Conservation Theory Research Articles

A Mechanistic Study of Employee Emotions on Corporate Performance under the Aging Trend of Corporate Human Resources

This paper explores the influence mechanism of emotional labour on service performance of employees engaged in service work based on resource conservation theory. The paper uses sample data of 268 service employees from 32 organisati ons for empirical testing. The results show that employees' deep seated behaviours pos itively affect job satisfaction, and work engagement plays a mediating role in both surface and deep seated behaviours affecting service performance. In addition, the sense of organisational support enhanced the positive relationship between deep seated be haviours and work engagement, and the indirect relationship between deep seated behaviours and service performance process through work engagement. It is necessary for service oriented organisations to improve employees‘ work engagement through emotional m anagement training and improving employees’ sense of organisational support to enhance service performance.

Ancillary Services to Mitigate Non-linear and Unbalanced Load Based on CPT Using a DFIG Power Plant

The increase of renewable energy sources and non-linear loads on the utility grid introduces challenges in maintaining the nominal conditions of the utility grid. A viable approach to addressing some of these challenges is to utilize renewable energy conversion systems that accomplish supplementary functions in addition to supplying active power. This paper presents the implementation of ancillary services to mitigate non-linear and unbalanced loads using a single Doubly Fed Induction Generation (DFIG) power plant. For this, the Conservative Power Theory (CPT) is used to provide three types of services simultaneously: active filtering, reactive power compensation, and unbalanced phase compensation. A back-to-back converter is used to control the power flow in the DFIG and employ ancillary services. Two control strategies are compared: in the dq reference frame and the $\alpha \beta$ reference frame. Simulations in MatLab/Simulink are used to evaluate the response of the CPT and the control strategies. The ancillary services performance is analyzed using the indicator based on standards and CPT factor. The results show that the indicators comply with the standards depending on the active power supply. Moreover, $\alpha\beta$ reference frame exhibits better performance than $dq$ reference frame.

Quality of life in cities: An outcome and a resource?

This study contributes to the improvement of the knowledge about quality of life (QoL) in cities, deepening not only in its antecedents, but also in its outcomes, under the theoretical approach of the resource-based view. On the one hand, we hypothesize that QoL in a city can be driven by governance resources such as transparency and reputation; on the other hand, we propose that QoL can be seen as a strategic resource leading to a higher city competitiveness, which in turn can act as an inducer of a higher smart city index. The latter relationship could be explained as a positive resource spiral in cities, relying on resource conservation theory. Our study also provides favorable evidence for these theoretical relationships set out in a structural equation model with a sample of Spanish Smart cities.

Work Without Workers: Commemoration as Repression in the Construction of Brasilia (1950s–1970s)

ABSTRACT: The construction of Brasilia (1956-1960) was followed by a gradual process of attempted eviction of the construction workers that had built the city from the ground up. Known as candangos , the construction workers were celebrated as modern workers and simultaneously despised as unable to become modern citizens. They wanted to inhabit the city they had built. However, the government never conceived them as Brasilia's potential inhabitants and ignored their claims to land and city rights. This article explores unexamined archival material and non-fictional literary works from the 1950s-1970s to disentangle soft-power strategies carried out to silence the candangos, while seemingly commemorating their construction feat. Combining theories of developmentalism, monument conservation and defacement, labor, and protest, the article argues that the Brazilian government and private companies ultimately conceived the construction of Brasilia as a utopia of work without workers. It also asserts that Brasilia was a paradigmatic case showing that the history of modern commemoration is inherently linked to the history of modern silencing and repression.

The Relationship Between School Organizational Climate and Teachers' Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Teaching Efficacy and Moderating Role of Optimistic Traits.

This study examined the relationship between school organizational climate and teachers' organizational citizenship behavior, as well as the mediating role of teaching efficacy and the moderating role of optimistic traits. This study was based on social information processing theory, resource conservation theory, and the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. We conducted a comprehensive survey of 500 educators from Chinese primary and secondary schools using the Organizational Citizenship Behavior Questionnaire, School Organizational Climate Scale, Sense of Teaching Efficacy Scale, and Optimistic Traits Questionnaire as assessment tools. The results demonstrated that (1) school organizational climate significantly and positively predicted teachers' organizational citizenship behaviors; (2) teaching efficacy partially mediated the relationship between school organizational climate and teachers' organizational citizenship behaviors; and (3) optimistic traits moderated the second half of the mediation model in which school organizational climate influenced teachers' organizational citizenship behaviors through teaching efficacy. Our findings indicated that school organizational climate was an important environmental factor affecting teachers' organizational citizenship behaviors through their sense of teaching efficacy. Optimistic traits had an important protective effect on teachers' organizational citizenship behaviors.

