Culture Commitment Research Articles

Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence

Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence

PENGARUH MOTIVASI KERJA, BUDAYA DAN KOMITMEN ORGANISASI TERHADAP KEPUASAN KERJA PADA PEGAWAI PERWAKILAN BKKBN PROVINSI SULAWESI TENGGARA : Studi Pada Perwakilan BKKBN Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara

The purpose of this study was to examine and explain the effect of work motivation, culture and organizational commitment on job satisfaction of employees of the BKKBN Representative in Southeast Sulawesi Province. This research design is based on a quantitative approach with a positivist paradigm through a survey method. Data was collected in a cross-sectional manner using an instrument in the form of a questionnaire to all employees of the BKKBN Priovinsi Southeast Sulawesi Representative Employees as many as 57 people. The analytical tool used in testing the hypothesis of this research is multivariate regression analysis.The results showed that work motivation has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction, organizational culture has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction, good organizational commitment has been proven to have a positive and significant contribution to increasing employee job satisfaction. Finally, work motivation, organizational culture and organizational commitment have a significant simultaneous effect on employee job satisfaction. Thus, it can be concluded that changes in increasing work motivation which are reflected through the need for achievement, bureaucratic culture and affective commitment have a positive and significant contribution together to job satisfaction through job satisfaction, incentives/bonuses and benefits, working conditions and co-workers.

Exploring the Subjective Caregiving Experience Among Chinese, Korean, and Southeast Asian Communities

Although the Asian American community is one of the fastest growing racial groups in the US, members of this group continue to be underserved and understudied, especially when it comes to the needs of family caregivers. Therefore, through a national initiative to understand the lived experiences of diverse family and friend caregivers, survey data was collected from a variety of Asian American ethnic subgroups including Chinese (n=148), Korean (n=131), and Southeast Asian (i.e., Vietnamese, Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian; n=161). Surveys were distributed in-person and online, and also offered in the translated native languages of the abovementioned groups. Caregivers had to be 18 years and older and providing care to a person aged 55 and older who needed assistance because of ongoing health problems or disabilities. For the overall sample of Asian American caregivers (n=440), participants were on average 51.68 years of age (SD=15.98), identified as female (n=336), were not born in the US (n=348), lived with the care receiver (n=247), and reported less than $10,000 in income per year (n=199). As guided by the Stress Process Model and through a series of ANOVA tests, when compared on all major outcomes, Southeast Asian caregivers significantly reported: 1) more difficulty with care related tasks (e.g., financial/legal decisions), 2) a stronger cultural commitment to caregiving, 3) higher work strain, and 4) more depressive symptomology. Discussion will focus on opportunities for professionals to meet the needs of Asian American caregivers through the use of available trainings and programs aimed to support diverse caregivers.

Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges Relating to the Variances in Students’ Response to Dissatisfaction in Business Management Educational Services

Consumers respond to their lack of satisfaction with service provision in a variety of ways. For instance, research findings indicates that consumers’ response options to service dissatisfaction is related to customer loyalty, which may impact their future repurchase intentions (Janjua, 2017). The current study investigates the impact of loyalty, and its cultural understanding, on dissatisfaction response styles of university students. In particular, it compares the variations in response options between Anglo-Saxon Australian students and international Middle Eastern students, attending Australian universities and other tertiary higher education Australian institutions, in an attempt to explore the impact of culture on dissatisfaction, and the resultant response options chosen by students, as guided by culturally defined perceptions and values (Newsome & Cooper, 2016). Findings indicate that there are significant variations in terms of the degree of ethnic loyalty and the response options that students engage in as a reaction to educational service dissatisfaction, mostly attributable to differences in cultural values. The contributions of this study are three-fold. First, the current research study further develops our understanding of cultural loyalty and its impact on students’ future repurchase intentions. Secondly, it provides an understanding of the dissatisfaction response styles of university students coming from different ethnic backgrounds. Finally, this study further contributes to our understanding of the relationship between students’ ethnic backgrounds and their respective repurchase decisions.

