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ADVANCED
MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
VOLUME 63
NUMBER 3 SUMMER 1998
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Employee Monitoring: Privacy in the Workplace?
Phone tapping, video surveillance, computer monitoring This
is not the FBI at work, this may be your employer. An ever-widening array of devices allow
employers to monitor employees to check on productivity, quality, safely, drug use, theft,
use of company time and resources for personal business, and to try to prevent harassment.
While many motives are positive and help protect employees, the activities raise questions
about invasion of privacy and even health. By following certain guidelines, employers can
defuse or avoid the negative aspects of monitoring, but should undertake such activities
with much forethought and care.
Jitendra M. Mishra and Suzanne M. Crampton
An International Perspective on Socio-economic Changes and
Their Effects on Life Stress and Career Success of Working Women
Although much has changed in the Western working world, women
still face a glass ceiling in their climb and they still bear primary responsibility for
home and family chores. These and other factors lead to higher levels of stress among
women than men. Women can help their own case by recognizing and exploiting superior
abilities in interpersonal relationships and developing service-oriented businesses.
Organizations can help women by providing better mentoring, guidance, and training
opportunities, and by increasing their sensitivity to work-home conflicts.
Nini Yang
Is the Internet Feasible and Profitable for Small
Businesses?
The Internet has grown, explosively; can it help small
businesses to do the same? The Web's potential seems great because it provides low-cost
access to a large and growing market. Indeed, some small businesses have found success
through the Web that eluded them in other venues. There are costs involved, however, and
decisions to be made, such as whether to do-it-yourself or outsource. Once on the Web, how
do customers find your site? Which search engines are most cost-effective? Researching
these questions could be worth while for many types of small businesses.
Amir M. Hormozi, William T. Harding, and Utpal Bose
Affirmative Action as 28 Seen by Business Majors in the
U.S. and South Africa
Although the U.S. and South Africa were discovered, explored,
and settled by Europeans at about the same time, they developed very differently. Today,
affirmative action programs for minorities are under fire in the U.S., while in South
Africa they are being embraced A survey of business majors in both countries found
interesting similarities of attitudes as well as differences, including the view that
affirmation action becomes relatively unimportant in achieving success once a career is
under way.
C. Richard Scott, Trevor Amos, and Judith DeLouche
Scott
Critical Strategic Leadership Components: An Empirical
Investigation
No one can deny the importance of leadership to the success
of a corporation, and the Chief Executive Officers bears the responsibility of
establishing effective leadership. A survey conducted among American CEOs found that they
rank the following six core competencies in the following order of importance: determining
strategic direction; developing human capital; exploiting and maintaining core
competencies; sustaining effective corporate culture; emphasizing ethical practices; and
establishing strategic controls.
Abdalla F. Hagen, Morsheda T. Hassan, and Sammy G. Amin.
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