Organizational Sciences Research Articles

ПРІОРИТЕТИ ВИВЧЕННЯ ТЕМИ «ПЕРША ПСИХОЛОГІЧНА ДОПОМОГА В НАДЗВИЧАЙНИХ СИТУАЦІЯХ» НА ЗАНЯТТЯХ З ЦИВІЛЬНОГО ЗАХИСТУ, БЕЗПЕКИ ЖИТТЄДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ТА ОХОРОНИ ПРАЦІ В ГАЛУЗІ

The article is devoted to the analysis of the possibilities of the disciplines "Civil Defense" and "Life Safety and Occupational Safety in the Industry" in terms of training students to provide psychological first aid in emergency situations and under martial law. The author emphasizes that in planning the educational process, it is necessary to take into account the fact that the war caused a number of humanitarian and social problems, provoking the exhaustion of all participants in the educational process and leading to a high probability of developing post- traumatic stress and panic disorders. The education sector of Ukraine is forming a system of monitoring and protection of all participants in the educational process with the aim of alleviating the psychological impact of the armed conflict and creating a safe educational environment. The analyzed measures introduced by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and other organizations aimed at helping Ukrainians learn to control their psycho-emotional state, avoid fear, panic attacks or post-traumatic syndrome. The results of the experience of studying the topic "First psychological aid in emergency situations" are given. It is noted that psychological first aid does not require special professional psychological training, since its important characteristic is simplicity, and therefore, the knowledge obtained as a result of studying psychological-pedagogical and professional training disciplines is quite sufficient. The educational platforms that gave students the opportunity to gain knowledge on providing psychological first aid were analyzed, in particular, the Academy of Resilience platform, Prometheus, EdEra, Zpromilo!, the training course for educators "First psychological aid to participants in the educational process during and after the end of hostilities." It was concluded that the knowledge gained by students as a result of participation in projects, conferences, online lectures and online courses of informal education on psychological help turned out to be very popular and useful for the professional activity of teachers. The authors are convinced that today the priority is to create a system of comprehensive training of future specialists in providing psychological first aid, in particular, during the study of civil protection and life safety and occupational health and safety courses in the industry.

A Bibliometric research on Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences During 2012–2021

A Bibliometric research on Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences During 2012–2021

KAMU HİZMETLERİNDE VE DEVLETTE YENİLİKÇİ PERFORMANS YÖNETİMİNİN SORUNLARI VE ÇÖZÜMLERİ ÜZERİNE BİR TARTIŞMA

Performance management is a tool that focuses on measuring and managing the progress in the working environment to evaluate organizational goals and provide new development opportunities. In Turkey, as in many developing countries, the public sector has suffered setbacks, primarily attributed to ineffective and inefficient management, subjectivities, politization, nepotism and disruptions in public services. That is why performance management is mainly related to business and organizational management sciences. There are multidimensional stakeholder management approaches, balanced scorecard approaches, corporate approaches, radical learning approaches, and artificial intelligence (AI) supported automation approaches that are becoming more and more effective in this field. In some studies, in the literature, it has been determined that one of the most significant effects of AI on HR is performance management, and it continues to progress like this. This study based on literature and market reports, gives a perspective on possible solution scenarios by evaluating the malfunctions in the performance system in the public sector and tries to present a highly innovative performance management approach based on AI tools that can increase the performance.

Exploring empowerment as an enabler of effective knowledge management

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the degree to which trust influences job satisfaction and job performance by building on research in the organizational sciences about the relationships between interpersonal trust relationships, cognitive empowerment, job performance and job satisfaction. This study's primary research question is: What factors contribute to job satisfaction and job performance?Design/methodology/approachData are collected through a field survey. The data set has 738 responses from employees who work in the financial sector in Turkey. Structural equation modelling was used to validate the hypotheses.FindingsThis study's main findings are that when considering job satisfaction and job performance, cognition-based trust (CBT) has a strong influence on both constructs, whereas affect-based faith has a medium effect on job satisfaction and no significant effect on job performance.Originality/valueIn an organization where trust is established, knowledge exchange will be facilitated and knowledge management will be done correctly. Therefore, trust is a critical factor for knowledge management. On the other hand, knowledge is an important key factor for job performance. Trust has two parts: affect-based trust and CBT. Psychological empowerment has four variables: impact, competence, meaningfulness and self-determination. This study aims to investigate the relationships between psychological empowerment, trust, job satisfaction and job performance.

