...Zhuolin She; Quan Li; Manuel London; Baiyin Yang; Bin Yang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between CEO narcissism and strategic decision-making (SDM) processes (decision comprehensiveness and decision speed), and to explore the mediating role of top management...

... Decision making Experiment Deception detection is instrumental in business management. From employment interviews (Roulin et al., 2014), to audit investigations (Lee and Welker, 2007), the manager often finds it necessary to determine if someone is being truthful or deceptive. Deception...

...Jessica Bagger; Jochen Reb; Andrew Li Purpose – The primary purpose of this research was to investigate the role of anticipated regret in time-based work-family conflict decisions. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 90 working parents responded to a decision making problem describing...

... that are associated with a preference for intuition‐based hiring, and provides a new measure of selection decision‐making approach that may be used as a dependent variable in future research on the topic. H2c. HRM professionals who report reading the academic literature will be less likely to prefer...

...Guido Hertel; Andreas Mojzisch; Stefan Schulz‐Hardt Purpose Hidden profiles are decision‐making tasks in which groups have the potential to outperform individual decision‐makers. This paper has two purposes: first, to provide a conceptual analysis of how the group potential for solving hidden...

... and/or require frequent contact with the public (e.g. sales jobs). Thus, we tested the following hypothesis: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Immigrants Language Communication skills Decision making Discrimination in employment Immigration has contributed markedly to the growth...

...Gregory G. Manley; Juan Benavidez; Kristen Dunn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a measure designed to assess constructs that predict ethical decision making (EDM) among employees. Design/methodology/approach The approach was to target individual difference variables...

... businesses determine the process of middle manager decision implementation in the state‐controlled economy. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Middle managers Centralized control Decision making Belarus The issue of relations between business environments and managerial decisions...

... Decision making Individual perception The role of social comparison as a means by which employees gather information about their role in organizations has become of significant importance to both researchers and practitioners over the last 50 years since Festinger proposed his theory of social...

...David P. Spicer; Eugene Sadler‐Smith Purpose To examine the psychometric properties and construct validity of the general decision making style (GDMS) questionnaire in two UK samples. Design/methodology/approach – The GDMS takes the form of a self‐report questionnaire which identifies five...

...Todd Dewett This paper explores an important aspect of creativity within the top management team (TMT). Specifically, prior research has not addressed the relationship between alternatives generated and alternatives realized within the TMT as a part of the decision‐making process, choosing instead...

...Eli Noy; Shmuel Ellis The hypothesis that managers believe risk to be a major component of strategy formulation, with a corresponding effect on the strategic decision‐making process, was subjected to empirical examination. A total of 93 top executives of Israel's largest industrial companies...

...Yuan Wang Employee participation enhances organizational effectiveness. Trust in employees leads to encouragement and acceptance of participation in decision making. There has been recent and growing interest in understanding the basic characteristics of managerial mechanisms within township...

... the ongoing experiential nature of spirituality and proposes that decisions about spiritual expression in the workplace are complex meshes of stimulus, decision‐making and action cycles (SDAs) that are embedded in the individual’s sensemaking, interpersonal relationships and group dynamics. Findings...

...Jette Schramm‐Nielsen In spite of decades of focus on decision making and decades of research on cross‐cultural management, few authors have devoted attention to the combination of decision making and specific cultural settings. The focus of this paper is the decision‐making processes in French...

... to enhance corporate accountability and improve corporate performance. This paper consequently explores the distribution of corporate power and the processes that can foster higher quality decision making and actions by boards. The paper investigates the fundamental difference between the exercise...

... and decision‐making styles of 33 managers related to organisational effectiveness throws some light on this question. What is called the “creative‐innovative” decision‐making style was found in 23 per cent of the managers. This article suggests that intuition as decision‐making style appears to be related...

...Amy L. Pablo Decision‐making studies incorporating risk have typically used risk measures that are generic across industries. Responding to calls for finer‐grained approaches, a recent study used a qualitative approach to discover how managers interpret risk in different industry contexts. Managers...

...Reva Berman Brown; Richard Herring The temporal aspects of strategy and decision making have not, until recently, been accorded the importance they deserve. This paper describes a study undertaken to measure the temporal perception of people in an organization. An instrument was devised which...

... the value of the information. Our statistical definition of information is based only on the rarity of its occurrence (Brillouin, 1959). © MCB UP Limited 1998 Arbitration Decision making Implementation Individual behaviour Information The entropy put into place with the conveying...