Employer-employee congruence in environmental values: an exploration of effects on job satisfaction and creativity

This study examines how the match (vs. mismatch) between personal and firm-level values regarding environmental responsibility affects employee job satisfaction and creativity and contributes to three literature streams [i.e., social corporate responsibility, creativity, and person-environment (P-E) fit]. Building on the P-E fit literature, we propose and test environmental orientation fit versus nonfit effects on creativity, identifying job satisfaction as a mediating mechanism and regulatory pressure as a moderator. An empirical investigation indicates that the various environmental orientation fit conditions affect job satisfaction and creativity differently. More specifically, environmental orientation fit produces greater job satisfaction and creativity when the employee and organization both demonstrate high concern for the environment (i.e., a high-high environmental orientation fit condition) than when both display congruent low concern for the environmental (i.e., a low-low environmental orientation fit condition). Furthermore, for employees working in organizations that fit their personal environmental orientation, strong regulatory pressure to comply with environmental standards diminishes the positive fit effect on job satisfaction and creativity, while regulatory pressure does not affect the job satisfaction and creativity of employees whose personal environmental orientation is incongruent with that of the organization

Transforming community well-being through patients' lived experiences

The purpose of this article is to (1) explicate micro-to-meso linkages of well-being, (2) provide a theoretical framework to guide research on connecting patient experiences to community well-being, and (3) offer guidelines to policymakers. We develop a conceptual framework establishing connections between micro and meso levels through the expansion of patients' lived ecosystems. We introduce the concept of patient ecosystem management (PEM), an organizational process that focuses on treating patients differently in terms of assessing, managing, and expanding resources to achieve patient health and well-being goals. This process establishes a foundational perspective that is necessary to connect patients' ecosystems and to facilitate community well-being. Theoretically, this research creates ties between micro-level interactions and a collective measure (community well-being). Policymakers and healthcare professionals should take a PEM perspective, which will require new roles and behaviors, and leverage technology to expand and overlap patients' individual service ecosystems (intra-alignment), thus enlarging community well-being (inter-alignment)

Idea Generation in New Product Development: A Cognitive Framework of the Fuzzy Front End

298 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.The contributions of this research are three-fold. First, we build an integrative theoretical framework examining the antecedents to successful new product idea generation by combining organizational cognition constructs and frameworks. Second, the two guiding conceptual frameworks used to build the integrative theory (market interpretation modes and organizational cognition mechanisms) are empirically tested and result in newly developed and tested measures. And finally, this research results in implications for NPD management, allowing organizations to better manage their new product idea generation processes, by understanding the effects of various market interpretation modes for different strategic objectives in new product development.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD

Idea Generation in New Product Development: A Cognitive Framework of the Fuzzy Front End

298 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.The contributions of this research are three-fold. First, we build an integrative theoretical framework examining the antecedents to successful new product idea generation by combining organizational cognition constructs and frameworks. Second, the two guiding conceptual frameworks used to build the integrative theory (market interpretation modes and organizational cognition mechanisms) are empirically tested and result in newly developed and tested measures. And finally, this research results in implications for NPD management, allowing organizations to better manage their new product idea generation processes, by understanding the effects of various market interpretation modes for different strategic objectives in new product development.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD

To change or not to change: how regulatory focus affects change in dyadic decision-making

Successful innovation requires teams to embrace and enact change. However, team members often differ in their preferences for change. We examine how regulatory focus affects dyadic teams’ tendencies to enact change across an array of repeated brand management decisions. Understanding such tendencies is important, since the innovation process is characterized by a series of investment decisions typically made by teams, yet prone to significant biases. Regulatory focus theory provides a framework for understanding the dominant motivations driving decision-making during goal pursuit. It argues that individuals operate under either a promotion or prevention focus, influencing preferences for stability vs. change. We develop a set of hypotheses regarding regulatory focus match vs. mismatch in teams and their effects on the relative tendency to enact change in decision-making. In the context of dyads involved in a complex management simulation consisting of multiple decision cycles, we empirically demonstrate that a promotion focus match is associated with greater levels of change in decisions than a prevention focus match, regardless of the type of goal pursuit strategy prescribed to dyads. Under regulatory focus mismatch, however, dyads are guided by the goal pursuit strategy (vigilant vs. eager) provided to them, which in turn informs their propensity to implement change

It\u27s the thoughts that count: substitution for goal striving actions

Planning is widely regarded as a critical tool for helping consumers successfully achieve their personal finance goals. Although planning has been identified as an effective self-regulatory tool, our research demonstrates that planning is not universally beneficial. Across two studies, our results demonstrate that planning delays initiation of goal pursuit behaviors for prevention-focused consumers who have adopted avoidance goals, since they perceive the act of planning to represent legitimate goal progress. In other words, making plans regarding when, where, and how to achieve a personal finance goal under prevention fit leads consumers to perceive themselves as having started to make progress towards their goal, although they only expended cognitive goal-directed effort. In turn, this perception leads to a delay in behaviors aimed at debt reduction. This finding carries important implications for marketing practice and theory

When planning is not enough: the self-regulatory effect of implementation intentions on changing snacking habits

Objective: This study examined whether matching implementation intentions to people’s regulatory orientation affects the effectiveness of changing unhealthy snacking habits. Design: Participants’ regulatory orientation was either measured (as a chronic trait) or manipulated (as a situational state), and participants were randomly assigned to implementation intention conditions to eat more healthy snacks or avoid eating unhealthy ones. Main outcome measures: A self-reported online food diary of healthy and unhealthy snacks over a two-day period. Results: Participants with weak unhealthy snacking habits consumed more healthy snacks when forming implementation intentions (regardless of match or mismatch with their regulatory orientation), while participants with strong unhealthy snacking habits consumed more healthy snacks only when forming implementation intentions that matched their regulatory orientations. Conclusion: Results suggest that implementation intentions that match regulatory orientation heighten motivation intensity and put snacking under intentional control for people with strong unhealthy snacking habits