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Innovation is an essential condition for enterprises to maintain their competitive advantage. Therefore, many enterprises attempt to find the factors which could achieve innovation. Prior studies have found that team diversity, which include relation-oriented diversity, task-oriented diversity, and deep-level diversity, plays an important role in team innovation, but the results are inconsistent....
Disaster response requires cooperation among many aid agencies, some of which may never have worked together in the past. What enables such agencies to rapidly establish the trust and cooperative behavior necessary for effectively aiding victims of a disaster? Literature presents two main candidates for the enabling mechanism: Probability assessment, and indirect reciprocity. This paper describes...
This paper presents two primary results: (1) an adaptation of a Scrum-based, software-tools enabled process used in international service-learning project courses in the Computer and Information Sciences and other disciplines and (2) the software applications resulting from this process. The paper begins with an overview of Scrum and the challenges of applying it in the classroom. We survey the literature...
The industry of IT is an important service section in the macro economy. This study evaluated the efficiency of IT teams and carried on a series of effective measurements for IT projects. We are interested in two aspects that are team structure and human factors of IT project team. Based on a live project supported by Xishanju, a sub company of Jinshan Software Corporation, we did some research by...
This study examines how transformational leadership influences value co-creation in virtual communities through various driving factors. Considering that participants of the same virtual community may experience a context effect resulting from perceived organizational consensus, this study employs a hierarchical linear model (HLM) for verification. This study proposes the following hypothesis: transformational...
In projects involving engineers from multiple cultural backgrounds the implementation of Systems Engineering (SE) Processes demands cross-cultural leadership competence by the engineers who lead such work teams to support the quality of project performance. This paper reports the qualitative results of a web-based survey of Indonesian expatriate engineers addressing their perceptions of cross-cultural...
Inclusion of chief information officers (CIOs) in top management teams (TMTs) increases the functional and knowledge diversity of the teams, and elevates the role of IT in strategic business decisions. Considering that firms are increasingly relying on IT for operational efficiency and competitive advantage, TMTs with IT diversity can be expected to have superior performance compared to those without...
One pathway to alleviate the consequences of technology-induced stress may lie in the role that supervisors may or may not play in mitigating the negative consequences of ICT usage. Based on survey research with 491 salespersons using ICT in their work environment, and tested with structural equation modelling, we discuss the impact of two forms of leadership on individual and organizational outcomes...
Indonesia's Directorate General of Higher Education (DIKTI) has had a concept of Faculty Workload (BKD) and faculty certification program. The implementation of the both program in our college, ITTelkom, is less effective and less able to substantially improve the performance of institutions in general and teachers in particular. The competency of human resources is the main issues being the major...
Scientific research is one of the basic functions of military academies. Constructing quality management system is an important way to enhance scientific research quality of military academies, and applications of this system are the strategic decision made by leaders of military academies, which must take into account the realistic condition in military academies. Constructing and carrying out the...
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...
The purpose of this study was to explore the perception of organizational culture how to affect the job performance. The study is a case study on basis; it will employ a quantitative research, the study will be conducted using a survey instrument called School Culture Survey, which is amended for use in the present study, to collect the data from the professional of the SMEs in the northern part of...
Abusive supervision is not scares in Chinese service industries. In this paper, we considered supervisor's personal values play a key role in predicting perceptions of abusive supervision. We tested our model consisting of 171 supervisor - subordinate dyads from Chinese retail organizations. Specifically, we found that in the retail industry: (1) supervisor's self-enhancement values were positively...
In an era that innovation is the only everlasting advantage for an enterprise, the research on whether the shared leadership can enhance and promote the team innovation performance is still weak. In this paper, through the survey data of 285 questionnaires from 95 innovative teams, we explore the impact of shared leadership on innovative performance with knowledge sharing as a mediating variable and...
Data from the Statistics of China's Migrant Workers Survey of 2011 indicates that, the amount of migrant workers goes up to 250 million people. However, they are faced with a lot of very serious problems. Using empirical data from a survey from several provinces (N=305), this study discussed the effect of direct supervisor's abusive behavior to employees' work alienation as well as the moderating...
As many of the constructs of KM success have been identified and empirically shown to have an impact on that success, the need for understanding the underlying influences on these constructs becomes increasingly important. This meta-study investigated the meanings of leadership and its subconstructs (traits/skills, behavior/style, and power) to understand their influences on KM by exploring answers...
This study applies social capital theory to IT service team environment. Research model of this study includes emotional, cognitive, and social intelligence competencies of project managers leading to project performance while team social capital posited as a mediator between competencies and performance. PLS analysis of 285 data points collected via a survey revealed: (1) emotional intelligence competencies...
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