This paper presents research on influence of information and communication technologies on decentralization of organizational structure. An empirical research was conducted, in which decentralization was described by dominant management style was compared to the level of composite index of ICT adoption. Also, consulting experience in four major Serbian companies was used to further elaborate an...

This research compares legible of sentences displayed in the paper media and a browser, and examines whether there is a difference legibly of sentences by the experiment. When the result was considered, we considered an individual characteristic of the subject. We considered the problem when sentences displayed in a browser were read, and considered the improvement idea to the problem. Next, we...

Recent research indicates that farm managers do not rely on adequate informative support in their decision making processes. This paper proposes a model of a Farm Management Information System which integrates the Activity-Based Costing approach. In describing the design and development of the “FarmBO” system, it provides a detailed functional requirement definition and the description of a wor...

A home is the single largest purchase that most households make, and it is one that usually requires some debt financing. Because housing debt is such a large component of households’ balance sheets, it is important to understand the financing decision. In this paper, we use household level data from the HILDA survey to relate households’ leverage to their observed characteristics using both gr...

Background and Objectives: The healthcare organization are often fail to realize their strategic goals due to the lack of effective leadership. To address this efficiency, factors can possibly influence the management performance should be identified. Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style and explore the relationship between leadership style in hosp...

This paper describes the work that has been undertaken to improve the quantity and quality of feedback given to students studying introductory Java programming. An online submission program (submit) was developed that specifically addresses the needs of beginning programming students by providing automatic and instant feedback to a student’s programming efforts. Traditionally, this feedback was...

The single-species Continuously Stable Strategy (CSS) and Neighborhood Invader Strategy (NIS) concepts, originally developed as intuitive stability conditions for the evolution of the average trait of a monomorphic population (known as the adaptive dynamics approach), are shown to be relevant for dynamic stability of coevolutionary systems with finitely many traits parameterized by points in a ...

This is the first paper to apply Cross Impact Analysis (CIA) and Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) methods for analyzing complex cascading effects in Operational Risk Management in an industrial environment. Its main objective is to improve the understanding of the overall picture of an organization’s risks. The paper summarizes the development of a CIA-ISM method of the interaction of 1...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relations among conflict management styles and target and instigator incivility and job performance, organizational commitment, and turnover intent. Data from 270 employees suggested that experiencing and instigating uncivil behavior occurred frequently. Using an integrative conflict management style was positively associated with job performance and...