Work Orientation Research Articles

Crossover of Flow from Music Teachers to Students: The Role of Teachers’ Work Orientations

Crossover of Flow from Music Teachers to Students: The Role of Teachers’ Work Orientations

Bundled otherwise: Skills, social mobility, and raciolinguistic ideologies in the Canadian labour market

Abstract Showcasing how understandings of social mobility encoded raciolinguistic ideologies of the ideal upwardly mobile speaker, I investigate blue- and white-collar orientation to language, race, and social mobility in the Canadian labor market. I analyze these two subject positionalities and the way bundles of skills are ‘bundled otherwise’ when ideologies of race and language are invoked as relevant to a class experience. While the acquisition of standard languages remains understood as a gateway to upward mobility, the increased commodification of language made the acquisition of standard registers of French and English a skill amongst others, on par with any other. If this shift challenges an implicit ‘linguistic’ bias embedded in emic and scientific understandings of class, raciolinguistic ideologies continue to organize worker's orientations to language and work, be it to imagine themselves as cosmopolitan workers or to defend the positions of ethnic, national, and racialized groups in the economy. (Social class, raciolinguistics, work, language ideologies, francophone Canada, bilingualism)*

Work orientation and job expectations among Chinese college students

Work orientation and job expectations among Chinese college students

Capturing innovation orientation in knowledge workers: development and validation of a measurement scale

Purpose Competition in the modern, knowledge-based economy is utterly pendant on innovation, rendering it indispensable in virtually every organisation. Knowledge workers, therefore, must remain vigilant, spanning novel ways to innovate. Given the relevance of innovation orientation (IO) in knowledge work, it is imperative to possess an extensive understanding of the concept. Therefore, this study aims to develop and validate a measurement scale to gauge employees’ IO. Design/methodology/approach Considering that the instruments now in existence exhibit insufficiency for measuring knowledge workers’ IO in its entirety, the mixed-method approach used in this study draws on both qualitative and quantitative findings across various studies, to address this problem. This study has been organised into five stages: item generation, scale purification, scale refinement, nomological validation and generalizability. Findings This study establishes and verifies a second-order, reflective–reflective IO measure founded on multiple samples, encompassing the dimensions of creative orientation, learning orientation, first-mover orientation, trust orientation and agility orientation. The resultant IO scale serves as a robust and reliable tool that is capable of being leveraged to explain, assess and enhance IO for knowledge workers. Research limitations/implications The rigorous methodology used in this scale development procedure serves as a benchmark for prospective scale development methodologists. From a managerial stance, this study serves managers/leaders concerning how to foster an innovation-oriented work environment to uncover employees’ hidden innovators. Organisations can leverage this study to discover, cultivate and capitalise on knowledge workers’ IO. Originality/value Although there exists an abundance of research on IO viewed from an institutional standpoint, research centred on the IO of knowledge workers is scarce. To bridge this gap, this study has developed and validated a scale for measuring knowledge workers’ IO.

Exploring sustainable work orientation among tourist guides: how does it affect their intention to stay

Exploring sustainable work orientation among tourist guides: how does it affect their intention to stay

THE PIANO PHENOMENON IN KARMELLA TSEPKOLENKO’S CREATIVITY: FROM CONTENT TO RECORD

The study is focused on the main works of the piano creativity by Carmella Tsepkolenko. This concerns her Concerto-drama No. 1 and Concerto-drama No. 2 for piano and orchestra, which are seen as one megastructure that is open to further continuation. The compositional techniques used in them are described. It has been found that the presentation of musical material by means of modern notation gives the performer the opportunity to more clearly define his own attitude to the work and opens wide prospects for a unique interpretation. The role of the piano in Carmella Tsepkolenko's work is emphasized as a leading tool for searching for new means of self-expression and communication with the listener. It has been established that the rejection in avant-garde music of traditionally established principles of notation and changes in the organization of sound material, as well as its presentation on paper, took place under the influence of deep crisis phenomena of the 20th century and changes in society's consciousness. Emphasis is placed on the inevitability of establishing empathic connections between the author and the performer, taking into account the specifics of the presentation of the musical material. It was established that Carmella Tsepkolenko's individual compositional style is characterized by the use of not only traditional means of notation, but also the wide use of such types of modern compositional techniques as atonality, aleatorics, pointillism, sonoristics. The main feature of the composer's individual compositional style is characterized — the presence of obligatory scenario development of each work. The general orientation of Carmella Tsepkolenko's work towards theatricality in music of all genres is emphasized. It is proven that in order to create a convincing artistic image, the author sometimes turns to the artistic medium so-called Performance, which requires certain acting skills from the performer. The expediency of using a performing gesture as a special artistic tool that enhances the emotional impact on the listener is substantiated. Emphasis is placed on the need for performers to familiarize themselves with the basics of modern musical notation in educational institutions.

SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF EARTHQUAKES ON THE WORK ETHIC OF TRADERS AT MANONDA PRESIDENTIAL MARKET, HAMMER CITY

This study aims to investigate the work ethic of traders in public markets after experiencing the socioeconomic impacts of the earthquake. The social implications of the earthquake include the capabilities that arise in response to the impact of the earthquake, the adaptability to the challenges faced, and the dynamics in the social relations of traders.The results of this study reveal facts that explain the social implications of the earthquake on the work ethic of traders in the Inpres Manonda Market, Palu City. After experiencing the impact of the earthquake; 1) the traders created a social environment and production activities as a unity of functions in the m anagement of the trading business 2) strengthening work orientation with the belief that work is a gift from Allah SWT, 3) applying the principle of flexibility in the use of capital, 4) each trader gave strength to the construction of group roles as a safeguard from price pressures and competition.

Toward an African Critical Orientation

ABSTRACT This essay proposes an African orientation to critical work. We begin by locating the need for postcolonial indigenous African bases for critical interventions in the idea of epistemic freedom articulated by African decolonial thinkers along with the postcolonial critique of Frankfurt School and Chicago circle critical theory. Next, we develop a basis for critical interventions in Bantu cosmology by drawing on Omedi Ochieng’s groundwork thesis and applied sociolinguistics. That basis, we argue, prioritizes relatedness and community wellbeing, and is therefore broader and distinct from the narrow focus on power and domination as they relate to individual subject envisioned in liberalism. We illustrate the heuristic potential of the African critical orientation for critical intercultural and critical rhetorical work by discussing the African Medical and Research Foundation’s (AMREF) Mukogodo community organizational development initiative and the #Rhodesmustfall protests of 2015–2016.

An Analysis on the Teaching Elements and Mechanism of Water Resources Planning and Utilization Course based on Work Orientation

An Analysis on the Teaching Elements and Mechanism of Water Resources Planning and Utilization Course based on Work Orientation

“No matter what is thrown at you, you still – inside your core – want to teach”: the role of calling in retention of secondary school teachers in England

ABSTRACT Retention of teachers in England is poor, yet many stay in the profession. Exploring why teachers remain, as well as why they leave, can improve understanding of retention. The aim of this study therefore is to investigate qualitative accounts of secondary-school teachers about factors contributing to decisions to stay or leave teaching. Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted with early career teachers, established teachers, and teachers who had left or were leaving teaching. Data was analysed thematically. Findings showed that teachers wanted more autonomy in their work to focus on student needs, develop their subject passion, and nurture collegial relationships. However, accountability, bureaucracy, inadequate resourcing, and top-down directives stifled their ability to craft their work and nurture their calling to teach. To improve retention, teachers should be provided with more opportunities to develop their calling as a work orientation. This requires organisational and culture change at the school and political level.

Analysis on the Teaching Elements and Mechanism of Water Conservancy Law Course based on Work Orientation

Analysis on the Teaching Elements and Mechanism of Water Conservancy Law Course based on Work Orientation

ASSESSMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF CONVICTS’ LABOR ADAPTATION IN PENITENTIARY INSTITUTIONS OF VARIOUS TYPES

Currently, due to the social orientation of convicts' work, the study of the organizational and administrative features of their labor adaptation in various types of correctional institutions is relevant, and its results are of practical importance for substantiating measures to improve the sphere of penitentiary employment. In this regard, the article analyzes the results of a questionnaire survey of convicts held in open and semi-open penitentiary institutions on the example of colonies-settlements and correctional colonies of strict regime, which was conducted by the author in accordance with the purpose of the study. The choice of the investigated correctional institutions and the volume of the sample population are justified. The main attention is paid to the problems of organizing the work of convicts in the correctional institutions under consideration and the role of employees in this process, the working conditions of convicts, the degree of satisfaction with the work performed, and the peculiarities of their attitude to employment in the post-penitentiary period. Some measures are proposed to improve the content and organizational aspects of the activities of correctional institutions to adapt to the work of persons held in them.

