Employees In Large Companies Research Articles

CSR expectations and voluntary participation among employees

Our research aims to reveal the expectations of employees towards their organization about CSR initiatives, and also to map out what attitudes characterize them in connection with volunteerism that looks back on old traditions. With the involvement of more than 300 people in our research - mostly employees of large companies - we mapped the employee attitudes by analysing statistical and spontaneous mentions. Based on our results, it became clear that the employees consider it important that their employer also carries out socially responsible activities, and that their most important task is to achieve economic efficiency. They are also happy to participate in volunteer activities for a good cause.

Do creativity techniques enhances employees soft skills?

This research aims to analyze how creativity techniques can enhance workers’ soft skills. In addition, this study aims to understand how the environment that surrounds company workers can affect their performance. Therefore, a quantitative methodology was developed through a questionnaire with 87 answers from employees of large companies in the area of Marketing and Management. The data was studied through reliability to find the relation between the creativity techniques, soft skills and the work environment, where the workers are inserted. The results show that most of the companies approached are comfortable using creativity techniques as a way of stimulating creative potential and enhancing the soft skills of workers, such as negotiation, problem-solving and innovation. It was also found that most only use the best-known techniques such as Brainstorming and Mind Map. These findings focus on the need to implement more creative techniques and an environment/sessions where workers feel comfortable exposing their ideas. It is recommended that companies start taking into account the creative potential of workers, as this allows a company to differentiate itself in an increasingly competitive working world.

Work, depression and pandemic stress in times of COVID-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

The present research aimed to evaluate the existence of relationships between Pandemic Stress and Depression, and determine significant differences focusing on aspects inherent to work like employment situation, company size and work modality. It was a non-experimental, correlational, and comparative, cross-sectional investigation. Instruments: SISCO Pandemic Stress Inventory (ISEP) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II). In a sample of 520 subjects from Buenos Aires, Argentina, a positive association was found between Depression and Pandemic Stress (PS), specific stressors, and reactions to them. It was found that high levels of Pandemic Stress, (i.e.: fear that some relative is infected, hospital consultation, insufficient resources, among others) were associated to high levels of depression symptoms such as hopelessness, pessimism, self-criticism and sadness. Regarding the employment situation, the unemployed sample presented a higher level of depression, PS and reactions to it. 40.2% of the owners/entrepreneurs (99.3% of MSMEs) thought at some point in the quarantine to close their businesses, they also evidenced the highest levels of depression. People who worked from home showed a higher level of PS than those who worked outside their home, and in turn, they used the most coping strategies. MSMEs employees had a higher level of stressors than employees of large companies. Finally, 54.7% of the sample saw their economic income reduced, 44.2% presented a moderate to a severe Depression level, and 80.5% showed a strong to a very strong level of Pandemic Stress. This proves the importance of investigating the psychological impact of the demands around COVID-19 according to vital factors such as work and the economy, promoting public policies, developing tools, and providing resources to face the biopsychosocial vicissitudes that the population of developing countries is going through.

Annual prevalence of non-communicable diseases and identification of vulnerable populations following the Fukushima disaster and COVID-19 pandemic

Disasters, pandemics, and their response measures can have secondary effects on the physical and psychological health of affected populations. Using health insurance receipt data from 2009 to 2020, we assessed changes in the prevalence of major non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and mental disorders, among affected populations before and after the Fukushima disaster and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Japan. Furthermore, age and sex groups with the largest increases in prevalence after these events were identified. The participants of this study were employees of large companies and their dependent family members who were insured by health insurance societies (HIS). The dataset was provided by JMDC Inc. The annual age-adjusted prevalence of each disease belonging to the HIS scheme was used to calculate the ratio of disease prevalence before and after the events. After the Fukushima disaster, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes generally increased over a 9-year period in Fukushima Prefecture. The increase in the prevalence rate of these three NCDs and mental disorders was the highest among females aged 40–74 years compared to males and the other age groups. The prevalence of all four diseases increased after the COVID-19 outbreak in Japan, with a marked increase in males aged 0–39 years. Changes in prevalence ratios of NCDs after the COVID-19 outbreak among the areas affected by the Fukushima disaster were lower than in the whole of Japan. It is important to provide tailor-made public health support among populations in accordance with the type of disasters and pandemic.

ВОЛОНТЕРСТВО КАК СЕГМЕНТ КОРПОРАТИВНОЙ ФИЛАНТРОПИИ

The article reveals the modern positions of understanding and essence of such a phenomenon as volunteering from the point of view of a business phenomenon, provides data from various studies on this topic. Some list of trends in millennials’ preferences when applying for a job is given. The benefits of business, public organizations and employees of large companies from volunteering have been determined.

