH&JACK MOSSOP.Organizational Strategy and Change. By JOHANNES M. PENNINGS ET AL.International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Edited by CARY COOPER&IVAN ROBERTSON.Information and Behaviorvol. 1. Edited by BRENT D. RUBEN.The Theory and Practice of Systematic Staff Selection. By MIKE SMITH&IVAN ROBERTSON.Evaluation of Management Education, Training and Development. By MARK EASTERBY‐SMITH.Personality Assessment in Organizations. Edited by H. JOHN BERNARDIN&DAVID A. BOWNAS.Women and Work: An Annual ReviewVol. 1. Edited by L. LARWOOD, A. H. STROMBERG&B. A. GUTEK.High‐involvement Management. By EDWARD E. LAWLER III.Career Development in Organizations. Edited by DUGLAS T. HALL ET AL.The Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor. By MICHAEL L.

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1987.tb00243.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY