Impact Of Local Culture Research Articles

THE ANALYSIS OF PARTIAL EFFECT AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE MODERATION, TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP, AND LOCAL CULTURE, TOWARD PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION ORGANIZATION CHANGES

Purpose: This paper aims to analyse the partial effect and moderation between variables of organizational culture, transformational leadership, and local culture; toward organizational changes. Theorical framework: The process of higher education in Indonesia cannot be separated from government intervention as the highest stakeholder, including in educational institutions. Some policies related to the curriculum, teaching staff, education staff, facilities, administration, and so on. Thus, higher education providers must fulfil administrative elements predominantly, rather than developing knowledge and skills. By looking at this phenomenon, there has to be a link between political interests, policies, and higher education (Zhai and Yuan, 2019). Design/methodology/approach: This study uses descriptive qualitative analysis. Data analysis used in this study is using SmartPLS 3.0 with 315 samples of higher education institution leaders in Jakarta. The research questions of this study are: a. the Effects of organizational culture on organizational change; b. the impact of transformational leadership on organizational change; c. impact of local culture on organizational change; d. the impact of transformational leadership facilitation on organizational change; e. effects of local culture moderation on the relationship between organizational culture and organizational change. Findings: The results of this study are: 1) organizational culture has positive and significant impact toward organization changes (relatively low, only 7.1%); 2) transformational leadership has positive and significant impact toward organization changes (relatively high, 88.9%); 3) local culture has positive and significant impact toward organization changes (relatively low, only 5.3%); 4) transformational leadership has no moderation relationship between organizational culture and organization changes; 5) local culture has no moderation relationship between organizational culture and organization changes, hence those two moderation variables are not getting stronger nor weaken. They are independently has partial effect to the organization and need no moderation toward organizational culture to achieve organization changes. Research, Practical & Social Implications: This study has come up with empiric and scientific findings that transformational leadership has the highest effect toward organizational changes in private owned higher education organizations in Jakarta, Indonesia. Originality/value: The novelty of this study has shown that shows that transformational leadership has the greatest impact on organizational change in a private university in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The impact of three years application of the Health Care Team Challenge on inter-professional collaborative practice: A realist evaluation approach

Literature suggests that there are positive outcomes from Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE) concerning changes in attitude, knowledge and skills, yet there is limited evidence about changes in professional behaviour and patient outcomes. The Singapore Ministry of Health highlighted the significance of IPE in 2010, and it was then incorporated into respective health professional programmes. To use realist evaluation methodology to explore and understand the impact of a three-year implementation of the Health Care Team Challenge (HCTC) underpinned by interprofessional practice and education principles upon health professionals’ practice at the National University Hospital (NUH) of Singapore. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore participants’ views of the HCTC. The findings resonated with other international studies, and in addition, the impact of local culture was discussed and compared with other Asian studies. Following realist evaluation, two working hypotheses evolved from the totality of the study. This study suggested a positive impact of the HCTC and indicated the need for interprofessional education to occur within post-graduate education and continuing professional development for health care professionals. This study offers a reference point for other teams keen to review and refine team functioning.

The Influence of Regional Cultural Factor s on Corporate Behavior

Differences in business behavior due to regional cultural differences are a primary concern in studying the capital markets. This paper highlights the impact of regional trust, regional corruption, and religious beliefs on local business behavior. Firstly, the paper compares the phenomena that occur in companies because of cultural differences between regions. Then, this study analyzes the effect of these regional differences on local business behavior, taking the attitudes of auditors in China and the United States toward the discovery of problems, the prevalence of corruption in 64 transition economies in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa, and the impact of Islam on local business as examples. Secondly, the paper analyzes the factors influencing business behavior in terms of social trust, corruption, and religion based on the existing literature. Finally, after summarizing the findings of the above literature, this paper suggests possible future research directions. Overall, this study provides a new insight for future studies concerning the impact of local culture on business activities.

