Young Executives Research Articles

Metode Penyelenggaraan Kuliah Studi Pasca Sarjana Post Pandemi: Mana Yang Lebih Memenuhi Kebutuhan Pasar?

The method of post-pandemic lecture delivery in postgraduate studies is an issue for educational institution management. Lectures will be delivered offline since the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, and the conditions are recovering. Postgraduate students, especially working students, are protesting because they have to attend face-to-face lectures on weekdays for various reasons. This study aims to determine which postgraduate lecture delivery method meets the market needs (university students). The research method made use of Soft System Methodology (SSM). The FGD was conducted with twelve participants, classified into postgraduate students of Wijawiyata Management (full-time students), Young Executives (students with at least two years of work experience), and Executives (students with no less than five years of work experience). The research was conducted in March and April 2023. The results were analyzed using Role (clients, practitioners, and owners), Social (educational institutions and instructors), and Power (national policies and regulations) Analysis. This research shows that by rich picture and root definition, weekday online lectures and weekend (Saturday) offline lectures meet the market's needs and violate no Indonesian higher educational regulations. The findings also suggest that a combined lecture mode, offline and online, is more favorable to Master's degree students, hence the Indonesian government's rigorous encouragement for Distant Learning for various learning needs across the archipelago.

Executive Coaching

Executive coaching has acquired a significant position in the world of developmental interventions in human resources development. Similarly, another trend spotted over the past two decades is reduction in the age group of senior and top executives. As the managers reach the top slots at young ages, it is imperative that their coaching needs must be re-assessed on the backdrop of the traditional needs of their relatively elder counterparts. Hence, the study was undertaken to understand the coaching needs expectations of young executives below 40 years of age. This paper presents the findings based on these young executives' responses on the related parameters (e.g., firm and faster decision making, acquisition of new knowledge, certifications, refining the presentation skills, better time management, strict financial controls and planning, technological updates, wider reading, better communication, listening skills, empathy, and career opportunities). The paper concludes with a few pointers for coaching for young executives and paves the way for further research in this area.

»Jung führt Alt« – (k)ein Thema im Coaching für junge Führungskräfte?

The »Young Leads Old« constellation is a widespread approach in companies and businesses today. Due to its potential for conflict it is being discussed more and more frequently in development programs for staff and executives. Against this background, the article provides a brief description of the results of academic studies and points to possible/attempted explanations. Subsequently, it discusses what advice for young executives could focus on. The authors are inspired by the eight guiding differences of psycho-dynamics according to the meta-theory of change, which they combine with the fundamentals of Theme-centered Interaction (TCI). This is a way to further transparency, trust and the competence to act when clarifying tasks/assignments and interacting with coachees.

Business Plan: Rencana Pendirian Kedai Teh di Jakarta Barat

“Business Plan Opening a Tea Café at Jakarta Barat” is a planning for opening a business which sell tea for take away. With the lifestyle of the community, we can see a potential opportunity to sell drinks which are currently trending among teenagers to young executives. This business plan aims to create a new business plan in the food and beverage industry and create opportunities for profit. Based on the results of the analysis and discussion, it can be concluded that this business is feasible to be realized on the basis of considerations including Porter's Five Forces analysis and SWOT analysis. This business financial planning also shows that this business will provide profit and payback period which is quite short, 1 year 4 months. And the Net Present Value (NPV) value of Rp 440,173,246,- this shows that this investment is very profitable, and the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) value is 266%, which means it is much higher than the interest rate.

