Work Values Research Articles

Mediating Effects of Work Values on The Roles and Qualities of School Leaders and Teachers Core Behavioral Competencies

The study investigates the mediating effects of work values on the roles and qualities of school leaders and teachers' core behavioral competencies. The research involved 100 public elementary school teachers from nine Del Remedio District, Division of San Pablo City schools, with the majority being female and married. The study used descriptive and correlational research methods to determine the relationship between leadership roles, qualities, and teacher performance. The questionnaire was divided into five parts: respondent profiles, perceptions about the mediating effects of work value in the roles and qualities of school leaders and teachers, and core behavioral competencies. The findings show a significant relationship between leadership roles and qualities and teacher performance and between teacher work values and performance in core behavioral competencies. Teachers' work values fully mediate this relationship. The study suggests that school leaders should be knowledgeable about their roles and qualities, provide necessary technical assistance, and prioritize professional growth for the benefit of the school. The Department of Education is actively working to develop these roles and qualities for better teacher performance.

Determination of solid-liquid adhesion work on flat surfaces in a direct and absolute manner

There is a long-standing need for a direct determination of solid-liquid work of adhesion due to its central role in several scientific and industrial fields. Here, a method is introduced to determine the value of adhesion work on flat surfaces directly, without the need of any model assumptions, and independently from uncertainties of contact angles. The presented method enables to determine the adhesion work separately both for advancing and receding situations. The directly measured adhesion work values were benchmarked successfully against the prediction of the Young–Dupré equation in the 0°–120° contact angle range. That is, the Young–Dupré equation was experimentally proven to be valid separately for both advancing and receding cases. The method provides an absolute, thermodynamic quantity, hence it is insensitive to the measurement parameters, moreover the resulting values can be used directly in further calculations.

Group diversity, diversity beliefs, and group processes in a design course for engineering students

AbstractBackgroundThe engineering profession has changed dramatically, and engineers today must work in diverse (multidisciplinary or international) groups. As such, practice in diverse student groupwork can be beneficial to develop all‐round skillsets. However, simply mixing students with different backgrounds into one group is not always effective in engineering group projects.PurposeThis study investigates how a diverse student group composition is related to group processes and, subsequently, group output, and also to see whether students' positive diversity beliefs influence the relation between diverse student group composition and group processes.MethodMultilevel analyses were performed on 124 groups to analyze associations between diversity in group compositions (nationality and gender diversity), group processes (task elaboration, shared understanding of the task, and trust in the group), and group outcomes (performance and satisfaction), at both the individual and group level. Positive diversity beliefs were included as moderators.ResultsWe found negative group‐level associations between nationality diversity and shared understanding of the task and trust in the group. On the individual level, we found students' relative positive diversity beliefs to be positively associated with their perceptions of all group processes, which, in turn, were positively associated with perceived group performance and satisfaction.ConclusionsA student group with different nationalities may encounter challenges in group processes, although we did not find direct implications for group performance and group‐level satisfaction. Individual student perceptions of group processes were more clearly associated with outcomes than group‐level aggregates. To facilitate diverse student groupwork, educators need to pay attention to and enhance students' awareness of the value of working in a diverse group.

Light-propelled dimeric micro-rotor in a binary critical mixture

Industrial motors produce either linear or rotational motion, and enabling these engines on micrometer scales would have significant technological implications in the biomedical, biochemical, nanoscience, and nanotechnology areas. In this paper, we report a colloidal dimeric micro-rotor consisting of a pivot particle (isotropic dielectric particle) joined to a carbon Janus particle (anisotropic particle) embedded in a critical mixture. The two particles forming this dimer are trapped and illuminated by an optical tweezer, respectively. The carbon Janus particle heats its surroundings, producing a demixing flow that results in directed rotational motion. The pivot ensures the stability of the dimer’s rotation motion, allowing for a clean circular trajectory with low dispersion between cycles. This system converts thermal energy from the absorption of light by the carbon Janus particle into mechanical rotational work. By adjusting the laser power input energy, we obtained rotational work values ranging from 3300 to 270 kBT per cycle. However, there is a limit in the laser power that induces rotation, which depends on the balance between trapping and demixing forces required for stable rotation. This paper provides an efficient method to construct a rotational micro-rotor with a stable motion (standard deviation = 0,03 µm) for nano and micro devices.

