bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Do job disamenities raise wages or ruin job satisfaction?
Authors: Böckerman Petri , Ilmakunnas Pekka 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe objective of this paper is to analyse the role of adverse working conditions in the determination of individual wages and job satisfaction in the Finnish labour market.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses estimation of econometric models for wages and job satisfaction scores by using the Quality of Work Life Survey of Statistics Finland.FindingsThe paper finds that adverse working conditions have a very minor role in the determination of individual wages. In contrast, adverse working conditions substantially decrease the level of job satisfaction and the perception of fairness of pay at the workplace. This evidence speaks against the existence of compensating wage differentials, but is consistent with the view that the Finnish labour market functions in a non‐competitive fashion.Practical implicationsProvides useful information for improvement of working conditions.Originality/valueVery few papers have analysed the data sets that include, besides wages and job satisfaction scores, detailed information on several different aspects of self‐reported working conditions at the workplace, not just conditions typical of some occupations or industries.
Employee role enlargement
Authors: Chiaburu Dan S. , Marinova Sophia V. 
Published: July 2006

PurposeTo investigate the antecedents and contingencies of employee role enlargement.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses were tested using hierarchical regression analysis on data obtained by surveying 186 line and administrative employees.FindingsResults indicate that leader‐ and organization‐directed trust are positively related to employees' role enlargement toward individual‐ and organization‐directed citizenship behaviors (OCBOs). In addition, organizational justice moderated the above direct relationships. Specifically, interpersonal justice moderated the relationship between leader‐directed trust and role enlargement toward individual‐directed citizenship behaviors. Furthermore, procedural justice and distributive justice moderated the relationship between organization‐directed trust and role enlargement toward OCBOs, respectively.Practical implicationsPractitioners interested in interventions to enlarge the role perception of their employees can use organizational development interventions beyond the enhancement of social exchange factors such as leader‐ and organization‐directed trust. Depending on the desired individual or organizational focus of role enlargement, proper care should be given to fairness‐related components such as interpersonal, distributive and procedural justice.Originality/valueThe findings are valuable for those engaged in theory building and testing and for practitioners. From a theoretical perspective, the paper provides support for the interaction between trust and organizational justice and their impact on role enlargement. Practitioners can use these ideas to design organizational development interventions.
Leadership, management, and derailment
Authors: McCartney William W. , Campbell Constance R. 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThis paper examines the relationship among leadership skills, management skills and individual success and failure in formal organizations.Design/methodology/approachA model is presented depicting the interactive relationship among the three variables and explaining why some high potential employees suffer derailment while other individuals with similar skills continue to develop and achieve organizational success.FindingsThe model indicates that there is not one combination of management and leadership skills related to individual success.Practical implicationsDevelopmental activities should be ongoing regardless of the individual's level in the organization.Originality/valueThis paper synthesizes several streams of research into a coherent model that can be used as a guide for leadership development activities.
Effects of power concepts and employee performance on managers' empowering
Authors: Tjosvold Dean , Sun Haifa 
Published: July 2006

PurposeDespite calls for empowerment, employees often do not feel their managers assist and support them. Traditional views of power as limited and involving overcoming resistance may seriously obstruct empowerment efforts.Design/methodology/approachAbout 60 male and 60 female undergraduates majoring in management and recruited from universities in Guangzhou, China, were randomly assigned to six conditions, 10 males and 10 females in each condition. They prepared for the interaction, then interacted with an employees, and then completed measures of the dependent measures.FindingsResults from an experiment conducted in China indicate that participants used their capacity of power to assist, encourage, and in other ways empower employees when they viewed power as expandable rather than independent or limited. They also responded to the needs of the employee by providing assistance to low performing employees but they developed an ongoing relationship and felt their power was reinforced with high performing employees.Research limitations/implicationsResults were interpreted as suggesting that, even in high distant power societies like China, beliefs that power is expandable and cooperative goals both reinforce leader empowering.Practical implicationsThe tendency to confound power and competition may have important organizational implications. The prevalence of viewing power as limited may be an underlying reason why developing a cooperative, supportive relationship between managers and employees appears to be so difficult.Originality/valueThis study demonstrates experimentally that viewing power as expandable can help managers actually empower employees and also suggests these findings apply in China.
Outsourcing services in turbulent contexts
Authors: Nordin Fredrik 
Published: July 2006