Uneasy Turns

Uneasy Turns Andrew Weinstein (bio) A Thousand Natural Shocks: Selected Stories Richard Burgin Goliad Press www.goliadreview.com/the-catalog 464 pages; Print, $14.99 Over four decades, Richard Burgin has published seventeen books, among them three novels and nine story collections. Five times he's won what's arguably the most distinguished award for the English-language short story, the Pushcart Prize—more than anyone else except Joyce Carol Oates, who also happens to have published several of Burgin's books through Ontario Press. In Poland and France readers celebrate his work. And yet, the larger American public still hasn't discovered this unique and visionary writer. That may finally change with the release of A Thousand Natural Shocks, a selection of twenty-five of the author's best stories written over nearly forty years. No one in American letters has conjured a world quite so disturbing and yet so familiar as Richard Burgin. It's as though Edgar Allen Poe had set loose his characters in a landscape of urban basketball courts, hotel bars, and garden apartments. Some of Burgin's stories might be called new American gothic, others social science fiction, while still others could pass as naturalist. Haunting them all is a disparate cast of men and women just as likely to be drug dealers, addicts, and prostitutes as bankers, artists, and professors, but all share a dark psychological state stained by raw emotional wounds, burning resentments, weird phobias, or grim obsessions. Theirs are the sort of psychic disturbances that grow like mold in the neglected corners of contemporary society, the isolated places in plain view where so many people lead lonely and desperate lives. No matter how hard they try, Burgin's characters almost always fail to form meaningful relationships. What turns so many of them tragic are the seemingly infinite ways they sabotage their own efforts for connection, sometimes for no better reason than that they doubt themselves. In Burgin's most chilling story, "'Do You Like This Room?'" a young woman enjoys the company of her date so well that she goes home with him, yet this troubled man cannot shake a growing suspicion that his choice of restaurant, dessert, home furnishings, etc. have secretly disappointed her. Her impotence in reassuring him intensifies his withering sense of failure, and he punishes her cruelly. This is classic Freudian castration theory, but there's nothing theoretical or didactic about Burgin's deeply felt and deftly rendered tale. (Two years ago, the author and his son Richard D. Burgin adapted this story as a short film called "All Ears," posted on YouTube.) Difficulties in relations between men and women can be a hackneyed theme, but Burgin's approach to the topic is as far from cliché as a ransom note from a Hallmark card. In "The Spirit of New York" an advertising designer, equally intimidated by prostitutes in provocative clothing as by young executives in power suits, fashions his own scary tough-guy costume and prowls at night, jumping out from behind parked cars to scare women and then pretending these ugly encounters are accidents. For him, this is not exactly a sexual thrill: his whole body apparently expands and hardens, making him feel like God, who, he points out, governs the whole world by frightening people. Even so, he thinks his terror games connect him more intensely with his victims than sex ever could: when he sees their panicked faces, he recognizes the vulnerability and fear he knows in himself. Rereading these stories, some after decades, I find myself admiring them more than ever. Burgin's compelling narratives simultaneously engage secondary themes in subtle but probing ways. Throughout his career, Burgin has buried small land mines within his stories that explode our assumptions of any gender binary. The most hypermasculine-presenting characters, for example the costumed advertising designer, find themselves strangely attracted to people of the same sex. Without any women on a particular street to scare, he takes pleasure in startling a young man whose hair is "long enough to be a girl's." Vexed male-female relations actually give some of Burgin's men the opportunity to share...

Work Life Balance During Lockdown

The concept of Work-life balance was considered to be finding equilibrium between family and professional life. Young executives were struggling to balance the time they spent on their career and the quality time they spent with their families. The ambition to succeed in the career resulted in their spending long hours in the work. At the same time, the demands of the family with the birth and rearing of children was getting higher. With both the husband and wife working, it became very much stressful and it is much harder for the women, especially in our culture. This work-family conflict was significant source of stress. Current concept is broader and is balancing between work and non-work activities. It consists of managing self, time, stress, change, technology and leisure. Commuting long distances in heavy traffic during peak hours followed by meeting after meetings and target oriented work culture put people under tremendous stress. People were looking forward for flexible working hours and work from home as solutions to these. During the lockdown, people are forced to work from home. In the process they found that now they are just one call or message away from the work and are thus expected to work 24/7 and are not able to concentrate on other works. The quality of time spent with the family in the period of uncertainty without leisure is giving more stress. The research objective of the article is to understand about Work Life balance by reviewing the earlier literature and connecting them with the current situation of lock down when people realized that what the very theme of work lie balance is blurred due to FUD. The article then gives suggestions to overcome the same.

