Exploring the Diverse Effects of Stakeholder Engagement on Organizational Performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 634-647
Author(s):  
Thaddieus W. Conner
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Indirect Measures ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Using Data

Collaborative partnerships and stakeholder engagement support an exchange of information, ideas, and resources that are critical to successful policy implementation in the 21st century. Such multiorganizational arrangements accompany expectations that collaboration will lead to improved policy outcomes and organizational performance that would not otherwise be possible in more hierarchical settings. However, our knowledge of how collaborative partnerships contribute to the full spectrum of potential impacts ranging from direct substantive outcomes to more indirect process-oriented improvements remains limited. Using data from a unique survey of 150 Indian education directors in New Mexico and Oklahoma, the following study explores how collaboration between public officials and Native American communities is related to perceived improvements in organizational performance across eight different direct and indirect measures. The results demonstrate that higher levels of collaboration are positively related to perceived improvements in direct substantive outcomes for Native American students. However, collaboration has less of an impact on more process-oriented outcomes including improved joint problem solving and cross-cultural learning with stakeholders suggesting the presence of differential effects. This research makes meaningful contributions to our understanding of the diverse impacts of collaboration, and the degree to which stakeholder engagement is related to more positive outcomes in public school districts.

Low Self-Control, Parental Intervention, and Delinquency Among Native American Youth

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunin Baek ◽  
Jason A. Nicholson ◽  
George E. Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Parental Intervention ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Low Self Control

Researchers in criminal justice literature have relatively underexamined the delinquency among Native American (NA) youth. Using data from the Drug Use Among Young Indians: Epidemiology and Prediction study, the present study tested assumptions in Gottfredson and Hirschi’s self-control theory. This study found evidence supporting the theory. Low self-control was a significant predictor to NA adolescents’ delinquency. However, parental intervention as an opportunity measure and it was not a mediation between low self-control and delinquency. Moreover, while parental intervention significantly decreased delinquency by female adolescents, parental intervention significantly increased delinquency by male adolescents. In addition, the mediation effect in structural equation modeling for males occurred; in contrast, the effect in the female model did not happen. On the other hand, low self-control was still the crucial predictor to adolescents’ delinquency across gender. Thus, future studies will need to account for the etiology of NA adolescents’ delinquency across gender using different approaches.

Greatly Exaggerated in Canada: Diverging Data and Media Bailouts

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc W Edge
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Soft Data ◽  
Hard Data ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Financial Losses

Background: The Canadian government allocated $595 million in subsidies over five years to news media in 2019, but the bailout was based on questionable data. Financial losses were exaggerated; a think tank report was criticized for using data selectively; data from a university research project differed sharply from annual industry counts; and job loss figures were disputed. Analysis: Hard data can diverge markedly from soft data accepted in pursuit of policy outcomes. Conclusions and implications: A second campaign underway on behalf of entertainment industries could yield a bailout several times larger than the first. Closer scrutiny should be exercised of media narratives and offered data. An independent media research centre should collect and verify data for policy purposes.Contexte : En 2019, le gouvernement canadien a octroyé aux médias d’information 595 millions de dollars en subventions étalées sur cinq ans, un montant évalué à partir de données douteuses. En effet, on a surestimé les pertes financières dans le milieu; le rapport influent d’un groupe de réflexion se fondait sur des données sélectionnées pour les besoins de la cause; les données provenant d’un projet de recherche universitaire différaient beaucoup de celles fournies annuellement par l’industrie; et on a exagéré les pertes d’emploi. Analyse : Les données dures peuvent différer énormément des données molles acceptées dans le but d’atteindre certains objectifs politiques. Conclusion et implications : Une seconde campagne menée pour aider les industries du divertissement pourrait bénéficier de subventions encore plus généreuses que les premières. Avant de procéder, il serait judicieux d’examiner de près les narratifs des médias et les données proposées. À cet égard, on devrait créer un centre indépendant pour la recherche sur les médias qui pourrait lui même recueillir et vérifier les données utilisées pour formuler des politiques.

Product Development Cycle Time and Organizational Performance

1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher D. Ittner ◽  
David F. Larcker
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Cycle Time ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Product Development Cycle ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Functional Teams

The authors develop and test a simple conceptual model linking product development cycle time to organizational performance. Using data from two industries (automobile and computer) and four countries (Canada, Germany, Japan, and the United States), they find that faster cycle time alone is not associated with higher accounting returns, sales growth, or perceived overall performance. Stronger support is found for the hypothesis that some product development practices, such as cross-functional teams and advanced design tools, interact with accelerated product development to improve performance, whereas other practices, such as reverse engineering of competitors’ products, suppress the potential benefits from lower cycle times. Finally, interaction effects for other organizational practices, such as customer involvement in the product development process and the extent to which new technology is obtained from external sources, appear to vary by industry.

The Political Origins of Racial Inequality

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Maltby
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Feedback ◽  
Political Inequality ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
Black Populations ◽  
Using Data

Policy feedback theory argues that public policies shape mass political behavior by teaching citizens about their relationship to government. I reevaluate this argument by examining how criminal justice policy shapes the political orientations and participation of blacks and whites. I argue that, because these policies send different messages to blacks than to whites about the treatment they can expect from government, these groups have opposite reactions to criminal justice enforcement. Using data from a 2014 national survey and information on local criminal justice outcomes, I find that racially skewed criminal justice enforcement is associated with negative political orientations and lower rates of political participation for highly educated blacks. I also find that whites respond positively to similar criminal justice outcomes when they reside in areas with large black populations. The results show that unequal policy outcomes lead to political inequality.

