scholarly journals Does ‘Fear of COVID-19’ trigger future career anxiety? An empirical investigation considering depression from COVID-19 as a mediator

2020 ◽  
pp. 002076402093548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Shahed Mahmud ◽  
Mesbah Uddin Talukder ◽  
Sk. Mahrufur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Resource Planning ◽  
Human Resource Planning ◽  
Future Career ◽  
The People ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Career Anxiety ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Background: Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the mental health of the people all around the world is severely disrupted. Aim: The purpose of this study is to identify whether ‘Fear of COVID-19’ impacted on future workforces’ career anxiety at the first place and whether depression from COVID-19 has any indirect effect on ‘Fear of COVID-19’ and future workforces’ career anxiety. Method: Based on three different scales related to ‘Fear of COVID-19’, depression and career anxiety, a structured questionnaire was developed and the survey data was collected for this study. Results: The empirical result of the study reveals that, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 fear, the future workforce is getting anxious about their future career. Again, depression from COVID-19, caused by ‘Fear of COVID-19’, as a mediator, has a significant indirect impact on the relationship between ‘Fear of COVID-19’ and future career anxiety, resulting in a full mediation. This means, due to the outbreak of ‘Fear of COVID-19’ people are becoming depressed and anxious about their future career which is creating a long-term negative effect on human psychology. Conclusion: These research findings will be a major tool for the policymakers, as well as the human resource planning professionals, to sketch plans after COVID-19 pandemic. This study is a novel work combining the concepts of fear and depression with career anxiety in a pandemic situation like COVID-19, and also assists future researchers in many folds.

scholarly journals Examining Eurozone Crisis and Unemployment Relationship Using Var Models

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Dapontas
Keyword(s):  
Government Spending ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Var Models ◽  
Monthly Data ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Distributed Lag Model ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Lag Model ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This work examines the relationship between the Eurozone crisis and unemployment. We deploy distributed lag model using two binary (Crisis and crisis in another country) along with three (Government spending to GDP, Labor freedom, and urbanization) variables working as a long term factors applied on a six countries set (Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain respectively) spanning the period January1995-May 2012 in order to explain the unemployment change using VAR models on monthly data in contrast to longer frequency analyses. This innovative approach is determining the optimal lag length between unemployment and crises determining the time between turbulence and its effect to unemployment. The results show that optimal lag varies among two and eight months. Two variables seem to have negative effect on unemployment (Government spending to GDP, labor freedom) and one positive (urbanization).

De relatie tussen herstel, werkdruk en slaap: een dagboekstudie

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia L.T. Walkowiak ◽  
Ute R. Hülsheger ◽  
Fred R.H. Zijlstra
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
High Work

The relationship between recovery, work pressure and sleep quality: A diary study The relationship between recovery, work pressure and sleep quality: A diary study Alicia L.T. Walkowiak, Ute R.Hülsheger & Fred R.H. Zijlstra, Gedrag & Organisatie, volume 23, December 2010, nr. 4, pp. 316-332. Previous research showed that the experience of high work pressure can lead to fatigue and even to health complaints on the long term. This makes it very important, especially for people who experience high work pressure, to take sufficient time to recover after work. Sleep quality has a positive influence on recovery. The aim of this diary study was to investigate whether sleep quality has a mediating effect on the relationship between work pressure and recovery. Seventy-six people took part in the study and answered questions about work, recovery and sleep for 14 days. Results showed that work pressure indeed had a negative effect on recovery and sleep quality. Furthermore, we found a partial mediation effect: sleep quality mediated the relationship between work pressure and recovery. These results stress the importance of recovery and sleep quality, especially for people who experience high work pressure.

scholarly journals Future Career anxiety & Its Relation with Self- Efficacy among the General Education Diploma Students in South Al Batinah Governorate in the Sultanate of Oman: قلق الـمستقبل المهني وعلاقته بفاعلية الذات المهنية لدى طلبة دبلوم التعليم العام بمحافظة جنوب الباطنة في سلطنة عُمان

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Humaid Saif Almuqbali, Abdel Fattah Mohammed Saeed Al- K
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Future Career ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Career Anxiety ◽  
General Education Diploma ◽  
The Relationship

The study aims to identify the relationship between future career anxiety & self- efficacy among students of the General Education Diploma in South al Batinah Governorate in Oman. A descriptive research design used; In order to achieve the objectives of the study, two scales were applied: the future career Anxiety Scale & Self- Efficacy Scale on a sample of 488 male & female students. The results of the study showed that the level of professional career anxiety & level of self- efficacy among students are in general moderate. And there is a negative statistically correlation between future career anxiety & self- efficacy. The study recommends conducting counseling programs to reduce the level of future career anxiety among diploma students ([1])  هذا البحث مستل من رسالة ماجستير إرشاد وتوجيه، جامعة نزوى، للطالب علي المقبالي، وإشراف د.عبد الفتاح الخواجه، 2019م.

scholarly journals The relationship between selected variables and customer loyalty within an optometric practice environment

