News tagged with organizational changes


Major Yahoo reorganization looms

Technology / Business

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Yahoo's new chief executive, Carol Bartz, is set to announce a major reorganization of the company, sources say, raising expectations that the stumbling Internet giant may get back on track after a punishing year.





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Engaged employees are good, but don't count on commitment

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

The notion that highly engaged workers will continue to work tirelessly for organizations despite diminishing resources often isn't true, according to Clemson University psychology professor Thomas Britt.


Green practices: When do corporations respond to stakeholders' pressure?

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a new study published in Strategic Management Journal, researchers explain when external stakeholders can effectively influence organizations to adopt greener management practices. In an effort to appease the demands of ext ...


Managing computer fraud

Other Sciences / Other

created May 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Shalini Kesar, a computer scientist at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, has devised an antifraud strategy for business. Writing in the International Journal of Business Information Systems from Inderscience Publis ...


Employees who are sexually harassed experience less job satisfaction and lower job performance

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

A new study in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly examined the effects of workplace sexual harassment and found that employees who were harassed report lower levels of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and ...


Ambulatory surgical centers may exceed performance of hospitals for certain procedures

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Measuring five quality-base performance areas, an ambulatory surgical center out performed a standard hospital based surgical center in otolaryngic surgeries, according to new research in the December 2009 issue of Otolaryngology - ...


Hourly employees happier than salaried

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People paid by the hour exhibit a stronger relationship between income and happiness, according to a study published in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB), the official journal of the So ...


Employee engagement dependent upon conditions created by employer

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In a new article in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, William H. Macey and Benjamin Schneider examine the meaning of employee engagement, which they view as leading to unusually effective employee behavior with s ...


Money changes what we think is fair, research finds

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Thinking of rewarding your sales department for a job well done? You might not want to make cash part of the pay-off.


Keeping nurses on the job: Retention is part of the answer to the nursing shortage

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new research study, published in the March/April issue of the journal Nursing Economics, has determined what factors can help keep new nurses from leaving their jobs and - in doing so - save health systems money. When ...


Peer Behavior, Not Communication Overload, Determines Mobile Device Use in Meetings, Study Shows

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Organizational norms and social cues, not communication overload, are the strongest predictors of whether individuals use their laptops or smart phones to electronically multitask during a meeting, according ...



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