Core Of Organizations Research Articles

Impact of green human resource management on employees’ green behavior in hotels

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of green human resource management (GHRM) on employees’ green behavior (EGB) in hotels in Vietnam. To fulfill social responsibility towards the environment, many organizations have been paying more attention to GHRM, thereby forming EGB. Especially in today's situation where global warming is increasing, “green” practices should be adopted by organizations, starting from the core of organizations—their human resources. The success of an organization's initiative to sustain environmental sustainability largely depends on promoting green behavior among employees. The study used a mixed method, incorporating qualitative feedback from previous studies, experts, and quantitative data from 556 employees working in hotels in Vietnam. Filtering was performed on the data to remove outliers and demonstrate statistical, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. The results show that GHRM activities such as green recruitment, green training and development, green job performance management and appraisal, and providing green compensation strongly influence EGB. Additionally, the study also indicates that EGB varies based on work experience and the type of hotel where they are employed. Hotels operating in the tourism industry have been paying more attention to GHRM, thereby forming EGB. In the tourism industry, hotels must ensure environmental protection goals more than ever. Developers and managers can utilize more development tactics to enhance GHRM and EGB.

Open value creation for the common good: a comprehensive exploration of social innovation in the context of social enterprises

PurposeThis study aims to explore the ways that social enterprises (SE) create value by embedding themselves in networks through the process of social innovation (SI). The processes of achieving common social missions were studied through selected organizations using an open approach to SI. Novel operational structures as well as unique forms of created value were explored.Design/methodology/approachTwo organizations embedded in local and international networks were studied and were chosen due to their SI profiles. The study was based on qualitative exploratory research. In-depth analysis was conducted through interviews, open discussions, document analysis as well as personal observation to understand the dynamic interrelatedness of the main factors influencing success of SI ventures.FindingsThis paper identified the role of SI in SEs embedded in networks. Furthermore, the social value creation processes of these organizations as well as the value they create were explored. Based on the findings, SI is rooted in the personality of the included members of the network. The tools of collaboration are platforms that connect the network members to each other. The embedded organizations apply the concept of community sharing with the aim of social value creation.Research limitations/implicationsBy focusing mainly on system design principles, the sample consists of mainly those at the core of organizations in facilitator roles, leaving peripheral actor perceptions to be determined by secondhand observations.Originality/valueWhile providing a general summary of factors influencing SI activities from extent literature, the paper mainly contributes by providing deeper insight into complex models of SI practices used by SEs. The paper further contributes to popularizing the growing role of SI activities in SEs.

Influential Radiology Figures and Organizations in Social Media

PurposeWith social media becoming a vibrant hub for the radiology community, highlighting expert leaders and trustful conduits of information in the virtual field is proving crucial. The aim of this study was to identify and describe the most prominent and influential figures and organizational accounts to follow in radiology. MethodsInfluence scores for the topic “radiology” on Twitter (now known as X) were computed using the Right Relevance machine learning service. Top influencers were classified according to gender, geography, physician degree, areas of influence, subspecialization, influence score, title, affiliated institution, dual degree, medical school origin, content type, and research activity. Statistical analysis was performed assessing variable correlations. ResultsIn the top quartile of influential figures, 87% were physicians, 60% men, and 93% located in the United States. Prevalent backgrounds included neuroradiology (21%), abdominal imaging (12%), and artificial intelligence (11%). Of the top 100 figures, 81% were US graduates, 97% held medical degrees, and 28% had dual degrees. Fifty-eight percent provided educational content. A majority held leadership positions (58%) and academic professorship titles (70%). The median h index, publication number, and citation number were 14, 49, and 881, respectively. No significant correlation was noted between influence score and academic rank or research output. ConclusionsVirtual presence is becoming integral to health care professions and academic spheres, unfolding great potential for enhancing the sense of belonging, advocacy, recruitment, and fostering new relationships. Having a core of influential leaders and organizations to follow can serve as a resource for the community members and aspiring students building a positive connected basis for radiology’s thriving future.

Youth Development Staff Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Mixed Methods Study.