Pengaruh Insentif dan Budaya Kerja Terhadap Komitmen Karyawan Untuk Tetap Bekerja Pada PT Wana Sawit Subur Lestari 2 di Kabupaten Seruyan

The study aims to determine the effect of incentives and work culture of the employees commitment to keep working on sustainable luch PT Wana Sawit Subur Lestari 2 in Seruyan. With a sample of 81 people. Sampling using random sampling. This study uses quantitative methods using three variables incentives, work culture, and employee commitment to keep working. To analyze the data used regression and simple linier correlation test. Data collection techniques are questionnaire literature studies, field studies. Result of analyze showed that there are significant incentives variable, and the work culture of the employees’ commitment to keep working on sustainable luch PT Wana Sawit Subur Lestari 2 in distrik Seruyan. 34,3% of the variation that occurs on the employee’s commitment to keep working is influenced by incentives and work culture. While the remaining 65,7% is influenced by other factor

Performing Hybridity or Deflecting Islamophobia? Adaptable Identity Management amongst Young British Pakistani Muslims

This article engages with issues of identity construction and maintenance as expressed by a group of young British Pakistanis living in the North-West of England. Drawing on primary data from a qualitative study, we examine the ways in which Muslim identities are maintained, negotiated, and protected in relation to everyday situated cultural experiences. Nested within a context in which Islamophobia is pervasive, we discuss four salient processes of identity management articulated by participants: cherry picking; strategic adaption; ambassadorship and active resistance. Whilst these processes are to be considered as porous rather than mutually exclusive, our analysis elucidates evidence of both nimble and creative individual identity management and also an entrenchment of collective pride. We posit that, for the participants in this study, such practices constitute a grounded, pragmatic response to living in an environment in which their religious beliefs, political values and cultural commitments are frequently questioned within public life, the media and the political sphere.

PENGARUH BUDAYA ORGANISASI DAN KOMITMEN KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA KARYAWAN (Studi Pada Modern Bakery)

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of organizational culture and work commitment on employee performance at Modern Bakery. This type of research is quantitative research with survey research methods. In collecting data using purposive sampling technique. The population of this study were employees at Modern Bakery, so the sample in this study was 52 respondents. To analyze the data obtained using the Classical Assumption Test, Multiple Linear Regression and Correlation Coefficient Test using the F test (simultaneous test), T test (partial test). Meanwhile, data collection was carried out through several techniques, namely field studies and lift deployment studies. The results of the research and data processing show that the two independent variables, namely organizational culture and work commitment, simultaneously have a significant effect on employee performance. The correlation coefficient test results show that the R value is 0.864, meaning that organizational culture and work commitment together have a very strong relationship to employee performance. While the results of the coefficient of determination test show that the value of R2 is 0.746, then the value of R2 < 1 means that 74.6% of employee performance at Modern Bakery is influenced by organizational culture and work commitment. While the rest (25.4%) is influenced by other variables outside the study.

Facilitators and Barriers to Physical Activity and Sport Participation Experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Adults: A Mixed Method Review.

Physical activity has cultural significance and population health benefits. However, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults may experience challenges in participating in physical activity. This mixed methods systematic review aimed to synthetize existing evidence on facilitators and barriers for physical activity participation experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults in Australia. The Joanna Briggs Institute methodology was used. A systematic search was undertaken of 11 databases and 14 grey literature websites during 2020. The included studies reported physical activity facilitators and barriers experienced by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander participants aged 18+ years, living in the community. Twenty-seven studies met the inclusion criteria. Sixty-two facilitators were identified: 23 individual, 18 interpersonal, 8 community/environmental and 13 policy/program facilitators. Additionally, 63 barriers were identified: 21 individual, 17 interpersonal, 15 community/environmental and 10 policy/program barriers. Prominent facilitators included support from family, friends, and program staff, and opportunities to connect with community or culture. Prominent barriers included a lack of transport, financial constraints, lack of time, and competing work, family or cultural commitments. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults experience multiple facilitators and barriers to physical activity participation. Strategies to increase participation should seek to enhance facilitators and address barriers, collaboratively with communities, with consideration to the local context.

Antecedent Of Organizational Commitment In A Small-Medium Industry Context

This study aims to analyze the role of job satisfaction in moderating the relationship between organizational culture, transformational leadership, and organizational commitment, as it is known that the unit of analysis is workers in small and medium industries. This provides benefits in managing human resources, industrial relations and organizational behavior in the context of SMEs, so that optimal human resource management results in optimal competitiveness as well. The results found that job satisfaction can be an intervening variable for organizational learning and transformational leadership on organizational commitment. The results found that organizational culture affects job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and transformational leadership affects organizational commitment. But, leadership was found do not have influence on job satisfaction and job satisfaction did not have an influence on organizational commitment. On the other hand, job satisfaction was found as an intervening variable for organizational culture and transformational leadership in influencing organizational commitment. This research contributes to enriching the theory of organizational behavior in the context of SMEs.

