This study examined the concept of quality to improve the overall performance of the small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing industry in South Africa. The study focused on the issues faced by the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa, due to t…
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the market reaction to Corporate Sociopolitical Activity, utilizing an event study methodology to determine the impact of an event on the companies’ abnormal stock returns. The sample consists of Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, US-bas…
O narcisismo é um dos conceitos mais antigos e críticos da história da psicologia, e tem crescido sob a superintendência das teorias da psicodinâmica. Nos últimos anos, o narcisismo tornou-se um tema mais interessante com uma vasta gama de resultados para os investigadores que t…
The impact of undiagnosed secondary traumatic stress disorder resulting from providing healthcare and services to the Veteran population is unclear. The problem being addressed by the study is Veterans Health Administration (VHA) employees’ undiagnosed stress related to STS diso…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leaders' behavior and employees' commitment to the organization in different national cultures. Two research questions were proposed. Research Question 1 tested the relationship between employees' perception of th…
Architects, environmental researchers, and managers of work environments are increasingly interested in the relationship between the physical conditions in offices and organizational productivity and employees' satisfaction. For the past 30 years their quests to determine this r…
The study of socio-economic development is an interdisciplinary venture crossing various boundaries of academic fields and social research. That is because the complex process of development is encompassing and broad. In many developing countries, the transport sector is designe…
Thirty-eight public and private organizations in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia were randomly selected. From these 38 organizations, 664 full-time employees were randomly selected and surveyed on their perspectives of obstacles to manpower development in Saudi Arabia. Through …
The aim of this study is to explore the involvement of stakeholders in the functions of leadership within the context of voluntary organisations in the UK. What is intriguing about the study is that business and management research has focused mainly on ‘vertical leadership’ tha…
Whilst a high percentage of organisations claim to be using practices associated with quality management, there has been a lack of research that explore shopfloor accounts of their experiences of quality management (Clark et al., 1998; Bacon, 1999). This research examines shopfl…
In the 1980s an array of world events including the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a movement toward restructuring and downsizing government bureaucracies, and rapidly evolving technology prompted significant changes to governments. Many developing nations began the transition…
This research study explored the difference between subordinates' perceptions of their leaders' leadership style within the banking industry in Lebanon and the United States. This was done through exploring their differences toward the consideration and initiation structure dime…
Using a qualitative methodology, I conducted this study to identify the barriers to women's post-secondary education in Bangladesh and to investigate the possible strategies to remove those barriers, from the perspectives of three Bangladeshi women who received post-secondary ed…
Retail industry leaders seek effective strategies to improve employee motivation to increase levels of workforce productivity. The purpose of this single case study was to explore the strategies successful retail industry leaders used to motivate their employees to achieve highe…
The purpose of the study was to examine the extent to which employees of Saudi commercial banks were committed to their employing organizations. It sought to investigate the impact of social factors and to determine the degree to which organizational social structures, job-relat…
The purpose of this study is to empirically evaluate the role of culture on bases of power and perceptions of leadership style among American and Iranian employees. 109 Iranian and American employees participated in this survey. The questionnaires included MLQ by (Aviolo& Bass, …
Ce mémoire est le fruit d'une recherche effectuée sur le terrain dans le cadre du programme de la maîtrise de gestion des PME. C'est une exigence partielle à l'obtention du diplôme émis à l'issue de ce programme. Cette recherche est une étude de cas d'une société industrielle de…
Due to the growth of the service sector globally, there is constant demand for superior service quality and customer satisfaction, specifically within banking. Competitive pressures in the banking sector due to more intense competition, changes in government regulation and advan…