hamed dehghanan, Mir Ali Seyyed Naghavi, Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard
et al.
Designing service compensation strategies is one of the sensitive, complex and challenging issues in human resource management in recent decades. Its requirement is to achieve strategic reference points and the aim of the research is to identify the dimensions and components that influence on the compensation strategies of managers in the automotive industry. The research method is qualitative in nature and practical in terms of purpose. The number of participants based on saturation The opinion was determined by the managers of automobile companies with more than ten years of work experience in this industry, and the information was collected and analyzed through semi-structured interviews with 14 experts who were selected according to the researcher's judgment. The theme was used to analyze and interpret the data from the interview. The findings of this research include eight organizing themes of basic salary (fixed payment), special salary (variable payment), mixed payments, allowances (income in addition to salary), Short-term and long-term rewards, benefits (special managerial facilities), managerial knowledge and decision-making skills, and the ability to recognize issues and solve problems are effective reference points in compensation strategies for managers in the automobile industry.
Denne artikel undersøger beskrivelser af didaktiske designs, som undervisere på pædagog- og læreruddannelsen i Danmark har lavet som led i deres arbejde med legende tilgange til deres undervisning. Datamaterialet består af 36 beskrivelser af didaktiske designs, hvor undervisere skal overveje mål, intentioner og legekvaliteter i deres planlægning, gennemførelse og evaluering. Analysen viser, at underviserne ofte designer med de samme legekvaliteter, og ofte er disse legekvaliteter dem, som vi forventer. Analysen viser også, at hvis vi arbejder med at tydeliggøre legekvaliteterne ved at have en fornemmelse for diversitet, åbner vi for et større spekter af legekvaliteter. Og tydelighed og diversitet vil også have betydning for, i hvilket omfang det faglige er centralt i de didaktiske designs, og hvordan legekvaliteterne er relevante for det faglige. Artiklens centrale bidrag er at vise, at begrebet legekvaliteter er en relevant og virkningsfuld måde at udvikle legende tilgange til læring og undervisning i højere uddannelse på.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT
Play and the playful in higher education. A play quality analysis of 36 didactic designs in social education and teacher training programs
This study aims to investigate the didactic designs that educators in social education and teacher training in Denmark create when adopting a playful approach to teaching. The data consist of 36 descriptions of the didactic designs, where teachers are asked to consider goals, intentions, and play qualities in their planning, realization, and evaluation processes. The analysis reveals that teachers often design for the same play qualities, which tend to be the expected ones. The analysis also indicates that working transparently with play qualities and exploring the diversity of these qualities hold potential for broadening the scope of diversity in didactics within teacher education and social education. Moreover, transparency and diversity influence the extent to which the subject matter is integrated and the relevance of play qualities to the subject matter. The main contribution of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of the concept of play qualities in developing playful approaches to learning in higher education.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
The culture-building graph (CBG) provides a visualization to understand and approach cultural change within an organization. The foundation of this cultural change is the changing of mental models to a shared mental model rooted in the organization’s Vision, Mission, Capacity, and Learning (VMCL). However, what happens when there are opposing VMCL mental models competing for the same group of “fence sitters”? This competition may be characterized by political conflict during elections, cultural conflict between social groups, or even kinetic conflict (warfare) such as the U.S. attempting to win hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan. These are situations where the culture-building model may be utilized for cultural change even when two organizations are in competition. This paper will present a modified version of the CBG, the culture-competition graph, for applications to conflict and propose additional organizational change strategies for cultural change.
Morteza Maroufani Asl, Golamreza Tavakoli, Hasan Farsijani
et al.
