PurposeThe purpose of this conceptual paper is to attempt to demonstrate the impact of marital roles and family structure on consumer decision-making style within an Islamic culture. Design/methodology/approachThis paper wants to understand how husbands/wives with Eastern norms and Islamic culture use different decision-making style. Reviews of literature in consumer decision-making and family ...

This study examined the cultural relevance of two important career constructs: career decision-making style and career decision-making self-efficacy. Two distinct cultural groups of college students, Americans (N 5 540) and Taiwanese (N 5 1026), participated in this cross-cultural study. Results suggested that career decision-making styles have differential impacts on career decision-making sel...

This study deals with clarifying the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and decision making styles (rational, intuitive, dependant, spontaneous and avoidant) of managers in Iranian oil industry. A collection of 55 managers were tested.Emotional intelligence was measured by an EI questionnaire and Scott and Bruce’s decision making style questionnaire was used for measuring decision...

BACKGROUND One of social problems which has affected our society and resulted in problems for different groups of people is drug abuse. This issue indicates a serious psychological, physical and social problem in community. Social skills have positive and successful influences in prevention of substance abuse. This includes the ability to explain events correctly and then appropriate decision m...

: recently, productivity discussion has been considered in social and scientific discussions. in the extreme world of competition and growth of technology, policy makers and management consider increase of productivity as tool or as a goal occasionally (3) in this research it is intended to recognize effects factor on increase of productivity particularly factors such as providing essential nee...

The present study examined the relationships between leadership styles and decision-making styles among public schools principals. A total of 108 principals returned questionnaires from Russaifa Education District in Jordan. The Decision Style Inventory and the Administrative Styles Questionnaire were used in this study. "Directive decision making style" was predominant among school principals,...

The impact of mood states on decision-making behavior has revealed two styles of decision making: heuristic and analytic (Fiedler, 1991). When the limited research on anxious moods and decision-making style is considered, conflicting results are found with support for both analytic (Raghunathan and Pham, 1999) and heuristic (Berns, et al., 2006) decision making existing in the literature. The c...

BACKGROUND Studies of non-health-care work environments indicate that non-managerial employee job satisfaction is higher in companies that use participative (as opposed to autocratic) decision making. It has not been determined whether managerial decision-making style influences job satisfaction among respiratory therapists (RTs) and which managerial decision-making style RTs prefer. METHODS ...

Article history: Received 8 October 2013 Available online 16 February 2014 This study compared the relationship of parenting styles to the career decision-making of adolescents from a Western and an Eastern context. Specifically, 575 French high school students and 613 South Korean high school students completed a questionnaire assessing perceived parenting style, career decision-making difficu...