scholarly journals ANÁLISE INTER-RELACIONAL DE INDICADORES DE ABSENTEÍSMO E TURNOVER: O CASO DE UMA INDÚSTRIA TÊXTIL DO LITORAL NORTE DE SANTA CATARINA

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Ana Célia Bohn ◽  
Sidnei Gripa ◽  
Nelson Hein ◽  
Adriana Kroenke
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Proposal A ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Behavioral Criteria ◽  
Do So

Os pesquisadores têm analisado separadamente, os indicadores de absenteísmo e turnover como critérios comportamentais em investigação organizacional. Nesse sentido, observa-se pouca atenção dada à sua possível inter-relação. Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar a inter-relacão dos indicadores de absenteísmo e turnover a fim de entender se há relações envolvidas nesses indicadores. O estudo foi baseado no construto de Migliolli e Kroenke (2016), e recebeu enquanto delineamento metodológico uma pesquisa do tipo quantitativa, longitudinal, em caráter de testagem empírica, de abordagem exploratória, com objeto de estudo um caso único, pautados na conveniência de pesquisa. Para tanto, partiu-se do pressuposto de que a integração desses indicadores pode fornecer orientações sobre alguns comportamentos organizacionais. Para consubstanciar a proposta foi construída uma função sinusóide. Os resultados apontam com algumas exceções que o turnover está altamente correlacionado com o absenteísmo, ou seja, o start para o turnover é o alto índice de absenteísmo. Conclui-se que para a empresa diminuir o seu índice de turnover é preciso primeiro implantar ações para a diminuição do índice de absenteísmo.Palavras-Chave: Absenteísmo. Turnover. Inter-relação. Abstract: Researchers have been analyzing separately the absenteeism indicators and turnover as behavioral criteria in organizational research. In this regard, it is observed the lack of attention given to its possible interrelation. This study aims to analyze the absenteeism indicators interrelation and turnover to understand if there are any associations involved in these indicators. The study was based on Migliolli and Kroenke’s (2016) construct, and while it was a methodological design, received a research of quantitative and longitudinal nature, with empirical and testing aspects, exploratory approach, using a single case as the studying subject, based on the research’s convenience. To do so, it was assumed that the integration of these indicators can provide guidance on some organizational behavior. To substantiate the proposal, a sinusoid function was made. The results point with a few exceptions that the turnover is highly correlated with absenteeism, that is, the start for turnover is the high absenteeism index. So, it is concluded that for the company to decrease its turnover index it is necessary to first implement actions to reduce the absenteeism index.Keywords: Absenteeism. Turnover. Interrelation.

The Human Rights Obligations of un Peacekeepers

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-450
Author(s):  
Conor Foley
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Disciplinary Action ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So

Over 100,000 un peacekeeping personnel are deployed on missions with authority from the Security Council, under Chapter vii of the un Charter, to use force to protect civilians. Nevertheless, they have repeatedly failed to do so and yet there does not appear to be a single case where the un has taken disciplinary action against senior staff for failing to act in line with a mission mandate in this regard. This article argues that the ´positive´ and ´negative´ obligations of international human rights law, protecting the right to life and physical integrity, provide the most appropriate guidance to the tactical use of force by un peacekeeping soldiers. Mechanisms also need to be created to improve the accountability of un missions to those that they are responsible for protecting.

Accumulating Knowledge in the Organizational Sciences

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank A. Bosco
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Meta Analyses

In some fields, research findings are rigorously curated in a common language and made available to enable future use and large-scale, robust insights. Organizational researchers have begun such efforts [e.g., metaBUS ( http://metabus.org/ )] but are far from the efficient, comprehensive curation seen in areas such as cognitive neuroscience or genetics. This review provides a sample of insights from research curation efforts in organizational research, psychology, and beyond—insights not possible by even large-scale, substantive meta-analyses. Efforts are classified as either science-of-science research or large-scale, substantive research. The various methods used for information extraction (e.g., from PDF files) and classification (e.g., using consensus ontologies) is reviewed. The review concludes with a series of recommendations for developing and leveraging the available corpus of organizational research to speed scientific progress. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Volume 9 is January 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Reworking Resistance

