Abbas J. Ali, Mohammed Al‐Shakhis and Somanathan Nataraj
Saudi and Indian managers are compared onattitudes towards work and work‐related variables.Cultural differences were found to play the mostimportant role in determining…
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Saudi and Indian managers are compared on attitudes towards work and work‐related variables. Cultural differences were found to play the most important role in determining managerial orientation. Demographic and organisational variables were less important. Managers from both nations were found to be highly committed to work. However, Indian managers showed greater commitment to work obligation and entitlement, and were more individualistic, than Saudi managers.
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Abbas J. Ali and Somanathan Nataraj
The systematic study of the meaning of work (MOW) is essential to increased understanding of work as a central life interest (England, 1984; MOW‐Inter‐national Research Team…
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The systematic study of the meaning of work (MOW) is essential to increased understanding of work as a central life interest (England, 1984; MOW‐Inter‐national Research Team, 1981). Individuals' views of and commitment to work affect organisations and society in areas such as conflict, mobility, productivity, and structuring of organisations.
Mahmood Yousefi and Ken McCormick
The news is full of stories about business impropriety, employee theft and drug use, government scandals, teenage pregnancies, welfare scams, and a host of other problems…
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The news is full of stories about business impropriety, employee theft and drug use, government scandals, teenage pregnancies, welfare scams, and a host of other problems associated with a lack of morals and ethics. The cumulative effect of this barrage of bad news has led some to raise the question, “Is America experiencing a moral decline?”