Level Of Organizational Behavior Research Articles

Consequences of Construals: Functions and Adaptions

People can have mental representations of situations, people, and tasks at different levels, focusing on the details (i.e., construing concretely) or the big picture (i.e., construing abstractly). Past research has demonstrated that abstract and concrete construals are adaptive in different situations to meet task-related needs. However, this research often fails to consider the complicated mental shifts that must occur in organizational contexts, wherein competing demands exert pressure on workers to shift based on business needs. To address this gap in the literature, recent research has taken a functional view of construal level, examining construal shifts across varying organizational contexts (beyond simple tasks) to explicate better when and how construal level can improve organizational functioning. This symposium presents five lines of research that use diverse methodologies and samples to explore when abstract and concrete construals are better suited to organizational demands, how people shift their construals to adapt to varying situations, and the outcomes of construal adaptations across several levels of organizational behavior, including communicators, entrepreneurs, teams, and firms. This symposium aims to provide an opportunity for knowledge sharing and discussion among researchers interested in examining the functions of construal level in organizations. “I” am More Concrete Than “We”: Linguistic Abstraction and First-Person Pronoun Usage Presenter: Yidan Yin; U. of Southern California -Marshall School of Business Presenter: Cheryl Wakslak; U. of Southern California Presenter: Priyanka D. Joshi; San Francisco State U. Doing it All: Managing the Tension of Concrete and Abstract Business Demands for Female Entrepreneur Presenter: Samantha Dodson; U. of Utah, David Eccles School of Business Presenter: Rachael Goodwin; Syracuse U. Whitman School of Management Presenter: Arielle M. Newman; Syracuse U. Whitman School of Management Micro foundations of Sensing Capabilities: From Managerial Cognition to Team Behavior Presenter: Jean-François Harvey; HEC Montreal Presenter: Jean-Nicolas Reyt; McGill U. Big-Picture and Detailed-Oriented Roles in Working Dyads: Subjective Costs and Objective Benefits Presenter: Ashli Carter; NYU Stern School of Business Presenter: Tyler Talbot; U. of Utah Presenter: Samantha Dodson; U. of Utah, David Eccles School of Business Presenter: Kristina Diekmann; U. of Utah Presenter: Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld; New York U. Shifting Gears: The Influence of CEO Construal Shifts on Firm Strategic Conformity Presenter: Daniel Gamache; U. of Georgia Presenter: Adam Steinbach; U. of South Carolina Presenter: Lingling Pan; U. of Pittsburgh Presenter: Farhan Iqbal; U. of Georgia Presenter: Russell Eric Johnson; Eli Broad School of Business, Michigan State U.

Theoretical and methodological foundations of product quality management at industrial enterprises.

In conditions of high competitiveness of the economy and the integration of industrial enterprises, increasing requirements for the development of market relations oriented towards competitiveness, both in the domestic and world markets, a fundamental change is taking on universal quality management, which ensures the achievement of the required level of quality of products in accordance with all world requirements and domestic standards, GSTU, GOSTs and continuous improvement in regulatory documents. A high level of scientific achievements and a correctly developed production management system makes it possible to form a new approach to high quality products at industrial enterprises of Ukraine. To achieve high results in product quality, it is necessary to pursue an active and reasonable state policy as a product. Regulatory documents that ensure product quality in modern market conditions require enterprises to take a more thoughtful and deeper approach to quality management issues, and require the involvement of material and human resources in the process of manufacturing quality products at industrial enterprises. Quality management is the main priority for achieving the main goals of the enterprise. Therefore, the leaders of industrial enterprises of Ukraine should be interested in improving the quality of products and improve the management of production processes for the development of a quality management system. Ukrainian enterprises are trying to gradually move to world standards, but this is a complex and long period that requires time and effort, requires the study and use of the experience of leading industrial enterprises of the world, facilitated by the growth in recent years, the volume of information on various quality management issues. But copying by Ukrainian industrial enterprises of the methods and mechanisms of quality management can lead to a serious complication of the economic situation of enterprises, all internal and external factors affecting the quality in Ukraine must be taken into account. Updated scientific and economic approaches to quality require the creation of effective management of organizational development in the quality system, taking into account the characteristics of the industry, enterprise, region, at the level of organizational behavior, also taking into account all factors. Quality management for this period has different approaches and directions.

