Job satisfaction: how crucial is participative decision making?

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Pacheco ◽  
Don Webber
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Marginal Effect ◽  
Bivariate Probit ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bivariate Probit Model ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the role of perceived ability to participate in decision making in the workplace, with respect to job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – Data from the fourth wave of the European Value Survey, is utilised, and a bivariate probit model is employed to account for unobserved heterogeneity. Findings – Empirical analysis comparing univariate and bivariate probit models reveals that the results from the former are negatively biased; potentially indicating that prior research may have underestimated the impact of participative decision making (PDM) on job satisfaction. Additionally, it appears clear that the magnitude of the marginal effects for both socio-demographic and work characteristics do not differ when comparing workers with above and below average participation. More importantly, the authors find a substantial negative marginal effect of below average participation on job satisfaction (close to three times the magnitude of the next largest marginal effect estimated in the model), indicating how crucial it is for employers to actively pursue programmes that enhance PDM. Originality/value – This study contributes to the growing literature aimed at understanding drivers of satisfaction in the workplace. Adding to the scant empirical investigation of the influence of PDM on job satisfaction, the authors find strong evidence of a direct and positive impact, which is further amplified after controlling for unobserved heterogeneity.

Role of safety in declining public transport use: Empirical evidence from India

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taru Saigal ◽  
Arun Kr Vaish ◽  
N.V.M. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Bivariate Probit ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bivariate Probit Model ◽  
The Impact

PurposeUsing primary survey data from an urban area in Global North, this study aims to examine the impact of sociodemographic factors on perception of usefulness of public transport and the importance of safety in preferring private modes of transport over public.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses stratified random sampling technique to collect data on travel behavior and socioeconomic characteristics. Descriptive statistics complemented with bivariate probit model and seemingly unrelated bivariate probit model is implemented on the data obtained.FindingsThe study finds that women, unmarried individuals, the youngest age group, least educated individuals and those who are working are expected to finding public transport more useful as compared to their respective counterparts. Despite finding the mode most useful, women are more likely to find it unsafe to travel.Research limitations/implicationsThe study calls attention to not only dealing with the infrastructural changes in system but also with those attached insecurities which limit its use.Originality/valueTo the best of our knowledge, this is the first time a comprehensive evaluation of the demands and challenges for transportation services faced by different segments of the society is carried out in this section of the developing world.

The impact of emotional intelligence and servant leadership on employee job satisfaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-217
Author(s):  
Pallavi Jha ◽  
Sanjay Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Work Productivity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Employee Job Satisfaction ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The concept of emotional intelligence (EI) and servant leadership (SL) are two variables that have been essential for the organization leaders to ensure a healthy and happy work–life for their subordinates. The purpose of this study to be conducted was for leaders understand the role EI and SL play in maintaining employee job satisfaction and help them to create engaging environment and bring effectiveness in the work productivity of the assets. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative method was used and a total of 150 people were taken as a sample which consisted of several leaders and their subordinates and an emotional intelligence questionnaire by NHS and SL: multidimensional questionnaire was floated to rate the leaders EI and SL behavior comparing it with the leaders self-rating. The result was analyzed using SPSS, Pearson correlation and regression was used to understand the significance level and reliability of all the independent and dependent variables, respectively. Findings Through correlation and regression, it was found that presence of EI and SL style in a leader plays a huge role in employee job satisfaction. It was also found that EI and SL are the substantial predictor which have positive impact over employee job satisfaction. Originality/value The outcome of the study will help the leaders understand the significance that the EI and SL have in their role to maintain employee job satisfaction, as well as the training and development measures for leaders.

Impact of employee job satisfaction and commitment on customer perceived value

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-755
Author(s):  
Hanen Charni ◽  
Isabelle Brun ◽  
Line Ricard
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Customer Perceptions ◽  
Employee Job Satisfaction ◽  
Customer Perceived Value ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Formative Index

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of employee job satisfaction and affective commitment as perceived by customers on customer perceived value, more specifically its benefits dimensions. Design/methodology/approach A total of 652 panellists from a large Canadian polling firm self-administer a web-based questionnaire. To measure customer perceived value, a formative index is used which contributes to topical literature through a unique methodology. Hypotheses are tested using a structural equation model. Findings An analysis of the direct, indirect and total effects confirms the unique positive impact of employee job satisfaction and affective commitment, as perceived by customers, on the emotional, social, relationship and epistemic benefits, as well as on the formative index of customer perceived value. Practical implications Customer perceptions of employee attitudes (job satisfaction and affective commitment) represent a unique opportunity for banks to differentiate their value proposition in a hypercompetitive market. Originality/value This study is the first to consider customer perceptions of employee job satisfaction and affective commitment in relation to a formative index of customer perceived value and its related benefits dimensions.

