Real people: engines of enterprise

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Gordon Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Neoclassical Economics ◽  
Or Management ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
Economic Man ◽  
The Core ◽  
Real People ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Science Motivation

Progression without destruction will only be achieved by real people working singly or together in organisational systems. Human motivation has been the focus of much empirical study, including Taylor’s deliberately misinterpreted work study or management science. Motivation is fairly well understood and was summarised in 1960 by McGregor under the headings Theory X and Theory Y, which updated the mid 19th century assumptions of economic man which is the core of neoclassical economics. It is far more nuanced than the simplistic ‘greed is good’ assumption of neoclassical belief. Empirical studies of intrinsic motivation and demotivation in the context of hierarches of human need, are reviewed and conclusions drawn regarding the roles of leadership and money and their impacts on human and organisational performance, nicely summarised by Wilfred Brown’s explanation in ‘Piecework Abandoned’.

Putting Descartes before the horse (again!)

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan McGonigle ◽  
Margaret Chalmers
Keyword(s):  
Formal Model ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Cognitive Growth ◽  
The Core ◽  
Target Article ◽  
New Models ◽  
Rational Bubble

AbstractThe “rational bubble” stance espoused in the target article confounds cultural symbolic achievements with individual cognitive competences. With no explicit role for learning, the core rationale for claiming a major functional discontinuity between humans and other species rests on a hybrid formal model LISA (Learning and Inference with Schemas and Analogies) now overtaken by new models of cognitive growth and new empirical studies within an embodied systems stance.

scholarly journals Audio Mining: The Role of Vocal Tone in Persuasion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin (Shane) Wang ◽  
Shijie Lu ◽  
X I Li ◽  
Mansur Khamitov ◽  
Neil Bendle
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Controlled Experiments ◽  
The Core ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Persuasion success is often related to hard-to-measure characteristics, such as the way the persuader speaks. To examine how vocal tones impact persuasion in an online appeal, this research measures persuaders’ vocal tones in Kickstarter video pitches using novel audio mining technology. Connecting vocal tone dimensions with real-world funding outcomes offers insight into the impact of vocal tones on receivers’ actions. The core hypothesis of this paper is that a successful persuasion attempt is associated with vocal tones denoting (1) focus, (2) low stress, and (3) stable emotions. These three vocal tone dimensions—which are in line with the stereotype content model—matter because they allow receivers to make inferences about a persuader’s competence. The hypotheses are tested with a large-scale empirical study using Kickstarter data, which is then replicated in a different category. In addition, two controlled experiments provide evidence that perceptions of competence mediate the impact of the three vocal tones on persuasion attempt success. The results identify key indicators of persuasion attempt success and suggest a greater role for audio mining in academic consumer research.

scholarly journals PUSAT KREATIVITAS ANAK DI PONTIANAK

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 398
Author(s):  
Adilla Chairiah ◽  
Lestari Lestari ◽  
Irwin Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Design Method ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Circular Shape ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
The Right

Children are the future successors of the nation who must be equipped with supporting knowledge and education. One of the factors that influence the development of children are children’s creativity. Creativity is important for children because creativity is useful as a human need to be creative, creativity allows children to express themselves and thoughts in solving problem and many more. Creativity activities in schools are limited, namely 4-5 hours due to strict curriculum (Kemendikbud, 2012). The facilities that support the development of children's creativity in Pontianak is quite limited. This condition shows that Pontianak needs facilities that support the development of children's creativity, namely the Child Creativity Center in Pontianak. The design method starts from identifying the problem by looking at the issues, data collecting consists of primary data and secondary data, and then the data is analyzed which produced pre design drawing. The emphasis on the design is child-friendly which includes aspects of safety, comfort, freedom and stimulates children's potential. This concept produces a mass building design with a circular shape that has been transformed. The use of the right colors, shapes, materials and dimensions is the core of the design of the Children's Creativity Center in Pontianak.

scholarly journals Features of psychological support of personnel management in railway transport: empirical studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
L. Vanchenko
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Psychological Competence ◽  
Personnel Management System

The article defines the level of psychological competence of the head of the railway transport, the portrait of the psychological competence of the head is formed. The results of the empirical study of the problems of psychological support of the personnel management system in the railway transport are described.

scholarly journals Temple looting in Cambodia: Anatomy of a statue trafficking network

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Mackenzie ◽  
T Davis
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Antiquities Trade ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Qualitative empirical studies of the illicit antiquities trade have tended to focus either on the supply end, through interviews with looters, or on the demand end, through interviews with dealers, museums and collectors. Trafficking of artefacts across borders from source to market has until now been something of an evidential black hole. Here, we present the first empirical study of a statue trafficking network, using oral history interviews conducted during ethnographic criminology fieldwork in Cambodia and Thailand. The data begin to answer many of the pressing but unresolved questions in academic studies of this particular criminal market, such as whether organized crime is involved in antiquities looting and trafficking (yes), whether the traffic in looted artefacts overlaps with the insertion of fakes into the market (yes) and how many stages there are between looting at source and the placing of objects for public sale in internationally respected venues (surprisingly few). © The Author 2014.