PurposeDescribes challenges and problems of outsourcing services at firms that are also adopting service logic and, based on an empirical study, provides lessons regarding how they can be managed.Design/methodology/approachOne in‐depth longitudinal study of a leading systems provider has been carried out and data from between 1997 and 2003 has been utilised, consisting of 92 interviews, documents, and insider observations. Over 20 outsourcing projects were studied and the analysis was conducted both for the individual projects and across the different projects, in an iterative cycle back and forth between data on different levels and between data and theory. The aim was to search for patterns in the observed processes and glean lessons related to the outsourcing of services on an organisational level.FindingsBased on a literature review, three outsourcing challenges and how they should be managed are presented: the internal change challenge, the strategy formation challenge, and the customer‐relationship challenge. Four selected project stories are then presented; illustrating empirically how the outsourcing challenges can be managed. The project stories illustrate how difficult it can be to select a detailed sourcing strategy and implement it in a linear fashion.Practical implicationsThree main lessons learned during the research are described. First, the change process should be iterative and interactive. Second, all outsourcing and partnering initiatives should be coordinated. Third, the customer‐relationship should be nurtured during the outsourcing process.Originality/valueAn unusual in‐depth study of the process and challenges of outsourcing product services at an industrial firm; providing rich illustrations and empirically‐based advice regarding how the challenges of outsourcing can be managed.
Remote operations for fusion using teleoperation
Authors: Sanders Stephen 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe Joint European Torus (JET) is the flagship for European Fusion Research. This study seeks to address the issue of the need for remote handling in the process of recreating nuclear fusion as a limitless source of clean energy.Design/methodology/approachDescribes in detail the JET remote handling system with its “man in the loop” approach providing the operator with “remote hands” inside the JET Torus.FindingsFinds that the increase in requirement for remote operations has necessitated rationalization of task procedures and their associated paper work.Originality/valueThis paper opens the gates for increasing productivity, broadening the scope of remote handling procedures, increasing operating loads and reducing downtime.
Lessons learned from a novel teleoperation testbed
Authors: DeJong Brian P. , Faulring Eric L. , Colgate J. Edward , Peshkin Michael A. , Kang Hyosig , Park Young S. , Ewing Thomas F. 
Published: July 2006

PurposeSets out to discuss lessons learned from the creation and use of an over‐the‐internet teleoperation testbed.Design/methodology/approachSeven lessons learned from the testbed are presented.FindingsThis teleoperation interface improves task performance, as proved by a single demonstration.Originality/valueIn helping to overcome time‐delay difficulties in the operation, leading to dramatically improved task performance, this study contributes significantly to the improvement of teleoperation by making better use of human skills.
Delmia robot modelling software aids nuclear and other industries
Authors: Connolly Christine 
Published: July 2006

