Pub Date : 2014-09-28DOI: 10.11634/216796061706514
O. Owoyemi, J. O. Ekwoaba
This study examines strong organizational culture as a tool for management to control, motivate and enhance/improve employees’ performance in selected federal government tertiary institutions in Lagos mainland local government area of Lagos state. Structured questionnaire constituted the major instrument; it was administered on 120 employees of Personnel Departments of these institutions. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. The response rate was 90 percent as only 108 filled questionnaires. The result showed that organisational culture is a two edged sword that can cut across both management and employees, and therefore should be encouraged if it will lead to productivity and increase on performance, if not, other means of achieving performance should be employed. This study indicates that organizational culture is ambiguous and can lead to closure of mind and restriction and reduction of autonomy. It also provides direction. Results were discussed and recommendations made on the findings of the study.
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Pub Date : 2014-09-28DOI: 10.11634/216796061706551
Ç. Kaya, Belgin Ceylan
In this study; the impact of career development programs in organizations, and organizational commitment on employees' job satisfaction, and their role in increasing job satisfaction are examined. A survey is applied in a sample group working in various industries. At this point, a questionnaire that consists of two sections of 43 questions rated on a 7-point Likert attitude scale is prepared. The survey was conducted on 204 employees that work in different sectors. In the study, the data obtained from the evaluation of the survey results was interpreted by using SPSS statistics software program. Results of the analysis indicate that career development programs and organizational commitment have a partial effect on employee’s job satisfaction, organizational commitment affects job satisfaction directly and positively, and career development programs in organizations do not affect the level of employee’s job satisfaction. In the light of the findings arose, the results of the study are discussed and recommendations for managers as well as academics are presented.
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Pub Date : 2014-09-28DOI: 10.11634/216796061706555
Haotian Zhang
Dataset Chicago is about the residential fire insurance policies issued in Chicago over December 1977 through February 1978; categorized as either voluntary, or involuntary, which includes state-offered Fair Access to Insurance Requirement (FAIR) 1 plans (Wriggins 2010) for people who would be denied insurance because of high risk classification, after Fair Housing Act (FHA) has been in act since 1968 2 (Calmore 1997). Main purpose of this article is to explore the relationship between insurance activity and the variable race by S-Plus, rather than numerical methods such as risk theory models. The final result proves insurance companies were using race as a determinative factor of underwriting insurance contacts, but not the only determinative factor. Data size is relatively small as n = 47 Zip codes. Theft, fire and the age of the house are also provided, along with the median income on the size of the expected loss and insolvency.
{"title":"Analysis of Effects of Race on Insurance Companies’ Operations in Chicago, December 1977 ~ November 1978","authors":"Haotian Zhang","doi":"10.11634/216796061706555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11634/216796061706555","url":null,"abstract":"Dataset Chicago is about the residential fire insurance policies issued in Chicago over December 1977 through February 1978; categorized as either voluntary, or involuntary, which includes state-offered Fair Access to Insurance Requirement (FAIR) 1 plans (Wriggins 2010) for people who would be denied insurance because of high risk classification, after Fair Housing Act (FHA) has been in act since 1968 2 (Calmore 1997). Main purpose of this article is to explore the relationship between insurance activity and the variable race by S-Plus, rather than numerical methods such as risk theory models. The final result proves insurance companies were using race as a determinative factor of underwriting insurance contacts, but not the only determinative factor. Data size is relatively small as n = 47 Zip codes. Theft, fire and the age of the house are also provided, along with the median income on the size of the expected loss and insolvency.","PeriodicalId":206506,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Business and Management","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115673685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-09-27DOI: 10.11634/216796061504548
Sally Baalbaki, G. S. Black, J. Lee, Scott Sherwood
This study was conducted with the objective of identifying and assessing factors that influence students to have a disposition toward a sales career as well as positive attitudes toward salespeople. Two studies were conducted to measure the impact of different treatments. Data were collected from 263 undergraduate students in marketing and/or sales-related classes, in order to empirically test two experiments. The results of ordinary least-squares regression analysis indicate that students enrolled in sales-related classes are much more likely to have a disposition toward a sales career and to have a positive attitude toward salespeople, while simply reading a passage describing the sales profession and how it is likely for many college graduates to have a career in sales had little impact. The implications include the development of a sales students’ profile, which describes students who are likely to pursue sales as a career and to have a positive attitude toward salespeople. This profile can be important in identifying potentially successful members of professional sales forces while they are still in our universities and by doing so, enable sales educators to properly prepare them for their careers.
