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This study investigates the impact of perceived organizational support on some positive psychological capacities. Optimism, hope, and self efficacy have employed in the context of this research. Data is collected by survey method from 161 nurses, who work for the hospitals of foundation universities in Ankara. Data is analyzed by the help of structural equation modeling. Results show that perceived organizational support positively and significantly affects the nurse’s positive psychological capacities of optimism, hope, and self efficacy.
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Purpose: This study aims to empirically investigate the direct effect of incentives on job satisfaction, and the extent of direct effect of work passion on job satisfaction, the extent of direct effect job satisfaction on teachers’ achievement, the extent of direct effect of incentives on teachers’ achievement, and the extent of direct effect of work passion on teacher’s achievement, and the effect of incentives on teachers’ achievement through job satisfaction, as well as the extent of the effect of work passion on teacher’s achievement through job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: This study involved a sample of 183 SMK teachers across the City of Medan. The data were analyzed using "Path Analysis" of IBM SPSS 21.0. Findings: The study lead to the following results: Incentives has a direct but insignificant effect on job satisfaction with significant path coefficient value of 0.138, and at a significant level of 0.095 with probability sig > α = 0.05. Work passion directly affects job satisfaction with a path coefficient value of 0.144, at a significant level of 0.081 with probability sig > α = 0.05. The effect of work passion is not significant. Job satisfaction directly affects teachers’ achievement with a path coefficient value of 0.208 and at a significant level of 0.04 with probability sig ≤ α = 0.05. Incentives directly affect a teacher’s achievement with a path coefficient value of 0.138, at a significant level of 0.371 with probability sig > α = 0.05. However, it's not significant. Work passion directly affects teachers’ achievement with path coefficient value of 0.296 path and significant at the probability sig 0.000 ≤ α = 0.05. Incentives has indirect effect on teachers’ achievement through job satisfaction and has indirect effect coefficient value of less than (<) direct effect (P31x1x P43X3) = (0.138 x 0.208) = 0.029 or 2.9%. The individual work passion has no indirect effect on achievement through job satisfaction and has a direct effect with a coefficient value bigger than (>) indirect effect (P32X2 x P43X3) = (0.144 x 0.296) = 0.030, or 3 % Research limitations/implications: Despite the variable of incentives have a nonsignificant direct effect on work achievement and work passion and job satisfaction have a significant effect on improvement of work achievement, this variable, however, must be well implemented and improved on a continuous basis in order to achieve best work achievement so as to maximally achieve the pre-defined goals or objectives. Originality/value: Researches can add several more variables, both of exogenous variables and endogenous variables for the purpose of improving and expanding the results of this research, so that the expected findings may bring more benefits for the development and advancement of education world especially in the City of Medan. In addition, the municipal Government of Medan can also take strategic steps that may help improve the quality of education in the City of Medan in general and in particular.
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Purpose: This study examines the degree of employee satisfaction from the different factors that theoretically affect satisfaction. Moreover, the relationship between the factors of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on private employees is examined. Design/methodology/approach: In order to achieve the objectives of this study, the survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire in January and March 2018. The final sample size consists of 439 private employees in Greece. The most frequent questioned industry is services, followed by trade and manufacturing at a smaller rate. The research instrument for content and construct validity was tested. Data were analyzed using ANOVA, Correlation and Regression analysis. Findings: The results showed that the “Social Aspects of job”, “Job Characteristics” and “Work Environment”, are the most important factors positively affecting organizational commitment, while "Promotion" and "Rewards" are not significant factors. Research limitations/implications: During survey some limitations were found to exist, the largest being the small sample size. Additionally, subjective measures of employee satisfaction were used instead of objective measures. However, this study shows that job satisfaction is inherently interwoven with organizational commitment. Since organizational commitment has a direct impact on employee retention, performance, and organizational behavior, it is essential to meet the required conditions for its existence.Originality/value: In the recent years of Greek economic crisis, very few private sector studies have addressed the satisfaction of employees and their commitment to the organization.
