Today's Organizations Research Articles

An Optimization Model for Assessment Resilience Engineering in Social Technical Organizations as a safety Management Paradigm

An innovative safety administration paradigm, resilience engineering (RSE), is becoming more popular in today's sociotechnical organizations. It is thought that the properties of complicated social and technical structures better align with RSE. Especially when it comes to measuring and modeling, RSE is much more difficult due to its various criteria character and the inclusion of both qualitative and quantitative latent components. Using the extant neutrosophic TODIM (Portuguese of interactive and multi-criteria decision-making) approach, this study seeks to create a neutrosophic mixed multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework for assessing and evaluating resilience. Several indicators of resilience were defined as part of the first assessment methodology. After that, the neutrosophic TODIM technique was used to assign relative importance to the various resilience indicators and to rate the effectiveness of the various operational units. As an illustration of the model's efficacy, we conducted a risk assessment of a gas refinery, a prototypical sociotechnical structure.

The RAAF’s frozen middle

It is a relatively common trend that solving an organisational strategic issue reveals another. With the implementation of digital technology, came the resistance to change and implementing change agents brought about the awareness of having a safe-to-fail culture. As of late, the awareness is again on middle management with the term “Frozen Middle.” To the short sighted eye, each solution seems to produce another strategic issue to solve. However, these problems have always been present and organisations, such as the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), are simply peeling back the layers of issues to reveal them, like an onion one layer at a time. The “Frozen Middle” is a term used to stereotype the middle management of organisations today (Spreitzer & Quinn, 1996). Typically this is referring to middle managers that are slowing organisational progression due to a lack of motivation or a reluctance to take risks. In this paper, I will break down three potential factors as to why they have developed the stereotype and a possible method to treat the issue.

Medyanın İslamofobi Söyleminde Batı Felsefesinin İzleri

Islamophobia, which started with the first emergence of Islam but has become a common concept, especially after the September 11 attacks, is one of the most common forms of discrimination that Muslims are subjected to today. Although it means fear of Islam, Islamophobia refers to unfounded fear. The media plays an important role in spreading and reinforcing this fear or prejudice. Islamophobia, which is usually dealt with on a theological basis in the studies carried out, actually has philosophical foundations and this has a more ancient history than theological foundations. So much so that when we look at the anti-Islamic content produced in the media, it is seen that there is a great similarity with the descriptions in Western philosophy. For example, in addition to similar depictions such as Islam being a "religion of the sword", which is constantly associated with terror, the fact that Islam is a religion that emerged from Eastern society has led to a philosophical depiction mixed with orientalist images. This study, in which the document analysis method is used, reveals that the Islamophobic discourses and representations produced by today's Western mainstream media organizations are very similar to the depictions and judgments about Islam and Muslims from the Medieval philosophy to the period of Western thought from the Age to the period of Western thought.

The Impact of Knowledge Management in Developing Administrative Creativity through the Role of Mediator for Information Technology: An Exploratory Study of the Opinions of a Sample of Administrative Leaders and Teachers of the Oil Training Institute / Bas

The subject of knowledge and its impact on managerial creativity is of particular importance to administrative researchers due to its great importance in today's business organizations that live in knowledge economies and an unstable competitive environment. This study is an attempt to test the effect of knowledge management as an independent variable in developing administrative creativity (the dependent variable), in addition to determining whether information technology has a mediating role in that relationship. A questionnaire was designed to collect the primary data, as (220) questionnaires were distributed, (212) questionnaires were retrieved, and (206) questionnaires were valid for statistical analysis. The research was based on the SPSS program.The study reached several results, the most important of which are:There is a significant and statistically significant effect of knowledge management in developing administrative creativity.There is a significant statistically significant effect of information technology on achieving administrative creativity.Information technology partially mediates the relationship between knowledge management and administrative creativity.Based on the results of the study, the researcher made a number of recommendations, the most important of which are:Working to support and disseminate knowledge at all levels of the Oil Training Institute / Basra.Attention to administrative creativity and its development and the need to pay attention to information technology because of its clear effects on the administrative creativity of organizations.Continuous updating of technology and taking advantage of the information revolution in the speed and accuracy of the required tasks.

