It isn't a matter of just being funny: Humor production by organizational leaders

This study explored whether organizational leaders recognize humor as part of their management style and how compatible the leaders ‘ humor strategy is with their overall communication style. Results reveal that leaders use more pro‐social humor than anti‐social humor in the workplace. Several relationships between the emotional aspects of humor production and the communicator style constructs indicate that leaders use humor as a socially acceptable communication technique to control groups and enhance their own communicator image.     

Validity of the management communication style construct

A relatively recent addition to the organizational communication literature is the Management Communication Style (MCS) measure developed by Richmond and McCroskey (1979). Although the reliability of this measure has been reported, estimates of validity are noticeably missing. The present study assesses the validity of the MCS instrument by examining the relationship between employees perceptions of supervisors on the MCS and pertinent communication behaviors. Results support positive relationships between MCS and listening, understanding, and quality of communication. Findings provide preliminary evidence supporting the validity of the MCS instrument. Implications for future research are discussed.     

Instance-oriented delegation： A solution for providing security to Grid-based mobile agent middleware

INTRODUCTION Grid computing, since its emergence, has beenwidely regarded as a new revolution of informationtechnologies (Foster et al., 2001). Due to the highheterogeneity and complexity in Grid environments,mobile agent (MA) has been considered as one of thepromising solutions for realizing flexible and scalableGrid Computing. With the MA support, one canexecute parts of its program on any networked hostsoffering needed services. In the Grid world, applications usually need toget se…     

周恩来试办托拉斯思想初探

20世纪60年代,党中央决定在工业、交通部门试办托拉斯。周恩来对试办托拉斯工作作了许多指示、批示,对试办托拉斯的必要性、目的、性质、原则和组建方法等问题作了具体阐述,这些思想对于今天的国有企业改革具有重大的借鉴意义。     

批评中的尊重与信任

现在中小学普遍提倡“赏识”教育，认为好孩子是“夸”出来的。用鼓励的方式培养孩子的自信固然是一种方式，然而，在提倡表扬、奖励、赏识的同时，不应该忽略“惩罚”在教育中的积极作用。     

中国大众媒介公信力影响因素分析

本论文基于社会调查数据,对中国大众媒介公信力测评量表的因子结构也就是影响因素进行了探讨,并对其特征进行了分析。     

The effects of humor on perceptions of compliance‐gaining in the college classroom

The purpose of this study is to explore humor as a factor in students’ perceptions of college teacher compliance‐gaining in the classroom. Four hundred twenty‐eight college students reported the frequency of their college teachers’ uses of compliance‐gaining tactics, the frequency of humor uses with compliance‐gaining tactics, and the effectiveness of humor used with compliance‐gaining tactics. Results revealed positive and significant relationships between humor uses and uses of particular compliance‐gaining strategies. Findings suggest that students perceive teachers to use humor more frequently with certain compliance‐gaining tactics. Moreover, students reported that certain compliance‐gaining tactics are perceived as more effective than others.     

短道速滑教练员变革型领导行为与运动员角色投入* ——教练员信任的中介作用

研究采用问卷调查、数理统计等研究方法,探讨短道速滑教练员变革型领导行为、运动员对教练员信任、运动员角色投入三者之间的关系,其中重点检验信任在二者间的中介作用.研究发现:教练员个性关怀与智力激励对运动员角色投入具有显著正向影响;教练员领导魅力与个性关怀可以正向预测运动员对教练员的能力信任和公正一致性信任;运动员对教练员的公正一致性信任对运动员角色投入具有显著正向影响;另外,运动员对教练员的公正一致性信任在教练员个性关怀对运动员角色投入预测中具有部分中介作用;并且其还在教练员领导魅力对运动员角色投入的预测中发挥着完全中介作用.     

The open kimono: How Intel balances trust and power to maintain platform leadership

A small group of companies including Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco have used “platform leadership” with great effect as a means for driving innovation and accelerating market growth within their respective industries. Prior research in this area emphasizes that trust plays a critical role in the success of this strategy. However, many of the categorizations of trust discussed in the literature tend to ignore or undervalue the fact that trust and power are often functionally equivalent, and that the coercion of weaker partners is sometimes misdiagnosed as collaboration. In this paper, I use case study data focusing on Intel's shift from ceramic/wire-bonded packaging to organic/C4 packaging to characterize the relationships between Intel and its suppliers, and to determine if these links are based on power in addition to trust. The case study shows that Intel's platform leadership strategy is built on a balance of both trust and a relatively benevolent form of power that is exemplified by the company's “open kimono” principle, through which Intel insists that suppliers share detailed financial data and highly proprietary technical information to achieve mutually advantageous objectives. By explaining more completely the nature of these inter-firm linkages, this paper usefully extends our understanding of how platform leadership is maintained by Intel, and contributes to the literature by showing how trust and power can be used simultaneously within an inter-firm relationship in a way that benefits all of the stakeholders.     

Manager communication and workplace trust: Understanding manager and employee perceptions in the e-world

Today's business environment is populated with individuals who are digitally connected to clients, contractors, managers, and employees. Traditionally, the ways and behaviors of managers had developed and thrived within face-to-face work environments, but as computer-mediated technologies continue to change the boundaries of the business community, permit alternative worksites to increase, and the traditional workday to disappear, the role of the manager has changed. This article focuses on the communication behaviors between managers and their employees, and how these behaviors have changed as digital communication methods have become mainstream within organizations today. The variables of interest are manager communication and workplace trust. The intended outcome is to uncover the expectations that have yet to be agreed upon within the manager–employee e-relationship.