http://wiki.mgto.org/ 2012-05-21T14:52:57+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/ http://wiki.mgto.org/lib/tpl/default/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-03-09T19:57:32+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/affect?rev=1331294252&do=diff (There’s more on group affect in the group summary, there’s more on the connection to cognition in the decision making summary) Elfenbein (2007, AMA) did a very nice literature review on emotions in organizations. For the first time the whole area was brought together within a single framework. Here, emotion was seen as a sequence that unfolds chronologically and investigated at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational levels of analysis. text/html 2012-03-11T12:28:43+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/agency_theory?rev=1331440123&do=diff (there’s lots more in the summary over corporate governance and the agency-steward debate) Central Question: How do organizations deal with conflicting goals ? Origins Ø  Given that traditional neo-classical economics did not look inside the firm, it is not surprising that it did not address the possibility of intra-firm conflict over the way a firm should be managed. Neo-classical economics assumed a monolithic goal for the firm: profit maxmization. Firms that behaved contrary to this a… text/html 2012-02-28T11:54:04+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/attitudes_toward_greed?rev=1330401244&do=diff Scale From Piff (2012, PNAS, supplemental): * To be a successful person in this society, it is important to make use of every opportunity. * It is not morally bad to think first of one ’ s own benefit and not other people ’ s. * One should be concerned with the benefit to the group as a whole rather than with one ’ s own benefit. (Reverse-scored) * An individual ’ s pursuit of self-interest should be allowed only insofar as it will not jeopardize the public welfare. (Reverse- scored… text/html 2012-03-11T12:27:44+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/behavioral_theory_of_the_firm?rev=1331440064&do=diff Fili – a somewhat lacking summary without too many citations. For the continuation of the more modern behavioral theory of the firm look for Social Learning and evolutionary economics.. see the orgsci 2007 review for more. Central Question How do organizations make economic decisions? text/html 2012-03-11T12:30:34+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/business_policy?rev=1331440234&do=diff Topic 3: Business Policy/Strategy: Overview 1.      Chandler , A. 1990. Scale and Scope : The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Harvard Uni: 1-46. Basic ideas of Chandler’s Scale and Scope: the development and proper scope and structure of the diversified firms. He examines how continued growth forces the standard M-form organizations, and how prosperity led to diversification strategies. Heavy and technologically complex industries are characterized by inexhaustible technical economies … text/html 2012-02-15T14:14:33+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/cheat_lie_steal_scale?rev=1329286473&do=diff From appendix in Detert, Trevino, & Sweitzer (2008) JAP. Instructions The items * Lying to my parents about my school performance * Exaggerating my accomplishments on my college application * Lying about my age. * Using a false excuse to delay taking an exam or turning in an assignment * Claiming to have turned in an assignment when I have not * Taking low-cost items from a retail store * Taking small amounts of money from my parents’ wallet without their permission * Copy… text/html 2012-01-10T19:00:11+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/clean_variable_string?rev=1326193211&do=diff From SPSSX : DEFINE !DelENTER (!POS !CHAREND('/')) !DO !Var !IN (!1) LOOP #i=1 TO LENGTH(RTRIM(!Var)) . IF (RANGE(SUBSTR(!Var,#i,1),'0','9','a','z','A','Z')~=1 AND ANY(SUBSTR(!Var,#i,1),'&','%',';',',',':','-','/','#','*','(',')','$','%','\','+','=','.')~=1) SUBSTR(!Var,#i,1)="". END LOOP. EXE. !DOEND. !ENDDEFINE . text/html 2012-01-10T20:54:29+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/clean_variable_string_using_spss_python?rev=1326200069&do=diff This code is SPSS embdedded Python to run the cleanup much faster. BEGIN PROGRAM. from __future__ import with_statement import spss, string with spss.DataStep(): ds = spss.Dataset() for i in range(len(ds.cases)): ds.cases[i,1] = ''.join(c for c in ds.cases[i,1][0].lower() if c in string.ascii_lowercase) END PROGRAM. text/html 2012-05-03T10:53:01+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/conferences?rev=1336013581&do=diff Management * Academy of Management (AOM) Social Psychology * Association for Psychological Science (APS) * Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) * Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) * International Association for Cross Cultural Psychology (IACCP) * Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology * Association for Consumer Research (in marketing, but lots of social psyc related sessions) text/html 2012-02-18T11:06:46+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/consent_form?rev=1329534406&do=diff Suggested consent form template: Purpose and procedures Procedure Compensation for participation Potential risks Potential benefits Confidentiality Participation and withdrawal Questions and concerns text/html 2012-01-08T16:25:46+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/convert_between_comma_separated_to_tab_separated_text_files?rev=1326011146&do=diff You might need a quick script to convert between tab separated to comma separated text files. Here's how... import sys import csv tabin = csv.reader(sys.stdin, dialect=csv.excel_tab) commaout = csv.writer(sys.stdout, dialect=csv.excel) for row in tabin: commaout.writerow(row) text/html 2011-12-31T15:04:37+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/convert_large_spss_file_to_excel?rev=1325315077&do=diff I