Rapid business change demands the ability to adapt, rearrange and reinvent business processes while keeping the alignment with supporting information systems. However, such tasks require a business process to be consistently specified and modelled. To address this issue, this paper describes an organizational taxonomy that defines a controlled vocabulary to design business processes using the c...

Rapid business change demands the ability to adapt, rearrange and reinvent business processes while keeping the alignment with supporting information systems. However, such tasks require a business process to be consistently specified and modelled. To address this issue, this paper describes an organizational taxonomy that defines a controlled vocabulary to design business processes using the c...

This paper presents our research efforts towards the understanding, design and implementation of a technological framework that we classify as “augmented work environments”. These efforts are centered around the specific goal of building bridges between computational support for formal processes in organizational work and computational support for interactive and informal processes. The concept...

Organizational researchers continually strive to establish models and patterns to predict the behavior of employees within the organizational context. However, much of this research relating to personality types has been conducted in silos. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to explore the relationships among Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, A/B Personality Types, and Locus of Control. Data were ...

Two mechanisms employed by organizations to ensure information quality in organizational knowledge repositories is using experts to control or edit users’ contributions (such as in a refereed repository), or using a community of users to review, rate, or edit existing contributions (such as in a community-driven wiki). The goal of this paper is to explore these two mechanisms and study their im...

THEPRESENT BUDGET MODEL for libraries is not serving libraries well during this time of transition to an increasingly electronic knowledge environment. The existing model inhibits organizational flexibility and exacerbates the staff’s sense that they are losing control of their own professional destinies. A new transitional budget model is recommended. The transitional model emphasizes staff ed...

Received date: 11 September, 2016 Review date: 12 October 2016 Accepted date:13 November 2016 Printed on line: 5 January Purpose: The aim of the current study was to explain the impact of organizational citizenship behavior on organizational agility Customs staff of Zahedan city, the present study in terms of purpose is functional and in terms of collection method of data is descriptive s...

The authors tested the hypothesis that goal-focused leadership enables conscientious workers to perform effectively by helping them to accurately understand organizational goal priorities. Data collected from 162 workers in a private sector document processing organization supported the hypotheses that goal-focused leadership moderates the relationship between conscientiousness and job performa...