Search results for "COMMITMENT"

"Facta non verba" : an experiment on pledging and giving

2015

International audience; We design an experiment to investigate whether asking people to state how much they will donate to a charity (i.e., to pledge) increases their actual donation. Individuals’ endowment is either certain or a random variable. We study different types of pledges, namely, private, public and irrevocable, which differ in terms of the cost to the individual for not keeping the promise. We show that in absence of endowment uncertainty, private and public pledges are associated with lower donations as compared to donations in the no-pledge case: private pledges slightly reduce donations and public pledges reduce them more significantly. Donations increase with uncertainty (in…

Temptation and commitment in the laboratory

2010

Temptation and self-control in intertemporal choice environments are receiving increasing attention in the theoretical economics literature. Nevertheless, there remains a scarcity of empirical evidence from controlled environments informing behavior under repeated temptations. This is unfortunate in light of the fact that in many natural environments, the same temptation must be repeatedly resisted. This paper fills that gap by reporting data from a novel laboratory study of economic decisions under repeat temptations. Subjects are repeatedly offered an option with instantaneous benefit that also entails a substantial reduction to overall earnings. We show that this option is "tempting" in …

Analisi dei rapporti di antecedenza dell’ organizational commitment e del job involvement sulle dimensioni del work engagement

2010

Participer pour rendre le travail possible. Les staffs en unités de soins palliatifs

2018

Répondant à un mandat médical particulier — soigner sans guérir —, les professionnels de soins palliatifs font d’une partie du « sale boulot » hospitalier leur cœur de métier. Dans l’incapacité d’y faire face seuls mais aussi pour lutter contre la souffrance au travail, les médecins attendent des personnels paramédicaux qu’ils participent à l’élaboration du soin à travers des réunions pluridisciplinaires nommées « staff ». Cette participation modifie la division du travail habituellement en vigueur à l’hôpital, et entraîne des « charges de la participation » supplémentaires pour les paramédicaux. Mais dans le même temps, les staffs permettent aux paramédicaux de s’approprier les cadres cult…

Comportement organisationnelle et dynamiques stress/bien-être au travail: proposition d’un modèle.

2010

A model of goal dynamics in technology-based organizations

2011

The purpose of the present work is to build a suitable system dynamics model for goal dynamics in organizations, as proposed by Barlas and Yasarcan (2008). The proposed model does not bear any ambition of being exhaustive: the main objective of this paper is to propose a model of goal dynamics in which Goal Setting, Management by Objectives and Training are viewed as human resource practices able to enhance workers' goal commitment, and therefore, improve organizational performance. In the first part of this paper, an analysis of the Goal Setting Theory and the role of goal setting practices, in bettering worker's performance, are stressed. In the second part, a case-study, the causal loop …

How to unleash the innovative work behavior of project staff? The role of affective and performance-based factors

2017

Abstract Although the literature generally presumes that temporary forms of organizing such as projects are especially suitable for generating innovation, empirical support for this assumption that goes beyond case-based evidence is still scarce. The study at hand aims to close this gap in research by investigating how the characteristics of temporary organizations (TOs) affect an individual's innovative work behavior (IWB). By applying a structural equation modeling approach on an Austrian-German sample of 583 TO professionals, it can be shown that both, performance-based factors and affective factors are having a significant impact on the emergence of IWB. However, the hypothesized modera…

Innovativeness and Family-Firm Performance: The Moderating Effect of Family Commitment

2016

The positive relationship between innovativeness and firm performance is well established and applies equally to all businesses, including family firms. However, little is yet known about how the unique characteristics of family firms influence this relationship. Drawing upon the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm, this study explains how the interplay between innovativeness as a firm-specific resource and family commitment as a family-specific resource affects performance. The analysis of longitudinal survey data collected from Finnish family firms demonstrates a curvilinear (U-shaped) moderating effect of the owner family’s commitment to the firm, in that the impact of innovativeness o…

Due usi italiani di "enunciazione"

2015

This article examines two uses of the word enunciation in some recent contributions of the italian semiotics: a) “enunciation” as activation of open semantic potentials (VIOLI 2003) ; b) “enunciation” as modulation of local encyclopedic sections (PAOLUCCI 2010). Thanks to the theoretical resources of two fundamental research programs as Benveniste’s linguistics (LEB) and Culioli’s theory of predicative and enunciative operations (TOPE), we try to demonstrate that these uses are variants of the same general idea, i.e. “actualization” of encyclopedic virtualities. In the last section of the paper, we formulate some questions that remain open in the context of this investigation.

Explicación teórica y compromisos ontológicos : un modelo estructuralista

2021

En este ensayo me propongo esbozar un modelo de «explicación teórica con compromisos ontológicos». No se pretende que tal modelo tenga aplicación al uso de 'explicación' en la vida cotidiana, y ni siquiera que sea aplicable a todos los contextos científicos, tan sólo que tiene una significación genuina en grandes porciones de las ciencias naturales, particularmente en la física, y más generalmente en aquellas disciplinas que han sido matematizadas más o menos sistemáticamente. Mi tesis general, que voy a tratar de articular en lo que sigue, es simplemente la siguiente: al menos en muchos contextos de la ciencia teórica, la explicación adopta la forma de la inserción de una estructura de dat…