Journal of Managerial Issues; JMI

The Impact of Ceo Duality and Prestige On a Bankrupt Organization

This study examines the darker side of organizational performance. That is, what happens after an organization files for bankruptcy protection. In particular, we focus on the influence of a Chief Executive Officer's (CEO) power, both formal and informal. Examining 252 major organizations that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, we found that formal power - duality - is associated with improved odds of survival and a reduced time until the organization returns to performance stand...

New Evidence Regarding Organizational Downsizing and a Firm's Financial Performance: A Long-Term Analysis*

This investigation extends the research of Cascio (1998) and De Meuse, Bergmann, and Vanderheiden (1994) by tracking five financial indices of corporate performance over a 12-year period - 1987 through 1998. The study measured (a) profit margin, (b) return on assets, (c) return on equity, (d) asset efficiency, and (e) market-to-book ratios of Fortune 100 companies two years before downsizing, the year of downsizing, and the subsequent nine years after downsizing. When compared to a set of com...

Predictors of Employee Trust of Their Ceo: A Three-Country Study

Prior literature suggests that employee trust in the firm's CEO and top management is critical to the firm's success. Identifying predictors of CEO trust should therefore prove valuable so that the firm can increase top-management trust and then capitalize on it. This study examines various predictors of employee trust in the CEO and top management. Two hundred and sixty-seven employees from more than 200 organizations located in the U.S., Poland, and Russia participated in this study. Result...

Team Self-Management, Organizational Structure, and Judgments of Team Effectiveness

The use of self-managed teams has become a popular strategy for many organizations. Despite their popularity, however, not all attempts to implement such teams are successful. This study examines the relationships between structural variables, level of team self-management, and judgments of team effectiveness. The results indicate that 2 aspects of organizational structure (micro-level centralization and formalization) moderated the influence of self-management on team effectiveness. Self-man...

Changing Attitudes Toward People with Disabilities: Experimenting with an Educational Intervention

Many experts agree that the continuing unemployment of people with disabilities is due in large part to the fact that potential employers and co-workers still maintain negative attitudes toward them as a group. These negative attitudes appear to be rooted in a lack of knowledge about people with disabilities, as well as the perpetuation of erroneous stereotypes about them. Some scholars and advocates assert that training designed to challenge existing beliefs is the key to changing these nega...

The Intellectual Capital Realization Process (Icrp): An Application of the Resource-Based View of the Firm

The intellectual capital realization process (ICRP) provides managers with a method that permits them to identify intellectual capital (IC) elements of their organizations, classify them, assess their characteristics, and determine specific developmental strategies based upon these characteristics. Reference is made to two organizations in this article, to promote understanding of this approach, as well as to provide concrete examples of the ICRP steps and results. Discussion focuses upon sim...

Formal Data Use in Strategic Planning: An Organizational Field Experiment

This study examines the types of information used by a hospital strategic planning group. Prior research regarding strategic decision making has focused primarily on the cognitive processes used in this type of group planning. This research takes a different tack by examining the type of information used in the strategic planning process. The two main types of data examined are formal (rational) and informal (implicit or intuitive). Using a qualitative and quantitative study of a hospital str...