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Van Vuuren ◽  
M. Roberts-Lombard ◽  
E. Van Tonder
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Customer Retention ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Practice Environment ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Purpose: The purpose of the research that informed this article was to examine the relationship between customer satisfaction, trust, supplier image, commitment and customer loyalty within an optometric practice environment. Problem investigated: Optometric businesses need to adopt their strategies to enhance loyalty, as customer satisfaction is not enough to ensure loyalty and customer retention. An understanding of the variables influencing loyalty could help businesses within the optometric service environment to retain their customers and become more profitable. Methodology: The methodological approach followed was exploratory and quantitative in nature. The sample consisted of 357 customers who visited the practice twice or more over the previous six years. A structured questionnaire, with a five-point Likert scale, was fielded to gather the data. The descriptive and multiple regression analysis approach was used to analyse the results. Collinearity statistics and Pearson's correlation coefficient were also calculated to determine which independent variable has the largest influence on customer loyalty. Findings and implications: The main finding is that customer satisfaction had the highest correlation with customer loyalty. The other independent variables, however, also appear to significantly influence customer loyalty within an optometric practice environment. The implication is that optometric practices need to focus on customer satisfaction, trust, supplier image and commitment when addressing the improvement of customer loyalty. Originality and value of the research: The article contributes to the improvement of customer loyalty within a service business environment that could assist in facilitating larger market share, higher customer retention and greater profitability for the business over the long term.

scholarly journals “What’s Happened to the People?” Gentrification and Racial Segregation in Brooklyn

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-572
Author(s):  
Themis Chronopoulos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Black Neighborhoods ◽  
The People ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Racial Desegregation ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article explores the relationship between gentrification and racial segregation in Brooklyn, New York with an emphasis on Black Brooklyn. With more than 2.6 million residents, if Brooklyn was a city, it would be the fourth largest in the USA. Brooklyn is the home of approximately 788,000 Blacks with almost 692,000 of them living in an area that historian Harold X. Connolly has called Black Brooklyn. In recent decades, large portions of Brooklyn, including parts of Black Brooklyn have been gentrifying with sizable numbers of whites moving to traditionally Black neighborhoods. One would anticipate racial segregation to be declining in Brooklyn and especially in the areas that are gentrifying. However, this expectation of racial desegregation appears to be false. While there are declines in indices of racial segregation, these declines are frequently marginal, especially when the increase in the number of whites in Black neighborhoods is taken into consideration. At the same time, gentrification has contributed to the displacement or replacement of thousands of long-term African American residents from their homes. This persistence of racial segregation in a time of gentrification raises many questions about the two processes and the effects that they have on African Americans.

scholarly journals Strategic Human Resource Planning: Responding to Changes Dynamic Business Environment and Effective to Achieve Competitive Advantage

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Siti Normi
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Resource Concentration ◽  
Human Resource Planning ◽  
Response Dynamic

This article discusses human resource planning issues as strategy to response dynamic and competitive business environment changes to gain sustainable competitive advantage. Also this article discusses how the stages and human resource planning process in short term, intermediate term and long term, and discusses about how long the linkage between humen resource and strategic business planning are administrative linkage, one-way linkage, two-way linkage, and integrative linkage. The last section in this article discusses the importance gaining competitive advantage sources and human resource concentration related with business issues as the action to integrate human resource fuction in the strategic business.

Body Height and Occupational Success for Actors and Actresses

2010 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Stieger ◽  
Christoph Burger
Keyword(s):  
Body Height ◽  
Annual Income ◽  
Online Database ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Occupational Success ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

The association of body height with occupational success has been frequently studied, with previous research mainly finding a positive effect among men and positive or null effects among women. Occupational success has almost exclusively been measured so far by short-term success variables (e.g., annual income). In the present study, the relationship of success and height was examined in a group of actors and actresses using a large online database about movies (Internet Movie Database) where heights of actors and actresses are stated. The number of roles played in movies and television series during each actor's lifetime was used as a measure of long-term occupational success. No height effect was found for male actors but a significant negative effect was found for actresses, even after controlling for possible confounding influences (age and birth year). Compared to the general population, actors and actresses were significantly taller; however, actresses who were shorter than average were more likely to achieve greater occupational success, in terms of being featured in more movies.

Picking the People up from Poverty

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
The People ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Relationship

Being a multidimensional phenomenon, it is hard to confine poverty within any definitive parameters and even harder to send the word poverty back to dictionary. Poverty eradication needs both short and long term strategic interventions; policies regarding employment opportunities should also be planned in such way. As an economic strategy, deregulation targets to eliminate the regulating authorities of labour market and decrease the interference of legal aspects within the relationship between companies and individuals to a minimum level with a great decline in the cases of collective bargaining. Labour market deregulation creates ample employment opportunities for poor people especially women. This paper looks for an effective and efficient way to alleviate poverty between Urban Labour Market Deregulation and the development of micro-enterprises with a sketch of possibilities and vulnerabilities of both approaches and a comparative approach to find the best possible way within these two to remove poverty's shadow from humankind.

scholarly journals Grit toward Career Development: A Study among Technical Instructors in Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5C) ◽  
pp. 1057-1063
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Technical Institute ◽  
Cognitive Intelligence ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Grit describes an individual’s tendency for passion and perseverance towards long-term goals and has been established as an indicator of achievement beyond talent and intelligence. A widely recognized belief is that indicators of professional and academic success extend beyond cognitive intelligence; for example, we know, anecdotally, that hard work and effort pay off. It has been established that any area of industries including teaching and learning requires the hard work of learning and practice for exacting a good result on teachers and students performances, making the need for perseverance necessary. This study quantitatively examined the relationship between grit and career development of technical instructors in Malaysia based on age, education level and years of services. The data for this research were obtained through structured questionnaire and involved 88 technical instructors from Malaysia Technical Institute. The study findings identified that grit: the power of passion and perseverance related to long lasting career development. More broadly, this study provides a qualitative and dimensional understanding of the phenomena of grit as related to career development

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