scholarly journals Can Team Resilience Boost Team Creativity Among Undergraduate Students? A Sequential Mediation Model of Team Creative Efficacy and Team Trust

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mudan Fan ◽  
Wenjing Cai ◽  
Lin Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Team Creativity ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Team Efficacy ◽  
Team Resilience ◽  
Emergent Literature ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
Team Trust

Although recent literature has highlighted the critical role of resilience in creativity literature, existing findings have failed to indicate the processes through which resilience contributes to creativity at the graduate level. The current study fills this gap by hypothesizing the influence of team resilience on team creativity through a sequential mediating mechanism. A time lagged research study was conducted, and a sample of 201 undergraduate students and their teacher filled out questionnaires at three different time points (with 2-week intervals). After aggregating the data at the team level, we employed the PROCESS macro in SPSS to analyze data and test all the hypotheses through performing a sequential mediation analysis. We found that (a) team resilience would predict team creativity; and (b) team efficacy and team trust sequentially mediated the relation between team resilience and team creativity. The results in our study advance the emergent literature on linking resilience and creativity for the practical applications of resilience and creativity in education settings.

scholarly journals Role of the Undergraduate Student Research Assistant in the New Millennium

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thais Dutra Nascimento Silva ◽  
Lúcia Cristina da Cunha Aguiar ◽  
Jaqueline Leta ◽  
Dilvani Oliveira Santos ◽  
Fernanda Serpa Cardoso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Research Careers ◽  
New Research

In this study, we analyze the contribution of the undergraduate student who participates in the process of generating scientific data and developing a research project using Brazilian research as an example. Historically, undergraduate students have performed the critical role of research assistants in developing countries. This aspect has been underappreciated as a means of generating scientific data in Brazilian research facilities. Brazilian educational institutions are facing major age-related generational changes among the science faculty within the next 5–10 yr. A lack of adequate support for graduate students leads to a concern that undergraduates will not be interested in choosing research assistant programs and, subsequently, academic research careers. To remedy this situation it is important to focus on ways to encourage new research careers and enhance university–industry collaborations.

scholarly journals The Approach of Hierarchical Linear Model to Exploring Individual and Team Creativity: A Perspective of Cultural Intelligence and Team Trust

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chenhan Huang ◽  
Changqing He ◽  
Xuesong Zhai
Keyword(s):  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Model ◽  
Team Creativity ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Interorganizational Teams ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Team Trust

How to promote the creativity of interorganizational teams has always been the focus among scholars and management practitioners. From the perspective of leadership, this study explores the influence of shared leadership on creativity in interorganizational teams. Specifically, this study integrates leadership perspective with trust perspective and explores the mediating role of team trust between shared leadership and creativity at both team and individual level. In addition, this study examines the moderating effect of the leader’s cultural intelligence between shared leadership and team trust based on the perspective of leadership situation. The data comes from 275 employees within 54 interorganizational teams. The results show that shared leadership will promote team trust and team trust plays a key mediating role between shared leadership and creativity. Moreover, the relationship between shared leadership and team trust is moderated by the cultural intelligence of leader, such that the positive relationship will be stronger with high cultural intelligence and weaker with low cultural intelligence.

Implementing the Team Approach in Higher Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy M. Lara ◽  
Aaron W. Hughey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Higher Education Administration ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Education Administration ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Team Efficacy ◽  
The Difference

Many companies have implemented the team approach as a way to empower their employees in an effort to enhance productivity, quality and overall profitability. While application of the concept to higher education administration has been limited, colleges and universities could benefit from the team approach if implemented appropriately and conscientiously. The authors discuss some of the issues and concerns that are relevant to implementing the team approach in an academic environment. Suggestions for implementing teams in higher education are provided, including the difference between the team approach and traditional administration, the importance of a preliminary needs assessment, the development of an implementation plan, the critical role of leadership, dealing with issues of assessment and accountability, and the concept of team efficacy.

HOW AND WHEN DOES JOB CHALLENGE PROMOTE THE INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOUR OF PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES?

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150069
Author(s):  
SHAKER BANI-MELHEM ◽  
RAWAN ABUKHAIT ◽  
FARIDAHWATI MOHD. SHAMSUDIN ◽  
MOHD AHMAD AL-HAWARI
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Innovative Behaviour ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Time Lagged

Previous research is inconclusive about when and how job challenge affects innovative behaviour. To address this inconsistency, we primarily draw on the job characteristics theory (JCT) and job demands–resources model (JD–R model) to examine the effect of job challenge on intrinsic motivation and employee innovative behaviour as well as the moderating role of supervisor coaching behaviour. We employ a time-lagged research design to collect data from 318 public sector employees in the UAE. Our finding offers support for a moderated mediation model in which job challenge has a positive and significant effect on innovative behaviour. The study also shows that the association between job challenge and innovative behaviour via intrinsic motivation is stronger under high supervisor coaching behaviour. The findings provide prescriptive insights into the critical role that supervisor coaching behaviours play in clarifying when and how job challenge affects innovative behaviour and indicate relevant managerial implications aimed at encouraging innovative behaviour in the public sector.

