Views Of Employees Research Articles

Effect of supplier appraisal on firm performance in Ghana: Views of employees of selected manufacturing firms

In Ghana, recent financial sector clean-ups and reforms have impacted the operations of several corporations in the business-to-business market. Coupled with this, several issues have been reported concerning procurement practises in the past few years. Regardless of corporate governance practises and public procurement regulations, institutions in Ghana are yet to fully realise the relevance of supplier appraisal. Grounded by the resource base theory, the study examines the effect of appraisal of suppliers’ financial stability, technical capacity to produce, adherence to systems and procedures, conformance to legislation, and suppliers’ supply chain on the performance of industrial firms in Ghana. A sample of 171 employees was drawn from a total of 250 employees. Data processing and analysis were undertaken through the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) estimator. The results clearly suggest that firms’ technical capacity does not constitute firm resources that translate to firm performance. However, firms’ financial stability, adherence to systems, conformance to legislation, and supply chains are regarded as firm resources that contribute to the overall performance of the firm. We conclude that supplier evaluation is a significant predictor of manufacturing firms’ performance.

Employee View of Social Capital Formation at the Workplace: Intentionality and Intervening Factors

Employee View of Social Capital Formation at the Workplace: Intentionality and Intervening Factors

Differences in how leaders and employees view organizational changes: Lessons from an international multicultural context

Differences in how leaders and employees view organizational changes: Lessons from an international multicultural context

Digital workplace health promotion: a pilot study during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Germany

PurposePreventing diseases and promoting health is most effective in large settings like the workplace. Digital workplace health promotion (DWHP) became more popular during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. While e-health appliances have received research interest, little is known regarding the target populations' perspective on and potentials of the DWPH.Design/methodology/approachAn online pilot study was done in Germany in June 2021. The study is representative regarding age, gender and education. The user perspective on DWHP was investigated using 12 quantitative and 2 qualitative items.FindingsThe majority of the 690 participants perceives DWHP as valid long-term addition to regular workplace health promotion. Nearly 55.7% use DWHP when available, but most (65.4%) do not use these offers more than regular ones. Spontaneous participation is relevant for about 55%. Problems occur due to technical equipment (29.4%) and premises (36.3%). Open remarks highlight specifics to be observed in offer design, for example, data security issues.Research limitations/implicationsTo conclude, DWHP has a high potential to improve health at the workplace initiatives regarding participation rates, outcomes and costs. Challenges can be overcome by ensuring data protection and skills, which can be transferred to other life domains, improving population health. The potentials of DWHP for population health via spillover effects, employee well-being and employer branding have not yet been reached.Originality/valueThe aim of this study is giving a first overview of employee views on and use of DWHP.

Generation X and Millennials: Perception Toward Pay for Individual Performance

Generational differences will cause different effects on the way employees view and perceive the policies designed by their organizations to motivate them, one of which is performance pay. The study aims to examine the differing perceptions of pay for performance between employees from Generations X and Millennials. This study was conducted by using a survey of which the respondents were from private and public sector organizations. The total number of respondents in this research is 355 employees, which are made up of 156 respondents from Generation X and 199 Millennial respondents. In this study, t-test and Linear regression models were used for hypotheses testing. Results of the t-test showed that there are differences in perceptions of pay for performance between Generations X and Millennials (p < 0.05). Generation X gives a higher positive evaluation on pay for performance compared with Generation Millennials. Results of the regression test showed that pay for performance had a significant effect on employee work motivation for both Generations X and Y (p < 0.05). The results of this study provide insights to organizations into designing appropriate compensation programs based on the demographics of their employees.
 Keywords: generation differences, motivation, external regulation, performancecontingent rewards

Possibility of Reducing Risks of Audit Profession in Improving Audit Quality -A Case Study in the General Company for Electric Power Production / Southern Region

