Ari Aryanto, Ahmad Alim Bachri, Ahmad Rifani
et al.
Orientation: Personnel performance plays a crucial role in the sustainability of any organisation, including military institutions. In this context, leadership and discipline are key elements determining organisational effectiveness. However, research specifically examining the influence of leadership, organisational culture and job placement on military personnel performance is still relatively rare.
Research purpose: This study aims to examine the extent to which transformational leadership, organisational culture and job placement influence work discipline and the performance of army personnel in the Korem 101 Antasari environment.
Motivation for the study: This study is motivated by the lack of empirical evidence regarding the influence of leadership, organisational culture and job placement on the performance of military personnel in the context of military organisations.
Research approach/design and method: A quantitative approach was implemented through an online survey of 180 Indonesian Army personnel. Data analysis focused on examining the direct influence of transformational leadership, organisational culture and job placement on discipline and performance.
Main findings: The research findings show positive and significant influence of transformational leadership, organisational culture and job placement on work discipline, but not on performance.
Practical/managerial implications: These findings indicate that strengthening leadership practices, maintaining a conducive organisational culture and optimising job placement have the potential to improve discipline among military personnel, which, in turn, can contribute to improved performance.
Contribution/value-add: This study extends the literature on military human resource management with empirical evidence from the Indonesian context, demonstrating the critical role of leadership and organisational aspects in shaping personnel discipline and performance.
Elizabeth Elizabeth, Harjanto Prabowo, Agustinus Bandur
et al.
In response to increasing global sustainability demands, this study examines how green dynamic capabilities influence business performance in Bali Island’s tour and travel SMEs, with green service innovation as a mediating mechanism. Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic capability theory, the research adopts a quantitative approach using survey data from 387 SMEs and employs structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the relationships among green dynamic capabilities, green service innovation, and business performance. Findings reveal that green dynamic capabilities significantly enhance both green service innovation and business performance. Notably, green service innovation partially mediates this relationship, underscoring its pivotal role in transforming internal sustainability-oriented capabilities into tangible performance outcomes. The key contribution of this study lies in extending RBV by integrating green service innovation as a strategic conduit that links eco-centric capabilities to competitive advantage in a tourism SME context—a perspective that remains underexplored in emerging economies. Practically, the study provides actionable insights for SME owners and policymakers to prioritize innovation in service design and delivery as a pathway to sustainable tourism performance.
Aulia Putri Salsabila, Gunawan Prayitno, Agus Dwi Wicaksono
et al.
This study examines how <i>Batik Ciprat</i> functions as a vehicle for inclusive creative tourism in Karangpatihan Village, Indonesia, whereby individuals with intellectual disabilities contribute to a socially impactful rural tourism model. Grounded in social capital theory, we analyse how trust, social networks, and inclusive norms enable empowerment and help establish a distinctive, inclusion-oriented tourism identity. Using a qualitatively led mixed-methods (sequential exploratory) design with partial least squares-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), we identify key pathways through which art-based entrepreneurship supports village branding and visitor engagement. Our findings indicate that when social innovation is embedded in cultural tourism, it catalyses local pride, participation, and quality of life gains. The study contributes to debates on inclusive/accessible tourism, demonstrating that creative industries can act as engines of equitable, community-based development in rural settings.