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Stress and burnout syndrome of education and rehabilitation experts have been identified as a significant problem, so the subject of this research is focused on analyzing the gender impact on the occurrence of burnout syndrome in education and rehabilitation experts. The aim of the research was to examine whether there are any differences in the degree of professional burden of education and rehabilitation professionals in relation to gender. The study covered 102 educational and rehabilitation professionals of both sexes, 31 (30.4%) male and 71 (69.6%) female sex. Two measurement questionnaires were used for the assessment: a general questionnaire and a Check List of Burden. The results of the research have shown that gender does not affect the occurrence of professional burden of education and rehabilitation experts. The obtained results are not in line with the expected results because it was expect that female education and rehabilitation experts will have a higher level of professional burden. In the paper it was discusses about the results obtained, pointing to the limitation but also the advantages of this research.
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The author of this paper gave a brief outline of the process and importance of the motivation of the employees in the educational institutions with special emphasis on pre elemenary school institutions. In the first part of the paper author reviews the theoretical bases of motivation of employees, while the second part she presents the results of research of motivation in the child care center Revda and Vildana in Novi Pazar.
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The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of transformational and conditional-rewarding leadership on the organizational silence perceptions of workers and the moderating role of satisfaction in this relation. Validity of the scales was proved with Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) performed with Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Relations between the variables mentioned were tested with hierarchic regression analyses and their moderating effects were researched according to data obtained. In the study, private hospitals active in the health sector in Isparta province were taken into consideration. Data was obtained from questionnaires filled out by 396 hospital employees and relations between the variables were analyzed based on the collected data. At the end of the study, it was determined that transformational and conditional-rewarding leadership has a diminishing role on the organizational silence perceptions of workers and that job satisfaction plays a moderating role in the relation between transformational and conditional-rewarding leadership and pro-social silence which one of the organizational silence dimensions.
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Purpose – It is possible to express the psychological agreement as a dynamic, non-written set of expectations based on mutuality between the employee and the organization. There are two (relational and operational contracts) main types of psychological contract. Organizational creativity is that, employees within the organization produce a new, different idea, product or service. The aim of this study is to determine the effects of the psychological contract perceptions of the employees of the five-star hotels operating in Afyonkarahisar on their organizational creativity levels. Design/methodology/approach – In this study carried out in the format of field research, the data were collected by survey technique. The sample group of the study, which covers five-star hotels operating in Afyonkarahisar, consists of 326 employees. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, correlation, simple and multiple linear regression analyzes were conducted. Findings – As a result of the findings of the research, it was identified that psychological contract perceptions of employees were close to the mid-level and the organizational creativity levels of the employees were above the medium level. In addition to that, it was found out that the perceptions of employees regarding the psychological contract have a positive and significant effect on their level of organizational creativity. Discussion – According to the results of the correlation analysis of the relationship between psychological contract and organizational creativity, a positive relationship was found between psychological contract and organizational creativity. There were no studies about this subject encountered, when other concepts correlated with psychological contract and organizational creativity were examined; . there is a significant relationship was found between organizational creativity and organizational commitment and job satisfaction. It was found that the psychological contract had a significant effect on organizational creativity. When other concepts were examined; as a result of the research the psychological contract has a positive effect on organizational trust.
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The aim of the research is to determine whether organizational culture, which weakens organizational commitment, reduces performance, prevents motivation, is the cause of organizational cynicism. While employees of the companies that operates in the Gaziantep Organize Sanayi region constitutes the universe of the research, sampling is constitutes employee of the companies allowing survey. The research data were gathered by questionnaire and statistical analyzes were done. As a result of the analyzes made, positively weak correlations were found between beliefs cynicism from organizational cynicism sub dimensions and clan culture, adhocracy culture, market culture and hierarchy culture. There was a negative relationship between beliefs cynicism of organizational cynicism sub-dimension and clan culture of organizational culture sub-dimensions. Moreover, according to the result of regression analysis, it was concluded that belief cynicism and affect cynicism of organizational cynicism sub-dimensions were influenced by organizational culture sub-dimensions, that is organizational culture was the cause of organizational cynicism.
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Individual career planning is a process in which the individual determines his/her career-related goals and uses the means to achieve these goals. While there are many factors affecting this process, one of these is the phenomenon of perceived over qualification, expressed as the idea of having an individual’s skills and training exceeding certain job requirements. On the other hand, in the background of the many behaviours that an individual exhibits in his / her work life, the individual’s perception of support for his organization lies. In this context, in this study, the effect of perceived organizational support on the perceived over qualification and the relationship between individual career planning is tried to be examined. For this purpose, a quantitative research was conducted. Data were obtained from public and private sector employees in Bitlis, Turkey. Reliability, validity, exploratory factor and hierarchical regression analyses were performed on the data. In the analyses conducted, it was determined that the perceived organizational support had a moderator effect on the relationship between perceived over qualification and individual career planning. In addition, it was found out that the education level had a moderator effect from the control variables. In addition to contributing to the literature, the research is also expected to guide business managers.