COVID-19 vaccination coverage by company size and the effects of workplace vaccination program in Japan: a cohort study.

BackgroundVaccination is considered the most effective control measure against COVID-19. Vaccine hesitancy and equitable vaccine allocation are important challenges to disseminating developed vaccines. To promote COVID-19 vaccination coverage, the government of Japan established the workplace vaccination program. However, while it appears that the program was effective in overcoming vaccine hesitancy, the program may have hindered the equitable allocation of vaccines because it mainly focused on employees of large companies. We investigated the relationship between company size and COVID-19 vaccination completion status of employees and the impact of the workplace vaccination program on this relationship.MethodsWe conducted an internet-based prospective cohort study from December 2020 (baseline) to December 2021. The data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire survey. Briefly, 27,036 workers completed the questionnaire at baseline and 18,560 at follow-up. After excluding ineligible respondents, we finally analyzed the data from 15,829 participants. At baseline, the participants were asked about the size of the company they worked for, and at follow-up they were asked about the month in which they received their second COVID-19 vaccine dose and the availability of a company-arranged vaccination opportunity.ResultsIn each month throughout the observation period, the odds of having received a second COVID-19 vaccine dose were significantly lower for small-company employees than for large-company employees in the sex- and age-adjusted model. This difference decreased after adjusting for socioeconomic factors, and there was no significant difference after adjusting for the availability of a company-arranged vaccination opportunity.ConclusionsThe workplace vaccination program implemented in Japan to control the COVID-19 pandemic may have been effective in overcoming vaccine hesitancy in workers; however, it may have caused an inequitable allocation of vaccines between companies of different sizes. Because people who worked for small companies were less likely to be vaccinated, it will be necessary to enhance support of vaccination for this population in the event of future infectious disease outbreaks.Trial registrationNot applicable.

Employees’ Evaluations of Flexible Work Arrangements in Smaller Companies

Most businesses in industrialised countries are micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). To attract and retain employees, these companies have to address increasing demands for flexible work. However, employee uptake of flexible work arrangements (FWAs) is stagnating, and employees using FWAs often experience negative career consequences. We investigate to which extent differences between companies in terms of size explain consequences of FWAs as they are experienced by employees. We hypothesize that, compared to employees in large companies, individuals working MSMEs perceive FWAs to increase workload and reduce employee morale as well as perceived promotion opportunities. We test our theory based on a representative sample of British employees, finding support for all of our hypotheses. The results contribute to the literature on FWAs in MSMEs, and elucidate boundary conditions for the perceived effectiveness of FWAs from an employee perspective.

Corporate communicative competence and aspects of its formation

Communicative competence is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which is formed under the influence of factors such as cultural and historical conditions, sociocultural environment, as well as individual personality experience. Competence reflects a person’s preparedness to perform certain activities and includes not only cognitive (skills, knowledge), but also non-cognitive (motivation, value orientations, ethical attitudes, etc.) components. Competence also ensures success in nowadays rapidly changing environment. The importance of developing communicative competence among employees of large companies is also displayed in the article. The article discusses the concept of communicative competence from a perspective of different perspectives, also discusses various psychotechnologies of communication used to form communicative competence, as well as to develop professional knowledge, skills and abilities.

Factors influencing employees' experience after business process redesign

Since human dimension is an important factor during business process redesign, this study aims to distinct factors influencing employees' experience after similar initiatives. A structural equation model was developed representing relationships between influencing factors and tested using survey data from 136 employees in large companies in North Macedonia that significantly redesigned business processes in their information technology departments, with results explaining 68% of variance in employees' experience. The results emphasised that company's strategy that presents a clear vision to employees for the intended process redesign and employees' attitude towards organisational change have the highest impact on perceived employee's experience. Additionally, the new working conditions after the change also positively influenced the perceived experience, as well as the employees' personality traits, which were the lowest influencing factor. However, the study revealed a moderate direct link between employees' personality dimensions and their attitude towards the needed organisational changes during business processes redesign.

