scholarly journals Cultura organizativa e innovación: un análisis temático en empresas de Costa Rica (Organizational culture and innovation: a thematic analysis in Costa Rica's firms)

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás Vargas Halabi ◽  
Ronald Mora Esquivel ◽  
Cindy Ortiz Acuña
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Strategic Direction ◽  
Cultural Trait ◽  
Verbal Data

<p>Este trabajo, de alcance exploratorio, vinculó los significados de las expresiones de cinco directivos entrevistados –en diferentes empresas costarricenses con las sub-dimensiones y dimensiones de tres rasgos de cultura del modelo de la Denison Organizational Culture Survey (DOCS): misión, involucramiento y adaptabilidad; lo mismo que éstas con la innovación en sus empresas. Para ello se utilizó el análisis temático, con una modificación de la codificación elaborativa de datos textuales por Auerbach y Silverstein (2003), con el fin de extraer o decodificar los significados de expresiones concretas de los entrevistados para obtener los principales temas y analizar sus interrelaciones con tres de las variables latentes del modelo de la DOCS y la innovación. La codificación de los datos cualitativos se realizó mediante el software Atlas Ti 6. Los resultados apuntan a la relevancia que tiene para la actividad innovadora en la empresa el contar con un propósito y dirección estratégica que alinee los esfuerzos en esta vía, el implicar a los colaboradores en esta actividad, así como procurar habilidades de los colaboradores para enfocarse en el cliente, aprender nuevas habilidades y crear cambio en la organización. Si bien los anteriores hallazgos son consistentes con la literatura publicada en este tema, un aporte del presente estudio destaca el potencial efecto de la adaptabilidad y el involucramiento sobre la innovación, siempre y cuando estén alineados con el rasgo cultural misión.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This exploratory research linked the impressions of five Costa Rican companies managers interviewed, with the sub-dimensions and three dimensions of Denison Organizational Culture Survey (DOCS) culture traits: mission, involvement and adaptability; and their link with the innovation in their companies. It is based on a thematic analysis and a modification of the elaborative encoding of verbal expressions, given by Auerbach &amp; Silverstein (2003), in order to obtain topics from the meanings of specific expressions of respondents, and link them to latent variables of DOCS model and the innovation. The verbal data processing was performed using the Atlas Ti 6 software. The results showed the importance of having a purpose and strategic direction to align efforts for the innovative<br />activity in the company. This involves the capacity of the employees to have a customer focus skills, learn new skills and create change in the organization. While the above findings are consistent with literature on this subject, a contribution of this study points to the potential effect of adaptability and involvement on innovation, though, mediated by<br />the cultural trait mission.</p><p><strong><br /></strong></p>

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Organizational Culture in IT Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Neeraj Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Strategic Direction ◽  
Team Orientation ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The study aims to do a comparative analysis of organizational culture between the three different organizations in IT sector. It is an exploratory research. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the primary data. The sample size was 165. It consisted of employees from three leading IT organizations in India. Aligning culture and leadership goals are keys to organisational success. All the four dimensions of organisational culture are heavily influenced by leadership based interventions in an organisation. A true leader is a catalyst in driving: Adaptability–by creating change, emphasising customer focus and promoting organisation learning, Mission–by defining strategic direction, defining objectives and goals  and creating a shared vision, Consistency–by managing coordination & integration, defining core values and working to reach agreement, and Involvement–by empowering people, building team orientation and developing organisation capability.

