Organizational Beliefs Research Articles

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION IS INFLUENCED BY ORGANIZATION-BASED SELF-RESPECT AS A MEDIATOR

Purpose- This research paper delves into the relationship between workplace spirituality (WS) and organizational identification (OI) and the mediating role of organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) in this association. Methodology- The study involved the participation of 206 administrative personnel at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University in Canakkale province. The data collected were subjected to several statistical analyses, including explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses, normality tests, correlation analyses, hierarchical regression analyses, and Sobel tests. The results of these analyses revealed significant findings, supporting the hypothesis that workplace spirituality affects organizational identification, with OBSE serving as a mediator in this relationship. Findings- The findings suggest that employees with WS and OBSE are more likely to identify with their organization's beliefs and values. Conclusion- Incorporating WS can result in favorable OI, mainly when an individual's core values are congruent with the company's. In this context, an individual's confidence in their skills and their conviction in their ability to make valuable contributions to the organization fosters a strong sense of self-esteem in the workplace.

Diversity and the Evaluation of Talent in the Accounting Profession: The Enigma of Merit

SYNOPSIS While accounting firms are facing recruitment and retention problems, regulatory bodies are calling for efforts to improve diversity to be more effective, especially at senior levels. In this paper, we discuss “merit” and assumptions about “meritocracy” in processes of performance evaluation and career progression. Based on interviews in medium and large professional services firms in the United Kingdom, we explore how the language/practices of merit can inhibit moves to improving diversity. Merit has two aspects: “technical” notions of core competencies associated with merit and cultural notions of social fit, which have the effect of favoring the progression of the elite groups embedded within firms. The latter creates a loop in understanding merit, enacted within firm culture over time, that is difficult to disrupt. As such, efforts to improve diversity are unlikely to bring about change without considering how organizational beliefs about merit have unintended consequences.

Barking up which tree? Characterizing farmers, farms, and a behavioral framework regarding livestock guardian dog use in South Africa

Livestock guardian dogs are one of several predator control methods employed by livestock farmers around the world, but little is known about the factors that predict their use. Here we aim to understand the dimensions which influence guardian dog use by farmers. In a quantitative survey among 113 livestock farmers in South Africa, using Boosted Regression Trees, we explored and characterized the factors associated with guardian dog use. We showed that practical factors (e.g., predator type, number of farming enterprises, mitigation methods, and the frequency and extent of specific predator problems) were more likely to be significant determinants of guardian dog use than sociodemographic factors. However, psychosocial constructs relating to wildlife value orientations, empathy for predators, tolerance to predators, tangible and intangible cost, benefits of predators, like or dislike of predators, and number of positive experiences, were also determinants of guardian dog use. Utilizing the foundational constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Wildlife Tolerance Model (WTM) we built upon these findings to show that constructs of attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control explained 49 % of the variance in behavioral intention to use or continue using a guardian dog. The relationship between attitude and the behavioral intent to use or continue using a guardian dog had less significant association with guardian dog use than either perceived behavioral control or subjective norms had. Nonetheless, attitude was most strongly associated with the constructs of belief in a specific non-governmental organization, mutualistic Wildlife Value Orientations and perceptions of affordability, ease of use and the effectiveness of guardian dogs. The TPB model, incorporating elements of the WTM, provides a framework to guide and improve adoption of guardian dog programs or other intervention strategies within conservation contexts.

A Case Study Analysis of how Products Might be Designed to Promote Health

Background: Consumer technology products are changing lifestyle behaviors like how we eat, how we sleep, and how we get around, but existing research has not examined whether they are being designed to promote healthy choices. This study assesses the health impact of two products, Snapchat and Uber, through the lens of their companies’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Methods: We use an exploratory multiple case design to present how health might be considered as a growth strategy for consumer technology products. Using publicly available material, we analyze the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for the products’ design, policy, and implementation to promote health.
 Results: This distinct approach to health impact assessment successfully revealed existing organizational beliefs and practices with health impact. Snapchat’s social media platform fosters social interaction but lacks responsible design features, while Uber’s mobility platform has safety and privacy measures but lacks focus on physical activities as forms of mobility.
 Conclusions: By using these products, positive health impact is possible: whether through social connection and information access (Snapchat), or increased mobility and physical activity (Uber). This case study highlights the untapped potential of intentionally designing products to influence health behaviors and promote health, especially through new uses of existing features. Leveraging external partnerships and subject matter experts will be crucial for success, but companies that choose to do so and embrace a health-positive mindset will lay a foundation for a replicable business strategy for those too reticent to lead in this nascent field.