What Is Cultural Cognition, and Why Does It Matter?

By all accounts, we currently live in a polarized political state in which virtually every fact is contestable. From climate change to vaccine efficacy, people feel free to choose their own facts to support politically charged arguments. Partisans in every area of American life are unable to agree on the basic assumptions underlying political debate. Research on cultural cognition demonstrates that people's political and cultural commitments shape how they process information from news sources, scientists, and public officials, thereby dictating which policies they support and which ones they oppose. When partisan loyalties determine what evidence people will accept, political compromise becomes difficult or even impossible. All is not lost, however. Cultural cognition has a powerful influence, but facts are stubborn things. In some areas of public debate, facts and evidence have overcome political divides. Furthermore, an understanding of the influence of cultural cognition can facilitate remedies to partisanship. This article examines the research that demonstrates the extent of cultural influences on people's understanding of public debates, identifies the limits of cultural cognition, and describes the extent to which cultural cognition itself provides keys to breaking down partisan divides.

The representation of sneakerhead culture in Sneaker Freaker magazine

This study aims to analyze the representation of sneakerhead culture in Sneaker Freaker Magazine using the circuit of culture theory. The descriptive-analytical methodology is applied to analyze the elements of sneakerhead culture based on characteristics, behaviors, and sneaker as a commodity manifested in sneakerhead culture. In order to complete this study, the researcher adds sneakerhead culture figures as the representation in the analysis. This study shows that the representation of sneakerhead culture in Sneaker Freaker Magazine can be seen by the reflected meaning and constructed meaning through object representation as a unique culture. The representation reflects communities' lifestyle, characteristics, commitment, and behaviors in sneakerhead culture to deliver the constructed meaning and identity.

The Effect of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Culture and Organization Commitment on Employee Job Satisfaction in Small Medium Enterprise of Automotive Service

The study aims to analyze the influence of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Culture, and Organizational Commitment on the Job Satisfaction. The research object is a sample used as many as 90 employees of PT. Heriromadiali, calculated based on the use of saturated samples. Method of collecting data using survey method, with research instrument is questionnaire. The characteristic analysis method of respondents uses the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and data analysis methods using Partial Least Square (PLS). Research proves that the. Transformational Leadership has a positive and significant to Job Satisfaction. Organizational Culture have positive and significant effect on Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment has a significant and positive effect on Employee Job Satisfaction in Small Medium Enterprise Automotive Services

INFLUENCE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY (OHS) CULTURE, COMMITMENT MANAGEMENT, OHS TRAINING ON OHS PERFORMANCE IN OIL & GAS CONTRACTORS COMPANY IN BATAM ISLAND

Indonesia has very promising oil and gas potential to be exploited, including in Riau Islands province which has 15 oil and gas companies operating and 4 of them are already in production. Batam Island is part of the Kepulauan Riau province and there are oil and gas fabrications in it which are exported out from Batam Island. This fabrication is closely related with occupational safety and health. Respondents in this study were obtained from 261 employees work in the fabrication company or oil and gas contractor. Data processed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 24. The research of this method used non probability sampling where sampling techniques does not provide equal opportunities for each member of the population to be selected as a sample. The results of this study illustrated that OHS culture and management commitment have significant positive effect on occupational health safety performance but OHS training does not have significant effect.

Pengaruh Kepemimpinan, Budaya Organisasi dan Kepuasan Kerja terhadap Kinerja Dosen Universitas Serambi Mekkah

This study aims to find the influence of leadership, organizational culture, organizational commitment, job satisfaction on the performance of the lecturers at Serambi Mekkah Aceh University, totaling 270 people. The sample collection technique used proportional random sampling in order to obtain a sample of 152 people. The data were collected using a questionnaire filled out by respondents from Serambi Mekkah University lecturers. The data analysis technique was carried out in two stages, namely descriptively and inferential. The results showed that: leadership (X1) and organizational culture (X2) had a direct and positive effect on organizational commitment (X3); leadership (X1), organizational culture (X2) and organizational commitment (X3) have a direct and positive effect on job satisfaction (X4); leadership (X1), organizational culture (X2), organizational commitment (X3) and job satisfaction (X4) have a direct and positive effect on lecturer performance (X5). Based on the research results, a fixed model is found that describes the structure of the causal relationship between the variables of leadership, organizational culture, organizational commitment and job satisfaction on the performance of lecturers in the performance model of Universitas Serambi Mekkah lecturers in Banda Aceh.

