Human Energy in Organization: Leadership as a Means for Creating Team Performance in Adult Education

Team performance is important at work and in organizational psychology as it aims to promote human energy. The human energy is more than just a “New Age” concept, it has a substantial and predictable effect on performance and innovation in organizations. The aim of the study is to examine relations between leadership style and team performance and mediating role is played by the productive organizational energy. The study is based on literature and quantitative and qualitative research methods. A theoretical framework is assessed in the empirical study in Latvian organizations in 2019. The study was accomplished in co-operation with America company "The Energy Project" and the University of Arizona. The article reveals the model of human energy as a scientifically-based approach and transformational leadership as a development tool, which already has spread in all sectors of western societies, including educational organizations. The materials and recommendations can be used to assist organizations in identifying practices, processes and initiatives, which can have a positive impact on team performance and organizational energy. The general conclusion is that the transformation leadership lays a positive dynamic in the development of the team performance for sustainable education. The educational organizations can progress productive performance and create sustainable education in a particular manner by focusing on their human resources; considering their growth, development and well-being.

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Development of a German-Language Questionnaire to Measure Collective Orientation as an Individual Attitude

Swiss Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1024/1421-0185/a000198 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 76 (3) ◽

pp. 91-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Vera Hagemann

Keyword(s):

Team Performance ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Future Research ◽

German Language ◽

Team Members ◽

Collective Orientation ◽

Team Research ◽

German Speaking ◽

Individual Variables ◽

The Individual

Abstract. The individual attitudes of every single team member are important for team performance. Studies show that each team member’s collective orientation – that is, propensity to work in a collective manner in team settings – enhances the team’s interdependent teamwork. In the German-speaking countries, there was previously no instrument to measure collective orientation. So, I developed and validated a German-language instrument to measure collective orientation. In three studies (N = 1028), I tested the validity of the instrument in terms of its internal structure and relationships with other variables. The results confirm the reliability and validity of the instrument. The instrument also predicts team performance in terms of interdependent teamwork. I discuss differences in established individual variables in team research and the role of collective orientation in teams. In future research, the instrument can be applied to diagnose teamwork deficiencies and evaluate interventions for developing team members’ collective orientation.

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Understanding functional illiteracy from a policy, adult education, and cognition point of view: Towards a joint referent framework

Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie ◽

10.1024/1016-264x/a000255 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 109-122

Author(s):

Aleksandar Bulajić ◽

Miomir Despotović ◽

Thomas Lachmann

Keyword(s):

Adult Education ◽

Operational Definition ◽

Literacy Skills ◽

Point Of View ◽

Industrialized Countries ◽

Functional Illiteracy ◽

Scale Levels ◽

Components Of Reading ◽

The One ◽

Definition Of

Abstract. The article discusses the emergence of a functional literacy construct and the rediscovery of illiteracy in industrialized countries during the second half of the 20th century. It offers a short explanation of how the construct evolved over time. In addition, it explores how functional (il)literacy is conceived differently by research discourses of cognitive and neural studies, on the one hand, and by prescriptive and normative international policy documents and adult education, on the other hand. Furthermore, it analyses how literacy skills surveys such as the Level One Study (leo.) or the PIAAC may help to bridge the gap between cognitive and more practical and educational approaches to literacy, the goal being to place the functional illiteracy (FI) construct within its existing scale levels. It also sheds more light on the way in which FI can be perceived in terms of different cognitive processes and underlying components of reading. By building on the previous work of other authors and previous definitions, the article brings together different views of FI and offers a perspective for a needed operational definition of the concept, which would be an appropriate reference point for future educational, political, and scientific utilization.

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An Input–Process–Output Model of Pilot Core Competencies

Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors ◽

10.1027/2192-0923/a000120 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 78-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Heikki Mansikka ◽

Don Harris ◽

Kai Virtanen

Keyword(s):

Path Analysis ◽

Team Performance ◽

Core Competencies ◽

Core Competency ◽

Principal Component ◽

Analysis Model ◽

Input Process ◽

The Core ◽

Performance Framework ◽

Process Output

Abstract. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the flight-related core competencies for professional airline pilots and to structuralize them as components in a team performance framework. To achieve this, the core competency scores from a total of 2,560 OPC (Operator Proficiency Check) missions were analyzed. A principal component analysis (PCA) of pilots’ performance scores across the different competencies was conducted. Four principal components were extracted and a path analysis model was constructed on the basis of these factors. The path analysis utilizing the core competencies extracted adopted an input–process–output’ (IPO) model of team performance related directly to the activities on the flight deck. The results of the PCA and the path analysis strongly supported the proposed IPO model.

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