Dynamic capabilities in Italian leading SMEs adopting industry 4.0

PurposeThis paper aims to focus on how Industry 4.0 technology transfer has been implemented by leading Italian innovative small, and medium-size companies (SMEs).Design/methodology/approachThis exploratory-descriptive study uses qualitative methods for collecting primary data (interviews and ethnographic observation) and secondary data (surveys, press news and websites).FindingsThe paper contributes to the understanding of what building dynamic capabilities (DC) is, and to clarify pivotal roles, functions and dynamics of the entrepreneur and the executive team.Research limitations/implicationsThe results that emerged from the present research unveil a great potential for further development. The study can be confirmed and/or extended by replicating it within other economic contexts such as the European Union allowing then comparative studies amongst regions and countries.Practical implicationsIn Italian leading SMEs an “augmented management” emerged. The study shows that digital technologies are enriching not only “what” and “how” management performs its duties but also its role: “orchestration” – a key term in DC theory – has been enhanced by new meanings.Social implicationsThe study points out the relevance of an inclusive approach to Industry 4.0 to leverage the collective intelligence of the company.Originality/valueImplementing Industry 4.0 has required a renewal of the leadership executive team: new young executives coming from other companies and sons/daughters of the entrepreneurs have provided methodologies and commitment to foster the digital transformation.

Executive Gender Pay Gap: The Role of Employer Learning and Regulatory Interventions

This paper examines the role of information and regulatory interventions in mitigating the executive gender pay gap. We find female executives are paid about 34 per cent less compared to equivalent males from the same cohort, which falls by half over tenure within the company, but remains systematically significant throughout. The gender pay gap is the highest for young female executives and in the financial sector. Both demand-side (board gender quotas) and supply-side (family policies) regulatory interventions are associated with a lower gender gap in executive pay. Board gender quotas are associated with lower gender pay gap for experienced female executives in the highest age bracket. In contrast, supply-side interventions are associated with lower gender pay gap for the youngest female executives. Our results have important implications for the relative effectiveness of public policies that aim to reduce gender imbalance in corporate leadership.

ENTERTAINMENT GRATIFICATION, INFORMATIVE GRATIFICATION, WEB IRRITATION AND SELF-EFFICACY AS MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS TO ONLINE SHOPPING INTENTION

The Internet technology and pervasive computing has provided consumers with privileges to shop online. In addition, the Industry 4.0 agenda has placed the business web and the social web as the ecosystem domains, which explains why online shopping is a norm today. While many studies have been conducted to investigate the determinants of consumers’ intention to use online shopping, mixed results are always found, especially when the business take unique approaches for their digital presence. Besides, even though self-efficacy has been studied extensively in information system research, technological complexity has always given a challenge to consumers’ computing ability. Building on the Use and Gratification Theory (GTA) and the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), this study aims to examine the relationships between entertainment gratification, informative gratification, web irritation and self-efficacy towards individual’s intention to use online shopping. Using the quantitative survey approach, data was collected from 217 young executives who are frequent online shoppers. The results of the structural equation modeling suggest entertainment gratification, informative gratification and self-efficacy are the factors that derive consumers’ intention to shop online. On the other hand, web irritation has no significant relationship with online shopping intention. The findings do not only capture the importance for web retailers to provide adequate buying-selling information and to provide the element of fun to the shopping portals, but it also suggests for the web retailers to provide less complicated online shopping features since consumers’ ability to use the technology determines purchase behavior. The findings serve as future research agenda.
 Keywords: online business, Use and Gratification Theory (GTA), Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), entertainment gratification, informative gratification, web irritation, self-efficacy

Rethinking femininity in organisations: Experimental insights into team composition

AbstractRole incongruity, sex role stereotypes and candidate selection procedures which oversatisfy masculine role expectations evoke an underrepresentation of femininity in organisations. The author seeks to remedy this bad state of affairs. This study is designed based on an experiment with 288 young executives simulating self-organised work groups and manipulated the degree of gender-related (not sex-related) heterogeneity. Results generally show a curvilinear relationship with an upright U-shaped format between heterogeneity and performance, team identity and intrateam communication. The major contribution in specific is that highly homogeneous teams outperform other team types in the short run, whereas highly heterogeneous teams succeed in the long run. Consequently, this work recommends ‘femininity enrichment’ in firms and discusses manageable practical advice to do so. As for the laboratory character, findings and implications for practicing managers have to be treated with caution. Finally, the most promising avenues for further research are illuminated.