Business model innovation is a prominent topic in the field of management. The importance of this concept for complex defense product developers is also increasing. This study analyzes the relationships structure of "internal drivers of business model innovation" for developers of complex defense products. After identifying the drivers, with the participation of 12 experts - who were selected through purposive sampling - and using the method of interpretive structural modeling, the framework of relationships "internal drivers of business model innovation" for these organizations, designed. Drivers related to "governance and policies" and "organizational leadership" (at the first level) were identified as the most important drivers in this context, which, affect other drivers by influencing the drivers of "human capital" and "financial resources" (at the second level). At the third level were the drivers related to "Research, Knowledge, Technological and Product Innovations", "Production and Operations", "Supply and CIntroductionThe business model innovation drivers have been introduced as one of the main streams of research in business model innovation. However, not much knowledge has been developed regarding these drivers. The few kinds of research conducted in the field of innovation drivers of business models have mainly investigated the external drivers of business model innovation. Also, the studies conducted in this field often focus on service companies and organizations active in the mass production of consumer products. However, no comprehensive study has been observed in the field of innovation drivers of business models of organizations developing complex products, especially in the defense industry - which has different conditions. The environment of this industry has changed in recent years. The drivers of the strategic environment of the defense industries have made this industry, based on the logic of knowledge-based defense, put a set of transformational programs on its agenda. In order to overcome the challenges caused by the transformations mentioned above, the open innovation strategy has been placed on the agenda of industrial organizations and scientific-research centers affiliated whit the Ministry of Defense. Ignoring the business models of the mentioned organizations will make it challenging to realize the mentioned strategy. Therefore, identifying the drivers of business model innovation and analyzing the structure of relationships between them is essential for organizations, as mentioned earlier. The relevant literature has not yet been clarified for developers of complex products and technology-oriented organizations. Also, there is a gap regarding identifying and comprehensively analyzing business model innovation drivers. The current research aims to comprehensively identify the internal drivers of business model innovation and analyze their relationships with developers of complex defense products.Materials and MethodsThis study is mixed research, and in terms of its purpose, it is applied research. The study data was collected in 1400. The statistical population of the research was experts aware of the opportunities and challenges of developing complex defense products, including senior managers, middle managers, senior experts, and university professors who participated in different stages of the study. For the validity of the research results, qualitative research approaches were used. Using at least three data sources (based on the triangulation approach); long-term involvement of researchers with the research environment; The collaborative nature of the research and receiving the opinions of the participants in the focus groups and reaching a consensus in all stages of the research has achieved the accuracy and scientific validity of the research results. In addition, the validity of the questionnaires was content validity and face validity, and the questionnaires were approved by experts after their design. Also, the parallel method using peer tests was used to check the reliability of the interpretive structural modeling questionnaire. In different steps of the research, in order to collect and analyze the required data, several methods have been used:The first step: the triangulation approach, was used to identify the drivers; In this regard, the following four activities were carried out: The first activity: identifying the drivers by examining the background of the research; In this activity, by reviewing articles published in prestigious international journals, 29 drivers were extracted from 45 selected articles. The second activity: more than ten organizational strategic documents published in the last ten years at the policy level were reviewed. Using the qualitative content analysis method, 41 drivers (having common drivers with the results of the first activity) were identified. The third activity: 8 focus groups were formed with the participation of 81 experts who were purposefully selected, and 41 drivers (having common drivers with the results of the first and second actions) were also included in this activity (using the qualitative content analysis method) was extracted. The fourth activity: the theme analysis method, was used to summarize the results of the three actions and extract the drivers according to the local conditions of the defense industry. Second step: The fuzzy Delphi method was used in two steps to screen and confirm the identified drivers. At this stage, 26 experts were selected purposefully in the policy-making layer of the mentioned industry. Third step: determine the structure of relationships and interactions; the interpretive structural modeling approach was used with the participation of 12 professors and experts at the policy level. Discussion and ResultsIn the identification section: 54 drivers in 8 main business dimensions of organizations developing complex defense products, including: "governance and policies,"; "organizational leadership,"; "human capital,"; "financial and economic resources,"; "knowledge, research, technological and product innovations"; "production and operations"; "supply network and collaborations" and "market and customer" were identified. In