Dept. of Business Administration Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria. * E-mail of the corresponding author: [email protected] Abstract This research work empirically examined the relationship between organizational effectiveness and factors like organizational performance, employee motivation, organizational environment and organizational competiveness. The study was conducted in five geo-p...

Sports clubs have been reporting several organizational problems in recent decades (e.g., recruitment and retention of members volunteers). At the same time, certain sports professionalized their strategies, structures, processes, staff. However, previous research has not analyzed whether professionalization is related to problems. Therefore, this study conducts, first step, a cluster analysis ...

The market-focused learning organization continues to attract attention in the marketing literature. Two central and interrelated aspects of collective learning are organizational culture and memory. The relationship between culture and performance has been demonstrated both theoretically and empirically. This study investigates the influence of culture and organizational memory development on ...

This study evaluated educationally relevant outcomes from a newly developed collaborative school-home intervention (Collaborative Life Skills Program [CLS]) for youth with attention and/or behavior problems. Participants included 17 girls and 40 boys in second through fifth grades (mean age = 8.1 years) from diverse ethnic backgrounds. CLS was implemented by 10 school-based mental health profes...

Health and Moral Stress Questionnaire (HMSQ) was constructed with the aim to assess organizational learning processes and individual skills necessary for the handling of problems connected to five areas of activity: work demands, work task control, support, computer tool use, and ethics. The main hypothesis was that the existence of organizational learning processes and individual skills contri...

The dramatic changes of the past 25 years in the nature and conditions of work, including the globalization of organizations and the introduction of a strategic as opposed to employee-centered conception of HR have impacted the ways in which moral problems are manifested. But the paradigmatic forms taken by those problems, the character traits and motives needed to recognize them as such, the e...

This paper formulates a model in which a …rm simultaneously chooses its organizational structure and product position. The …rm’s production is knowledge-intensive, requiring employees to solve problems. A vertical hierarchy in which workers refer unsolved problems to managers facilitates the acquisition and leveraging of managers’superior knowledge. I show that a larger span of control is compl...

While the relationship between information technology (IT) and organizational structure has long been a focus of research from a descriptive and prescriptive point of view, few solid results have been found as of yet linking this relationship to enterprise level performance. This can be attributed to problems related to the definition and measurement of IT, performance and "fit" between technol...