Workplace Spirituality: Perception of Employees in Selected B-Schools at Kolkata

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhadeep Mukherjee ◽  
Soumendra Bhattacharjee ◽  
Seema S. Singha
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Individual Perception ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
The City ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Now- a – days workplace spirituality is a renowned topic which is gaining gratitude and value among the academicians and industrial people. Workplace Spirituality aims at meaningful work, sense of community and value of organization. It speaks about experiencing and sharing common attachments of people, which attracts and`bond them in togetherness within the workplace and the organization as a whole. The present study is a modest attempt to explore the individual perception about spirituality among the employees (Faculties) in selected B-Schools in Kolkata. The methodology adopted involves a field study using a structured questionnaire as a research instrument which would be circulated among 80 faculties in selected 10 B- Schools in the city of Kolkata. The collected data would be analyzed through Likert 5 Point Scale ranging from strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree. The analysis would be carried out using S.P.S.S. The objective of this study comprises the following: 1. To have an insight about spirituality amongst the faculty members of selected B-Schools. 2. To know the benefits of integrating spirituality in the institutes of higher learning.

scholarly journals Multi-focal Analysis of Workplace Spirituality and Employee Commitment: Exploratory Empirical Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Mohamed Fares Brini
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Employee Commitment ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Organizational Values ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Multiple Commitment ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Focal Analysis

The purpose of this paper was to examine the contribution of workplace spirituality to employee commitment from a multi-focal perspective at the individual, group and organizational levels. Obtained data from a random sample of 111 Tunisian employees were analysed using PLS-SEM to test the proposed hypothesis of the study. The findings revealed that three-dimensional workplace spirituality (meaningful work, sense of community and organizational values) contributed positively and significantly to multiple commitment levels (individual, group and organization levels). Besides, these spiritual dimensions contributed to more than one level and showed that workplace spirituality framework can provide an expanded contribution to the multiple commitment research. In particular, meaningful work had the largest contribution to all commitment levels and can offer unique approach to manage overall commitment within organizations.

scholarly journals ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE AND JOB SATISFACTION OF FACULTY MEMBERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION:A STUDY ON BODOLAND UNIVERSITY, ASSAM, INDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
pp. 999-1007
Author(s):  
Moneswari Boro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Instrument Development ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Organisational Climate ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Communication Conflict ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
The Relationship

Organisational climate is a process of quantifying the culture of an organisation. The word climate usually describes the practices involved in communication, conflict, leadership and rewards. Job satisfaction is the level of gratification a person feels regarding his or her job. This feeling is mainly based on an individuals perception of satisfaction. Organisational climate and job satisfaction are distinct but related constructs, and both appear to influence employees understanding of the work environment and their level of job satisfaction. The present study is undertaken with a view to study the relationship between Organisational climate and Job satisfaction of faculty members and also to examine different dimensions of Organisational climate and Job satisfaction in Bodoland University. For the study, an established assessment instrument on organisational climate is used as organisational climate survey instrument which includes organisational design, communication, leadership, teamwork, decision-Making, culture, job satisfaction and motivation (Instrument development by Allen and Mayer, 1991). The survey questionnaire consisted of a series of 35 items which was administrated to selected respondents. The respondents were required to indicate based on a 7 – point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree. The findings indicate that there is moderate level of relationship between organisational climate and Job satisfaction.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF CONSUMER ATTITUDE ON PURCHASING INTENTION FOR ORGANIC PRODUCTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Sandhe
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Research ◽  
Attitude Formation ◽  
Component Model ◽  
Consumer Attitude ◽  
View Point ◽  
Purchasing Intention ◽  
Organic Products ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
The City ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This research paper examines the effect of consumer attitude on purchasing intention towards organic or eco-friendly paints.  Attitude was measured through tri-component model of attitude formation.  Data was collected from 300 respondents in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat, India.  Respondents were administered a structured questionnaire containing statements measuring attitude in terms of cognitive, affective and conative factors.  Responses were collected in the form of a five point likert scale ranging from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree”. Consumer attitude and purchasing intention was found to be moderately favorable.  The research highlighted the fact that consumers are not aware about the availability of such a product in the market.  This is an important finding from the view point of marketing research.

An Investigation of Faculty Members' Engagement in Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-136
Author(s):  
Eman I AHMED
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Faculty Perceptions ◽  
Cognitive Engagement ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Faculty engagement has been proved to be a critical driver of the universities’ efficiency and effectiveness. The first step towards building an engaged workforce is to get a measure of faculty perceptions of their engagement level to their universities. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the faculty members' engagement in the Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. It examines the relationship between the faculty professional variablesand their level of engagement to their institutions. William Kahn's (1990) three-component model of employee engagement was partially adapted as a framework to measure the faculty members' engagement. A questionnaire was used to better address the objective of this study. The data were obtained from the Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam University) through an internet-based survey. The validity and the reliability of the questionnaire has been evaluated and reported. Results of the analyses show that cognitive engagement is reported to be higher than both the emotional and physical engagement, with a mean rating of 4.040 and a standard deviation of .487, based on the five-point scale. Given the engagement level of the faculty members in this study, the university administrators should develop policies, and strategies that encourage and support engagement among faculty members at the University in order to maximize their engagement. Policy makers must also take into consideration the needs of the faculty members

Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Commitment: An Empirical Exploration

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naval Garg
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Continuance Commitment ◽  
Six Dimensions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The paper aims to empirically explore the impact of six dimensions of workplace spirituality on three types of organizational commitment. Six dimensions of workplace spirituality used for the study are Swadharma, Lokasangraha, authenticity, sense of community, Karma capital and Krityagyata. Components of organizational commitment are affective, normative and continuance commitment. A sample of 541 employees working in various organizations was given a structured questionnaire. Correlations, regressions and Necessary Condition Analysis(NCA) were carried out. The paper has enriched the field of workplace spirituality by contributing to existing literature via adding one more construct of Indian spirituality i.e. Krityagyata. Paper concludes that workplace spirituality climate helps in promoting organizational commitment. NCA elicited necessity of various dimensions of workplace spirituality for healthy organizational commitment.