have a 4G dataset of text for some qualitative analysis. Sadly, SPSS is really not very efficient with text based queries, but Excel definitely is. Problem is, Excel has a limit of about 1million rows, while my dataset had 13million rows. I needed a script that would : text/html 2012-03-09T19:58:13+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/creativity?rev=1331294293&do=diff Based on Zhou & Shalley (2003)’s review. Two major models of creativity study: Amabile’s componential model. A) domain-relevant skills; b) creativity-relevant skills; c) intrinsic motivation. Recent studies on intrinsic motivation follow the cognitive evaluation theory (Deci & Ryan, 1980, 1985) that contextual factors have two functions: information or controlling. text/html 2012-05-16T00:05:50+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/directions_for_future_research?rev=1337097950&do=diff Schwarz seminar 2012-03-09 Related papers * Lee & Schwartz (2011, 2012, JPSP, CurrDirePsycSci, Science etc). * Zhang & Schwartz (2011, 2012, ACR, JESP) Both his Umich PhD students promoted in his talk, published as first authors in the best of journals. extraordinary. text/html 2012-02-18T11:38:33+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/ego_depletion_scale?rev=1329536313&do=diff From Finkel & Campbell, 2001, JPSP, used as a manipulation check : ... The items: * I exerted a lot of effort while watching the film * I had to concentrate on the instructions while watching the film * I felt emotionally tired after watching the film text/html 2012-03-19T21:31:56+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/ethical_judgments?rev=1332163916&do=diff Quoted from Taken from Akkah (1995, JBE) On a 7-point scale with 1 = “never” and 7 = “frequently” : Personal use * Using company services for personal use * Doing personal business on company time * Pilfering company materials and supplies * Taking extra personal time (lunch hour, breaks, early departure) text/html 2012-04-27T18:07:11+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/ethics_experimental_manipulations?rev=1335521231&do=diff A collection of methods of how to experimentally test unethical decision making : Testing Unethical Behavior in lab setting 25-question quiz Quote from “Too tired to tell the truth: Self-control resource depletion and dishonesty” : (Mazar, N., Amir, O., & Ariely, D. (2008). The dishonesty of honest people: A theory of self-concept maintenance. Journal of Marketing Research, 45, 633–644.) text/html 2012-04-28T23:40:52+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/european_social_survey?rev=1335627652&do=diff Background The ESS started measuring Values Orientations on a regular annual basis. (More info here) It's basically comprised of 21 items, reduced from the 40 items in the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ). The Items Male items * Thinking up new ideas 1 and being creative is important to him. He likes to do things in his own original way. * It is important to him to be rich. He wants to have a lot of money and expensive things. * He thinks it is important that every person in the … text/html 2012-03-11T12:33:27+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/evolutionary_theory?rev=1331440407&do=diff Nelson, R. 1991. SMJ. Why do firms differ and how does it matter? In all economic analyses, differences among firms in the same line of business are repressed, or assumed to reflect differences in the market environments that they face. They hold the position that the differences are not discretionary, but rather reflect differences in the contexts in which firms operate. Firms face given and known choice sets and have no difficulty in choosing the action within those sets that is best for them… text/html 2012-03-24T18:20:45+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/former_classmates?rev=1332584445&do=diff Professors I've previously studied with : Strategy grads - HKUST * Rajiv Krishnan Kozhikode * Cuili Qian * Tang Yi Hebrew University - OB * Nir Halevi (Stanford) text/html 2012-02-27T14:36:00+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/forming_impressions?rev=1330324560&do=diff From Verplanken Holland 2002 JPSP - expriment 1: text/html 2012-03-16T14:52:50+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/free_will_and_determinism_plus_scale?rev=1331880770&do=diff Introduction This is a FAD-Plus scale, an attempted improvement of the unpublished yet widely used FAD scale – Free-will and Determinism Scale. It was developed by DELROY L. PAULHUS AND JASMINE M. CAREY and published on Journal of Personality Assessment, 93(1), 96–104, 2011 : text/html 2012-03-16T14:52:45+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/free_will_and_determinism_scale?rev=1331880765&do=diff Introduction This is the FAD scale – Free-will and Determinism Scale: Version 4B (source). Though this scale has never been published it has been used in various PsycSci and top-tier psyc journals. This is quote from the Free Will and Determinism Plus scale paper introduction to this scale : text/html 2012-05-12T16:42:46+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/free_will_and_determinism_scale_fwd?rev=1336812166&do=diff Introduction This is a free will scale, developed by Rakos, Laurene, Skala, & Slane, 2008, Behavior and Social Issues): The Free Will and Determinism FWD Scale Instructions (page 27): Free Will and Determinism-General Will Questions * Each person’s decisions are guided by a larger plan. (R) * Human beings actively choose their actions and are responsible for the consequences of those actions * Free will is a basic part of human nature. * A person must accept responsibility for h… text/html 2012-05-06T11:21:19+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/free_will_experimental_manipulations?rev=1336274479&do=diff Encouraging a Belief in Determinism The Value of Believing in Free Will Encouraging a Belief in Determinism Increases Cheating Experiment 1: Experiment 2: text/html 