Resilience has merited growing interest in psychology and management research, given its potential to drive important organisational outcomes. Yet, there is limited understanding of the individual and contextual factors that promote resilient behaviours in organisations. This study explored relationships between dispositional variables (proactive personality and optimism), leadership styles (em...

A distinctive characteristic of this area of globalization is the voluminous flow of information, as seen in today’s workplaces. With the increasing importance of information as a valuable asset, the mainstream acceptance of the internet and its enabling technology comes as no surprise at all. Many organisations today deploy internet and mobile devices as they believe that their employees need ...

Background Many organisations have realised the importance of human resource for their competitive advantage. Empowering employees is therefore essential for organisational effectiveness. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between employee participation with outcome variables such as organisational commitment, job satisfaction, perception of justice in an organisation and readines...

Purpose – The paper presents an exploratory study to investigate the impact of B2e MI applications and, in particular, an empirical analysis of the main features of Italian B2e MI applications for automating salesand field-force activities. Design/methodology/approach – The study has been carried out with 16 case studies of B2e MI applications employed in different Italian companies. Findings –...

This paper is a discussion of the B2E e-business model from the perspectives of employee services and organisational management. It includes literature to support B2E as employee services and organisational management with benefits to both. Intranets and portals are technologies supporting the implementation of the B2E e-business model which are also discussed. A case study is included to under...

We report here on multifrequency radio observations of the pulsed emission from PSR B1259–63 around the time of the closest approach to its B2e companion star. There was a general increase in the pulsar’s dispersion measure and scatter broadening, and a decrease in the flux density towards periastron although changes in these parameters were seen on timescales as short as minutes. The pulsed em...