Organizational culture relationship and impact on bullying behavior in the workplace An exploratory study of the opinions of a sample of employees of a number of the faculties of Mustansiriyah University

The research aims to know the impact and relationship of organizational culture with its dimensions (organizational values, organizational beliefs, organizational norms) on the dimensions of bullying behavior in the workplace (verbal violence, organizational procedures, humiliation behavior, and social isolation). To achieve the objectives of the research, a hypothetical scheme was defined in which the nature of the relationship between the independent variable, organizational culture, the dependent variable, and bullying behavior was determined. To test the research hypotheses, the research was applied to a random sample of (147) members of the administrative staff working in a number of colleges of Al-Mustansiriya University (College of Science, College of Engineering, College of Administration and Economics, College of Education, College of Arts). The questionnaire was the main tool for collecting data and information. The research relied on a number of statistical tools and methods, which are the Pearson correlation coefficient and simple linear regression analysis. The research reached several conclusions, the most important of which was the low levels of the organization’s interest in developing and developing the skills and capabilities of its employees, with the presence of a number of bullying behaviors by the direct supervisor towards employees, and a number of recommendations were made, including the importance of redistributing work tasks in proportion to the capabilities and capabilities of employees and monitoring Diagnose cases of bullying and take measures to reduce this phenomenon.

Eğitim Yönetiminde Örgütsel Özdeşleşme Bağlamında Sınıf Yönetimi Becerilerinin İncelenmesi

The aim of this study is to examine classroom management skills in the context of organizational identification in educational management. Schools are the organizations that serve to meet the wishes and expectations of society in education and constitute the lowest unit of the education system. The main purpose of educational organizations is to transfer the culture and values that will ensure the continuity of society to future generations and to shape these culture and values. One of the necessary conditions for these to be realized is that students, teachers and administrators involved in educational organizations should establish a psychological connection with their organizations and all kinds of activities organized by the organization. Because identification with an organization is a form of social identification in which a person has the phenomenon of unity and a sense of belonging and bonding associated with the institution, activities and members of which he is a member. Teachers who identify with their organizations adopt and believe in organizational goals and values individually and feel motivated to achieve these goals. In these teachers, high organizational identification is achieved by adopting organizational beliefs, values, attitudes and goals. In other words, individuals with a high level of organizational identification can defend the organization in any way. As a result of organizational identification, performance increases in the organization and productivity increases, with high coordination and cooperation, the organization adapts to environmental changes easily and quickly. Thus, organizational performance increases at the expected level. The first stage of educational management that comes to mind is classroom management. Class; while it is known as the environment in which the student group actively participates in educational activities, the classroom is expressed as “A community formed by individuals whose certain qualities are the same” as the word. Examples of this are the working class, the military class, the class created in a school environment. The students in the class show closeness to each other in terms of age, level of readiness, level of knowledge. The cluster name that this cluster creates is also a class. In educational activities, the word class should also be used in this nature. The teacher quality of classroom management also depends on the impact and quality of educational management. Success in the field of education is directly related to the success of classroom management. Key Words: Educational Management, Organizational Identification, Classroom Management

Combating Climate Change through Network Governance in Singapore’s and Australia’s Air, Land and Water Sectors from 2000 to 2019