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The word Conflict connotes unpleasantness yet it is as old as Mankind. Man as a social animal has need of interaction and in the process of interacting or working, conflict ensures because of divergent interests which surface in his/her views, believes system, desires, expectations and share values; that disposes him/her to act in a peculiar way. This study seeks to investigated conflict management effects on employees’ performance in organization in the Nigerian Public Service. If properly handled, Organizational conflict can Increase productivity and innovation thereby positively affecting organizational Performance. The survey design was used for the study and the findings showed collective bargaining to be the most effective strategy in the management of conflicts. This study also pointed out, that there are so many causes of conflicts amongst employees such as interests, individual and Organizational goal but the collective bargaining strategy is recommended for conflict resolution.
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The article presents the analysis of the role of adult learning theories in the development of corporate training in the USA. Considering that corporate education is part of the adult education system in this country, the author examines theories of organizational learning in the context of adult learning. The results of the study have revealed that adult education in the US is based on different learning theories which should be viewed from the perspective of several main orientations: behaviorism, cognitivism, humanism, developmental theories, social learning, constructivism, which have different philosophical background and, accordingly, different understanding of the nature and methodology of adult learning. Based on the results of the study it has been concluded that theories of organizational learning which explain motivation of students, their needs and goals, cognitive processes and other aspects of the learning in organizations and have had the main influence on the development of corporate education in the United States should be viewed in the context of the above-mentioned basic orientations to learning, too. From the methodological perspective, the research was based on interdisciplinary and systemic approaches. Thus, we used a set of interrelated research methods: comparative, structural, systemic-functional analyses, comparison and synthesis.
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In the globalized economic relations Economic diplomacy has experienced a complete affirmation, and that necessarily imposes the need for finding an adequate institutional model on the macro and micro level. Institutional models of economic diplomacy vary from country to country, depending on the extent to cooperate between state and non-state actors. In the case study, we have analyzed the forms of co-operation between these actors in the field of human resources management.The Austrian Human Resource Management Model in Economic Diplomacy can be the basis for creating adequate national models, taking into account the specificity of each country.
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This study examined the psychometric properties of a Serbian translation of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS – Serbian Form). Two different studies involving Serbian employed adults were conducted. In the first study (n = 374), the results of confirmatory factor analyses supported the four-factor structure of the scale and it is shown that the overall CAAS score and sub-dimension scores were highly reliable. The second study (n = 270) demonstrated the external validity of the instrument. Correlations with narcissism, career satisfaction, supervisory support, perceived social support, and burnout wereconsistent with the theoretical expectations and results of previous studies, suggesting good external validity of the instrument. The configural, metric, scalar, and residual measurement invariance of the CAAS – Serbian Form among two samples were established. It was concluded that the CAAS – Serbian Form has adequate psychometric properties, and hencecould be considered as a reliable and valid instrument for measuring career adaptability of employed adults.
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The main aim of this study was to develop a new scale for measuring travel destination personality – the Destination Personality Scale (DPS). It was assumed that DPS will confirm the applicability of the five-factor structure of the original Brand Personality Scale (BPS) by Aaker (1997) when more appropriate adjectives for the description of travel destinationpersonality are generated. Results confirmed the five-factor structure of DPS, with dimensions Excitement, Sincerity, Competence, Ruggedness, and Sophistication. The final version of DPS consists of 24 items and subscales showed good construct (convergent and discriminant) and criterion validity, as well as reliability.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate how CSR initiatives of company influence customer brand choice. This research primarily deals with how CSR initiatives of the firm effects consumer buying behavior and purchase criteria in different product categories. The study provides a solution to effectively link CSR with elements of brand equity. Specific research objectives include: (1) evaluating consumer understanding of CSR concept; (2) CSR influence on consumer brand choice in low involvement and high involvement product categories; (3) CSR effects on different elements of brand equity. This study establishes theoretical framework, research design, interpretation of results and finally proposes a model for effective CSR initiatives in line with customer involvement level with a product. Quantitative research method-a survey is used to collect data. The questionnaire was derived based on Christopher A. Noe, using 5-point Likert scale.The sample size is 57 students of business studies from two main universities in Latvia. Descriptive and inferential statistics are used to analyse the data. Results indicate that CSR initiatives have significant influence on customer brand choice in case of high involvement products and little influence on customer decision in case of low involvement products. Results also indicate that CSR has positive effects on some elements of brand equity, while little or no effects on others. Consumer perception and evaluation of four different types of CSR initiatives-legal compliance, environmental protection, transparency and participation in voluntary projects vary significantly in their purchase decision. Finally, it is also revealed that some industries in Baltic region have poor corporate image in terms of CSR initiatives.