Fuzzy C-means based data envelopment analysis for mitigating the impact of units’ heterogeneity

Kybernetes ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 536-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Hossein Razavi Hajiagha ◽  
Shide Sadat Hashemi ◽  
Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Efficiency Score ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fuzzy C Means ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Decision Making Units

Purpose – Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric model that is developed for evaluating the relative efficiency of a set of homogeneous decision-making units that each unit transforms multiple inputs into multiple outputs. However, usually the decision-making units are not completely similar. The purpose of this paper is to propose an algorithm for DEA applications when considered DMUs are non-homogeneous. Design/methodology/approach – To reach this aim, an algorithm is designed to mitigate the impact of heterogeneity on efficiency evaluation. Using fuzzy C-means algorithm, a fuzzy clustering is obtained for DMUs based on their inputs and outputs. Then, the fuzzy C-means based DEA approach is used for finding the efficiency of DMUs in different clusters. Finally, the different efficiencies of each DMU are aggregated based on the membership values of DMUs in clusters. Findings – Heterogeneity causes some positive impact on some DMUs while it has negative impact on other ones. The proposed method mitigates this undesirable impact and a different distribution of efficiency score is obtained that neglects this unintended impacts. Research limitations/implications – The proposed method can be applied in DEA applications with a large number of DMUs in different situations, where some of them enjoyed the good environmental conditions, while others suffered from bad conditions. Therefore, a better assessment of real performance can be obtained. Originality/value – The paper proposed a hybrid algorithm combination of fuzzy C-means clustering method with classic DEA models for the first time.

scholarly journals Thank you for sharing! How knowledge sharing and information availability affect public employees’ job satisfaction

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Fischer ◽  
Matthias Döring
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Information Availability ◽  
Related Information ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study aims to examine the impact of job-related knowledge sharing on information availability and job satisfaction for information-receiving employees in the public sector. Following self-determination theory, the study suggests that job satisfaction is only partly affected by knowledge sharing itself, but particularly through the availability of job-related information enabling the information receiver to work effectively.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses are tested with data from the US Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey from 2018. Additionally, results are replicated with earlier waves of the survey.FindingsResults show the positive impact of job-related knowledge sharing on job satisfaction, whereby the availability of job-relevant information mediates this relationship partially.Practical implicationsThis study confirms that managers should provide room for social interactions when introducing knowledge management practices.Originality/valueThe results emphasize that knowledge sharing is a highly social process in which support and relatedness play a significant role in success in addition to the diffusion of information itself.

Farmer’s adoption tendency towards drought shock, risk-taking networks and modern irrigation technology: evidence from Zhangye, Gansu, PRC

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-448
Author(s):  
Yongfeng Tan ◽  
Lu Qian ◽  
Apurbo Sarkar ◽  
Zhanar Nurgazina ◽  
Uzair Ali
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Gansu Province ◽  
Bank Loans ◽  
Marginal Effect ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Drought Impact ◽  
Irrigation Technology ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure Farmer’s adoption tendency towards drought shock, risk-taking networks and modern irrigation technology. Design/methodology/approach Based on this assumption, this paper evaluated the data gathered from 498 household surveys of Zhangye, Gansu province, PRC, by using the binary probit model. First, the empirical data was analyzed for evaluating the impact of drought shock and risk-taking tendencies on the adoption of modern irrigation technology by farmers. Second, the authors introduced informal risk-bearing networks with formal risks. Final, based on the empirical results, the sustainability test, along with the marginal effect analysis and the degree of impact was carried out. Findings The results show that the drought shock has a significantly deferent effect on the modern irrigation technology of the farmers. The probability of using technology for each level of drought loss is reduced by 15.02%. The risk-taking network has a significant role in promoting the modern irrigation technology of farmers. The probability of adoption for each additional unit of rural household labor security supply, the likelihood of adoption by farmers increased 23.11%, the probability of approval for each level of relative support, and neighborhood assistance by farmers increased by 13.11% and 17.88% respectively. This study further revealed that insurance purchases enabled farmers to adopt new irrigation technology with the probability increased by 24.99%; easily available bank loans increased the probability of farmers using irrigation technology by 31.89%. From the perspective of interactions between farmers, the risk-taking network can alleviate the inhibitory effect of drought impact towards the adoption of irrigation technology. Among the control variables, the number of years of education, the age of farming, the degree of arable land, the distance from home to the market, and the price of water all has significant effects on the adoption of modern irrigation technology by farmers. Originality/value The novelty of the study is that it illustrated the interactive influence of drought shock and risk-taking networks on the farmer’s adoption tendencies of modern irrigation technologies, the inner relationship among drought impact, the risk-taking network and the farmer’s adoption behavior and provide an interactive relationship between the formal risk-taking network and the non-risk-taking network in farmer’s technology adoption.

