Body Of Practical Knowledge Research Articles

Designing an Alternative Typeface to Reflect the Identity of the ITS Campus

This research aims to design a new typeface that reflects the characteristics of the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) campus and can be used in a variety of contexts. The new typeface, ITS-Artistech, was created by synthesizing key features into the anatomy of Latin letters, which were extracted from the key characteristics and images of the ITS campus. The typeface is intended to be one of several typographic options that reflect ITS and to pioneer typeface production at ITS, contributing to the theoretical and practical body of knowledge on designing typefaces that reflect campus identity. The research method involved collecting data on the use of typefaces in the ITS environment and ITS profile, conducting perceptual studies to know how people perceive the images and characteristics of the ITS campus, and developing the typeface through a series of iterative refinement steps. The new typeface is a valuable resource for the ITS community, as it helps to promote the university's brand, foster a sense of community, and support the creative process and the research of typeface design. It is also a unique and distinctive typeface that is not based on any preexisting letters. The typeface is available as a digital letterform (font) that can be installed and used for a variety of purposes, including digital and print promotional materials.

Retraction to: Tourism management in financial crisis and industry 4.0 effects: Managers traits for technology adoption in reshaping, and reinventing human management systems

BACKGROUND: The literature paid diminutive attention to quantifying the relationship between tourism, industry 4.0, technology adoption, and managers’ personality traits. This study represents recruitment managers’ reactions to adopting social media recruiting technology in securitizing an appropriate candidate amongst a pool of applicants and how technology affects financial crisis. OBJECTIVE: We explored the understanding of how managers’ personality influence adoption and acceptance of social media networking websites. It caters to technology outcomes for organizations adopting faster technologies and designing their working environment under the protocols of industry 4.0. Such innovative organizations need to develop managers’ personality traits to produce smart employees, clients, and other users who can help bridge this gap between intelligent people and smart products offered by advanced applications of IT for tourism. METHODS: We processed 406 managers’ data for analysis. RESULTS: Managers’ personality traits, except agreeableness, significantly impact the intention to adopt the technology. Technology acceptance fulfills technology outcomes, adding to the theoretical and practical body of knowledge. CONCLUSION: Dependency on technology adoption and utilization in the tourism sector is based on the willingness and innovativeness of the recruiters. The outcomes of technology acceptance in the recruitment processes; are minimized cost, reduced time, and quality recruits.

Modelling the barriers to blockchain implementation in human resource function

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to explore and analyse the challenges in effective implementation of blockchain by human resource management (HRM) functions. This paper also aims to assess the interplay between the barriers in causing the challenges during blockchain execution.Design/methodology/approachTen barriers are discovered from the past studies. Based on the expert views on the identified barriers interpretive structural modelling (ISM) is administered to understand the interplay of these 10 challenges resulting in ineffective or non-implementation of HR blockchain.FindingsThe application of ISM has helped in categorizing the variables into strategic, operational and performance outcomes. Results of ISM indicate key barriers like lack of expertise, data privacy, technical infeasibility, complexity in implantation and lack of used cases.Research limitations/implicationsThe research is limited to 10 barriers. There can be other barriers that can also be studied. Second, the research is proposing a conceptual model that needs further validation.Practical implicationsThis paper has significant implications for the theoretical and practical body of knowledge. So far, most studies are exploring and describing HRM from a digital perspective. Most HR studies are on artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and smart HRM. Previous studies on blockchain for HRM are mostly describing the advantages of going for it.Social implicationsBased on the findings, it can also be suggested that policy formulators must advance the technical regulatory framework. Blockchain technology can be effectively implemented only if the top management is committed to it because they can only frame the rules and right control framework, affirm the governance process and strategize improvement.Originality/valueThe study offers insights into the organization's decision makers for effectively implementing blockchain into their HR systems. Some specific recommendations based on the results are also made. The paper is an innovative attempt to analyse the barriers to HR blockchain.