A Bayesian-Based Credible and Reliable Control Method for Active Vibration Suppression of Structures with Uncertain Parameters

As a classical design method for addressing uncertainty in control systems, robust control is designed with the goal of complete reliability of the control system. Nevertheless, the pursuit of robustness can inadvertently give rise to considerable performance degradation, rendering the resultant closed-loop control system excessively conservative in its design. Reliability-based design methods serve as an effective approach for managing uncertainties, which will achieve a balance between the robustness and performance of the active control system by taking advantage of the characteristic of reliability that allows for a certain level of permissible failure probability. The accurate quantification of uncertainty is the key to achieving reliable control, but common uncertainty quantification methods cannot achieve credible quantification of uncertainty in small samples and update the distribution of new samples. In this paper, a nonprobabilistic Bayesian inference based interval uncertainty quantification method is proposed. This method updates the distribution of interval boundaries and radii by introducing a small number of samples, and obtains interval parameters under a given confidence level. On the basis of uncertainty quantification, the dynamic reliability of the vibration system is derived, and nonprobabilistic reliability is introduced into the design of active controllers through optimization strategies. The reliable control strategy aims to select the optimal controller parameters on a reliable path with a given credibility, in order to solve the problem of overly conservative robust control theory. Two numerical examples were used to verify the feasibility and applicability of this method.

The power of many: analyzing the impact of shared leadership on project teams

PurposeShared leadership has received significant empirical and theoretical attention in the project management literature. However, a dearth of studies reveals how shared leadership promotes project performance. Drawing on the theory of conservation of resources, this research proposes a serial mediation model that investigates the relationship between shared leadership and project performance through team failure learning and team resilience.Design/methodology/approachA field study was conducted that surveyed 79 project teams in various industries (comprising 380 project team members and 79 project managers) using a multisource, time-lagged survey design.FindingsOur findings show that shared leadership has a positive impact on project performance. More importantly, team failure learning and team resilience play sequential mediating roles in the relationship between shared leadership and project performance.Practical implicationsThis research offers new ways for project managers to manage project performance effectively. Project managers are encouraged to recognize the benefits of shared leadership. To do this, they should facilitate team failure learning and improve team resilience, which serves to boost project performance.Originality/valueThis research provides a novel perspective on how shared leadership influences project performance. To the best of our knowledge, we are among the first to explore the serial mediating effects of team failure learning and team resilience on the relationship between shared leadership and project performance.

The Origins of Reinforced Concrete Interventions to Historic Structures in Turkey

ABSTRACT Reinforced concrete interventions have been a critical issue for restorations in the field of conservation since the early twentieth century. Until the twenty-first century, cement-containing interventions could be seen in almost all restorations in Turkey. There are even examples of monumental buildings whose structural systems have been converted to reinforced concrete. However, in more recent years in Turkey, reconstructions with echoes of stylistic unity began to emerge, with less of a focus on preservation and without consideration of the documentary value of the reinforced concrete used in the strengthening interventions of the twentieth century. From a structural viewpoint, it is necessary to assess whether mixed structures of reinforced concrete and masonry work well. From a conservation viewpoint, despite negative perceptions of reinforced concrete, these historic interventions have avoided confusion or falsification where the precise original nature of the structure is unknown. With these remarks in mind, this study describes the origins of reinforced concrete interventions in conservation in Turkey. It provides a general framework of the concept of interventions for strengthening and preservation at the intersection of reinforced concrete, earthquakes, codes, and conservation theories by tracking experiences with reinforced concrete from the Ottoman Empire to the early years of the Republic of Turkey.

Effect of Cultural Heritage on Tourism Development in Italy

Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the effect of cultural heritage on tourism development in Italy. Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries. Findings: The cultural heritage of Italy plays a significant role in its tourism development, attracting millions of visitors annually to historic cities like Rome, Florence, and Venice. Italy's rich history, art, architecture, and traditions make it a global cultural destination, with UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the Colosseum, the Vatican, and the Uffizi Gallery serving as major draws. This cultural wealth not only boosts the tourism industry but also supports local economies and preserves historical landmarks. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Cultural capital theory, sustainable tourism theory & heritage conservation theory may be used to anchor future studies on the effect of cultural heritage on tourism development in Italy. Implementing practical measures such as visitor quotas, dynamic pricing, and timed entry tickets can help regulate tourist flow to high-traffic cultural heritage sites. Policymakers should develop sustainable tourism frameworks that balance economic growth with cultural heritage preservation.