BackgroundYouth-serving organizations in the United States provide programs, activities, and opportunities for young people before school, during school, after school, in summer, and on weekends. At the core of youth-serving organizations are the adults; that is, youth development staff.ObjectiveIn this explanatory sequential mixed methods study we explored youth development staff’s stress and worries, their compassion satisfaction, and whether stress and compassion satisfaction varied by race/ethnicity and gender during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic – a collective trauma event.MethodsWe surveyed 283 youth development staff and interviewed a subset of 25.ResultsResults suggest that youth development staff experienced stress and compassion satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic.ConclusionWe recommend organizational leaders provide youth development staff with support before a collective trauma event. They can work to change, add, or remove policies, practices, and routines to help decrease stress and increase compassion satisfaction. In addition, based on our results from this study our primary recommendation specific to collective trauma events, after taking care of their own personal wellness, is for youth development staff to focus on what is in their control and work to do those things for as many young people as they can.

Pathways to Greener Pastures: Research Opportunities to Integrate Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Business Process Management Based on a Systematic Tertiary Literature Review

Sustainable Business Process Management (BPM) is a research field that aims to improve the sustainability performance of organizations’ operations. With its focus on business processes, it has the potential to bring sustainability considerations from external reporting to the core of organizations. We present a systematic tertiary literature study to provide a catalog of existing literature reviews and primary work and to give a consolidated overview of the state and research needs of the field. We find that Sustainable BPM research has focused on modeling approaches and most of the work so far is largely conceptual, with a limited sustainability perspective. Based on these findings, we propose an integration of BPM and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), an established and rigorous method for sustainability analysis. We present research opportunities to show how both disciplines can synergize and leverage methods and techniques for business process automation and innovation to effectively improve the sustainability performance of organizations.

The science of workplace meetings: Integrating findings, building new theoretical angles, and embracing cross-disciplinary research

The purpose of this special issue is to bring more theory into meeting science by reviewing literature, identifying knowledge gaps, developing theoretical propositions drawing from different disciplines, and providing direction for future research. The special issue will open with a general overarching review of the literature on meeting science provided by the co-editors. Each subsequent article will focus on a particular domain within meeting science, provide a focused review of the literature, identify knowledge gaps, and push towards theories that will drive future research.

Faculty Members’ Attitudes towards the Objectives of Cognitive Behaviour

Knowledge management is one of the issues that closely touches the core of organizations, and its application greatly contributes to improving the performance of academic institutions and achieving a competitive advantage. In addition, it is also so important to know the cognitive behavior, as human behavior is affected in general by environmental conditions and variables, and the needs differ according to different age stages. Thus, the behavior knowledge helps to deal accurately with others and choose the appropriate approaches to do so. Added to that, the study of behavior must not be limited to the individual behavior, but it should necessarily include group behavior as well. Accordingly, and standing upon the previous premises, this study seeks to identify the cognitive behavior, as we will define the concept of the cognitive behavior, its most important objectives, its characteristics, the factors that affect it, its forms, in addition to knowing the trends of faculty members in the Department of Information Science at King University Abdul Aziz in Jeddah (Female Section) towards the cognitive behavior goals. The study relied on the descriptive survey method, and to achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was designed that includes two parts where the first part deals with general data (personal), and the second part stresses questions related to the objectives of cognitive behavior. The researcher used the Likert quadruple scale (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree). This study reached a set of results, the most prominent of which were that it became clear through the study the extent of the cognitive awareness possessed by the sample members. In fact, most of the results indicated the extent to which the sample members realize the importance of practicing cognitive behavior and achieving its goals. The current study reached a set of recommendations, including the necessity of advance planning and direct use of the latent energies within the faculty members (study community), and encouraging them to manage knowledge and adhere to its behavior through providing the appropriate environment for that.

INFORMATION ASPECT OF THE FORMATION OF THE ANTI-TERRORIST EURASIAN SPACE

The article deals with the problem of completeness of information on measures to counter terrorism and extremism taken by the labor-surplus states of Central Asia. With the help of some former labor migrants, a new model of terrorism (IS 2.0) is being developed based on the use of pendulum migration of radical Islamists to the countries of Central Asia and Russia, such Islamists serve as the core of various extremist organizations. A serious problem for the Russian experts is that none of the countries (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan or Uzbekistan) sending labor migrants to Russia publishes complex information each country publishes mainly statistical or regulatory information or news. For example, not all official documents are available in Tajikistan or Uzbekistan and it is difficult to obtain official statistics in Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan. Nevertheless, the analysis of the disparate experience of the three countries, among which we can highlight the purposeful work with labor migrants carried out by the representative offices of the Republic of Tajikistan abroad the courses for imams of mosques and clerics on the prevention of radicalization of the population organized by the State Commission for religious affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic and the system of social rehabilitation of repentant extremists in Uzbekistan prove the need for relevant information in a certain standardized form. The main sources of information used in the article are documents of the UN, the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center, speeches of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan containing statistical information, news information from the websites of the special services of the Kyrgyz Republic and legal documents of Uzbekistan. The article substantiates the conclusion about the need to highlight the information aspect in the formation of the anti-terrorist Eurasian space, the relevance of which was discussed at the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in May 2019.