Introduction to the Virtual Special Issue: Strategy Science’s Contributions to Doctoral Reading Lists

Introduction to the Virtual Special Issue: <i>Strategy Science</i>’s Contributions to Doctoral Reading Lists

Transport factor in defining regional boundaries

The purpose of the article is to study the economic region as a set of reproduction circuits closely intertwined. The theoretical underpinning of the research is the concept of “Universal organisational science” introduced by Alexander A. Bogdanov. The author of this article proposes to analyze economic regions on the basis of this concept, that is to say indirectly, through the assessment of the movement of goods transport along reproduction circuits. It is pointed out that transport conjoins disparate industries into a single reproduction chain, thus acting as the main region-building factor. In terms of transport links, economic regions are classified by the author as follows: economically isolated regions, natural specialisation regions, technological specialisation regions, and emission centers. It is identified that at the latter stage of the establishment of boundaries of an economic region, the key limiting factor is the amount of transport costs and the purchase price of the transported product. The proposed classification is applied to the analysis of the economy of the Russian Federation. It is stated that road transport is the main region-building factor of the country.

Unethical leadership: A review, analysis, and research agenda

AbstractLeaders play a critical role in creating the ethics agenda in organizations. Their communications, decisions, and behaviors influence employees to act ethically or unethically to accomplish organizational goals. To be sure, various reviews within the behavioral ethics literature have highlighted the crucial role that ethical leadership plays in gearing organizations and employees ethically. Yet, numerous documented ethical failings in organizations have evidenced the impact of unethical leadership—where leaders’ unethical conduct or influence on employees promotes unethicality within organizations and generates harmful consequences. Therefore, understanding the darker side of leadership is important. The literature that has emerged in the organizational sciences on the study of unethical leadership, however, is fragmented, creating ambiguities and introducing potential confounds on what constitutes unethical leadership. We review this body of work, summarizing findings on the antecedents, explanatory mechanisms, and consequences of unethical leadership. We then provide an evaluation of the unethical leadership conceptualization, taking stock of previous conceptualizations, problems associated with past approaches, and offer considerations for a conceptualization to progress future scholarship. The goal is to engage scholarly conversation on how to evolve the unethical leadership domain without engaging in logical fallacy or post‐hoc rationalization. We offer practical implications for managers to address and minimize unethical leadership within their organizations and outline future research directions to advance our understanding of unethical leadership and its nomological network.

Driving in a man's world: examining gender disparity in the trucking industry

PurposeRecent supply chain disruptions have highlighted the global shortage of truck drivers. Because it is a quintessential “masculine” profession, the proportion of women truck drivers is small, although efforts are underway to recruit and retain women. This research offers a comprehensive and theoretically-driven empirical analysis of women in the US trucking industry.Design/methodology/approachThe research utilizes a detailed longitudinal database of 20 million driver inspections from 2010 to 2019. It is paired with US Social Security Administration data to infer the gender of the driver for each inspection. Descriptive evidence is provided, and a logit model is used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe research finds that female truck drivers make up 3.2% of the inspection sample, but their representation has grown by 23.1% over the last decade. Women are vastly overrepresented in the jobs that are the easiest to get and underrepresented in jobs that offer better pay, more regular hours and more time at home. However, the proportion of women in more desirable truck driving jobs has grown from 2010 to 2019, offering positive news for the industry.Practical implicationsThe research offers a more credible and realistic statistic for the proportion of women in the industry, contradicting previous industry figures. The research also highlights policy implications for industry stakeholders.Social implicationsThe truck driving industry is vital for a nation's economic sustainability. Truck driving jobs offer better wages and more opportunity than many non-professional female-dominant jobs. The research emphasizes the path to move into jobs that are better suited for women with domestic or family responsibilities.Originality/valueThe authors document hitherto unknown facts about women in the US trucking industry. Using theoretically driven research in organizational science, this study highlights the interplay of supply-side and demand-side factors that help to explain a nuanced perspective of the workforce composition and discusses potential policies to increase the number of female drivers.

