ADAPTOR is the result of a three-stage research project performed in the 'concept, development and evaluation' paradigm. The research project was undertaken to develop active decision support system generators for senior managers, based on the understanding of the influence of personality on human decision making. It was observed that ad hoc systems would have difficulty in providing this type ...

As an effective talent selection and performance management method in enterprises, can the competency model also play essential role farm cooperatives? Limited research currently focuses on improving cooperatives’ through agricultural managers’ competency. Our study takes initiative to create “agricultural manager model,” which includes five dimensions: knowledge technology, personal capabiliti...

* Employee recruitment, retention, and workforce diversity are essential ingredients in a successful radiology department. Since potential new hires and existing employees do not come with labels which accurately describe their innate characteristics, radiology managers need to use objective tools such as personality assessments in order to properly evaluate prospective employment candidates. *...

Many organizations are using virtual teams to meet the increasing time and quality expectations of contemporary marketplaces. While virtual teams present advantages for cost control, access to expertise, and serving markets, they also engender practical challenges as a result of the geographic and temporal distribution of members. Previous research has suggested several factors that are critica...

In an educational setting, the use of online learning tools impacts student’s performance. Attitudes and perceived usefulness play an important role in predicting students’ decision to use these learning tools. A students’ attitude towards the use of online learning tools is impacted by his/her perception of usefulness of the tools. In this study, we investigate the mediating effects of persona...

Job stress is ubiquitous in today’s organizations, and the costs of these phenomena cut across all levels of society. In recent years, researchers considering job stress in the workplace have made great strides in understanding several aspects of the stress phenomenon in the field of organizational behavior. Thus, it becomes more important that the coping methods of these job stresses are well ...

0191-8869/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.paid.2008.12.007 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 207 679 5395. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Furnham Over 3000 adult managers attending an assessment centre completed a battery of tests including three personality trait inventories (NEO-PIR; MBTI; and HDS), two ability tests (GMA, WG) and a well established measure of d...

As project managers (PMs) play an important role in project success, assigning PMs with appropriate skills and personalities to projects is a crucial task. Nevertheless, empirical research on skill requirements for information technology (IT) PMs is limited and little information systems literature focuses on the role of internally recruited IT PMs. This paper presents a case study of a trouble...

Article history: Received 1 March 2015 Received in revised form 1 November 2015 Accepted 1 December 2015 Available online xxxx Many universities leverage symbolic qualitieswith the potential of creating a brand personality useful in competitive differentiation. Drawing on a series of qualitative and quantitative studies consistent with psychometric scale development procedures, this study devel...