2012-03-09T19:42:34+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/groups?rev=1331293354&do=diff Kozlowski & Ilgen (2006, PSPI) Mathieu et al. (2008, JOM) Chen & Kanfer (2006, ROB) There’s a bit more on teams judgment and decision making in that summary. Definition A team is two/three or more (seldom more than fifty) individuals who a) socially interact (face-to-face or, increasingly, virtually), text/html 2012-02-17T11:26:39+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/guilt_and_shame_proneness_scale?rev=1329449199&do=diff From (GASP) - Cohen etal (2011, JPSP) : ... From the appendix, page 966: * Very Unlikely * Unlikely * Slightly Unlikely * About 50% Likely * Slightly Likely * Likely * Very Likely The items : * After realizing you have received too much change at a store, you decide to keep it because the salesclerk doesn’t notice. What is the likelihood that you would feel uncomfortable about keeping the money? * You are privately informed that you are the only one in your group that … text/html 2012-02-06T13:55:50+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/hong_kong_faculty?rev=1328507750&do=diff Hong Kong researchers whose work I find interesting: * Melody Chao * Ellick Wong * Kevin Kim-pong TAM * Michelle Yik * Dr. Aurelia MOK (莫子葭) * LEUNG Kwok (梁覺) * Thomas W.H. Ng * Robert Wyer * Sin, Leo Yat-ming * Shen, Hao * Michael Harris BOND (Mostly with a position at PolyU now, I think) text/html 2012-03-06T15:41:36+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/horizontal-vertical_individualism-collectivism?rev=1331019696&do=diff Background Scale by Trandis & Gelfand (1998, JPSP). “”“” The Items Horizontal individualism * I'd rather depend on myself than others. * I rely on myself most of the time; I rarely rely on others. * I often do “my own thing.” * My personal identity, independent of others, is very important to me. text/html 2012-03-17T22:13:47+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/hunter_schmidt_meta-analysis?rev=1331993627&do=diff Background I created the next SPSS macro in order to run a meta analysis using the Hunter Schmidt method. The next syntax was adopted from Statistics Hell, which is based on some scripts from Field & Gillett (2010, “How To Do Meta-Analysis”, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology) and Maja Osolnik (osma0904@stcloudstate.edu). I recommend PsycWiki as a resource for further readings on Meta Analysis. Check out more meta analysis SPSS syntax on SPSSTools. text/html 2012-03-09T19:59:39+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/individual_differences?rev=1331294379&do=diff Emotional Intelligence Côté & Miners. ASQ. 2006 - EI, cognitive intelligence, and job performance Compensatory model that the association between EI and job performance is moderated by cognitive intelligence such that the EI-performance relationship becomes more positive as cognitive intelligence decreases. Compensatory effects: Individuals low in one ability may be compensated by his/her possession of other abilities. They argued that each dimension of EI may serve as an underlying mechanism … text/html 2012-05-16T00:01:06+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/international_faculty?rev=1337097666&do=diff Names of researchers whose work I find interesting and have proven somewhat prolific in their domain: * Kathleen D. Vohs * Roy Baumeister (lab) * Benoît Monin * Dan Arieli * Francesca Gino * Adam Grant * Adam Galinsky * Gosling * Herman Aguinis * Daniel Casasanto * Emily Pronin * Nalini Ambady * Norenzayan, Ara * Eli Finkel * Nathan DeWall * Nicole Mead * Jonathan Haidt text/html 2012-03-12T17:43:11+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/invitation_to_signup_for_sona?rev=1331545391&do=diff Here's what we emailed the undergrads in the university as an invitation to signup for our SONA system: Your chance to participate in PAID research studies: Management Behavioral Lab * Goto the following URL tocreate an account; if it does not work, copy-and-paste this URL on a web browser: <http://hkust-mgmt.sona-systems.com/student_new_user.aspx> * Fill out your contact information and submit. * An email will be sent to you to confirm your account setup. * Use the login and pa… text/html 2012-03-11T12:16:27+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/io_economics?rev=1331439387&do=diff Understanding why some firms outperform others is the primary research topic of strategic management. As this field of inquiry evolved, two basic explanation of the performance heterogeneity of firms have been proposed. The first is structure-conduct-performance(SCP) paradigm from industrial organization economics. It focuses on the structure of industries within which a firm operates to explain heterogeneity in firm performance. The second is resource based view of the firm which emphasizes int… text/html 2012-04-27T16:31:33+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/israeli_faculty?rev=1335515493&do=diff Israeli born faculty around the world whose work I enjoy reading and are doing research in management, OB and social psychology (no particular order). [based on names I came across while reading papers, I'm sure there are lots more] USA * Eli Finkel (Northwestern) * Nir Halevi (Standford) * Yaacov Trope (NYU) * Ayelet Fishbach (Kellogg) * Sigal Barsade (Wharton) * Gal Zuaberman (Wharton) * Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern) * Dan Ariely (papers) (MIT) * Emily Pronin (Princet… text/html 2012-05-07T16:24:45+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/journal_submission_cover_letter?rev=1336379085&do=diff Templates From Julio Peironcely : From Webguru: “” Advice Be humble. Use sentences like “We believe our work can be of interest for scientist in the field…”. For a few laughs, read this. text/html 2012-03-09T20:01:55+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/judgment_and_decision_making?rev=1331294515&do=diff Connolly & Ordonez, 2003, HP Highhouse, 2001, HIWOP Kahneman, 