scholarly journals The Success of Managing Small Project in Light of Achieving the Dimensions of Managerial Leadership (Study Analysis of a Sample of Decision Makers’ Views in the General Company for Food Industries)

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1199-1223
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Shukr Muhammad ◽  
Abdul Aziz Barak Abdul Aziz Barak Al-Madidi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Makers ◽  
Administrative Leadership ◽  
Managerial Leadership ◽  
Food Industries ◽  
Management Leadership ◽  
Small Project ◽  
Local Companies ◽  
Leadership Study ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the research is to identify the role of administrative leadership in achieving the dimensions of the success of small projects’ management in the general company of foodstuff industries. The various variables have shown the importance of managerial leadership to achieve the dimensions of the success of the management of small projects, whether in international or local companies. The role of managerial leadership in the success of the management of small projects "In order to answer this question, has been developed a default model reflects the relationship and impact between management leadership and the success of the management of small projects. The research was based on descriptive analytical approach. The sample of the study consists of (48) Managers of departments and divisions where the research reached a number of results; the most important one is the existence of a relationship between the leadership of innovation and the success of the management of small projects in the company investigated if the relationship is positive and strong. The results led to a set of recommendations, the most important one is the necessity for the company under study to get benefit from the evaluation of the company’s leaders from time to time in order to achieve the dimensions of the success of managing small projects.

scholarly journals Novel Parameterized Distance Measures on Hesitant Fuzzy Sets with Credibility Degree and Their Application in Decision-Making

Symmetry ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaru Li ◽  
Fangwei Zhang ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
Jing Sun ◽  
Janney Yee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fuzzy Sets ◽  
Cardinal Number ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Distance Measures ◽  
Hesitant Fuzzy Set ◽  
Hesitant Fuzzy Sets ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The subject of this study is to explore the role of cardinality of hesitant fuzzy element (HFE) in distance measures on hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs). Firstly, three parameters, i.e., credibility factor, conservative factor, and a risk factor are introduced, thereafter, a series of novel distance measures on HFSs are proposed using these three parameters. These newly proposed distance measures handle the relationship between the cardinal number and the element values of hesitant fuzzy set well, and are suitable to combine subjective and objective decision-making information. When using these functions, decision makers with different risk preferences are allowed to give different values for these three parameters. In particular, this study transfers the hesitance degree index to a credibility of the values in HFEs, which is consistent with people’s intuition. Finally, the practicability of the newly proposed distance measures is verified by two examples.

scholarly journals Workplace Spirituality, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: A Theoretical Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shibani Belwalkar ◽  
Veena Vohra
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Managerial Effectiveness ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Management Leadership ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="Abstract">Workplace spirituality has steadily been gaining attention in the last couple of years. Many researchers have investigated the role of “workplace spirituality” with the aim of generating research data that would firmly entrench this construct as vital in the workplace. This article proposes the relationships between workplace spirituality, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors. It examines the relationship between three workplace spirituality components–meaning and purpose in work, recognition of an inner life or spirit and interconnectedness with the various forms in which organizational citizenship behaviours manifest, mediated by the job satisfaction experienced by the employees. This study can provide significant inputs to promote managerial effectiveness, change management, leadership, holistic performance and growth of organizations, through environments which promote workplace spirituality.</p>

Sovereignty and Property

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-136
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Robé
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
The State ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Natural State ◽  
Organized Violence ◽  
The Relationship

The Chapter deals with the relationship between the two concepts of sovereignty and property. It first addresses the thesis developed by North, Wallis and Weingast on the role of organized violence in the development of a modern, open access society. Their intuition is that the « limited access order » of the « natural state » in which personal relationships form the basis of social organization had to leave the way to an « open access order » in which impersonal categories of individuals interact. This is generally correct. But they neglected the role of law in the process and, in particular, the role of the development of constitutional modes of government. Via modern international law, starting in Europe in the middle of the seventeenth century, sovereignty was allocated among States. Via modern liberal constitutions, internal sovereignty was decentralized as a matter of principle to owners, who are decision-makers as a matter of principle towards the objects of property. The operations of political Organs of the State, of administrative Organs of the State and of law can usefully be viewed in this perspective.