The auditor's knowledge of professional risks is one of the basic means of success in practicing the profession, and this requires a review of the methodological framework related to qualification of the auditor; use of technology has led to the emergence of many risks,and these risks have been classified into different types, and use of technology has brought almost radical changes In the practice of the profession, as it affected types of services provided by the auditing profession, such as assurance services or advisory services. The research aims mainly to identify the extent to which it is possible to reduce the risks of auditing profession in improving quality of auditing from point view of auditors and employees in auditing offices who are allowed to practice occupation. Among the most important results reached: The most important factors in judging audit quality are experience with the client, knowledge in the field of activity, and the effect of the auditor's assessment of audit risks on the audit procedures necessary to respond to the assessed risks when auditing the financial statements. The recommendation that it proposes is to pay attention to continuing professional education and intensifying training courses in auditing and accounting. Paying attention to the consolidation of moral values by senior management to reduce the risks of the auditing profession in economic units.

Agricultural Environment Pollution Factors and Methods of Treatment them from the Viewpoint of Agricultural Employees in Tikrit District, Salah Aldin Governorate

The research aimed to determine the size of agricultural pollution environment from the point of view of agricultural employees in Tikrit district Salah al-Din Governorate and determining the difference in the respondents’ viewpoints about the size of the agricultural environment pollution according to the personal factors of agricultural employees represented in (age, gender, educational attainment, number of years’ service, work location, contact with information sources communication). After that arranging ways to deal with the pollution of the agricultural environment from the point of view of the respondents in descending order. The research included all agricultural employees working in the agricultural departments in the district of Tikrit, whose number is (68) employees. A simple random sample of 75% was taken, and thus the number of respondents became (51) respondents. A questionnaire was prepared to collect the data required for the research. Which included three sections. The first section included the personal factors of the respondents. The second section included (20) factors representing that caused the pollution in the agricultural environment, while the third section included (15) paragraphs representing methods of treatment the pollution of the agricultural environment. Several statistical methods were used to achieve the goals such as (ssps program, range, average and frequencies). The results showed that the size of the pollution of the agricultural environment is large and tends to average from the point of view of the respondents, as it was found that there is a significant difference in the averages of the categories of most of the studied factors. The researcher concluded the importance of treatment the causes of pollution and reducing its impact to maintain the growth and productivity of cultivated crops, and the need for the respondents to be exposed to modern sources of information about the risks of environmental pollution and methods to treat it, to enable them to take appropriate measures to reduce the impact of pollution in their work area. The researcher recommends reducing the activities that cause pollution of the agricultural environment and increasing the sources of information for agricultural extension workers to familiarize them with the causes and risks of environmental pollution and methods to treat it.

АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ СИСТЕМЫ МЕНЕДЖМЕНТА КАЧЕСТВА В ФАРМАЦЕВТИЧЕСКОМ ПРОИЗВОДСТВЕ

The quality management system (QMS) is one of the prerequisites for successful production activities and serves as a basic mechanism to ensure strict compliance of medical and pharmaceutical organizations in the format of the requirements of applicable standards and regulations. The aim of the work was to analyze the quality management system of pharmaceutical production from the point of view of employees of the enterprise. As an information base the works of domestic and foreign scientists in the field of quality management system, as well as regulatory and organizational documentation on pharmaceutical activities were taken. The questionnaire method served as the main research method, as a result of which 96 employees of pharmaceutical production facilities in Orel, Kostroma, Moscow, Lipetsk and Leningrad regions were interviewed. It was found that from the documents of good manufacturing practices the respondents were most familiar with Good Manufacturing Practices, manufacturing (GMP). The provisions of other good manufacturing practices (GLP, GCP, GSP, GDP, GPP) are mostly unfamiliar to the employees. The majority of respondents believe that the quality of medicines has improved over the last five years, with 56.2% of respondents believing that not all manufacturers comply with good manufacturing practices, explaining that the rules are very complex and it is too expensive for a company to comply with them. The survey found that under the concept of "quality of medicines" employees of pharmaceutical companies mainly mean: safety when used (80.4%); efficacy (79.4%); compliance with the declared characteristics (78.4%). It was found that the specialists of pharmaceutical companies have a positive attitude to the processes of digitalization, but they note the high financial costs at the stages of its implementation and dependence on foreign-made equipment. Thus, we can conclude that the information base in the Russian pharmaceutical production is mainly focused on industry documentation and, to a lesser extent, on related areas; the current industry regulatory framework requires improvement in terms of formalizing processes and specifying requirements.

