Ethical leadership and its impact on service innovative behavior: The role of LMX and job autonomy

This study examined the effect of ethical leadership on service innovative behavior of employees at small and medium sized tourist hotels in Uttarakhand, India. It has forwarded an integrated model that highlights the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' service innovative behavior while interacting through leader-member exchange and job autonomy. Using a sample of 468 customer contact employees and their 117 supervisors, hierarchical regression was conducted to establish the relationship. Findings of the study revealed that ethical leadership promoted service innovative behavior of the hotel employees mediated through leader-member exchanges. Further, it was also found that the level of service innovative behavior was commensurate to the perception of employee job autonomy. Based on the study findings, implications for theory and practice are discussed.     

华人差序式领导对员工职场非伦理行为的影响——基于圈内人身份认知的视角

随着安然、文凭门等国内外伦理事件的相继发生,组织及其员工非伦理行为正逐渐成为组织管理理论界与实践界普遍关注的问题和焦点。但现有研究多集中于对非伦理行为本身及其个体诱因的探讨,却缺乏对领导风格与非伦理行为之间的关系与作用机制的研究。鉴于此,文章从带有中华文化特色的"差序式领导"和"圈内人身份认知"等角度入手,拟采取实验、问卷调查、案例等多种方法,通过对领导层面的影响机制、个体层面的影响机制和复合层面的影响机制等多个层面的实证研究,对员工职场非伦理行为进行深入探讨,并对其中直接效应模型、中介效应模型及调节效应模型进行检验分析,进一步优化相关领域所采用的研究方法。     

Subordinates' perception of managers' transformational leadership style and satisfaction: a comparison of electronic manufacturing companies in Mainland China and Taiwan

Rapid economic growth has made leadership studies a significant subject in Asia. The present research compared subordinates' different perceptions of managers' transformational leadership style in Mainland China and Taiwan. Quantitative methodology was used in collecting 250 random samples from Shanghai and Taipei. Subordinates in Taiwan perceived that more managers had a transformational leadership style and also employees had higher satisfaction with managers' leadership style than those in Mainland China. The results of the present research would provide suggestions and directions for industrial managers seeking to display appropriate management behavior for an effective business environment.     

Workplace isolation: salespeople and supervisors in USA

Virtual work is becoming the norm in sales organizations because it is cost effective for the firm and can benefit customers and salespeople. However, along with these benefits, virtual work brings new challenges to organizations. One critical issue is workplace isolation (WI). This study uses responses from a sample of 346 salespeoples in the pharmaceutical field to test a model that investigates the relationships among WI, self-efficacy, leadership style, extra-role performance (ERP), satisfaction with the supervisor, and turnover intentions. Salespersons perception of managers as considerate leaders are associated with lower WI levels. Salespeople with higher levels of self-efficacy are less likely to believe that they are isolated from the company and their colleagues. WI, in turn, is significantly related to satisfaction with the supervision and ERP. Managerial implications and future research directions are presented.     

对普通高校军事理论课程教学改革的思考

普通高校军事理论课程教学改革,要明确指导思想,遵循育人为先导原则,不断创新教学模式,促进教学质量的提高,以适应新世纪新阶段高校国防教育发展的需要。     

How does growth need strength influence employee outcomes? The roles of hope,leadership, and cultural value

Abstract

Strong growth need is essential if an employee is to be motivated to complete complex and challenging jobs. It is important for organizations to attract employees with high growth need strength and help them achieve positive outcomes. However, limited research has been conducted to examine the mechanism underlying growth need strength’s positive effect on employee outcomes. Based on hope theory, we hypothesized that hope mediates the effect of growth need strength on job performance and affective commitment by transforming employees’ general desire for personal growth into goal-related cognitive thinking, comprising both ‘will’ and ‘ways’. We further hypothesized the moderating effect of transformational leadership, and the joint moderating effect of transformational leadership and individual power distance on the relationship between growth need strength and hope. We tested our hypotheses with data from a sample of 265 subordinate–supervisor dyads from China. Data analysis results supported the mediating role of hope. We found that growth need strength has a stronger effect on hope when transformational leadership is higher, and this effect is the strongest when both transformational leadership and individual power distance are simultaneously higher. The implications of these findings for human resource management research and practice are discussed.     

A theory of collusion with partial mutual understanding

Unlawful collusion is when firms have a mutual understanding to coordinate their behavior for the purpose of achieving a supracompetitive outcome. Given the legal focus on mutual beliefs, this paper explores the role of mutual beliefs in producing collusion. Focusing on price leadership, firms are assumed to commonly believe that price increases will be at least matched but lack any shared understanding about who will lead, when they will, and at what prices. Sufficient conditions are derived which ensure that supracompetitive prices emerge. However, price is bounded below the maximal equilibrium price.     

外军工程机械的特点

结合现代信息化战争的特点,总结了外军工程机械的几大特点,包括通用化、集成化、系列化程度高,技术先进,可靠度高,机动性能好,快速部署能力强以及伪装防护性能好等。     

齐国与齐国兵家的产生和发展

春秋战国时期,社会处在激烈的变革之中,各国争霸,兼并战争频繁,为兵家的产生提供了社会背景和实践条件,而齐国豁达、博取的文化传统和百家争鸣、宽容的学术氛围又为齐国兵家及其著作的诞生提供了可能.齐国兵家正式形成于春秋时期,创始人是孙武,标志是《孙子兵法》的问世.战国后期出现了融合总结的趋势,兵学理论进一步完善.