Robert P Vecchio
Biographic Data
| ID | 5691328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Vecchio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Vecchio |
| SIGNATURE | VECCHIO R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Leadership
Power, Politics, and Influence
Organizational Culture and Strategic Leadership
Situational Leadership Theory
Journal Reviewer Ratings
Reviewer evaluations and recommendations for 853 manuscript submissions, over a span of 4 years, are analyzed for evidence of particularistic bias, reviewer agreement, and predictive validity for forecasting a published manuscript's citation impact. Attributes of the submitters, their affiliated institutions, and the reviewers have little consistent association with reviewers' recommendations or editorial decision outcomes. Furthermore, reviewers…
Categorizing Coping Responses for Envy
A multidimensional scaling analysis of the perceptions of 160 undergraduate business majors suggested two underlying dimensions for coping responses to an envy-arousing situation, Constructive-Destructive and Engaging Others-Disengaging from Others
Categorizing Coping Responses for Envy
Influences on the quality of supervisor–subordinate relations
Despite a growing literature devoted to the study of differences in the quality of leader–member exchange, little empirical evidence is available concerning factors that influence the degree of differentiation among leader–member dyads on the dimension of quality of working relationships. As time‐pressure has been suggested as one potential influence, the impact of time‐based stress on leader–member exchange was examined with a sample of 138 loan…
Choice of influence tactics
Correlates of Personal Expenditures for Postsecondary Education
In a study of predictors of tuition expenditures on postsecondary education, the role of individual differences in religious affiliation was examined with a national sample of 3,615 individuals. Based on past findings, it was hypothesized that religious affiliation may serve as a moderator of the relationship of tuition expenditures with (a) parental income and (b) prior educational involvement (i.e., type of high school attended). Analysis indic…
Preferences for forms of supervisory social influence
As part of a study of the predictive utility of employee preferences for forms of supervisory inducements, a sample of 236 administrators and first‐line supervisors provided survey data regarding their individual superiors. The respondents' statements of preferred forms of social influence from their superiors were statistically adjusted for the reported level of influence used in order to determine more precisely whether discrepancies between ac…
Salary increment allocation and individual differences
Sixty‐seven MBA students were asked to provide salary increment recommendations for a set of employees. Contrary to past evidence of a preference for an adjustment system, the majority of respondents utilized an absolute merit system for determining salary increases (wherein employees of equal merit were assigned raises of equal dollar magnitude independent of initial base salary). Further analysis suggested the importance of an individual's valu…
Demographic and attitudinal differences between part‐time and full‐time employees
Assessing the validity of Fiedler's contingency model of leadership effectiveness
Assessing the validity of Fiedler's contingency model of leadership effectiveness
The Contingent-Noncontingent Compensation Controversy
In order to determine whether contingent compensation has a detrimental effect on worker performance relative to noncontingent compensation (Deci, 1972b), 43 undergraduates were hired for a part-time interviewing job. A test of a proposed resolution of the noncontingent-contingent controversy (in terms of work quality enhancement under contingent compensation and work quality enhancement under noncontingent compensation) yielded support for only …
Staffing sufficiency and job enrichment
In a study of the relations of staffing sufficiency to a variety of job enrichment constructs, eighty‐three supervisors provided data on job‐related attitudes and the extent of workgroup staffing sufficiency. Trend analysis provided support for a proposed curvilinear relation between staffing sufficiency and certain job enrichment constructs. In addition, moderate support was also obtained for Greenberg's (1979) proposal that moderate understaffi…
Predicting employee satisfaction from congruency among individual need, job design, and system structure
Theoretical models designed to predict employee affective reactions from congruency among individual growth need strength, job attributes, and organizational structure have suffered from imprecision in predictions (Porter et al. , 1975; Nemiroff and Ford, 1976) or inconsistency in the application of integration rules (Pierce et al. , 1979). The present study competitively tested predictions generated by a congruency‐weighted model with prediction…
Situational and Behavioral Moderators of Subordinate Satisfaction with Supervision
The additive and interactive relationships of supervisor behaviors (con-sideration, initiation of structure) and work-setting attributes (role clarity, role conflict) relative to criteria of individual job satisfaction were investi-gated with bivariate and multivariate regression analyses. For a sample of 107 supervisor-subordinate dyads, results indicated that situational attributes moderated the influence of supervisor behaviors on satisfaction…
