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Construction workers' Workplace Deviant Behavior(WDB) has significant impact on project success. However, existing researches on its occurrence mechanism are mainly focused on personal and organizational factors. Psychological ownership, which has been proved to be a critical variable affecting behavior decision making, has not been considered in the occurrence of construction workers' WDB. This paper...
Storytelling is a foundational activity in every human culture, and the stories humans tell emanate from and result in each culture's unique history and mythology. Storytelling can also be an effective business tool for the creation of workplace culture. In the hands of capable leaders, storytelling can build strong culture, resulting in high employee engagement, which leads to high performance organizations...
The threat that insiders pose to businesses, institutions and governmental organisations continues to be of serious concern. Recent industry surveys and academic literature provide unequivocal evidence to support the significance of this threat and its prevalence. Despite this, however, there is still no unifying framework to fully characterise insider attacks and to facilitate an understanding of...
The sustainability of social networking sites is critically dependent on information sharing by site users. However practice suggests that privacy is a major concern which affects users' willingness to share personal information on social networking sites. To understand how privacy expectancies affect sustainability we draw on the psychological contract theory. We develop a framework which posits...
Today competition has increased between organizations and they are urged to improve constantly their performance throughout innovation if they want to survive and be profitable. However, an organization can't be innovative if it doesn't counts with creative people and build teams to strength its creative and innovative capabilities. Besides, the impact of technology in innovation has been widely studied...
The design of User Experience (UX) demands the consideration of expectations and remembrance on the product use. We think of mental models (widely used in usability) as being a good approach to influence expectations, although emotional aspects are not considered so far. In this paper we introduce the concept of Emotional Mental Models and corresponding product descriptions to help researchers, designers,...
Enterprises based on a traditional, internally oriented business model consider their available resources as a starting point for determining their service offerings. However, in a world of changing customer behavior, emerging online service providers and ongoing technological advances an internal focus is no longer sufficient. The idea that customer needs should be the starting-point for designing...
Celebrity endorsement is ubiquitous in modern advertising. Celebrities not only draw consumers' attention to the ad, but also generate favorable attitude toward the product and induce purchase action. However, little is known about the factors determining the attitude toward celebrity-endorsed ads. In this paper, the researchers present a conceptual model of attitude toward celebrity endorsing products...
This article addresses how customers can develop very strong links rather than satisfaction and loyalty with companies in the context of service industry. In this sense, the authors focus on customer-company identification which is described as a strong feeling of belongingness to certain company owned by customer based on social identity theory and organizational theory. We try to exploit what companies...
The E-commerce website credibility has become a deciding factor in network marketing. The website credibility is a sense of trust and its intensity towards the E-commerce website is produced by the customer. According to the factors affecting the customer's assessment of the E-commerce website credibility, the evaluation indicator framework is divided into three level indicators, respectively: the...
Empowerment can improve effectively the flexibility and efficiency of organizations. And leader empowering behavior is an important part of successful empowerment. However, few empirical researches explored the antecedents of leader empowering behavior. This present study was conducted to explore the effects of trust in subordinate, perceived risk and leader's power distance on different dimensions...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relations between three domains of OCBs and team effectiveness, and to test for the moderating effects of task complexity on the relationship between OCBs and team effectiveness. A cross-sectional survey of 249 employees from 31 Chinese manufacturing companies showed that self, group, and organization domain OCBs were directly related to job satisfaction,...
How to break silence culture and establish a free climate to encourage employees' voice are big challenges faced to mangers. This study is to research the interactions between managers and employees and focus on employees' negative psychological state when organization silence occurs. In this sense, questionnaires were applied a mobile communication company in China, 444 pairs of questionnaires were...
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