Attitudes about the work group: an added moderator of the relationship between leader behavior and job satisfaction
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Moderating effects of work group attitudes and task structure on the relationship between leader behavior and job satisfaction were analyzed. Hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis was used to examine questionnaire responses among 96 lower- and middle-level management respondents in an air-sea transportation firm. Attitudes about the work group are an important moderator of the leader behavior-job satisfaction relationship, over and above major effects and other moderators such as task structure and leader initiating structure. Current management trends which favor team orientation over traditional, hierarchical, downward-directed leadership influence were reinforced.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1986
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Team development: quasi-experimental confirmation among combat companies
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Command teams from seven Israel Defense Force combat companies underwent a three-day team development workshop. Organizational functioning was assessed for both the combat companies and nine control companies before and after the workshops. Pretest mean similarity confirmed that control and experimental companies were equivalent. The experimental companies showed significant improvement in teamwork, conflict handling, and information about plans.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1986
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Change differences from an action research, results-oriented OD program in high - and low-performing Finnish banks
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The 80 biggest banks of a key Finnish banking system created a results-oriented action research organization development (OD) change program. Teams of managers were able to concentrate on difference elements of change using a common model of consensual decision making which emphasized a results-oriented framework. Several hypothesis were tested, and received support. A discussion of implications of the findings is included.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1988
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