The purpose of this article is to study the impact of digitalization on the innovative development of agricultural enterprises, identify key technologies that increase efficiency and competitiveness, analyze the global experience of implementing digital solutions, and develop practical recommendations for using digital technologies as a driver of innovative growth in the agricultural sector of Ukraine. Methodology. In order to achieve the research objective and accomplish the defined tasks, a comprehensive approach has been employed, incorporating the following methods: analysis, synthesis, systematisation and classification, induction and deduction, and others. The findings of the study suggest that the integration of digital technologies has the potential to optimise production processes, enhance labour productivity, and reduce costs. Specifically, technologies such as precision farming, drone usage for field monitoring, automated irrigation systems, and robotic harvesting have been shown to significantly enhance operational efficiency. The analysis indicates that the adoption of digital solutions enables agricultural enterprises to achieve cost reductions of 10-20%, increase crop yields by 15-25% through enhanced resource management, and reduce post-harvest storage losses by 5-10%. The primary obstacles hindering the integration of digital innovations encompass the substantial expense associated with adopting sophisticated technologies, inadequate digital literacy among personnel, the absence of adequate infrastructure in rural regions, and constrained access to financial resources. The study's results are presented in the form of tables, figures, graphs, diagrams, and charts. Practical implications. The implementation of digital technologies enables agricultural enterprise managers to obtain precise, real-time data on production conditions. Consequently, this facilitates informed decision-making processes, leads to a reduction in production costs, and optimises resource utilisation. Value/Оriginality. Digitalisation has been demonstrated to enhance the resilience of enterprises to market challenges, thereby facilitating improvements in productivity and revenue generation. The digitalisation of the agricultural sector has the potential to generate new investment and grant opportunities. The present study contributes to the development of digital literacy and the enhancement of professional qualifications among workers in the agricultural sector. The use of digital innovations improves the stability and efficiency of production, which is crucial for ensuring the supply of quality products to the population. Digitalisation also creates new employment opportunities in rural areas, helping to reduce labour migration. Digital solutions also help to minimise environmental damage. Digitalisation of the agricultural sector is a key component of Ukraine's sustainable economic development strategy.
Orientation: The use of electronic (e-health) tools in digital mental health services (DMHS) at South African (SA) higher education institutions (HEIs) has rapidly increased because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Research purpose: The main purpose of this study was to evaluate how the university staff perceived the effectiveness of different strategies implemented for the sustainable adoption of e-health tools in DMHS.
Motivation for the study: Despite the increasing availability of e-health tools, there is limited understanding of how university staff perceive the effectiveness of different sustainability strategies.
Research approach/design and method: The study utilised a quantitative approach and surveyed 348 university staff at a SA HEI. Data analysis utilised descriptive statistics and one-sample t-tests.
Main findings: The findings highlight funding, financial incentives, digital inclusion programmes and stakeholder engagement as crucial strategies for sustainable adoption. University staff emphasised the importance of training, digital health literacy campaigns, robust data privacy and security systems, and multilingual e-health services. In addition, hybrid e-health models and continuous evaluation emerged as essential strategies.
Practical/managerial implications: University management should prioritise financial investments, stakeholder engagement and digital literacy programmes to improve the adoption of e-health tools. Strengthening data security, integrating hybrid service models and ensuring multilingual accessibility can further support sustainable DMHS.
Contribution/value-add: This study provides evidence-based strategies for the sustainable adoption of e-health tools in SA HEIs, which thus enhance DMHS and inform policy and practice.
This study explores the impact of information and communication technology (ICT), tourism, globalization, and urbanization on the economic growth and environmental degradation of middle-income countries classified as overall, upper and lower-middle-income countries. It uses a micro panel dataset of 65 nations from 2000 to 2021 through a two-step Generalized Method of Moment estimation approach. The results indicate that the influence of ICT on environmental degradation differs across nation groups. Overall countries have a harmful effect, upper-middle countries exhibit a beneficial influence, and lower-middle countries show no significant link. Tourism continually causes environmental deterioration in all sorts of nations, emphasizing the need for eco-friendly tourist initiatives. Globalization has been seen to have a positive correlation with environmental degradation in countries classified as Overall and Upper-middle income, but a negative correlation in Lower-middle-income nations. Urbanization has a favorable influence on environmental deterioration in Overall and Lower-middle-income nations, but it does not have a significant impact in Upper-middle-income countries. These findings underscore the need to tackle the environmental impacts of information and communication technology (ICT), tourism, globalization, and urbanization. To attain a greener and more sustainable future while fostering economic growth, policymakers should prioritize sustainable development, introduce energy-efficient technologies, encourage responsible tourism practices, enforce environmental regulations, and advocate for inclusive urban planning.
