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New cloud-based PLS path modeling app at http://pls-gui.com

  • 1.  New cloud-based PLS path modeling app at http://pls-gui.com

    Posted 09-09-2014 01:07
    My co-development partner, Dean Lim, and I have recently implemented major updates to our online, cloud-based, PLS Path Modeling application (PLS-GUI) that you may use at http://www.pls-gui.com. Note that it implements Hayes' Med-Mod analyses for some (not all) of the 77 templates, but it uses the path model latent variable scores, not observed variables. It also delivers enhanced linear PLS output, bootstrapping, jackknifing and blindfolding, N-level multi-group analyses (MGA), and non-parametric Prediction-Oriented Segmentation (PLS-POS) and Genetic Algorithm Segmentation (PLS-GAS) to discover latent heterogeneity (groups) as an alternative to the parametric FIMIX-PLS. A soon-to deliver future function will automatically create several different configurations of Higher Order Components.

    Each variable name must be unique (with no spaces or hyphens '-' in the name), and it will not import product indicator-created moderator latent contructs, nor repeated-indicator HOCs. It automatically creates 2-stage moderator terms for you.

    It does not require that you have R installed, or any software installed, for that matter. All you need is a browser. Note that you cannot currently draw a new model, but that you can import an existing SmartPLS 2.0 .splsm (model) file or a SmartPLS 2.0 .splsp (project) file, or a SmartPLS 3.0 .zip (project) file, along with your data.

    It has a number of novel and/or advanced functions. However, it is still beta software and we would love to hear about things that do not work properly (although I could not find any this afternoon).

    Please be patient with some of the functions......if you do not get a pop-up error box message, the instance is still running on the server and the application will provide (downloadable) results soon.

    Best,

    Geoff Hubona


  • 2.  Call for papers -Handbook of Organizational Politics (2nd Edition)

    Posted 09-09-2014 11:33

    Call for papers

    Invitation to submit abstracts

     

    Handbook of Organizational Politics (2Ed.):

    Looking Back  and to the Future

     Abstracts deadline  - October 1st, 2014.

    Eran Vigoda-Gadot and Amos Drory (Eds.)

    Edward-Elgar Publishing House


    Overview

    The new volume of the Handbook of Organizational Politics (2Ed): Looking Back and to the Future offers an updated perspective on the fascinating phenomena of power, influence and politics in today's workplace.

     

    It is well recognized today that this phenomenon is a significant key to the understanding of organizational functioning, outcomes and performances. Yet, the study of  politics in organizations is extremely challenging as both employees, middle-managers, or top level executives are inclined to openly discuss and uncover the political dynamics that facilitate the  promotion of ideas,  decisions  which enable organizational change and development.

     

    Many new thoughts, conceptual models and empirical findings were published in recent years related with organizational politics (e.g., political skills, politics and emotions, team politics etc.). This book represents an ambitious attempt    to present and discuss the recent developments as reflected in the list below. Similarly to the first volume, the book is intended as a comprehensive collection of original or re-worked studies and aims to depict the state of the art in understanding of workplace politics based on theoretical ideas and empirical findings from around the world.

     

    Relevant topics that may be included are suggested below. Suggestions related to additional topics not mentioned specifically here are also welcomed and should be discussed with the editors;

     

    Rethinking the definitions of organizational politics, it nature and forms;

    Multilevel OP: Inter-personal work politics; Inter-departmental work politics; Inter-organizational work politics;

    Cross-sector studies: OP in private and public sector worksites;

    Politics in international organizations;

    Personality and organizational politics;

    Gender and organizational politics;

    Development and measurements of political skills;

    The process of influence and the emergence of OP;

    The use of OP and political skills in critical decision-making processes;

    Coalitions and politics in organizations;

    Ingratiation and impression management;

    Work and non-work politics; are they related?

    Interdisciplinary insights: What can be learned from political science and other discipline in the field of organizational politics;

    Technology, information revolution and OP;

    OP and intelligence/ emotional intelligence;

    Emotions. Intelligence , and OP;

    Social aspects of the political organization;

    Dark and Bright: Negative and positive implications of OP;

    Exploring new antecedents of OP;

    OP and performance: New perspective on a core question;

    Cross-cultural meanings of OP

    The ethical sphere: OP, fairness, and justice;

    OP and state level political behavior;

    OP, stress, strain, and burnout;

    OP and Organizational Citizenship Behavior;

    Politics and leadership in organizations;

    OP in state offices and in public administration.

    OP, innovation and creativity;   

    New methodological perspectives;

    The practice of OPs; what can be learned from specific case studies and from the practitioners' point of view? 

     

    Instructions for Contributors and Contacts

    Abstracts should be received by October 1st, 2014.

     

    Full chapters are expected by April 1st, 2015.

     

    Publication is expected during the second half of 2015.

     

    All submissions should be made electronically (use e-mail attachment files in MS Word format).

     

    Acceptance is subject to a thorough review process by an ad-hoc editorial board. Selection of chapters is competitive based on merit of quality and innovativeness.

     

    Some of the papers will also be considered for publication in a special issue of a leading management or OB scholarly journal.

     

    Prof. Eran Vigoda-Gadot,

    School of Political Science

    The University of Haifa

    Haifa, 31905 ISRAEL

    Phone: 972-(0)4-8240709, Fax: 972-(0)4-8257785

    Email: eranv@poli.haifa.ac.il

     

    Prof. Amos Drory

    School of Management

    Ben Gurion University,

    Beer Sheva, ISRAEL

    Phone: 972-(0)8-6472781, Fax: 972-(0)8-6472866

    Email: adrory@bgu.ac.il