Perceiving and interpreting environmental change: an examination of college administrators' interpretation of changing demographics
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This research examined the effect of organizational and resource dependence factors on college an university administrators' interpretations of an objectively verifiable environmental change: the decline in the number of 18-22 year olds in the United States. Results indicated that these characteristics significantly affected the interpretation of changing demographics but explained relatively little variance in administrators' certainty about how to respond to a changed environment. The research suggests that examining the interpretation of specific environmental changes may be a useful way of gaining insight into the factors that influence the environmental interpretation process. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Academy of Management Journal
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0001-4273
Year: 1990
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The role of safety climate and communication in accident interpretation: implications for learning from negative events
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Work-related accidents and injuries are undoubtedly costly to organizations in terms of human and financial capital yet investigations into these accidents frequently concentrate on the identification of the guilty party rather than the true, underlying causes of the accident. The real causes of accidents must be identified to develop and implement successful safety programs. Within this context, the influence of the factors of safety climate and safety communication on the interpretation of the causes of accidents were investigated.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Journal
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0001-4273
Year: 1998
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The Structure and Function of Human Capital Emergence: A Multilevel Examination of the Attraction-Selection-Attrition Model
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Personality homogeneity as human capital emergence containing both composition and compilation components are conceptualized by integrating multilevel theory and the attraction-selection-attrition model. The relationships across levels of service employees, jobs, and organizations are analyzed with the help of sampling methods.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Journal
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0001-4273
Year: 2006
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