A Test of the Cognitive Complexity Interpretation of the Least Preferred Coworker Scale
Cognitive complexity has been offered (Mitchell, 1970; Foa, Mitchell, and Fiedler, 1971) as an alternative conceptualization of Fiedler's (Fiedler, 1967) measure of leadership (i.e., the Least Preferred Coworker Scale—LPC). In order to establish the validity of this proposition, the completed LPC scales of 287 airmen were analyzed. ANOVA tests for linear trend revealed that, contrary to current theorizing, low LPC is more closely related to cogni…
The Parolee's Dilemma
In a study of the contaminating effects of interpersonal attraction on decision-making 104 undergraduate males made parole recommendations for fictitious convicts. Two levels of four factors (severity of crime committed, rehabilitation officer's recommendation for parole, interpersonal attraction, and subject's authoritarianism) were employed in a factorial design. Results of multivariate analysis of variance indicated that severity of crime comm…
Predicting Teacher Effectiveness from Graduate Admissions Predictors
An attempt to predict the teaching ability of graduate teaching assistants (as measured by student achievement and student satisfaction) from predictors of graduate-student success in graduate school suggested the following: 1) student achievement in an introductory psychology course correlates most strongly with the instructor’s GRE-Advanced score and number of psychology courses taken by the instructor as an undergraduate; 2) student satisfacti…
Influences on the quality of supervisor–subordinate relations
Despite a growing literature devoted to the study of differences in the quality of leader–member exchange, little empirical evidence is available concerning factors that influence the degree of differentiation among leader–member dyads on the dimension of quality of working relationships. As time‐pressure has been suggested as one potential influence, the impact of time‐based stress on leader–member exchange was examined with a sample of 138 loan…
Choice of influence tactics
Situational and Behavioral Moderators of Subordinate Satisfaction with Supervision
The additive and interactive relationships of supervisor behaviors (con-sideration, initiation of structure) and work-setting attributes (role clarity, role conflict) relative to criteria of individual job satisfaction were investi-gated with bivariate and multivariate regression analyses. For a sample of 107 supervisor-subordinate dyads, results indicated that situational attributes moderated the influence of supervisor behaviors on satisfaction…
Demographic and attitudinal differences between part‐time and full‐time employees
The Contingent-Noncontingent Compensation Controversy
In order to determine whether contingent compensation has a detrimental effect on worker performance relative to noncontingent compensation (Deci, 1972b), 43 undergraduates were hired for a part-time interviewing job. A test of a proposed resolution of the noncontingent-contingent controversy (in terms of work quality enhancement under contingent compensation and work quality enhancement under noncontingent compensation) yielded support for only …
Preferences for forms of supervisory social influence
As part of a study of the predictive utility of employee preferences for forms of supervisory inducements, a sample of 236 administrators and first‐line supervisors provided survey data regarding their individual superiors. The respondents' statements of preferred forms of social influence from their superiors were statistically adjusted for the reported level of influence used in order to determine more precisely whether discrepancies between ac…
Salary increment allocation and individual differences
Sixty‐seven MBA students were asked to provide salary increment recommendations for a set of employees. Contrary to past evidence of a preference for an adjustment system, the majority of respondents utilized an absolute merit system for determining salary increases (wherein employees of equal merit were assigned raises of equal dollar magnitude independent of initial base salary). Further analysis suggested the importance of an individual's valu…
The Parolee's Dilemma
In a study of the contaminating effects of interpersonal attraction on decision-making 104 undergraduate males made parole recommendations for fictitious convicts. Two levels of four factors (severity of crime committed, rehabilitation officer's recommendation for parole, interpersonal attraction, and subject's authoritarianism) were employed in a factorial design. Results of multivariate analysis of variance indicated that severity of crime comm…
Predicting Teacher Effectiveness from Graduate Admissions Predictors
An attempt to predict the teaching ability of graduate teaching assistants (as measured by student achievement and student satisfaction) from predictors of graduate-student success in graduate school suggested the following: 1) student achievement in an introductory psychology course correlates most strongly with the instructor’s GRE-Advanced score and number of psychology courses taken by the instructor as an undergraduate; 2) student satisfacti…
A Test of the Cognitive Complexity Interpretation of the Least Preferred Coworker Scale
Cognitive complexity has been offered (Mitchell, 1970; Foa, Mitchell, and Fiedler, 1971) as an alternative conceptualization of Fiedler's (Fiedler, 1967) measure of leadership (i.e., the Least Preferred Coworker Scale—LPC). In order to establish the validity of this proposition, the completed LPC scales of 287 airmen were analyzed. ANOVA tests for linear trend revealed that, contrary to current theorizing, low LPC is more closely related to cogni…