A cross cultural meat paradox: A qualitative study of Australia and India

The ‘meat paradox’ is the psychological conflict between people's enjoyment of meat and their moral discomfort in relation to animal suffering. To date, most studies on the meat paradox have been in Western contexts where meat-eating is a cultural norm. In comparison, little is known about how the meat paradox is experienced in emerging economies such as India, where the longstanding cultural commitment to vegetarianism is under challenge. Further, most studies to date have been quantitative. This study bridges the knowledge gap by providing a qualitative comparison of the meat paradox in urban Australia and India, using cognitive dissonance theory as its main framework. We conducted in-depth interviews with twenty-two Sydney residents and thirty-three Mumbai residents, aged 23–45 years. The interviews were analysed using a grounded theory approach. In both countries, common strategies to reduce dissonance included distancing, belief in a human-animal hierarchy, carnism and criticisms of alternative dietary practices. Despite these commonalities, the manner in which these strategies manifested was different in each country, reflecting key socio-cultural and institutional differences. Australian participants became aware of the ethical challenges of meat consumption primarily via the media, whereas many Indian participants had direct experience of animal slaughter in wet markets. Thus, while Australian participants had reduced their meat consumption or turned to ‘kinder’ alternatives, Indian participants resorted to distancing and emotional numbing to reduce dissonance. Further, participants in both countries highlighted instances of moral hypocrisy in relation to vegetarian/vegan practices. While Australian participants discussed self-proclaimed vegetarians who might succumb to a dietary lapse, Indian participants discussed inconsistencies in relation to religious and caste-based norms.

Cautionary Contours: Joann Kealiinohomoku's Silhougraphs® and Dance Analysis in Black and White

AbstractJoann Kealiinohomoku's Silhougraphs®, traces of the silhouettes of dancers, were her attempt to operationalize her cultural relativist commitments and create a new method of dance analysis. Silhougraphs illuminate underexamined scholarly presumptions, methods, and tools that both contributed to and paralleled the emergence of dance studies as a discipline. Silhougraphs are also a cautionary tale demonstrating the ways culturally sensitive research commitments and methods can unintentionally yet decisively reiterate tools and logics of racist typologies.

Campaign Speech and the Universal Dilemma in the Common Law of Elections: A Lesson from the Anglo-American Divide

On first – or second, or third – glance, the courts of the United States and the United Kingdom have adopted hyperbolically divergent responses to state regulation of campaign speech. In both nations, highest levels of government have variously sought wide-ranging control over campaign practice. Courts have subsequently had to weigh how such legislation can be reconciled with individual speech rights and legitimate democratic process. While the House of Lords and Supreme Court in the UK (hereinafter, the UKSC) has declined to strike down campaign speech legislation, the US Supreme Court has so aggressively intervened that one leading election law scholar has characterized the result as “a regulatory structure created by the Court.” The scholarship offers a diverse array of explanations for this trans-Atlantic divide, ranging from constitutional doctrine to differing cultural commitments. Yet through a close analysis of select cases from each jurisdiction, this chapter argues that investigation of the underlying doctrinal divergence reveals a deeper conceptual parallel: democratically determined electoral procedure may pose certain insoluble paradoxes for judicial review. The extensive, norm-peddling approach of American campaign finance law and the legislature-trusting reluctance of the UKSC to strike down campaign regulation both reveal a basic problem that courts confront when reviewing democratically selected law. Where legislation does not grossly contravene a higher constitutional instruction, courts can only strike down electoral legislation through ultimately adverting to normatively independent principles. Advancement of such principles extends beyond the legal analysis that is characteristic of constitutional interpretation. The divergent reactions of the UKSC and Supreme Court to this problem affirm its centrality to electoral regulation in general and campaign speech in particular. The interventionist posture of the US Supreme Court has taken the form of a (critically savaged) assessment of the corrupting effects of campaign financing. Leaving aside the wisdom of transmuting the campaign finance query into a corruption query, this chapter observes that this analytic framing simply confirms that robust engagement with the regulation of campaign speech necessarily involves advancing stand-alone normative principles. By approaching the topic through a reflection upon corruption – a richly political concept that expresses substantive moral commitments – the Supreme Court affirms the richly normative character of the endeavour. Conversely, the UKSC has been perhaps more plaintive in recognizing the fundamental challenge posed by a standing government advancing a vision of how future campaigns should unfold, but has declined or evaded robust engagement with the problem. The UKSC’s retreat to the narrowest doctrinal grounds to resolve disputes reveals its aversion to normative engagement regarding foundational democratic principles. Ultimately, both courts reveal the judicial discomfort with engaging in core democratic reasoning, even if they adopt differing strategies of reframing or declining. Neither approach can resolve the incompatibility between the electorate’s autonomy to set procedures for its own governance and the judiciary’s obligation to review such terms; and both courts are haunted by this tension. This chapter explores this problem by first establishing the differing characters of judicial approaches to campaign finance speech. It then considers the obvious explanations for the differences between the US and UK treatments of constitutional speech and observes that such explanations cannot explain the divergent qualities of the jurisprudential traditions. Finally, it considers the broader tension between the legal interpretation and democratic self-determination to explain the presence of maximalist and minimalist development in the two jurisdictions.

