In this chapter, we adopt a sociotechnical systems approach to understand the challenges faced by members of an organizational unit that is not constrained by geographical, temporal, organizational, or national boundaries. Specifically, we examine virtual team performance within the context of an open sociotechnical system, highlighting the effects that the technological subsystem (e.g., collab...

introduction: the main objective of all organizations is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the personnel’s performance and this partly depends on effective management. managers are valuable assets and studying their behavior and personality dimensions may provide important guide for effectiveness and efficiency improvement. in this connection, the objective of this research is to d...

one of the increasingly important organizational considerations involves occupational health and staff safety. hence, it is crucial for the managers to identify the key organizational factors contributing to reduce work-related accidents. this study was conducted on 340 workers, employees, experts, supervisors, directors, and managers. the data evaluation involved a questionnaire while the anal...

Employee commitment to the organization is influenced by management support. Management support ensure a better work culture in an because plays important role terms of physical and emotional employees. This paper explores organizational factors, namely leadership styles, promotions, workloads, workplace facilities regards among navy personnel naval base. A self-administered questionnaires have...

Though the Clean Air Act (CAA) relies on a traditional inter-government partnership, new initiatives from local governments that fall outside of the conventional implementation strategy have created a unique public service delivery network by adding layers to the implementation scheme. Using both logistic and multinomial logistic models and a dataset of 497 Metropolitan (MSA) and Micropolitian ...

This study adopts the human capital perspective as a theoretical lens to understand the factors that influence organizational intention to adopt open source software (OSS). We posit that availability of internal human capital and accessibility to external human capital significantly affect an organization’s intention to adopt OSS either directly or indirectly through switching cost. We analyze ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the factors of RFID adoption in a mandatory environment. This paper presents the result of an empirical study that investigates the adoption behaviour of livestock farms in relation to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in the context of Australia. A mixed method consisting qualitative and quantitative research approach has been taken for th...