the relationship framework design section, Using the interpretative structural modeling method, the relationship framework of intra-organizational drivers of business model innovation for the mentioned organizations was designed in three levels. The drivers related to "governance and policies" and "organizational leadership" at the first level are the most critical drivers in this framework, which by influencing the drivers of "human capital" and "financial and economic resources" at the second level on other drivers in affect the system. In the third level, there are drivers related to "knowledge, research, technological and product innovations," "production and operations," "supply network and collaborations," and "market and customer." With their activation, more value is created for stakeholders.Even though the identified drivers are distributed in all the main dimensions of the business model of the mentioned organizations, the drivers related to the components of "governance and policies," "knowledge, research, technological and product innovations," as well as "supply network and cooperation" are more prominent in the mentioned organizations compared to other service and mass production organizations.Based on the findings of this research, the policymakers of the organizations mentioned above will be able to make strategic decisions more confidently about the issues and challenges of the business model innovation of the respective organizations. A similar study has not been conducted on complex defense product developers. This limitation makes it difficult to compare the results. However, the findings of this study are consistent with studies conducted in small service organizations, mass production organizations, and some large organizations. It should be noted that most previous studies have investigated the effect of a single driver.ConclusionsIn this research, the internal drivers of business model innovation for developers of complex defense products were comprehensively identified, and the structure of relationships between them was designed. The comprehensiveness, variety, and number of drivers identified, as well as the research context (including developers of complex defense products), distinguish this study from previous studies. In this study, while summarizing the results of previous studies, new drivers (25) have been identified that were not mentioned in previous studies. This research showed that the internal drivers of business model innovation for developers of complex defense products with the ISM approach are placed on three levels. In this leveling, drivers related to "governance and policymaking" and "organizational leadership" were at the lowest level. It means that in the business model innovation process of the mentioned organizations, attention to the relevant drivers is a priority. Addressing other drivers will not be very effective without paying attention to the mentioned drivers. A comprehensive awareness of these drivers and the relationships between them helps policymakers adopt more effective policies and decisions in the business model innovation of the mentioned organizations. Conducting more exploratory studies in organizations developing complex products may lead to identifying new drivers.ooperation Network" and "Market and Customer". These drivers affect the "creation of value for stakeholders" by activating Level 1 and 2 drivers.
Formålet med artiklen er at undersøge og diskutere relationen mellem forsker og felt med særligt fokus på, hvilken betydning forskernes domænespecifikke ekspertise og interesse kan have for samspillet med deltagere fra praksis og for forskningens resultat. I visse aktionsforskningstekster beskrives forskeren som en interesseløs facilitator af brugerinvolverende praksisser og af brugernes forandringsinteresse (Duus et al., 2012; Lewin, 1997). I andre aktionsforskningstekster beskrives forskningsprocessen som grundlæggende initieret af forskerens forskningsinteresse og faglige baggrund indenfor det specifikke felt, der forskes i (Dewey, 2005; Hildebrand, 2008). Når disse teoretiske og metodiske tilgange sammenholdes, fordrer det en nærmere diskussion af betydningen af forskerens domænespecifikke ekspertise og interesse. Med afsæt i et konkret aktionsforskningsprojekt, som artiklens forfattere har ledet og deltaget i, argumenteres i nærværende artikel for, at domænespecifik faglig ekspertise kan have afgørende positiv betydning for 1) den måde, forskerne kan indgå i konkrete samspil med praktikerne fra feltet på, og 2) den måde, resultaterne af de konkrete praksisser kan forstås, analyseres og vurderes på. Ligeledes argumenteres for, at potentielle ulemper kan imødekommes via metoder, der bl.a. involverer såkaldt appreciative inquiry og kollaborative analysestrategier. Artiklens teoretiske udgangspunkt og inspirationskilde er pragmatisme.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
Humanity is experiencing great trauma during the current phase of globalization. According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE; 2019), “Globalization is… the growing interdependence of the world’s economies, cultures, and populations, brought about by cross-border trade in goods and services, technology, and flows of investment, people, and information.” The human factor is included significantly in the PIIE definition—cultures, populations and flows of people. The human factor has been the least considered in current and early stages of globalization. That factor causes the most resistance and fear. Where and how are we looking for solutions? We keep focusing on areas where we have invested the most—economy, technology and physical science, while increasingly disregarding human dignity and human agency (Haque, 2018). This article proposes that we can address these inconsistencies in globalization if humanity evolves to greater maturity through a paradigm, which reveals cultural interdependence as a priority on par with economic and technological interdependence. Such a paradigm is Cultural Complementarity, which can harness cultural synergy to complement the achievements already in place and to reduce fear and divisiveness and their resulting excess and crises.
Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology, Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
1.Introduction Mutation in DNA, migration, natural selection, type of non-random matting (such as consanguineous marriages) and genetic drift (in small size populations) are factors caused alterations of allelic frequencies in populations (Saadat and Amirshahi 2011, 1-12). The above-mentioned factors are evolutionary forces. Folktales, like living organisms, have evolutionary pathways. Folktales experience sudden changes (mutation), and moving from a population to another population (migration). Some parts of folktales change according to some environmental factors (such as economic, political and cultural), which is very similar to natural selection. Some parts of different folktales join with each other, which is similar to non-random matting. Finally, some large levels of changes randomly occur in folktales in small communities (similar to genetic drift). In biology, there are several methods for clustering organisms (including animal and plants). Two of these methods are 'phenetics' and “phylogenetics” clustering. It should be noted that phenetics methods are based on similarities (or differences) without attention to ancestress. In the present study we tried to clustering of 38 narratives of a very famous Iranian folktale (Sang-e Saboor). Sang-e Saboor is a tale type 894 according to the Aarne-Thompson–Uther tale type index.. 2. Methodology In order to verify the validity of this hypothesis, in the present study, phenetics clustering analysis of 37 narratives of Sang-e Saboor in Iranian populations (Anjavi-Shirazi 2015, 317-390; Qatali 2010, 229-332; Ardalani 2003; 233-236; Elwell-Sutton 2007, 368-374; Behrangi and Dehqani 2002, 128-132; Pak 2012, 65-67; Sarfi 2008, 21-24; Fagiri 2003, 57-60; Arji 2006, 125-128; Takahara and Vakilian 2002, 97-100; Moaed-Mohseni 2002, 567-568) and a narrative from Afghanistan (Herat) was carried out (Rahmani 1998, 142-146). In the narratives used, a total of 40 features were extracted, some with more than two levels. After converting them to bi-state (zero and one) properties, a total of 53 bi-state characteristics were obtained (Table 1). The clustering was carried out using 'Euclidean distance' and analysis of 'within-group linkage'. Geographical distances between each two locations of narratives were obtain by 'Google Map'. The migration rate between two populations is a function of their geographical distance. Correlation between 'Euclidean distance' and 'geographical distance' was evaluated by Pearson correlation coefficient. Data was entered into the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) (version 11.5). A P-value less than 0.05 was considered statistical significant. All P values were two-tailed. 3. Results and Discussion Table 2 should the distance matrix of each narrative with the other 37 narratives. Figure 1 shows the correlation between 'Euclidean distance' and 'geographical distance'. The correlation between geographical and Euclidean distances is statistical significant (r=+0.197, df=701, P<0.001). It should be noted that determination coefficient (r2) to be equal to 0.0388, which it means that about 3.8% of variations in 'Euclidean distances' might be interpreted by geographical distances. Given the weak correlation, the geographical distance cannot explain the differences between narratives. The study narratives were classified in two distinct clusters (Fig. 2). The first and second clusters contains 28 and 10 narratives, respectively. The narratives of the main clusters have major differences, especially in the early stages of the story. In the first cluster, it's predicted that the hero of the story will face a lot of problems in the future, while in 9 out of ten narratives of the second cluster, there is no prediction for the future of the hero of the story. On the other hand, there are similarities between some of narratives of the second cluster and another Iranian folktale (Dokhtar-e narag o torang) (Pak 2012, 173-181; Anjavi-Shirazi 2014, 19-68). It is obvious that the mentioned similarities might be a reflection of their common ancestors. Some investigators used phylogenetic clustering in order to find the evolutionary relationship between different folktales (Ross et al., 2013; O’Brien et al., 2016). Further phylogenetic studies are needed to find the possible common ancestors of Sang-e Saboor and Dokhtar-e narag o torang folktales.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture, Fine Arts
