Aug 13, 1993 | Research library
A robust meta-analysis of social loafing; the tendency for individuals to avoid putting effort into a task when working collectively over individually. Factors that moderate social loafing are also discussed.
Aug 10, 1991 | Research library
Anomalies are decisions that are hard to justify or rationalise. This paper discusses three: the endowment effect, status quo bias and loss aversion. The endowment effect is a bias for things you own, status quo bias is a bias for the current state of affairs and loss...
Jan 26, 1991 | Research library
This study investigated whether believing an idea is a part of understanding an idea, or whether choosing to believe an idea is in fact a subsequent process to comprehension. Counter to conventional wisdom, it seems as though the former is the more likely of the two....
Jan 26, 1991 | Research library
This study looked into how the big five personality factors influenced job performance across five occupations. It found that only conscientiousness showed a consistent relationship with job performance across all five occupational groups, and that some personality...
Jan 26, 1991 | Research library
Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour suggests attitudes towards a particular behavior, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control all shape an individual’s behavioural intentions and behaviours. This study reviews literature concerning the theory...
Jan 15, 1991 | Research library
In the past several years, a number of researchers have raised the issue of the level of security concern among system users, suggesting that security may be undervalued in both centralized and decentralized IS departments, and among IS staff as well as end-users....
