Relevant Organizational Factors Research Articles

Toward a new paradigm of care: a surgical leaders' Delphi consensus on the organizational factors of the new pancreas units (E-AHPBA PUECOF study).

Pancreas units represent new organizational models of care that are now at the center of the European debate. The PUECOF study, endorsed by the European-African Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (E-AHPBA), aims to reach an expert consensus by enquiring surgical leaders about the Pancreas Units' most relevant organizational factors, with 30 surgical leaders from 14 countries participating in the Delphi survey. Results underline that surgeons believe in the need to organize multidisciplinary meetings, nurture team leadership, and create metrics. Clinical professionals and patients are considered the most relevant stakeholders, while the debate is open when considering different subjects like industry leaders and patient associations. Non-technical skills such as ethics, teamwork, professionalism, and leadership are highly considered, with mentoring, clinical cases, and training as the most appreciated facilitating factors. Surgeons show trust in functional leaders, key performance indicators, and the facilitating role played by nurse navigators and case managers. Pancreas units have a high potential to improve patients' outcomes. While the pancreas unit model of care will not change the technical content of pancreatic surgery, it may bring surgeons several benefits, including more cases, professional development, easier coordination, less stress, and opportunities to create fruitful connections with research institutions and industry leaders.

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A U.S. AND GERMAN SHORT VERSION OF THE LATER LIFE WORKPLACE INDEX (LLWI-S)

Abstract Employment of older individuals becomes more important in demographic change. To identify organizational practices that foster the motivation, health, and performance of older employees in particular, an efficient holistic assessment of relevant organizational factors is needed. The 80-item Later Life Workplace Index (LLWI) provides such a measure for organizational practices for older employees by differentiating nine domains. The LLWI has been applied in emerging research in various research contexts and countries. However, it is quite a lengthy measure. Therefore, this paper describes the development and validation of the LLWI-S, a 29-item short measure covering all nine domains in order to achieve a more efficient instrument. The development of the short version was both, judgemental- and statistics-driven. A focus group consisting of the original LLWI-authors and several international scholars, whose research expertise lies in the field of employment and older employees, has developed the LLWI-S. A German- and an English-language version of the LLWI-S have been validated in Germany and the U.S. Reliability and model fit for the U.S. and the German version as well as multi-group CFA for measurement invariance will be presented. Results show that the measures have good internal reliability and model fit. We provide researchers and practitioners with a validated short measure to efficiently assess all nine relevant organizational domains for older employees. Researchers can utilize the LLWI-S to gain a comprehensive understanding of all relevant areas of organizational influences on later life work, while practitioners are able to assess their organizational readiness for an aging workforce.

A cross-sectional study of physical activity promotion projects and organizational factors in the workplace

The benefits of physical activity are well-recognized but physical activity promotion projects (PAPP) are not well implemented in workplaces, resulting in an evidence-practice gap. This study identified the organizational factors associated with PAPP in the workplace in Japan. A self-administered questionnaire survey was postal mailed to 3,266 listed companies (with ≥ 50 employees) in Japan. The items surveyed included the presence or absence of PAPP and 29 organizational factors. Organizational factors were also extracted from interviews with corporate health managers. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) was applied. Multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted with the presence or absence of PAPP as the objective variable, each quartile group (Q1-Q4) of the total number of relevant organizational factors as the explanatory variable, and the basic workplace attributes as the covariate. The analysis covered 301 workplaces. Of these, 98 (32.6%) had implemented PAPP. The adjusted odds ratio for PAPP for each group based on Q1 was 1.88 (0.62-5.70) for Q2, 3.38 (1.21-9.43) for Q3, and 29.69 (9.95-88.59) for Q4. The association between each organizational factor and PAPP was high for the constructs in the 'inner setting' of the CFIR. The observed adjusted odds ratios for these items were: 'there is a precedent for PAPP' 12.50 (6.42-24.34),' there is a budget for the health department' 10.36 (5.24-20.47),' understanding of the health department manager' 8.41 (4.43-15.99),' understanding of workplace management' 7.63 (4.16-14.02),' employee 7.31 (3.42-15.64), and 'requests from employees' 7.31 (3.42-15.64). There was a quantity-response relationship between the number of applicable organizational factors and PAPP. It has been suggested that the expansion of organizational factors may lead to PAPP. In particular, the creation of an internal atmosphere and the promotion of understanding among the people concerned may be useful.

ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES FOR THE AGING WORKFORCE: A CROSS-CULTURAL VALIDATION OF THE LATER-LIFE WORKPLACE INDEX

Abstract Successful employment of experienced employees becomes more important for both, individuals and organizations. To identify organizational practices that foster the motivation, health, and performance of experienced employees in particular, a holistic assessment of relevant organizational factors is needed. The Later Life Workplace Index (LLWI) provides such a measure for organizational practices for older employees by differentiating nine domains, namely organizational climate, leadership, work design, health management, individual development, knowledge management, transition to retirement, continued employment after retirement, and health and retirement coverage. So far, a German-language and an English-language version of the LLWI have been validated in Germany and the U.S in a multi-study procedure. The psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the English-language version of the LLWI will be presented. Preliminary findings from Japan and Portugal show promising results regarding reliability and validity of the LLWI in the respective country. The findings suggest that the multidimensional measurement model developed in Germany and the U.S. could be applicable to other regulatory and cultural contexts as well. A focus group consisting of the original authors of the LLWI and international scholars, whose research expertise lies in the field of employment and older employees, is currently developing a short version of the LLWI. We aim to provide researchers and practitioners from different countries with a validated measurement to holistically assess organizational practices. Researchers can utilize the LLWI to gain a comprehensive understanding of organizational influences on later life work, while practitioners are able to assess their organizational readiness for an aging workforce.

Digital Transformation in Marketing through a Customer Knowledge Management Approach for Startups and SMEs: An EdTech Startup Case Study

Technologies are transforming marketing organizations; and exploiting the full potential of this transformation is one of the key challenges for startups and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) requiring a holistic management approach towards Knowledge Management (KM) in the digital context. This paper addresses a central question from a resource-based perspective: how startups and SMEs with inadequate capabilities and limited resources drive digital transformation in marketing? Customer Knowledge Management (CKM) which integrates approaches from Knowledge Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can play an important role towards this goal. This paper examines the evolving role of data sciences in relation to marketing for effective Customer Knowledge Management in startups and SMEs. Adopting a case study methodology in EdTech startup based in Egypt, this paper suggests technological tools that help startups and SMEs with limited resources and capabilities take advantage of data sciences in relation to marketing and extract valuable customer knowledge to improve CRM effectiveness. The case study also sheds some light on the relevant organizational factors that could help such organizations align the CRM business processes with IT infrastructure. This research provides some guidance, from an organizational perspective, to startups and SMEs in their digital transformation in marketing.

Leadership Matters, But So Do Co-Workers: A Study of the Relative Importance of Transformational Leadership and Team Relations for Employee Outcomes and User Satisfaction

In recent decades, public administration has taken a great interest in leadership. However, this interest has been met with concerns that the effects of leadership are overestimated compared to other relevant organizational factors. In this article, we explore the relative importance of formal, vertical leadership, specifically transformational leadership, and horizontal relations, that is, the internal team relations, for different employee outcomes and user satisfaction. We argue that both factors may work through public service motivation (PSM). Based on survey data collected in Danish nursing homes linked with a user satisfaction survey and employee sickness absence data, we find that the internal team relations have the strongest association with some outcome measures, whereas others are more substantially related to vertical leadership. We further find that the relationship between transformational leadership and these outcome measures is fully mediated by PSM, whereas this is not the case with the internal team relations.

Environmental Sustainability through Green Business Process Management

The climate change phenomenon, directly or indirectly, affects industries and nations. Governments and organizations have been challenged to identify their environmental impacts to address environmental sustainability issues. A promising, yet under-studied in this context, theme of information systems (IS) literature that has the potential to help with identifying, quantifying and managing environmental impacts is business process management (BPM). With its focus on continual process performance improvement, the capacity of BPM to contribute to Environmental Sustainability (ES) needs to be further explored. Yet, contributions from the BPM research community and the impact of these contributions appear to be fragmented. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review to explore BPM contributions to ES, with a focus on environmental performance indicators (EPIs) as well as relevant organizational factors related to ES and BPM. In doing so, we identify and explore ‘Green BPM’ contributions and suggest ways to advance BPM research in the context of ES.

Ethical and legal considerations of artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making in personalized pricing

The extent to which pricing executives consider consumer perceptions of deception, fairness, and social justice is positioned within an emerging area of research that triangulates the dynamic between legal constraints, ethical considerations, and algorithmic models to make pricing decisions. This paper builds a conceptual model from an analysis of literature describing how companies couple organizational and technology factors into the price-setting process. The legal frameworks of antitrust, data privacy, and antidiscrimination are tethered to the ethical frameworks of deception, fairness, and social justice to form a foundation of relevant organizational factors. A qualitative study is proposed to test the validity of the conceptual model. The primary contribution of this paper is to catalyze practitioner discussion and spur empirical research into the implications of personalized pricing using algorithmic models.

