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Show moreOrganizations and their members at all levels are increasingly expected to perform, adapt, and to do ‘more with less’. Positive psychology and appreciative inquiry inform us that as organizations strive to become more productive, innovative, and agile their interests and objectives are well-served by understanding that they have at-hand greater capacity for performance and learning than perhaps they had realized. Positive psychology emphasizes the role of character strengths and virtues suggesting that individual characteristics, whether dispositional or acquired, differentiate between those who are better able to contribute to organizational performance and learning and those who are less so. Appreciative inquiry emphasizes relational characteristics as key distinctions. These characteristics are generative in nature; they are pragmatic and theoretical, positive and normative. This study examines the effects of selected individual and relational characteristics on organization member psychological engagement in work performance and self-development, and offers some insights to intervention design. Analysis of data captured from a not-for-profit healthcare organization suggests that: (1) individual characteristics have limited and negative effects on psychological engagement, (2) relational characteristics have positive effects on psychological engagement, and (3) women and men use distinctly different mechanisms to translate individual and relational characteristics into psychological engagement. This paper addresses these relationships in one organization at one point in time and therefore readers should be cautious in generalizing the results.
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Show moreThis study provides quantitative evidence for the feasibility of predicting business results by measuring the concept of Team Health and establishing a relationship with measures of team performance and business outcomes. Dimensions of Team Health are identified and evidence from the research literature on organization behavior and performance is presented to support the validity of the constructs. Mediated relationships among the outcome variables, also derived from research in organizational behavior, are hypothesized and tested. The measurement of Team Health is based on the responses to eleven of fifteen statements collected quarterly in a multi-national defense industry firm from all members of program teams in a company-wide survey of all programs for 2006 and 2007. Given the results of these analyses, the model of Team Health is specified and estimated and evidence is offered for the effect of Team Health on business outcomes including the direct affect of Team Health on program performance, and through the influence of program performance on customer satisfactions, and finally the impact of Team Health on business results.
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Show more“Arguably, accounting is as much about communication as it is to do with measurement. No matter how effective the process of accounting quantification, its resultant data will be less than useful unless they are communicated adequately” (Raymond John Chambers). Calls for the reformation of financial reporting have exacerbated in recent years in light of a rapidly changing global investment climate and in the wake of a battered financial system. This study explored the interrelationships between informational complexity, transparency and stewardship on the usefulness of financial reporting. Empirical analyses was based on a survey of more than 650 executives to test hypotheses that informational complexity impairs judgment through decision-makers’ strategy selection; that transparency captures the timeliness, interpretation, and dissemination of financial reporting that leads to a more informed market; and that there is a stewardship demand to report on the control and use of resources by those accountable for their control and use. The most interesting finding of this study was the lack of support for the connection between complexity, transparency and value relevance, even though prior research has found strong support for a relationship between these three constructs. However, it is clear that although considerable complexity can originate from the intricacy of commercial transactions and events themselves. The accounting for such transactions, by their very nature is complicated and is therefore beyond the control of standard setters. It is therefore imperative that we acknowledge and distinguish between two types of complexity in financial reporting, from the outset: that which is inescapable, due to the inherent complexity of certain transactions, and that which could be avoidable, having been brought about by accounting standards themselves. Additionally, the impact of regulatory trust on decision usefulness was found to be significant, but negative. Can it be postulated that rapid changes in the economy, inadequacy of accounting regulation and other institutions creates a negative effect on the usefulness of accounting information?
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