Book Review: Social work values and ethics

Book Review: Social work values and ethics

INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT AND JOB COMPLEXITY ON WORK VALUES IN BANKING INDUSTRY

Strong organizational supports are positively correlated with work values. Organizational support has developed positive work values, thereby reducing stress in the work place. The study reveals influence of organizational support and job complexity on work values among public sector bank employees. A survey was conducted among 132 public sector bank employees in Tamilnadu. The impact of influence of organizational support and job complexity on work values and organizational effectiveness was measured through SEM. The results designate that job complexity not influences work values. Work values significantly influence organizational effectiveness. Job complexity not influences organizational effectiveness. Organizational support significantly influences work values and organizational effectiveness. Organizational support of bank industry is greatly affected by the employees’ values, employees’ knowledge, employees’ attitudes, employees’ habits and employees’ willingness to do work of the management.

Excess properties, intermolecular interaction, and CO2 capture performance of diethylene glycol monomethyl ether + ethylenediamine binary mixed solutions

In this work, the density (ρ) and viscosity (η) values of diethylene glycol monomethyl ether (DEGME) (1) + ethylenediamine (EDA) (2) binary mixed solutions were experimentally measured over the temperature span of 298.15–318.15 K and at a constant pressure of 100.5 kPa. To delve into the physicochemical properties of the binary mixed solutions, the excess properties, including excess molar volume, viscosity deviation, and excess molar activation Gibbs free energy, and thermodynamic values, including activation Gibbs free energy, enthalpy change, entropy change, and activation energy, were systemically calculated. Furthermore, the relationship between mole fraction and temperature was modeled using the Jouyban-Acree (J-A) model and a least squares method. Additionally, the three-body McAllister, the four-body McAllister, the Eyring-Margules, and the Heric viscosity models were employed to establish a relationship between viscosity and mole fraction. The relationship between viscosity and temperature was determined utilizing the Arrhenius equation, and the Redlich-Kister (R-K) polynomial was applied to fit the excess molar volume, viscosity deviation, and excess molar activation Gibbs free energy values of the binary mixed solutions. To further validate the intermolecular interactions within the binary mixed solutions, Raman, UV, and 1H NMR spectroscopic analyses, and density-functional theory (DFT) calculations were also conducted. These comprehensive analyses collectively confirmed the presence of significant intermolecular hydrogen bonds (IHBs) between the DEGME and EDA molecules, which are characterized as the –OH⋯NH2– interaction. Ultimately, the CO2 absorption capacity of the binary mixed solutions was examined, revealing that diethylene glycol monomethyl ether (DEGME) (1) + ethylenediamine (EDA) (2) binary mixed solutions owned superior CO2 absorption efficiency, thus offering a promising approach for CO2 capture.

Big data analysis of Spanish wine consumers reviews

Purpose Wine is a complicated and difficult product to know, which makes it extremely difficult for people with little knowledge to choose the wine they want. This study aims to analyze whether the vocabulary used in reviews on wine written by experts and amateurs on the specialized website is useful for those consumers who wish to search for information on this website to choose a wine. Design/methodology/approach The analysis combines text mining, Natural Language Processing and the Biterm Topic model applied to 25,847 reviews, evaluating a total of 13,263 Spanish wines made by 17 selected users of a specialized wine website. Findings The results show that wine consumers and users of the specialized wine website who write reviews can be divided into expert users and amateur users. Both experts and amateurs use a specific vocabulary related to the wines they review. Unlike amateurs, experts have a broader and more precise vocabulary, and greater consistency in the use of words with the aspects of the wine. For the revised wines, they address fewer and more specific aspects of wine (such as vintages), but they do so with more depth and rigor. Originality/value The originality and value of this research work lie in addressing two aspects that have hardly been analyzed: the reviews of experienced consumers and amateur consumers, and the textual information referring to the Spanish language, which distinguishes this analysis from other similar analyses carried out on the English language.

