This paper examines several contextual variables that are thought to affect the relationship between a firm's innovative inputs and outputs. Six-year patterns for a sample of mature industrial-prod...

This study examines the effects of goal difficulty and expected external evaluation on individuals' intrinsic motivation. Results show intrinsic motivation to be lowest when individuals cannot atta...

In this article the authors discuss research they conducted that examined social-desirability response bias in labor turnover research. They explain how they expected to find higher scores in areas...

In this article the authors discuss research they conducted that examined social-desirability response bias in labor turnover research. They explain how they expected to find higher scores in areas where they believed social-desirability would distort self-report data such as organizational commitment, job satisfaction and attitude. Their reasoning for these beliefs were based in the notion that individuals who remained at their jobs most likely held beliefs such as good individuals make good career choices and therefore enjoy their jobs.

A growing body of research deals with congruence and incongruence between supervisors' and subordinates' perception and subsequent effects on outcome variables for organizations and individuals. The results of these studies have indicated positive relationships between congruence and (1) supervisors' evaluations of subordinates (Green, 1972; Miles, 1964; Wexley, Alexander, Greenwalt, (2) subordinates' satisfaction and morale (Brown Greene, 1972; Wexley et al., 1980); (3) subordinates' liking for supervisors (Triandis, 1959); (4) quality of relationships between supervisors and subordinates (Green and (5) subordinates' satisfaction with communication (Hatfield Wexley et al., 1980). The purpose of this study is to examine a relationship between congruence and communication satisfaction to determine if it is primarily a function of congruence, or of one or the other of the components of congruence. This study does not seek to replicate earlier perceptual congruence research, but rather to investigate the parsimony of D statistics in the context of a perceptual congruence study.

In this article the authors reply to criticism levied at a paper they published. They note that the main issues that the criticism focused on were the reliability of their Women as Managers Scale and the appropriateness of using principal components analysis to investigate dimensonality. The authors defend their paper and draw the conclusions that while the publishing of critical papers serve a valid purpose in maintaining the credibility of research, the paper levied at them failed to reveal any clear flaws.

This study, based on data from the Profit Impact of Market Strategies (PIMS) program, is a preliminary attempt to prioritize contingency variables for the field of business strategy. Chow tests for structural homogeneity shed light on the relative degrees of overall significance of ten widely-cited contingency variables. User sector, consumer or industrial, was the contingency variable that emerged as most potent among those examined. Implications for researchers and executives are suggested.

In this article the authors discuss research they conducted on the diversification strategies used by multibusiness corporations. Two of the strategies that they identify include internal diversifi...