Predictors of Positive Psychological Capital: An Attempt Among the Teacher Communities in Rural Jharkhand, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 0258042X2199101
Author(s):  
Mukti Clarence ◽  
Viju P. D. ◽  
Lalatendu Kesari Jena ◽  
Tony Sam George
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Positive Psychological Capital ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

In the recent times, researchers have shown an increased interest in positive psychological capital (PsyCap). However, it is acknowledged that due to the limited number of studies conducted on the antecedents of psychological capital, there is a lack of sufficient data for conclusively proving the antecedents of PsyCap. Consequently, this article aims to explore the potential antecedents of PsyCap as a reliable source of data in the context of rural school teachers. The focus is to investigate both the individual differences and the contextual factors as desirable variables that constitute PsyCap among the school teachers of rural Jharkhand, India. Samples of 1,120 respondents from different rural schools were collected and analysed with Structural Equation Modeling (AMOS 20.0). The findings of the study explained that both the individual differences ( proactive personality and emotional intelligence) and the contextual factors ( perceived organizational support, servant leadership and meaningful work) have a positive relationship with PsyCap. The impact of PsyCap on teacher performance can form the basis for further research on the subject. JEL Codes: M12, M53

scholarly journals The Impacts in Real Estate of Landscape Values: Evidence from Tuscany (Italy)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2236
Author(s):  
Francesco Riccioli ◽  
Roberto Fratini ◽  
Fabio Boncinelli
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Spatial Econometric ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Landscape Values ◽  
Individual Perception ◽  
Real Estate Prices ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual

Using spatial econometric techniques and local spatial statistics, this study explores the relationships between the real estate values in Tuscany with the individual perception of satisfaction by landscape types. The analysis includes the usual territorial variables such as proximity to urban centres and roads. The landscape values are measured through a sample of respondents who expressed their aesthetic-visual perceptions of different types of land use. Results from a multivariate local Geary highlight that house prices are not spatial independent and that between the variables included in the analysis there is mainly a positive correlation. Specifically, the findings demonstrate a significant spatial dependence in real estate prices. The aesthetic values influence the real estate price throughout more a spatial indirect effect rather than the direct effect. Practically, house prices in specific areas are more influenced by aspects such as proximity to essential services. The results seem to show to live close to highly aesthetic environments not in these environments. The results relating to the distance from the main roads, however, seem counterintuitive. This result probably depends on the evidence that these areas suffer from greater traffic jam or pollution or they are preferred for alternative uses such as for locating industrial plants or big shopping centres rather than residential use. Therefore, these effects decrease house prices.

Gender Influence on Perceptions of Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment

1995 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol L. Baird ◽  
Nora L. Bensko ◽  
Paul A. Bell ◽  
Wayne Viney ◽  
William Douglas Woody
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Reasonable Person ◽  
Gender Influence ◽  
Female Perpetrators ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Reasonable Woman Standard

Perceptions of sexual harassment were investigated as a function of perpetrators' and recipients' gender. Undergraduate students (100 women, 98 men) were presented 34 scenarios of men and women interacting at work. Participants were asked to read carefully each scenario and indicate on a scale anchored by 1 (strongly disagree) and 7 (strongly agree) their opinions as to whether the scenario represented an incident of sexual harassment. Analysis indicated that women rated “hostile environment” scenarios as more harassing than men, and male perpetrators were rated as more harassing than female perpetrators. Even though some scenarios were rated as more harassing than others, the full range of the 7-point scale was used on every scenario, indicating a lack of agreement on what constitutes harassment. This lack of agreement highlights the debate within the legal community about whether the “reasonable person” or the “reasonable woman” standard should be used to judge sexual harassment in the workplace.

Annoyingness of Aircraft Noise in Relation to Cognitive Activity

1986 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 599-616
Author(s):  
Malcolm D. Arnoult ◽  
Lynne G. Gillfillan ◽  
James W. Voorhees
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Motor Task ◽  
Aircraft Noise ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
Performance Difference ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Continuous Noise ◽  
The Individual

College students were exposed by means of headphones to two kinds of aircraft noise (helicopter and jet) at three levels of loudness (60, 70, and 80 dB) while engaging in two tests of intelligibility and 12 cognitive tasks. In addition, the annoyingness of the noise was rated on a seven-point scale for each source/loudness combination in each task. Individual-differences measures (embedded figures, locus-of-control, and test anxiety) were also obtained. No performance difference related to noise was obtained in any of the cognitive tasks, and using the individual-difference measures as co-variates made no difference. In a second experiment a limited set of five modified cognitive tasks was used, again without producing any significant results. Finally, a third experiment utilized four cognitive tasks, a perceptual-motor task (Rotary Tracking) and intermittent rather than continuous noise, and yielded the same results. It was concluded that the failure to find performance differences on the cognitive tasks was probably due to the fact that concern for the welfare of the subjects limited the stimuli to loudness levels that were too low to be effective.

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