The present research investigates how individual differences in charming personality are related to occupational activities, sales performance, and persuasive competence. Study 1 showed that sales representatives had higher scores on the charming personality style than executive managers. Study 2 showed that the charming personality style predicted actual sales performance among branch managers...

Although there has been considerable improvement in delivering on IT projects in the past decade, successful ones are still considered the exception rather than the rule. Many factors have contributed to this dismal IT project track record, but none is more to blame than a lack of leadership. Conceptually, leadership and management theories have antithetical premises. But principally, they are ...

The workloads hosted in a datacenter share more than just servers; they also share electrical circuits. Datacenter managers provision the power capacity of these circuits to hosted workloads, often based on peak power needs. In this work, we studied the typical (mode) and peak power needs of 3 real datacenters, using 1) data from hardware manufacturers and 2) past traces of observed power needs...

Background: In the present era, observing ethical principles as one of the effective factors in reducing psychosocial factors and improving the decision-making system of managers in the organization is of particular importance. The aim of the present study is to mediate the role of psychosocial factors in the relationship between professional ethics and decisions of education directors in Shira...

In this study, a fuzzy probability-based Markov chain model is developed for forecasting regional long-term electric power demand. The model can deal with the uncertainties in electric power system and reflect the vague and ambiguous during the process of power load forecasting through allowing uncertainties expressed as fuzzy parameters and discrete intervals. The developed model is applied to...

Surgeons and physicians were fuming as their lives and those of their patients were turned upside down, the latter often threatened, although no patient deaths were reported at the time of writing. Like mine managers losing tens of millions of rands daily as the crisis constricted the lifeblood of South Africa’s economy, they cited unpredictability, not the actual power shortage, as the reason ...

This article examines the cooperation and conflicts in the “intergenerational parenting coalition,” the practice of joint caregiving by parents and grandparents that is prevalent among contemporary urban Chinese families. The author argues that a pattern of “yan mu ci zu” (grandparents feed, mothers teach) has emerged in the intergenerational parenting coalition. Specifically, young mothers act...

While normal distributions and related current quantitative methods are still relevant for some organizational research, the growing ubiquity of power laws signifies that Pareto rank/frequency distributions, fractals, and underlying scale-free theories are increasingly pervasive and valid characterizations of organizational dynamics. Where true, researchers ignoring power law effects risk drawi...