Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 12 Issue 4

Team or group? Managers’ perceptions of the differences

Stephen G. Fisher, Terri A. Hunter, K W.D.

States that organizations are using teams and groups to an increasing extent yet current researchers often use the terms interchangeably, despite literature indicating both that…

Cognitive style as a factor influencing performance of business students across various assessment techniques: A preliminary study

Alan Kai‐Ming Au

Using a sample of 103 first year business students at the Waikato Polytechnic in New Zealand, examines hypotheses that students’ performance is related to personality style; and…

Construct and concurrent validity of three Protestant work ethic measures in an Arabian Gulf society

Ikhlas A.H. Abdalla

Discusses the data analysed in the present study which was collected from 284 Qatari men and women college students. Examines the internal reliability estimates, construct and…

Competence in command: recent R&D in the London Fire Brigade

Eugene Burke

Provides snapshots of several research and development actions aimed at addressing the question of what characterizes competent command of a fire ground incident. Looks at two…

Objective versus projective measurement of need for achievement: the relation between TAT and CMPS

Ove C. Hansemark

In entrepreneurship research, self‐reporting using questionnaires is often used as a replacement for the projective test, the thematic apperception test (TAT). Posits that this…