Thomas DePatie, Anmol Sachdeva, Comila Shahani-Denning
et al.
While organizations around the world recognize the importance of gender diversity and inclusion, many struggle to reach gender parity (Sneader & Yee, 2020). Particularly, women account for less than 15% of all sworn police officers (Donohue Jr, 2020). Considering signaling theory and novel research in organizational impression management, we examined the utility of various recruitment messaging techniques for attracting women job seekers to professions dominated by men, at both a consulting firm and law enforcement agency. Women evaluating consulting firm materials perceived greater behavioral integrity and were subsequently more attracted to the organization if recruitment messages included both high gender diversity signals and an explicit acknowledgement of the lack of gender diversity. With the law enforcement agency, a direct effect of the proposed interaction was identified, in that women were more attracted to police recruitment materials signaling gender diversity and explicitly acknowledging the lack of gender diversity within the agency. Materials had no adverse effect on men’s attraction. Last, research questions surrounding person-organization fit and risk propensity were analyzed to further explore the acknowledgement tactic.
This study aims to obtain empirical evidence about the influence of the work environment and competence mediated by work motivation on Waroeng Special Sambal "SS" in Yogyakart. The independent variables used are work environment and competence. The dependent variable used is the performance of Waroeng Special Sambal "SS" employees in Yogyakarta. And work motivation as a mediating variable. The population in this study were all employees of Waroeng Special Sambal "SS" in Yogyakarta. Samples collected using simple random sampling in Waroeng Special Sambal "SS" in three branches namely East Babarsari Branch, Perumnas Branch and Samirono Branch with 108 respondents. The method of analysis in this study uses a partial least square (PLS) method with 2 models, namely the outer model and the inner model.
The results of this study indicate that there is a significant positive influence between work environment on the performance of Waroeng Special Sambal "SS" employees, significant positive between competencies on the performance of Waroeng Special Sambal "SS" employees, positive influence between work environment on the performance of Waroeng Special Sambal "SS" employees mediated by work motivation, a positive influence between competence on the performance of Waroeng Special Sambal "SS" mediated by work motivation. This study shows the direct and indirect effects between variables. Significant positive direct effect between work environment, competence and work motivation of Waroeng Special Sambal "SS" in Yogyakarta.
Keywords: Work Environment, Competence, Work Motivation, Employee Performance.
The effectiveness of work and relationship of postgraduate students with their supervisors seem to be an urgent issue in the context of contemporary transformations of the Russian system of training highly qualified personnel. The article assesses the understanding of the purposes of graduate school by both “sides”, the specifics of the interaction between mentors and their mentees, the leading difficulties and ways to overcome them. Since in our country postgraduate programs are implemented not only at universities, we also compared situations at a university and in an academic community considering the case of the Ural Federal University (UrFU) and scientific institutes of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UB RAS). Empirical methods for collecting initial data were applied both at UrFU and at UB RAS and included interviewing scientific leaders and questioning graduate students. A series of in-depth interviews with mentors led to the formulation of research hypotheses and allowed the elaboration of an online questionnaire for graduate students. As a result, we may state the prevalence of the “external” obstacles that reduce the effectiveness of the interaction of young scientists with their scientific leaders; in general, the relationship between them looks quite harmoniously. Among the most pressing problems we have identified (1) disorientation about the concept of postgraduate studies without obligatory defense of the thesis (especially at university); (2) low productivity of the “educational” postgraduate studies; (3) lack of advanced training for supervisors in the field of management in science; (4) high employment of professors; (5) side mentoring and (6) the lack of plans for writing a dissertation. The solution of this set of problems seems to be based, first of all, on a new regulatory framework at the federal level, revising the types and volumes of workload of graduate students and their supervisors, fixing the need to write a dissertation during the course of study, regulating the requirements for scientific supervisors and guaranteeing them advanced training in the field managerial competencies. The positive practice of employing all graduate students at academic institutions, at least for a fraction of the rate, may also help universities in increasing the motivation of graduate students to defend their PhD thesis and build their future career at the university.
