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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Organizational Politics"”.
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Organizational politics and multisource feedbacklh[electronic resource]
… research examined the effects of perceptions of organizational politics, understanding of organizational processes, and control over organizational events on rater attitudes (i.e., acceptance, cost-benefit evaluations) toward multisource feedback systems (MSFS). Six-hundred-and-three employees …
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Creating a Measure of Dysfunctional Office and Organizational Politics: The DOOP Scale
… a perceptual measure of Dysfunctional Office and Organizational Politics (DOOPs). Statements for the measure were derived from office and organizational politics definitions implied or stated in the non-professional literature. Subsequently, two scales were created, one 21 statement scale for use …
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Adaptive Self-regulation And Organizational Politics: Investigating The Effects In The Accounting Profession
… is to investigate whether or not perceptions of organizational politics mediate the relationships between accountants' personality and interpersonal traits and their perceptions of a superior's leadership ability and performance. An accountant who has a higher degree of confidence in his or her …
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The Impact of Perception of Organizational Politics, Social Capital, and Power Centralization on Employee Turnover Intentions.
ABSTRACT This study examines how perceptions of organizational politics (POP), social capital (SC), and centralization of power (CENT) influence employee turnover intentions (TOI) in nonprofit and public organizations in rural Northern Alberta. Grounded in social capital theory, the study explores …
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Social influence and organizational justice in employee reactions to performance appraisals
Organizational justice research has found that fairness considerations are ubiquitous in organizational life and that if employees are provided with an opportunity to provide input or voice into procedures that lead to outcomes that affect them, their perceptions of fairness are enhanced. Research …
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The Dynamics of Organizational Change in Non-Profit Sport Organizations
… impact of regulating dynamics on the process of organizational change in non-profit sport organizations. Regulating dynamics are the factors which enable or constrain organizational change. Four regulating dynamics were targeted based on previous literature: capacity for change, organizational …
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An inquiry based intervention methodology for business management problems
… efforts to their inability to deal with organizational processes, or organizational design. Yet, others blame the inability of intervention efforts to deal with organizational culture, or organizational politics, for their failure. A furthermore problem stems from the existence of …
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Designing for cost In an aerospace company
… discusses a potential barrier to implementation: organizational politics. Based on a project to implement a price visibility tool and on three value engineering case studies, this thesis identifies The Boeing Company's state relative to full scale Target Costing and provides recommendations for …
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Antecedents of impression management among managers in public leisure service organizations and the effects of impression management on performance appraisal
… potential antecedents and consequences of organizational politics. A model involving (a) characteristics of public park and recreation superintendents, (b) the superintendents' propensity to manage the impression their directors form of them, (c) the effects of impression management on how …
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Bombs unbuilt : power, ideas and institutions in international politics
… based on core categories in international politics: power, resources, ideas, and institutions. The hypotheses on power suggest that a state's nuclear decisions are a function of its external threats and its place in the international system. They claim that the slow pace of proliferation …
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The Creation and Implementation of Interprofessional Simulation Leadership Scenarios
… fiscal responsibility and accountability, organizational politics, interpersonal skills, human resources, communication, conflict resolution, and emotional intelligence. Some areas such as fiscal management are considered <em>hard skills</em>, or skills which can be taught, while others …
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Towards the Dark Side of Political Skill: Development and Validation of the Dark Political Skill Scale
… and methodological contribution to the organizational politics literature. Supplementing the PSI, this new scale provides the opportunity for a more comprehensive assessment of workplace political effectiveness, and a greater understanding of the competencies required for successful …
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Understanding Individual Political Behaviors in Organizations: Instrument Development and Validation
Organizational politics impacts decision making, leadership, policy implementation, change, and individual effectiveness. Although generally acknowledged as a reality of organizational life, political behavior is misunderstood, certainly a highly sensitive topic and furthermore, scholarly …
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"Sisters of the Capital": White Women in Richmond, Virginia, 1860-1880
… Richmond women's roles in the workforce, in organizational politics, and the churches. It also analyzes the war's impact on marriage and family relations. Civil War Richmond represented a two-edged sword to its white female population. As the Confederate capital, it provided them with …
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Interim management: an enquiry into praxis
… groups, and their ability to distinguish between organizational politics and the "back staging" required to deliver their assignments. Clients look for relevant sector experience in engaging interim managers and this constrains interim managers in offering cross sector services. Interim managers …
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Determining the paradox: Leadership within a County Council environment:An interpretive study on the understanding of the leadership paradigm within a Welsh County Council
… the research was the important role played by organizational politics and relationships in both facilitating the process of leadership and perhaps as important confounding it. Strong dyadic relationships were identified not along the traditional vertical leader follower model, but horizontal …
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The Defense Department and innovation : an assessment of the technical and policy challenges of airborne boost-phase intercept
… future strategic environment, bureaucratic and organizational politics between military services and civilian agencies, and domestic politics. The differing degrees of influence of these inputs often helps to explain the resultant systems. A case study of particular interest in United States' …
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Empowering cooperation : Dominican hometown associations and the politics of transnational community development
… community development processes: (1) the intra organizational dynamics that take shape as HTAs engage in cross border efforts, and (2) the types of project-based engagements between the associations, the state and other development actors. I also devised some stylized analytical categories that …
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Comparative Study on Cultural Dimensions of Organisational Change in India and New Zealand IT Industry
… of change. On the other hand, forces like organizational politics, poor timing, and lack of resources act as barriers. The analysis shows that New Zealand is more sensitive to these findings. Culturally, there is a noticeable difference between the two countries regarding Collectivism and …
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The Relationship Between Self-Assessed Political Skill and the Individual Dispositional Factors of Age and Gender
… of individual political skill on individual and organizational success is clear from the research, determining if proficiency in political skill is contingent upon the individual dispositional factors of age group and gender are less understood. If these dispositional factors contribute to …