Stronger Than the Sum of Its Parts? The Performance Implications of Peer Control Combinations in Teams

Integrating theorizing on situational strength and complementarity with control theory, we investigate the mediating processes that transmit peer control combination effects to team performance. We argue that two critical peer control mechanisms-norm strength and peer pressure-complement each other such that their joint impact on team members becomes stronger than the sum of their parts. In a multiple mediator model, we identify effort and trust as two distinct mediating processes that explain the relationship between peer control combinations and team performance. Multisource, multiwave data from 41 self-managing healthcare teams largely support our model. The pattern of mediation was more complex than we anticipated, revealing an indirect effect of peer controls on effort via trust. Together, our findings offer insight into how controls complement each other and the processes through which they do so

FEED RATION HOMOGENEITY DURING DISTRIBUTION OF BROILERS’ AUTOMATIC FEEDERS / HOMOGENEIDADE NA DISTRIBUIÇÃO DE RAÇÃO EM LINHAS DE COMEDOUROS TIPO PRATO AUTOMÁTICO

O trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de verificar a eficiência de dois equipamentos distribuidores de ração para frangos de corte quanto à homogeneidade na distribuição ao longo das linhas. Foram coletadas amostras de dois equipamentos tipo prato automático de características similares, porém de diferentes fabricantes. As amostras foram coletadas em cinco pontos de distribuição, sendo eles: silo de armazenagem, moega, primeiro prato, prato do meio e prato final. As amostras foram submetidas a análises quantitativas de cinzas e análise granulométrica. Os dados obtidos foram submetidos à análise de variância (ANOVA) e as médias comparadas por teste de Tukey em nível de 1% de significância e também regressão linear. Os resultados das análises estatísticas mostraram que há diferença significativa no tamanho de grânulos e na quantidade de cinzas conforme a distância percorrida pela ração e, conforme há o aumento do tamanho de grânulos, ocorre redução no teor de cinzas. Conclui-se que há segregação da ração durante a distribuição ao longo da linha, sendo que há acúmulo de matéria mineral nos primeiros pratos e este teor diminui conforme a distribuição. </p

Understanding the Role of Information Technology for Organizational Control Design: Risk Control as New Control Mechanism

Organizational control is one of the fundamental functions of management. Although controls come along with performance constraints, organizations rely on control mechanisms to direct attention, motivate, and encourage organizational members to act according to organizational goals and objectives. Managers build their decision on control design on the degree of knowledge about the value creation process and the predictability of the outcome. In this paper, we enhance a popular theoretical framework for organizational control design by enclosing IT-enabled controls. We explore the framework empirically in a multiple case study on Governance, Risk management, and Compliance information systems (GRC IS), a popular new trend in organizational control design. Our findings provide evidence that IT-enabled controls enable a new control mechanism, risk control, for situations with perfect knowledge about the transformation process and high ability to measure output. As research implication, we recommend an extension of organizational control theory to incorporate the effects of information technology on control design. As practical implication, we provide decision support for the selection of GRC controls, depending on situational factors and the expected value proposition. In sum, this research enhances the body of knowledge on organizational control design with a risk-based perspective