SOURCES OF FINANCING INNOVATION ACTIVITIES OF FOOD PROCESSING ENTERPRISES FROM LUBELSKIE VOIVODESHIP

2017 ◽  
Vol XIX (4) ◽  
pp. 244-249
Author(s):  
Aneta Zakrzewska ◽  
Tomasz Kijek
Keyword(s):  
Food Processing ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Bivariate Probit ◽  
Bivariate Probit Model ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Empirical Analyses

The aim of the paper was to measure the direction and strength of the impact of selected determinants on the choice of a particular source of funding for innovation in food firms. The research sample consists of 40 food firms located in the Lubelskie Voivodeship. The bivariate Probit model has been applied in the empirical analyses. The results indicate that the type of innovation has the impact on the choice of a source of financing innovation.

scholarly journals Changing to improve? Organizational change and change-oriented leadership in hospitals

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 687-706
Author(s):  
Olaug Øygarden ◽  
Espen Olsen ◽  
Aslaug Mikkelsen
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Performance Obstacles

PurposeThis paper aims to fill gaps in one’s knowledge of the impact of organizational change on two outcomes relevant to hospital service quality (performance obstacles and physician job satisfaction) and in one’s knowledge of the role of middle manager change-oriented leadership in relation to the same outcomes. Further, the authors aim to identify how physician participation in decision-making is impacted by organizational change and change-oriented leadership, as well as how it mediates the relationships between these two variables, performance obstacles and job satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted a cross-sectional survey design including data from Norwegian hospital physicians (N = 556). A hypothetical model was developed based on existing theory, confirmatory factor analysis was carried out in order to ensure the validity of measurement concepts, and the structural model was estimated using structural equation modelling.FindingsThe organizational changes in question were positively related to performance obstacles both directly and indirectly through participation in decision-making. Organizational change was also negatively related to job satisfaction, both directly and indirectly. Change-oriented leadership was negatively related to performance obstacles, but only indirectly through participation in decision-making, whereas it was positively related to job satisfaction both directly and indirectly.Originality/valueThe authors developed a theoretical model based on existing theory, but to their knowledge no other studies have tested these exact relationships within one model. These findings offer insights relevant to current and ongoing developments in the healthcare field and to the question of how hospitals may deal with continuous changes in ways that could contribute positively towards outcomes relevant to service quality.

Impact of Muslim decision-making style and religiosity on intention to purchasing certified halal food

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hardius Usman ◽  
Chairy Chairy ◽  
Nucke Widowati Kusumo Projo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Consumer Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to: build Muslim consumer decision-making style (MCDMS); analyze the influence of the consumer decision-making style on Muslim behavior to buy halal certified food; analyze the impact of religiosity on Muslim behavior in buying halal-certified food and study the role of religiosity in the relationship between MCDMS and Muslim behavior in buying halal certified food. Design/methodology/approach This study’s target population is the Muslim Indonesian population age at least 18 years old. The self-administered survey method is carried out based on convenience and snowball sampling techniques and the questionnaire is distributed online. This study collects data from 396 Muslim respondents in Indonesia through an online survey. Factor analysis and regression with interaction variables are applied to test the research hypothesis statistically. Findings This study reveals several results: MCDMS produces 10 dimensions; halal consciousness is an important dimension; the perfectionist/high-quality conscious and price-conscious, has a significant negative effect on the intention to buy halal-certified food; the halal consciousness and the recreational/hedonic conscious have a significant positive effect on the intention to buy halal certified food; religiosity has a significant positive impact directly on the intention to purchase halal-certified food; Religiosity positively moderates the impact of a perfectionist/high-quality conscious and price-conscious on the intention to buy halal-certified food. Originality/value This paper will build an MCDMS by adding the dimensions of halal consciousness. The author has not found literature about MCDMS. This research will also study the impact of MCDMS and religiosity on the intention to buy halal-certified food, as well as will study the role of religiosity in relationships between Muslim decision-making styles and intention to buy halal-certified food. Similar research is still very limited in marketing literature.

The effect of the employee perceived training on job satisfaction: the mediating role of workplace stress

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harun Sesen ◽  
Senay Sahil Ertan
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Nursing Assistants ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Certified Nursing Assistants ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This study aims to mediate the impact of workplace stress and job satisfaction on nurses’ perception of training. It sheds light on the links between job satisfaction, Certified Nursing Assistants’ perception of training and workplace stress in nursing homes. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional questionnaire was distributed in 12 different elderly home care centres in Northern Cyprus during September to October 2017. The sampling frame consists of 317 full-time Certified Nursing Assistants who completed measures of perception of training, job satisfaction and workplace stress. This paper used structural equation modelling to test a theoretical model and hypothesis. Findings The findings emphasize that Certified Nursing Assistants’ perception of training has a positive impact on their job satisfaction and negative impact on workplace stress while workplace stress mediates the relationship between their perception of training and job satisfaction. The results indicate that while the motivation for training and support for training have an effect on job satisfaction, access to training and benefits for training do not yield any significant impact on it and workplace stress plays a mediating role. Originality/value This study confirms that the CNAs’ perception of training and job stress affect the emergence of job satisfaction, and workplace stress mediated the relation between training and satisfaction posited by social exchange theory.

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