Neural Network-based Evaluation of the Effect of the Motivation of Hospital Employees on Patients’ Satisfaction

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Payam Hanafizadeh ◽  
Neda Rastkhiz Paydar ◽  
Neda Aliabadi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Back Propagation Neural Network ◽  
Distributed Data ◽  
Hospital Employees ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Network Studies

This article evaluates the effect of the motivation of employees on organizational performance using a neural network. Studies show that employee motivation influences organizational performance, particularly in organizations providing services. Methods based on statistical computations like regression and correlation analysis were used to measure the mutual effects of these factors. As these statistical methods necessitate the fulfillment of certain requirements like normally distributed data and because they are not able to express non-linear relations and hidden complicated patterns, a back propagation neural network has been used. The neural network was trained by using data from 300 questionnaires answered by hospital employees and 1933 patients hospitalized in a private hospital in Tehran over three successive months.

scholarly journals Is Digital Government Advancing Sustainable Governance? A Study of OECD/EU Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13603
Author(s):  
Jaromir Durkiewicz ◽  
Tomasz Janowski
Keyword(s):  
Weak Link ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Digital Government ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Relevant Outcome

International bodies and numerous authors advocate a key role for Digital Government (DG) in improving public governance and achieving other policy outcomes. Today, a particularly relevant outcome is advancing Sustainable Governance (SG), i.e., the capacity to steer and coordinate public action towards sustainable development. This article performs an empirical study of the relationship between DG and SG using data about 41 OECD/EU countries from the United Nations’ E-Government Survey and the Bertelsmann’s Sustainable Governance Indicators project, covering the period from 2014 to 2020. We examine if DG progress pairs with SG progress, apply a DEA model to find out which countries are efficient in using DG for better SG, and uncover cases of imbalance where high DG pairs with poor SG and vice versa. The results show that the efficiency in using DG for SG strongly varies, and that some DG leaders persistently fail to advance or even regress their SG. These findings refute the claims about the benign role of DG and points at democracy as the “weak link” in the analyzed relation.

scholarly journals Bridging and Bonding: Disentangling Two Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity–Performance Relationship

2020 ◽  
pp. 089976402093965
Author(s):  
Brad R. Fulton
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Leadership Team ◽  
National Study ◽  
Social Diversity ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Better Than

Although extensive research has examined whether diversity hinders or improves organizational performance, the aggregate results remain inconclusive. Social bridging theories argue that diverse organizations perform better than homogeneous organizations, while social bonding theories argue that diverse organizations perform worse. When scholars test these competing theories, they often specify bridging and bonding as the inverse of one another. This study instead specifies them as distinct mechanisms and measures them independently using data from a national study of organizations containing information on the race, class, gender, and religion of each organization’s leadership team and the frequency, type, and content of their interactions. The analysis indicates that both bridging and bonding are positively associated with an organization’s performance; however, their respective performance benefits depend on the type of task being performed. The results suggest that social diversity facilitates performance related to accessing external resources and social interaction facilitates performance related to internal coordination.

scholarly journals Past Performance, Organizational Aspiration, and Organizational Performance: The Moderating Effect of Environmental Jolts

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunjia Hu ◽  
Haili Zhang ◽  
Michael Song ◽  
Dapeng Liang
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Environmental Jolts ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Using Data

Previous research has implied that past performance and organizational aspiration may have an important effect on the sustainable growth of organizational performance. Under the conditions of environmental jolts, their relationships are more complicated to discern. However, few studies have undertaken this investigation. Using data from 183 U.S. firms, this study proposes and tests a theoretical model of the relationships between past performance, organizational aspiration, and organizational performance at different environmental jolt levels. Through hierarchical regression analysis, the empirical findings suggest that low levels of environmental jolt weaken the positive relationship between organizational aspiration and organizational performance, while high levels of environmental jolt magnify the positive influence of past performance on organizational performance. Most importantly, the empirical findings reveal that at low levels of environmental jolt, past performance has no effect on organizational performance, while organizational aspiration has no effect on organizational performance when the level of environmental jolt is high. These interesting findings provide some implications for managers and enrich the theory of sustainable development.

Shifting Our Lenses to Behavioral Finance Paradigm

2021 ◽  
pp. 174-202
Author(s):  
Sibel Dinç Aydemir
Keyword(s):  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Agency Problems ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Normative Structure ◽  
Financial Outcomes ◽  
Reputation Concern

Recent crisis periods have shown how corporate communication could contribute to organizational performance regarding financial outcomes, reputation concern, etc. The efforts to reduce information asymmetry, deal with agency problems, improve stakeholder engagement have brought it to the fore. Past research on reporting mechanisms has overly focused on its normative structure and manifested ethical or problematic issues. Some research has argued credibility of both reporters and assurance providers of this information. Although some limited research on management control over reporting mechanisms and on some weaknesses of assurance providers' verification statements, this research doesn't explain enough why this manipulative control occurs. Shifting our lenses to behavioral finance paradigm, it's understood that judgmental decision making seems to be exposed to diverse systematical biases and fallacies. Amidst them, inopportune optimism, alias overconfidence, stands for one of the most serious biases.

Challenged by Respect

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-42
Author(s):  
Andrew Watts
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
Cultural Service

This chapter explores how service-learning programs offered by U.S. colleges and universities might partner with Native American communities on reservations. It reviews relevant scholarship on approaches to cross-cultural learning, such as the Authentic and Culturally Engaging (ACE). It provides background for the participating partners in a current service-learning program. It examines issues affecting cross-cultural service-learning on reservations in light of ongoing historical, social and cultural trauma. It addresses pedagogical issues unique to Humanities (Religion) service-learning programs. It provides a description of various strategies used in the program that implement service-learning and learning theories. Throughout the chapter Native American voices and scholars serving as community partners for this specific program offer critical perspectives on pedagogy and partnerships.

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