This paper identifies the determinants that contribute towards the variation in financial assets that make up a firm’s total cash reserves, specifically in two important regions of the world i.e. Asia Pacific and Europe. The findings of the research reveal that firms in the region of Asia Pacific have slightly higher cash holdings, as compared to firms in Europe. Moreover, the study also identifies that the elevated cash holdings in Asia Pacific are not a result of the agency problem, as is generally viewed, rather, the shareholder power hypothesis is a more appropriate measure to elucidate this elevation in the level of cash holdings in the region. When shedding light on to the firm specific cash holding determinants, the findings of the research reveal that leverage, dividend payment, profitability, growth and net working capital, cash flows and financial strength, influence cash reserves in both the regions, exactly in the same manner. This shows the application of transaction, and precautionary motives in both the regions. The study further identifies that size, and investments have a varying effect in both the regions that are taken into consideration. Again, this difference may be attributed to Shareholders’ Power Hypothesis, specifically for Asia Pacific and the Agency View, specifically for Europe. Shareholders’ Right Index influences cash reserves in Asia Pacific in a positive manner, while in Europe, the same index shows a negative influence. The development in the financial markets has a negative negatively influence on cash holdings in Asia Pacific, and a positive one in Europe.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture, Marketing. Distribution of products
Celebrity endorsement is widely used as an advertising technique. This study examines three dimensions of celebrity endorsement, including trustworthiness, expertise and attractiveness, as predictors of positive word of mouth by consumers. It also gauges the impact of word of mouth on purchase intention and brand affection in terms of the role it plays as a mediating construct between celebrity endorsement and consumers’ behavioral outcomes. The study uses a sample of 369 respondents to test a structural equation model. Its results reveal that the fully mediated model is superior to the partially mediated model and that trustworthiness is the most important attribute of celebrity endorsement, yielding positive consumer behavior.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture, Marketing. Distribution of products
In social and political scene of ancient Iran, many words used in Middle Persian (Pahlavi) texts, have had a pragmatic function apart from their theoretical and abstract foundations. The two words "Splendor: xwarrah" and "dutifulness: xwēškārīh" are the most important words which have close relationship and have the same functions. Middle Persian texts emphasizing on Dinkard show that these two words are in direct proportion to one another. It means that dutifulness in every one is a capacity of divine light and absolute brightness which is the same as divine splendor. This divine splendor is granted to every creature depending on the level of his might and performing his creation dutifulness. This glory is the result of the best performance of dutifulness by the person who has benefited the best functions for fortifying life factors. This capacity is made in every person by performing the best kind of dutifulness in order to be similar to supernal creatures. Therefore, he will be worthy of the title "splendid: xwarrah-omand" and stands in "Farhangiān" position. In this study, through examining primary Pahlavid sources and conforming them to social structure in ancient Iran, it is aimed to show the link between these two concepts as a combination of theory and practice in ancient Iranian sages' point of view, so that they could gain the most efficiency and concrete results from people's activity in order to obtain stable might
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture, Fine Arts
پژوهش حاضر با هدف شناسایی تأثیر شیوههای پیشگیری از جرم در پیشگیری از سرقت تجهیزات انتقال برق و اولویتبندی این شیوهها در شهرستان ملایر در سال 1394 انجام گرفت؛ تا از این طریق ضمن بررسی پدیده سرقت بهعنوان یکی از مهمترین آسیبهای اجتماعی و جرایم علیه اموال دولتی و شخصی، از خسارات مادی به شرکتهای برق جلوگیری نموده و امنیت و آسایش شهروندان حفظ و تأمین گردد. این پژوهشگران از نظر نوع، کاربردی و از نظر روش، توصیفی – پیمایشی است. برای انجام این پژوهش، محقق جهت گردآوری اطلاعات از پرسشنامه محقق ساخته بر اساس طیف لیکرت استفاده نموده است؛ که این پرسشنامه 30 سؤالی در بین 100 نفر از کارکنان ناجا به عنوان جامعه نمونه توزیع گردیده است. در این تحقیق، به منظور بالا بردن دقت در بررسی اسناد و مدارک به صورت تمام شمار انجام خواهد شد. در این پژوهش، از آزمونهای فریدمن و تحلیل عاملی استفاده شده است. براساس نتایج حاصل از این پژوهش، مهمترین و مؤثرترین راه پیشگیری از سرقت تجهیزات انتقال برق از میان سه راهکار مطرح شده، راهکار پیشگیری اجتماعی، بهعنوان برترین و مؤثرترین پیشنهاد از سوی پرسشگران انتخاب و دو راه پیشگیری یعنی پیشگیری از طریق طراحی محیطی و پیشگیری انتظامی در رتبههای بعدی قرار گرفتند. در پایان، پیشنهاداتی جهت جلوگیری از سرقت تجهیزات برق ارائه شده است که امید است با به کارگیری آنها مشکلات موجود برطرف شود
Social sciences (General), Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
Family violence is a pervasive problem locally, nationally, and worldwide. Since 1990, staff from Saint Paul-Ramsey County (Minnesota) Public Health have worked with hundreds of community members and organizations in a unique partnership approach to preventing violence. The process of developing and sustaining this unique partnership is described, as well impacts and outcomes from work developed and implemented over 25 years of sustained efforts. Implications for practice in community organizing and partnership, violence prevention, public health, and adherence to evidence- and research-based best practice models are discussed.
Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology, Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
Abstract
The present study is an attempt to classify and analyze scattered information regarding Abu Ali Sirjani. Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Mohammad Ibn Ahmad Sirjani was a 5th century ascetic, Sufi, and Muhadith (one who relates Hadith). Sirjani was born in the year 408 A.H and passed away in 495 A.H. He lived in Baghdad and traveled through many Islamic lands such as Kerman, Fars, Iraq, Shamat (Syria), Egypt, and Hijaz. Sirjani suffered much in his pursuit for Hadith and recording them, and he experienced many masters and students. However, he was not reliable in relating Hadith and was accused of forgery. However, he was one of the Sufi elders (sheikhs), and a follower of asceticism and abstemiousness (virtuousness), whose wife, Set-ol-Balad, and daughter So’da were among Hadith relators.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture, Fine Arts
Seyyed Mehdi Alvani, Reza Vaezi, Rooholla Honarmand
The present study has been done to determine the relationship between positive organizational behavior and organizational silence. The statistical population consisted of staff offices of Sepah Bank (1905 people); Using Cochran''''''''s formula, 320 people were selected stratified randomly as samples. As for the research objectives, the present study can be classified as an “applied research”, while as for data gathering, it is descriptive as a cross-sectional survey. Data reliability and validity were assessed using Cronbach''''''''s alpha coefficient and consulting managers of Sepah Bank as experts, and the result was confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis technique. The research hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling technique based on the results of the LISREL software. Hypothesis test results indicate that the positive organizational behavior has a significant negative relationship with organizational silence. Also results show that all dimensions of positive organizational behavior has a significant negative relationship with acquiescence silence, but about the quiscence silenence, only negative relationship with self-efficacy was confirmed and the relationship of hope, resilience and optimism was not significant with quiescence silence.
Judy O'Fallon reviews the online resource A Church Leader’s Tool Kit to the Syrian Refugee Crisis, published by the non-profit organization World Relief.
Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology, Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
At the present time, organizations are increasingly faced with dynamic and changing environments. In these turbulent conditions, firms need to be flexible, adaptive, entrepreneurial and innovative. There are numerous preconditions for an innovation organization that transformational leadership and knowledge sharing play the most important and key role. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational innovation with mediating role of knowledge sharing. This is a descriptive correlational study with purpose from the applied research. The sample size was 160 senior managers of engineering companies on field of robotic in Tehran that were selected by random method. The instruments used in this study were standard knowledge sharing questionnaire, the combined questionnaire of transformational leadership combined (Nasehifar et al, 2013; Bass, 1985; Timothy et al, 1999) and combined questionnaire of organizational innovation (Jimenez-Jimenez et al, 2008; Panayides, 2006; Prajogo & Sohal, 2006; Mirkamali & Choopani, 2011). Reliability of the questionnaire was reported by using Cronbach's alpha as 0/89, 0/93and 0/93, respectively. Test validity, with construct validity using was confirmed. Results of Pearson Correlation showed that all of transformational leadership, organizational innovation and Knowledge sharing components are mutually correlated with each other (p < 0/01). Implementing structural equation modeling with Partial Least Squares (PLS-SEM) for relationship between transformational leadership and organizational innovation through mediator variable knowledge sharing tests, we found that the proposed model has a good fit and organizational innovation is well explained by transformational leadership and knowledge sharing. Also all of the model path coefficients were significant
The present study reports the psychometric properties of a short measure of self-leadership in the Turkish context: the Abbreviated Self-Leadership Questionnaire (ASLQ). The ASLQ was examined using two samples and showed sound psychometric properties. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that nine-item ASLQ measured a single construct of self-leadership. The results supported the convergent and discriminant validity of the one-factor model of the ASLQ in relation to the 35-item Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire and General Self-Efficacy scale, respectively. With regard to internal consistency and test-retest reliability, the ASLQ showed acceptable results. Furthermore, the results provided evidence that scores on the ASLQ positively predicted individual's self-reported task performance and self-efficacy mediated this relationship. Taken together, these findings suggest that the Turkish version of the ASLQ is a reliable and valid measure that can be used to measure self-leadership as one variable of interest in the future studies.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture