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    factors that can reduce the effect of perceived organizational politics at workplace. Over the last two decades, researchers of politics have studied political behavior primarily as the specific influence strategy or using a combination of these strategies (Ferris, Adams, Kolodinsky, Hochwarter & Ammeter, 2002; Kipnis, Schmidt & Wilkinson, 1980; Liden & Mitchell, 1988; Higgins, Judge & Ferris, 2003). Present study focuses on perceptions of organizational politics and its effect at the workplace. In

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    A study obtained from the Journal of Organizational Behavior emphasizes main topic points that workplace conflict can generate team effectiveness and result in positive outcomes regarding goal setting. The data used within this study was collected from China. The collection of this data within this location of the world can have a little bias impact due to the nature that the cultural values in the East are different than those cultural values of the West. This viewpoint will be briefly touched upon

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    Scroggins, Thomas, and Morris (2009), personality tests using the Big Five can predict job performance; identify specific traits associated with a particular profession; job and training proficiency; performance motivation; career success; and organizational commitment. Additionally, personality tests combined with cognitive ability test reduce adverse impact; thereby, enhancing the validity of employment selection process (Scroggins, Thomas, & Morris, 2009). Specifically, the variety of items within

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    • Organizational citizenship behavior. • Proper situations and challenges for staff to have appropriate behavior and skills. • Organizational climate is a factor that effect on organizational citizenship behavior. • Staff supportive behavior. 2 ARTICLE 2:- Effect of employees Organizational citizenship behavior, Job satisfaction and Emotional Intelligence all are linked together in the organization. ARTICLE 3:- Professional ethics (collection of rules & principles of behavior) within the organization

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    Some have argued that the positive movement is “an old wine in new bottles” because of the risk of stigmatizing employees who are struggling with negative emotions (Fineman, 2006), and that interventions fundamentally focused on individual issues rather than organizational issues (Hackman, 2009). On the other hand, Avey, Luthans, & Youssef, (2010) assert that POB is not an old wine in new bottles as claimed, but rather a new shift of perspective in a changing environment. The POB has emerged as an

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    Truth, and Positive Organizational Deviance. Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper . This research paper, Belief, Truth, and Positive Organizational Deviance, is published in the Wake Forest University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series and available in most online academic databases using the title or the authors names or the keywords, deviance Organizational Behavior, Social Psychology, Empirical Legal Studies. Summary This paper focuses on the organizational behavior construct

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    Organizational Behavior Analysis Latron Moore BUS610: Organizational Behavior Instructor: Rachana Misraraj December 10, 2012 Organizational Behavior Analysis Organizational Behavior is the study and application of knowledge about how people, individuals, and groups act in organizations. “Organizational behavior is a misnomer. It is not the study of how organizations behave, but rather the study of individual behavior in an organizational setting

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    organizational context. Design and Methods Using a modified survey by Engelbrecht and Mahembe (2013), the following hypotheses were addressed: Hypothesis 1: The facilitation of on-the-job learning and the transfer of knowledge occurs when employees perceive leader support. Hypothesis 2: Organizational learning was conducive to employee growth and development. Hypothesis 3: Servant leadership environments aid the transfer of knowledge by building a culture of learning whereby employees perceived

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    Antonakis, J., Fenley, M., & Liechti, S. (2011). Can Charisma Be Taught? Tests of Two Interventions. Academy Of Management Learning & Education, 10(3), 374-396. Antonakis et al starts off research by posing a question. “Can leadership, and in particular charisma, be taught? The authors set out to prove in fact that training can training managers a specific set of charismatic leadership tactics not only improves their charisma, but their effectiveness as leaders. Charismatic leadership is defined

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    Increasing Citizenship Behavior in the Organization The rapid growth in globalization and technology results in employees having to adapt at an ever-increasing rate to the dynamics of the organization. Likewise, leadership must be able to handle the increased speed in dealing with employees and what Neubert, Wu, and Roberts (2013) explained as the increased complexities and dynamics that effects leader’s ability to identify and fix problems by themselves. Discretionary behavior outside of the formal

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