Journal of Managerial Issues; JMI

Work Ethic: Do New Employees Mean New Work Values?

This study compares and contrasts the individual dimensions of work ethic of graduating college and university students to those of workforce professionals. The Multidimensional Work Ethic Profile (MWEP) is used to operationalize seven dimensions of work ethic. The findings indicate that while students and workforce professionals differ within the individual dimensions, quantitatively, they have the same overall work ethic. Variances within the dimensions of work ethic may have important impl...

Proactive Personality and Job Performance: Exploring Job Autonomy As a Moderator

Based upon a sample of 115 employees of a small firm in the south-central region of the United States, results of moderated hierarchical regression analyses indicate that proactive personality is positively related tojob performance. In addition, further analysis indicates that the relationship between proactive personality and job performance is moderated by job autonomy. Thus, this suggests the relationship between proactive personality and job performance is more complex than previously re...

The Impact of Path-Goal Leadership Styles On Work Group Effectiveness and Turnover Intention

Leaders continuously seek to improve organizational performance and enhance work group effectiveness to drive competitiveness and curtail the cost of employee turnover. The diversity of many work groups in the U.S. creates potential benefits and challenges for their leaders. Using data gathered from a manufacturing facility in southeastern U.S., this study examines how Path-Goal leadership styles, diversity, work group effectiveness, and work group members' turnover intention are related. Alt...

Organizational Slack, Firm Performance, and the Role of Industry

The relationships between organizational slack, firm performance, and industries in which firms compete are examined. Recent research has suggested that examining the impact of industry on the slack-performance relationship is worthy of further examination because managers oftentimes accumulate organizational slack to insulate against changes in the firm's competitive environment with differing outcomes. This study assesses the role that industry has on the relationship between two measures o...

General Risk Propensity in Multifaceted Business Decisions: Scale Development*

Extant scales for risk propensity are confined to specific decision contexts, lending them less applicable to multifaceted business decisions where decision-making agents' general risk propensity across different aspects of the decisions can be an important determinant. To fill this gap, this study developed a scale that measures general risk propensity of decision-making agents and can be applicable to multifaceted business decisions. The scale development approach used in this study was bas...

Attraction to Employment Advertisements: Advertisement Wording and Personality Characteristics*

A study was conducted with 151 student participants to discern whether wording used in employment advertisements can systematically influence the personality composition of those who are attracted to the advertisement. Drawing upon Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) theory and the needssupplies operationalization of the person-organization fit model, it was hypothesized that there would be positive relationships between participant levels of conscientiousness, openness to experience, and ex...

What Makes Management Research Interesting?: An Exploratory Study

The question of 'What makes management research interesting? " offers a unique opportunity for academics to engage in an introspective process of examining the craft of the management profession. Such a discussion can have implications for the content, direction, and impact of management theorizing and future research. Since "interesting" research has been found to be more influential, an understanding of the factors making a research finding interesting is also of practical importance. The p...