Future Time Perspective As A Temporal Anchor: Applications To Organizations

Future time perspective was introduced as a cognitive dynamic orientation.  We propose a model explaining its relationship with personality and organizational behavior, explain results of empirical tests, and identify uses.   There has been a great deal of confusion regarding the meaning and measures of Future Time Perspective.  Despite being treated as a stable trait for many years, it is reemerging as a temporal anchor that affects human behavior.&nbsp

Overtime Addiction

Overtime is common in business.  Companies use it to respond to excess demand without increasing the number of employees.  Employees do it as a means of increasing their income. It contributes to communities by increasing disposable income. However, it can become an addiction as companies, employees and communities come to depend on it as a part of their subsistence instead of a temporary benefit.  This paper explains this problem and offers specific suggestions for managers who want to cure or prevent overtime addiction

An Exploratory Analysis Of The Relationship Between Consumer Socialization Agents And Childrens Consumption Of Tobacco

This paper expands the use of marketing-related research for the study of tobacco consumption by children, to include consumer socialization theory.  The relationships between three socialization factors, parental modeling, parental style of interaction, and parental communication, and a child’s intent to consume tobacco were explored.  In a sample of 5th and 8th grade students, significant relationships were found between the child’s intent to smoke and both parental modeling and parental style of interaction

Employee Rewards And The Likelihood Of A Successful Initial Public Offering

In this paper, we survey employees about human resources practices regarding employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and profit sharing plans of firms that have registered for an IPO offering.  We find that firms that had ESOPs in place prior to the registration of an IPO have a greater likelihood of eventually launching an IPO than those registered firms who do not.  Our results broaden the existing finance literature of IPO analysis as we survey registered companies prior to their attempted IPO launch to determine whether their employee-based compensation structure impacts the likelihood of a successful IPO launch

Does Reliability Pay? How Reputation Can Affect Transaction Governance Investments

The role of trust in economic exchange is ill-defined. Trust between alliance partners is argued to sometimes be an alternative to costly governance mechanisms and can therefore lead to superior performance. On the other hand, relying on anything but investments to secure credible commitment to deterrence is described as myopic. This paper explores a middle ground where, in the context of a reputation network, governance costs can decline without the strict necessity of intentional trust. Using an experimental approach, we show that reputation effects lead to significant advantages for reliable players in terms of offers to ally and the quality of those offers. These advantages resulted in lower governance costs and better performance

Individual Time Perspective And Alliance Formation Behavior

The impact of time orientation on leaders’ behavior has been largely unexplored in research.  This study examined the role of time perspective in alliance formation.  Using a game, participants formed alliances using information about past behavior.  Findings suggest that participants with future time perspective were more likely to initiate alliances and those with a past-negative perspective were more likely to cooperate.  This finding supports the Theory of Leadership and Time Orientation.&nbsp

Relationships Between Accountability, Job Satisfaction, and Trust

With the trend toward self-management comes increasing accountability of individuals to their coworkers and organizations. There is an implicit assumption that workers like self-management and the accompanying accountability, despite little supporting empirical evidence. This study examines the idea that workers’ perceptions of their level of accountability are related to their job satisfaction. A significant correlation was found between job satisfaction and perceived accountability to coworkers and perceived accountability to management. In addition, we found that accountability to both coworkers and management was positively related to trust in supervisors and managers. However, only two aspects of accountability—manager and coworker awareness—seem to explain the variance in job satisfaction and trust. Practical applications of the findings are explained