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The purpose of the study is to -determine the relative importance of various factors that motivate Latvian consumers to purchase products and services from social enterprises in order to provide practical suggestions and recommendations for Latvian social enterprises that would allow them to improve their performance. The primary method used by the study is quantitative research by the means of an online survey of Latvian consumers of social enterprise products /services. The results of the research indicate that Latvian consumers find the product / service quality aspects, as well as aspects of social responsibility and convenience of the shopping location, on average, as most motivating to purchase products / services of social enterprises. However, the results of factor analysis highlight the importance of emotional aspects during on-site shopping as well as the importance of digital presence. Focus on the aforementioned could lead to optimal performance of social enterprises with limited marketing budgets. Authors also found that such factors as pleasant atmosphere and friendly service have the highest potential to generate repeat purchases among Latvian consumers, as confirmed by a statistically significant correlation relationship between the aforementioned factors and actual purchasing behavior of Latvian social enterprise consumers. Online sales also have potential to increase the economic performance of Latvian social enterprises. Consumers who regard online shopping highly on average display a less active shopping behavior which could be improved by offering online shopping opportunities. Authors also found that, while communication of social value is still recommended as vital part of social enterprise marketing, it should not be the only focus of social enterprise marketing activities and associated communication.
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The purpose of the article is to analyze the aesthetic-psychological role of color in arranging the entrance groups of built-in trading enterprises. Research Methodology. General scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, descriptiveness, etc. were used. In addition, a number of methods are integrated with the psychological, art critic approaches using functional analysis. The scientific novelty consists in substantiating the importance of color and light as components of the solution for organizing urban space and its development. Conclusions. Light and color are inseparable in the human response to the world because they affect the visual perception of space. In turn, this affects the mental and emotional state of people. This ability of color can be called a kind of "color therapy." So, understanding the role of light, color, as well as the peculiarities of their interaction is fundamental to architecture as an art of forming and organizing space. What is also important in the planning of buildings in the modern city. The solution to the problem of color and illumination should be subordinate to all the tasks that are implemented in the process of arranging the entrance groups of integrated trading enterprises.
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The paper presents selected fragment of the outcomes of qualitative research led by the author. It concerned factors influencing decision-making in liquidity management, associated with human traits (human as an acting person of such choices) both in terms of mental processes’ characteristics peculiar to the entire human species (features of human mind) as well as the specific attributes of individual decisionmakers. The aim of the study was to discover how managers perceive determinants of liquidity decision-making process, basing on their professional experience, and whether in their consideration on the subject had ever appeared the determinants related to the person of the decision-maker.