Improving urban regeneration and renewal outcomes by engaging an urban psychology

A crisis in mental health, especially in economically deprived neighbourhoods, can present a significant barrier to successful urban regeneration projects. It follows that urban regeneration not only has a stake in promoting mental health care generally but, through its place making influence on physical and social structures, has a more direct responsibility to address poor mental health and sustain well-being where it exists. In support of a psychologically informed urban regeneration, this Special Issue sets out the case for a systematised intellectual and practice-based discipline and movement: an urban psychology, with an explicit therapeutic mission. It incorporates 10 articles delivered initially at Europe’s first urban psychology summit — City, Psychology, Place — held at the University of Liverpool in London campus in June 2019. In this editorial introduction, we reflect upon the need for an urban psychology at this historical juncture and offer our views on the work which such a body of practical knowledge might do to improve regeneration and renewal outcomes. We conclude that there can be no enduring economic, social or physical regeneration of distressed, failing or failed communities unless there is first ‘regeneration in support of life itself’ (RISLI).

The Impact of Strategic Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity: The Case of the Malaysian Oil Palm Industry

A substantial body of evidence in management theory and business practice has accumulated to show that Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) is associated with improved organizational performance. In spite of this evidence, empirical studies have shown that some organizations are slow in implementing those practices. One of the fundamental reasons behind this is the fact that as a body of practical knowledge, SHRM has seemingly lacked any theoretical research framework to underpin it. Thus, this paper is an attempt to address this problem by (1) contributing to theory building in strategic HRM, and (2) empirically testing the hypothesis that SHRM practices affect productivity. This study used a sample of 129 managers of oil palm estates from a national survey of estate managers reflecting the 1998 financial year Using linear regression techniques, the results suggest that (1) estates implement less strategic HI? practices than anticipated, and (2) some strategic HR practices were related to productivity. Managerial implications of the study were discussed.

Payments Bank in India: Acceptance and Use

Payments bank is the latest inclusion in the Indian digital, paperless, cashless and mobile banking industry. There is hardly any study that examines the factors that affect people's intention to use payments bank services. Therefore, there is an impending need to determine the factors that influence people to use payments bank services. The study integrates the UTAUT3 model and initial trust model (ITM) to determine the constructs of the study. Data analysis reveals that BI directly predicted by PE, EE, SI, FC, HM, PV, habit, PI and initial trust whereas FC, habit, PI, initial trust and BI directly determine UB. The study has significant contributions towards theoretical and practical body of knowledge in the context of financial innovations especially in emerging economies.

Payments bank in India: acceptance and use

Payments bank is the latest inclusion in the Indian digital, paperless, cashless and mobile banking industry. There is hardly any study that examines the factors that affect people's intention to use payments bank services. Therefore, there is an impending need to determine the factors that influence people to use payments bank services. The study integrates the UTAUT3 model and initial trust model (ITM) to determine the constructs of the study. Data analysis reveals that BI directly predicted by PE, EE, SI, FC, HM, PV, habit, PI and initial trust whereas FC, habit, PI, initial trust and BI directly determine UB. The study has significant contributions towards theoretical and practical body of knowledge in the context of financial innovations especially in emerging economies.

Power, Responsibility and Wisdom

The objective is simple: ‘Better decision making’. The only issue is that there are so many different views over what we mean by ‘better’. At the core of all decision making is the need to balance power with responsibility, as the vehicle for resolving the ‘better’ question. This article explores why that is so difficult. It also argues that exploring the concept of ‘wisdom’ can provide invaluable insights into how to achieve the most effective balance between power and responsibility, which is central to what our values mean in practice, as well as how we incorporate ethics into our decision making. The article argues that wisdom is a very practical body of knowledge (/information) that has an incredibly useful contribution to help us understand the world we live in.

