Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

This study examined the relationship between self and subordinate ratings of leadership and the relationship between self and peer ratings of leadership for 964 managers from 21 countries. Using multilevel modeling, the authors found that cultural characteristics moderated the relationship between self and others' ratings of leadership. Specifically, the relationship between self and subordinat...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of the Spirituality Promotion Program(SPP) for young nurses working in the stressful university hospital environment. METHODS The study included 41 nurses in the experimental group, nurses who had worked less than 5 years and completed 8 weeks of SPP between June and July in 2011. The control group, 44 nurses, also received the sam...

Adrian Y.L. Chan, Ph.D University of Nebraska, 2010 Advisor: Fred Luthans This study proposes that being reflective or ruminative about one's leadership experience can have differential effects on one's leadership efficacy, implicit leadership theories and psychological capital. Specifically, through the aid of an event history calendar, conscript military trainees of high and low military expe...

A dynamic Bertrand-duopoly model where price leadership emerges in equilibrium is developed. In the equilibrium, a firm leads changes and its competitor always matches next period. The firms produce homogeneous product are identical except for information they possess about demand. market size follows two-state Markov process. Market realizations observed by one of but not other. Without explic...

We examined the positive impact of transformational leadership on IS success in organizations via two psychological mechanisms of system users’ – perceived organizational support and systems self-efficacy. Our conceptual model was assessed using a sample of 251employees from a multi-national bank in Korea. Overall, our results supported the hypothesized relationships: Transformational leadershi...

Sustained, high-performance nursing leadership can be effectively guided by caring theory. While much of leadership performance is manifested by external behaviors, highly effective leaders are also grounded by internal work of self-reflection and growth. This article focuses primarily on the inward journey of leadership as guided by Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring. Key elements of the the...

aim and background: relationship enhancement is one of the life skill training programs and it could effect on couples coping styles with life tensions. this study aimed to investigate the effect of relationship enhancement on improving marital coping strategies of couples in isfahan. method and materials: the design of this study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control groups...

This study examines the strength and direction of relationships between the self and social dimensions of both emotional and cultural intelligences and transformational leadership skills. Data was gathered from 171 students enrolled at Les Roches International School of Hotel Management in Switzerland. Statistical analyses included factor analysis, Cronbach’s Alpha, Pearson’ r, and regression. ...