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Aim: Communication is an important part of today's social life. The role of communication is uttermost important in work-life which is another significant part of the social life. In fact, the positive communication inside of the organization may affect the job satisfaction, (Yüksel, 2005:291), the performance of the employees, (Tanrıverdi et al., 2010:117), and the organizational loyalty (Saltık et al., 2015:57). In any organization or corporation, the organizational communication, which is the interaction that the employees of that organization formed with each other and with other members of the organization (Oskay,2001:148), is significant in terms of the success and the continuity of the organizations. Effective communication practices affect the job satisfaction of the employees positively (Ilozor vd, 2001:495). The communication with especially administrators might affect the job satisfaction significantly. A clear, reliable superiors-subordinates communication affects the job satisfaction positively, while it is inevitable that the exact opposite would cause dissatisfaction. The researches on employees who experience job dissatisfaction indicate that the cause of the dissatisfaction is lack of communication (Parsons and Broadbridge, 2006: 128). It is extremely hard for the organizations to reach their both short and long term objectives with employees having low motivation, performance and loyalty. The study aims to determine the effect of the superiors-subordinates communication on the job satisfaction of the employees working at Sivas City Health Administrative.Method: 250 people working at T.R. Sivas City Health Administrative compose the population of the study. The whole population was aimed to be reached without specifying a sample, however, 170 people were reached. Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale, developed by Weiss et al. (1967), and its translation into Turkish, its validity and reliability work carried out by Baycan (1985) as well as Communication Scale, developed by Huseman et al. (1980) and its translation into Turkish, its validity and reliability carried out by Yüksel (2005) were used as data collection tool in the study. The data were collected by face to face questionnaire technique. The data obtained were analyzed through SPSS 22 program. In addition to descriptive statistical methods, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were used for data analysis.Before performing the research, necessary permissions were taken from Sivas City Health Administrative where the survey would be carried out and approval of ethics was granted by the Cumhuriyet University Non-invasive Ethics Committee (21.06.2016 dated, article no: 2016-06-024).Because the Turkish validity analyses of the scales used in the study were done, validity analysis was not done again in this study but reliability analysis was done.Findings: When we look at the socio-demographic features of the people taking part in the study, it is seen that %37,6 of them is female, %62,4 is male and the majority of the participants is in the 31-40 years old interval (%41,8) and again the majority of the participants is either associate's degree(%30) or bachelor's degree (%38,8), graduate. %79,4 of the participants is married. When we look at the experiences of the employees in the job, %15,3 has 4 or fewer years, %24,7 has 5-9 years, %18,8 has 10-14 years, %12,9 has 15-19 years and %28,2 has 20 or more years of work experience. However, a big proportion of the employees as %60 works at the related organization for 4 or fewer years. The reliability of the study was found high because all of the Cronbach Alpha values of the scales and their sub-dimensions used in the study were above 0,70. According to the correlation analysis results, scales and all of their sub-dimensions have a strong, positive relationship with each other.According to results of the study, superiors-subordinates communication and feedback which is the sub-dimensions of superiors-subordinates communication have a positive effect on job satisfaction. Additionally; superiors-subordinates communication and feedback dimension have a positive and significant effect on internal satisfaction and external satisfaction.Results: Being similar with many studies in the literature (Kim,2002:235; Shadur et al., 1999:479; Yüksel, 2005:302; İlozor et al., 2001:495; Orpen, 1997:521; Karcıoğlu,2009:71), the results of the study imply that there is a relationship between communication and job satisfaction, furthermore communication affects job satisfaction positively. Additionally; one of the important results of the study is that which superiors-subordinates communication dimensions have a stronger relationship with job satisfaction and sub dimensions. Accordingly results of the study, feedback has the highest impact on both job satisfaction and sub-dimensions. Feedback received from superiors’ increases subordinates’ job satisfaction significantly. After the feedback dimension, the information dimension has high correlation with job satisfaction and sun dimensions. Accordingly, informing the subordinates about the work and informing the employees about what is going on in the institution are the factors that improve the job satisfaction of the employees. The target dimension of superiors-subordinates communication is the third dimension which has the highest correlation with job satisfaction and sub-dimensions of the subordinates’. According to this result, determining the target in the institution, taking the opinions of the employees while setting the target and providing detailed explanations about the targets are important factors in improving the job satisfaction of the employees.It has been stated in the literature that job satisfaction is related to attitudes such as being stressed, being absent, being intended to quit the job and being or not being loyal to the organization (Lambert et al., 2001: 233; Sagie, 1998:167; Gaertner, 1999: 480). In the light of these, because of the result that obtained in this study that superiors-subordinates communication affects the job satisfaction of the subordinate, it is likely to also affect other attitudes such as being stressed, being absent, not being loyal to the organization. Communication has a key role in the attitudes of the employees such as being loyal and having positive attitudes towards their organization which are extremely important factors for today’s organizations.As a result, communication can have a key role in the attitudes of the employees such as being loyal and having positive attitudes towards their organization which are extremely important factors for today's organizations. When the possible results of the inefficiency of the superiors-subordinates communication considered, it is clear that this is a subject to place importance on. For this reason, it could be suggested that all the administrators at administrative levels should create an environment suitable for communication among the employees, design their work processes in a way allowing positive communication, and encourage their employees to communicate with each other effectively and educate and improve their employees on the subject of communication.
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