Music, Morals and the Body: An Academic Issue in Turku, 1653-1808

This book focuses on five dissertations on music produced between 1653 and 1808 at the Royal Academy of Turku (also known as the University of Aura), a small but nevertheless fascinating body of texts that Sarjala uses to open up a window onto early modern thinking about music and its effects. Despite the fact that music did not enjoy much formal status (the institution was divided into four faculties of Theology, Law, Medicine and Philosophy) it nevertheless appeared in sections of other theses presented at the Academy, a bastion of Lutheran orthodoxy designed to raise the educational level of the clergy and to fit young gentlemen to their future roles in Finnish (or rather Swedish) public life. In other words, Sarjala is not concerned with composers and their works, or the relationship between music teacher and student, a body of practical knowledge (musica practica) that was mostly transmitted orally rather than written down. Rather, Sarjala is examining the assumptions held by academics who sought to understand music's powers in the broader context of science and philosophy, the realm of music theory or speculative music (music theorica).

Theorizing TQM: An Austrian and Evolutionary Economics Interpretation

Born out of management practice, the principles of TQM (total quality management) have had a profound and unparalleled impact on modern business history. However, as a body of practical knowledge, TQM has been largely atheoretical. As a consequence, this important management philosophy has remained amorphous and shrouded in considerable conceptual haziness and ambiguity. Recent theorizing, primarily emphasizing the application of organizational behaviour theories to TQM, has begun to provide greater clarity, but much work remains to be done. This paper attempts to contribute to this nascent theory‐building literature by employing theory from market process economics (MPE), namely, Austrian and evolutionary economics, which explains how processes of dynamic change, adaptation, and learning are driven by entrepreneurial creativity. We contend that the patterns in this body of theory match, to a remarkable degree, the patterns of practical knowledge contained in the TQM literature. We demonstrate this ‘pattern‐matching’ by showing that MPE effectively provides the theoretical underpinnings of TQM’s three main principles — customer focus, continuous improvement and teamwork — as well as the respective TQM topics of customer perceptions, adaptation in dynamic environments, and knowledge creation. Having established MPE as a credible theoretical lens for interpreting TQM, it can be used to clarify fuzzy areas that have remained in the TQM literature with the potential to take us beyond what we know now. We illustrate this with three examples that show how we can resolve debates in TQM over incentive systems, recognize that TQM embraces methodological pluralism in the collection and analysis of data, and highlight hidden dangers that attend benchmarking. While MPE has no monopoly on theoretical interpretations of TQM, it is unique in its ability to comprehensively cover the incredible breadth of this practical body of knowledge, and in its interpretation of TQM as a dynamic economic endeavour.

Reconstructing “behavioural accounting”

This paper adopts a critical stance towards behavioural accounting research methodology. It is argued that most accountants have based their behavioural research on the natural scientific approach, a paradigm whose relevance and suitability for conducting social research has been increasingly questioned in recent years. The author discusses some alternatives to the positivistic research methodology of the natural sciences as a way of developing social science and the implications these have for providing a coherent theoretical and methodological perspective for future “behavioural accounting” research. It is the contention of this paper that the study of the behavioural aspects of accounting has largely failed to develop into a coherent theoretical or practical body of knowledge. In an attempt to overcome this state of affairs, there is an increasing trend to employ organizational and sociological theory as a basis for research, as opposed to psychology and social psychology which informed earlier conceptual thinking and research. While accountants may see this conceptual development as an advancement in that it locates accounting processes in their organizational and social contexts, the way in which it is being conducted is criticized in this paper because, like psychology, it is characterized by an essentially positivistic methodology. This article will first provide a broad overview of the relationship between accounting research and the behavioural sciences. From that overview it will be argued that accounting researchers are unlikely to make much progress by borrowing behavioural scientific concepts unless they develop a deeper understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of these concepts and the competing schools of methodological thought which exist within the behavioural sciences. In an attempt to fill this apparent gap in understanding, the paper will discuss the scientific approach of the natural sciences, why it is felt to be inappropriate for the behavioural sciences and what alternatives exist.