Clinician attitudes towards adoption of evidence-based practice: a nationwide multiprofessional cross-sectional study of child and adolescent mental health services in Sweden.

Implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is a priority to improve service delivery and outcomes. Clinicians' EBP attitudes are likely to play a crucial role in implementation but are poorly understood. This study aimed to assess variation in EBP attitudes in a large national sample of CAMHS clinicians in Sweden, and to compare these findings to findings from the United States of America (USA). CAMHS clinicians (n = 799; 60% response rate) completed the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS) and items from the Organizational Readiness for Change Scale (ORC) ahead of an EBP for depression implementation effort across Sweden. EBPAS scores were compared with the USA study. Predictors of global and specific attitudes (gender, age, working years, education, profession, perceived benefit of diagnosis and organizational readiness and type of service) were examined using simple and multiple linear regressions. Clinicians had positive attitudes towards EBP on the four-dimensional subscales of the EBPAS, somewhat more so than their American counterparts. Clinician and organizational characteristics were related to at least one attitudinal dimension in both models, with perceived utility of diagnosis being the strongest and most consistent predictor across dimensions and models. Results from this large-scale national study underscore the need to consider cultural, contextual, and individual variations in attitudes towards EBP when planning implementation efforts. Such efforts may need to be tailored to the working contexts, needs, and values of CAMHS clinicians, particularly their views on the utility of diagnosis.

Challenging charitable oppression: Social working in supportive housing

Abstract This article provides an autoethnographic analysis of my experiences of administrating and supporting transitional housing programs in Canada. Using anti-colonial, critical race feminist, critical disability studies, and mad studies framings, the article aims to highlight the sharp contrast between social work values and social care practice in housing work. I direct my gaze as a researcher toward myself as a social worker, exploring my experience social working in practice. A creative non-fiction approach to storytelling is used based directly on my experiences social working in supportive housing. These creative non-fiction pieces were analysed to draw out relevant themes. Themes include the discourse of dangerousness, challenging charitable oppression, and reproducing colonial carceral structures. The narratives are followed by analyses which demonstrate harms perpetuated in the neoliberalist social care landscape in Canada. My analysis is based on anti-colonial, critical race feminist, critical disability studies, and mad studies framings. Challenges discussed include interdisciplinary social care practice with those experiencing significant barriers to housing and the ethical implications of working under a charitable organization, along with suggestions for countering dominant ableist, sanist, and Eurocentric practice.

Professional Commitment in Relation to Personnels Organizational Performance

The personnel’s professional commitment may affect their work reaction such as their aspirations, reasons, needs, perceptions, personality, ability to learn, creativity, as well as organizational characteristics, including work values and conduct, benefits, colleagues, leading style, company’s policy, promotion, and opportunities. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the professional commitment in relation to the organizational performance of personnel. This was a descriptive-correlational research. This used a questionnaire to gather the necessary data. The respondents were the 168 personnel of Capiz State University, Main Campus. The results showed that the personnel had high level of professional commitment and a very satisfactory organizational performance. On the other hand, there was no significant difference in the level of professional commitment of the respondents when grouped according to sex, employment category, age, civil status, educational attainment, status of employment, and length of service. Moreover, there was no significant difference in the organizational performance of the respondents when grouped according to sex, age, civil status, educational attainment, status of employment, and length of service. However, there was a significant difference in the organizational performance of the respondents when grouped according to employment category. Finally, a significant relationship was found between the respondents’ professional commitment level and their organizational performance, which indicates that the organizational performance of the personnel was affected nor associated with their level of professional commitment.