Staffing sufficiency and job enrichment
In a study of the relations of staffing sufficiency to a variety of job enrichment constructs, eighty‐three supervisors provided data on job‐related attitudes and the extent of workgroup staffing sufficiency. Trend analysis provided support for a proposed curvilinear relation between staffing sufficiency and certain job enrichment constructs. In addition, moderate support was also obtained for Greenberg's (1979) proposal that moderate understaffi…
Predicting employee satisfaction from congruency among individual need, job design, and system structure
Theoretical models designed to predict employee affective reactions from congruency among individual growth need strength, job attributes, and organizational structure have suffered from imprecision in predictions (Porter et al. , 1975; Nemiroff and Ford, 1976) or inconsistency in the application of integration rules (Pierce et al. , 1979). The present study competitively tested predictions generated by a congruency‐weighted model with prediction…
Situational and Behavioral Moderators of Subordinate Satisfaction with Supervision
The additive and interactive relationships of supervisor behaviors (con-sideration, initiation of structure) and work-setting attributes (role clarity, role conflict) relative to criteria of individual job satisfaction were investi-gated with bivariate and multivariate regression analyses. For a sample of 107 supervisor-subordinate dyads, results indicated that situational attributes moderated the influence of supervisor behaviors on satisfaction…
The Contingent-Noncontingent Compensation Controversy
In order to determine whether contingent compensation has a detrimental effect on worker performance relative to noncontingent compensation (Deci, 1972b), 43 undergraduates were hired for a part-time interviewing job. A test of a proposed resolution of the noncontingent-contingent controversy (in terms of work quality enhancement under contingent compensation and work quality enhancement under noncontingent compensation) yielded support for only …
Assessing the validity of Fiedler's contingency model of leadership effectiveness
Assessing the validity of Fiedler's contingency model of leadership effectiveness
Demographic and attitudinal differences between part‐time and full‐time employees
Salary increment allocation and individual differences
Sixty‐seven MBA students were asked to provide salary increment recommendations for a set of employees. Contrary to past evidence of a preference for an adjustment system, the majority of respondents utilized an absolute merit system for determining salary increases (wherein employees of equal merit were assigned raises of equal dollar magnitude independent of initial base salary). Further analysis suggested the importance of an individual's valu…
Preferences for forms of supervisory social influence
As part of a study of the predictive utility of employee preferences for forms of supervisory inducements, a sample of 236 administrators and first‐line supervisors provided survey data regarding their individual superiors. The respondents' statements of preferred forms of social influence from their superiors were statistically adjusted for the reported level of influence used in order to determine more precisely whether discrepancies between ac…
Correlates of Personal Expenditures for Postsecondary Education
In a study of predictors of tuition expenditures on postsecondary education, the role of individual differences in religious affiliation was examined with a national sample of 3,615 individuals. Based on past findings, it was hypothesized that religious affiliation may serve as a moderator of the relationship of tuition expenditures with (a) parental income and (b) prior educational involvement (i.e., type of high school attended). Analysis indic…
Choice of influence tactics
Influences on the quality of supervisor–subordinate relations
Despite a growing literature devoted to the study of differences in the quality of leader–member exchange, little empirical evidence is available concerning factors that influence the degree of differentiation among leader–member dyads on the dimension of quality of working relationships. As time‐pressure has been suggested as one potential influence, the impact of time‐based stress on leader–member exchange was examined with a sample of 138 loan…
Categorizing Coping Responses for Envy
A multidimensional scaling analysis of the perceptions of 160 undergraduate business majors suggested two underlying dimensions for coping responses to an envy-arousing situation, Constructive-Destructive and Engaging Others-Disengaging from Others
Categorizing Coping Responses for Envy
Journal Reviewer Ratings
Reviewer evaluations and recommendations for 853 manuscript submissions, over a span of 4 years, are analyzed for evidence of particularistic bias, reviewer agreement, and predictive validity for forecasting a published manuscript's citation impact. Attributes of the submitters, their affiliated institutions, and the reviewers have little consistent association with reviewers' recommendations or editorial decision outcomes. Furthermore, reviewers…
Leadership
Power, Politics, and Influence
Organizational Culture and Strategic Leadership
Situational Leadership Theory
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (7 works) · Management (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)