Journal of Managerial Issues; JMI

The Influence of Leader Humor On Relationships Between Leader Behavior and Follower Outcomes*

The use of humor by leaders is widely believed to have a beneficial impact on workplace outcomes. The present study, however, goes beyond a simple search for main-effect associations to test for the potential interactive role of leader humor in influencing the relationships between leader behavior and follower outcomes. For 179 leader-follower pairs sampled from public high schools, survey data were collected from teachers who described their principal's use of humor and degree to which the p...

Comparative Effects of Race/Ethnicity and Employee Engagement On Withdrawal Behavior

The beneficial effect of strong attachment by employees to their organizations, as manifested by decreased withdrawal behavior (i.e., absenteeism and turnover) and increased loyalty and commitment, has been aptly chronicled in the management literature. Less well investigated and documented is what impact, if any, the dynamic demographic changes in the U.S. workforce have had on that relationship. We used simple logit regression analysis, ordinary least squares regression analysis, and ordere...

Affiliation or Situation: What Drives Strategic Decision-Making in Crisis Response?*

Inter-organizational teams are an increasingly common organizational form for responding to crisis situations. The effectiveness of these forms is dependent on the composition and experience of the team, their interpretation of the situation at hand, and their ability to formulate a timely response. However, competing demands from the team member's organizational affiliation and the specific needs of the crisis both influence response decision-making priorities and choices. Despite the timely...

R&D Intensity, Marketing Intensity, and Organizational Performance

This article examines the impact of R&D-Marketing interactions (defined as the product of the firm's investments in R&D and marketing) relative to the median investments made by the industry in these two functions on organizational performance. The sample comprised 201 organizations from 18 unregulated industries belonging to the Fortune 1000 list of U.S firms. Data were collected on R&D intensity and Marketing intensity for the period 1995-1997 for the firms as well as the indust...

Determinants of Institutional Investor Activism: A Test of the Ryan-Schneider Model (2002)

If active institutional investors matter to corporate governance, then understanding what influences institutions to become involved also matters. Ryan and Schneider (2002) proposed that the type of institutional investor determines activism. Ryan and Schneider advanced a model that identified a number of antecedents/determinants of activism, including fund size, investment time horizons, performance expectations, pressure sensitivity, legal restraints, and internal or external portfolio mana...

The Effectiveness of Communities of Practice: An Empirical Study

A critical component of Knowledge Management is creating mechanisms to facilitate collaboration and sharing of information. One such mechanism of increasing popularity is Communities of Practice (CP). This article presents the results of an empirical study that explored the impact of select CP characteristics on overall community effectiveness and community members' satisfaction with their community experience. The CP characteristics examined in the study include community's leadership qualit...

Perceptions of Organizational Politics: A Demonstration of the Reliability Generalization Technique*

This study demonstrates the technique of reliability generalization (a type of meta-analysis) while examining factors contributing to the reliability of scores on several versions of the Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale (POPS: Ferris and Kacmar, 1992; Kacmar and Carlson, 1997; Kacmar and Ferris, 1991). A proliferation of studies on the antecedents and outcomes of perceptions of organizational politics followed the publication of the seminal model of this phenomenon by Ferris, Russ...