Journal of Managerial Issues; JMI

Effects of Gender and Power On Pr Managers' Upward Influence

This study seeks to develop a theoretical rationale for understanding why there might be differences in how men and women persuasively influence their supervisors. The results of this nationwide sample of senior-level public relations practitioners indicate that persuasive communication aimed towards a supervisor, called upward influence, is best explained by employee's amount and type of organizational power, not gender. Results show that a wide range of measures of power-reporting relations...

Auditor Reputation and the Insurance Hypothesis: The Information Content of Disclosures of Financial Distress of a Major Accounting Firm

This study assess the audit-client firm-share price effects of 1. litigation-related bankruptcy rumors about Ernst & Young (E&Y), and 2. an advertisement placed by E&Y aimed at dispelling those rumors. The insurance hypothesis and/or the audit quality explanation justify the expectations of significant client-firm share-price reactions. We find limited empirical support that the bankruptcy rumors are associated with negative market responses for E&Y's clients. We also find a s...

The Role of Expectations in the Mentoring Exchange: An Analysis of Mentor and Protege Expectations in Relation to Perceived Support

The role of expectation in the mentoring process was examined by testing antecedent factors such as need for achievement, need for power, opportunities for mentoring, and perceived reward structures in relation to expectations formed for a mentoring partner. The relationship between expectations for mentoring support and perceptions of support received was also examined. Samples comprised of data from dissertation chairs in the mentor role and doctoral students or recent graduates in the prot...

The Cognitive and Affective Antecedents of General Trust Within Cooperative Organizations

This article examines the antecedents of the general trust participants in cooperative organizations have for managers of the cooperative. We argue that what we term general trust evolves from a pattern of careful, rational thinking (cognitive-based) coupled with an examination of one's feelings, instincts, and intuition (affect-based). Based on a sample of 683 members of a farmers' marketing cooperative, we found that general trust is best represented by those 2 distinct, yet related, constr...

The Primary Drivers for Continuous Improvement: The Reduction of the Triad of Waste

Continuous improvement thrusts have become common organizational phenomena in the past decade. Intense competition, abetted by free markets, globalization, trade liberalization, and technology enhancements, has relegated comparative advantage to a temporary status. The prevalent view is that the status quo is a terminal malady with potentially dire consequences, so the performance envelope must be in an expansionary mode to add more value to targeted customers. This article discusses generic ...

Empirically Testing the Boundaries of Benevolence in Asymmetric Channel Relations: A Response to Economic Dependence

This research aims to shed new light on the boundaries of benevolence in symmetrically dependent reseller - supplier relationships. It isolated "giant" supplier economic contributions toward "midget" resellers' and investigate the effect that economic asymmetry has on reseller attitudes. The study proposes that suppliers with strong links to the marketplace not only hold economic power advantages over their weaker exchange partners, but also affect attitudes, behavior, and performance exhibit...

Determinants of the Anonymity of the Ceo Evaluation Process

This study examines board of director anonymity in the CEO performance evaluation process. Two hundred and one top executive compensation officers of the American Compensation Association responded to a survey that asked them several question about their firm practices regarding the CEO evaluation process. A priori, we felt that anonymity would be used as a tool by powerful CEOs in order to ensure positive ratings. Upward appraisal research shows that managers are rated higher by subordinates...