Orientation: The generational diversity of employees evident in today’s workforce and the important role of reward in meeting a wide variety of needs to attract, motivate and retain employees for the organisation are a key strategic contribution.
Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how, whether and to what degree employees from different generational groups differ about preferences on total reward components in the fast-moving consumer goods industry, for purposes of attraction, retention and motivation.
Motivation for the study: The rationale for this study was to explore and improve the understanding of reward preferences of different generation groups.
Research design and method: The research was a quantitative, empirical and descriptive study of reward preferences in an industry-specific context. A self-administered survey instrument was used and analysed using tests for internal consistency and scale reliability, various measures for factor analysis and a general linear model, involving a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), to test for significant differences between independent and dependent variables.
Main findings: Baby Boomers, Xers and Millennials did not differ significantly about preferences regarding financial and non-financial rewards. Millennials do not prefer non-financial rewards to financial rewards. The variance, however, was not large.
Practical or managerial implications: The research results provide management with informed knowledge of the types of rewards that can be administered to employees of different generational groups to attract, retain and motivate them.
Contribution and value add: The research has added insight into the reward preferences of generational groups and made recommendations for improving reward strategy for the attraction, retention and motivation of employees in the fast-moving consumer goods industry.
Background: Effective supply chain management (SCM) processes across all South Africa’s three spheres of government has become critical in view of increasing demand for public services amidst scarcity of resources.
Objectives: This article provides an assessment of the implementation of reverse logistics within the supply chain management (SCM) system of the South African Police Service (SAPS), in order to produce public value.
Method: The article utilised a qualitative desktop approach, drawing from an extensive review of literature, in particular, SAPS reports, policy documents relevant to journal and online articles on SCM, and reverse logistics.
Results: It is hoped that through the implementation of reverse logistics in SAPS SCM processes, public value is enhanced; there is better financial performance, legislative compliance, employment and preservation of resources. It was found that a shortage of resources, lack of skills, institutional capacity, inadequate control systems and corruption are all detrimental to public value. In order to optimise the efficiency of reverse logistics in enhancing public value, SCM managers must develop policies to manage procurement and resource management processes, as well as implement information systems and automation for the entire reverse flow.
Conclusion: In order to mitigate the reverse logistics challenges and enhance public value in SAPS, there is a need for redesigning the institutional budget priorities, implementation of adequate control measures, recycling of resources, reskilling of SCM personnel, automation and review of the SCM processes.
Shipment of goods. Delivery of goods, Transportation and communications
Daria Vasylenko, Larysa Butko, Volodymyr Maslak
et al.
Introduction. The source of mechanisms of museums adaptation according to modern economy conditions lies in complete modernization of museum space based on strategic planning, scientific organization of management and implementation of new technological decisions in museum institutions activity. Specifically, the innovative museum technologies in the mix with modern management will guarantee the timely museum reaction on public requirements. A discrepancy in the instrumentation in its turn causes great reducing the level of attractiveness for modern user of museum services. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the study is the analysis of using facilities in innovative management sphere of museum institutions activities and its influence on museum industry development in context of culturally-educational museums activities. In order to solve the problem of research was used traditional complex of general scientific principles (determinism, reflection, unity of opposites) and methods (analysis and synthesis, systematic and structural, interrogation, content-analysis, observation, statistical). Results. This article presents the characteristic of concept “innovative management”. A special innovative management toolbox was found and it can also provide the background for some modernization in Ukrainian museum industry. Research results are confirmed by sociological survey based on theme “What would you like to see as a modern local history museum?”. Conclusions and discussions. Preservation of historical materials, popularization of knowledge, attraction wide circle of visitors – all these are the goals of any museum activity with the support of innovative management technologies. The use of innovative management has its nuances. Before starting work with innovative toolbox implementation, one should think through its strategy, clearly define the goals; identify the target audience; prepare the media content etc.