Adopting a mojo mindset: Training newspaper reporters in mobile journalism

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492199628
Author(s):  
Anja Salzmann ◽  
Frode Guribye ◽  
Astrid Gynnild
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
New Production ◽  
Visual Storytelling ◽  
Training Course ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Depth Interviews

Due to the visual turn in journalism and the emergence of mobile journalism, many newspaper journalists have had to change the way they work and learn to use new tools. To face these changes, traditional news organizations apply different strategies to increase staff competencies in using new production tools and creating innovative content in new formats. In this paper, we investigate how a specific training arrangement was experienced by a group of 40 print editors and journalists in a German regional publishing house. The journalists were introduced to audio-visual storytelling and reporting with smartphones in a 2-week training course. The training arrangements were studied using participant observation and in-depth interviews, followed by a thematic analysis of the data. The study indicates that for print journalists and editors, the transition from the print to the mojo mindset depends on three dimensions: (i) mastering mojo skills, (ii) adopting visual thinking and (iii) integrating ethical and legal awareness.

The moderating role of remote work in the relationship between organizational culture and OCB: case studies from the financial sector

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Krajcsák ◽  
Anita Kozák
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Approach

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to show how remote working affects employees' organizational citizenship behavior (OCB).Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted research on organizations in the financial sector, as this segment was able to easily adapt to the challenges of remote working and teleworking. They used the case study approach: they analyzed organizational documents and management communications related to crisis management back to March 2020, when the pandemic started in Hungary, and conducted semi-structured interviews with managers and subordinates.FindingsThe results highlighted that the dominant organizational culture determines the effects of remote working on OCB. In organizations with a dominant market culture, OCB has changed the least because of the home office, with only a decline in the dimension of civic virtue. In organizations with a dominant clan culture, conscientiousness decreased, while the other three dimensions increased. The dominant hierarchy culture reacted the most unfavorably, excluding the dimension of courtesy, as all dimensions decreased.Originality/valueThe study shows how the pandemic and working in home office have changed the dimensions of OCB in different organizational cultures.

scholarly journals DECISION-MAKING AT THE FIRST MANAGEMENT LEVEL: THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
GUSTAVO G. MARCHISOTTI ◽  
MARIA DE L. C. DOMINGOS ◽  
RODRIGO L. DE ALMEIDA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Treatment Technique ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Management Level ◽  
Decision Making Capacity ◽  
Practical Usefulness ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Origins

ABSTRACT Purpose: This article aims at explaining how a decision is made in the first management level, within five different organizations, from different origins - American, Brazilian and Chinese - in different branches of activity. Originality/value: This is an original work, since it goes beyond the frontiers of knowledge about the subject researched, both for its approach and for its practical usefulness in the day-to-day of the decision makers, being useful for both professionals - and decision making - and for companies - on how to improve the decision-making capacity of their managers. Design/methodology/approach: Fifty managers were interviewed, through the application of a qualitative exploratory research, with the collection of data through semi-structured interviews and content analysis as data analysis and treatment technique. Findings: One may conclude that the decision-making of the first level decision-making managers is more rational. Also, the organizational culture, among the studied variables is the one with the greater impact in the way this management level makes the decisions. This influence of the organizational culture contains three important elements: 1. the need of the manager to act procedurally, using the rules and standards of the company, 2. the use of supporting tools for the decision-making and 3. the learning from the current relationship - or from the past one - with their peers. To go deeper in the theme, we suggest the analysis of the influence of gender in decision-making, under the focus of rationality or intuition, in the first level of the managerial function of the organizations.

scholarly journals Experiences of People with Epilepsy during Art Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vytautas Tautkevičius ◽  
Audronė Brazauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Art Therapy ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Brain Disorder ◽  
Psychosocial Risks ◽  
Verbal Data ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Chaotic Nature ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Study Participants