2003, AP Historically, JDM research took normative economic and statistical models as its starting point, where certain “rules” prescribe how to make right judgments and decisions. The prescriptive was later replaced by behavioral models that describe what people actually do when they form judgments and make decisions – a field called behavioral decision theory (BDT). JDM is being further unpacked into a psychological perspective i… text/html 2012-02-20T16:49:19+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/justifications?rev=1329727759&do=diff You might be in need to justify certain methods. Here are a few good quotes on justifying certain procedures or methodological appraoches. Online data collection From Lian HW etal (2012, JAP, page 110 : Use of student sample From Moon 2001 JAP “Looking forward and looking back: Integrating completion and sunk-cost effects within an escalation-of-commitment progress decision” : text/html 2012-01-08T19:19:00+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/keyword_counter?rev=1326021540&do=diff The following Python script was created to count keyword occurrences in a string. It expects a tab delimited text file with the first column being the ID, second column being the text (status), and third column is the date. It outputs a tab delimited file with the ID, date and for each of the term - 0 if not in string, 1 if term is found in the string. text/html 2012-03-11T12:32:13+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/knowledge_based_theory?rev=1331440333&do=diff Kogut, B. & U. Zander. 1992. OS. Knowledge of the firm, combinative capabilities and the replication of technology. Abstract: how should we understand why firms exist? A prevailing view has been that they serve to keep in check the transaction costs arising from the self-interested motivations of individuals. We develop the argument that what firms do better than markets is the sharing and transfer of the knowledge of individuals and groups within an organization. This knowledge consists of inf… text/html 2012-03-09T19:32:26+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/leadership?rev=1331292746&do=diff Yukl & Van Fleet (1992, HIOP) House & Aditya (1997, JOM) Avolio et al. (2009, ARP) van Knippenberg (in press, OHPSP) van Knippenberg (forthcoming, NL) Intro Organizations are made up of people. Organizational success is critically contingent on their effective management of these people. Leaders are the key players in this process. They are in the position to motivate employees to excellent performance and mobilize employees for the organization’s mission and vision. However, they may also… text/html 2012-02-27T14:37:09+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/lexical_decision_task?rev=1330324629&do=diff From 2007 EJSP - Nonconscious influences of religion on prosociality: A priming study : text/html 2012-03-11T12:09:42+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/macro_summaries?rev=1331438982&do=diff * Organizational Theory * Strategy text/html 2012-03-24T16:14:48+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/mailing_lists?rev=1332576888&do=diff Management / Social Psychology mailing lists: * spsp-discuss * spsp-student * HRDiv_Net text/html 2011-12-28T13:34:36+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/management?rev=1325050476&do=diff By impact factor 2010 followed by 5 year impact factor. Management OB: * Academy of Management Review - 6.72 ; 11.657 * Academy of Management Journal - 5.25 ; 10.779 * Administrative Science Quarterly - 3.684 ; 7.539 * Journal of Applied Psychology - 3.977 ; 6.73 * Personnel Psychology - 3.367 ; 6.395 * Journal of Management - 3,747 ; 6.029 * Organization Science - 3.8 ; 5.838 * Academy of Management Annals - 5.44 ; 5.342 * Research in Organizational Behavior - 4.833 ; 5.167 text/html 2012-02-27T14:34:39+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/memorizing?rev=1330324479&do=diff From From Maio etal 2009 JPSP - expriment 4 : text/html 2012-05-09T16:58:53+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/mgmt1110?rev=1336553933&do=diff Background My name is Fili and I’m your assigned group project advisor for Karen Lee’s MGMT1110 course. My role is to help you with your group projects. I'm here to assist you with forming ideas for your project, selecting the topic, finding relevant materials and drafting your outlines. All those are your responsibilities but I'm here to help. text/html 2012-03-09T19:55:17+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/micro_summaries?rev=1331294117&do=diff All these files were converted from WORD using Convert Word and html2wiki So it's a bit messed up, but still readable. Domains: * Leadership * Work Motivation (Lida) * Groups & Teams * HRM * Affect * General Summary of Creativity * Emotion * Person vs. Situation debate * Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) * ORGRANIZATIONAL CULTURE & CLIMATE * Social Cognition * SOCIAL EXCHANGE * Social Networks - Micro * STRESS text/html 2012-01-27T16:07:04+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/modern_racism_scale?rev=1327651624&do=diff Probably the most frequently used scale for racism, but IMHO long overdue for a replacement. Adopted from this online version. Scale is from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 5 (Strongly Agree) : * Over the past few years, Blacks have gotten more economically than they deserve. * Over the past few years, the government and news media have shown more respect for Blacks than they deserve. * It is easy to understand the anger of Black people in America. * Discrimination against Blacks is no longer… text/html 2011-12-30T11:24:36+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/modified_sequential_priming_task?rev=1325215476&do=diff This is a variation of the Sequential priming task I did where participants are required to categorize the words into two categories of “self” versus “other” rather than “positive” or “negative”. This was