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Moshavi D. & Koch M.J., (n.d). The Adoption of Family-Friendly Practices in Family Owned Firms.
The article is centered on the family business and how the conflicts that emanate from the family business affects the non-family employees and what repercussions it has on the business as well. It highlights the work and family systems interaction and how that interaction can be managed. This is an empirical investigation into how the family business owners manage the work and family conflicts that face the non-family employees. The article first highlights some pertinent theories that help explain the influence of family on business like the resource-dependency theory and institutional theory in order to help the reader understand the entire concept. The researcher used the survey method to collect his data and 680 human resource manager filled in questionnaires that were used. The dependent variable is sighted as work-family responsiveness and the independent variable used here is the family ownership. The research finds out that the non-family owned firms were likely to adopt the flextime than the family owned. This was the same trend for the flexible speeding accounts use and more likely to use the resource referral programs as the article indicates.
Beehr T.A., Drexler J.A. & Faulkner S., (1997)....
Working in a Small Family Business: Empirical Comparison to Non-Family Businesses. Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 18.John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
The article highlights the factors and conflicts that surround the ownership of a small family firm in specific. The article fist looks at the positives and negative areas of working in a family business, to both the individual and the business. In order to come up with the data, the researchers did a literature review on family business as well as preliminary interviews. The hypothesis here is that "conflicts should be associated with negative outcomes." The overriding theme and findings here is that more conflicts seem to be found among the family owned businesses than those that are not family owned. The data was gathered from randomly picked respondents who were business owners and contact kept over a long period of time. There were also interviews among 20 family and non-family members of 6 businesses in Michigan.
Jennings J.E., Breitkreuz Rhoda S. & Albert J.E., (2013). When Family Members are also Business Owner: Is Entrepreneurship God for Families?
The article is on the effect of business ownership on families. This is an agenda setting paper that looks into the issue of whether family business ownership is healthy for the family. It…
The writer here takes a closer look at the family business and specifically the communication trends that are experienced within such businesses. It also looks at how the communication helps to boost innovativeness in family business. The paper seeks to examine the effects of communication on innovation within the family business and how much innovation there is within the family business setting. The researcher here also looks at the variations in innovation among the family businesses and the reasons behind these disparities. The researcher highlights the various factors that are likely to affect the innovation within the family business setting and how these have over years changed. The data that was used was widely sourced from case studies of various family owned business in contrast to the business not owned by families. There was a general conclusion that non-family owned businesses seemed to show higher levels of innovation and better structured communication systems.
Memili E., Zellweger T. & Fang H.C., (2013). The Determinants of Family Owner-Managers' Affective Organizational Commitment. Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies.
The author here highlights the need for the commitment of the owner-managers within the family owned businesses. The levels of commitment as managers are seen to be affected by the levels of harmony that is within the business management position. The conceptual framework of this article looks highlights some major factors that are likely to determine the commitment of any individual family member in managing the family business. These are relationship conflict, work-family conflict, affective organizational commitment which are all seen to have an impact in the ownership attachment.
Risk Management in Family Owned Businesses A family business can be simply described as "any business in which a majority of the ownership or control lies within a family, and in which two or more family members are directly involved" (Bowman-Upton, 1991). In other words, it is a multifaceted, twofold structure consisting of the family and the business meaning that the involved members are both the part of a job system
History/description of the family businessThe history of very successful family owned businesses began around the 1870�S and 1890�s during the industrial revolution. This period ushered in an unprecedented amount of technological innovations such as the railroad, the steam engine, and eventually, the automobile. Each of these items help to foster a greater ability to transport goods and services without the need for excessive manner labor. The concept of total factor
family-Owned funeral home do to be proactive with regard to safety management? The key to being proactive is to be attentive to the work environment and possible hazard areas. It is of paramount importance for any business owner to examine the working environment of the business and establish what areas and activities are at high risk of having an accident. Once the key accident-risk areas have been identified, steps can
The pizza sizes are 10 inches which is an individual, 12 inches which is a small, 14 inches which is a medium, 16 inches which is a large, 18 inches which is a super, and a 20-inch pizza which is a family size. The family size pizza gets about 37% of all the sales which are $400,000, the 16-inch large comes in second accounting for 20% of pizza revenues, the
The cheese plant is dedicated to agricultural product production processes utilizing mostly raw materials produced on its own farms. Generally, the individual farms each maintain several hundred heads of cattle capable of producing sufficient raw materials (such as fresh milk) to sustain McCadum Cheese Plant operations. Apparent McCadum Cheese Plant Inventory Needs: In general, production that is dependent on the availability of raw materials from its farm network. It would not
Business Strategies and Decision-Making Choosing a business structure can depend on a wide range of variables and it is thus essential for a manager to have a complex understanding of his company, the industry it is associated with, and business forecasts. The process of choosing a business structure needs to be considered before starting any businesses in spite of the fact that this respective process can take a significant amount of