Perceptions and reality: How National Forest System employee views correlate with frequency of unsold timber offerings

When National Forest System (NFS) tracts of timber are offered for sale and do not receive any bids from prospective buyers, mandated sales targets may be missed, additional costs can be incurred to the agency, and there is potentially lost opportunity for sustainable forest management. We validated NFS employee perceptions of unsold or “no-bid” offerings against observed no-bid sales. Using ordinary least squares, we regress three different definitions of timber sales against proximate and underlying factors influencing no-bids. We found statistical significance for some proximate factors, including small tree diameter at breast heigh, seasonal restrictions, and low volume sales. However, the sign of the coefficients for seasonal restrictions and low volume sales were not what we would have expected. Furthermore, we found statistical significance for underlying factors, including perceptions regarding market information and unplanned road costs with coefficient signs in the direction expected. Moreover, we provide some detailed suggestions for future data collection and other avenues for research. Although our data have some limitations, these findings further our understanding of public timber sales.

Analysis of training effectiveness from the perspective of managers and employees in the Colombian hospitality industry

PurposeThe literature has defined different indicators of training effectiveness. At the performance indicator level of analysis, training effectiveness measures the impact of training on knowledge, skills and job performance. This paper aims to analyse, from the perspective of managers and employees from the hotel sector in Colombia, the relationships between the improvement of knowledge and skills and the improvement of job performance.Design/methodology/approachThe research technique used is a survey. Data are collected from a sample of managers and a sample of employees from the Colombian hospitality industry. The hypotheses are contrasted through regression analysis.FindingsFrom the managers’ perspective, the data indicate a significant relationship between the improvement of knowledge and work performance. In contrast, there is no significant relationship between improving skills and improving job performance. From the employees’ perspective, significant relationships between the improvement of knowledge and the improvement of skills in job performance are revealed.Originality/valueThis work makes significant contributions to the training literature. It analyses the relationships among indicators of training effectiveness from the point of view of managers and employees from the Colombian hotel sector. It reveals differences between the perspectives of managers and employees.

Doing Good Work in a Crisis: Views of Pay and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Sectors

The critical efforts of essential workers during the COVID-19 crisis might have important implications for how individuals view government, nonprofit, and for-profit sector workers and their pay. This article explores views of employees’ pay considering three rationales (anticipated judgment, motivation for work, and competency in that work) that might lead to a lower valuation of work in the public and nonprofit sectors (i.e., lower pay rationales), particularly among those who work in the for-profit sector. However, highlighting a concrete way that public and non-profit employees serve the public, such as providing services during COVID-19, might mitigate this negative effect by showing their commitment to public service in an intuitive way. Our survey experiment provides evidence that activating the competency or motivation rationales lowers the likelihood that nonprofit employees are viewed as underpaid among those who work in the for-profit sector when a concrete example of public service is not provided. However, we also find some evidence that an example of public service can help to counteract these effects.

Examining the Diversity of Corporate America and the Federal Government: A Comparison of Selected Sectors

Managing diversity has become a fundamental priority of leading U.S. firms. Management of modern businesses must address the issue of employee diversity. Concomitantly, managing rising diversity demands greater consideration in governmental, corporate, and nonprofit enterprises. The researchers explore the effects of diversity and diversity management on employee views of organizational performance in U.S. federal agencies by establishing measures of three variables: diversity, workplace diversity, and perceived performance of the organization. Despite the fact that the motivations and practices of diverse companies are similar to those described in the best-practices industry, following these guidelines may not guarantee that a company will reach a high degree of diversity. A firm's level of diversity may be influenced as much by contextual factors like its industry affiliation and company size as by strategic factors. However, racial diversity does correlate favorably with organizational performance when tempered by diversity practices and group performance. Diverse perspectives on gender and age and the connections between these factors and other environmental factors lead to inconsistencies.

