Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict
Semiannual journal publishes theoretical and empirical works in business oriented areas of organizational communications and behavior, conflict resolution, and human resources management.
ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to provide the high tech industry with a concise review of the following: Big-Five personality traits, transformational leadership style, transactional leadership style, and the relationship of each of the above to...
ABSTRACTWe live with lies in the workplace every day. From everyday paperclips to the billions in corporate accounts and from the hollow commitments made to new recruits to the increasingly wistful search for the relationship between performance and...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYRecently there has been a dramatic increase in research on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) or discretionary behavior that is not directly or explicitly recognized by the organization, but in the aggregate contributes to organizational...
ABSTRACTBecause of the complex pressures facing businesses, organizations must ensure that employees have the skills necessary to negotiate conflicts. A crucial question is how negotiation is defined, whether an individual knows they are involved in...
ABSTRACTWill a discipline-specific writing test alert students to common conventional writing errors and motivate improvement? Two professors administered such a test comprised of 7 categories of writing errors to 96 students. There was a statistically...
ABSTRACTThis study examined crucial factors affecting industrial safety indicators. A survey was conducted to explore factors affecting total recordable incident rates and lost time incident rates. The number of safety audits and the natural log of safety...
ABSTRACTThis paper investigated both individual and organizational predictors of voice propensity for a sample of 225 employees across a range of organizations. The individual variables included one personality variable, general self-efficacy, and one...
ABSTRACTThis paper examines some potentially addictive properties of power and the outcomes of power-addiction on leaders' behaviors. The concept of power-addiction has been discussed in popular media for centuries but its acknowledgement among organizational...
ABSTRACTBoomers are about to redefine retirement. Instead of surfing and mountain-biking, Boomers will spend at least part of retirement not in leisure at all, but working, sometimes for pay, out of necessity, and sometimes for free, just because it...