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HLM Analyses (hlm + analysis)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	50%

Selected Abstracts

A Cue Utilization Approach for Investigating Harvest Decisions in Commons Dilemmas

JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2009
Donald W. Hine
Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) is introduced as a new tool for investigating decision making in commons dilemmas. University undergraduates (N = 171) managed a virtual fishery, with 2 computer-simulated fishers, over 60 seasons. Level 1 HLM analyses revealed that participants took significantly more fish during seasons when feedback suggested fish stocks, fish value, and fishing expenses were high; and when noncooperative and cooperative others had taken more fish and fewer fish, respectively, in the previous season. Level 2 analyses produced several cross-level interactions, indicating that participants' use of feedback information varied as a function of their social values and environmental attitudes. [source]

Transformational leadership and organizational commitment: mediating role of psychological empowerment and moderating role of structural distance

JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 8 2004
Bruce J. Avolio
Using a sample of 520 staff nurses employed by a large public hospital in Singapore, we examined whether psychological empowerment mediated the effects of transformational leadership on followers' organizational commitment. We also examined how structural distance (direct and indirect leadership) between leaders and followers moderated the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. Results from HLM analyses showed that psychological empowerment mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. Similarly, structural distance between the leader and follower moderated the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. Implications for research and practice of our findings are discussed. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Community Storytelling Network, Neighborhood Context, and Civic Engagement: A Multilevel Approach

HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Issue 4 2006
Yong-Chan Kim
From a communication infrastructure theory perspective, the current study examined individuals' civic engagement (neighborhood belonging, collective efficacy, and civic participation) as influenced by 2 multilevel components of the communication infrastructure,an integrated connectedness to a storytelling network (ICSN) and the residential context,focusing on ethnic heterogeneity and residential stability. Our multilevel analyses show that ICSN is the most important individual-level factor in civic engagement,neighborhood belonging, collective efficacy, and civic participation,after controlling for other individual-level and neighborhood-level factors. In both ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous areas and in both stable and unstable areas, ICSN is an important factor in civic engagement. As contextual factors, residential stability positively affects neighborhood belonging and collective efficacy, and ethnic heterogeneity is negatively related to collective efficacy. Our data do not show any direct contextual effects of residential stability or ethnic heterogeneity on civic participation. However, our HLM analysis showed that the relative importance of ICSN for the likelihood of participation in civic activities is significantly higher in unstable or ethnically heterogeneous areas than in stable or ethnically homogeneous areas. [source]

Intervening in Employee Disputes: How and When Will Managers from China, Japan and the USA Act Differently?

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION REVIEW, Issue 2 2007
Jeanne M. Brett
abstract We investigated how third party managers from China, Japan and the USA intervened in employees' disputes. Consistent with predictions, we found (using non-linear HLM analysis) that managers who were superiors to the disputants behaved autocratically and/or decided on conservative (e.g., contract adhering) outcomes; but managers who were peers (especially in China and the USA), generally involved disputants in decision-making and obtained integrative outcomes that went beyond initial contract related mandates. Our results extend prior research and theorizing using the dispositional and constructivist perspectives on culture by introducing norm complexity as an explanation for variations in third party conflict intervention behaviour within one culture. [source]