ФУНДАМЕНТАЛЬНЫЕ ОСНОВЫ КОНЦЕПЦИИ СОВМЕСТНОГО СОЗДАНИЯ ЦЕННОСТИ НА РЫНКЕ B2B

The paradigm of value co-creation in business markets is now well established in the marketing literature. However, the opportunities and case studies for value co-creation are less well understood, especially in the increasingly limited inter-organizational, networking and ecosystem relationships. This article describes the sets of practices that organizations in business markets are adopting to create value together. We propose a theoretically based, empirically based classification of value co-creation practices, identifying the basic capabilities required to realize value in B2B systems. We use a case study approach using a variety of data collection methods to explore the practice of co-creation among organizations. Analysis shows that “sustained, focused engagement” is at the core of organizations' ability to co-create. The implications for organizations wishing to develop co-creation opportunities and practices are discussed. Conceptually, the potential for value co-creation relates to understanding “the processes, resources and practices that customers use to manage their operations.” Achieving value co-creation requires finding a “structural fit” between the customer's activities and the seller's activities. Value creation is collaborative and interactive in nature, and value is no longer just the exchange value inherent in firms' offerings, but also value in use, so value is created jointly in interactions between customers, vendors and other participants in complex B2B systems. In particular, customers interact with the vendor to gain access to the resources needed for their own value creation process, with the ultimate realization of value taking place in the client's organization, thereby also giving rise to the notion of "client dominant logic".

Prediction of Tensile Strength in Friction Welding Joins Made of SA213 Tube to SA387 Tube Plate through Optimization Techniques.

In modern times, the Industry X.0 has emerged as the paradigm that has become the core of digital technology-driven business organizations. Further, this paper establishes a tube to tube plate friction welding technology with the help of deploying an external tool, also known referred to as the FWTPET scheme. Besides, the SA213 tube and SA387 tube plate were combined by employing a unique interference fit technique. Also, the strength of this combined portion was assessed with and without the aid of a holding block. Subsequently, the analytic optimization approaches like genetic algorithm, analysis of variance, and Taguchi L9 orthogonal array design were deployed in the prediction of the optimum joining strength. Moreover, the input parameters include the projection of the tube (mm), the rotational speed of the tool (rpm), and depth of cut (mm); besides, the tensile strength is considered as the output parameter. Also, the grain size distribution around the weld zone and the presence of base metal were measured through an optical microscope as per ASTM linear intercept method. Further, it is evident that grain refinement had occurred in the weld zone, which in turn increases the tensile strength. The exceptional weld strength (tensile strength) was obtained when joining of SA213 tube and SA387 tube plate through interference fit using a holding block without a hole in the tube. Experimentally, it was found that the achieved tensile strengths were 836.8 MPa (without a hole) and 789.35 MPa (with hole) using the holding block, respectively. Additionally, it was found that in the absence of a holding block, the achieved tensile strength is 762.2 MPa (without a hole), and 700.8 MPa (with a hole), correspondingly. The deviation of tensile strength between the predicted (genetic algorithm) and experimental was found minimal. Therefore, for achieving this strength, the suitable operating parameters set include the rotational speed of the tool (1300 rpm), projection of the tube (1 mm), and depth of cut (0.5 mm) with backing block configuration.

Developing Integrity University Governance Model in Indonesia

This paper aims to explain and design a model for university governance with integrity that is focused on the core and business processes of university organizations. NVivo applacation had been used in this research. This study revealed that universities have not shown governance with integrity. The colleges have not established the values of integrity as key content at the core of their business and the business processes of a university, namely education, research, society services, human resource management, budgeting, cooperation, infrastructure, and leadership. Furthermore, corruption practices in university governance have been widespread. Therefore, by using method of Strategic Analysis Surfacing and Testing (SAST), this paper also formulates a model of university governance with integrity that puts emphasis on strengthening the core and business processes of university organizations and strengthening the organizational values of university institutions including culture, norms, regulation, management, and organizational structure.

