Management Research News: Volume 16 Issue 9/10

Motivational Practices at America's Best Managed Companies

Chris Harris, Brian H. Kleiner

Text book theories of motivation are abundant. Content theories such as Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Herzberg's two factor theory or process theories such as expectancy theory…

Factors Affecting Consumer Risk Reduction: A Review of Current Evidence

V‐W Mitchell

In this paper, the main objective will be to discuss the factors which can influence the usage of risk reducing strategies found in the literature over the past 30 years. Some of…

Computers and Creative Problem Solving

Tony Proctor

We live in a world that is undergoing continuous and rapid change. Situations are regularly encountered that have not previously arisen. Technology, competition, changes in social…

Enhancing Executive Health

Dennis Cal, Brian H. Kleiner, Theodore Brophy, T. Boone Pickens, Morris T. Seigal, William Schreyer, Paul Oreffice, Thomas Frist

The general opinion is that as executives advance into the '90s, there will be a smaller number of executives with larger responsibilities (Braham, 1988). These changes will…