The Effects of Leadership Behaviors on Organization Agility: A Quantitative Study of 126 U.S.-Based Business Units

Researchers have theorized that the behaviors of organization leaders impact organization agility, which is defined as the ability of an organization to swiftly and successfully change in order to achieve long-term success. The purpose of this study was to determine if leadership behaviors as measured by the MLQ-5X predict organization agility as measured by the Agility Survey (short-form). The research sample included 126 U.S.-based business units within 47 organizations with greater than 1,000 employees. The leadership behaviors found to predict higher levels of organization agility included: (a) exploratory leadership behaviors that support discovering new ways to solve problems and conduct business, (b) latitude leadership behaviors that provide employees with a high degree of freedom and responsibility in achieving work results and resolving issues, (c) visionary leadership behaviors that create a clear organization purpose and mission and define the “why” of the organization’s existence, and (d) reflective leadership behaviors that cause leaders to challenge their own assumptions and create mechanisms for the organization to do so as well. The leadership behaviors related to power and structure predicted lower levels of organization agility.

A Note on Intertemporal Discounting and Nudging

Several challenges and rising costs are facing the healthcare industry today. Some of these health costs are a direct consequence of lifestyle choices such as unhealth diets, obesity and smoking. These challenges can be managed if policy makers have the tools to influence and alter people’s behaviour. The conventional tools used for influencing behaviour include legislation, regulation and information provision. Recently, interest has been shown in policies that ‘nudge’ people in particular directions.

Critical Analysis and the Impact of Big Data within the Organisation

Currently in the advancement of big data, the challenges for many organisations are not technologically related. The biggest barrier relates to cultural challenges which include organizational alignment, resistance or lack of understanding as well as change management. As a result, many organizations are purely not ready to take advantage of this new strategic resource called big data. Therefore, big data acceptance compels addressing the above mentioned challenges that falls within the domains of technology, people as well as organization. Thus, this study employed diffusion of innovation theory to assess the cultural challenges in an organization. The interpretivist approach was applied in the analysis of the data.

Organisational Justice as a Determinant of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour among Adhoc Lecturers of Delta State Polytechnic Ogwashi Uku, Nigeria

This study aims at investigating the extent to which of perception of organizational justice predict organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) among Adhoc teaching staff of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi Uku. OCB here is conceptualized as a term that encompasses any positive and constructive action that employees engage in, on their own volition which supports co-workers and benefits the organization. This study adopted the survey research design. The population of the study consisted of 150 Adhoc teaching staff of the Polytechnic, out of which 120 was conveniently sampled. Data was collected through questionnaires. To determine its reliability, Cronbach-alpha was used (organizational citizenship behaviour 0.81 and 0.83 for organizational justice.) The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that mean of OCB are slightly above average. And there is significant positive relationship between the components of organizational justice and OCB. Furthermore, the three dimensions of organizational justice (distributive, procedural and interactional) indicated a positive relationship with the two main dimensions of OCB, namely OCB-interpersonal and OCB-organisational.

The Advertising Spending Trends: Mobile Vs Traditional Media-- An Empirical Study

Mobile commerce has become a driving force in retail industry in the past 20 years. Since Apple introduced its firstgeneration of iPhone in 2007, smartphone has penetrated about 70% of US population. Consequently, mobilecommerce has emerged from a supplementary to electronic commerce and has become a powerhouse in retailbusinesses. The American adults spend more time on their smartphones, and do even more commerce on theirsmartphone than on their personal computers. In next few years, US mobile commerce will be a half of the totalecommerce. Marketers have spent more advertising dollars on smartphones, as they can better target smartphoneusers through programmatic advertising, particularly when they find the phone users are interested in particularproducts they browse. This study compares the advertising effectiveness on smartphone users through an empiricalsurvey. The results suggest that smartphone advertising is an effective way to reach and influence the users. Mobileadvertising will continue to work hand-in-hand with traditional media advertising. A strategic shift with more focuson mobile advertising will be more effective.