New spaces of inequality with the rise of remote work: Autonomy, technostress, and life disruption

The proliferation of remote work with the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a new geography of work and new spaces of inequality. While working remotely can be advantageous, remote work experiences have varied substantially. Those who balanced work-from-home with childcare and education required greater life adjustments. Additionally, while some may have found flexibility and autonomy in where and when they work, others experienced technology-related stress. The upshot is that remote work has transformed the spatial dynamics of work and living space in ways that require reexamining geographic conceptualizations of labor inequality. We build on research on remote work in economic geography, organizational science, and urban studies to (re)conceptualize the varieties of experiences with the transition to remote work and the inequalities embodied in those experiences. To investigate these dynamics, we surveyed 1,172 remote workers in the US during the Covid-19 pandemic, examining how remote work has (re)shaped their working lives and lived experiences of the labor market, as measured by autonomy, technostress, and life disruption. The results identify old and new spaces of inequality as manifested in a wide divergence of work experiences and outcomes, especially across race, age/generation, and the number of dependents.

How can we use machine learning for characterizing organizational identification - a study using clustering with Picture fuzzy datasets

This work introduces a data-driven approach based on k-means clustering with datasets elicited under a Picture fuzzy set (PFS) environment. With the vision, mission, and goals statement as a proxy for organizational identity, an actual case study is reported to demonstrate the application of the proposed approach. Four attributes were introduced to describe organizational identification: knowledge, perception, linking, and future attributes. Results revealed that out of 1,911 members, 56.67% of them are considered “proactive citizens”, 32.50% are “ambivalent citizens”, and 10.83% are “disengaged citizens”. Sensitivity analysis shows that the proposed approach is robust to changes in the model parameters. Characteristics of the types of citizens were discussed, and some managerial insights were outlined. Succinctly, this work contributes to the literature by exploring the integration of PFS to k-means clustering to characterize the extent of organizational identification of organizational stakeholders when presented with a new organizational identity – a relatively novel application in organization science.

Employee green behaviour: A review and recommendations for future research

AbstractDespite the increasing awareness of impacts of organizational activities on the natural environment and the urgent need for sustainable management of ecosystems, emerging research on employee green behaviour in the field of management and organizational science is largely fragmented, requiring an integrative review. Seeking to better understand research opportunities and advance theoretical and empirical development, this paper evaluates available research on the topic by first reviewing conceptualizations and corresponding theoretical approaches. It then develops an overarching framework to evaluate the findings of empirical studies at different levels of analysis for different approaches. It concludes with recommendations for future research on employee green behaviour and provides important implications for environmental sustainability in organizations.

The methodology of A. Bogdanov's tektology in the context of modern systems economic theory

AbstractMany highlights from Tektology: Universal Organizational Science by A. Bogdanov are projected onto the concepts of modern systemic thinking according to systemic economic theory. The concepts of space by Aristotle, I. Newton, A. Einstein and A. Bogdanov are compared; the place of Bogdanov's school in modern systemic discourse is clarified. A generalised subject human life sphere structural model, which makes it possible to describe in a unified manner the processes of cognition and creation of spiritual and material human world, is proposed. Due to this, all types of internal and external factors that stimulate these processes become possible to be included in the process of analysing creation and functioning of economic systems. Bogdanov's concept of ingression as a connection of socio‐economic space–time allows us to formulate a hypothesis about four universal types of system genesis factors and determine guidelines for harmonious development of economy and society in the foreseeable future.

