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On the basis of Kelly's personal construct theory, Bieri proposed the concept of cognitive complexity, which was mainly applied in the measurement of differentiation grade of individual cognitive structure. Due to its significance in behavior efficiency, cognitive complexity theory has become a hot spot in the area of external cognition research. Theory suggests that leaders who possess higher cognitive...
U.S. Federal Senior Level & Scientific or Professional Employees (SL/ST) play crucial roles in the operation of federal government, thus it is necessary to study this group of employees and the corresponding managerial system in order to promote their work performance and creativity. This study seeks to find out the effects of Public Service Motivation (PSM) on SL/ST's job satisfaction and...
Companies highly value the processes and the results of performance appraisal. Based on the appraisal scores or ranks, how to make a wise and customized decision to guide staff effectively enhancing their performances is critical to the organizational development as well as to individual capacity. This paper first elaborates the principles and algorithm of “Grey relating-Fuzzy Appraisal Module”, a...
Personnel assessment and selection is one of the most effective approaches to obtain the organizational competitive advantage. Traditional personnel selection technique based on competency assessment can't satisfy the organizational need, therefore, emphasize the importance of P-J-O fit in selection context. Based on the ASD growth model, this study conduct a semi interview, find out that the construct...
Human resources management (HRM) of developed countries stands in its foothold - strategic human resources management (SHRM) and enjoys popular support in this present era of knowledge economy, now the trend is towards the human capital management of the enterprise's ownership being rebuilt and intellectual capital (IC) management to explore the potential value of enterprise from HRM. Overall the...
The purpose of the research is to define and analyze the dominant organizational culture in Kish and to conduct a pilot research in Iran. Designed as a survey, the research employs the five cultural dimensions of Hofstede in organizations, and by different methodology, defines the ranking of each dimension. The sample consists of 254 employees working in two public and five private organizations on...
High-tech employees always possess high entrepreneurial qualities, owing to accumulation of work experience and knowledge. This paper introduces a perspective of embeddedness and establishes a conceptual model of hi-tech employees' turnover and start new Arm. Then, we use Game Theory to analyze the relationship between human capital or social capital and employees' rewards. Moreover, the result reveals...
The continuing trend towards distributed production in a network of production sites confronts companies with new challenges. Complex logistic interdependencies of networked production lead to an increased need of coordination and planning.Since conventional production planning and control systems are designed for single-site production they lack functionalities to handle requirements arising from...
This paper forms the evaluating indexes system of the innovative capabilities of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the cluster. By using a sample including the SMEs' innovative capabilities in the cluster of biotechnology industry in Guangzhou, I find that the evaluating indexes system well explains the intuition observed from the data. The indexes system provides an effective way to identify...
In this paper the authors analyzed the coal mine accidents causes from system dynamics perspective which is different from traditional accident analysis. With system dynamics simulation method, the authors analyzed the kinds of hazards and unsafe behavior of employees in the coal mine accidents of China from organizational and management perspective. Time delay and feedback effect in the system cause...
Empowerment is an effective management tool and has made tremendous benefits for employees and organizations, which has been approved by many studies and practices. However in China, it is so common that managers don't want to empower. So the main aim of this research is to analyze that phenomenon from the perspective of empowerment risk perception. From the data of 209 managers and 618 subordinates...
The allocation optimization of project human resource is one of the most essential aspects in a project management. A situation with employees working on tasks that they are not well-suited for can lead to a significant loss of time and resources in addition to a sub-par product or service. This paper present a project human resource allocation method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) in...
With the arrival of the information age, information technology becomes more widespread and integrated into more aspects of our life. In the enterprise, information technology has made significant changes on production design, management control, decision-making and organizational design. At the same time, there is a need for specialized staff support, training for managers and employees, and a redefinition...
A top priority of global management is to manage change, which requires establishing an innovative organization to be responsive to change. Traditional and matrix organizations lack an effective horizontal structure to construct core elements required for organizational learning. An innovative organization is required to implement those core elements such as self-actualization, self-development, social...
Logistics outsourcing, logistics self-operation and partly outsourcing are major ways of enterprisespsila logistics services organizational modes. In reality, due to the complex objective and subjective condition factors, when enterprises choice their logistics service mode they must consider many factors in order to make a reasonable decision. Therefore, it is very important to study the relations...
Many factors are to be considered during to develop competencies. In the past, people used to choose DEMATEL to carry out the study of disorderly and complex conditions and phenomena. DEMATEL mainly helps the managers to reduce the interference of too much information among numerous influential factors by expert knowledge. Find to among the sever major competencies of talents in manufacturing industries,...
The present study evaluates effectiveness of delegation plan on managing different branches of Bank Melli Iran (BMI ) in Mazandaran province (north of Iran). The study tries to answer this basic question: Has this plan had its desired effect in managing BMI branch affairs in the province, after being implemented? Results of the data analysis showed that the mentioned plan could have a significant...
This study was designed to understand which factors influence job performance. In the first stage, theory structure of Mowday et al. and Mathieu & Zajac serves as the foundation of this research to submit awareness of employees of organization climate, job characteristics and role pressure as independent variables, and with organization commitment, job satisfaction, and involvement as mediate...
Most companies have ambitious plans for growth and few ever realize them. According to Zook and Allen, it is reported that between 1988 and 1998, seven out of eight companies in a global sample of 1,854 large corporations failed to achieve profitable growth. That is, these companies were unable to deliver 5.5% annual real growth in revenues and earnings while earning their cost of capital. Yet 90%...
In this paper, we present insights generated by modeling the emergence of insider threat vulnerabilities in organizations. In our model, we integrate concepts from social judgment theory, signal detection theory, and the cognitive psychology of memory and belief formation. With this model, we investigate the emergence of vulnerabilities (especially that are insider-driven) in complex systems characterized...
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