scholarly journals The Effect of Administrative Creativity on Improving Employee Performance (An Exploratory Study of the Opinions of a Sample of Employees of the Asia Cell Communications Company in Kirkuk)

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1103-1118
Author(s):  
Dhrgham Ibrahim Kadhim AL. Shukri ◽  
Baseer Khalaf Khazaal ◽  
Muaid Akram Arslan
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
The Core ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Telecommunications Companies

Administrative creativity plays an important role in improving the performance of workers in companies in general, whether public or private. One of Iraq's telecommunications companies was chosen as a case study to investigate the role of company management in improving the job performance of its employees. By polling a sample of corporate personnel and encouraging them to be more creative and innovative. The study came to a number of conclusions, one of which is that administrative creativity has a significant role in increasing the performance of valued personnel and within the parameters of good performance. Increased understanding of the relevance of creativity and its successful role in increasing employee performance is required for the adoption of administrative creativity in all of its aspects at the core of administrative operations. More attention should be paid to the power of rewards, and providing rewards of all kinds to its creative and distinguished employees in order to encourage them to generate new ideas, implement appropriate change that leads to problem solving, and thus face the era's crises and challenges by holding ceremonies in which the creators of them are honored, according to the study. The report also suggested that the importance and role of staff development be emphasized as one of the techniques that branches can use to improve their employees' performance.

The Rhetorical Case: Its Roman Precedent and the Current Debate

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mendelson
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Technical Writing ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Early Case ◽  
New Phase

Because of the recent emphasis on rhetorical context in business and technical writing (BTW) instruction, the problem-solving case has become a staple in BTW classrooms. However, a number of critics have voiced concerns about the use of the rhetorical case. These concerns recall an ancient debate among Roman rhetoricians over an early case-study method called declamation. For contemporary theorists, the debate over case study revolves around its value as a stimulant to problem-solving skills, its ability to imitate the realistic circumstances of professional BTW, and its emphasis on persona and audience along with its deemphasis of the teacher. A full spectrum of arguments on these and other issues in the case-study debate indicates that the discipline is entering a new phase in its deliberations over the role of problem-solving and pragmatics in the BTW classroom.

Yankee Ingenuity in the South: James Burton and Confederate Ordnance Production

Vulcan ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Steven G. Collins
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Technological Diffusion ◽  
The South ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
American System ◽  
Harpers Ferry ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Connecticut Valley

This article examines the role of James Burton in the diffusion of military technology in the mid-19th century. Burton worked as the Master Armorer at the Harpers Ferry Armory, as a contractor in the Connecticut Valley, and as an engineer at the Enfield Armory. At each location he incorporated the latest ideas of the American System of Manufacturing. Not only did he transmit new ideas, he visited, studied, and learned from his international peers. When the American Civil War began, he joined the Confederate Ordnance Department and helped the South continue a long and destructive war. The new technological ideas—bred out of necessity of war—continued to help shape the creation of a New South. After the war, Burton influenced weapons manufacturing in Russia, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt. The ideas that Burton helped implement is a case study of international technological diffusion.

Relationship between transformational leadership and nurses' job performance: The mediating effect of psychological safety

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Hsueh-Feng Wang ◽  
Yu-Chia Chen ◽  
Feng-Hua Yang ◽  
Chi-Wen Juan
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Nurse Managers ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Central Taiwan

Rapid changes in the healthcare environment necessitate improvements in employee performance. We examined the relationship between nurse managers' transformational leadership and nurses' job performance, and the key mediating role of psychological safety in this relationship. Personnel at six private regional teaching hospitals in Central Taiwan participated in this study, comprising 73 nurse managers and 719 nurses. The results show that when the intergroup heterogeneity of job performance was statistically significant, a positive correlation existed between transformational leadership and job performance at the group level. Next, we performed an analysis using psychological safety as a mediating variable. The results show there was a significant correlation between transformational leadership and perception of psychological safety. This model exhibited lower variance and a better fit than the other examined models. Thus, emphasizing transformational leadership and psychological safety in operations and management could effectively improve nurses' job performance; this recommendation could serve as a standard for nurse managers in their duties.