Reversing the detrimental effects of climate change requires governments worldwide to collaborate with academia and industry to pursue more environmentally friendly socio-economic national policies. Towards these ends, Singapore and Australia provide useful but currently lacking insights. This warrants case-study-driven interrogations into the government/industry/academia-oriented success and risk factors respectively informing their well-performing climate change policies and under-performing climate change policies in the air, land and water sectors from 2000 to 2019 (n = 8). By employing the Triple Helix Theory to analyse the policies, the notable success factors found are government-industry organizational belief in the long-term commercial potential of scientific climate change potential; government-industry-academia recognition of collective intellectual and technological collaboration as necessary; government-industry-academia commitment to methodically pre-empt and mitigate potential conflicts. In contrast, the notable risk factors involve inadequate/un-sustained organizational will by governments to pursue long-term environmentally friendly economic development; government-industry-academia managerial oversight in climate change resource allocation. Finally, implications for future climate change research and policy are discussed.

Advancing the behavioral health workforce: An innovative integrated care and substance use disorder training model to improve outcomes for people in medically underserved communities.

It is critical that we strengthen the ability of the behavioral health workforce to better manage the complex behavioral and physical health needs of people in medically underserved areas. Despite the knowledge that integrated care (IC) models improve patient outcomes and experience, provider satisfaction, and health care costs, educational and experiential training in IC is limited, limiting workforce capacity to deliver this care. Through the Health Resources and Services Administration-funded Rutgers University Integrated Substance Use Disorder Training Program (RUISTP), we partner with community-based primary care clinics to implement an interprofessional fellowship program for psychologists, social workers, physician assistants, and advanced practice nurses. The RUISTP simultaneously provides training and implements IC within these community-based systems. Our multiple-methods evaluation design examines data-driven indicators of feasibility, uptake, and program success during implementation and sustainability phases and assesses changes in organizational beliefs and practices, provider competencies, and service utilization throughout the project period. This article describes the significance and innovation of (a) an IC training program, (b) an implementation plan for sustained change within systems of care, and (c) evaluative methodology to assess and improve IC and SUD service delivery and training. These data will be used to create a template for other academic and health care systems nationally. It is the mission of this program to use an innovative training, implementation, and evaluation design to enhance IC and SUD services, bolster the behavioral health workforce trained to provide high-quality IC, and inform replications of this model in other geographic and clinical settings, particularly those in medically underserved communities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Impact of workplace deviance behaviour on organizational performance in halal industry in Malaysia

The study aims to determine to look at the performance impact of work influence on organization in the halal industry in Malaysia: Islam as a spirituality. The results of the study found that organizational beliefs influence behavior in the workplace. This study also found that Islam also influences performance in work behavior. Finally, the Islamic mediator test has significantly influenced the relationship between the effects of performance in the workplace with Islam as an example of improving performance in the organization.

A study on the strategic role of the Organizational Culture

The association between organisational culture and organisational strategy is established by this study. It also aims to learn how a successful firm uses its culture as a survival tactic in order to endure uncertain economic times. Only pragmatist articles on organisational culture and strategy were reviewed for this work. Previous studies' authors characterised organisational culture as an organization's assumptions, beliefs, and values, whereas an organisational strategy is all about the steps an organisation takes to accomplish long-term objectives. These two notions are related and have proven successful for organisations, according to the literature. The review discovered that organisational culture and strategy are interwoven and that organisational strategy starts with a summary of the organization's beliefs, norms, and values. Because both serve the same aim, the study further proved that organisational culture may be viewed as an organisational strategy. The study's findings demonstrate that organisational culture is a distinct organisational growth approach in and of itself. The findings imply that maintaining an organization's culture is a tactic used to outperform rival companies.

Traversing Disability: Employers’ Perspectives of Disability Inclusion

Persons with disabilities still experience challenges in obtaining employment even though obligations associated with their employment are in place in legislative frameworks that strive to support transformation within the labour market. This paper explores employers’ perspectives on the employment of persons with disabilities in South Africa identified in a case study. The influence of social capital on disability inclusive employment was explored from the perspective of two employers who employed trainees who completed an auxiliary training programme for persons with disabilities, which provides opportunities to facilitate pathways to economic inclusion and/or employment. Findings reveal that despite the call for increased labour inclusivity, the development of social capital is not clearly apparent when persons with disabilities are considered for employment. Organisational attitudes and beliefs seem to stem from the obligatory standpoint of the organisations. The paper highlights the need for employers to look beyond impairments so that employment goals are shared and re-enforced by understanding and possibly re-evaluating their views on their organisation’s obligations, norms, values and mission, and goals. Insights can guide employers to think more holistically about ways to facilitate the economic inclusion of persons with disabilities.