Value of Critical Thinking in the Labour Market: Variations in Employers’ and Employees’ Views

The fragmentation and narrowness of research on critical thinking in the labour market and the lack of critical thinking analysis in the context of the interplay between lifelong learning, education and the labour market presuppose the relevance of this article. The article analyses the views of employers and employees, highlighting their attitude toward the importance and manifestation of critical thinking in the labour market and the need for improving critical thinking competency. The article aims to answer the following problematic questions: (1) How important are critical thinking skills and dispositions in the labour market? (2) How do employers’ and employees’ opinions vary regarding critical thinking in professional activities? (3) What need is there to improve critical thinking skills and dispositions? Quantitative research methodology was chosen for data collection using a questionnaire. It was found that both employers and employees consider inference and argumentation to be the most important critical thinking skills in the modern labour market; however, their attitude toward self-regulation, which is highly regarded by employees, but not by employers, is fundamentally different. Both employers and employees understand the importance of dispositions and value them similarly. Both groups have the least regard for having scepticism. The assessment of critical thinking skills and dispositions in specific professional activities differs from the assessment in the labour market in general. In professional activities, substantiated decisions, flexibility and unbiased decisions are especially valued by both groups, and the skills listed as being in most need of improvement are the same ones that were given as being important. The attitudes of both groups were distinguished by assigning value to dispositions that need improvement. Employees are more likely than employers to work on dispositions that denote operational autonomy. The study also revealed correlations between various groups of critical thinking skills and dispositions, demonstrating both employers’ and employees’ deliberate choice in assessing one or other constituent of critical thinking competence and the perception of their interrelationships.

The impact of information sharing on the quality of decision-making: From the point of view of employees in Jordanian private hospitals

This paper examines how information sharing impacts the quality of decision-making in Jordanian private hospitals from the point of view of employees. It involved a structured questionnaire, which consisted of demographic data, information sharing, and decision-making. The research results suggest that sharing information in both common and unique situations significantly positively influences the decision-making abilities of teams. Merely possessing unique information does not enhance the ability to make decisions; conversely, common information is crucial to facilitate the decision-making process. Participant characteristics have no effect on decision-making quality, especially as team functional diversity continues to rise, with information sharing even less relevant as a result. Our results indicate that participants’ characteristics do not predict whether the discussion of shared information will contribute to decision-making quality. As a practical contribution, our findings recognise the importance of decision teams in information management, encourage flexibility and openness in organisational relations, and assist policymakers, managers, and regulators through training programs that confirm participation is one of the most important components of generating new ideas.

THE ROLE OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP IN ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: EVIDENCE FROM EGYPT

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of toxic leadership on organizational commitment from the point of view of employees in cement sector companies in Egypt. The study used a survey questionnaire. Respondents were 310, The descriptive analytical approach was applied. The study used regression analysis to determine the relationship between the independent variable on the dependent variables. The results of the regression analysis proved that authentic leadership dimensions (Self-awareness, Balanced Processing, Internalized Moral Perspective, and Relational Transparency) has a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment dimensions from the point of view of employees in cement sector companies

Socio-Economic View of Fisheries Processing Sector Employees: Black Sea Region-Türkiye

In this study, the socio-economic status of the employees who work in the seafood processing plants operating in the Black Sea region provinces was examined in order to reveal the social and economic data. 37 enterprises, which have a production permit from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, are located in 7 provinces in the Black Sea region, where 18 provinces are located. It has been studied with 532 interviewers in 28 companies that are actively operating, with a participation of 24 questions each. 19 of the enterprises work for fish and fish products (cold and frozen storage), 4 are for snails, and 5 are for fish meal and oil processing plants. 63.9% of the employees are male. When we look at the distribution of the employees’ age groups, the rate of 31-40 years was the highest with a percentage of 36.64%. Regarding the education levels, it is seen that secondary school graduates constitute the highest rate with a percentage of 38.91%. It has been detected that 99.62% of the employees have social security, and all of them take advantage of the social security institution. For the marital status, it is determined that 73.50% of the employees are married. Studies on the seafood sector, which is important in the world and in our country, reveal important data.

