Recent research has shown how an organization can influence a decision-theoretic agent by replacing one or more of its model components (transition/reward functions, action/state spaces, etc.), and how each of these influences impacts the agent’s decision-making performance. This paper delves more precisely into exactly which parts of an agent’s model should be organizationally influenced, and ...

Background and Aim: In recent decades, increasing productivity and reducing losses by improving abnormal behaviors in the workplace have attracted the attention of organizational behavior experts, especially health researchers. The purpose of the present research is to study the factors influencing the reduction of abnormal behaviors in health workplace. Materials and Methods: By using meta-sy...

Article history: Received 13 January 2014 Received in revised form 18 November 2014 Accepted 25 November 2014 Available online 22 December 2014 Prior studies on knowledge-sharing motivations mostly concentrate on discussing motivation in terms of level or amount, and thus, discussions regarding the quality of motivations, in terms of their levels of autonomy, are scarce. Additionally, while res...

The present study reviews empirical studies of a new occupational stress model of effort-reward imbalance at work to examine its validity as an occupational stress measure and the theory-based intervention approach to occupational stress reduction. The effort-reward imbalance model is valid for demonstrating a stressful work environment that reflects the current labor market and predicts health...

Todays, under the competitive conditions, organizational entrepreneurship can play an important role in the success of organizations and make them differentiate from others. Therefore, gaining of knowledge about the factors affecting organizational entrepreneurship is of particular importance. Accordingly, the purpose of this research was to identify and rank the factors affecting organizationa...

BACKGROUND Organizational justice (OJ), involving transparent workplace procedures and treating staff members with respect, has been of growing concern in recent epidemiological research as a determinant of health-related outcomes. AIMS To examine the factorial validity of the German version of Moorman's Organizational Justice Questionnaire (OJQ), to investigate the direct cross-sectional eff...

Article history: Received 4 May 2012 Available online 25 October 2012 Although previous research often showed a positive relationship between pay satisfaction and job satisfaction, we dispute the universality of this finding. Cluster-wise regression analyses on three samples consistently show that two types of individuals can be distinguished, each with a different job reward–job satisfaction r...

Employee motivation is one of the important factors that can help the employer to improve employee and organizational performance. Different theories of motivation are discussed. The paper concludes that employee retention can be practiced better by motivating the employees in the following aspects: Open communication, Employee reward program, Career development program, Performance based bonus...

The ACTION organization design and analysis system is a research and development effort designed to assist business re-engineering and organizational or technology change by helping to improve the integration of technology, organizations, and people ("TOP-integration") in manufacturing enterprises. ACTION uses a multi-level constraintbased representation of organizational features including bus...

Using a database of branch managers in retail banks, this study finds some empirical support for the two main predictions of Jensen and Meckling’s (1992) theory on organizational design choices: a) the allocation of decision rights to branch managers is associated with control systems that measure their performance and reward them based on these performance measures, and b) these decision right...