Supply chain integration: value creation through managing inter-organizational learning

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how inter-organizational learning (including supply chain learning and imitation prevention) mediates the relationships between supply chain integration (SCI) and two dimensions of focal firm performance (i.e. customer service performance and innovation performance).Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional approach was adopted with primary data collected through a survey in China. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling with partial least-squares estimations.FindingsThe findings verify that inter-organizational learning mediates the relationship between SCI and focal firm performance. The results of sub-group model analysis illustrate that both powerful and weak focal firms benefit from inter-organizational learning, but in different ways.Research limitations/implicationsThe responses were all from young executives who had four years’ work experience on average. Top-level executives may provide more comprehensive and accurate input for similar future research.Practical implicationsThe results suggest that successfully integrating the supply chain to create customer value requires both supply chain learning and imitation prevention.Originality/valueThis paper responds to calls for an inter-disciplinary research between supply chain management and inter-organizational learning by taking into account supply chain learning and imitation prevention as links between SCI and both customer service performance for current success and innovation performance for future prosperity.

Executive heterogeneity, pay bandwagon, and earnings management

Purpose From the perspective of top management heterogeneity, this paper aims to study the impact of the psychological traits of executive pay bandwagon on earnings management in the listed companies of China. Design/methodology/approach This paper applies the ratio of executive pay to the median pay level of executives in firms of similar size and industry, namely, the comparing coefficient, as an alternative variable of executive pay bandwagon, and earnings management as the behavior choice of executive pay bandwagon, to examine whether executives in the listed companies of China have comparing mentality, and whether the result is influenced by executive heterogeneity by using the multiple linear regression models. Findings The lower the executives’ compensation is than the median pay level of executives in firms of similar size and industry, the stronger the incentive the executives have to compare with others whose pay is higher, increasing the extent of earnings management in the future, and executives tend to use real activities manipulation rather than accrual-based earnings management to increase their performance-based compensation. As pay bandwagon is a kind of executives’ individual psychological reaction, in a large extent, its behavioral performance is likely to be affected by executive heterogeneity. Specifically, when the proportion of male executives, young executives or low educated executives is relatively high, or executives are located in remote cities, there will breed more earnings management behaviors induced by pay bandwagon. Further study shows that pay bandwagon is positively correlated with rigging compensation based on real earnings management and pay bandwagon also has significantly negative effects on the firms’ future value creation. Research limitations/implications Pay bandwagon is an important inducement of executives’ earnings management, with implication that for executives with different characteristics, one should pay attention to the subjective psychological perception and expectation of their pay in the future studies related to executives’ compensation incentives. Originality/value This study introduces the research within sociology, psychology and experimental economics, and considers the executives’ subjective perception of their pay, to explore the internal mechanism that executives affect firm performance via a specific earnings management method and to implement self-interested behavior due to pay bandwagon. And this is the first study to select several typical executive individual characteristics to investigate the influence of executive heterogeneity on pay bandwagon and its economic consequences.

Media preferences among young consumers in Bangladesh: a multidimensional approach

Generally, preference toward an advertising media is judged by company-driven effectiveness assessment parameters such as reach, frequency, sales and return on investment. This paper, on the other hand, by using structural equation modeling offers a three-dimensional 20-item ‘media effectiveness assessment model’ based on the quantitative judgment of young consumers. After that the preferences of male and female consumers toward seven different media with respect to the assessment criteria of the model have been captured and compared. Item-wise results of the study show that radio received highest priority by male consumers, whereas, TV and newspaper are the second priority. Female respondents on the other hand put highest preference toward magazine followed by radio. Popularity of radio among young consumers is noticeable. Dimension-wise comparisons revealed that men and women consumers preferred radio and billboard, respectively as the best media for ‘customization’ ability. However, for advertisement ‘positioning’ men and women prioritized TV and magazine, respectively. Finally, billboard and radio were found to be most ‘interactive’ as opined by male and female, respectively. The methodology of this study is based on 783 samples collected from the young executives (both male and female) of Bangladesh during September–November, 2014.