STUDI LITERATUR: PENERAPAN METODE ANITA CASSIDY DALAM PERENCANAAN STRATEGIS SISTEM INFOMASI

Advances in information technology make information systems / information technology have an important role for the running of an organization today causing changes in the role of the role of efficiency and effectiveness to a strategic role. Information system is an important tool to achieve organizational goals effectively. Each organization must identify information needs systematically and carry out an analysis of the mission and functions performed, who performs them, the data and supporting information needed to perform the various functions and processes needed to structure the information most usefully. With Information Systems Planning and Information Technology (IS/IT) it is hoped that it can be a guide in developing IS/IT in the future to achieve business goals

Quality of Work Life of Employees in Nitta Gelatin India Limited with Special Reference to Kerala

Background/Purpose Recently, the QWL has become more and more significant in organizations. This is basically a working environment for employees of the organization. It's a value-based process, improving the effectiveness of the organization and improving the quality of life of employees at work. QWL programs usually emphasize development of employee skills, reduce work-related stress in a more collaborative work-management relationship. Ultimately, with the organization, employees will also be benefited. Hypothesis-based qualitative research agenda and Testing has improved the conceptual model of working quality of life. The study here is to understand, to what extent the surveyed organization was able to meet the following requirements: To check whether there is a link between employees' quality of workplace life and employee satisfaction. Methodology: This study analyzes the contribution of the Quality of Work Life program to employee satisfaction, taking into account the top factors that contribute to QWL: management, compensation, career development, working conditions, and relationships with employee morale. Primary and secondary data were collected in support of the research objectives. Primary data was collected using a structured questionnaire containing closed questions and a direct interview method. The questionnaire was distributed to the organization’s clerks, factory workers, and managers. Secondary data were compiled from company files, magazines, books, journals, and websites. The total number of employees in the registered office (RO), Gelatin department (GD), and Ossein department (OD) is 415. Of these, the sample size was 55, including both managers and employees. Finding: The QWL is very important in today's organizations. This is essentially related to the favorable or unfavorable nature of the work environment for the employees of the organization. This is a values-based process aimed at achieving the two goals of improving the effectiveness of the organization and improving the quality of life of employees in the workplace. QWL programs typically focus on developing employee skills, reducing work-related stress, and developing more collaborative work-management relationships. Ultimately, both the organization and its employees will benefit from it. This survey should help you understand how well your organization was able to meet employee requirements and see if there is a real relationship between quality of life and employee satisfaction. Originality: It conducts a quality of work survey at Nitta Gelatin India Limited, Kochi, Kerala This study aims to provide insights into the contribution of quality of life (QWL) towards employee satisfaction by studying the impact of factors like career development of employees, their working condition, their relationship with the management, benefits and compensation and morale of employees. Paper Type: Conclusive Research Design.

Literature review: sustainable leadership

Employees, leaders, and organizations continue to struggle to comprehend the concept of sustainable leadership. It is a problem for today's organizations to identify this concept itself. Sustainable leadership refers to a new and enlarged concept of leadership that is based on sustainability principles, sustainable leadership practices, and building an inclusive, cooperative, and responsive leadership approach. The purpose of this study is to provide a better understanding of the concept of sustainable leadership, and it does this by situating sustainability within the context of leadership and clarifying the idea of sustainable leadership based on sustainability and sustainable development, styles of sustainable leadership, characteristics of sustainable leaders, and practices of sustainable leadership.

Mapping Spiritual Leadership in Today's Organizations: Bibliometrics Analysis 2017-2021

Introduction/Main Objectives: Leadership research tries to find strategies and ways of good leaders in managing organizations throughout history. With the many studies conducted, various theories of leadership were born. Spiritual Leadership is a synthesis of previous leadership, namely ethics, authenticity, stewardship and other theories. SL seeks to fully pay attention to the dimensions in humans so that individuals experience fullness in the organization. Research reveals that SL has fostered intrinsic value in individuals, resolved problems in organizations well and promoted a sustainable workplace. Background Problems: With a variety of studies related to SL, we try to map the number of journals each year, then see what keywords are correlated with SL, and find influential SL authors. Novelty: This study will look at the latest research themes between 2017-2021 and be assisted by Bibliometric analysis. Research Methods: The search was carried out in the Scopus database, on November 8, 2021. In the search terms in all titles, abstracts, and keywords, the word “spiritual leadership” was written. The filter used is the document year range from 2017 to 2021. Then the results of the scopus analysis are mapped using VosViewer. Finding/Results: The results show an average of 36 articles publish each year. The three countries that produce the most writing are America, China, and Indonesia. Authors like Fry, Usman, Ali, and Yang most frequently cited by other authors. Network analysis and density visualization identify keywords related to SL: workplace spirituality, work engagement, spiritual well-being, organizational commitment, employee performance, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviour. Conclusion: SL research can be developed more broadly on the scope of themes that appear little, such as vision, job satisfaction, employee performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and work engagement. Second, SL research whose scope does not yet exist, such as Education, organizational culture and religion.