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Pub Date : 2014-06-07DOI: 10.11634/216796061706547
Olanrewaju Makinde Hassan
Nigeria is the most populous and ethnically diverse country in Africa with over two hundred and fifty (250) ethnic groups and a population of over one hundred and forty million people. It has been said by different researchers that, motivation is the primary tool for workers’ performance, though poorly studied and implemented; which has resulted in tremendous economic and social loss to the country. The main purpose of the seminar is to investigate whether there exist any significant relationship between the motivational culture and the organizational productivity of the banking sector with particular reference to First Bank Plc. It has been generally assumed that poor performance in the public and private organizations is often attributed to non-motivation of workers. The study employed both primary and secondary data and used the chi-square analysis to test the hypotheses. The study revealed that there exist significant relationship between motivational culture and the productivity of First Bank plc. The study also revealed that money is the most significant motivator to achieve greater productivity, commitment and job satisfaction. Among other motivational packages, the study recommended promotion as the most effective motivational policy of every manager since it generates loyalty and attracts more money. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}
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Pub Date : 2014-06-05DOI: 10.11634/216796061706539
H. Kordlouie, Fatemeh Mosadegh, Hamid Mahdavi Rad
This research examines the impact of cash flow on capital structure of firm and finance through debit and capital in future. In order to meet this goal, it is applied from multi variable regression statistical method and this research is carried out from 2006 until 2010 at Tehran stock exchange. In the way of carrying out this research the information related to dependent variable, independent variable and control variable through Tadbirpardaz database and Rahavard Novin database and through website and library affiliated to stock exchange organization and the sample was collected among 415 firms. Upon extracting information, the desired folders were designed and calculated by Excel and finally was analyzed by SPSS software. Results reveal that as it was expected there is significant relationship between operational cash flow with external financing, finance through stock, finance through debit for the firm listed at Tehran stock exchange.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-24DOI: 10.11634/216796061706527
Phan Khoa Cuong, Z. Jian
In this paper, the theory of planned behavior is used as a conception lens to explore the impact of factors influencing individuals’ investment behavioral intention in the Vietnamese stock market together with a decomposed approach to the theory of planned behavior to investigate the level of impact each factor influences individuals’ behavioral intention. A structured questionnaire is used to collect data from individual investors in the Vietnamese stock market. The structural equation modeling is employed with support from AMOS 20.0 software in data analysis. Results found in this research have identified the impact level of the given factors on individuals’ behavioral intention, which support the hypotheses that an individual investor’s investment intention is significantly affected by his attitude towards investment, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control. The study has also provided strong evidences for the existence of psychological factors which supports the hypothesis that four psychological factors (overconfidence, excessive optimism, psychology of risk and herd behavior) do have significant impact on the individuals’ attitude towards investment. Concurrently the study has found the supporting evidence for the argument that gender has a strong interference in the relations between the psychological factors and the attitude towards investment, between the attitude towards investment and behavioral intention, between subjective norms and behavioral intention as well as between perceived behavioral control and behavioral intention of the Vietnamese individual investors. Keywords: Individual investors, psychological factors, behavioral intention, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control
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Pub Date : 2014-05-24DOI: 10.11634/216796061706525
R. Stevens, Lawrence S. Silver, K. Campbell, J. Hayes, D. Dyson
Some faculty members feel that collegiality is a de facto requirement for tenure and promotion. However, collegiality remains a controversial subject in terms of using it as a criterion in tenure and promotion decisions and the ability of faculty members to challenge it in court as an unacceptable criterion appears to be wasted effort. This pilot study of using collegiality in tenure and promotion decisions was launched to discover what features faculty members consider important for collegiality and the proportion who believe it should be considered in the tenure and promotion process. Using the Collegiality Climate Scale as a measure of collegiality, the study compared faculty perspectives at two private Christian universities, one located in the Southwest United States and one in the Southeast. The study revealed a relativity high level of collegiality among faculty at both universities. However, there were some areas of low scores on the scales. The vast majority of faculty at both universities (74.6% Southwest, 77.5% Southeast) favored using collegiality as a criterion for tenure and promotion decisions. Objections to using collegiality as a criterion centered on two elements: (1) that other factors, such as productivity, scholarship, and excellence in teaching, are more appropriate criteria for promotion and tenure, not collegiality, and (2) the difficulty of measuring individual collegiality.
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Pub Date : 2014-04-05DOI: 10.11634/216796061706521
H. Lan, Yizeng Chen
Doing business in the virtual environment, trust is considered as an essential condition for the willingness of consumers to make a transaction with Internet seller. Many earlier empirical studies explored that website characteristic (web design, web quality, e-vendor reputation and etc.) is also considered as a significant factor affecting consumers’ trust and their decision to make a purchasing on the Internet. It is shown that Web quality not only has a positive impact on consumer beliefs of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, but also affects consumer perception of E-vendor’s image and prestige. The main objective of this study is to examine the role of website types as a moderating factor in the relationships between consumers’ trust and their intention to use online shopping. By using Amos 20.0 with the Maximum Likelihood estimate technique for analyzing data collected via 597 online shoppers, the results indicated that there is a moderating effect of website types in the relationship between trust and consumers’ intention to shop via the Internet (that is, there are differences of the role of trust and its influence on consumers’ intention to use online shopping among domestic website buying group, foreign website buying group and both of websites buying one as well). Findings of this study have importantly contributed on the theoretical as well as practical perspectives. Also, this study has pointed some implications for manager and researcher in the future. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}
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Pub Date : 2014-04-02DOI: 10.11634/216796061706497
Drake Mullens
We develop a model to explore the changes in human and social capital for directors on the board of a failed firm subsequent to organizational bankruptcy. With arguments rooted in signaling theory (Spence, 1973), we propose a negative relationship between bankruptcy and new director appointments, in addition to a negative relationship between bankruptcy and the prestige of directorships. We then develop propositions on how board tenure, board size, initial social capital, and frequency of bankruptcies in an industry moderate the negative relationship between organizational failure with human and social capital.
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