Further analyses of the dispositional argument in organizational behavior
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Dispositional and situational influences on organizational behavior were examined with reference to the job redesign literature, particularly the research of Staw and Ross (1985). Dispositional and situational influence was assessed through investigation of the stability of job attitudes and affect among young professional engineers experiencing situational change arising from (a) change from university studies to full-time employment and (b) change of employer. Although correlational analyses suggested attitude and affect stability, t test results indicated attitude and affect instability. The inconsistency of these findings are discussed, and methodological problems in research in this area are noted. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1991
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Proactivity during organizational entry: the role of desire for control
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This study described the various ways that newcomers proactively attempt to gain feelings of personal control during organizational entry and examined their longitudinal effects on self-reported performance and satisfaction in a sample of organizational newcomers. The results suggest that individuals engage in proactive activities such as information and feedback seeking, relationship building, job-change negotiating, and positive framing during entry and that individual differences in desired control were related to 6 proactive entry tactics. However, only some of these tactics were related to self-reported performance and job satisfaction. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1996
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A house of our own or a house we've outgrown? An argument for increasing the size of the House of Representatives
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The framers of the US Constitution envisioned a House of Representatives whose growth would match the growth in the population. Today the average congressman represents between five and fifteen times more constituents than congressmen in other countries, and there are also public policy arguments in favor of a larger House. In Montana v Department of Commerce, the district court held that employing the mathematical formula of equal proportions is a violation of one person-one vote. Public policy reasons include greater accountability of Congressmen to those they represent.
Publication Name: Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0010-1923
Year: 1992
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