Relation of Organizational Structure to Job Satisfaction, Anxiety-Stress, and Performance

Ivancevich, John M.; Donnelly, James H.

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“…Others argue that tall structures lead to supervision that can be too close, creating a frustrating situation for the employee in search of autonomy and self actualization. Thus, Ivancevich and Donnelly (1975), in a study of trade salespersons, found that those in the flat structures (115 salespeople report ing to eight division managers reporting to a sales vice-president) claimed to be more satisfied on the dimensions of self-actualization and autonomy, indicated less anxiety and stress, and performed more efficiently than those in the medium and tall structures. (In the former, 142 salespersons reported to thirteen district operations managers, who reported to eight field sales managers, who reported to a president of marketing.…”

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The Structuring of Organizations

Mintzberg¹

1989

Readings in Strategic Management

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Section: Studies Of Tall Versus Flat Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Structuring of Organizations

Mintzberg¹

1989

Readings in Strategic Management

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“…In a social context, it has been shown that flatter hierarchies give managers at each level more freedom (20). Moreover, the number of levels in a hierarchy is determined by the degree of standardization of the work processes.…”

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Genomic analysis of the hierarchical structure of regulatory networks

Gerstein

2006

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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A fundamental question in biology is how the cell uses transcription factors (TFs) to coordinate the expression of thousands of genes in response to various stimuli. The relationships between TFs and their target genes can be modeled in terms of directed regulatory networks. These relationships, in turn, can be readily compared with commonplace ''chain-of-command'' structures in social networks, which have characteristic hierarchical layouts. Here, we develop algorithms for identifying generalized hierarchies (allowing for various loop structures) and use these approaches to illuminate extensive pyramid-shaped hierarchical structures existing in the regulatory networks of representative prokaryotes (Escherichia coli) and eukaryotes (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), with most TFs at the bottom levels and only a few master TFs on top. These masters are situated near the center of the protein-protein interaction network, a different type of network from the regulatory one, and they receive most of the input for the whole regulatory hierarchy through protein interactions. Moreover, they have maximal influence over other genes, in terms of affecting expression-level changes. Surprisingly, however, TFs at the bottom of the regulatory hierarchy are more essential to the viability of the cell. Finally, one might think master TFs achieve their wide influence through directly regulating many targets, but TFs with most direct targets are in the middle of the hierarchy. We find, in fact, that these midlevel TFs are "control bottlenecks" in the hierarchy, and this great degree of control for "middle managers" has parallels in efficient social structures in various corporate and governmental settings.organization ͉ topology ͉ transcriptional regulation ͉ yeast

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“…This was delivered when individuals feared not being able to deal with stress during work. Life Stress has a hopeful upshot on employees' of IT firms, however the degree to which an IT employee can deal with it, by and large surpasses bearable limits and has a negative outcome on IT employees' [3]. IT employees' countenance pressures in family life, include salary, working hours and housing problems in Beijing etc.…”

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“…As per the viewing of [6], job satisfaction alludes to the "gratifying enthusiastic stipulation approaching from the evaluation of one's job as accomplishing or encouraging one's job standards". The relationship among uneasiness stress with job satisfaction in IT firms and the execution of IT employees' had been inspected, and discovered that lower stress advances the performance of IT employees' which they premeditated across various IT administrative levels of the firm [3]. On the foundation of literature, the accompanying hypotheses were estimated: Hypothesis 1: IT employees' life stress pessimistically influences on job satisfaction at individual level in IT firms.…”

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A Multilevel Association Model for IT Employees’ Life Stress and Job Satisfaction: An Information Technology (IT) Industry Case Study

Mehmood

Hussain

2017

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. The aim of this research was to investigate the association among IT employees' life stress and job satisfaction in information technology (IT) firms. Data on 250 IT employees' in 30 working groups was obtained from 10 Information Technology (IT) Chinese firms from Beijing, and analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). Results found momentous association among life stress of IT employees' and their job satisfaction at an individual-level and group-level in IT firms. Furthermore, life stress in Beijing at group-level moderates the association among job satisfaction and IT employees' life stress at an individuallevel. Finally, limitations and implications of the present study are also discussed.

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Relation of Organizational Structure to Job Satisfaction, Anxiety-Stress, and Performance

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The Structuring of Organizations

The Structuring of Organizations

Genomic analysis of the hierarchical structure of regulatory networks

A Multilevel Association Model for IT Employees’ Life Stress and Job Satisfaction: An Information Technology (IT) Industry Case Study

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