used in order to assess a person's “culture” as reflected by associations between “self” and the unaware culturally valence stimuli. See Fazio, Sanbonmatsu, Powell, & Kardes, F.R. (1986, On the automatic activation of attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 229-238.) for mo… text/html 2012-01-05T15:23:18+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/moral_foundations_questionnaire?rev=1325748198&do=diff This MFQ scale has been introduced by Graham etal 2009 JPSP but hasn't been posted explicitly in a clear straight-forward way: The following is adopted from MyPersonality's use of MFQ: Part 1. When you decide whether something is right or wrong, to what extent are the following considerations relevant to your thinking? Please rate each statement using this scale: text/html 2012-03-09T19:38:39+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/motivation?rev=1331293119&do=diff Mitchell & Daniels (2003, HP); Latham & Pinder (2005, ARP), Latham (2007, WM) Locke & Latham (2002, AP), Latham & Budworth (2006, HPIOP) Diefendorff & Lord (2008, WMPPF), Bandura (2001), Deci & Ryan (2002, HSDR) Parker & Ohly (2008, WMPPF) Colquitt & Greenberg (2003, OB) text/html 2012-01-29T15:37:45+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/motivation_to_control_prejudice?rev=1327822665&do=diff (Dunton and Fazio, 1997) Range : * Strongly Disagree * Disagree. * Don’t Know * Agree * Strongly Agree The scale: * In today’s society it is important that one not be perceived as prejudiced in any manner. * I always express my thoughts and feelings regardless ofhow controversial they might be. (R) * I get angry with myself when I have thoughts or feelings that might be considered prejudiced. * If I were participating in a class and a Black student expressed an opinion with… text/html 2012-03-09T20:06:45+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/organizational_culture_and_climate?rev=1331294805&do=diff Organizational climate Climate is an experientially based description of what people see and report happening to them in an organizational situation (Schneider, 2000). It involves employees’ perceptions of what the organization is like in terms of practices. The focus is on the situation and its link to the perceptions, feelings, and behaviors of employees. text/html 2012-03-09T20:00:58+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/person_situation_debate?rev=1331294458&do=diff Personality psychology concerns the nature of human being – the basic operating characteristics of the human machine. As a field, it emerges in late 1930s (Allport, 1937; Stagner, 1937; Murray, 1938). Personality psychology seeks to bring together the contributions of developmental, social, cognitive and biological psychology into an understanding of whole persons and the dimensions of difference that allow them to be psychologically distinguished from one another. So its institutional mission i… text/html 2012-02-28T11:06:30+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/personal_values_and_behavior_on_fb?rev=1330398390&do=diff Method Using a keyword context analysis on stripped text. Related articles Espoused Values and Organizational Change Themes text/html 2012-05-16T00:01:03+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/personal_values_and_ethics?rev=1337097663&do=diff Relevant citations For me to keep track of relevant papers for this project: Power * Malhotra, D., & Gino, F. (2012). The pursuit of power corrupts: Investing in outside options motivates opportunism in relationships. Administrative Science Quarterly. Special Issue on “Social Psychological Perspectives on Power and Hierarchy.” Forthcoming. * Gino, F., & Pierce, L. (2009). The abundance effect: Unethical behavior in the presence of wealth. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process… text/html 2012-05-21T09:44:59+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/phd_guides?rev=1337564699&do=diff Following are selected PhD guides, mostly in the management field. General PhD tips & advice * The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. * Advice Collection * Doing a PhD in the Social Sciences: Myths, Tips and Strategies. * Basic PhD Tips : Orientation. * The 'Be Yourself' Myth. * How to be an academic failure. * 5 things to do in your first week (read the comments section as well). * Traveling during your PhD * Why you shouldn't do postgrad * Are you getting in the way of your … text/html 2012-03-06T16:21:00+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/portrait_value_questionnaire_pvq?rev=1331022060&do=diff From Schwartz etal. (2001, JCCP ; "Extending the cross-cultural validity of the theory of basic human values with a different method of measurement") : ... ... * The PVQ measures values indirectly; the SVS elicits direct, self-conscious reports of values. The PVQ obtains judgments of the similarity of another person to the self; the SVS asks for rat- ings of the importance of values as guiding principles in one’s life. Thus, the respondents’ judg- ment task is quite different. * The st… text/html 2012-01-23T19:04:03+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/power_distance?rev=1327316643&do=diff Chinese version * 公司内的主要决策都应由管理者决定，不需要与下属商议 * 与下属打交道时，主管经常需要运用他的职权 * 管理者应尽量少征询员工的意见 * 管理者应与员工保持距离，在工作之外少与员工接触 * 员工不应该对管理者所作的决定表示异议 * 管理者不应将重要的任务委托给员工 text/html 2012-03-11T19:22:56+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/pronoun_circling_task?rev=1331464976&do=diff Used in Oyserman etal. (2009, JPSP) to activate cultural mindset : Study 1 Study 2 From Kuhnen & Oyserman (2002): Study 1 text/html 2012-02-28T15:13:28+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/propensity_to_engage_in_unethical_behavior?rev=1330413208&do=diff The Scale From the Luna Arocas & Tang (2004, JBE): * Very low probability * Low * Average * High * Very high probability ... * Use office supplies (paper, pen), Xerox machine, and stamps for personal purposes. * Make personal long-distance (mobile