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Measures: TRIAGE computerised battery involving 33 variables. Psychometric properties of the
TRIAGE variables were determined for various samples, utilizing factor analyses, MANOVAs,
ANOVAs and canonical correlations. Findings: A five factor core structure was identified, linked
to three canonical roots for TR and CMS respectively.
3113.3 Organizational culture in a public university: A quali-quantitative methodology for
measuring faculty members & acute; beliefs and attitudes, Guido Demicheli, Universidad de
Valparaiso - Chile, Chile
This presentation reports the results of an organizational culture study, addressed to establish the
main attitudes and beliefs that Public University’s Faculty share and sustain about their own
organization. 72 in deep interviews and 250 questionnaires were carried out to Faculty, using a
proportional and stratified sample according to academic hierarchy and type of contract.
According to the current tendencies, this research used Galileo System, an integral
quali-quantitative methodology tool that includes last generation software to construct a specific
study questionnaire, and to measure and graphically represent Faculty’s attitudes and beliefs.
3113.4 Five-facor model of organizational trust and its effectiveness, Yongwon Suh, Young
Seok Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
The present study identified 5 dimensions of trust determinants in organizations such as
competency, consideration, fairness, morality, and social responsibility. LISREL analysis
confirmed the factor structure for both company and leader trust. In addition, an integrated model
of organizational trust was tested from the sample of 1057 Korean employees. Company and
leader trust influenced cooperating intention and loyalty toward both company and leader.
Cooperating intention influenced OCB, and loyalty influenced organizational commitment.
Mediating effects from company and leader trust to OCB and organizational commitment thru
cooperating intention and loyalty were supported. Effects of trust determinants were moderated by
collectivistic values.
3113.5 The Gestalt: The forgotten factor in consulting to organizations, Kerry Richard
Cronan, Australian Psychological Society/ Syntactics, Australia
The recent intervention developments in consulting to organizations have tended to specialize and
isolate single factors or a few multiple factors. The former perspective of focus on the gestalt or
the whole of the organization has largely been subsumed by a specialization that exhilarates "new"
dimensions that are emphasized and then fade into displacement by new specializations of
intervention. This often leaves organizations uncertain of what is the need development of the
whole organization. This presentation will explore the gestalt need for consulting to organizations.
3113.6 Relations of types of goals and job behavior with proficiency in MBO, Saori
Yanagizawa, Nakamura University, Japan
This study examined the effect of employees’ proficiency on the types of goals and job behavior in
the Management By Objectives system. 103 factory employees were asked their information about
(a) proficiency, (b) goals, (c) actual job behavior and (d) the degree of the goals achievement.
Results showed that high proficient employees group had significant tendency to select the goals
concerning work processes and efficiency-oriented behavior. Moreover, the degree of employees’
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