Towards More Nuanced Classification of NGOs and Their Services to Improve Integrated Planning across Disaster Phases.

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are being integrated into U.S. strategies to expand the services that are available during health security threats like disasters. Identifying better ways to classify NGOs and their services could optimize disaster planning. We surveyed NGOs about the types of services they provided during different disaster phases. Survey responses were used to categorize NGO services as core—critical to fulfilling their organizational mission—or adaptive—services implemented during a disaster based on community need. We also classified NGOs as being core or adaptive types of organizations by calculating the percentage of each NGO’s services classified as core. Service types classified as core were mainly social services, while adaptive service types were those typically relied upon during disasters (e.g., warehousing, food services, etc.). In total, 120 NGOs were classified as core organizations, meaning they mainly provided the same services across disaster phases, while 100 NGOs were adaptive organizations, meaning their services changed. Adaptive NGOs were eight times more likely to report routinely participating in disaster planning as compared to core NGOs. One reason for this association may be that adaptive NGOs are more aware of the changing needs in their communities across disaster phases because of their involvement in disaster planning.

Clinical leadership development in postgraduate medical education and training: policy, strategy and delivery in the UK National Health Service

Achieving high quality health care against a background of continual change, increasing demand, and shrinking financial resource is a major challenge. However, there is significant international evidence that when clinicians use their voices and values to engage with system delivery, operational efficiency and care outcomes are improved. In the UK National Health Service, the traditional divide between doctors and managers is being bridged, as clinical leadership is now foregrounded as an important organizational priority. There are 60,000 doctors in postgraduate training (junior doctors) in the UK who provide the majority of front-line patient care and form an operating core of most health care organizations. This group of doctors is therefore seen as an important resource in initiating, championing, and delivering improvement in the quality of patient care. This paper provides a brief overview of leadership theories and constructs that have been used to develop a raft of interventions to develop leadership capability among junior doctors. We explore some of the approaches used, including competency frameworks, talent management, shared learning, clinical fellowships, and quality improvement. A new paradigm is identified as necessary to make a difference at a local level, which moves learning and leadership away from developing leaders, to a more inclusive model of developing relationships between individuals within organizations. This shifts the emphasis from the development of a heroic individual leader to a more distributed model, where organizations are leader-ful and not just well led and leadership is centered on a shared vision owned by whole teams working on the frontline.

Implementing Environmental Sustainability in Local Government: The Impacts of Framing, Agency Culture, and Structure in US Cities and Counties

ABSTRACTThis article focuses on the organizational factors of environmental sustainability implementation in local government. We investigate the interactions, as well as direct and indirect impacts, of the framing of environmental sustainability and organizational culture and structure on implementation outcomes. We use a survey of 217 city/county planners and managers in 146 randomly selected American mid-sized cities and counties. The survey was specifically designed to tease out organizational features and their impacts. We model these impacts using structural equation modeling. We find that horizontally and vertically integrated organizational structure supports two essential dimensions of organizational culture: innovation adoption and consensus building. These cultural traits positively impact the framing of environmental sustainability at the core of organizations’ logic, which in turn significantly supports implementation outcomes. These findings provide important insights into city/county managers seeking to promote sustainability, and provide a base for future studies of the organizational factors of implementation.

Surveillance Design Communities in Europe: A Network Analysis

Building on the concept of the ‘surveillance-industrial complex’, I move from the ‘complex’ to the ‘community’, situating a number of organizations within ‘surveillance design communities’ (SDCs). SDCs are networks of linked organizations which engage in researching, developing, producing, and circulating surveillance technologies. Empirically I draw from data on the organizations involved in border surveillance funded by the European Union’s FP7-Security programme. Based on the novel conceptualization of SDCs, coupled with an analysis of new network data, the article demonstrates that important contributions to the design of surveillance are distributed among a small core of central organizations surrounded by communities of actors assembled in overlapping hierarchies. Hence, SDCs are interwoven, multiscalar networks of networks rather than simply a total ‘complex’ or sites for the overlap of the ‘public’ and ‘private’.