Creative Tourist Experience

2017 ◽  
pp. 278-298
Author(s):  
Amitabh Upadhya ◽  
Mohit Vij
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Core Theme ◽  
The Core ◽  
Tourist Experience ◽  
Destination Management Organizations

The chapter explores the role and importance of Destination Management Organizations in managing the delivery of creative tourist experience. The study is divided in two parts whereby the first part adopts a qualitative methodology of exploration in regard to Destination Management Organizations and Creative Tourist Experiences while the second part is a case study of the tourism organizations of the UAE. The role of creativity in managing the total tourist experience is the core theme of the study. The study finds that co-creation of tourist experiences have a lasting memory value. Creative tourist experience can be achieved in the creative-theatre by a combination of designed aesthetics, choreographed activities and co-created souvenirs as the major elements.

When organizational support yields both performance and satisfaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1410-1428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lincoln Jisuvei Sungu ◽  
Qingxiong (Derek) Weng ◽  
Johari Abdu Kitule
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Performance Ability

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the underlying mechanism through which perceived organizational support (POS) influences job performance and job satisfaction. Specifically, the study aims at examining the contingent role of performance ability in the associations of POS and affective organizational commitment (AOC) with job performance and job satisfaction, thus highlighting the pivot role of ability in the social exchanges. Design/methodology/approach The sample of the present study included 269 employees of a University in Kenya. The data were analyzed with Mplus to test the hypotheses. Findings POS enhances AOC that, in turn, positively influences job performance and job satisfaction. Importantly, the results indicate that performance ability moderates both the direct and indirect (via AOC) effects of POS on job performance and job satisfaction. Thus, employees’ abilities for tasks are not only significant for reciprocating resources that organizations invest in employees, but also enhances employee well-being. Research limitations/implications Although satisfaction with employee reciprocation was implied based on performance levels, it was not directly tested in the supervisor–employee social exchange. It is possible that even with intentions to deliver (high AOC), the resultant reciprocation may be less satisfactory to the organization. Future research would benefit from investigating the role that reciprocity norm could have in the model, specifically, whether employer satisfaction would be a function of employee performance ability. Practical implications Most often, the bottom line goal of organizations is employee performance, whereas AOC indicates employees’ intentions and efforts to reciprocate the organization with high performance, such intentions can only go as far as the ability for such desired outcomes. Consequently, efforts should be made to ensure employee’s capabilities align with specific job tasks to enhance both organizational (job performance) and employee well-being (job satisfaction). During the employee selection process, therefore, a focus on ability cues would be more advantageous than commitment when the bottom line goal is to enhance well-being. Originality/value This is the first study that tests the moderating role of the employee’s performance ability in both the POS and AOC relationships with job performance and job satisfaction. Moreover, this is the first study to examine the relationship between POS and AOC with job satisfaction. The study opens a potential avenue to examine the micro-mechanisms that regulate reciprocity in social exchanges, and thus presents the boundary conditions for the predictions of the social exchange theory.

Control before shape - on mastering the clarinet: A case study on commonsense teaching

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland S. Persson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
Applied Music ◽  
Traditional Performance

This article reports an exploratory study into applied music teaching at a tertiary level. The study was staged as a case study where the case comprises one performance lecturer of clarinet and eight of her students. The focus of the study is how a performance teacher with no formal teacher training fares in the training of musical performers, how students respond, and what are the particular successful or unsuccessful issues in ‘commonsense teaching’. The data were gathered through participant observation and questionnaires. The findings suggest that the distinction between the role of the pedagogue (skilled in the dynamics and principles of teaching and learning) and the role of the expert performer (skilled mainly in the domain of performance) is an essential distinction to make. However, it is also a distinction that traditional performance teaching at a tertiary level seldom makes. The article concludes by tentatively proposing some pedagogical considerations for applied music teaching, as drawn from the case study.

scholarly journals An exploratory study of users’ experiences with e-participation: a case study of Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1138
Author(s):  
Nasrah Hassan Basri ◽  
Wan Adilah Wan Adnan ◽  
Hanif Baharin
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Government Website

The need to encourage citizens’ adoption of e-participation services has prompted an expanding enthusiasm for the evaluation of e-participation websites. The achievement of e-participation websites depends intensely on how well it is perceived by the users. E-participation is a relatively new approach, so it is important to evaluate it deliberately, in order to comprehend it better, obtain more knowledge about it and distinguish the preferences and advantages it offers, and not to overlook its disadvantages so that we can improve it. Concerning evaluation, many researchers have concentrated on infrastructure and technical issues without giving more attention to user experience as one of the core elements impacting the success or failure of e-participation websites. This paper evaluated e-participation module that located in Malaysia e-government website by utilizing think-aloud method.  Think-aloud was being utilized to gauge the perceptions of citizens in their use of e-participation.

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