...Heini Ikävalko; Päivi Hökkä; Susanna Paloniemi; Katja Vähäsantanen Purpose The study investigated emotional competence at work and elaborated emotional competence in relation to sociocultural aspects of emotions at work. Design/methodology/approach Emotional competence at work was explored via...

... and parental status. Design/methodology/approach – The quantitative study was cross-sectional in nature and used an online self-report questionnaire to generate information on job/work characteristics, belief systems and demographic variables. A snowball sample was used to recruit the respondents...

... Beliefs Work Management Religion In the winter of 2002, a very interesting and passionate discussion took place on the management, spirituality and religion (MSR) listserve, sponsored by the Academy of Management. Two very different ways of viewing the issue emerged, and we, as Editors...

... been used in previous studies by gender researchers in both India and the USA. A complete copy of the instrument is included in the appendix. Survey responses were categorized into six conceptual areas: 1. gender traditionality/nontraditionality at work, at home and in the ethnic community...

...Kathy Lund Dean; Charles J. Fornaciari; James J. McGee While spirituality and religion in work (SRW) as an inquiry field has been gaining interest in the popular press, it has only recently been recognized by the academic community. Consequently, its relevance to important research and its...

.... This paper argues that in researching workplace spirituality, a topic that is saturated with subjectivity, it is not only legitimate but central to safeguard the quality of our work that we articulate the dogmas, definitions, fears and desires we bring to the research. It discusses several literature‐based...

...John Milliman; Andrew J. Czaplewski; Jeffery Ferguson One important question in the field of workplace spirituality concerns the relationship of this construct with employee work attitudes. This study attempts to make a rigorous empirical examination of the relationship between workplace...

...Charles J. Fornaciari; Kathy Lund Dean The emerging research on spirituality, religion and work (SRW) poses concerns for all social scientists. Specifically, the paradigm currently employed for social scientific research, including measurement techniques, data analysis, and even accepted language...

...June Tolsby Illustrates how the implementation of a major information technology (IT) system within the Norwegian Army affected the way the employees perceived their flexibility and personal involvement in their work. By employing Taylor’s initial works, this paper illustrates how the introduction...

... and subjective feelings of social isolation as linked to advances in telecommuting and other off‐site “open collar” work. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Technology Telecommuting Control Communications Work Since the 1950s (Koontz and O’Donnell, 1968), many management theorists have accepted four...

.... Whether in families or organizations, manifestations of pathology and health often surface indirectly or symbolically. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Corporate culture Health Management Organizational change Work Institutionalized patterns of pathology ‐ the euphoria of adrenaline...

...Jerry Biberman; Michael Whitty Contends that predictions of the end of work as we know it, and a bleak jobless future, as we head into the twenty‐first century, derive from a modernist paradigm of work ‐ a paradigm that has been the prevailing paradigm for the past 100 years. Seeks to provide...

... recolonized and their subsistence economies decimated. Most of the employee survivors of this economic and class warfare are working longer and harder and are suffering various stress, burnout, and psychiatric symptoms. In addition to intense global competition, cheap foreign labour, and superefficient...

...Øystein Gullvåg Holter Contrasts the ideology of “productionism” with the rising importance of people‐oriented work (“reproduction”) and the struggle for equal gender status. Examines economic factors that discriminate against reproduction and women’s activities, and explores ways to overcome...

...Punya Upadhyaya A celebration of possible transformations of our radical and mainstream discourses of globalization. Begins by displacing two conventional dualizations that inform our scholarly theorizing and practice: between the global and the local and between our work and ourselves. Advocating...

...Peter J. Robertson It is argued that the behaviour of organizational members is influenced to a large extent by characteristics of their work settings. Furthermore, since individuals must change their behaviour in order for organizational improvement to occur, planned organizational change can...

... improvements in work attitudes (job satisfaction,organizational commitment, group climate, competitiveness) for TQM training recipients after the first year of intervention. Unexcused absences and turnover also declined significantly. Discusses the implications of these results for generalizing TQM programmes...