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Negative Function (negative + function)

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Selected Abstracts

Consequences of Satisfaction with Pay Systems: Two Field Studies

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2000
Marcia P. Miceli
Research on pay satisfaction has been criticized for inattention to determining whether its multiple dimensions have different consequences and for overreliance on cross-sectional designs. Structural equation analyses of data from two field studies showed that satisfaction with pay systems, but not pay levels, led to greater perceived organizational support, which in turn affected employer commitment and organizational citizenship. Union commitment was a positive function of pay system satisfaction and a negative function of pay level satisfaction. [source]

The Puzzle of China's Township,Village Enterprises: The Paradox of Local Corporatism in a Dual-Track Economic Transition

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION REVIEW, Issue 2 2005
Peter Ping LiArticle first published online: 6 JUL 200
abstract This paper seeks to reconcile and synthesize the diverse views about the township,village enterprises (TVEs) and local corporatism in the context of ongoing institutional changes in China as a transition economy. Specifically, I attempt to integrate the economic, political, cultural, and social explanations for TVEs, especially the two competing views of market competition and political corruption. I focus on the puzzle of TVE efficiency as well as the paradox of local corporatism as a government,business partnership with both a positive function of public alliance for wealth creation and a negative function of private collusion for wealth transfer. I argue that the key to both the puzzle of TVEs and the paradox of local corporatism lies in China's dual-track reform paradigm (i.e. a market-for-mass track and a state-for-élite track). Lastly, I discuss the critical implications for theory building and policymaking regarding economic transition in general. [source]

Electronic structure of three-dimensional triangular torus-shaped quantum rings under external magnetic fields

PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 4 2003
Yiming Li
Abstract In this paper, we calculate the electron,hole energy states and the magnetization for InAs/GaAs triangular torus-shaped (TTS) quantum rings in a magnetic field. Our three-dimensional (3D) model considers (i) the effective one-band Hamiltonian approximation, (ii) the position- and energy-dependent quasi-particle effective mass approximation, (iii) the finite hard wall confinement potential, and (iv) the Ben Daniel-Duke boundary conditions. This model is solved numerically with the nonlinear iterative method to obtain the "self-consistent" solutions. We investigate the electron-hole energy spectra versus magnetic field for two different ring widths: R0 = 20 and 50 nm, and find that they strongly depend on the ring shape and size. Since the magnetic field penetrates into the inside region of the nonsimply connected ring, the electron (hole) transition energy between the lowest states versus magnetic field oscillates nonperiodically and is different from that of quantum dots. We find the magnetization at zero temperature is a negative function, saturates, and oscillates nonperiodically when the magnetic field increases. [source]

Disinflation, Real Income Uncertainty and the Demand for Consumer Durables in a Mean,Variance Model of Portfolio Selection

THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, Issue 2 2001
Jakob B. MadsenArticle first published online: 16 DEC 200
Survey evidence indicates that consumers only expect to be fractionally compensated by the real income reduction of inflation. Incorporating this evidence into a mean,variance model of portfolio selection, this paper shows that demand for durables is a negative function of expected inflation and income uncertainty. Using quarterly data for the USA and annual panel data for the OECD countries, empirical evidence shows that demand for durables is significantly adversely affected by inflation and income uncertainty, and that the recent disinflation has resulted in a significant increase in demand for durables. [source]

The virtue and vice of workplace conflict: food for (pessimistic) thought

JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 1 2008
Carsten K.W. De Dreu
Many authors, myself included, have suggested that workplace conflict may be beneficial to the organization. I argue that the support for this conclusion is rather weak. A selective and necessarily limited review of the literature shows that: (1) the positive functions of conflict are found only under an exceedingly narrow set of circumstances, (2) the conclusion that (particular forms of) conflict and conflict management has positive functions can be criticized on methodological grounds, (3) even under favorable circumstances a number of serious negative functions can be identified as well, (4) negative functions easily outweigh positive functions, prohibiting the emergence of ,positive workplace conflict' (where conflict has predominantly positive consequences), and (5) organizations need cooperative conflict management not because it brings positive conflict, but because it prevents workplace conflict to hurt too much. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]