Contrary to predictions made by signaling theory, recruitment websites had similar effects on the organizational impressions of all individuals, regardless of their familiarity with the organizations maintaining the recruitment websites that they viewed.
Similarly at MUSOPH, Kenya, faculty were under the impression that organizational policies were not available.
Taking into account identity and impression management organizational literature, institutional theory will be the overarching theoretical perspective we will adopt in this investigation to better describe, understand and explain processes of professional image construction occurring within given institutional contexts.
We discuss the implications of leaders' impression management during organizational decline.
In this study, we develop and examine a model of leaders' impression management during organizational decline by elaborating on the roles of publicity, image concerns, and incentive compensation.
The interest in impression management among organizational scholars was scant until the 1980's [ 59].
More recently, Robert [ 56] has interestingly theorized about impression management for constructing professional image in organizational settings.
Some patients may feel reassured by an impression of a greater technical, medical and organizational support given by computers compared to paper folders.
Furthermore, this framework also highlights intended and unintended consequences of impression management behaviors at the individual, interpersonal, group and organizational performance levels.
My dedicated filing soon made an impression, however, and one day I was told to research the organizational structures of three different call centers and then to present my findings at a meeting.