Work Orientations and Well-Being of Teachers in General Elementary Schools and Music schools

Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je provjeriti postoji li razlika između učitelja glazbenih škola i učitelja predmetne nastave u radnim orijentacijama, učestalosti iskustva zanesenosti u poučavanju, zadovoljstvu poslom i dobrobiti. Uz to ispitana je medijacijska uloga zanesenosti u odnosu između radnih orijentacija i zadovoljstva poslom te dobrobiti općenito. U istraživanju je sudjelovalo 209 predmetnih učitelja iz 10 općeobrazovnih osnovnih škola (75,1 % ženskog roda) i 173 učitelja glazbe iz 10 osnovnih glazbenih škola (71,2 % ženskog roda). Primijenjeni su Upitnik radnih orijentacija, Upitnik zanesenosti u poučavanju, Skala zadovoljstva životom, Skala psihološkog procvata te Skala zadovoljstva poslom. Rezultati su pokazali da se dvije skupine učitelja statistički značajno ne razlikuju u ispitivanim varijablama, osim što učitelji predmetne nastave češće doživljavaju zanesenost u poučavanju. Zanesenost u poučavanju je bila posredujuća varijabla u odnosu između radnih orijentacija i dobrobiti te zadovoljstva poslom u oba uzorka.

Due responsibility and true responsibility: a moderated‐mediation model linking green‐harmonious human resource practice to employee organizational citizenship behavior

Enterprises have sought to explore appropriate human resource practices to cope with sustainability problems caused by increasingly severe environmental pollution and the imbalance of interest among multiple stakeholders. Our study tries to address this issue by systematically conceptualizing the construct of green‐harmonious human resource practice (GH‐HRP) and exploring how and when GH‐HRP promotes employee organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). In Study 1, we develop a four‐dimension, 16‐item GH‐HRP scale including green‐harmonious selection, responsibility consciousness development, harmonious win‐win compensation, and green‐harmonious activity participation. In Study 2, using three‐wave data from 390 supervisor‐employee dyads, we find that GH‐HRP facilitates employee OCB through the mediating role of duty orientation and meaning of work. Further, ethical leadership moderates the positive effects of GH‐HRP on duty orientation and meaning of work such that these effects are more pronounced when ethical leadership is high, thus fostering employees' engagement in OCB. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

From Orientalism to neo-Orientalism: medial representations of Islam and the Muslim world

ABSTRACT The debate on Orientalist representations of Islam and/or Muslims has been rampant in academic literature since Edward Said’s publication of his seminal work Orientalism (1978). The articulation of this discourse however has transformed in due course. It has manifested into its new variant ‘neo-Orientalism’, which has gained prominence in the post-9/11 era. In this paper, I discuss the transition from Orientalism to neo-Orientalism, and argue that this new mode of representation does not exclusively result from the 9/11 events and the subsequent War on Terror, but also from the portrayals of Muslims in the last quarter of the twentieth century. These portrayals, disseminated with great intensity by people in the media, journalists, politicians, and Orientalist academics, as well as in literary and cultural productions, continue to reify narratives about Islam and Muslim societies. This paper concludes with the dynamics Orientalism holds and reveals the role authors of the Middle East and South Asia play in disseminating neo-Orientalist discourses with the often-detrimental effect of catering to and promoting modern-day Islamophobia in contemporary Western societies. This is briefly illustrated on the examples of Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004), Qaisra Shahraz’s The Holy Woman (2001), and Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing (2003).

Stuplime Orientalism

The essay reads Edward Said’s seminal work Orientalism through Sianne Ngai’s category of the “stuplime”. Unlike the noble emotions elicited by the Kantian sublime, the stuplime causes the ugly feelings of tedium, excitation, fatigue. In the Kantian sublime, viewing subjects experience an overwhelming feeling which impresses on them their own inadequacy; in my reading of stuplime orientalism, the “Orient” becomes the object of this “inadequacy”. This shift from inadequate subjects to inadequate objects is one manifestation of the political valence of the stuplime, a means by which control is maintained both of the “Orient” as a colonial project and of the orientalist’s mind. As Ngai argues, however, the political potential of ugly feelings is always ambivalent: stuplime orientalism can therefore also be coopted through curation of stuplime orientalist detail, which I deploy in the second half of this essay to read Jade Snow Wong’s memoir, Fifth Chinese Daughter. Resisting the urge to summarize Jade Snow Wong’s exhaustively descriptive rice passages, I delineate an alternative interpretation to the prevailing view that she merely self-orientalizes, instead suggesting a reading that engages histories of denigrated racial formation and labour precisely through, and not in spite of, stuplime orientalist detail.