phone) calls at work. * Waste company time surfing on the Internet, playing computer games, and socializing. * Abuse the company expense accounts and falsify accounting records. * Fly first class and spend a lot of company m… text/html 2012-03-11T12:26:55+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/property_rights?rev=1331440015&do=diff Much is based on the Kim and Mahoney paper 2005 Not a very good summary (Wiki does a simpler job), the integration papers with RBV and TCE are better. need to find a better summary. If need more specification, go back to the Kim and Mahoney paper in the part where they compare TCE to agency to PRT text/html 2012-03-11T19:07:08+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/psychology_experiments?rev=1331464028&do=diff Inquisit Inquisit syntax for running psychological experiments. Reaction tasks * Modified Sequential Priming Task - my variation on having to categorize into two categories of “self” versus “other” Priming * Values priming using Scrambled Sentence Task * Matrix Task - Word Search Puzzle * Subliminal Priming * Memorizing * Forming impressions * Lexical Decision Task text/html 2012-03-09T19:22:41+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/qualifying_exams?rev=1331292161&do=diff * Macro summaries * Micro summaries text/html 2012-02-18T11:02:33+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/questionnaire_opening_screen?rev=1329534153&do=diff Suggested opening screen in your questionnaire : Dear participant, Thank you for taking part in this study. To ensure that you can complete the study efficiently, please adhere to the following guidelines. - Cell phones, PDAs, or any other kind of electronic devices MUST be turned off/ silent. - DO NOT talk to other students or exchange information. - DO NOT eat or drink during the study. - DO NOT open or close any web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox). - DO NOT engag… text/html 2012-05-16T00:01:01+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/readings?rev=1337097661&do=diff Free Will * Vohs, K. D., & Schooler, J. W. (2008). The value of believing in free will: Encouraging a belief in determinism increases cheating. Psychological Science, 19, 49-54. Belief in God * Five Causes of Belief in God - Psychology Today (non academic summary) * Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs (PNAS) * Death anxiety increases atheists’ unconscious belief in God * Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief Wil… text/html 2012-03-11T12:34:59+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/real_options_theory?rev=1331440499&do=diff Origins Ø  Traditional investment theory holds that investments should be made when the simple NPV of an investment opportunity equals or exceeds zero and assumes that the investment must be made either now or never. Ø  Such an investment approach, however, fails to consider that management can adapt and revise its strategies in response to unexpected market and technological developments that cause cash flows to deviate from their original expectations. In other words, it fails to capture man… text/html 2012-03-24T16:30:16+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/reminders_for_a_study?rev=1332577816&do=diff Dear student, This is a reminder that you have enrolled to take part in paid research component in the upcoming days. Important - If you cannot attend, please un-register for the session, other students are waiting to enroll. Location: Room 4218K (lift 19-20, forth floor) Map : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14997504/map_Rm%204218K.jpg Please take note of the following information : * Please attend the section that you are enrolled for and only that section. * We have to start on time. Plea… text/html 2012-03-01T19:36:40+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/research_projects?rev=1330601800&do=diff (To be updated) * Values - Ethics * Linking Personal Values and Behavior by analysing FB behavior Research method Justifications templates. text/html 2012-03-11T12:17:27+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/resource_based_view?rev=1331439447&do=diff Origins Ø  SCP-based models argue that the primary determinant of firm performance is the industry(or strategic group) within which a firm operates .However, research has shown that there is often more heterogeneity in the performance of firms within a single industry than there is heterogeneity in the performance of firms across industries(Rumelt,1991) . Put differently, SCP explanations of heterogeneous firm performance continue to assume that firms within an industry or within a strategic gr… text/html 2012-02-20T07:13:32+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/rosenberg_self-esteem_scale?rev=1329693212&do=diff Introduction The scale is a ten item Likert scale with items answered on a four point scale - from strongly agree to strongly disagree. The original sample for which the scale was developed consisted of 5,024 High School Juniors and Seniors from 10 randomly selected schools in New York State. text/html 2012-03-20T14:04:49+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/scales_and_spss?rev=1332223489&do=diff Scales and some suggested SPSS syntax for statistical analyses. Various scales Personal & Cultural Values Schwartz personal values theory measurements * Schwartz Values Scale (SVS) * MyPersonality - SVS : uses slightly different coding (code added to the MyPersonality Wiki site) * Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) * The The European Social Survey * SSVS Scale - Short version of the Schwartz Values Scale (SVS) text/html 2012-01-23T21:10:11+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/schwartz_values_scale_svs?rev=1327324211&do=diff This syntax is used for cleaning up and calculating Schwartz Values Scale (57 items) data based on the 2009 draft manual. ***************** ** VALUES ** ***************** ** counting ratings to exclude participants. exclude participants