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Evidence from the literature suggests that achieving sustainable IT adoption benefits in organizations remains a problem. The assumption of most IT adoption frameworks is that there is always consensus during IT adoption decision making in organizations. However, the different stakeholder worldviews make IT adoption decision making in organizations a challenge. This paper developed and validated an...
This study was to evaluate the construct validity of WHOQOL-BREF & Disabilities module for physical disabilities (PD) and intellectual disabilities (ID) people, using Item Response Theory (IRT) Graded Response Model (GRM) analysis. As one of 14 centres for the field study of the WHOQOL Disabilities module, a stratified representative sample of Guangzhou general disabled people was approached for...
Systems thinking is a concept of thinking about an issue as a whole, emphasizing the interrelationships among its components rather than the components themselves. The main goal of this study is to examine whether the ability for systems thinking can be developed through experience, education, courses, and training. We present graduate and undergraduate courses in management of engineering and technology,...
In the era of knowledge-driven economy, self-management is becoming the main way of management. The precondition of carrying on self-management scientifically and effectively is to know the theory of self-management well and precisely. Many scholars are paying attention to the study of self-management. However, the research on dimensional structure of employee's self-management is limited. And the...
Generally speaking, the organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) of employees and the degree of organizational socialization play significant roles in job performance and employees' feelings. In this research, an empirical tracking study was conducted. First, two OCB dimensions were measured on campus. Second, four organizational socialization dimensions were measured in the workplace. Five months...
Based on the preliminary extraction of the influencing factors of organization career management, this paper further confirmed the conclusions by means of questionnaire survey, used SPSS statistical software for factor analysis of collected data, extracted the key influence factors and analyzed the conclusions of statistical analysis.
Today, in every organization are generated in large volume of data in electronic format that required the safety storage services. Data backup and Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity issues are becoming fundamental in networks since the importance and societal value of digital data is continuously increasing. Every organization requires a business continuity plan (BCP) or disaster recovery plan...
It has been widely known that employees pose insider threats to the information and technology resources of an organization. In this paper, we develop a model to explain insiders' intentional violation of the requirements of an information security policy. We propose sunk cost as a mediating factor. We test our research model on data collected from three information-intensive organizations in banking...
Top management involvement is important to the success of IS strategy. However, it is not typically within top management's role to implement strategy, rather, strategy implementation falls under the purview of middle management. This study investigates the importance of middle management involvement in and awareness of IS Strategy. Using a survey of 100 middle managers, the study discovers that the...
When dissatisfied, an employee has two discreet options: exit or voice [19]. While exit is defined as leaving the organization, voice represents an effort to gain correction of the dissatisfying situation. As managers, we want our valued IT professionals to communicate their dissatisfaction and give us an opportunity to correct the situation, rather than move directly to exit. To increase the likelihood...
Tacit knowledge is an asset which plays a key role in the global competition, especially in improving the organization's competitive advantage. Most of tacit knowledge is kept by an individual. Competitive advantage determines the competitive position of the organization from its competitors. By optimizing the existing tacit knowledge, every individual in the organization achieves optimum competitive...
Studies have shown that many Muslim users question religious websites. This is due to unrestricted cyberspace where anybody can publish any sort of information. This paper investigates the text-based dimensions that may improve reliability of Islamic websites. It is found that reliability of Islamic websites involves the same principles of reliability established in other types of website. However,...
This study extends research on factors that contribute to abusive supervision, one form of nonphysical aggression, and the results of such abuse on subordinates' performance. We utilize research on personal values theory and general aggression model to formulate our hypotheses. Results from 206 matched leader-subordinate dyads support the idea that leader's self-transcendence values were positively...
This study found a positive correlation between dual commitment and positive industrial relations climate while a negative correlation between dual commitment and negative industrial relations climate according to a questionnaire survey with 610 samples in several Wuhan's private enterprises. With a further research by using the Logistic regression model, the affective commitment, normative commitment...
The literature study indicates that the number of empirical studies on the relationship between work values and job performance of employees are very low, and the results are not complimentary. Although many scholars provide a considerable amount of research regarding the relationship between the work values of an employee and his job performance, few studies take the influence an enterprise environment...
The aim of our study is to examine whether the overall organization of behavior differs when people report truthful vs. deceptive messages within the framework of the T-pattern model. We tested the hypothesis that the differences between liars and truth tellers will be greater under high cognitive load conditions. We argue that recalling stories in reverse order will produce cognitive overloading...
This paper reports on the development of a model to improve the understanding of the extent of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system usage in universities. Previous research revealed that university ERP systems are not fully utilized by end-users, resulting in low usage and institutional inefficiencies. This leads to stakeholders particularly students and government pressurizing universities to...
Innovation culture is relatively at a slow pace in South Africa compared to other countries. Leadership plays a critical role in creating an innovation culture within orgainsations. Due to globalization, uncertainties, technology, lack of skills and innovative leadership style, many orgainsations are struggling to survive firmly. This study was aimed to develop an innovative model by applying the...
This study investigates users' perception on library staff attitude in giving services in one of the largest academic library of a public institution of higher learning in Malaysia. The library staff were assessed based on their attitude toward user service in terms of reliability, responsiveness and assurance. Questionnaires were distributed to 150 respondents of whom 140 (93%) responded. The results...
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