Initial public offering: a critical review of literature

PurposeThe main purpose of the paper is to critically review the studies in the area of management and entrepreneurship. Secondly, the study aims to identify various performance measures used by researchers to evaluate short and long-term IPO performance.Design/methodology/approachThe author used systematic database survey procedures recommended in previous studies for the review (Short, 2009; Uberbacher, 2014). The review of the study includes articles published in top management and entrepreneurship journal published after 2008 (January 2009 to December 2020). The source of the collection of articles is the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The search included keywords: initial public offering(s) and IPO(s). The study considers the top journals in the area of management, which includes Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. In entrepreneurship, the author included: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing and Journal of Small Business Management. After careful consideration of each article, the search returned 104 articles, of which (92 articles) were empirical studies.FindingsThe outcome of the study will recommend research gaps and questions for future studies. The review will also recommend prominent performance measures to evaluate IPO performance.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the literature of management and entrepreneurship in two folds. First, the study critically reviewed the three themes (“Corporate governance”, “Upper echelons” and “Social influence”). Second, the author also reviewed various IPO performance measures used the management and entrepreneurship scholars from IPO context. Finally, the study identifies the research gap/research question in the three themes as well as five new themes, which can be a valuable addition for future studies. The author hopes that this study will further help future scholars to enhance the understanding of IPO in the area of management and entrepreneurship.

Microfoundations of Adaptive Search in Complex Tasks: The Role of Cognitive Abilities and Styles

Problem-solving in complex environments requires a cognitively demanding search for task solutions. Managing this search process presents a major challenge in organizations. We contribute to the literature on this topic by providing new evidence on the cognitive antecedents that shape how individuals search when engaged in complex problem-solving tasks. We present results from three laboratory studies, wherein 335 individuals solved a complex task. In doing so, they generated behavioral data coupled with survey-based measurements of the individuals’ cognitive styles and performance-based tests of their cognitive abilities. Our data analysis contributes to the current literature by documenting systematic heterogeneity in the persistence and distance of search that can be explained by the participants’ level of creativity, attention to detail, and executive functions. We extend the research on the microfoundations of adaptive search by linking cognitive antecedents with a complex search task, widening our insight into what search behavior certain cognitive microfoundations lead to, and showing how managers can more effectively shape organizational search. History: This paper has been accepted for the Organization Science Special Issue on Experiments in Organizational Theory. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.1654 .

Two Meanings of “Social Skills”: Proposing an Integrative Social Skills Framework

Business leaders and HR professionals have long recognized the importance of social skills for effective organizational functioning, particularly in roles requiring high levels of interpersonal interaction. Accordingly, organizational science scholars have produced a large amount of research that can be organized under the broad heading of social skills. Yet, three key issues in the literature are hampering progress: (1) the lack of a well-accepted articulation of the social skills phenomenon, what it is and what it is not; (2) conceptual redundancy and conflation among the set of social skills-related concepts (e.g., individual differences, skills, behavior, evaluations, etc.), and (3) full consideration of the importance of social behavior in understanding social skills. We propose solutions for understanding social skills that begin to resolve these issues and help strengthen future empirical research. Specifically, we present two distinct, but related, conceptualizations of social skills: social skills enactment and social skills reputation. We then offer a theoretically grounded perspective, the Social Skills Framework, which incorporates these conceptualizations of social skills, provides a structure into which existing social skills concepts can be integrated and evaluated for conceptual clarity, and centers social behavior. After describing the framework, we offer a research agenda that focuses on refining the framework and investigating key issues related to the two conceptualizations of social skills.

Modeling Firm Search and Innovation Trajectory Using Swarm Intelligence

We developed a swarm intelligence-based model to study firm search across innovation topics. Firm search modeling has primarily been “firm-centric,” emphasizing the firm’s own prior performance. Fields interested in firm search behavior—strategic management, organization science, and economics—lack a suitable simulation model to incorporate a more robust set of influences, such as the influence of competitors. We developed a swarm intelligence-based simulation model to fill this gap. To demonstrate how to fit the model to real world data, we applied latent Dirichlet allocation to patent abstracts to derive a topic search space and then provide equations to calibrate the model’s parameters. We are the first to develop a swarm intelligence-based application to study firm search and innovation. The model and data methodology can be extended to address a number of questions related to firm search and competitive dynamics.

