Who shall succeed? How CEO board preferences and power affect the choice of new CEOs

Article Abstract:

This study shows how social psychological and sociopolitical factors can create divergence in the preferences of an incumbent CEO and existing board regarding the desired characteristics of a new CEO, and how relative CEO board power can predict whose preferences are realized. Using extensive longitudinal data, we found that more powerful boards are more likely to change CEO characteristics in the direction of their own demographic profile. Outside successors are also typically demographically different from their CEO predecessors but demographically similar to the boards. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Corporate directors, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Chief financial officers, Succession planning (Business)

---

Being fair or appearing fair: strategic behavior in ultimatum bargaining

Article Abstract:

This article presents the results of two experiments that investigated fairness and apparent fairness in ultimatum negotiations. Results suggest that offerers - those presenting offers - were both strategic and exploitative: they made offers that appeared fair only when respondents (potential recipients) had full information about the amounts to be divided or when third parties labeled offers as to their fairness. In contrast, respondents ignored fairness claims but reacted to the sizes of offers and to third party's evaluations. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Negotiation, Negotiations

---

Managers' reactions to procedurally just performance management systems

Article Abstract:

This research examined managers' reactions to the implementation of a procedurally just performance management system in two samples. Findings indicated that managers who perceived unfairness in their own most recent performance evaluations reacted more favorably to the implementation of a procedurally just system than those who did not perceive unfairness. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Ethical aspects, Justice (Philosophy), Human resource management systems, Human resource information systems

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Bank CEO pay-performance relations and the effects of deregulation. Management's incentives, equity's bargaining power, and deviations from absolute priority in Chapter 11 bankruptcies
• Abstracts: Are individual differences germane to the acceptance of new information technologies? Media appropriateness: effects of experience on communication media choice
• Abstracts: Tactical implementation and Murphy's law: Factors affecting the severity of problems. Corporate social performance and geographical diversification
• Abstracts: A holistic perspective on quality quests and quality gains: the role of environment. Maintaining the quality spirit
• Abstracts: The City of Westminster Housing Department: innovation and the management of change

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.