This study was intended to verify the effects of implementing the Balance-Scored Card (BSC) on the organizational performances by using BSC as the moderator. Managers and directors in smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan’s electronics industry were interviewed and ROE data was sourced from Taiwan Economic Journal. This study adopted a simple random sampling method to sample the po...

This paper highlights the problem of describing the software architecture of a distributed system, and introduces the Architectural Styles proposed by Shaw&Garlan as a possible solution. Using a pattern template, it explores four major styles for distribution architecture: Host-Terminal, Client-Server, Broadcast Data and Batch Communication. Introduction One major problem we find in building la...

The current leadership literature is based on studies mostly carried out in the West. This study attempts to examine the relationship between leadership styles and employee and organizational outcomes in a Nepali telecommunication company. It proposes and tests a model suggesting direct relationship between leadership styles and employees' satisfaction with the leader, leader effectiveness, and...

Balancing multiple roles is a challenge for individuals in many sectors of the population. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that individuals have dispositional tendencies to experience interrole conflict and facilitation. We also aimed to show that coping styles and life satisfaction are correlates of dispositional conflict and facilitation tendencies. Two survey studies wer...

Using data from the Wollongong Youth Study, we assessed the extent to which perceptions of parental styles predict levels of Eysenckian psychoticism in adolescence. Participants were 660 high school students (males = 322; females = 332; 6 did not indicate gender) who were tracked for 12 months. The modal age of the respondents was 12 years at Time 1. In addition to the psychoticism scale (Corul...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study examined the relations between perceived parenting styles, goal orientations, and academic achievement among Chinese students. A survey was conducted among 339 university students in Hong Kong to collect information on their perceptions of parenting styles, goal orientations, and grade point averages. Using structural equation modeling, the results suggested tha...

A study was carried out with 501 persons to analyze the predictive capacity of various psychosocial variables-symptom perception, neuroticism, Personality Types 2 and 4 of Grossarth-Maticek and Eysenck, beliefs about health, social support, or certain coping styles-on two health-related behaviors: the frequency of visits to the doctor and self-medication. The results were analyzed by two struct...