Turnover intention and its influencing factors among male nurses in China: a national-scale descriptive study

BackgroundThe number of registered male nurses has increased in China, yet research specifically addressing their turnover intentions remains limited. While high turnover intention is known to exacerbate the workforce shortage of nurses, the national level and unique factors contributing to turnover intention among registered male nurses in China are unclear and underexplored.AimThis study aimed to investigate the turnover intention of registered male nurses in China and its unique influencing factors, with focus on variables that have received limited attention in previous research.MethodsIn this cross-sectional study, 13,088 registered male nurses were recruited from over 1,000 hospitals across China between May and August 2023. Data collection was conducted through an online questionnaire. Univariate analysis and multinomial logistics regression were performed to analyze the data.Clinical trial numberNot applicable.ResultsOur analysis revealed that 71.6% of registered male nurses in China exhibited medium to high turnover intentions. Male nurses with no children, lower occupational prestige, and lower work values were more likely to exhibit a higher turnover intention. Other significant factors contributing to a high turnover intention included low income satisfaction, limited career development opportunities, and minimal support from hospitals.ConclusionsA substantial proportion of registered male nurses in China express moderate to high turnover intentions, driven by factors that extend beyond traditional occupational concerns. This study highlights the importance of addressing less explored variables such as work value, occupational prestige and marital pressures in developing targeted interventions to enhance job satisfaction and reduce turnover within this essential workforce segment.

Conceptualizing Research Relationships to Enhance Broader Impacts at the University of New Mexico

This paper focuses on enhancing researchers’ ability to articulate and achieve societal impacts in their work using the ARIS Broad Impact (BI) Toolkit as a jumping off point. The authors conducted a survey of UNM researchers to understand their approach to societal impact and relationship-building in research projects. The key findings suggest that 1) researchers across disciplines and funding sources value societal impacts in their work; 2) most UNM researchers engage in collaborative relationships as part of their efforts to achieve broader societal impacts; and 3) while researchers feel confident in conceptualizing and carrying out activities related to broader societal impacts, they are less confident in writing BI statements for NSF proposals. Based on these findings, the authors recommend that research development professionals 1) emphasize the importance of finding meaning in research through its broader social impacts; 2) develop tools to support more intentional relationship-building in research projects; and 3) provide resources to help researchers translate their ideas into effective BI statements for proposals. The paper concludes by highlighting areas for further research, including student engagement, mentorship, and institutional questions about BI project development and evaluation. The authors argue that addressing these areas is crucial for enhancing the societal value and effectiveness of scholarly work, ultimately driving significant positive change through research.

Cross-cultural Art Curation and Urban Space Revitalization

In the complex environment of globalization and digitalization in the 21st century, Bourriaud's "Relational Aesthetics" provides a theoretical basis for us, emphasizing that the value of works of art as a medium of social interaction lies in building relationships between audiences. Taking this as a starting point, the concept of generalized curation transcends the material boundaries of traditional curation. focus on the Lefebvre’s triadic concept of space production, which intergreate realities of landscapes and urban forms, and the conceptual, planned representation through designs. Additionally, it encompasses the symbolic dimensions that influence social identities toghther to illustrate the dynamic nature of spatial existence (Lefebvre, 2012, p81-84). These theoretical frameworks provide a solid theoretical basis for understanding how art curation promotes cross-cultural communication in the context of globalization and how it integrates with urban spatial revitalization. The parallel forum of "Broad Curation and Urban Public Art Power" under the theme of "Resonance · Breaking the waves" of the 2024 Hainan International Cultural and Creative Week, as a dialogue media platform that brings together global wisdom, provides a frontier exploration for the creative transformation of art curation concepts and urban public space. This paper aims to share the perception of the participants and explore the impact of the results of this forum on the field of news communication, especially the urban cultural narrative and public art communication strategy.

