Journal of Managerial Issues; JMI

Firm Founders, Boards, and Misleading Disclosures: An Examination of Relative Power and Control*

The role of firm founders is still being developed in the literature, and the extent to which the presence of founding-CEOs either imposes or minimizes agency costs remains largely unexplored. This study's results indicate that founders are positively associated with the incidence of restatements of prior years' financial results, a finding consistent with an agency-cost interpretation of founder influence. Board tenure, however, appears to reduce the likelihood of misleading disclosures, but...

Supervisor Support and Risk Perception: Their Relationship with Unreported Injuries and Near Misses

This study examines the relationship that employee perceptions of supervisor support and risk of injury have with unreported employee injuries requiring doctors' attention, first-aid cases, and near misses. Study results indicate that increased employee perceptions of supervisor support for safety are associated with a decrease in the number of unreported injuries needing doctors' attention. Increased risk perceptions were related to higher numbers of unreported injuries needing a doctor's at...

Examining Managerial Thinking Style, Eq, and Organizational Commitment

This study investigated the empirical relationships among managerial linear and nonlinear thinking styles and the four branches of Mayer and Salovey's (1997) emotional intelligence model. Also tested was the moderating effect of emotional labor on the relationship between balanced linear/nonlinear thinking style and affective organizational commitment. Data from 93 managers demonstrated that: (1) linear thinking is associated with regulating emotions; (2) nonlinear thinking is related to util...

Examining the Relationship Between Employee Attitudes and a Firm's Financial Performance: A Theoretical Framework and Causal Investigation

Numerous studies have addressed the relationship of nonfinancial performance measures and financial outcomes. We investigated the causal relationship between employee attitudes and a firm's financial performance using 14 banking centers from one bank, over a two and one-half year period. Data revealed that when banking centers experienced a positive change in financial performance, employees were more satisfied and committed to that center, and perceived that center as more fair. In contrast,...

The Relationship of Locus of Control and Motives with Psychological Ownership in Organizations

While previous research has theorized the motives underlying psychological ownership, the relationship between motives and psychological ownership has not been demonstrated empirically. More importantly, the individual dispositions that affect these motives and psychological ownership have not been examined. Analysis of survey data from 109 employees in an engineering company indicated that internal locus of control was positively related to effectance motive, individualism was negatively rel...

Antecedents of Discrepancy Production in an Achievement Setting

Discrepancy production refers to the process by which individuals set challenging goals that exceed previous levels of performance. The present study examined the prevalence and antecedents of discrepancy production behavior in an academic achievement setting utilizing a sample of 100 college students. The results of this study indicated that discrepancy production was quite prevalent among these individuals, occurring in approximately 87% of all performance episodes. In addition, further ana...

Differences Between Work-Related Ethics and Non-Work Ethics, and the Effects of Religiosity

The purpose of this study was to determine if differences exist in individuals' perceptions of ethics in the work context compared to non-work contexts, and to assess the effects of religiosity, from a traditional Christian perspective, on work-related ethical beliefs as well as non-work beliefs. We found that ethical beliefs are associated with religiosity and our results also indicated that there are differences in people's ethical beliefs concerning work contexts versus non-work contexts. ...