scholarly journals Psychological aspects of ensuring the efficiency of professional activity of a project engineers

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 22041
Author(s):  
Оlena Khokhlina ◽  
Lubov Pomytkina ◽  
Lada Yakovytska ◽  
Oksana Lych ◽  
Denys Khokhlin
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Reference Method ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Individual Style

The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical research of the problem of psychological aspects of ensuring the efficiency of professional activity of a Project Engineers in the context of the theory of general and special abilities, the need to take into account the general and individual-typological in the mental development of the subject of labor. The importance of considering professional skills in connection with the intellectual readiness of the subject to the activity and individual style of its implementation is theoretically substantiated. The empirical study revealed the presence of correlations between the efficiency of professional activity, psychological readiness and individual style of activity. The most referent in the description of the professional skills of project engineers are the time of labor tasks performance and individual style of activity, and the organizing factor in the unity of these indicators is the generalization of mental activity, which forms the core of intellectual readiness for work. Correlation analysis of the data allowed us to identify the presence of clear links between: 1) the efficiency of activity by time indicator and ISA: the more ISA corresponds to the reference method, the less time is spent on solving the labor task, and vice versa; 2) between ISA and intellectual readiness for activity; the higher the level of complexity of labor tasks, the higher the level of correlation between these phenomena.

Corporate entrepreneurship, employee engagement and innovation: a resource-basedview and a social exchangetheory perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Afework Getachew Kassa ◽  
Geremew Teklu Tsigu
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Core

Purpose Synthesizing theoretical and empirical literature, this study aims to build a theoretical model linking the constructs; corporate entrepreneurship, employee engagement and innovation. Design/methodology/approach Using an integrative review method the current study conducted an examination of related literature on the areas of corporate entrepreneurship, employee engagement, as well as innovation and developed an integrated model which combines the three constructs. The study bases itself on the resource-based view (RBV) for looking into corporate entrepreneurial ecosystems as organizational capabilities and employee engagement as a human resource. The social exchange theory (SET) was also used to analyse the interrelationships. Findings An RBV synthesis made on corporate entrepreneurship, employee engagement, as well as innovation literature shows that while corporate entrepreneurship has been recognized as beneficial to bring positive organizational outcomes, attempts to tie it in the core resource, capability and competence input-output linkage are scanty. The study shows that the RBV can be a good way to see human resources as a source of organizational competitive advantage and corporate entrepreneurship as the capability to product innovation as a competence. The study also shows that by combining the RBV with the SET corporate entrepreneurship, employee engagement and innovation can be integrated as a basis for developing organizational competitiveness. Practical implications The implication of this paper to future empirical studies is that corporate entrepreneurship can be integrated with the RBV to relate it to the core competitive advantage development endeavour. The implication for policymakers and management practitioners on the other hand is that managers can consider corporate entrepreneurship as a major capability to bring the employee resource on board the innovation process. The study further implies that management practitioners need to provide time, freedom, boundary, reward and support to get their employees engaged in innovation. Hence, managers can integrate the SET into their motivation principles. Originality/value The study is original in its attempt to integrate the SET and RBV for studies in the area of corporate entrepreneurship, employee engagement and innovation.

Employee Portals based on Knowledge Management in Public Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Héctor Marcos Pérez Feijoo ◽  
Mercedes García Ordaz ◽  
Francisco J Martínez López
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Core ◽  
Tpb Model

The e-government development in Spain still lacks in the employee perspective. This background is clearly visible in the educative public sector where the authors can found several online services to employees but can't find a complete employee portal. The implementation of such systems is an opportunity to embed knowledge management, as it's the core process in education, but it would imply a deep organizational change. Thus, it is crucial to determine the barriers that could potentially prevent their implementation. The study aims to establish the barriers that influence the intention of use of those employee portals. The researchers used structural equation modeling to conduct an empirical study based on a hybrid TAM-TPB model. The results have found evidence on the majority of the proposed hypothesis. The authors conclude the study with a set of recommendations for the developers that could help in avoiding the effects of such barriers.

An Empirical Study of E-Participation Levels in Jordan

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emad Abu-Shanab ◽  
Raya Al-Dalou'
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between citizens and governments is the core of e-government. E-participation is one of the political dimensions of e-government which focuses on informing, consulting, involving, collaborating, and empowering citizens to take part of the decision making process. This study adopted a framework for the five levels of e-participation and tried to test such model empirically using 400 responses from Jordanians. The study tried to measure Jordanian perceptions towards e-participation initiatives and practices in Jordan, and to measure the achievements on each level as perceived and reported by subjects. Results indicated that the highest perceived level was e-involving, and the lowest was e-consulting. Also, the CFA results indicated a distorted distribution of items between the major levels. Results of other issues explored are discussed further in this study.

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