Secondary Level Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Nepal: A Case of three Districts

This study investigated the job satisfaction level of the secondary level teachers of Tanahun, Kaski and Chitwan districts in Nepal. Basing on the survey design of quantitative research, method, data were collected from 292 respondents through structured questionnaires. Five-point Likert-scale technique was used for collecting data. Descriptive statistics, independent-samples t-test, and one-way ANOVA test were used to analyze the data. This study found that the majority of respondents were satisfied with the job nature, pay and fringe benefits, members’ cooperation to work, and the working environment of a school and in the teaching profession. However, they were not satisfied with the mechanism of school supervision and promotion process and procedures, independent F-test and t-test are satisfied with a 95% confidence level. There is no meaningful difference (P-value is less than 0.05) between teaching experience, gender, and job satisfaction level. The policy makers should consider the view of employee about their job perception at the time of making rules and regulation related to the employee, the government should make clear rules and regulation related to promotion process.

The other side of emotional support: The moderating role of personality in the relations between emotionally‐valenced support elicitation experiences and strain

AbstractRecent organizational research has begun focusing on alternative perspectives of the social support dynamic. One of these perspectives is the potential support provider perspective, which captures the social support dynamic from the view of employees put in position to potentially provide social support. Empirical findings concerning this perspective are scant and thus warrant additional research. The present study, using a large, occupationally heterogenous two‐wave sample (N = 447), further explored relations between strain and support elicitation experiences that are emotionally‐valenced, or SEE‐E, from the potential support provider perspective. The role of individual differences in influencing these relations was also investigated. Using hierarchical regression, we found that SEE‐E was related to key forms of psychological (work‐related burnout), behavioral (hostility), and physiological (the presence of physical symptoms) strain. Furthermore, we found that higher levels of agreeableness strengthened the relations between SEE‐E and work‐related burnout, and higher levels of conscientiousness weakened the relations between SEE‐E and hostility. Results from this study contribute to the nascent findings surrounding the potential support provider perspective of the workplace social support dynamic and further demonstrate the importance of individual differences to stressor‐strain dynamics.

Evaluation of the perception of Green IT practices in a public educational institution

TI GREEN consists of an aggregate of ways to use technological resources in a more sustainable way. Thus, this article aims to evaluate the perception of Green IT practices aimed at sustainable development in a public educational institution in the state of Pernambuco, from the point of view of the institution's employees. With regard to methodology, the study was classified as to approach, as qualitative through a case study applied in a public educational institution, located in Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. With the intention of answering the objectives of the research, a semi-structured interview was used, with a sample represented by a total of 15 interviewees crowded in the rectory of the researched public teaching institution. The sample was collected for convenience and the results are characteristic of this sample. The results showed that regarding the overall sustainable development of the institution, employees have a bad or very bad view of the institution's sustainable development practices. Regarding the Green IT practices, it was possible to verify that most employees are unaware of the legitimate practices. In this way, this article highlights the importance that Green IT implementation can have on sustainable awareness at an individual and institutional level.

ПРЕИМУЩЕСТВА И РИСКИ НОВЫХ ФОРМ ЗАНЯТОСТИ В УСЛОВИЯХ ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ IT-ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ

The article considers trends in the transformation of the labor market under the influence of a change in the paradigm of personnel management and analyzes new forms of interaction between employer and employee, in particular remote work. It analyzes the statistics illustrating the prospects for the development of the remote form of employment and formulate the dependence between the spread of remote work and such parameters as the size of the settlement, the industry, the size of the organization, the level of GDP per capita. The characteristics of such form of employment and the requirements for employees are specified and the classification of remote workers is given. There is an analysis in advantages of that form of employment from the point of view of employees and employers. The most significant ones are identified. In addition, the risks of using remote workers from the point of view of ensuring the information security of the organization are assessed. The authors highlight typical mistakes of employees associated with non-compliance with security principles and the associated risks of violating the integrity of the organization’s information system. They also propose directions in developing the functions of personnel management services in the organization related to the transformation of traditional management tools, and highlight measures aimed at reducing information security risks. A conclusion is made about the need to develop personnel management systems in accordance with the principles of the information economy.