this study has been conducted to find solutions forincreasing work–life balance of employees of an automotive partsmanufacturer. for this reason by reviewing the literature we foundtwo main groups of parameters affecting wlb, including individualparameters (e.g. sex, age) and organizational parameters. we focusedon the second group in this study. we considered four parametersincluding workload,...

As globalization continues to create interdependencies, organizations find themselves exposed to multiple vulnerabilities that may result in disruption of organizational activity. Contingency planning is widely touted as a method of dealing with and preparing for such interruptions. This risk management technique has many attributes that promote organizational flexibility; however, the effect o...

There is a growing usage of business intelligence (BI) for better management decisions in different industries. However, empirical studies on BI are still scarce. In this research we study BI from an organizational agility perspective. Organizational agility is the ability to sense and respond to market opportunities and threats with speed and BI can help the sensing part of organizational agil...

Supply chain disruptions significantly impact businesses worldwide. Many organizations work towards improving flexibility so as to prepare for such disruptions and maintain competitive advantage. This research effort examines four activities that are associated with the contingency planning process to determine which, if any, of these processes are ultimately supportive of organizational flexib...

Progressively firms give more importance to management of processes of return that supposed excess inventories, customer returns, obsolete inventories and seasonal products ,that is to say, to the processes Reverse Logistics (Srivastava & Srivastava, 2006). So it increases the need for information flexibility because this one helps to reduce uncertainty of these processes (Koste & Malhotra, 199...

The intensity of market competition, the ever increasing demand for shortening time to market and the pressure of first mover advantage are forcing businesses to develop non-imitable sources of value creation. Information technology (IT) plays a key role as a necessary, but not sufficient, source of value. For IT to generate business value, IT has to adapt itself to a firm’s continuously changi...

The objective of this study is to identify how dimensions of organizational flexibility enable inventory flow integration, evidently an efficiency imperative, across the supply chain. The paper investigates the impact of product modularity, use of teams and IT infrastructure reconfigurability as dimensions of organizational flexibility, on inventory flow integration across the supply chain. Dat...

This paper offers organizational behavior management (OBM) a behavior analytically consistent way to expand its analysis of, and methods for changing, organizational behavior. It shows how Relational Frame Theory (RFT) suggests that common, problematic, psychological processes emerge from language itself, and they produce psychological inflexibility. Research suggests that an applied extension ...