PERFORMANCE MODEL OF HEALTH WORKER AT THE JOHAR BARU DISTRICT HEALTH CENTER

The aim of this study is to identify and explain the influence of culture and training on organizational commitment and its effect on the performance of employees at the District Health Center Johar Baru, Central Jakarta. The research method in this study uses a a causality quantitative approach. The population is all health workers at the Johar Baru Puskesmas with probability sampling techniques and simple random sampling techniques. The data obtained were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) with the Smart PLS version 3.2.8 software program. The results of this study indicate that organizational culture, training and organizational commitment have a significant positive effect on employee performance partially or simultaneously. In addition, organizational commitment mediates organizational culture and performance training. Research suggestions in the aspect of managing performance targets should be arranged in quality and quantity by considering "people"As executor of activities. Leadership decision making must combine all constructive ideas and opinions, employee selection to determine training priorities so that it is right on target which can be done concretely through leadership training, capacity building, routine motivation programs, evaluation, reward and punishment.

Keeping Safe on Australian Roads: Overview of Key Determinants of Risky Driving, Passenger Injury, and Fatalities for Indigenous Populations.

Social and cultural barriers associated with inequitable access to driver licensing and associated road safety education, as well as socioeconomic issues that preclude ongoing vehicle maintenance and registration, result in unsafe in-car behaviours such as passenger overcrowding. This in turn is associated with improper seatbelt usage, noncompliance with child restraint mandates, and driver distraction. For example, in Australia, where seatbelt use is mandatory, Indigenous road users are three times less likely to wear seatbelts than non-Indigenous road users. This is associated with a disproportionately high fatality rate for Indigenous drivers and passengers; 21% of Indigenous motor-vehicle occupants killed on Australian roads were not wearing a seatbelt at the time of impact. In addition, inequitable access to driver licensing instruction due to financial and cultural barriers results in Indigenous learner drivers having limited access to qualified mentors and instructors. A consequent lack of road safety instruction results in a normalising of risky driving behaviours, perpetuated through successive generations of drivers. Moreover, culturally biased driver instruction manuals, which are contextualised within an English written-language learning framework, fail to accommodate the learning needs of Indigenous peoples who may encounter difficulties with English literacy. This results in difficulty understanding the fundamental road rules, which in turn makes it difficult for young drivers to develop and sustain safe in-car behaviours. This paper considers the literature regarding road safety for Indigenous road users and critically evaluates strategies and policies that have been advanced to protect Indigenous drivers. Novel solutions to increasing road safety rule compliance are proposed, particularly in relation to passenger safety, which are uniquely embedded within Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. Safe driving practices have crucial health and social implications for Indigenous communities by allowing more Indigenous people to participate in work and education opportunities, access healthcare, maintain cultural commitments, and engage with families and friends, qualities which are essential for ongoing health and wellbeing.

The Faith Once for All Delivered: Liturgical Theology, Scripture, and the Evangelical Free Church Tradition

This article proposes to explain how the evangelical Free Church commitment to scripture as its primary authority affects their interaction with liturgical theology. Free Church theology is underpinned by various hermeneutical, theological, and cultural commitments—none more central than its commitment to scripture as revelation of and from God—which complicates Free Church engagement with much recent liturgical scholarship that emphasizes the ecclesiological basis for Christian worship and the corollary authority of Christian tradition. In the first part of the article, I provide an exploration of theological authority within Free Church evangelicalism, arguing that their commitment to scripture’s authority is a commitment to the ecclesial tradition of the apostolic church. In the second part of the article, I explore two additional hermeneutical considerations for evangelical liturgical theology that follow from their commitment to scripture: the priority of biblical exegesis in the theological process and the application of a trusting hermeneutic in their reading of scripture.