The impact of local culture on adult learning transfer: implications for human resources professionals

ABSTRACT The goal of professional learning is to be able to use and apply the newly acquired knowledge and skills to the workplace. Although learning transfer has been studied in management, human resource development, training, adult learning, and psychology, to date there are a limited number of empirical field studies. There are also few learning transfer models that consider local cultures as a factor impacting the transfer process. Recent learning transfer models have outlined the importance of organizational culture, but none have outlined the central influence of local cultures on learning. Given that adult learning is a social endeavour that is influenced by cultural factors, local cultures affect how adults learn and whether they apply the new knowledge to their workplaces. In this paper, I share a Multidimensional Model of Learning Transfer that is grounded in culture. In today’s global economy, people regularly work across nations and local cultures. As a result, it is essential that human resources administrators understand the role local culture plays on the entire learning transfer process, from pretraining to follow-up, if they aspire to obtain a return on their financial, time, and human investments.

Drinking into Friends: Alcohol Drinking Culture and CEO Social Connections

The influences of a CEO’s social connections to a firm have received much attention. However, less has been investigated on between-CEOs differences in building connections. This paper is a step towards filling this gap by investigating whether CEOs social connections are influenced by China’s local alcohol drinking culture. We use the sample of Chinese listed companies to test our hypotheses. We find that CEOs whose firms are located in regions with strong alcohol drinking culture have more social connections, both inside and outside the firms. We further find that the drinking culture only significantly affects the social connections of male CEOs, but not female CEOs. These findings remain robust after accounting for endogeneity by instrumental variable approach. This paper introduces the role of local alcohol drinking culture in CEOs social capital accumulating and sheds new lights on the impact of local culture on CEOs behaviors.

An Ecological Understanding of Caregiver Experiences in Palliative Care

ABSTRACTPalliative care is specialized health care to improve quality of life for patients with serious illness and their families through prevention and relief of suffering. A Palliative Care Institute was held in western Washington to capture community voices about diverse needs, strengths, and opportunities for improvement of palliative care. Researchers employed qualitative methods to obtain thematic data, provide real-time analysis, and engage in a multivoting technique to reflect stakeholder interest in individual themes and prioritize larger group interests. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems framework was used to explore caregiver experiences. Within the microsystem, caregivers reported difficulties in interactions with medical providers as a key challenge. Within the mesosysytem, interactions between patients and medical providers and the impact on caregivers were explored. Within the exosystem, caregivers reported lack of control over the schedules of personal care staff. Macrosystem influences included impact of local culture on the development of palliative care services. Chronosystem influences include de-medicalization of childbirth and its impact on perceptions of palliative care. Implications include the need for social workers to be proactive in fostering trust and effective communication between care providers and caregivers, and the demand for health care provider training in communication with patients and families.

Website Usability and Cultural Dimensions in Malaysian and Australian Universities

The extent to which web sites in Malaysian and Australian universities comply with usability guidelines of theU.S Department of Health and Human Services was analysed. In order to discover the reasons some websitescomply with more guidelines on certain features than others, cultural dimensions in relation to usability of eachcountry were also analysed. Content analysis was employed to measure the usability compliance. Twenty-nineguidelines were selected and twenty university web sites from each country were randomly selected. Thefindings showed that the trend of standardization was emerging for language and organization category.However, there was also a clear evidence of the need for website designers to consider the impact of localculture as some cultural reflections in terms of high/low context orientation were noted. In terms of culture,unexpectedly, Australian university websites depicted a higher uncertainty avoidance index. This study will bean addition to web design literature and facilitate universities and individuals to develop effective strategies toelevate the image of universities in the global context. Future studies should examine other cultural dimensionssuch as collectivism versus individualism and power distance. Future studies may also use interview method togain an in-depth analysis of factors which influence the cultural projection in university websites.

The Impact of Local Culture on Financial Performance in Property Firms in Bali

The research studies local culture reflected through pray, hard work, honesty, tatwamasi and gotong royong influencing property sales and company assets. Fifty companies are qualified as sample of sixty one property companies actively operated in 2013. Data is collected through questionnaire having tested for its reliability and validity before distributed to those fifty companies. The collected data is analyzed with multiple regression. Result shows that hard work, honesty, tatwamasi and gotong royong culture that well implemented are able to improve property sale and assets ownership. Result of the study has implication that in order to improve financial performance, local culture should be included as variable in performance measurement. Result of the study gives contribution to Schein’s organizational culture (2004) that colored with local culture; therefore, values believed in an organization are able to improve performance.

