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Vickie Coleman Gallagher, James A. Meurs and Kenneth J. Harris
A number of studies have explored the benefits (e.g. enhanced job performance and reduced strain), of being politically skilled. Within the framework of uncertainty management…
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A number of studies have explored the benefits (e.g. enhanced job performance and reduced strain), of being politically skilled. Within the framework of uncertainty management theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits of high political skill to affective commitment, job satisfaction, and perceived job mobility, under conditions of distrust in management.
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Sales representatives were surveyed and moderated multiple regression analyses were conducted to analyze the data.
Findings
The authors found that as distrust increased, affective commitment decreased for all persons, but was most pronounced for persons low on political skill. However, distrust in management had no impact on job satisfaction for those high on political skill, allowing persons high on political skill to enjoy their jobs despite high levels of distrust (an intrapsychic benefit of political skill). Finally, as distrust in management increased, persons high on political skill had increased perceived job mobility.
Research limitations/implications
This study is cross-sectional, limiting conclusions about causality in the relationships studied and leaving open the possibility of reverse causation.
Practical implications
This research has important implications, such that, under conditions of distrust, persons low on political skill are less committed, more dissatisfied, and feel a sense of job immobility, which could lead to poor work outcomes, such as decreased job performance.
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The study is the first to examine how being politically skilled benefits employee outcomes when the employee distrusts management.
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Hannes Velt and Rudolf R. Sinkovics
This chapter offers a comprehensive review the literature on authentic leadership (AL). The authors employ a bibliometric approach to identify, classify, visualise and synthesise…
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This chapter offers a comprehensive review the literature on authentic leadership (AL). The authors employ a bibliometric approach to identify, classify, visualise and synthesise relevant scholarly publications and the work of a core group of interdisciplinary scholars who are key contributors to the research on AL. They review 264 journal articles, adopting a clustering technique to assess the central themes of AL scholarship. They identify five distinct thematic clusters: authenticity in the context of leadership; structure of AL; social perspectives on AL; dynamism of AL; and value perceptions of AL. Velt and Sinkovics assert that these clusters will help scholars of AL to understand the dominant streams in the literature and provide a foundation for future research.
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Stephen R. Getty, Kenneth E. Barron and Chris S. Hulleman
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an important driver of student well-being, academic achievement, and future success. Despite decades of work on motivation theory and…
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Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an important driver of student well-being, academic achievement, and future success. Despite decades of work on motivation theory and frameworks to promote student motivation and achievement outcomes, connections between motivation and recent frameworks and measures of SEL could be stronger. The purpose of our chapter is to help address this shortcoming. First, we begin by reviewing which theories of motivation currently appear in major SEL frameworks. Second, we introduce how a more comprehensive theory of motivation (based on an expectancy–value–cost framework) could be incorporated into SEL frameworks to advance their overall impact. Third, using examples from our ongoing research in STEM classrooms, we show how a broader knowledge of motivation can inform practitioners on how to promote key SEL competencies and subsequent achievement and engagement for students, especially to address inequities for historically marginalized and minoritized students. Finally, we close with recommendations for future directions for research and practice.
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Robert Behling, Chris Behling and Kenneth Sousa
Notes that as we move towards an information‐based society, information technologies will play a key role in establishing and maintaining economic competitiveness and that while…
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Notes that as we move towards an information‐based society, information technologies will play a key role in establishing and maintaining economic competitiveness and that while the systems development life cycle approach has brought some order to the software development process, information engineering brings additional structure to the process. Points out that re‐engineering techniques are used to align every area of the enterprise: people, strategy, technology and business processes. Describes software re‐engineering activities and processes with a special emphasis on developing and maintaining quality systems.
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Gordon Bowen, Richard Bowen, Deidre Bowen and Maryam Kiani
Marketing is sometimes viewed as manipulative and as enticing consumers to live beyond their means. Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered systems can change the image of the…
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Marketing is sometimes viewed as manipulative and as enticing consumers to live beyond their means. Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered systems can change the image of the marketing discipline and improve the marketing decision-making process. This chapter argues that embedding AI in the marketing process can help to alleviate public and consumer concerns about the marketing discipline. AI has the potential to make the marketing process transparent, but this is dependent on trust and privacy variables. Openness about using AI in the customer experience and how it is applied will put marketing on an objective framework. However, marketing decisions will be a mix of data and information mediated by intuition, reasoning, experience and empathy and these are qualities that are associated with marketers. AI customer experience requires decisions that are objective (personalisation) and those that are empathy related.