Sustainable employability and work outcomes: a prospective study

BackgroundIn recent years, sustainable employability, rooted in the capability approach, has received substantial attention due to its associations with work and health-related outcomes. While previous studies have indicated that being able and enabled to achieve important work values (i.e., work capabilities) is positively associated with desirable work outcomes, most of these studies have primarily employed a cross-sectional design to explore these associations. This study aimed to examine the long-term relationships between work capabilities and work and wellbeing-related outcomes, including work ability, work engagement, task and creative performance, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational commitment, job and life satisfaction, turnover intention, and burnout symptoms.MethodsData were collected from 251 randomly selected Dutch employees through a two-wave survey conducted in 2021 and 2023 via the Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences panel. Multiple linear regression analyses were performed to assess these associations while controlling for potential covariates.ResultsThe results revealed that participants valued a diverse range of work capabilities but encountered challenges in realizing these valued capabilities. The capability set positively predicted desirable outcomes and was associated with reduced burnout over a two-year period.ConclusionsSupporting and enabling employees to realize their capabilities is essential for improving favorable work outcomes and diminishing burnout in today’s volatile work environment. These findings further emphasize the importance of organizations improving conversion factors to bridge the gap between valued capabilities and their actualization.

Self-efficacy, work motivation, and work values among bank employees

Self-efficacy, work motivation, and work values among bank employees

How Academic Social Workers Negotiate Their Direct Practice Skills and Qualitative Research Techniques.

The field of social work has been invested in assessing the alignment between direct practice skills and qualitative research techniques. Nevertheless, some of the debates surrounding this relationship have not been attended to recently-and less so in empirical ways. This qualitative study aimed to assess the relationship between practice and research skills with the goal of enhancing training in our field. Twenty academic social workers who conduct qualitative research participated in semistructured interviews. Thirteen were female, 13 were White, 11 had a doctoral degree, and their ages ranged from 27 to 65 years. Autoethnography and constructivist grounded theory approaches guided the analysis. Findings were contained in three themes: transferable techniques, bidirectional benefits, and pedagogical possibilities. Data underscore the role of reflexivity and boundaries in forging spaces amenable to appropriate data collection. Findings also supported a nuanced assessment of how qualitative research in social work may deliver benefits to both researcher and interviewee. Respondents suggest guidelines to ensure that training opportunities are ethically sound and consistent with social work values. Findings from this study may inform innovative enrichment opportunities for the field of social work across both research and practice.

Binaries and Blurred Lines: The Ethical Stress of Child Protection Social Work in the Grey of Extra-Familial Harm

ABSTRACT Social care responses to extra-familial harm require social workers to work across the binaries of welfare and justice, victim and perpetrator, parent and professional, risk and protection. This paper examines the ethical consequences of working in this manner, through qualitative data (focus groups, interviews, observations, case file analysis and documentary review) from three children's social care organisations in England who trialled new child protection pathways for significant harm outside of family homes/relationships. The extent to which these pathways created five conditions for a welfare response to extra-familial harm are considered, before these results are brought into conversation with Bourdieu’s meta theory of capital, habitus and doxa, and Fenton's practice theory of ethical stress. The challenges identified evidence of the importance foregrounding social work values in the pursuit of welfare-based response to extra-familial harm. They also offer a rationale for studying theories of care ethics in social work in the context of interagency practice.

Understanding Islamic Work Value and Generation Gap in Malaysia: A Qualitative Approach

Understanding Islamic Work Value and Generation Gap in Malaysia: A Qualitative Approach

‘A lot of social workers don’t seem to understand or realize the harm that they cause’: Disabled young people’s experiences with sexual well-being in social work practice

Abstract Young disabled people are disproportionately excluded from equal control, access, and choices concerning their sexual and reproductive rights. While sexual citizenship is founded on a rights-based approach and is closely connected with social work values such as empowerment and entitlement to full participation, many social workers do not include dimensions of sexual well-being in their scope of practice. This phenomenological study explores how social workers address the intersection of sexual well-being and disability from the perspectives of young disabled people. A total of twenty-four semi-structured interviews were carried out with individuals between the ages of 17 and 24 in Ontario, Canada, who identify themselves as disabled and have had prior interactions with a social worker. Social workers adopting risk-averse approaches negatively impacted the trust between young people and their social workers. Young people expressed their discontent with sexual well-being being deprioritized in practice, as participants considered dimensions of sexual well-being to be closely related to their physical, mental, and emotional health. Participants overwhelmingly reported that social workers should discuss sexual well-being with service users using sex-positive perspectives. The findings highlight the importance of holistic and comprehensive social work practices, including sexual well-being and sex-positive perspectives.