Dos principados hereditários: os jovens executivos e as demandas da carreira

This study aims to discuss the balance between professional and personal life of young heir executives. We interviewed fifteen young executives from Minas Gerais, Brazil, heirs of medium and big firms. The research showed sources of (in) satisfaction related to the meaning and the work process of these young executives. We discussed how they feel towards the possibilities of career advancing relating the professional obligations and the activities dedicated to personal life and leisure. It was discussed also the contents of the role of the executive to diagnosticate the basic dimensions of the tasks executed related to autonomy, identity of the task and significance of work. The results indicate that the young heir executives are satisfied with the distribution of both time and energy dedicated to work and non-working time. These executives are under a domination system rationally legitimated by parent expectations, a fundamental element in the process of continuity and survival of the firm because they occupy a specific space previously delimitated: they are the “owner children”. Prisoners of their predecessor life work and condemned to win through the continuity of their fathers´ work, the young heir executives take the burden of the heritage to fulfill the role expected since very young.

Conceptualizing and implementing the distributed leadership practices in Indian organizations

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to measure employees’ attitude toward distributed leadership (DL) practices and investigate the challenges involved in implementing DL practices in Indian organizations.Design/methodology/approach– This study is conducted within an exploratory research framework. The data were collected from 180 young middle-level executives from a diverse group of industry sectors belonging to private and multinational organization located in northern part of India. Unstructured (personal interviews and focus group interviews) and structured interview schedule (questionnaire) were administered to measure employees’ attitude and challenges of implementation.Findings– The qualitative and quantitative analytic strategies were adopted to analyze the data. Results of exploratory factors analysis showed the existence of five underlying dimensions about the significance of DL practices, namely, self-initiatives, improved functioning, achieving organizational goals, accountability and mutual respect. Furthermore, results showed the importance of contextual factors in implementing DL practices namely horizontal structure, professionalism, work commitment and power sharing. Also, the attitudinal dimensions were found to be positively correlated with the dimensions of implementing DL practices in Indian work context.Research limitations/implications– This study strengthens the importance of measuring employees’ attitudes that can be a good predictor of implementing best practices in organizations. The major limitation of this study is of the small sample size and has been limited to young managers.Originality/value– This is an original paper based on the empirical data from Indian managers. No study is conducted on the concept of distributing leadership in Indian work context on a similar or related theme.

Evolution Sustainable Green Inner-wall with Flexible Floor Plan

The trend of renovate residential houses especially the interior of the house has become a common phenomenon for homeowners nowadays in Malaysia. This scenario is quiet concern because sometimes no modifications to comply with the law and the guidelines set by the government housing. Modifications with not done properly can cause injury and harm to families and the people around. To reduce this problem, the concept of sustainable inner walls with flexible floor plan should be incorporated in every house in Malaysia. This is because the wall is the basic structure of a building and usually serves as the border, supporting structures and dividing the space with another space. Wall also causes an increase of the price of a house. This is due to the increase in raw material costs and labor costs, land subsidence have to bear by the developer. The increasing in house prices is causing among Malaysians, especially young executives cannot afford to buy their first home. To reduce the price of the home, reduction in construction interior wall in wet construction should be done and replaced with the sustainable inner wall. This sustainable inner wall also can save the space and the owner simplify can added or reduced the room according their need without spending too much money for renovation in the future.

