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ORGANIZATIONAL LOYALTY
Overcoming Communication Barriers in Organizations: Creating Competent Communicators
-- Dr. Martin Hahn
This article discusses two aspects that boost organizational commitment: How to
overcome comm-unication barriers in organizations and how to communicate effectively in
organizations. The basic eleven communi-cation barriers in organizations have been identified and tips on
how to overcome them discussed in detail. In addition, the article reiterates that
efffective communication in organizations can be facilitated if one knows the type of people working in
an organization – doers, connectors, and influencers.
© 2009 Dr. Martin Hahn. All Rights Reserved.
ORGANIZATIONAL LOYALTY
Evaluation of appreciative inquiry theory: Through competences description
analysis as a skill to measure desirable leadership
performance
-- Dr. Enrique Reig and Dr. Ceferí Soler
This article describes the 4Ds model for getting an evaluative form for appreciative
inquiry system, and explains in a competences format each dimension of appreciative inquiry
with the purpose to measure a positive leadership performance through follower's
evaluation. Finally conclusions are drawn and areas of future research recommended.
© 2009 Dr. Enrique Reig and Dr. Ceferí Soler. All Rights Reserved.
ORGANIZATIONAL LOYALTY
Passion and Purpose: Lessons From My Parents
-- Dan Coughlin
If you want to maintain the enthusiasm and make the effective decisions necessary
to accelerate through this economic crisis, it is critical to take the time necessary to clarify
the purpose of your career, the purpose of your work group, and the purpose of
your organization.
© 2009 Dan Coughlin. All Rights Reserved.
ORGANIZATIONAL LOYALTY
Driving Loyalty in
A Virtual World: Building Participation and Harnessing
Collaborative Intelligence
-- Vandana Ahuja and Dr.Y Medury
The need for creating value propositions for consumers in a competitive scenario has
outlined the fact that the final value delivered to the consumer is the sum of contributions of
all partners across the entire value chain. This article describes ways in which the
collaborative web can be used by organizations to engage partners and stakeholders.
© 2009 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
ORGANIZATIONAL LOYALTY
The Loyalty Challenge: Insights to Enhancing Organizational and Employee Loyalty
-- Wendy Phaneuf
Evolutions in work attitudes and organizations have created a challenge for
organizational leaders – how to view, promote, and encourage employee loyalty. This article examines
the magnitude of this challenge, the evolving nature of employee loyalty, and the benefits of
a loyal, contributing workforce. It also offers proven strategies to address the loyalty
challenge that primarily focus on strengthening the capability of leaders to create work
environments that foster employee engagement, development, contribution, and recognition.
© 2009 Wendy Phaneuf. All Rights Reserved.
ORGANIZATIONAL LOYALTY
Essence and Techniques in Redefinition of the Concept
of Organizational Commitment: The Unrewarded Element
-- Aviad Bar-Haim and Hanna Ornoy
This article attempts to show that a redefinition of the concept of
organizational commitment (OC) is required. The missing element in the currently accepted concept of OC
is the behavioral form of OC, because at the core of organizati-onal commitment
resides unrewarded behavior, which is an unequivocal behavior of delivery, carried out under
the worst conditions, when organizations are unable to reward it. Organizational commitment
as unrewarded behavior is explored among 316 respondents. In the process of redefinition
of OC, we found a concise structure of OC.
© 2009 Aviad Bar-Haim and Hanna Ornoy. All Rights Reserved.
ORGANIZATIONAL LOYALTY
Loyalty as Attitude and Action: Promoting Values-Based Decision Making
-- Richard Coughlan
Leaders' understanding of loyalty among employees in organizations today will
advance more rapidly if they focus on three key issues. First, leaders must determine the
most common targets of loyalty in the organization and take note of how those targets
have shifted in recent years. Second, leaders must search, with a critical eye, for evidence of
loyal behavior in the workplace. Finally, leaders must help to build systems that encourage
and reward loyal behavior.
© 2009 Richard Coughlan. All Rights Reserved.
ORGANIZATIONAL LOYALTY
Ethical Decision Making: Fairness and Justice Standards
-- Dr. Paul C Nutt
Cases depicting decision debacles are often used to illustrate ethical issues that arise
during decision making, their consequences, and how they create dilemmas for decision makers.
This article argues that coping with an ethical issue requires both awareness and a strategy.
Once core values are understood, actions and practices that recognize them can
be sought. Decision makers are called upon to alter their course of action and their
decision approach until objections are removed and core values can be affirmed among stakeholders.
© 2009 Dr. Paul C Nutt. All Rights Reserved.
ORGANIZATIONAL LOYALTY
What's Inside?: A Case for Component/Ingredient Branding
-- Anurag Dugar and Raj Kumar Pillay
The challenge for marketers is always to come up with new ways to talk to the
consumers. This article compares two such ways – one, `Celebrity Endorsements' and the
other, `Component Branding'. The former is over-used and the latter, underrated. The
article presents a case for component branding through some real life cases.
© 2009 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
PERSPECTIVE
The Moral of the Moment: Organizational Loyalty… For Now
-- Rob Jolles
© 2009 Rob Jolles. All Rights Reserved.
LEADERSHIP
Leadership's `Toxic Tandem': Growing Angst in Downturn
-- GRK Murty
The need for a boss to be good, particularly during periods of stress, is self-evident. But it
is not that easy, for the mechanics of leadership becomes more dynamic when human
beings with their known foibles, quirks, and blind spots interact. Hence, the need to be aware
of, and overcome the `toxic tandem' of leadership.
© 2009 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
INTERVIEW
-- Timothy Keiningham and Dr. Lerzan Aksoy
Our loyalties at work are also driven by our need to accomplish something, and to be a part
of something larger than ourselves. In this respect, our loyalty to the organization
actually supports our view of ourselves within the society.
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