Organizational Culture and Citizenship Behaviour of the City Government of Digos

Aims: The relative importance of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB) in organizations is established. Organizational culture has been proven to influence OCB. However, less have studied the interaction of the two organizational variables among local government units. This study intends to describe the city government of Digos’ organizational culture and organizational citizenship behavior and examine the relationship between them. This research also endeavors to investigate the influence of profile variables namely employees’ age, sex, position, department and years of service on the organizational citizenship behavior.
 Study Design: This study adopts the quantitative, non-experimental research design particularly the causal-correlational design. The independent variable is the organizational culture with the dimensions dominant characteristics, employee management, organizational leadership, organizational glue, strategic emphasis and criteria of success. The dependent variable on the other hand is organizational citizenship behavior with the indicators altruism, courtesy, sportsmanship, conscientiousness and civic virtue
 Place and duration of Study: This study was conducted in the City Government of Digos City, Province of Davao del Sur, Region XI, Philippines from the period January 2018 to June 2018.
 Methodology: Two questionnaires were utilized namely the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) and the 25-item organizational citizenship behavior scale. These were administered to 196 employees of the City Hall of Digos. Following the correlational research design, the study made use of the mean, Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and the general linear model as statistical tools to address the objectives of the study.
 Results: For organizational citizenship behavior of the city government of Digos, results indicate that the dimensions namely altruism, courtesy and sportsmanship were found to be high while conscientiousness and civic virtue were found to be very high. Elements of organizational culture had significant correlation with particular dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior. It was found that the dominant characteristic have significant correlation to courtesy. The organizational leadership was also found to significantly correlate with conscientiousness. The employee management culture was also found to significantly correlate with. The strategic emphasis culture also significantly correlates with civic virtue. The criteria for success scenario significantly correlated with altruism. The results of the analysis using the general linear model to identify profile variables that significantly influence the different organizational citizenship behavior indicators. It was found that the employees’ sex had a significant influence of altruism. Courtesy and sportsmanship was significantly influenced by employees’ department and sex. Conscientiousness and civic virtue were affected by employees’ department.
 Conclusion: Prevailing organizational culture of the city government of Digos under the context of dominant characteristics, organizational leadership, management of employees, organizational glue, strategic emphasis and criteria of success were found. The level of organizational behavior was also described as high for the indicator’s altruism, courtesy and sportsmanship, while conscientiousness and civic virtue of the organization were described as very high. Significant relationships also existed among various organizational culture scenarios and indicators of organizational citizenship behavior. Finally, it was found that employees’ sex and department significantly influenced specific indicators of organizational citizenship behavior.

" Impact of human resources management strategies on organizational behavior Case Study of "The Royal Jordanian Geographical Center: أثر استراتيجيات إدارة الموارد البشرية في السلوك التنظيميدراسة حالة " المركز الجغرافي الملكي الأردني "

This study aimed to measure the impact of human resources management strategies in terms of their dimensions (employment strategy, evaluation Performance strategy, Training strategy, and compensation strategy) on the levels of organizational behavior in terms of the (individual, group and the organization levels) in the Royal Geographical Center. The study population consists of all employees in the geographical center reached (195( employee, The study selected a simple random sample Included (130) employees, The results of the study showed that there is a statistically significant effect of human resources management (employment strategy, evaluation Performance strategy, and compensation strategy) in organizational behavior with a high degree, And there are no a statistical impact of the (training strategy) on organizational behavior, The results of the study also found that the arithmetical averages and the significance of the dimensions of organizational behavior in the Jordanian Royal Geographical Center were high and in Relative ratios, The study recommended that the senior management in the geographic center should be committed to giving human resource management strategies the Extremely importance, especially the Training strategy, The study also confirmed to increasing attention of the geographic center on organizational behavior at the individual level. ، ،

Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs)

Multidisciplinary coordinated Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) are a growing model of providing health, legal, and emotional support services to victims of sexual assault. This article conceptualizes SARTs from an organizational perspective and explores three approaches to researching SARTs that have the potential of increasing our understanding of the benefits and challenges of multidisciplinary service delivery. These approaches attend to several levels of organizational behavior, including the organizational response to external legitimacy pressures, the inter-organizational networks of victim services, and the negotiation of power and disciplinary boundaries. Possible applications to organizational research on SARTs are explored.

On context and content: The study of organizations in two academic settings

Notwithstanding of the profound impact of sociology on the study of organizations, the overall flow of contributions made by sociologists is rather limited. This field is now identified with the business and management schools, whose embers contribute most of the current publications on organizations. Nevertheless, most of those scholars primarily focus on business firms, and prefer practical problems. They tend to look at organizational issues from a management’s perspective, and they study topics at the micro level of organizational behavior. This paper presents data on journal articles in six major periodicals, for the entire period of 1986-1996, indicating those trends.

Leadership Asymmetries in Mixed-Age Children's Groups

FRENCH, DORAN C.; WAAs, GREGORY A.; STRIGHT, ANNE L.; and BAKER, JEAN A. Leadership Asymmetries in Mixed-Age Children's Groups. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1986, 57, 1277-1283. The decisionreaching behavior of children in sameand mixed-age triads was observed in this investigation of leadership behavior. A total of 285 children were assigned to same-sex groups that were either age homogeneous (i.e., three 7-, 9-, or 11-year-olds) or heterogeneous (i.e., one 9and two 7-, or one 11and two 9-year-olds). After each group member had individually ordered 8 pictures by preference, the triads were videotaped as they arrived at a consensus ranking. All verbalizations made in this process were coded for frequency of organizational and procedural comments, statements and solicitations of preference, following the decisions of others, and off-task behavior. Asymmetries in leadership were most pronounced in the mixed-age triads comprised of 7and 9-year-olds and were seen in the heightened organizational behavior of the older group members. This behavior did not appear to be simple dominance. The older group members increased their level of organizational behavior and solicitations of opinion but exhibited less opinion giving than their age counterparts in homogeneous age groups. Mixed-age peer experiences may thus contribute to the acquisition and practice of leadership behavior.