Bundle of summaries of articles on Work, Design and Team process.
Introduction
Belonging is a fundamental requirement for security, reproductive success, and mental health. The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of research interest on what happens when the person does not belong, through acts of ostracism, social exclusion, and rejection.
Ostracism = ignoring and excluding employee or groups by employees or groups.
Rejection = an explicit
..... read moreThe power-dependence relation
We shall speak of relations among actors, where an actor can be either a person or a group. Unless otherwise indicated, any relation discussed might be a person-person, group-person, group-group relation.
Social relations commonly entail ties of mutual dependence between the parties. A depends on B if he aspires to goals or gratifications whose
..... read moreThere is a mediation chain between power and stereotyping, mediated by attention. Power has a negative relationship with attention and attention has a positive relationship with stereotyping. The moderator in this relationship is power (high vs. low), the mediator is attention (high vs. low) and the output variable is stereotyping (high vs. low). In short, stereotyping
..... read morePower is a basic force in social relationships, the press of situations, and the dynamics and structure of personality.
Is there an integrative account of the effects of power on human behavior? We think so and present such a theory in this article. Elevated power, we propose, involve reward-rich environments and freedom,
..... read moreMergers have proven to be a significant and increasingly popular means for achieving corporate diversity and growth. The role of acculturation in mergers is addressed in this paper and an interdisciplinary acculturative model of the planning and implementation of mergers as a strategic alternative is proposed. It is proposed that the degree of congruence between the
..... read moreBy linking organizational and human resource perspectives on mergers and acquisitions integration to notions drawn from the strategy and finance literatures on M&A, a better understanding of the mechanisms through which cultural differences affect the M&A performance will be developed.
Literature framework and research framework
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