Identifying and investigating the foreign model's educational entrepreneurship in higher education and implement native models for Iran

In today's competitive world, universities and organizations are successful and able to make the most of information and knowledge. For this reason, many universities have started knowledge orientation through entrepreneurship education. In this research, the researcher seeks to identify and study the foreign models of entrepreneurship education, documents of entrepreneurship centers of Tehran universities in higher education, and finally, develop a native Iranian model for entrepreneurship education. In this study, to identify the elements of the native model of entrepreneurship education, a qualitative approach and thematic analysis method, and MAXQDA software have been used. Therefore, first, 50 foreign standard models of entrepreneurship education, as well as documents of entrepreneurship centers of Tehran universities, were identified and selected by the researcher. Then all keywords inside the templates and documents were coded, and 735 open source codes were sent separately to specialists. Cohen Kappa value was calculated using SPSS 23 software. Findings showed that the data obtained from the study of foreign models of entrepreneurship education and documents of entrepreneurship centers of Tehran universities were classified into three categories of capability-oriented, personality-oriented, and lesson-oriented themes, which can be used to design a native model of entrepreneurship education in higher education

Opening up to innovation: emotional intelligence as an intrapersonal resource

PurposeThere is no innovation without ideas. More than ever before, these ideas are increasingly difficult to express in a changing environment ripe with emotions. Today's organizations need to understand why their employees may or may not develop, voice and implement innovative ideas in the face of this emotional tension. Current literature focuses on external factors that empower employees to innovate. This research attempts to shift the focus to the individual by investigating the relationship between emotional intelligence, openness to experience and innovation voicing behavior.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs a quantitative survey among 288 US-based workers to test a mediated model of emotional intelligence, openness to experience and innovation-focused promotive voice. The authors assessed both the measurement and structural models through partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), while controlling for a range of variables with the potential to confound construct measurements.FindingsThe findings validated the positive effect of emotional intelligence on openness to experience, while also finding a significant impact of openness to experience on innovation-focused promotive voice. More importantly, evidence suggests that openness to experience mediates the relationship between emotional intelligence and innovation focused promotive voice.Originality/valueThese findings shed new light on why employees might start the innovation process by developing and, ultimately, voicing innovative ideas. Further, this new insight focuses on the impact of intrapersonal factors as it relates to innovation and attempts to fill a gap in what is known about innovative behavior.

Benchmarking in the Model of Organization Sustainable Development

Sustainable development of any organization today demands from business executives thoughtfulness, strategic approach and capability to build business-models that take into account fast changing trends on market and in society. For this end it is necessary to be able to analyze market and customers, to study the degree of impact of political, social and other external factors on organization functioning. The article shows that during business modeling it is possible to use different tools, whose choice can identify the ability of the organization to adapt to changes, to adjust to them and be sustainable. Some executives use the experience of big companies-leaders on market to provide successful functioning of the business-model. This is the way to overcome the crisis and the effective method to modernize this business-model and adjust it to the sphere of organization work. Studying the companies’ experience and analyzing the external environment are connected with such a process as benchmarking. According to the author, its use can give an opportunity not only to take into account competitors’ experience for plotting the own strategy of development but to re-build organization architecture in order to reach high results. Benchmarking includes marketing analysis of market, customer research, study of all the factors influencing the organization, investigation of market segmentation depending on seasons of the year and other important facts. Benchmarking also includes control tools.

Group Chat Ecology in Enterprise Instant Messaging: How Employees Collaborate Through Multi-User Chat Channels on Slack

Despite the long history of studying instant messaging usage, we know very little about how today's people participate in group chat channels and interact with others inside a real-world organization. In this short paper, we aim to update the existing knowledge on how group chat is used in the context of today's organizations. The knowledge is particularly important for the new norm of remote works under the COVID-19 pandemic. We have the privilege of collecting two valuable datasets: a total of 4,300 group chat channels in Slack from an R&D department in a multinational IT company; and a total of 117 groups' performance data. Through qualitative coding of 100 randomly sampled group channels from the 4,300 channels dataset, we identified and reported 9 categories such as Project channels, IT-Support channels, and Event channels. We further defined a feature metric with 21 meta-features (and their derived features) without looking at the message content to depict the group communication style for these group chat channels, with which we successfully trained a machine learning model that can automatically classify a given group channel into one of the 9 categories. In addition to the descriptive data analysis, we illustrated how these communication metrics can be used to analyze team performance. We cross-referenced 117 project teams and their team-based Slack channels and identified 57 teams that appeared in both datasets, then we built a regression model to reveal the relationship between these group communication styles and the project team performance. This work contributes an updated empirical understanding of human-human communication practices within the enterprise setting, and suggests design opportunities for the future of human-AI communication experience.