Curriculum development in the framework of the common curricular base (1988-2013)

Here are organized discussions about official curricular documents for Brazilian basic education, published with the seal of the Common Curricular Base, in the time frame from 1988 to 2013. Through the organization and publication of documents such as: National Curricular Parameters (1997, 1998), National Curriculum Referential for Child Education (1998) and National Curricular Guidelines for Basic Education (2010, 2013), put in place the perspective of the Common Curriculum Base, curricular development puts in course the notion of Common Curricular Base, when the purpose was to bring to existence a Common National Base, that is, guidelines that could be general for all national territory for Basic Education. We understand, starting from the Critical Theory of the Curriculum, that dealing with curricular documents implies dealing with processes of selection and distribution of knowledge, linked to conceptions that give shape to the idealized formation path. The discussion of the Common Curriculum Base reinforces the idea that there is basic knowledge necessary for the belonging and the active participation of the subjects in the social contexts in which they are inserted. For the common basic formation, we highlight the agenda of values aligned with the interests and demands, of the historical moment, in the sense of making "common" the rights and duties of citizens, in the face of the society that is intended to build or to feed. As well as, the emphasis on "work orientation", a very present social interest.

Challenges and expectations of international medical graduates moving to the UK: An online survey.

International medical graduates (IMGs) account for 41% of the UK doctor's workforce but often work in isolated roles, receive minimal constructive feedback regarding their work and offered limited opportunities for career progression. We conducted a survey researching the views of IMGs or doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds on the support given to them. A survey was carried out on physician demographics, grade and date of first NHS appointment, familiarity and support offered in NHS, induction and study leave, Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board exams and General Medical Council (GMC) referrals. It was drafted via surveymonkey.co.uk platform and circulated via relevant closed medical groups. A total of 173 IMGs and 16 British trained doctors (controls) took the survey. In the IMGs first job, there was no dedicated supervisor, mentor, induction, shadowing period and study leave for 56%, 86%, 52%, 59% and 52%, respectively. Suggestions given for improvements included teaching sessions, mentors, work orientation, supernumerary period and paid induction by 80%, 78%, 76%, 61% and 41% respectively. While 59% of participants knew of another IMG referred to the GMC, the primary reasons given were lack of knowledge of NHS, bias, communication difficulties and cultural differences. This paper reflects the views of doctors regarding the support given to IMGs during their first NHS appointment and subsequent jobs in the NHS. IMGs require a focused and detailed induction, mentorship, educational and clinical supervision throughout their transition to the NHS.

Testing the Validity of the Expanded Five-Dimensional Model of Work Orientations

Finding meaning and purpose in work has become increasingly important in today’s volatile world. Work orientations reflect the purpose individuals see in their work. The Work Orientation Questionnaire (WOQ), based on the expanded five-dimensional model of work orientation (Willner et al., 2020), was used to elicit individuals’ purpose of work - calling, job, career, social embeddedness, and busyness. In Study 1 ( N = 315 employees), the five work orientations were moderately associated with Schein’s (1990) career anchors supporting the WOQ’s convergent and discriminant validity. Study 2 using 5-year longitudinal data from 206 college graduates, revealed that the motives for selecting a college major had small to negligible associations with the five work orientations. Study 3 ( N = 414 employees), applying Holland’s (1997) classification of the six RIASEC environments, found that a calling orientation was most prominent among those working in a Social environment, whereas a job orientation was most prominent among individuals in a Conventional environment. Moreover, work orientations accounted for work satisfaction and career choice satisfaction beyond career anchors, motives for choosing a college major, and work environments. Theoretical and practical implications of cultivating purpose at work are discussed.

Double-Stranded DNA Immobilized in Lying-Flat and Upright Orientation on a PNIPAm-Coated Surface: A Theoretical Study.

Surface-immobilized double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) in upright orientation plays an important role in optimizing and understanding DNA-based nanosensors and nanodevices. However, it is difficult to regulate the surface density of upright DNA due to the fact that DNA usually stands vertically at a high packing density but may lie down at a low packing density. We herein report dsDNA immobilized in upright orientation on a poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAm)-coated surface in theory. The theoretical results reveal that the angle of upright DNA relative to the surface is larger than that of DNA immobilized on the bare surface caused by the lying-flat DNA under proper PNIPAm surface coverage at 45 °C. The surface density of upright DNA is significantly influenced by DNA concentration and DNA length. It is envisioned that the density-regulated DNA molecules immobilized in upright orientation in the present work are well suited to bottom-up construction of complex DNA-based nanostructures and nanodevices.