2018 ◽  
pp. 274-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna N. Hanchey
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
International Ngos ◽  
Communication Work ◽  
Do So

Scholars recognize that both nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and non-Western organizational logics harbor the potential to reconfigure fundamental assumptions of organizational research. Drawing from such work, I argue that we must reconceptualize ‘resistance' in organizational communication scholarship by destabilizing its Western-centric assumptions and logics. I do so by engaging in a postcolonial analysis of scholarship on international NGOs, and drawing out typical assumptions of organizational communication work that do not hold under all cultural conditions, or that are imperialistic in nature. Answering calls to center alternative forms of organizing and to draw deeper relations between critical intercultural and organizational communication research, this study asks scholars to resist typical theorizations of ‘resistance,' and decolonize organizational theory.

The Idea of Cause

Philosophy ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 4 (16) ◽  
pp. 453-466
Author(s):  
A. C. Ewing
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One ◽  
Material Bodies ◽  
Do So ◽  
Generalized Statement

Some modern thinkers have supposed that “cause” is an outworn notion, or at least that it is one of which modern science has no need. This is due mainly to the discovery that, while the scientist can give us general laws as to what in fact happens, he cannot help us to discern the reason for the laws or the inward nature of the forces on which they depend. He can tell us the “that” but not the “why”; he cannot show us in a single case that the effect follows necessarily a priori from the nature of the cause, that any other effect than the one which actually takes place would be logically impossible. He has studied the law of gravitation, but this law does not enable him to see why material bodies should attract each other in this fashion; it is only a generalized statement of the fact that they do. He knows that certain substances, if absorbed by eating, will nourish and others destroy our tissues; but he cannot say why they should do so. He can no doubt analyse them further and discover that, for example, meat is nourishing because it contains a large proportion of nitrogenous matter, but he could not tell a priori whether this nitrogenous matter would be likely to nourish or to poison us. Only where mathematics can be applied do we see necessity in such a way that any alternative becomes inconceivable to us; but mathematics alone can never establish from a quantity present here and now what quantity there will be at a later time or in another part of space. Mathematics can show, e.g., that, if there is 2 + 2 here and now, there must be 4 here and now, not that, if there is 2 + 2 here and now, there will be 4 in an hour's time or a mile away; and therefore it cannot be made the sole basis of any causal law whatever.

scholarly journals Diversity and Emotion: The New Frontiers in Organizational Behavior Research

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal M. Ashkanasy ◽  
Charmine E.J. Härtel ◽  
Catherine S. Daus
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Emotions In The Workplace ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
Management Scholarship

This article provides a review of recent developments in two topical areas of research in contemporary organizational behavior: diversity and emotions. In the section called “Diversity,” we trace the history of diversity research, explore the definitions and paradigms used in treatments of diversity, and signal new areas of interest. We conclude that organizational behavior in the 21st century is evolving to embrace a more eclectic and holistic view of humans at work. In the section called “Emotions,” we turn our attention to recent developments in the study of emotions in organizations. We identify four major topics: mood theory, emotional labor, affective events theory (AET), and emotional intelligence, and argue that developments in the four domains have significant implications for organizational research, and the progression of the study of organizational behavior. As with the study of diversity, the topic of emotions in the workplace is shaping up as one of the principal areas of development in management thought and practice for the next decade. Finally, we discuss in our conclusion how these two areas are being conceptually integrated, and the implications for management scholarship and research in the contemporary world.

scholarly journals TERRITÓRIO, CAMPESINATO E TRADIÇÃO: A CUCA (KUCHEN) COMO ELEMENTO EMBLEMÁTICO DA ALIMENTAÇÃO NO MÉDIO VALE DO ITAJAÍ E SUA RELAÇÃO COM O DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Daniela Matthes ◽  
Marilda Checcucci
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Food System ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Typical Food ◽  
Food Anthropology ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

