Organizational Behavior

Leadership competencies and organizational culture in police organizations

by Emanuel Banutai

Co-authored with Iztok Podbregar

Published in 'The proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Organizational Science Development' / Ed. Marko Ferjan, Mirjana Kljajic Borstnar, Miha Maric & Andreja Pucihar /, Kranj: Moderna organizacija, 2012, pp. 75-83.

Through HRM this paper deals with police organization as part of public administration. Based on European pilot study... more Through HRM this paper deals with police organization as part of public administration. Based on European pilot study it analyzes the leadership competencies’ impact on successful change management in police organizations. Change management is measured with the change-performance measurement model through the transformation of cultural values in public administration organizations. Preliminary results show that traditional and new cultural values co- exist within the organization, and there is a statistically significant correlation between them. Also, significant positive correlation exists between new cultural values and ‘acceptance and approval to change'. The implications of these findings for police organizations are discussed.

Keywords: leadership competencies, change management, organizational culture, police

Deviance and police organisational culture in Slovenia

by Emanuel Banutai

Co-authored with Jerneja Sifrer & Gorazd Mesko

Published in 'Policing in Central and Eastern Europe - social control of unconventional deviance: conference proceedings' / Eds. Gorazd Meško, Andrej Sotlar & John Winterdyk /, Ljubljana: Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, 2011, pp. 379-400.

The purpose of this article is to examine the correlation between police deviance and police organisational culture in... more The purpose of this article is to examine the correlation between police deviance and police organisational culture in Slovenia.

Multicultural skills in the EU public administration

by Emanuel Banutai

Co-authored with Milan Pagon & Uros Bizjak.

Published as a chapter in a 'Economic integration, competition and cooperation: research monograph' / Eds. Vinko Kandzija & Andrej Kumar /, Rijeka: Faculty of Economics, 2010, pp. 683-693.

This study examined multicultural skills in the EU public administration on a sample of 284 public administration... more This study examined multicultural skills in the EU public administration on a sample of 284 public administration managers from the European Commission and 26 Member States. The results show that personality and personal traits play a role in possessing multicultural skills; so does on-the-job training. The most influential was a set of traits that we called ‘desirable personal traits.’ The results further indicate the possible negative effects of working in the same PA institution for a long time. Next, public administration managers' possession of higher levels of multicultural skills is related to some important organizational outcomes in a PA institution, more specifically to openness and transparency, stakeholders’ satisfaction and support, productivity, and successful change leadership. Managers with higher levels of multicultural skills also tend to have higher levels of other competencies. Finally, the implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Keywords: multicultural skills, public administration, European Union, personality, competency, organizational outcomes

On-the-job management training and multicultural skills: the moderating effect of openness to experience

by Emanuel Banutai

Co-authored with Milan Pagon & Uros Bizjak.

Published in 'European journal of cross-cultural competence and management', 2011, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 45-53.

This study examined the effects of on-the-job management training on the incumbent public administration managers’... more This study examined the effects of on-the-job management training on the incumbent public administration managers’ multicultural skills as a function of the managers’ openness to experience. Two hundred eighty four public administration managers from the European Commission and 26 member states participated in the study. The results indicate that on-the-job training (including the initial training, informal training, mentoring, coaching, and the availability of resources) improve the incumbent managers’ multicultural skills, but only when the managers are moderate or high in openness to experience. The multicultural skills of the managers who are high in openness to experience benefit from on-the-job training the most, followed by the skills of the managers who are moderate in openness to experience. When the managers are low in openness to experience, the increased amounts of on-the-job training actually decrease their level of multicultural skills.

Keywords: management training, multicultural skills, openness to experience, public administration.

Leadership Competencies for Successful Change Management

by Emanuel Banutai

Co-authored with Milan Pagon & Uros Bizjak.

Final study report. Ljubljana: University of Maribor, 2008, pp. 73.

Organization Mining using Online Social Networks

by Michael Fire

Co-authored with Rami puzis and Yuval Elovici

Mature, developed social networking services is one of the greatest assets todays’ organization may have. However, it... more Mature, developed social networking services is one of the greatest assets todays’ organization may have. However, it is also a non-negligible threat to the organization confidentiality. Many details on organizations are exposed on social networking websites by their members along with personal information. In this paper we analyze several commercial organizations by mining data their employees exposed on Facebook, LinkeIn, and other publicly available sources. Using a web crawler designed for this purpose we extract a network of informal social relationships of employees of a given target organization. Our results show that, using centrality analysis and machine learning techniques applied on the structure of the informal relationships network, it is possible to identify leadership roles within the organization. It is also possible to get valuable non trivial insights on the organization structure by clustering this network and gathering publicly available information on the employees within eac h cluster. Organizations willing to conceal, their structure, location and specialization of branches, the identity of leaders, etc. must enforce strict policies controlling the use of social media by their employees

Leader Deception Influences on Leader-Member Exchange and Subordinate Organizational Commitment

by Jennifer Griffith

Griffith, J. A., Connelly, S., & Thiel, C. E. (2011). Leader deception influences on leader-member exchange and subordinate organizational commitment. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 18, 508-521.