Research background. Epilepsy is not only a central nervous system or brain disorder. It is a biological, psychological and social condition (Scambler, 2010). Children with epilepsy have a higher risk of having psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety and attention defcit disorders. The application of art therapy for people with epilepsy helps to express and understand feelings more effectively (Shore, 2014). Unfortunately, there is a lack of research that analyses the experience of epilepsy patients in art therapy. The aim of this article is to reveal and describe experiences of epileptic people during art therapy. Research questions: What experiences of epilepsy patients predominate in the collected thematic analysis data? What formal elements of drawing reflect the participants’ experiences? How does thematic analysis data relate to the data of formal elements analysis of drawings? Methods. Qualitative study in which the participants of the study were subjected to group art therapy. The data was analysed by the thematic method and the analysis of formal elements of the drawings. Results. The analysis of the verbal data revealed the individual themes of the study participants’ experiences. After drawing analysis formal elements were found that expressed the participants’ experiences. Conclusions. 1. Experiences dominating in thematic analysis are loneliness and confnement during difcult moments, as well as constant tension and internal confusion. 2. The experiences of research participants are reflected in these repeated formal elements of drawing: the use of confnes and framing, the use of black and red collars, fgurative and abstract depictions, the chaotic nature of the composition, the lack of concreteness in shapes, expressiveness, and incompleteness. 3. The thematic and formal drawing element analyses complement each other. Drawings that convey the illness-related experiences include confnes, framing, and black colour in the main elements of the composition. Drawing that reflects unpleasant feelings and experiences uses abstract depiction, chaotic compositions, the lack of concreteness in shapes, expressiveness and incompleteness.Keywords: epilepsy, art therapy, psychosocial risks.

scholarly journals Barriers and Facilitators of Access to Psychological Services for Indigenous Populations: A Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Plessas ◽  
Moana W. Billot ◽  
Armon Tamatea ◽  
Oleg N. Medvedev ◽  
Jessica McCormack ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Barriers And Facilitators ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
The Relationship

Background: The extent to which behavior-analytic interventions are offered to Indigenous populations across CANZUS in accessible and culturally appropriate ways is unknown. We conducted a scoping review with a thematic analysis of the extant literature to find: (1) what are the barriers and facilitators for providing effective and equitable delivery of psychological services (with a behavioral component) to Indigenous populations; and (2) what tools and practices exist for an effective and equitable service delivery.Methods: We systematically reviewed Medline, CINAHL, PubMed, PsycInfo, Web of science, Ovid and INNZ databases between 1990 and 2020. For the scoping review, we adhered to the JBI methodological approach (2015) and the PRISMA strategy for the identification, selection, and appraisal of the reviewed articles. A total of 1265 unique articles met the criteria for the screening by title; 238 by abstract; 57 were included for full text assessment; and 37 were included in the final analysis.Results: Three themes were revealed to account for the barriers and facilitators of culturally friendly practices: (1) connecting practices are about interactions shaping the relationship between service provider and service client; (2) innovative practices test new approaches and innovations that could facilitate access to psychological services and overcome barriers, and (3) reflective practices are about critically examining the processes and actions undertaken toward effective cultural adaptation of services.Conclusions: Our analysis suggests that the level of success in bringing together services and the recipients of treatment (connection), showing flexibility and persistence in finding solutions (innovation) and examining the role of our behaviors in reaching our goals (reflection) is determined by the providers' action in the aforementioned three dimensions of practice.

Tuteo, Effeminacy and Homosexuality: Change and Continuity in Costa Rican Spanish

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-347
Author(s):  
Víctor Fernández-Mallat ◽  
Matt Dearstyne
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Homosexual Men ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Address Forms ◽  
Costa Rican Spanish ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
Address System ◽  
Los Grupos

Abstract Costa Rica’s second-person singular (2PS) address system is known for both its changing nature and its incorporation of tuteo, ustedeo, and voseo forms. While the latter are generalized across communicative contexts, tuteo use has oscillated over time, being consistently associated with foreignness, effeminacy and homosexuality, with one study (Marín Esquivel, Rebeca. 2012. El pronombre ‘tú’ en los grupos homosexual y heterosexual heredianos. Revista Comunicación 21(2). 31–40) suggesting that homosexual men report using tuteo at levels significantly higher than heterosexuals. In this study, we revisit this finding using new data from a survey that elicited stated preferences for address forms and attitudes towards tuteo across different communicative contexts. Multinomial logistic regressions compared the address choices of homosexual men with those of heterosexual men and women, and attitudes were gauged by means of a thematic analysis. Results indicate that currently, with few exceptions, what best characterizes the distribution of address forms are similarities, regardless of sexuality or gender, with all participants reporting low rates of tuteo use across communicative settings. While these results suggest continued change in tuteo use, linguistic attitudes reveal a persistent perceived ideological connection between tuteo, foreignness, effeminacy and homosexuality.