Çevik Liderlik ve Dijital Dönüşüm Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Digital Transformation is predicted to be one of the fastest market intruders in organizational sciences. Numerous organizations are embracing this transformation because of its long-term advantages. Digital transformation introduces the innovative capability of a particular organization where digital technology is employed to foster productivity and attain better business performance outcomes. The leadership group is believed to be crucial for this transformation process and one of the attributes of leadership is agility is being reviewed in this paper. This study aims at testing the role of agile leadership in the context of digitization trends being introduced in the market. The study evaluated that leadership agility performs a significant role in the smooth and successful implementation of digital transformation in organizational functionality and, structure. Furthermore, the study reviews factors including workforce transformation, dynamic capability, and strategic flexibility as important for digital transformation and what role agile leadership plays in integrating these factors into the organizational context.

Why and When Narcissistic Employees Are More Creative in the Workplace? A Social Cognitive Perspective

ABSTRACTThe question of whether narcissists are more creative than peers has attracted much scholarly attention in both psychology and organizational management sciences. Drawing from social cognitive theory, we theorized that the relationship between narcissism and creativity could be explained by individual creative self-efficacy, which depends on one's direct and vicarious experiences of creativity. Drawing from trait activation theory, we further proposed organizational valuing of creativity as a key contextual moderator that determines whether narcissism facilitates or inhibits creative self-efficacy and, in turn, creativity. We suggest that high organizational valuing of creativity will energize narcissists to put their attention and effort into both direct and vicarious experiences of creativity, enhancing their creative self-efficacy and creativity. We tested our conceptual model through a field study with data collected from 269 full-time employees working in 86 work teams. The empirical results provided support for the social cognitive explanation for the positive relationship between narcissism and creativity in the context of high organizational valuing of creativity. Our study not only resolved prior debates on the relationship between narcissism and creativity but also provided direct empirical support for social cognitive theory and the person-in-context interactionist perspective of creativity research.

Supervised Construct Scoring to Reduce Personality Assessment Length: A Field Study and Introduction to the Short 10

Personality assessments help identify qualified job applicants when making hiring decisions and are used broadly in the organizational sciences. However, many existing personality measures are quite lengthy, and companies and researchers frequently seek ways to shorten personality scales. The current research investigated the effectiveness of a new scale-shortening method called supervised construct scoring (SCS), testing the efficacy of this method across two applied samples. Using a combination of machine learning with content validity considerations, we show that multidimensional personality scales can be significantly shortened while maintaining reliability and validity, and especially when compared to traditional shortening methods. In Study 1, we shortened a 100-item personality assessment of DeYoung et al.'s 10 facets, producing a scale 26% the original length. SCS scores exhibited strong evidence of reliability, convergence with full scale scores, and criterion-related validity. This measure, labeled the Short 10, is made freely available. In Study 2, we applied SCS to shorten an operational police personality assessment. By using SCS, we reduced test length to 25% of the original length while maintaining similar levels of reliability and criterion-related validity when predicting job performance ratings.

APPLYING MODERN ORGANIZATION THEORIES IN BUILDING CURRENT PARTY LEADERSHIP METHODS

Organization theory is a system of rules for studying organizational structure and design. Modern organizational theories have made an important contribution to promoting the development of the fields of economics, politics, culture, science, especially organizational science in the modern world. To improve the science and efficiency, Party building organization work must innovate thinking, strengthen research, study, and application of organizational science to each aspect of work: building organizational apparatus, Build a team of officials and party members, innovate the Party's leadership methods in today's new conditions. The article systematically focuses on some development achievements of organizational science and proposes to apply it to the work of organizing and building the Party, specifically building the leadership method of the Communist Party of Vietnam today, at the same time. At the same time, it contributes to supplementing learning materials for lecturers, students and lecturers when researching organizational work.