PurposeTo review the capabilities, features and uses of a robotic simulation package.Design/methodology/approachDescribes some applications within the nuclear industry. Gives an overview of the latest version of the software, and a detailed description of the procedure for modelling the robot and its workspace, defining its movements and converting the plan into reality. Also describes some applications in other industries.FindingsThe software enables engineers to plan robotic or manipulator work ensuring its feasibility, efficiency and safety, and has applications in a wide range of industries. It models the interactions of multiple robots and integrates with other aspects of the manufacturing process such as product flow and resource utilisation. For many standard robots, it can produce executable programs, with considerable time saving.Originality/valueA general overview of some very useful and powerful software, of interest to engineers in a variety of industries.
Regulation and freedom in global business education
Authors: Harney Stefano , Oswick Cliff 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThis paper seeks to confront the orthodoxy of global business education with some insights from postcolonial theory in order to develop a new critical pedagogy adequate for a global sociology of management and accounting.Design/methodology/approachReviewing the state of play in postcolonial theory and noting the new politicisation in that field, the paper asks what relevance this politicisation might have for an alternative to orthodox global business education.FindingsThe paper finds that the texts available to postcolonial theory present a wealth beyond the regulation of colonial and neo‐colonial regimes and in contrast critical management studies do not have texts that express such wealth or reveal global business as the regulator of such a wealth. Instead critique and indeed the anti‐globalization movements risk, appearing as regulators of wealth and business, threaten to emerge as the true carnival of wealth and path to freedom.Research limitations/implicationsTo dissociate critique from regulation and business from wealth, business and management education must seek out these texts in the fantasies among students and in the differences that obtain, as Dipesh Chakrabarty has argued, at the heart of capital.Originality/valueThis article embraces the fantasies of the fetish of the commodity as part of an immanent politics, claiming both an excess of wealth and an access to wealth, based on a new fetish adequate for the globalized limits that students and teachers encounter.
Equality and regeneration: conflicting priorities?
Authors: Speeden Stuart 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThis article considers how the persistence of race inequalities can be addressed in the field of regeneration. Race has been a consistent feature in inner urban areas yet there is little to suggest contemporary means of regeneration has taken this on board.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on a series of qualitative, semi‐structured interviews that were undertaken as part of ongoing work associated with the implementation of the Equality Standard for Local Government in England.FindingsAn emergent set of relations between equality, social inclusion and community cohesion is evident. As a result, aspects of inequality continue to lie at the heart of public sector intervention policies such as regeneration.Research limitations/implicationsThe article suggests that while there may be methods of management to help ensure good equality principles, it is the role of local democratic and political processes to eradicate such practice.Practical implicationsThe findings are important to public sector management. Continued work on Equality Standard for Local Government should take on board the findings of this article.Originality/valueThe article adds knowledge to how, in the field of regeneration, the characteristics of institutional racism can be locked into the practices and organizational cultures of public sector agencies.
Regeneration for all?
Authors: Pemberton Simon , Alty Carys , Boylan Rose , Stevens Claire 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to explore whether it is possible to analyse if Black and other racial minorities (BRM) groups in Liverpool are benefiting from processes of regeneration, and their impact on levels of BRM employment and economic activity.Design/methodology/approachThe article draws on official social and economic statistics and on qualitative interview data to provide a case study analysis.FindingsIt is argued that local regeneration initiatives do not always reflect and address the needs of different BRM groups and that this has contributed to the underperformance of the Liverpool's BME population.Research limitations/implicationsThere are important research implications from this piece. The work has demonstrated that the limited data collection practices of a number of agencies that operate at a local level, struggle to understand the broad and diverse range of BRM needs.Practical implicationsAddressing the needs of BRM groups is hampered by methods of community engagement with BRM groups. While some examples of good practice are starting to emerge, challenges remain in relation to sharing such practice and the co‐ordination of data collection.Originality/valueThe article provides an original overview of the information requirements to better understand how BRM groups can be supported through regeneration.
An empirical model of the relationships between manufacturing capabilities
Authors: Größler Andreas , Grübner André 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between strategic manufacturing capabilities, particularly whether they are cumulative or trade‐off in nature.Design/methodology/approachUses statistical analyses, particularly structural equation modelling based on data from the third round of the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey.FindingsFinds mostly cumulative effects between the strategic capabilities. Shows that “quality” is a basis for “delivery”, which is a basis for “flexibility” and “cost”; between “flexibility” and “cost” an unclear relationship is found. Whether “flexibility” and “cost” are pursued exclusively or simultaneously seems to be connected with the implementation of certain improvement programmes.Research limitations/implicationsResults cannot be interpreted in a prescriptive way, but only as descriptive findings stemming from a large empirical database. Future research in this area needs to be extended by longitudinal analyses and simulation studies because cross‐sectional analyses can only provide indirect empirical measures of dynamic changes of capabilities.Practical implicationsDescribes a common pattern of capability accumulation in the industries investigated. This information can be used to estimate potential competitor behaviour or as a way to perform in an innovative manner.Originality/valueOffers a clear conceptualisation of strategic capabilities with the help of an empirical study.
Forecast‐driven or customer‐order‐driven? An empirical analysis of the Chinese automotive industry
Authors: Zhang Xiang , Chen Rongqiu 
Published: July 2006

PurposeA successful implementation of mass customization and customer‐order‐driven production can bring numerous benefits to automakers. However, the transition from mass production to mass customization is difficult. Most of the previous studies focus on mature markets, leaving emerging markets untouched. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the necessity of making the strategic transition to mass customization in an emerging market.Design/methodology/approachThis research is based on an extensive field study. A multi‐method approach (including semi‐structured interviews, document examination and plant tours) was used to collect the data at different levels in five commercial vehicle manufacturers.FindingsThe respective advantages and disadvantages of these two manufacturing strategies are analyzed based on the findings and a framework is established. The drivers of the transition to mass customization have been recognized and the obstacles of transition are identified. The specific benefits of a successful mass customization implementation are listed. According to the empirical evidence, this paper concludes that customer‐order‐driven production is a promising direction in a rapidly changing market such as China.Originality/valueThis study makes a contribution in two aspects. First, the evidence of mass customization fills a gap in the empirical literature and the findings of mass production help cross validate the drawbacks reported in other studies. Second, this study presents a transition model to facilitate automakers to analyze the complex phenomena in a systematic way when they embark upon the strategic transition to mass customization.
Supply management: is it a discipline?
Authors: Harland C.M. , Lamming R.C. , Walker H. , Phillips W.E. , Caldwell N.D. , Johnsen T.E. , Knight L.A. , Zheng J. 
Published: July 2006

