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This series targets the tests of the global applicability of existing managerial theory and experience. The first volume, and its underlying conference, reflect the building of communities of interest between people so situated as to help one another in that targeting and testing.
List of contents
Part I Organizational science: organizational science inquiry - toward the appreciation of equivoque; bases of leader power, workgroup commitment, and conflict - a structural equations model; burnout as global and strategic - progress with the phase model, and its future. Part II Other issues in organizational behaviour: the psychology of compliance - revisiting the notion of a psychological contract; organizational commitment and instrumentality perceptions - differentiating the concepts; examining relationships between managerial self-esteem and selected dispositional, organizational, and outcome variables. Part III Social issues in management: exploring management in a consumer culture - an introduction to consuming work; public policy - toward new philosophical foundations; moral development and interpersonal conflict - an empirical exploration of stages and cycles; comprehensive organizational wellness; assessing shared governance - an example of instrument development in a hospital setting. Part IV International comparison: correlates of leadership effectiveness in the United States and Korea; a comparative study of personal values in Yugoslavia, Russia and the United States - implications for management, investment, and political risk; management research in a dynamic environment.
Summary
This series targets the tests of the global applicability of existing managerial theory and experience. The first volume, and its underlying conference, reflect the building of communities of interest between people so situated as to help one another in that targeting and testing.