Innovation across cultures: Connecting leadership, identification, and creative behavior in organizations

AbstractInnovation is considered essential for today's organizations to survive and thrive. Researchers have also stressed the importance of leadership as a driver of followers' innovative work behavior (FIB). Yet, despite a large amount of research, three areas remain understudied: (a) The relative importance of different forms of leadership for FIB; (b) the mechanisms through which leadership impacts FIB; and (c) the degree to which relationships between leadership and FIB are generalizable across cultures. To address these lacunae, we propose an integrated model connecting four types of positive leadership behaviors, two types of identification (as mediating variables), and FIB. We tested our model in a global data set comprising responses ofN = 7,225 participants from 23 countries, grouped into nine cultural clusters. Our results indicate that perceived LMX quality was the strongest relative predictor of FIB. Furthermore, the relationships between both perceived LMX quality and identity leadership with FIB were mediated by social identification. The indirect effect of LMX on FIB via social identification was stable across clusters, whereas the indirect effects of the other forms of leadership on FIB via social identification were stronger in countries high versus low on collectivism. Power distance did not influence the relations.

The Inpatient Nursing Leadership Perspective of Using Mobile Technology at the Bedside.

Introducing technology to support patient care in today's complex healthcare organizations can be innovative yet challenging. Managers are often not included in technology decisions that affect their nursing units, and less often is manager insight into the project taken into consideration. Studies that describe the executive-level role and information technology are helpful but not specific to managers' perspectives. The purpose of this project was to identify the factors related to managers' perceptions about the use of mobile technology at the bedside. Mobile technology includes using smartphones for communication and documentation of patient care. Inpatient nurse managers participated in focus groups; semi-structured interview questions were administered. Nurse managers overwhelmingly indicated they should be involved in technology-related projects that affect their units. Nurse managers have a central role in supporting changes that occur with implementing technology and should be involved at the inception of the innovation. Understanding these associated complex factors is necessary to address issues and promote strategies for the successful implementation of mobile technology. Manager inclusion has far-reaching potential as they can serve as sounding boards and conduits to nursing staff, subsequently promoting engagement and adoption of the technology.

Enhancing employee wellbeing – an employability perspective

PurposeSkill obsolescence among employees can be detrimental to organizational performance and can lead to an ensuing decline in the wellbeing of employees. Today's organizations bank on the employability skills of their human capital to stay afloat in business. The current study examines the impact of developing an employability culture in the organization, the perceived internal employability developed in the employees and impact on employee wellbeing.Design/methodology/approachResearch data were gathered from a sample of 421 software engineers in private IT companies in India. Structural equation modeling using SPSS and AMOS was conducted to examine the impact of employability culture and perceived internal employability on the three dimensions of employee wellbeing.FindingsThe study found a positive relationship between employability culture and the components of employee wellbeing. A partial mediation by perceived internal employability was reported between employability culture and the three components of employee wellbeing.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is a focused attempt on discerning the effect of organizational elements in the form of employability culture on the employee perceptions and the state of wellbeing, which are considered valuable resources in the career context. The study reiterates the prominence of contextual factors in employees' resource enhancement.Originality/valueThe study is a unique approach to determine the effect of perceived internal employability and employability culture on employee wellbeing based on the social cognitive career theory and the conservation of resources theory.

Identifying and Prioritizing Factors Affecting Sustainable Social Responsibility in a Private Mobile Operator Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques

Since considering the social factors in organizations in the current era is as important as the income and profitability of organizations, the present study seeks to identify and prioritize the factors affecting sustainable social responsibility. Today's organizations have found that by focusing on social responsibility, they can attract more customers and earn multiple their cost. Since several factors affect the social responsibility of companies, in this paper, first these factors are extracted and then, the factors related to a Private Mobile Operator are identified based on the Delphi method. Since no organization has the ability to define improvement projects for all factors of social responsibility, so they should be ranked to identify the most important factors of limited organizational resources allocated to them. The MABAK method has been used to rank these factors and its required initial weight were extracted by the SAVARA method. Finally, the results of factor prioritization are presented.

