Journal of Managerial Issues; JMI

Examining the Impact of Organizational Value Dissimilarity in Top Management Teams

This study examined the effects of individual top management team (TMT) members' level of dissimilarity in the importance placed on organizational values from their Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and from their other TMT members. A model is proposed whereby task and relationship conflict mediate the relationships between organizational value dissimilarity and attitudinal reactions to the team and evaluation of the CEO's leadership effectiveness. The hypotheses were tested in a sample of 31 CEO...

An Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of the Use of Family-Friendly Benefits

This study tests a theoretical model of antecedents (e.g., reporting to a family-supportive supervisor) and outcomes (e.g., family-work conflict) of employees making use of family-friendly employment benefits. We measured benefit usage both in terms of overall use and by examining the use of four specific family-friendly benefits (i.e., telecommuting, ability to take work home, flextime, and family leave). Although the major test of our model involved the use of cross-sectional data, data gat...

An Empirical Examination of the Role of Social Exchanges in Alliance Performance

This study examines the role of ongoing social exchanges between alliance partners such as interfirm reciprocity, trust, and mutual influence in the partners' perceived alliance performance and propensity to continue an alliance. An empirical examination of data collected from the executives managing strategic alliances (N = 144) revealed that social exchanges such as reciprocity, trust, and mutual influence between partners are positively related to perceived alliance performance and propens...

An Examination of the Role of Emotional Intelligence in Work and Family Conflict*

This study (N = 205) investigates the impact of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in the work-family model. The work-family literature, specifically the depletion and enrichment arguments, provides the theoretical underpinnings of this study which investigates a possible explanation for these divergent views. The results indicate that Emotional Intelligence acts as a protector variable of one's well-being in the face of workfamily conflict. In other words, Emotional Intelligence interacts with work...

Overreward and the Impostor Phenomenon

The selection process within organizations is susceptible to shortcomings that can have profound implications for the newly hired individual as well as the organization. Yet overreward in the selection process has received very little attention in the literature. In this article we investigate the impostor phenomenon as an outcome of overreward and its influence on organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors. It is further suggested that the influence of the impostor ph...

Knowledge Type and Communication Media Choice in the Knowledge Transfer Process

The literature suggests that transferring knowledge may lead to a competitive advantage, synergistic cost advantages, and better implementation of organizational strategies, but there is little empirical evidence to guide organizations in managing the knowledge transfer process. This research explores how organizations use communication media to transfer or share knowledge. Building upon media richness theory (Daft and Lengel, 1986), we hypothesize that rich media would be used more often to ...

An Exploratory Examination of Voice Behavior From an Impression Management Perspective

Continuous improvement of work processes, policies, or products is a primary source of competitive advantage for organizations. However, getting employees to develop and express their constructive ideas and opinions is sometimes a difficult task for employers. "Constructive change-oriented communication intended to improve the situation," or voice behavior (LePine and Van Dyne, 2001: 326) has also proven difficult for researchers to predict. Consequently, our research takes a functional appro...