The Effect of Organizational Culture on Financial Performance: Based on Cameron and Quinn Model (CVF)

The research objective is to investigate the impact of organizational culture (OC) based on the Cameron and Quinn model (The Competing Value Framework) on financial performance (FP) in Egyptian hotels. The research used five dimensions (occupancy percentage, average room rate, RevPAR, average market share, and average revenue) to measure FP in hotels. Quantitative methods were used to achieve the research objective through the questionnaire. A total of 416 questionnaires were provided to general, executive, HR, and quality managers working in four five-star hotels in Sharm El Sheikh city 104 hotel in Egypt. The research used three main data analysis techniques: descriptive analysis, correlation, and multi-regression by SPSS V25. Empirical findings showed that OC positively affected the FP of hotels. The research recommends that hotels in Egypt to attention to the consolidation of OC types because of their positive impact on enhancing the FP of hotels. Hotels should also promote organizational values such as fairness, equality, teamwork, and employee cooperation and, in addition, enhance the interest in organizational beliefs such as the human element and job satisfaction to increase rewards and incentives.

Mapping digital transformation efforts: lessons from organisations in agribusiness sector

New innovative business model, changes in wholesale and customers' needs and behaviour, and food safety issues force businesses in agri-food sector to develop a digital transformation strategy. As many of them are well-established organisations existing resources, capabilities, organisations experience, and financial resources are important parameters that are considered. Based on dynamic capabilities and digital transformation literature we proposed a research model that aligns digital transformation and could be an enabler for a successful digital transformation. To test our research model, we adopt a qualitative approach that is based on in-depth interviews of key respondents such as CEOs, owners, and managers of three incumbent agri-food businesses active in the Thessaloniki surrounding area. We explore how existing resources and capabilities, managerial perception, organisational beliefs, and identity affect the digital transformation process and if the proposed implementation initiatives enable agri-food businesses to easily implement the digital transformation strategy. The paper aims to propose a digital transformation framework that not only empirically helps managers easily implement a digital transformation strategy but also will add theoretical value to the existing literature about digital transformation as it proposes and tests a digital transformation framework that is based on businesses' capabilities.

Establishing social cohesiveness through participatory Community Sports

The purpose of this paper is to strengthen understanding of the potentiality that participation in community sports has in bringing about peace in communities. Studies have shown that where levels of peace and stability are low, multiple social, cultural, moral, political and religious problems are rampant. A structured closed-ended questionnaire was used in collecting data from a sample of 40 respondents for this study. The data collected was analyzed using Pearson correlation co-efficient statistical analysis. The findings showed that there is a positive relationship between participating in sporting activities and social cohesiveness (r=0.53, N =40, P= 0.02). The findings established insignificant p-values (0.25, 0.18, 0.50, 0.08) at 0.05 level of significant for social mixing, culturally disconnected from sports , organizational beliefs, values and set standards) as barriers to participation in community sports. Based on the findings of strong link between participating in sporting activities and social cohesiveness, participation in community sports should be intensified. Participation in community sports as a potential tool should be used in bringing about peace in those countries facing internal conflicts and fights both in Africa, and worldwide.

The complex interaction between religion conversion, technology, and psychopathology

Religion is an abstract concept encompassing specific set of organized beliefs and practices, usually shared by a community or group, whereas spirituality is more of an individual practice dealing with having a sense of peace and purpose. Religion and psychiatric illness too share a complex relationship and intent for religious conversions pose a diagnostic dilemma in many cases. This relationship is further being influenced by easy access to social media and excessive smartphone use in the contemporary world. Here, we discuss two cases of young males who presented to us with intense desire to change their religion (interest generated after watching YouTube videos and listening to speeches on the smartphone), consequently leading to interpersonal problems and psychopathology. The management approach highlights the need to identify the intent and knowledge for religious change, differentiate individual preferences from that of the family/society, avoiding misdiagnosis and focusing on symptom resolution and improving functionality.