Deception is a common and daily occurrence in organizations. Despite this, little is known about how leader deception... more Deception is a common and daily occurrence in organizations. Despite this, little is known about how leader deception influences follower perceptions and commitment to the leader and the broader organization. This laboratory experiment uses a low-fidelity simulation task to investigate the effects of leader deception on follower perceptions of leader–member exchange (LMX) and follower commitment to the organization. Moderating effects of financial outcomes that resulted from deception, or who gained from deception, were also tested. Results showed negative effects of leader deception on follower LMX perceptions and affective commitment. Leader financial gain worsened the effects of leader deception on LMX compared with organizational financial gain. Implications of these findings are discussed.

Horizontal Democracy Now: From Alterglobalization to Occupation

by Marianne Maeckelbergh

Interface: a journal for and about social movements 4(1)

This article examines the 15 May movement in Barcelona to explore some continuities and discontinuities between social... more This article examines the 15 May movement in Barcelona to explore some continuities and discontinuities between social movement responses to the economic crisis and previous experiments with horizontal democracy within global social movement networks. Specifically, this article examines two meeting structures embodied in the occupied square in Barcelona to explore the mechanisms through which decision making within the 15 May movement foster diversity and embrace conflict. Based on a decade of involvement in the alterglobalization movement, attendance at meetings in the acampada in Barcelona at the height of the 15 May uprising, as well as follow up interviews and discussions with long-time activists in Barcelona, this article shows how the decision making practices used in the squares in Barcelona mimic, build on and expand on horizontal decision-making methods practiced within the alterglobalization movement. Some of the dilemmas created by the grounding of horizontal decision- making within local squares and the much larger scale of these meetings are explored.

Aproximación cuantitativa a la organización social de los ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano

by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo

(with Juan José Vieco)
La organización social de los Ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano: una aproximación cuantitativa. Revista Colombiana de Antropología 35:146-179. 1999 1999

This paper argues that Ticuna identity is based on terms of belonging to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These... more This paper argues that Ticuna identity is based on terms of belonging to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These clans are clustered in the moieties of "Earth" and "Air". The Ticuna have a hierarchical society than can be interpreted under the model of the house society. The clans have a prescriptive marriage that favors the endogamic control of territories and settlements. Although the marriage system is denominated "hypertotemic exogamous moieties" by Levi-Strauss, there is no significant exchange of females between villages.

The influence of power distance on leadership behaviours and styles

by Sandhiya Goolaup

Why your TeamSTEPPS program may not be working

by Timothy Clapper

Clapper, T. C., & Ng, G. M. (2012, in press). Why your TeamSTEPPS program may not be working. Clinical Simulation in Nursing. doi:10.1016/j.ecns.2012.03.007

Co-authored with Grace Ng

Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety ® (TeamSTEPPS) is a patient safety tool developed... more Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety ® (TeamSTEPPS) is a patient safety tool developed by the defense industry and based on four competencies: leadership, communication, situational monitoring, and mutual support. Unfortunately, there are barriers that prevent TeamSTEPPS from reaching its full potential, including: (a) lack of administrative support and resources, (b) lack of training focus to address hierarchal differences and incivility at all levels of health care practice and administration, (c) inadequate TeamSTEPPS instruction and simulation practices, and (d) educators’ resistance to change from crew resource management concepts. Suggestions for improvement include providing command and health care agency emphasis for the TeamSTEPPS program, providing adequate material and personnel resources, designing training that is geared to trainer implementation at the departmental level, prioritizing and saturating training, and striving toward a just culture.

BEYOND AWARENESS: AN ACTION SCIENCE APPROACH TO CROSS

by Debra Behrens

Book chapter in Integrating Consciousness for Human Change vol. 1
Joel H. Brown, editor 1996

Learning the Hard Way

by STAMATIA KREMMYDA

published in 'Insight, Edinburgh University Economics Magazine', page 30

Job demands-resources and early retirement intention: Differences between blue collar and white collar workers

by Guy Notelaers

Schreurs, Bert, Van Emmerik, Hetty, De Cuyper, Nele, Notelaers, Guy, De Witte Hans (2010).  Economic and Industrial Democracy, early online

This study investigates workers’ early retirement intention among blue- and white-collar workers
along two... more This study investigates workers’ early retirement intention among blue- and white-collar workers
along two processes as described in the Job Demands–Resources model: (1) an energetic process
wherein job demands are associated positively with early retirement intention through perceived
ill-health, and (2) a motivational process wherein job resources are associated negatively with early
retirement intention through work enjoyment. Analyses are based on 1812 Belgian workers aged
45 or older. Results from structural equation modelling provided support for the motivational
process, with a stronger relationship between job resources and work enjoyment among blue-
(vs white-) collar workers. The energetic process was not supported: the relationship between job
demands and early retirement intention was direct and not indirect through perceived ill-health,
and this relationship was stronger among white- (vs blue-) collar workers.