Testing Theories of Threat, Individual Difference, and Ideology: Little Evidence of Personality-Based Individual Differences in Ideological Responses to Threat

Recent attempts to establish the veracity of the conservative shift hypothesis have failed to find supportive evidence. Instead, this work yields inconsistent results and reveals considerable individual differences in ideological responses to ecological threats. In two studies, we build upon this work in two ways. First, we test the conservative shift hypothesis across five ecological threats: unemployment, immigration, racial diversity, COVID-19, and violent crime, more than has been examined previously. Second, we test whether, in line with political personality theories, openness to experience and conscientiousness predict who is likely to shift to the right in the face of threat and who is not. In one nationally representative panel study from the Netherlands ( N = 11,189) and one nationally representative repeated cross-sectional study in the United States ( N = 9,040), we find minimal support for the conservative shift hypothesis and theories that predict personality-based individual differences in ideological responses to threat.

Beyond the walls of the classroom: the psychodynamics of professional commitment and job involvement among female primary school teachers.

This research used structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the relationship between professional commitment, self-efficacy, psychological resilience, perceived organizational support and job involvement of female teachers in Chinese primary schools. The purpose of the study was to understand how these psychological and organizational factors work together on teachers' job involvement. Based on the questionnaire survey of 596 female teachers in primary schools, the data were collected and analyzed by AMOS software. The results show that professional commitment plays a central role in teachers' job involvement, and self-efficacy and psychological resilience, as important psychological resources, significantly affect job involvement through the mediation of perceived organizational support. The model fitting indicators CFI, RMSEA and SRMR were in line with the acceptance criteria, which verified the adaptability of the hypothesis model. The findings not only reinforce the application of resource conservation theory in the field of education, but also provide school administrators with strategies to improve teachers' job involvement, especially by enhancing the importance of organizational support and resilience. In addition, the results have practical implications for the design of targeted teacher professional development programs.

Microhabitat preferences in the European green lizard (Lacerta viridis): implications for conservation management of isolated populations

The European green lizard (Lacerta viridis) populations in Bohemia, Czech Republic, are isolated by more than 150 km from the northern border of the continuous range of the species. These populations are fragmented and further isolated from each other. In this landscape mosaic, they are tied to specific habitats located in deeply incised river valleys (the so-called river phenomenon) and thus may be viewed as stenotopic. The research site is located on the northern edge of the city of Prague. Since 1998, this site has been the subject of long-term conservation management aimed at strengthening and maintaining the abundance of the local L. viridis population. To formulate recommendations for the management of other isolated L. viridis populations, we performed a spatial analysis of the localities with observed individuals to determine and evaluate the significance of the chosen biotic and abiotic factors for habitat discrimination. We applied principal components and discriminant function analyses and examined the effect of 24 variables on the species’ presence. The results revealed the principal role of the presence of rock debris and hiding places for lizard occurrence. The strongest negative predictors were the presence of tall grass and high vegetation coverage. We discuss the applicability of our findings in both the theory and practice of species conservation and population management.

Non-Invasive Approach to Harmonic Responsibility Assignment Based on Conservative Power Theory

Non-Invasive Approach to Harmonic Responsibility Assignment Based on Conservative Power Theory

“The Path is Made by Walking”: The Untapped Potential of (the Happiest) Spanish Self-Initiated Expatriates

This study investigates the impact of cross-cultural adjustment and subjective well-being on the achievements and intentions of Spanish self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) regarding their decision to stay abroad or return to Spain. Using resource conservation theory, the research examines how SIEs’ agency influences their adjustment and well-being, thus affecting their achievement and propensity to repatriate. A tailored online survey was administered to Spanish SIEs, incorporating validated scales to cross-cultural adjustment, subjective well-being, and intention to stay abroad. Using non-probability sampling, a final sample of 309 SIEs was obtained. Data analysis employed partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to validate the hypotheses. The results show that improved adjustment and well-being of SIEs correlate with improved achievement and reduced likelihood of repatriation. These results underline the importance of cultural adjustment and subjective well-being in shaping SIEs’ expatriation experiences and their intentions to stay abroad. Furthermore, the research lays the groundwork for future comparative studies and underlines the need for home institutions to facilitate the repatriation process. Moreover, the implications of the findings for management offer ideas for improving the experiences of SIEs abroad and recognising their value as assets to both national and global organizations, while addressing the challenges associated with repatriation.

RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENCE OF WORK STRESS ON INNOVATION BEHAVIOR OF R&D PERSONNEL IN ENTERPRISES

This study, based on the resource conservation theory, investigates how work pressure affects the innovative behavior of enterprise R&D personnel. Through a questionnaire survey of 866 enterprise R&D personnel, the study found that: (1) challenging work pressure has a positive impact on innovative behavior, while blocking work pressure has a negative impact on innovative behavior; (2) work vitality plays a mediating role between challenging work pressure and innovative behavior, while work burnout plays a mediating role between blocking work pressure and innovative behavior; (3) organizational support and error management atmosphere positively regulate the impact of challenging work pressure on innovative behavior, and negatively regulate the impact of blocking work pressure on innovative behavior. This study reveals the mechanism of work pressure affecting the innovative behavior of R&D personnel, and provides inspiration for enterprise management practice.