Olfactory Effects on Human Behavior within a Simulation Experiment

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Tanja Feit ◽  
Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Simulation Experiment ◽  
Economic Problem ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Relationship

In the study at hand, the authors pose the question how people are influenced by olfactory stimulation while solving an economic problem? The economic problem involves managing a strategic planning simulation experiment. To demonstrate the fundamental task of economic decisions, the authors run experiments in the laboratory. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between several economic parameters and a firm’s success within a simulation experiment. Teams of students are assigned the role of managers of a firm within a competitive market situation. Subjects had the task of managing the complex situation in which they act in a group as managers to increase the performance of a firm by setting specific parameters. The authors will demonstrate to what extent a strong peppermint scent is able to influence the decision-makers within such a reasonably complex situation when they are to manage a firm's product range and compete against other firms. The authors are able to show that the smell of peppermint improved the overall mood considerably and thus also the results of the given task.

Crowdsourcing Terrorism: Utopia, Martyrdom and Citizenship Reimagined

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-352
Author(s):  
Jennifer Yang Hui
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Individual Contribution ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Relationship

The role of social media in aiding terrorist attacks worldwide has been widely discussed among counterterrorism officials and academics. Since 2014, the idea of ‘crowdsourced terrorism’, whereby the Islamic State (IS) outsourced the conduct of attacks to their followers and attempted to attract them to Syria, has been popularly used by Western policymakers. This article critically examines the phenomenon of crowdsourcing and the IS’s online appeal in the case of Indonesia. The participant–curator crowdsourcing model outlined by Laurie Philips and Daren Brabham explains the online appeal of the IS, with social media facilitating the IS’s establishment of the relationship with Internet users in faraway countries such as Indonesia and allowing them to participate in the making of the IS brand. Participatory culture therefore encourages an e-supporter’s faith in the importance of their individual contribution and social connection that transcend offline realities in areas such as citizenship. IS opinion leaders work alongside online supporters to craft the meaning of martyrdom and imagination of citizenship through social media posts about life in the Caliphate. The land of Syria is imagined simultaneously as paradise for those who take their faith seriously as well as the venue for the Islamic equivalent of Armageddon. Hijrah (jihad by emigration) to Syria and martyrdom are represented as obligatory in the quest for equalization of power and freedom from slavery of those who are against the establishment of the Caliphate. Crowdsourced imaginations of the IS have had implications in several areas of policymaking. The article will discuss the implications of online imaginaries on IS’s approaches to militancy in its operations, Indonesian decision makers’ debate to revoke the citizenship of those who had travelled to IS and for the Indonesian military in its quest for expansion of their role in counterterror operations.

scholarly journals The Intervening Role of Competitiveness on the Relationship Between Sustainability and Tourism Performance: A Research on European Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paşa Mustafa Özyurt ◽  
Kemal Kantarcı
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Global Competitiveness Index ◽  
Development Literature ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Being green and being an economically successful and competitive destination has been the core topic in the sustainable development literature in recent years. The link between sustainability and competitiveness in the market is fairly important to study in the tourism industry in order to support and encourage decision makers and stakeholders in their decisions. In this sense, this study has two aims. First aim is to cluster European countries based on their sustainability scores reported in World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index. Second aim is to reveal the intervening role of competitiveness on the relationship between sustainability and tourism performance for European countries. We employed a K-means cluster analysis and several multiple regression analyses. Analyses results revealed three clusters for European countries. Another finding postulated that competitiveness of these countries have been influenced by their level of sustainability. Our final finding posits that tourism performance of these countries in terms of tourist arrivals and tourism receipts has been found to be impacted by the level of tourism competitiveness.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF DYNAMIC STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES ON STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PRESENCE OF OUTSOURCING OF FIVE STARS HOTELS IN JORDAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 578-587
Author(s):  
Sulieman Ibraheem Al-Hawary ◽  
Mohammad Sultan Al-Syasneh
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Strategic Capabilities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This research aims to investigate whether outsourcing mediates the impact of dynamic strategic capabilities on strategic entrepreneurship. The population of the research consists of top managers in five stars hotels. A sample of 215 respondents were selected for the research in which 186 questionnaires were valid for statistical analysis. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the hypotheses of the research. The results of the research indicate that outsourcing does not mediate the relationship between dynamic strategic capabilities and strategic entrepreneurship. All the dimensions of dynamic strategic capabilities have a statistical impact on strategic entrepreneurship, while the dynamic strategic capabilities dimension all affect outsourcing except the seizing capability. Based on the research results, managers and decision-makers have to focus on innovation functions by enhancing the role of knowledge management and R&D activities, as well as concentrate on employees training programs.