Organizing education by drawing on organization studies

by Georges Romme

Published in: Organization Studies, 2003

In this paper I explore how scholars researching organizations and organizing processes can use and exploit their... more In this paper I explore how scholars researching organizations and organizing processes can use and exploit their knowledge not only in terms of course contents, but also in organizing and managing students' learning activity. A design-oriented research approach is used in order to develop grounded design principles for organizing education. By drawing on the literature about organizational design and learning, several preliminary design ideas for organizing undergraduate education are described. Subsequently, two examples of how these design ideas can be applied are discussed. The first example involves the design of an undergraduate course in Organizational Behaviour. The second example is a tool for collaboratively supervising thesis projects. The design principles grounded in these two cases are, in sum: designing education as an authentic organization; exploiting the benefits of peer mentoring and assessment; acting and delegating as a senior manager; and setting vivid standards. Lastly, the contribution that organization studies can make to educational theory and practice is explored, and the role of design methodologies is discussed.

Max Weber's Protestant Ethic: Do Protestants Work More?

by Uzair Mughal

"This paper uses a 1975-76 Time Use Study to explore Max Weber’s claim that Protestants work more than... more "This paper uses a 1975-76 Time Use Study to explore Max Weber’s claim that Protestants work more than non-Protestants holds true in the given dataset. We used the data available from four days of time diaries kept by 1519 households which had details like total work time, sleep time and whether Protestant or not. Our tests show that Weber’s famed “Protestant Ethic” holds true in this case. There is a positive correlation between Protestantism and total work time, which is economically and statistically significant."

Exploring Organizational Cultures Through Virtual Survey Research

by Pavica Sheldon

HOW CULTURE SHAPES COMMUNITY: Bible Belief, Theological Unity, and a Sense of Belonging in Religious Congregations

by Samuel Stroope

Education and religion: Individual, congregational, and cross-level interaction effects on biblical literalism

by Samuel Stroope

Using ideas from cultural and organizational theory, I examine the interplay of individual and congregation-level... more Using ideas from cultural and organizational theory, I examine the interplay of individual and congregation-level educational attainment on biblical literalism. Data on 387 congregations and 100,009 worshippers (US Congregational Life Survey, 2001) are used to test hypotheses. Results indicate that the effects of congregational education and individual educational attainment are among the largest effects in models. This study is the first to show that regardless of an individual’s own education, affirmations of biblical literalism are less likely when persons with higher education dominate a congregation. This finding brings into relief the important role of social context in persons’ belief in biblical literalism. Additionally, congregational education amplifies the influence of individual education on biblical literalism such that the gap in belief between college/non-college education individuals widens in high education congregations. This finding suggests that high education persons more deeply absorb the influence of a more educated congregational context.

Optimal distinctiveness theory in nested categorization contexts: Moving from dueling identities to a dual identity

by Geoffrey Leonardelli

Leonardelli, G. J., Pickett, C.L., Joseph, J.E., & Hess, Y.D. (2011). Optimal distinctiveness theory in nested categorization contexts: Moving from dueling identities to a dual identity. To appear in R.M. Kramer, G.J. Leonardelli, & R.W. Livingston (Eds.), Social Cognition, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations: A Festschrift in Honor of Marilynn Brewer (pp. 103-125). Psychology Press Festschrift series. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.

Leonardelli, Pickett, and Hess, integrates Brewer’s (1991) optimal distinctiveness theory with the nested categorical... more Leonardelli, Pickett, and Hess, integrates Brewer’s (1991) optimal distinctiveness theory with the nested categorical context typically descriptive of an organization’s internal structure, where individuals belong to groups (subgroups) nested within more inclusive superordinate groups (such as functional units nested within an organization). It is ideal for employees to simultaneously identify with the subgroup and superordinate group, that is, to engage what is called a “dual identity,” as doing so aligns the loyalty and the interests of subgroup members with the superordinate group as a whole. However, the presenters first review evidence that individuals identify more with the subgroup and less with the superordinate group, what the presenters call “dueling identities,” because individuals prefer the more distinctive subgroups to superordinate groups. The presenters then argue that such dueling identities can be transformed into a dual identity were the subgroup and superordinate group both perceived to be optimally distinct. Some evidence is presented that supports this conclusion and the discussion highlights the different strategies that could be implemented to engineer a dual identity by manipulating individuals’ needs for optimal distinctiveness.