Factors influencing employees' experience after business process redesign

Since human dimension is an important factor during business process redesign, this study aims to distinct factors influencing employees' experience after similar initiatives. A structural equation model was developed representing relationships between influencing factors and tested using survey data from 136 employees in large companies in North Macedonia that significantly redesigned business processes in their information technology departments, with results explaining 68% of variance in employees' experience. The results emphasised that company's strategy that presents a clear vision to employees for the intended process redesign and employees' attitude towards organisational change have the highest impact on perceived employee's experience. Additionally, the new working conditions after the change also positively influenced the perceived experience, as well as the employees' personality traits, which were the lowest influencing factor. However, the study revealed a moderate direct link between employees' personality dimensions and their attitude towards the needed organisational changes during business processes redesign.

Training of future teachers of mathematics and informatics to teaching schoolchildren to the bases of cybersecurity

The active development of the cybersecurity industry has led not only to the need to develop specialized software, improve the skills of employees of large companies, but also to the formation of future teachers’ skills and abilities of competent behavior in cyberspace. The analysis of the normative documentation indicates that the problem of training future teachers of mathematics and computer science for teaching schoolchildren the basics of cybersecurity comes to the fore. The article is devoted to the description of a possible way to solve the identified problems. The article presents four levels of formation of knowledge, skills of students of pedagogical areas of training in the field of cybersecurity, means and methods of their achievement, structural components of cybersecurity and the disciplines of the curriculum (bachelor’s degree), allowing to master the content of these components, describes the special features of lecture and practical lessons. The authors of the article believe that the proposed approach allows us to implement the idea of lifelong cybersecurity education according to the scheme: schoolchildren — undergraduate students — graduate students — acting teachers.

Greater support and resources needed for cancer survivors returning to work.

Greater support and resources needed for cancer survivors returning to work.

Accessibility of Brzozów by public transport on a local, regional and national scale

Abstract Major changes can be observed in the way that the public transport system in Poland operates as a result of the structural and ownership transformations of the former state-owned Motor Transport Company (Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Samochodowej [PKS]). An analysis was carried out of the town’s existing public transport connections in order to determine the impact of these changes on the mobility of the residents of a small town. The town of Brzozów was selected for the research. After August 2013, PKS Krosno S.A. withdrew from the provision of services on many bus routes in that area. The external accessibility of public transport in Brzozów was presented at three scales: local, intra-regional and national. Each of these has its own characteristics, and the bus routes provided on each of these scales have different significance for the inhabitants and the functioning of the economy. Accessibility by public transport in Brzozów is very good and strongly correlated with the city’s functional links on local, regional and national scales. The main transport axis of the city is the route connecting Rzeszów (the capital of Podkarpackie Province) with the Bieszczady Mountains (an area of great value for tourism). On the local market, the desire to adapt the carriers’ provision to the needs of students and the employees of large companies, while providing for university students on the market for long-distance transport, provided the main motivations for changes in the public transport system in the area of Brzozów Municipality.

„Czelendżuj kejsa”, czyli kilka uwag o języku korporacji

Corporations are large, most often international enterprises in which a lot of attention is paid to all kinds of procedures, work organization, efficiency in operation and anonymity. Employees of large companies are treated as fully convertible „cogs of machinery”, which is why these institutions arouse completely ambivalent feelings in society – for some they are almost a modern form of slavery, others associate them with continuous development, the opportunity to meet new people and foreign trips. In the face of corporate challenges, knowledge of English has become an indispensable skill. In the constantly progressing process of globalization, he penetrated permanently, mainly in the form of borrowings, also to the Polish version of corporate speech, providing the basis for creating a specific language, called korpolekt, korpomowa, poliszinglisz or ponglish. While English names of positions or areas of the company are recognized in the international environment and greatly facilitate communication, combining Polish and English words or polonizing foreign phrases often gives even comical results. The aim of this article is therefore an attempt to discuss selected characteristic features of this specific novelty and give examples of typical corporate words, phrases and abbreviations.

Implementation of high-performance work practices in the Spanish private sector

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to provide an overall picture of the level of implementation of high-performance work practices (HPWP) in Spain, as well as to identify changes after three years of severe economic and financial crisis. The practices analysed include selective hiring, extensive training, information sharing, contingent remuneration and job security.Design/methodology/approach– By means of logistic regressions, the author estimates the determinants of these practices, during a crisis and pre-crisis period. As a source of information, the author uses a representative sample of the whole Spanish private sector of 9,086 wage workers, drawn from the 2006 and 2010 waves of the Quality of Life at Work Survey.Findings– Job security and skills utilisation are widely spread in Spain, whilst contingent remuneration and extensive training show low levels of usage. Highly skilled individuals holding high-quality jobs display a greater probability of being affected by HPWP. Similar patterns emerge for employees in large companies and for those in the health and education industries.Research limitations/implications– Design limitations are caused by data that are cross-sectional, not longitudinal.Practical implications– The author is able to reach conclusions that can be generalised for the entire Spanish private sector. Thus, they might be used to propose policy recommendations.Originality/value– This is the first in-depth analysis of HPWP in the Spanish private sector. The results encourage the discussion about the suitability of these practices.