scholarly journals Verification, validation, and predictive capability in computational engineering and physics

2004 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 345-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L Oberkampf ◽  
Timothy G Trucano ◽  
Charles Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Computational Physics ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Code Verification ◽  
Computational Simulations ◽  
Predictive Capability ◽  
Validation Metrics ◽  
The Relationship

Developers of computer codes, analysts who use the codes, and decision makers who rely on the results of the analyses face a critical question: How should confidence in modeling and simulation be critically assessed? Verification and validation (V&V) of computational simulations are the primary methods for building and quantifying this confidence. Briefly, verification is the assessment of the accuracy of the solution to a computational model. Validation is the assessment of the accuracy of a computational simulation by comparison with experimental data. In verification, the relationship of the simulation to the real world is not an issue. In validation, the relationship between computation and the real world, ie, experimental data, is the issue. This paper presents our viewpoint of the state of the art in V&V in computational physics. (In this paper we refer to all fields of computational engineering and physics, eg, computational fluid dynamics, computational solid mechanics, structural dynamics, shock wave physics, computational chemistry, etc, as computational physics.) We describe our view of the framework in which predictive capability relies on V&V, as well as other factors that affect predictive capability. Our opinions about the research needs and management issues in V&V are very practical: What methods and techniques need to be developed and what changes in the views of management need to occur to increase the usefulness, reliability, and impact of computational physics for decision making about engineering systems? We review the state of the art in V&V over a wide range of topics, for example, prioritization of V&V activities using the Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table (PIRT), code verification, software quality assurance (SQA), numerical error estimation, hierarchical experiments for validation, characteristics of validation experiments, the need to perform nondeterministic computational simulations in comparisons with experimental data, and validation metrics. We then provide an extensive discussion of V&V research and implementation issues that we believe must be addressed for V&V to be more effective in improving confidence in computational predictive capability. Some of the research topics addressed are development of improved procedures for the use of the PIRT for prioritizing V&V activities, the method of manufactured solutions for code verification, development and use of hierarchical validation diagrams, and the construction and use of validation metrics incorporating statistical measures. Some of the implementation topics addressed are the needed management initiatives to better align and team computationalists and experimentalists in conducting validation activities, the perspective of commercial software companies, the key role of analysts and decision makers as code customers, obstacles to the improved effectiveness of V&V, effects of cost and schedule constraints on practical applications in industrial settings, and the role of engineering standards committees in documenting best practices for V&V. There are 207 references cited in this review article.

scholarly journals The Norwegian Petroleum Fund as Institutionalized Self-Restraint

2019 ◽  
pp. 244-263
Author(s):  
Camilla Bakken Øvald ◽  
Bent Sofus Tranøy ◽  
Ketil Raknes
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Leadership ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Institutional Capability ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Economic Regime

In economies abundant with natural resources, public leadership tends to lessen public value, diminishing assets that could benefit the population at large. The Norwegian macro-economic regime, balancing current spending with long-term interests, compares favourably to most other cases of large resource-driven income streams. While Norway had the institutional capability to reform, this policy is also an example of successful public leadership creating large public and social value. This chapter explores the role of public leadership in establishing the Petroleum Fund, and the relationship between political and administrative leadership. It finds that deft political leadership was vital in the three main government decisions that shaped Norwegian economic policy. In fact, the role of heroic leadership in the Fund’s history was larger than expected, although the key factor was a series of constructive interactions between political leaders and astute public managers.

Role of Joy in Farm Animal Welfare Legislation

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp von Gall ◽  
Mickey Gjerris
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Farm Animal ◽  
Farm Animal Welfare ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Animal Protection ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Animal Welfare Legislation

While animal welfare is commonly invoked in legal debates regarding non-human animals kept for food purposes, the concept of animal joy is rarely mentioned in such contexts. This paper analyzes the relationship between welfare and joy in the German animal protection law (gapl) and in the eu directive 98/58/ec. Based on a review of scientific and philosophical approaches towards animal welfare, joy is argued to be a part of welfare. Nevertheless, joy is ignored in the German and eu legal provisions. While there may be economic disadvantages of legally protecting animal joy, it is argued that overlooking elements of joy cannot be justified from any ethical perspective that claims to take animal welfare into consideration. In order to clarify the aims of the legal provisions, decision-makers need to define the role joy ought to play in welfare legislation.

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