that used 7 more than 21 times, and those that used any other rating more than 35 times count countneg1 = svs1 to svs57 (-1). count count0 = svs1 to svs57 (0). count count1 = svs1 to svs57 (1). count count2 = svs1 to svs57 (2). count count3 = svs1 to svs… text/html 2012-02-27T13:25:49+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/scrambled_sentence_task?rev=1330320349&do=diff Background From Psycholopedia's Sentence unscrambling task : “”“”“”“”“”“” ... Limitations of sentence unscrambling From Priming and Automaticity Research handbook by Bargh & Chartand : “” Framing it in a paper From Maio etal 2009 JPSP - experiment 2 : text/html 2012-03-24T13:29:35+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/self_control_scale?rev=1332566975&do=diff Introduction This is a self control scale (Tangney, Baumeister & Boone, 2004, JOP) Range: 1 - Not at all 5 - Very much Instructions : Long version * I am good at resisting temptation. * I have a hard time breaking bad habits. (R) * I am lazy. (R) * I say inappropriate things. (R) * I never allow myself to lose control. * I do certain things that are bad for me, if they are fun. (R) * People can count on me to keep on schedule. * Getting up in the morning is hard fo… text/html 2012-03-09T19:43:51+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/shrm?rev=1331293431&do=diff Schools of Study 1) Efficiency school---(Taylor, 1911; Fayol, 1984) Traditional HRM practices rely on the philosophy that people are cost needed to be cut. The main concern of production is efficiency. Ferris et al. (2004) find cost perspective on HRM is more effective for organization under stable environment. text/html 2012-03-09T20:13:48+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/social_cognition?rev=1331295228&do=diff Hodgkinson & Healey, 2008, ARP Ilgen et al., 1994, OB Bodenhausen et al., 2003, HP Weick et al., 2005, OS Our understanding of the cognitive capabilities and limitations of managers and employees, with a view to enhancing productivity and well-being in the workplace, is rooted mainly in four areas in psychology – 1) social cognition, 2) judgment and decision making, 3) motivation, and 4) social identity. Social cognition is concerned how the mind understands the social world within which it … text/html 2012-02-18T13:04:21+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/social_desirability_scale?rev=1329541461&do=diff If you're not using this scale, you can use the following IM summary article as justification : Uziel, L. (2010). Rethinking social desirability scales: From impression management to interpersonally oriented self-control. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(3), 243-262. text/html 2012-03-09T20:18:45+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/social_exchange?rev=1331295525&do=diff Based on the 2005 JOM review [[|Background]] Social exchange theorists (Gouldner, 1960; Blau) examine the exchanges that occur between employers and employees regarding perceptions of reciprocity at an individual level of analysis. Definition of favor exchange: it refers to dyadic interaction in which giving and receiving resources is predicated on the expectation of equitable resources being provided directly in return (Blau, 1964). The essence of the norm of reciprocity is that employees fee… text/html 2012-03-09T20:20:40+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/social_networks?rev=1331295640&do=diff *Borgatti & Foster, P.C. (JOM 2003) - The network paradigm in organizational research: A review and typology Network : A set of actors connected by a set of ties Actors : “Nodes” can be persons, teams, organizations, concepts, etc. A single focal actor as “ego”, and the set of nodes that ego has ties with “alters” text/html 2012-03-13T15:00:59+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/social_psychology?rev=1331622059&do=diff Check out the full list of social psychology journals. Sorted by impact factor 2010 followed by 5 year impact factor (according to JCR-Web) Social Psychology (TBD - unordered) : * Psychological Bulletin - 11.97 ; 17.955 * Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - 5.20 ; 7.438 * Psychological Science - 4.699 ; 6.328 * Journal of Applied Psychology - 3.977 ; 6.730 * Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin - 2.518 ; 3.728 * Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes … text/html 2012-03-07T12:45:18+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/ssvs?rev=1331095518&do=diff Introduction This is a Short version of the Schwartz Values Scale (SVS) developed by Lindeman & Verkasalo (Journal of Personality Assessment, 2005). SSVS scale items Rate the importance of the following values as a life-guiding principle for you Use the following scale for rating each value using scale 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 In which: 0= opposed to my principles 1= not important 4= important 8= of supreme importance 1. POWER (social power, authority, wealth) 2. ACHIEVEMENT (success, capability, a… text/html 2012-03-11T12:29:36+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/stakeholder_theory_of_the_firm?rev=1331440176&do=diff Fili - Very good summary in the Margolis paper in Heli’s class. Explains the whole thing very clearly and in great detail. For a good harsh critique of the theory, see the Jensen 2001 paper. In a way, this is not a theory, but an ideology on the world and what firms should do in society. text/html 2012-05-06T11:04:14+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/start?rev=1336273454&do=diff For more info, visit the blog at MGTO blog. You're invited to contribute your own or edit the existing, but for that you'll have to register and login. Readings Interesting Readings - good articles I came across I enjoyed reading. Scales and SPSS Check out the dedicated Scales and SPSS section. text/html 2012-03-11T12:32:46+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/strategy?rev=1331440366&do=diff Strategy domain summaries: * Why do some organizations outperform others? * RESOURCE-BASED VIEW * TRANSACTION COSTS ECONOMICS * PROPERTY RIGHTS THEORY * AGENCY THEORY * BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF THE FIRM * STAKEHOLDER THEORY * REAL OPTIONS THEORY * Knowledge-based Perspective * Business Policy * Evolutionary Theory text/html 2012-02-27T14:33:38+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/subliminal_priming?rev=1330324418&do=diff From Hart & Albarracin, 2009, JPSP, experiment 2 : text/html 2012-01-27T16:00:53+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/symbolic_racism_scale_2000?rev=1327651253&do=diff About the scale (cited from here): The scale: The Symbolic Racism 2000 Scale 1. It’s really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites. <1> Strongly agree <2> Somewhat agree <3> Somewhat disagree <4> Strongly disagree 2. Irish, Italian, Jewish and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same. <1> Strongly agree <2> Somewhat agree <3> Somewhat disagree … text/html 2012-05-07T13:55:08+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/templates?rev=1336370108&do=diff Questionnaire/experiment construction * Questionnaire opening screen * Consent form * Funneling * Debriefing Mass emails * Requesting data for a meta analysis. * Invitation to signup for SONA system. * Reminder for research session. text/html 2012-01-03T13:57:49+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/text_analysis?rev=1325570269&do=diff For very simple text analysis with Excel : Shows whether a string appears in a cell (1 - in a cell, 0 - not in a cell). Example : =COUNTIF($B2,""&E$1&"") will count whether $B2 includes the string in E$1, this can include wildcards like *string” or str* . (source) text/html 2012-04-26T20:47:05+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/tools?rev=1335444425&do=diff Data collection * Amazon Mechanical Turk text/html 2012-02-21T18:26:36+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/traditionality?rev=1329819996&do=diff Introduction From Farh, Hackett & Liang (2007, AMJ) : Traditionality Five items version The scale is originally in Chinese on a scale of 1 to 5 (非常不同意 ; 不同意 ; 中立 ; 同意 ; 非常同意) * 政府首长等于是大家长，一切国事都应该听他的决定 * 要避免发生错误，最好的办法是听从家长的话 * 女人婚前接受父母管教，出嫁后则应该顺从丈夫 * 如果因事争执不下，应请辈份最高的人主持公道 * 父母所敬爱的人，子女也应敬爱… text/html 2012-03-11T12:25:28+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/transaction_costs_economics?rev=1331439928&do=diff Central question Why do organizations exist? Origins: views from classical and neo-classical theory Ø  Adam Smith, point to the amazing ability of market to coordinate economic production and exchange at very low cost and without government planning. text/html 2012-03-20T14:06:37+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/unethical_behavior_in_the_workplace?rev=1332223597&do=diff Kaptein, JOM, 2008 (Developing a Measure of Unethical Behavior in the Workplace: A Stakeholder Perspective) text/html 2012-03-19T21:33:25+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/unethical_business_practices?rev=1332164005&do=diff From Farh etal 1999 (AOM presentation) : Usurpation of company resources * Use company resources for your own purpose * Conduct personal business while on the job * Take home company properties for personal use * Take spouse on a business trip and charge all expenses to the company * Have company secretary type personal correspondence * Copy a company owned software program for your own use * Call in sick for a day off text/html 2012-01-26T17:07:46+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/unethical_decision_making_scale?rev=1327568866&do=diff From Detert, Trevino, & Sweitzer (2008) JAP : The Unethical Decision Making Scale assuming variables E1 to E8 compute ethics=mean(e1 to e8). exec. VARIABLE LABELS E1 "Ethics1 - eat food without paying for it" E2 "Ethics2 - taking home office paper" E3 "Ethics3 - cheat on exam preparation" E4 "Ethics4 - return change not yours" E5 "Ethics5 - revealing professor error" E6 "Ethics6 - copying software" E7 "Ethics7 - spying at competitors for company boss" E8 "Ethics8 - succum… text/html 2012-02-15T14:33:59+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/unethical_work_behavior?rev=1329287639&do=diff From Moore etal, Personnel Psychology, study 5. Introduction: * Falsifying a receipt to get reimbursed for more money than you spent on business expenses * Discussing confidential company information with an unauthorized person * Damaging property belonging to my employer * Taking property from work without permission * Saying or doing something to purposely hurt someone at work * Using an illegal drug or consuming alcohol on the job * Making ethnic, religious, or racial rema… text/html 2011-12-29T16:34:30+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/word_frequency?rev=1325147670&do=diff A macro to count the number of occurences for a given string. Closest thing I've seen to text analysis with SPSS (they have a more elaborate expensive package just for text analysis). This code is adopted from the SPSS-X discussions. There are also some good examples for this sort of thing on SPSSTools. text/html 2012-02-27T17:11:58+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/word_search_puzzle?rev=1330333918&do=diff Background From Priming and Automaticity Research handbook by Bargh & Chartand : “” Framing it in a paper From Bargh, J. A., Gollwitzer, P. M., Lee-Chai, A., Barndollar, K., & Troetschel, R. (2001). The automated will: Nonconscious activation and pursuit of behavioral goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 1014–1027. Experiment 1: text/html 2012-03-09T20:22:46+08:00 http://wiki.mgto.org/workplace_stress_and_turnover?rev=1331295766&do=diff Review - Sonnentag & Frese (Handbook of I-O Psycho, 2003) - Stress in organizations [review] Stress concept: Stimulus concept focuses on situational conditions or events, but it’s problematic because not all individuals react in a uniform manner to the same stressor.