PurposeTo examine management literature for guidance on what constitutes a discipline. To examine supply management publications to determine whether the field constitutes a discipline or an emerging discipline. To contribute a structured evaluation to the body of supply management theory/discipline development knowledge.Design/methodology/approachLiterature review of what constitutes a discipline and an initial assessment of whether supply management is a discipline. Development of research questions used to design tests, using combinations of qualitative pattern matching, journal quality rankings, and social science citations index impact factor. Application of the tests, to evaluate field coherence, quality and the existence of a discipline‐debate, to determine whether supply management is an emerging discipline.FindingsAn initial literature review finds supply management not to be a discipline, as the field lacks quality of theoretical development and discussion, and coherence. Tests for increasing evidence of coherence, quality and impact yield positive results, indicating that supply management is progressing in its theoretical development. The test findings combined with the existence of the start of a discipline‐debate indicate that supply management should be judged to be an emerging discipline.Originality/valueDrawing from the management literature, the paper provides a unique structured evaluation of the field of supply management, finding it not to be a discipline, but showing evidence of being an emerging discipline.
Supply chain management: theory, practice and future challenges
Authors: Storey John , Emberson Caroline , Godsell Janet , Harrison Alan 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to critically assess current developments in the theory and practice of supply management and through such an assessment to identify barriers, possibilities and key trends.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a three‐year detailed study of six supply chains which encompassed 72 companies in Europe. The focal firms in each instance were sophisticated, blue‐chip corporations operating on an international scale. Managers across at least four echelons of the supply chain were interviewed and the supply chains were traced and observed.FindingsThe paper reveals that supply management is, at best, still emergent in terms of both theory and practice. Few practitioners were able – or even seriously aspired – to extend their reach across the supply chain in the manner prescribed in much modern theory. The paper identifies the range of key barriers and enablers to supply management and it concludes with an assessment of the main trends.Research limitations/implicationsThe research presents a number of challenges to existing thinking about supply strategy and supply chain management. It reveals the substantial gaps between theory and practice. A number of trends are identified which it is argued may work in favour of better prospects for SCM in the future and for the future of supply management as a discipline.Practical implicationsA central challenge concerns who could or should manage the supply chain. Barriers to effective supply management are identified and some practical steps to surmount them are suggested.Originality/valueThe paper is original in the way in which it draws on an extensive systematic study to critically assess current theory and current developments. The paper points the way for theorists and practitioners to meet future challenges.
Occupational gender wage discrimination in Turkey
Authors: Kara Orhan 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate gender based wage differences by schooling and occupations and to estimate the occupational gender wage discrimination in Turkey where strenuous attempts are underway to modernize and negotiate its culturally (Islamic)‐based gender differences.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs an extension of Blinder and Oaxaca's approach to measure the effect of wage discrimination. In order to correct a possible sample selection problem, Heckman's two step procedure is used to estimate the earning equations for males and females by using Turkish Household Expenditure and Income Survey.FindingsAmong the paper's central findings is that gender wage gap decreases with education, is less in the public sector, and varies across occupations. The overall discriminatory wage gap is estimated at 30 percent after controlling for education, experience, occupation, region, and selection effects.Research limitations/implicationsLimitations of this study are mostly related to the nature of the data set used in the analysis. Future research should be replicated on time series data with more variables if they are available.Practical implicationsPolicy makers should promote education of women since education reduces inequalities among genders as revealed from the decreasing gap of wage differentials for higher levels of education. They should implement measures aimed at reducing inequalities in women's pay and improving women's status in the labor market in line with the European Union policies.Originality/valueBy using micro data, this study estimates the gender wage discrimination at occupational levels in Turkey by correcting the possible sample selection bias in the analysis, usually omitted in other studies.