A Conceptual Framework of Ethical Considerations and Legal Constraints in the Algorithm-Driven Pricing Function

The extent to which pricing executives consider consumer perceptions of deception, fairness, and social justice is positioned within an emerging area of research that triangulates the dynamic between legal constraints, ethical considerations, and algorithmic models to make pricing decisions. This paper builds a conceptual model from an analysis of literature describing how companies couple organizational and technology factors into the price-setting process. The legal frameworks of antitrust, data privacy, and antidiscrimination are tethered to the ethical frameworks of deception, fairness, and social justice to form a foundation of relevant organizational factors. A qualitative study is proposed to test the validity of the conceptual model. The primary contribution of this paper is to catalyze practitioner discussion and spur empirical research into the implications of personalized pricing using algorithmic models.

Organizational and interorganizational factors affecting safety in the Chinese civil aviation industry

I aimed to identify organizational and interorganizational factors that affect flight safety, and to determine possible differences in organizational factors according to differences in organizational performance. I interviewed 28 pilots, 33 air traffic controllers, and 17 maintenance technicians, and used content analysis by coding to analyze the data. Results showed that (a) cluster analysis revealed 3 relevant organizational factors: information interface, technical management, and nontechnical management, with employees mostly concerned about the third factor; (b) pilots expected to be served by controllers, whereas controllers would like to be in control of their relationship with pilots; and (c) compared with maintenance technicians, pilots were particularly concerned with safety. Implications for safety research and management in the Chinese civil aviation industry are discussed.

The Relationship Between Sarbanes–Oxley Policies and Donor Advisories in Nonprofit Organizations

This study examines the impact of Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) on the nonprofit sector. Focusing on three key SOX policies applicable to charities—conflict-of-interest policies, records retention policies, and whistleblower policies—this study tests the relationship between the existence and addition of these policies on subsequent ethical and governance lapses as reflected in the issuance of “donor advisories” by the large third-party ratings agency Charity Navigator. The findings suggest that, controlling for other relevant organizational factors, the three SOX-inspired written policies are related to a reduced likelihood of donor advisories in the organizations rated by Charity Navigator.

Strategic E-Learning in the Workplace

Empirical research suggests that there is an impact of organizational characteristics on individual work-related learning processes. In this paper, we propose a model of relevant organizational factors. An assessment methodology based on a literature survey and activity theory is summarized. First results of an empirical validation are presented with an emphasis on prerequisites for e-learning.

The Value of Performance Measurement in Promoting Improvements in Women's Health

To determine the factors associated with the use and impact of performance data relevant to women's health. We developed a survey on six levels of information use based on Knott and Wildavsky's (1980) policy utilization framework and used this survey to determine Ontario hospital administrators' use of women's health report indicators. We related responses to this survey to six potentially relevant organizational factors, such as women's health as a written hospital priority, a women's health program and hospital budget size, using correlation and multiple-regression analysis. Only women's health in a written hospital priority (p=0.01) and hospital budget (p=0.02, log transformed) were significantly associated with the highest level of use when all organizational factors were considered. These findings suggest that the use of women's health performance indicators is strongly related to the size of the hospital budget and to organizational commitment to women's health.

Cognition and Renewal: Comparing CEO and Organizational Effects on Incumbent Adaptation to Technical Change

We investigate the conditions under which managerial cognition affects the timing of incumbent entry into a radical new technological market. We address this question using a longitudinal study of communications technology firms entering the fiber-optics product market. Using a hazard rate model, we investigate the relevance of cognition based on the direction of CEO attention. We find that attention toward the emerging technology and the affected industry is associated with faster entry, and attention to existing technologies is associated with slower progress. Second, we assess the extent to which the effect of cognition is dependent upon the levels of relevant organizational factors and find that CEO attention to the emerging technology may amplify the effects of industry orientation. Managerial cognition is important in understanding organizational outcomes, and considering both the direction of cognition and its interaction with organizational factors provides a more nuanced view of entry behavior. These results contribute to the literatures on incumbent response to technical change and new product development by suggesting that context-specific managerial cognition has a separate and important influence on the degree and direction of strategic renewal. We argue that managerial cognition is therefore a dynamic managerial capability that can shape adaptation by established firms.

Discipline in the High School: Organizational Factors and Roles for the School Psychologist

This article presents an overview of research on selected aspects of discipline in the high school. The Safe Schools Study is discussed and relevant organizational factors are presented. These incl...