Green Organizational Culture: An Exploration of Dimensions

2021 ◽  
pp. 097215092110498
Author(s):  
Priyanka Aggarwal ◽  
Tanuja Agarwala
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Questionnaire Development ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
The Impact

Awareness of environmental issues and stakeholder expectations has led organizations to be concerned about the impact of their products, processes and packaging on the natural environment. Environmental sustainability has become an essential tool for the competitive advantage of firms. Organizations need to bring about cultural transformation to sustain competitive advantage. This orientation has brought green organizational culture to centre stage as firms seek to institutionalize and incorporate environmental focus throughout the organization. The belief that integrating environmental concerns with organizational culture should result in sustainable competitive advantage mandates that firms measure the extent of ‘greening’ of the culture. Literature review reveals that ‘green organizational culture’ has begun to receive attention in recent years. However, a standardized and empirically validated instrument is not available for measuring the extent to which green values are internalized throughout the firm. The present study aims to fill this gap by developing a questionnaire to study green organizational culture (GOC). The model proposed by Harris and Crane (2002 , Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 15, pp. 214–234) is used as a basis for questionnaire development. A two-stage method of structural equation modelling in AMOS 23 is employed for data analysis. Exploratory factor analysis in SPSS reveals three dimensions of the construct measured by two items. Confirmatory factor analysis confirms the factor structure. The instrument satisfies the conditions of convergent and discriminant validity and the model fulfils the criteria for model fitness. Measurement of green organizational culture has important implications for creating and reinforcing greening through human resource policies and practices.

Graphical Research Tools for Acoustic Design Training

2018 ◽  
pp. 397-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Milo ◽  
Nick Bryan-Kinns ◽  
Joshua D. Reiss
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Perceptual Information ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Acoustic Design ◽  
Verbal Data ◽  
Research Tools

This chapter presents an overview of 3 graphical tools supporting soundscape assessment in different settings, indoors and outdoors. These research prototypes support the spatial organization of the perceptual information available to the participants and are designed based on surveying techniques used in architectural training to create a foundation for acoustic design education in architecture schools. This chapter reports the contexts of the focus groups investigations, presenting advantages and drawbacks related to their use. It has been found that participants often added explanatory verbal data and arrows to the provided diagrams. The diagrams and their use have been interpreted with the support of the qualitative data captured along the studies through thematic analysis. Finally, paper prototypes are useful for educational approaches, but future more comprehensive studies will require integrating these tools in existing or yet-to-be-designed systematic frameworks for soundscape analysis and design.

scholarly journals Relationships and interactions in healthy process to be an adolescent

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adelita Campos Araújo ◽  
Valeria Lerch Lunardi ◽  
Rosemary Silva da Silveira ◽  
Maira Buss Thofehrn ◽  
Adrize Rutz Porto
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
State College ◽  
Basic Health Units

The purpose of this study is to explore how teenagers view the relationships and interactions in the process of healthily becoming an adolescent. This qualitative exploratory research was conducted with ten teenagers in a state college in a town in southern Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, from August to October, 2007. We used semi-structured interviews to collect the data. Later, we decided to use a thematic analysis, in which two themes emerged: (1) the process of building relationships and interactions in adolescence and (2) the risk in social life. As a result, we realized the importance of interpersonal relationships formed in adolescence, which deserve the nurse’s attention. Nurses can help in the guiding of this population in basic health units, hospitals or schools, to a healthy adolescence. Thus, teenagers may enjoy the relationships built in this process in order to grow and to enter into adulthood.

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