A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE MECHANISM OF ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON THE INNOVATION CAPABILITY OF WORKERS’ KNOWLEDGE

This study investigates how work pressure influences the innovative behavior of R&D personnel in enterprises. The resource conservation theory categorizes work pressure into two types: challenging and blocking, and examines their direct influence on the innovative behavior of R&D personnel, along with the mediating role of work vitality and work burnout. We further explore the moderating role of organizational support and organizational error management. We collect data through questionnaire surveys and perform empirical analysis using statistical tools like SPSS. The research results help enterprises better understand and manage the work pressure of R&D personnel, thereby promoting the generation of innovative behavior.

From ‘Objects’ to ‘Sustainable Development’: The Evolution of Architectural Heritage Conservation in Theory and Practice

From ‘Objects’ to ‘Sustainable Development’: The Evolution of Architectural Heritage Conservation in Theory and Practice

Glass Ceiling Among Female Managers and Its Impact on Well-Being at Work

Despite governmental attempts in years to significantly encourage and support legislation aimed at gender diversities in the workplace, women have continued to be notably underrepresented in leadership roles. Women have typically held lower-level leadership positions than men, and there is little supporting evidence that women are appropriately executed in decision-making positions. Such a phenomenon is commonly called the 'glass ceiling', highlighting that achieving fair representation in management boards remains challenging for women. While the glass ceiling has become a popular research topic, only some theoretical models have tried to comprehend this social phenomenon and its implications for social change. Therefore, this study aims to provide a further understanding of the glass ceiling and its consequences. Drawing on the theory of conservation of resources, this study investigates sequencing relationships among glass ceiling, work-to-family conflict, and well-being at work. The mass survey was distributed among female managers at Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. There were 275 valid cases for descriptive and inferential analysis with partial least square structural equation modelling. It reveals three main findings, including significant sequencing relationships among glass ceiling, work-to-family conflict, and intention to quit with positive impacts; a significantly positive causal relationship between the glass ceiling and intention to quit; and work-to-family conflicts as a significant mediator intervening causal relationship between glass ceiling and intention to quit. This study may bring theoretical and practical implications on the glass ceiling among female managers at work.

Insights on the stability of compact stars under Durgapal–Lake metric potentials in the framework of non-conservative theory of gravity

This research deals with the impacts of non-conserved gravitational theory on the physical behavior of three anisotropic compact stars. For this purpose, the metric of static spherically symmetric comprising the anisotropic matter composition is taken into account. To examine the various aspects of some particular compact star models, the Durgapal–Lake metric functions are considered. The unknown parameters involved in Durgapal–Lake metric functions are computed via matching constraints with observed data of masses and radii of three particular stellar objects. The obtained results are noted to be as accurate as possible in terms of physical viability. All the physical crucial parameters and characteristics are displayed graphically and these visuals depict the evaluated solutions that are consistent for three distinct stellar models. It is observed that the parameters occurring in the set of solutions have some valuable insights for these solutions. It is determined that the stars under consideration manifest stable structures corresponding to Durgapal–Lake metric potentials in this framework while they exhibit instability in the case of conservative theory, i.e., general relativity. Further, it is exhibited that for the theory factor equals to zero, the results of general relativity can also be observed graphically.

Masking and mediating effects: mediating mechanisms of occupational stigma and job meaningfulness among Chinese takeaway riders

PurposeThis paper expects to analyze the connection between occupational stigma and job meaningfulness among Chinese takeaway riders, the mediating role of occupational identity and relative deprivation, and the moderating effect of job stress based on resource conservation theory.Design/methodology/approachThe sample was derived from 371 takeaway riders across China. PLS-SEM was mainly utilized for the data analysis.FindingsThe findings of the study indicated a significant negative correlation between occupational stigma and job meaningfulness. Furthermore, it is worth noting that relative deprivation and occupational identity served as mediators and masks, respectively, in the relationship between occupational stigma and job meaningfulness. Furthermore, job stress amplifies the association between occupational stigma and occupational identity. Additionally, job stress diminishes the connection between occupational stigma and relative deprivation.Originality/valueThis study proposes a positive correlation between occupational stigma and occupational identity in the Chinese context. It also enriches the empirical research based on resource conservation theory. Furthermore, it holds practical implications for takeaway riders in China, offering insights to bolster their job meaningfulness.