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Leading others is generally accepted as a process by which an individual influences another individual (or collective) to exert effort in reaching organizational goals (Northouse, 2010) . As such, leading others within organizations does not have to be tied to any particular organizational or hierarchal position to employ such influence (Wheelan &...

In this paper we show that endogenous - i.e. market-generated - signals observed by the private sector have crucial implications for monetary policy. When informationis endogenous, achieving the optimum through price stabilization is elusive. The optimal policy then consists, on the contrary, in exacerbating the natural response of.prices to shocks. In our framework, where supply...

Mechatronics businesses has blossomed for some time, yet still exhibit potential for further growth and development. The objective here is to explore which challenges mechatronics businesses faces. The theory draws on operations strategy, mechatronics and business development. It includes performance indicators of mec hatronics business development...

In this paper, we stud y team cohesion and leadership style of staff and managers working in a retirement home . We used two well - known questionnaires, the Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) and the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), which we translated in French and validated. The GEQ and the MLQ were submitted respectively to the employees and the team...

The aim of this paper is to develop a typology of workers base d on work - life balance (WLB) or imbalance (WLI) and satisfaction about this (im) balance (SWLB) . For this purpose, we use the data available in the special module “Work, Family and Wellbe ing” of the European Social Survey 2010. Our a priori typology includ es seven categories, namely the “work - centered” (WLI...

As suggested by previous results, whether, when designing robots, we should make use of social stereotypes and thus perpetuate them is question of present concern. The aim of this study was the identification of the specific conditions under which people’s judgments of robots were no longer guided by stereotypes. The study participants were 121 individuals between 18 and 69 years of...

A commercial real estate asset which stands out in some fashion may be qualif ied either as “atypical” or “trophy.” Past studies suggest conflicting price impacts of the two qualities. We examine distinctive features of such assets that determine price premi ums or discounts associated with them. By geospatially enrich ing a dataset of nearly 5000 hotel...

Der Umgang mit unternehmerischem Wertmanagement hängt stark davon ab, wie man Unternehmen und Management versteht. Das jüngste St.Galler Managementmodell regt einen unkonventionellen Zugang zu der Frage an, inwiefern zuwachsorientierte Leistungssysteme von Management profitieren können, und welche Rolle die Präzisierung seiner Kernfunktion dabei spielt.

To help metal conservators search for corrosion forms and find treatment protocols, this paper describes the augmentation of the MIFAC-Metal project through its migration to the internet and the addition of the MiCorr Decision Support System (DSS). The new online version of MIFAC-Metal enables conservators to digitally construct stratigraphies that they document during their visual...