The need for dialogic reciprocal anti-discrimination practice and policy in faith-based schools

ABSTRACT This paper investigates intersecting rights and ways of thinking in faith-based schools. It outlines current legislative attempts to manage anti-discrimination in Australian schools and proposes a dialogic model of reciprocal anti-discrimination for educational leaders and administrators. This paper proposes that reciprocal anti-discrimination will require rigorous clarity in organisational beliefs, values and philosophies of education. Differences of power, prejudice and assumptions are also addressed. The goal of the proposed model is to find a way forward where rights and values intersect while supporting student and staff wellbeing and preserving religious and moral conscience.

Instructional Leadership Practices in School: A Literature Review

The importance of instructional leadership practice at school attracts the researcher to conduct a research. This article is used to analyze how the instructional leadership practices in schools. The review begins with internet that is google scholar searching for articles of instructional leadership as the keywords. There are several literature reviews of instructional leadership practices especially. Based on the literature reviews of various countries in Asia, we found that strong instructional leadership practices can build the teachers works by strengthening the system of organizational belief. These factors also can encourage students learning.

Funeral Processes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions Among Islamic Religious Leaders in Indonesia.

Controversies surrounding the handling of corpses have been amplified during the present COVID-19 pandemic. According to Indonesian scholars, certain perspectives driving these controversies inhibit the implementation of health protocols issued by the government. This study comprehensively explores the diverse perceptions and responses of religious leaders regarding COVID-19 funeral management. Participants comprised six scholars from major Islamic religious organizations, two community leaders, and two families representing COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, content analysis was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the religious leaders, all men aged over 50 years, supported the health directives designed to reduce high transmission risk. However, there were substantial disparities in corpse preparation processes, potentially due to organizational beliefs around burial rites. Some religious leaders aligned their protocols with their religious beliefs. Conversely, families of the deceased insisted that the approved protocol for handling corpses went against their religious and cultural values. Therefore, promotion of protocols and coordination among the government, religious leaders, and the community are needed to decrease the misperceptions and misinformation surrounding the new COVID-19 funeral protocols.

Risk Researchers' Views About the Goal of Trying to Ensure Policymakers Consider Scientific Evidence.

A survey of members of a scientific society focused on risk analysis suggests substantial support for seeing their scientific society pursue the communication goal of "trying to ensure that policymakers consider scientific evidence." Support for pursuing this goal was largely predicted by researchers' beliefs that it was ethical for the society to pursue the goal, that it would be satisfying to see their society pursue the goal, and the belief that the society could have a positive impact on society by pursuing the goal. Normative beliefs about pursuing the goal and organizational efficacy beliefs were not good predictors of goal support. Goal support was measured using a direct measure of perceived goal importance as well as measures focused on the degree to which respondents wanted their society to put resources into providing members with opportunities to pursue the goal and the amount of funding that members thought the society should devote to pursuing the goal. The theory underlying the work argues that we can treat science communicators' choices about communication goals, objectives, and tactics as "planned behaviors" and thus study them using traditional behavior change models.

Participative Leadership Practice in Asia Context: A Literature Review

The importance of participatory leadership practices in schools attracts researchers to research, and this article is used to test how participatory leadership practices in schools. The review process begins with a search engine, Google Scholar, to search for articles with keywords, participatory leadership. There are several articles on the review of participatory leadership practices especially in the Asian context, which can be found. The purpose of this review is to investigate participatory leadership practices at schools in the Asian context. Based on the results of literature reviews from various countries in Asia, we find that practice. Strong participatory leadership can create structures to facilitate the work of teachers by strengthening organizational belief systems and these factors together encourage student learning and leadership is carried out persuasively creating harmonious cooperation, fostering loyalty and participation of subordinates.