A Supervisory Grid to Understand the Role of the Maintenance Foreman in Process Industries

1989 ◽  
Vol 203 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
H S Riddell
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Process Industry ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Practical Applications

The maintenance foreman occupies a critical role in a process industry. He is at the focus of two strong, sometimes conflicting, sets of influences, top-down from senior management, and bottom-up from the maintenance workload and tradesmen. It is a complex and ambiguous role both to the foremen themselves and to their managers. This paper explains why such ambiguity is likely to arise. A novel matrix is developed comprising four key interrelated domains of the maintenance foreman's role, and into which all the duties he is normally expected to perform can be categorized. The resulting supervisory grid clarifies both the wide scope of these duties, and identifies the two differing personal characteristics which maintenance foremen require in order to succeed in performing them. The grid has many practical applications. In particular it provides a sound basis for examining the new specialist and diversified roles for maintenance foremen which are now emerging in the process industry.

How Does Thought-Action Fusion Relate to Responsibility Attitudes and Thought Suppression to Aggravate the Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms?

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Müjgan Altın ◽  
Tülin Gençöz
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Thought Suppression ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Thought Action Fusion

Background: Comprehensive cognitive theories of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) propose that clinical obsessions and compulsions arise from specific sorts of dysfunctional beliefs and appraisals, such as inflated sense of responsibility, thought-action fusion (TAF), and thought suppression. Aims: The present study aimed to examine the mediator roles of responsibility and thought suppression between TAF and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Specifically, it aimed to explore the relative effects of TAF factors (i.e. morality and likelihood) on inflated sense of responsibility and on thought suppression to increase the obsessive qualities of intrusions. Method: Two hundred and eighty-three Turkish undergraduate students completed a battery of measures on responsibility, thought suppression, TAF, OC symptoms, and depression. Results: A series of hierarchical regression analyses, where depressive symptoms were controlled for, indicated that TAF-morality and TAF-likelihood follow different paths toward OC symptoms. Although TAF-morality associated with inflated sense of responsibility, TAF-likelihood associated with thought suppression efforts, and in turn these factors increased OC symptoms. Conclusions: These findings provide support for the critical role of sense of responsibility and thought suppression between the relationship of TAF and OC symptoms. Findings were discussed in line with the literature.

scholarly journals Attitude of researchers towards ethics committee at a medical research institute in Coimbatore: a cross sectional study

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 615
Author(s):  
Subhashini Ganesan ◽  
Sujatha Rajaragupathy ◽  
Kavitha Subramanian ◽  
Jayagowri Karthikeyan
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background: The role of ethics committees has been well defined, but many researchers regard ethical review as a road block to research.Methods: To assess the attitude of the researchers towards the ethics committee, a cross sectional study was conducted among 80 researchers, which includes both faculty and undergraduate students at a medical research institute.Results: Our study shows that though most of the researchers agreed that ethics committee is mandatory, they felt that ethics committee review delays research projects, undermined the role of non-medical members in the committee, felt annoyed about the documentation and answering the full board queries and presentations.Conclusions: Study concludes that though the researchers have understood the critical role of ethics committee, they lack a positive attitude when it comes to the ethics committee functioning. Therefore, training should be conducted for researchers, which addresses these issues, so that the misunderstandings and conflicts are minimized.

Bilingual and Monolingual Students' Perceptions of the CSD Major: A Qualitative Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flora Keshishian ◽  
Rebecca Wiseheart
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
School Setting ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bilingual Students ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Diverse Environment ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Areas Of Interest

There is a growing demand for bilingual services in speech-language pathology and audiology. To meet this growing demand, and given their critical role in the recruitment of more bilingual professionals, higher education institutions need to know more about bilingual students' impression of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) as a major. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate bilingual and monolingual undergraduate students' perceptions of the CSD major. One hundred and twenty-two students from a large university located in a highly multicultural metropolitan area responded to four open-ended questions aimed at discovering students' major areas of interest (and disinterest) as well as their motivations for pursuing a degree in CSD. Consistent with similar reports conducted outside the United States, students from this culturally diverse environment indicated choosing the major for altruistic reasons. A large percentage of participants were motivated by a desire to work with children, but not in a school setting. Although 42% of the participants were bilingual, few indicated an interest in taking an additional course in bilingual studies. Implications of these findings as well as practical suggestions for the recruitment of bilingual students are discussed.

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