The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of bureaucratic structure on the employee engagement (EE). Our study extends previous researches by considering bureaucracy from two points of view: enabling versus hindering. We study the extent to which these two types of bureaucracy are related to the two forms of employee engagement: organizational (OE) and work engagement (WE). The vie...

This conceptual paper suggests that the distinction between an autocratic and democratic leadership orientation may serve as important moderator of relationship key organizational characteristics workplace bullying. More specifically, we explore leader vs. power orientations agentic communal theoretical bases for developing a new model perceived relationships certain perceptions bullying behavi...

BACKGROUND The vision of Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research is that patients be actively engaged as partners in health research. Support units have been created across Canada to build capacity in patient-oriented research and facilitate its conduct. This study aimed to explore patients' health research priorities in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). METHODS Eight to...

There is an error in reference 71. The correct reference is: Abele, AE. The dynamics of masculine -agentic and feminine-communal traits: Findings from a prospective study. Copyright: © 2015 Dane et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...

Abstract Since the publication of seminal book Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein, several critics have highlighted preference endogeneity as a serious obstacle to nudging. When individuals hold preferences that are dynamic endogenous nudge frame, it is unclear what normative benchmark for libertarian paternalistic policies should be. While acknowledging this issue, pro-nudging camp has not yet suffi...