Introduction to special section on Organizational Challenges in the Knowledge Society

<p>The field of Organizational Behavior (OB) has been built on human sciences of psychology, sociology, and anthropology. We know that people and their emotions, motivations, prejudices, skills, temperaments, experiences, attitudes, fears, etc. are the key components of our organizations. The articles in this special section each take a different approach to the topic of furthering our understanding of OB in a knowledge economy, but all address the core need to understand culture and behavioral principles of people. This common core of understanding organizations gets us back to attending to the people who work there.</p>

Integración regional y organizaciones político-partidarias. Los partidos políticos de Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay frente al MERCOSUR

This article analyzes the possible impacts of the MERCOSUL in the core of the partisan organizations. Keeping in mind the context in which the integration process took place and was developed, the aim was to investigate whether the MERCOSUL has aroused adaptive organizational answers on behalf of the political parties. Seven political parties from three countries were taken as reference: Partido Justicialista (PJ) and Union Civica Radical (UCR), on behalf of Argentina; Frente Amplio (FA), Partido Nacional (PN) and Partido Colorado (PC), on behalf of Uruguay; and Asociacion Nacional Republicana (ANR) and Partido Liberal Radical Autentico (PLRA), on behalf of Paraguay. The analysis covered the 1991-2006 period and was based in surveys and documented sources. With differences based in national features, the conclusion has been reached that, in general, the organizations have restrained themselves from the MERCOSUL and only partially have they incorporated organizational answers related with the integration.

Juggling difference and sameness: Rethinking strategies for diversity in organizations

Summary In this era of omnipresent diversity, we face paradoxical outcomes from practices, policies and the management of diversity in organizations. On the one hand, diversity is supposed to be adopted in terms of social justice and inclusiveness: embracing all talent and reaching out to diverse groups that traditionally were not part of the core of organizations. On the other hand, broad societal discourses of otherness are emerging, which severely limit chances for the inclusion of ‘others’. We propose to re-theorize and contextualize these phenomena; we aim to discuss alternative approaches of dealing with diversity by connecting strategic essentialism, contiguity, and space/time relations to exemplify the often hidden workings of the power dimensions involved.

Organizational cultures as agents of differential association: explaining the variation in bribery practices in Ukrainian universities

This article explores the variation in bureaucratic bribery practices of ordinary Ukrainians. Despite common arguments about corruption-generating structural constraints of economic transition and about the regional culture of corruption in Eastern Europe, interviews with university-affiliated Ukrainians reveal significant variation in rates and patterns of their engagement in bribery. This article shows that participation in corruption is closely associated with actors' exposure to organizational cultures. It uses Edwin Sutherland's differential association theory of crime to argue that the acquisition of definitions that are either favorable or unfavorable to bribery through exposure to different organizational cultures of universities leads Ukrainians to either commit or avoid bribery. Students and professors acquire crime-related definitions through (1) encounters with institutionalized bribery mechanisms, (2) conversations with peers and colleagues with more substantial experience within specific universities; and (3) observations of other students and instructors. Karl Weick's notion of organizational enactment is argued to be the mechanism whereby these learned definitions translate into specific bribery-related behaviors. Inasmuch as acting against these definitions may lead to academic or professional failure, testing their validity is risky for university members. The processes of organizational enactment of bribery-related definitions are, therefore, at the core of organizations' role as agents of differential association. The article concludes with a brief discussion of the potential synthesis of differential association and organizational theories as a powerful tool for the study of bureaucratic corruption.

A descriptive and factor analytical study of salient retention strategies in commercial health and fitness centres

Targeting, acquiring and retaining the right customers are at the core of many successful service organizations. Research has been consistent within the business world where it has been shown that competitors are always seeking innovative ways to allure customers away from where consumers currently conduct their business. Retaining a customer has become equally important to recruiting a customer since it is increasingly difficult for organizations to assume that there exists an unlimited customer base. Many organizations spend large sums of money in search of new markets and under-spend on retaining existing customers. Hence, the purpose of the study is to identify salient strategies that are applied at commercial health and fitness organizations in customer retention. The methodology involved gathering data through a questionnaire using a sample of commercial health and fitness centres managers and administrators in South, Central and Northern Gauteng. Data from 124 usable questionnaires were captured and analysed for the study. Factor analysis revealed seven strategies used by health and fitness organizations in retaining customers. Health and fitness centre managers can leverage these seven retention strategies in order to retain customers. A well documented complaints handling process is essential which can be used by managements of health and fitness centres to identify and act on problems which may motivate customers to stay within organizations. Future research on a comprehensive examination of satisfaction, loyalty, switching behaviour and retention is warranted.Key words: Health and fitness centres, relationship marketing, customer retention, customer defection, complaints handling.