The purpose of this research is to analyze further the effect of transformational leadership style,
employee motivation, and organizational culture on employee performance. In this study, the
researcher uses of transformational leadership style, work motivation, and organizational culture
as an independent variables and employee performance as the dependent variable.
Methods of data collection in the research that is used is a questionnaire with a sample of 57
permanent employees of PT. BPR Arta Utama Pekalongan (consisting of a central office and four
branch offices), in which the research is using a sample of census or using the entire population of
employees of PT. BPR Arta Utama. Methods of data analysis used in this research is multiple
linear regression analysis.
Based on the multiple linear regression that is performed to produce transformational leadership
style, it has a positive and significant impacts on employee performance. Meanwhile, work
motivation and organizational culture do not affect the performance of employee.
Keywords : Transformational leadership style, work motivation, organizational
culture, and employee performance.
Background: Due to consuming about 50%-80% of health resources, hospitals are the greatest and costly operational units in Iranian Health system. so allocation of resources specially human and space resources as the most expensive ones is really important for further controlling of costs, analysis of costs and making suitable policies for increasing the profitability and allocation of resources and improvement of quality.Method: This paper intends to describe and analyze any allocation of resources in 530 university hospitals in Iran. The final goal of this research is to provide a data bank according which there is a basis for more scientific budget allocation of state’s hospitals from the size and type of application points of view.Results: The relevant index of person to bed was 2.04 for human resources. All hospitals more than 300 beds are located in benefiting areas from which 17 cases are educational and 2 cases are therapeutic. This is necessary to mention that the rate of management group forces to total personnel at deprived areas is about 2.5% more than benefiting areas.Conclusion: Because 60-80% of hospital costs are applied for human forces, all managers of hospitals are obliged to revise their policies in attraction and employment of human force in order to benefit from such a valuable resource and prevent from expensive costs. So any employment of personnel should be based upon real needs of hospital.
Orientation: Gender differences in personality have been explored in American and European contexts, but African and specifically South African research in the area is lacking.
Research purpose: This study investigated whether there were gender differences in personality and what this might mean for a South African organisational context where personality assessments are frequently employed for decision-making.
Motivation: Personality tests are widely used in many fields, including the industrial, organisational and research fields. Due to the impact that these tests have, it is essential that these tests are used in a fair and unbiased manner.
Research design, approach and method: A cross-sectional, non-experimental design was used. A questionnaire consisting of demographic information and the NEO-PI-R was administered to a non-probability, convenience sample of 425 South African university students. The data was examined using ANOVAs and ANCOVAs.
Main findings: Significant gender differences were found on Neuroticism, Anxiety, Vulnerability, Depression, Self-consciousness, Extraversion, Warmth, Activity, Assertiveness, Positive emotions, Aesthetics, Feelings, Ideas, Agreeableness, Compliance, Tender-mindedness, Altruism, Modesty, Straightforwardness, Trust, Conscientiousness, Order, Achievement striving and Self-discipline.
Practical/managerial implications: The findings indicate differences between men and women are systematic and largely innate and therefore need to be acknowledged when personality tests are used in decision-making. Personality tests also need to be employed constructively to further team-building and diversity.
Contribution/value-add: This study adds to the body of research in South Africa on gender as well as on how the NEO personality scales manifest in different race groups.
The path dependence approach seems to be well suited for analyzing certain decisions in human resources management. Within this paper, we will try to establish a framework for the application of an evolution model in human resources practices by using cladistics. <br />
The objective of this study was twofold: Firstly, to explore and describe the perceived fairness of a disciplinary procedure in the workplace and, secondly, to develop guidelines that could be used by managers to provide a fairer experience of the disciplinary procedure. A qualitative research design was employed. In-depth interviews were conducted with participants who were purposely divided into two groups (an employee participant group and an expert participant group). Results indicated that employees experienced the disciplinary procedure as traumatic, unfair and not reliable. Guidelines were formulated to manage employee discipline more effectively.