Este artigo apresenta resultados de uma investigação no Médio Vale do Itajaí (estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil) cujo objetivo foi analisar a Cuca (Kuchen) como elemento emblemático de identificação dos seus moradores e a sua relação com o desenvolvimento no território. Entendemos que a Cuca (Kuchen) tem posição de elemento emblemático dentro do sistema alimentar que se formou no Médio Vale do Itajaí. Isto porque está frequentemente presente na mesa de seus moradores até os dias atuais, estando relacionada à uma tradição e identidade local. Trata-se também de um importante produto do comércio étnico (ligado diretamente à manutenção da agricultura familiar) e recentemente vem sendo percebida como alimento “típico”, enquantoatrativo do turismo gastronômico local. Este estudo busca preencher a lacuna existente nos estudos relativos à relação entre identidade,alimentação e desenvolvimento entre grupos oriundos de imigrantes no Brasil, especificamente do Médio Vale do Itajaí. Para tanto, partimos do arcabouço da Antropologia da Alimentação e do método etnográfico com oito entrevistas em profundidade, além de pesquisas de campo, para obter informações relevantes ao estudo sobre a Cuca (Kuchen). Observamos que a Cuca (Kuchen) resultou de um sistema alimentar que foi constituído pelos imigrantes teutos na região, tendo se tornado ao longo do tempo um elemento essencial de sua identidade no terrirório e fez parte do desenvolvimento da região, acompanhando suas transformações. Palavras-chave: Cuca. Identidade. Médio Vale do Itajaí. Território. Desenvolvimento regional.ABSTRACTThis article presents results of an investigation in the Middle of Itajaí (Santa Catarina state, Brazil), whose objective was to analyze the Cuca (Kuchen) as an emblematic element of the identification of the inhabitants and the relation with the local development. We understand that Cuca (Kuchen) has a position as an emblematic element within the food system in the Middle Itajaí Valley because it is frequently present at the table of its residents, being related to local identity, it is important product of the ethnic trade (directly linked to the maintenance of agriculture familiar) and has recently been perceived as “typical” food, capable of being attractive to local gastronomic tourism. This study seeks to fill the gap in the studies related to the identity and feeding relationship between groups originating from immigrants in Brazil, specifically in the Middle Vale do Itajaí. To do so, we started with the framework of Food Anthropology and the ethnographic method with eight in-depth interviews, as well as field surveys, to obtain information relevant to the study on Cuca (Kuchen)Keywords: Cuca. Identity. Médio Vale do Itajaí. Territory. Regional development.

scholarly journals Meta-Analysis of Dynamic Assessment Research in South Africa

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raegan Murphy ◽  
David J.F. Maree
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Effect Size ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
Assessment Research ◽  
Do So

The need for tertiary education screening in South Africa has highlighted the role dynamic assessment has to play in this regard, and as no cumulative statistical conclusions can be drawn from single case studies, it was considered timely to do so. In order to address this gap in the field, a meta-analysis was conducted on studies that focused on the efficacy of dynamic assessment interventions within various settings. Fewer research studies dealing with dynamic assessment have been conducted in South Africa as compared to overseas research in the same area. The study served a two-fold purpose: first, to assess the significance of the synthesized effect size from a number of individual studies whose original intention was an investigation of the significance of dynamic assessment interventions; second, to compare two meta-analytic software programs that are freely available online. Small to average effect sizes of 0.3354 and 0.3481 were generated respectively by both programs, with the typical effect size ranging from 0.2–0.8. The method and results of this meta-analysis are discussed along with the limitations inherent in both the programs and we conclude with recommendations for further meta-analytic studies in South Africa within the field of dynamic assessment.

scholarly journals Capital, Contagion, And Financial Crises

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas K. Tabor ◽  
Jeffery Y. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Capital Requirements ◽  
Powerful Predictor ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Lehman Brothers ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Market Valuations ◽  
Financial Regulatory ◽  
Do So

After the 2008-09 financial crisis, policymakers around the world focused on enacting improvements that would make the emergence of a financial crisis less likely (ex ante) and recovery from one more rapid (ex post). This Article identifies a gap in both the academic literature and the current financial regulatory framework in exploring how to limit the damage—to other firms, and to the financial system—when a crisis is ongoing. Policymakers cannot predict the origins of every future crisis, just as firefighters cannot predict the origins of every future fire. Once one begins, how can they keep the damage from spreading? The academic theory on financial crisis “firefighting” divides into two main camps. The “capital view” claims that runs on financial institutions are fundamentally rational, and that investors care mainly about solvency. Under this view, the best way to fight runs is to raise capital requirements ahead of time, to multiples of current levels. The “contagion view” claims instead that the lack of liquid assets both defines and causes bank runs; an institution’s access to cash (and instruments like it) determines whether and when investors will withdraw funding. Under this view, the best way to fight runs is for governments to lend banks money—freely, at high rates, and against good collateral—and to promise to do so well before a crisis starts. In this Article—the first to directly address this question empirically—we show that neither view fits the most catastrophic financial shock of the last ninety years: the 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. In some cases, banks with more capital and liquidity were actually more exposed, not less, to the market panic following Lehman’s collapse. By contrast, we show that simple market correlation was a powerful predictor of exposure to the Lehman run. We also show that market valuations of large banks are more highly correlated today than they were in September 2008, creating a potential unaddressed conduit for an unexpected shock to metastasize into a contagious run.

scholarly journals TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN THE GENETIC IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM OF SUGAR CANE FROM UFPR

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Eduardo DE-CARLI ◽  
◽  
Andréa Paula SEGATTO ◽  
Ananda Silva SINGH ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Sugar Cane ◽  
Genetic Improvement ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
Do So

This study aims at promoting an analysis of the process of technology transfer undertaken by Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), by means of the activities developed in the Genetic Improvement Program of Sugar Cane for the development of new technologies, new varieties of sugar cane. To do so, a single case study performed at the UFPR is held, aiming at identifying the main aspects that involve this process from the point of view of an institution. It was possible to notice that it creates a stimulus to the development of knowledge about a particular variety of the sugar cane plant by means of the interaction between the ten universities and also with its partners, in order to develop a variety more genetically developed that allows, for example, increased productivity. The technology transfer in the course of the process allows the development of several new varieties of sugar cane, in addition to providing expertise to members of the project. It is of fundamental importance for the activities and varieties to be carried out in a better way every time.

Entrepreneurial orientation and the role of the context. The case of the firm “Sa Panada Srl”

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Floris ◽  
Angela Dettori ◽  
Camilla Melis ◽  
Cinzia Dessì
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe paper aims to analyse the case of “Sa Panada srl”, a tiny Sardinian family firm, to provide intriguing insights for the study of entrepreneurial orientation in a context that is anchored in an apparent and hostile past.Design/methodology/approachAn exploratory approach is used to analyse a single-case study through a narrative approach. Data were analysed through the hermeneutic trio consisting of three phases: (1) explication – contextualisation, reconstruction and synthesis of the history; (2) explanation – identification, description and understanding of the meaning of the narrative; and (3) exploration – discussion and identification of theoretical and practical implications.FindingsThe study introduces novel best practices that help enhance entrepreneurial orientation in a difficult setting based on change reluctance and past anchored culture.Research limitations/implicationsTheoretically, the study contributes to the literature on entrepreneurial orientation, internationalisation and innovativeness of family firms embedded in a hostile context. The main drawback of the study is its explorative analysis of a single case.Practical implicationsFor practitioners, the research proposes the case study as a best practice able to inspire successful resilient behaviour and decisions for other firms that experience daily challenges.Originality/valueThe study elucidates the relevance of individual factors of family owners as endogenous elements that can balance contextual obstacles with ambitions of growth and development.

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