Sharon Clinebell

The Effect of Advance Notice of Plant Closings on Firm Value

The issue of workers displaced because of plant closings gained prominence in the 1980’S because of their growing numbers. With the increased attention focused on plant closings, the topic of advance notice has also gained prominence. This paper examines the issue of advance notice for plant closings and its effect on firm value. The findings of this study indicate that longer periods of advance notice have significant negative effects on firm value.

Differences Between Part-Time and Full-Time Employees in the Financial Services Industry

Although part-time employees account for approximately 17% of the workforce, how, or if, they differ from full-time employees is still unknown. This study addresses the question of whether part-time and full-time employees differ on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job involvement, role ambiguity, role conflict, and inclusion. Additionally, the respondents were from the financial services industry, which has been underrepresented in the part-time employment studies. Part-time employees were found to have lower levels of job involvement and inclusion.

The Importance of Organizational Context on Employees' Attitudes: An Examination of Worlking in Main Offices Versus Branch Offices:

Organizational context is important in the determination of attitudes and behaviors (Rousseau, 1978). This paper presents the results of a study conducted with employees of branch banks and main office banks regarding their job-related attitudes. It is hypothesized in this paper that employees in the branch banks will have lower levels of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job involvement, and partial inclusion and higher levels of role conflict and role ambiguity. The findings are consistent with the findings of Podsakoff, Niehoff, MacKenzie and Williams (1993) who suggested that researchers would be well advised to consider organizational context in future research.

Spiritual leadership as a model for performance excellence: a study of Baldrige award recipients

Abstract Issues regarding workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership have received increased attention in the organizational sciences. The implications of workplace spirituality for leadership theory, research, and practice make this a fast growing area of new research and inquiry by scholars. The purpose of this research was to test a dynamic relationship between the revised spiritual leadership model, consisting of inner life, spiritual leadership (comprised of hope/faith, vision, and altruistic love), spiritual well-being (i.e. a sense of calling and membership), and key organizational outcomes in a sample of Baldrige Performance Excellence Program award recipients. With structural equation modeling, results revealed a positive and significant relationship between spiritual leadership and several outcomes considered essential for performance excellence, including organizational commitment, unit productivity, and life satisfaction. These relationships were explained or mediated by spiritual well-being. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

Office Romances: The New Battleground Over Employees' Rights to Privacy and the Employers' Right to Intervene

Office romances have increased dramatically as more men and women work together for prolonged periods. The article reviews reasons why office romances are flourishing, examines the corporate response to office romances, discusses the rights and responsibilities of employees, co-workers, and employers, and recommends courses of action for each.

Computer Use in the Management Curriculum

Abstract This article examines the integration of computers into the management curriculum. Results from a survey of 228 universities show that many schools possess the technology but are not incorporating it into the classroom. Schools not accredited by the AACSB tended to have a higher level of integration than did AACSB-accredited schools.

An Examination of Learning Preferences of U.S. and International Students

Learning styles and preferences are often discussed topics in educational psychology, but are less prevalent in business education. International students are another understudied segment of business education. This article reviews literature regarding learning styles and preferences and examines whether U.S. and international students have different learning preferences using the visual-aural-read/write-kinesthetic (VARK) model. The findings indicate a large percentage of both populations have multimodal learning preferences. For the students who have one preferred learning mode, differences do exist between international and U.S. students.

A Measure Focusing on Part-Time/Full-Time Employees

This paper examines the differences between part-time and full-time employees using a recently developed measurement scale, partial inclusion as an underlying theoretical framework. Differences were found among part-time employees as they had higher levels of inclusion and involvement.

Wisdom of a Leader

Complex systems, issues, and problems call for a careful analysis of choices and decisions, and how these decisions affect multiple stakeholders in the present and the long term. Generic leadership characteristics and competencies such as cognitive ability, emotional intelligence, and cultural intelligence are not sufficient in providing effective leadership in a complex, globalized world. The focus of this chapter is to highlight and describe the concept of wisdom as an essential foundation of leadership in resolving today’s challenges. In the recent past, scholars have identified wisdom as the missing dimension in providing effective leadership. Wisdom involves making informed decisions, bearing in mind short-term and long-term consequences of decisions to multiple stakeholders. McKenna and Rooney1 have articulated the concept visioning and a perspective-taking capacity that incorporates long-range goals. This perspective may at times be at odds with notions of leadership effectiveness that are based on objective measurements and tangible benefits. Wisdom involves transcending above a narrow focus of decisions to higher ideals of improving and sustaining the human condition, resources, and the environment. Wisdom also involves understanding complex systems by tapping into different gestalts of knowledge to distill relevant issues into actions, and the ability to unite different interest parties into a winning coalition. Our focus is on the concept of wisdom and how it can be applied in dealing with these challenges. We proceed by describing the contextual globalized world, our understanding of wisdom, selected relevant literature, the need for a wise leader, and profiles of wise leaders.

Facilitating Cross-Cultural Management Education Through Global Faculty Exchanges

According to the AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) (AACSB International, 2011), the next big transformational wave to hit business schools is globalization. Globalizing the faculty is one strategy for enhancing the globalization of business schools and using global faculty exchanges is one method to globalize the faculty. AACSB (2011) noted that globalizing faculty is often overlooked. A survey of faculty who have engaged in international teaching opportunities was conducted. The responses from the survey and recommendations for developing global faculty exchanges and increasing their effectiveness are provided.