Analysing Qualitative Data: The Use of Storytellers as Validators in the Construction of Analyses

This paper demonstrates how the perspectives of stakeholder groups regarding contested issues can be representedwith a degree of credibility. This is possible when interviewees are used as externals to verify, refute, or to improveconstructed analyses of their own stories before conclusions are drawn. As assumptions differ about what reality is andwhether or not it is measurable, researchers are beginning to focus more on approaches and techniques that canimprove validation of their findings. This paper proposes an approach to help achieve this. The paper draws on theauthor’s experience as a researcher in a study that focussed on how Developmental Agencies (DAs) – specificallyAmnesty International, Water Aid, Christian Aid, Action Aid, and Oxfam GB could improve their use of Donor Funds(DFs). Using this method, interviewees are given the opportunity to review constructed analyses in order to verify oramend how their perspectives are presented. They clarify, make corrections and provide further insights to their initialstories. The aggregated reconstructions are then relied on to arrive at agreed representations. The proposed approachdemonstrates how to engage storytellers in the validation of analyses and findings regarding contested issues. Fiveelements are discussed in relation to the subject, these are, Story-tellers, Constructed Analyses, Contested Issues,Aggregated Reconstructions and Validating Findings.

The Opining Mining of Expatriate Adjustment and Significant Role of Social Media

In this research paper, the researcher focused on the opining mining of expatriate adjustment and the significant roleof social media in real life. It is also one of the significant research issues for the person who are having citizenshipof one country and living in another country with a cross-cultural environment. The researcher would identify thefactors of a cross-cultural environment which are suitable and significant for the expatriate adjustment with the helpof social media. The social media is having of its own significant role in adjusting expatriate with respect to opinionmining. The opinion mining is one of the processes of seeking innovation of ideas and thought on the basis ofexisting or currently available in the real world. The social media is playing one of the biggest enablers for expatriatein a cross-cultural environment. The objective of this research paper is to identify the factors which are significantwith respect to opinion mining and social media in a cross-cultural environment. The researcher emphasized that thereason for online communication with respect to social media that flows are concept and opinion which thus play asignificant role in the cohesion and transformation of society. Its minimal concern on the emergence of opinions,widespread, and get benefits. The researcher used the social media for the adjustment with respect to expatriate’sadjustment.

The Impact of Knowledge Management on CRM Approaches

The purpose of the current paper is to examine the impact of knowledge management and its tools on the processesand approaches of the customer’s relation management(CRM) within the banks sector in Kuwait.The methodological approach followed in the current study is a quantitative .The population of the current study wasall the CRM managers within the operating Kuwaiti banks which are working within the capital of Kuwait. Thequestionnaire was distributed on the sample of the study through visiting the banks and presenting the main aim ofthe paper. The convenience sample was (50) managers. However, the researchers retrieved (30) questionnaire forms(i.e. the response rate is (60%).The researchers found that there is a significant impact of knowledge management and its tools on processes andapproaches of customer relation management within banks sector in Kuwait.

The Inclusion of Religion in Organizations

The aim of this research paper is to understand how organization are religion ready. Face to a world changeregarding terrorism and demographic change, organizations and more precisely companies have to face new culturalsituations. We will present a review of literature on ethnocentrism and multiculturalism to build a qualitativeapproach to understand how human resources and representatives react to this phenomenon.

Multiple Intelligences in Change Leadership: Exploring the Diversity

This paper explores the role of emotional intelligence, executive intelligence, and cultural intelligence necessary foreffective change leadership. With dramatic advancements in technology and global interconnectivity, and growingdemands for more culturally aware and emotionally resilient change leaders, the use and development of multipleintelligences is shown to be vital for successful change. The key distinctions and connections between theseintelligences and their relationship to change leadership are examined, and implications for future research andpractice are extended.