An item response theory analysis of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Short-Form (TEIQue-SF) in the workplace

Trait emotional intelligence (EI) predicts important outcomes in the workplace. This study is the first one that reports item and scale functioning in the workplace using item response theory (IRT) analysis of the global 30-item Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Short-Form (TEIQue-SF). Past IRT research, performed mostly on undergraduate English-speaking students, showed that several items in TEIQue-SF were poorly informative. Data collected in Sweden from 972 employed persons were analyzed. IRT with a graded response model was utilized to analyze items of the global TEIQue-SF scale. As was found in past research, the lowest response category in all items had extreme difficulty threshold parameter values, and only low and moderate levels of latent trait EI were adequately captured, but most items had good values of the discrimination parameters, indicating adequate item informativeness. Four items, which in past research have also shown weak psychometric properties, were poorly informative. To effectively measure trait EI in today's organizations, there is an advantage in using the most informative items to best represent this construct.

Assessment of Adaptive Performance and its Role as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Person-Organization Fit and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors.

Adaptive performance is of central interest for today's organizations, insofar as employees increasingly need to be able to adjust their behaviors to dynamic, changing work situations. The aims of this study were to develop a Spanish adaptation of Charbonnier-Voirin and Roussel's (2012) scale for measuring adaptive performance, and to examine whether the dimensions of adaptive performance moderate the relationship between person-organization fit (PO fit) and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). We hypothesized that the relationship between PO fit and OCBs would be stronger in individuals with a higher level of adaptive performance. The sample comprised 678 employees (65% women) in the public sector in the Basque Country. They ranged from 21 to 63 years old (M = 44.63; SD = 7.66). The Spanish version of the scale has good psychometric properties. Furthermore, the Interpersonal Adaptability dimension of adaptive performance moderates the relationship between PO fit and OCBs directed both at the organization and at individuals, following the expected direction. The relationship between PO fit and OCBs directed at individuals was also moderated by the Reactivity in the Face of Emergencies dimension. We discuss the practical implications of these results in the field of personnel selection.

Investigating the status of knowledge dissemination and transfer among the managers of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in the process of coping and disease management especially COVID 19

Background and Aim: The importance of developing a strategy at the organization level in the face of complex environments has been discussed in various researches but the need to pay attention to them is so great that it will be very effective in achieving organizational excellence. The purpose of this study is to select the top strategy in the Ministry of Health based on the model of the strategic planning process based on prescriptive attitudes. Methods: The present study is an applied study. The study conducted in 2017-2018 in the operational planning headquarters of the Ministry of Health with a statistical population of 33 planning managers. In terms of collecting data, is descriptive and the field study. Research method is library based, Scrolling data and interview studies. Results: Among the four strategies outlined: increased access to services, trained staffing, improved awareness and increased community health literacy, and appropriate infrastructure for equally benefiting from services, the strategy for increasing access to services, with 136 points in the Strategic planning Stakeholder Model Matrix and 4.6 in the Quantitative Strategy Planning Matrix (QSPM), designated as the top strategy in the Ministry of Health and medical education. Conclusions: The results of this research can improve performance in today's complex organization environment. The selection of the Ministry of Health's best strategy is one of the findings of this study that helps university directors and affiliated organizations to formulate their own plans based on this strategy.

Ransomware Attacks in History of Cyber World

Abstract: Technology advancement since last few decades creates cyber attack a critical issue. Cyber security has become an important part today. It has also become an important and crucial subject in the field of forensic science. Increased in the growth of internet technology and internet devices have increased the risk of cyber attack. Almost every organization today are depends on the internet and devices. There are many types of cyber attack. This paper is the detailed review about Ransomware attack. This paper is consisted about vast of the information about What is Ransomware Attack, how does it work, how ransomware attack emerged. After reading this paper you will learn about the ransomware attacks in history of cyber world. This will help you to learn and understand about ransomware attack, how to prevent yourself from ransomware attack. As a forensic science student, it is always important to be aware about the attacks that have happened in the history of cyber world. Before writing this paper, I have read and analyze many research paper and internet articles, so that I can write a detailed review paper which can help students and for the forensic awareness. Keywords: Cyberattack, Hacking, Ransomware, cyberworld, cyber security, ransomware, forensic, network security