Stressing patterns of exchange Social Physics How Good Ideas Spread— The Lessons from a New Science Alex Pentland Penguin, 2014. 314 pp.

Stressing patterns of exchange <b>Social Physics How Good Ideas Spread— The Lessons from a New Science</b> <i>Alex Pentland</i> Penguin, 2014. 314 pp.

Identifying Patients at Risk for High Medical Costs and Good Candidates for Obesity Intervention

To develop a risk-scoring tool to identify in a base year patients likely to have high medical spending in the subsequent year and to understand the role obesity and obesity reduction may play in mitigating this risk. Cross-sectional analysis, using commercial claims and health risk assessment data. United States, 2004-2009. Panel of 192,750 person-year observations from 116,868 unique working-age employees of large companies. Probability of high medical expenses (80th percentile or above) in the following year; adjusted body mass index (BMI). Generate risk scores by modeling the likelihood of high next-year expenses as a function of base-year age, sex, medical utilization, comorbidities, and BMI. Estimate the effect of simulated bariatric intervention on patient risk scores. Individuals with higher BMI were more likely to be categorized in the very high risk group, in which the average annual medical expense was $8621. A weight-loss intervention transitioning a patient to the next lower obesity class was predicted to reduce this risk by 1.5% to 27.4%-comparable to hypothetically curing a patient of depression or type 2 diabetes. A logistic model was used to capture the effect of BMI on the risk of high future medical spending. Weight-loss interventions for obese patients may generate significant savings by reducing this risk.

The relationship between daily mood and Creative Process Engagement(CPE)

The current study investigates how daily mood(positive or negative affect) alters creative behaviors of employees, and how personality traits(conscientiousness and openness to experience) moderate this relationship. In particular, assuming that mood in organization varies on a daily basis, we focused on the relationship between general mood in the workplace and creative process engagement(CPE) at a within-person level. Based on the previous literature review on how emotional valence stimulates creative behaviors, we developed and tested hypotheses stating that positive mood would facilitate creative behaviors while negative mood would inhibit them. Moreover, as moderators, we examined the effects of conscientiousness and openness to experience of the Five-Factor traits which either strengthen or weaken the relations between mood and creative behaviors. The model was tested on a sample of 71 employees of large companies in Korea. We collected and analyzed data on mood and CPE for 10 working days. As a result, it was found that daily positive mood enhances CPE while negative mood hinders it, and conscientiousness attenuates the effect of mood on CPE. In particular, for those with high conscientiousness, the influence of mood on CPE was not as strong, and highly conscious people portrayed a relatively stable and high level of CPE. We concluded with a discussion of the contribution of between-and within-person level variables in predicting creativity and its practical implications as well as limitations.

The Relationship Between Daily Mood and Creative Process Engagement(CPE): The Moderating Effects of Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience

The current study investigates how daily mood(positive or negative affect) alters creative behaviors of employees, and how personality traits(conscientiousness and openness to experience) moderate this relationship. In particular, assuming that mood in organization varies on a daily basis, we focused on the relationship between general mood in the workplace and creative process engagement(CPE) at a within-person level. Based on the previous literature review on how emotional valence stimulates creative behaviors, we developed and tested hypotheses stating that positive mood would facilitate creative behaviors while negative mood would inhibit them. Moreover, as moderators, we examined the effects of conscientiousness and openness to experience of the Five-Factor traits which either strengthen or weaken the relations between mood and creative behaviors. The model was tested on a sample of 71 employees of large companies in Korea. We collected and analyzed data on mood and CPE for 10 working days. As a result, it was found that daily positive mood enhances CPE while negative mood hinders it, and conscientiousness attenuates the effect of mood on CPE. In particular, for those with high conscientiousness, the influence of mood on CPE was not as strong, and highly conscious people portrayed a relatively stable and high level of CPE. We concluded with a discussion of the contribution of between-and within-person level variables in predicting creativity and its practical implications as well as limitations.

Development in youth enterprises

Business enterprises run by youth can create jobs and teach the principles of free enterprise but also convey skills that can be used by employees in large companies, as well as political activists and entrepreneurs. Research is needed to test the efficacy of this approach and identify its key components.