Analisis Pengaruh Communal Activation terhadap Keputusan Membeli untuk Meningkatkan Brand Loyalty (Studi Kasus Teh Botol Sosro Less Sugar)

Established in 1974 PT Sinar Sosro is the first bottled ready-to-drink tea producer in Indonesia. In order to fulfill its lovers wherever they are, the newest innovation has been launched, i.e. Teh Botol Sosro Less Sugar, which focuses on diabetics, sportsmen/athletes, and young executives as its target markets. To foster brand loyalty and control the community, PT Sinar Sosro utilizes crowd combo marketing concept, especiallycommunal activation activity that is adjusted with the current New Wave Marketing era, so PT Sinar Sosro can integrate supply and access of Teh Botol Sosro Less Sugar product. The objectives of this research are to analyze the influence of Communal Activation on Buying Decision of Teh Botol Sosro Less Sugar, and to analyze the influence of Communal Activation and Buying Decision on Brand Loyalty of Teh Botol Sosro Less Sugar. The data collection technique used was questionnaire disseminated to the members of Teh Botol Sosro Less Sugar online community, using Likert scale. While the data analysis technique used was Path Analysis. The result of Path Analysis shows the structural equation Y = 0,523 X + 0,8526 ε1 which Communal Activation significantly contributes to Buying Decision at 27,3% and Z = 0,552 X2 + 0,229 Y + 0,7141 ε2 which Communal Activation and Buying Decision simultantly and significantly contribute to Brand Loyalty at 49%.

Ocean World Water Park: destination marketing challenge

Subject area Marketing. Study level/applicability The case should ideally be discussed in an advanced second year MBA course or towards the end of a first year course where the students are already exposed to the basics of marketing. The case works well in courses on destination marketing, strategic marketing, campaign management, entrepreneurship. It also works well with executives, the case discussion affording the instructor an opportunity to illuminate the complexity of designing and implementing marketing strategy. Case overview Two young MBAs, each with a marketing specialization working in a bank, left their jobs and started their own company by buying a rubber plantation business from another businessman. The businessman was one of the co-owners of the “Ocean World Water Park” theme park (amusement park) close to Bhubaneswar-Cuttack twin city. The amusement park had good potential as it was located in an area with exponential growth of young executives having high disposable incomes. But the business performed poorly because of management ineffectiveness. The case explores the possibility of a turnaround. Expected learning outcomes The case: sensitizes students about the commercial implications of their marketing decisions by giving them adequate data to work on evaluating the revenue and profit impact of marketing initiatives on business; and helps them to understand that promotional variables are not independent in nature and hence separating the impact of one promotion when a large number of initiatives are operational, is not very dependable. Though the case provides a particular way of attempting to solve the problem, it does not lead to unique solutions. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes.

Sustainable green inner-wall design for flexible floor plan

The rises of house price in the market is so drastic that it effects the younger generation nowadays especially young executives and young couples who could not afford to buy their first home. The factors that determine the house price presumably are the interior and exterior structural of the house itself. So to lessen the house price, we have to minimize the usage of wet construction thus the idea of having a sustainable green inner-wall implemented into the house with a flexible floor plan. This concept is user-friendly as it is built on needs and the ownership's affordability. They can design the interior of the house however they want with using minimal cost because it does not involve wet construction.

PERANCANGAN INOVASI SEPATU DAN SELOP SEBAGAI SOLUSI MASYARAKAT MOBILITAS TINGGI DENGAN METODE QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT

In order to improve the quality of the society with high mobilityit needs an footwear innovation. With the behavior of a mobile society it must act effectively and efficiently organize belongings, especially the users who feel the hassle of carrying equipment. So that users think of some alternatives to travel, but the alternative is actually getting some disadvantages. Based on a survey of 30 respondents (students, faculty and young executives) 100% said that shoes and sandals should be two in one designed to be effective and efficient in travel frequently and 30 respondents also prefer sandals slippers as a model to the sole / bottom (section bottom of the shoes) than slippers. Based on the results of the questionnaire was obtained new footwear design innovation. This product is designed to utilize sol / bottom (the bottom of the shoe) at the shoe. it use to be slippers so that when Se-Top split, sol can be slippers. Meanwhile, when it was merged with the hood / upper (the top of the shoe) will be the shoes.