Negotiating and Rethinking Local Culture: The Narratives of Indonesian Women Juggling Higher Education, Work, and Domestic Roles

This paper discusses the status and impact of local culture on the involvement of women in higher education. Starting with different narratives of women as they juggle higher education, work, and domestic roles and taking into account the local Indonesian local socio-cultural and religious context, this paper identifies issues encountered and overcome by Indonesian women pertaining to these different domains. It evaluates the complexities of the value system Indonesian women must address in their pursuit of higher education and degrees. Finally, the paper suggests that the reinvention and reevaluation of local values would benefit the advancement of education for women, particularly at the postgraduate level.

Promoting Major Pediatric Surgical Care in a Low‐Income Country: A 4‐Year Experience in Eritrea

Access to pediatric surgical care in many sub-Saharan African countries is strongly limited by lack of medical facilities, adequate transport system, and trained medical and nursing manpower. The mortality rate for major congenital abnormalities remains extremely elevated in this area of the world. Strong efforts have been spent during the past decades to elevate the level of pediatric surgery standards in these countries through cooperation programs acting through periodical medical missions or supporting local medical teaching institutions. This is a report of a partnership between an Italian Medical Institution and the Eritrean Ministry of Health with the goal to improve pediatric surgical standard of care in the country. During the past 4 years, teams composed of two pediatric surgeons, a pediatric anesthetist, and a pediatric nurse regularly visited the Orotta Medical and Surgical Referral Hospital of Asmara (Eritrea) to offer modern surgical treatment to children with major congenital abnormalities and to offer academic training to local medical and nursing staff. The team worked in local health structures. A total of 714 patients have been visited and 430 surgical procedures have been performed during 35 weeks of clinical work. Among them were 32 anorectal malformations, 11 Hirschsprung's disease cases, 8 bladder extrophies, and many other major surgical problems, such as congenital intestinal obstructions, obstructive uropathies, and solid tumors. The standard of care has been based on the principle of researching sustainable solutions. Surgical options and timing of each procedure have been decided to reduce hospitalization and the recourse to temporary stomas, indwelling catheterization, and prolonged intravenous feeding. Posterior sagittal anorectoplasties (PSARP) and posterior vagino-anorectoplasty (PSVARP) were performed for anorectal malformations, introducing minimal technical variants to reduce the need for postoperative nursing. Endorectal pull-through of functional stoma was the treatment of choice for patients with Hirschsprung's disease because frozen sections were not possible. Eight late-referred bladder extrophy cases were all managed by internal diversion (Mainz II pouch). Solid abdominal tumors always came to observation weeks or months after the first symptoms appeared. No CT scan was available and indications of surgery were based on clinical symptoms only. Only 11 of 18 cases were resectable, and only 5 of them with favorable histology survived, 2 after adjuvant therapy abroad. A large number of hypospadias were observed at the mean age of 4.5 years. Failures of previous attempts at correction were frequently found. The postoperative complications rate progressively decreased with the use of dripping stents to avoid the risk of accidental catheter removal or kinking. On the basis of our experience, major pediatric surgery in many under-resourced areas of sub-Saharan Africa can be developed, taking care to adapt surgical options to local conditions. Late referral of many congenital abnormalities, the impact of local culture, difficulties to establish regular follow-up, and shortage of facilities and medical devices must always be kept in mind before transferring modern protocols of management. Strong efforts have been devoted to train local medical and nursing staff to establish pediatric surgical manpower to cope with a still largely unanswered demand of care in this area of Africa.

Global Sustainability - The Impact of Local Cultures. A New Perspective for Science and Engineering, Economics and Politics, Author: Wilderer, Peter A. / Schroeder, Edward D. /Kopp, Horst

Global Sustainability - The Impact of Local Cultures. A New Perspective for Science and Engineering, Economics and Politics, Author: Wilderer, Peter A. / Schroeder, Edward D. /Kopp, Horst

Global Sustainability: The Impact of Local Cultures. A New Perspective for Science and Engineering, Economics and Politics --- Technological Choices for Sustainability

Global Sustainability: The Impact of Local Cultures. A New Perspective for Science and Engineering, Economics and Politics --- Technological Choices for Sustainability