scholarly journals The Effect of Work Safety on Organizational Social Sustainability Improvement in the Healthcare Sector: The Case of a Public Sector Hospital in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 6672
Author(s):  
Zia Ullah ◽  
Mohammed Ali Bait Ali Sulaiman ◽  
Syed Babar Ali ◽  
Naveed Ahmad ◽  
Miklas Scholz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Healthcare Organizations

Social sustainability is the much emphasized organizational phenomenon in Western literature; however, in emerging economies, its importance has only been realized in the recent past. Social sustainability is the amiability of the relationship between employees and the organizations on a relatively permanent basis. Social sustainability is the key determinant of organizational sustainability and organizational effectiveness. As healthcare organizations are labor-intensive, the role of social sustainability in hospitals is more crucial. The purpose of the present study is to understand the role of work safety in improving social sustainability in public sector hospitals. To this effect, we collected data from 431 healthcare professionals of a large public sector tertiary and teaching hospital in the city of Lahore Pakistan and analyzed the data using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results uncovered certain important facts, which were not expected per se. job design, coworkers’ behavior towards work safety, and supervisors’ role in ensuring work safety are the key factors that influence social sustainability. However, surprisingly, in the eyes of employees, management practices and safety programs/policies do not contribute to the work safety of the hospital under study. Keeping in view the findings, we suggest that management must participate in work safety affairs directly and formulate indigenous policies and programs according to local needs. Job analysis is needed to redesign job structures to meet workplace safety requirements. Formal and informal training will be beneficial to make workers and supervisors more aware, more sensitive, and more responsible regarding work safety.

The Role of Goal Specificity in the Relationship Between Leadership and Empowerment

2020 ◽  
pp. 009102602098233
Author(s):  
Jaehee Jong ◽  
Sue Faerman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Transactional Leadership ◽  
State Government ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Goal Specificity ◽  
Transformational And Transactional Leadership

Although there has been much recent attention to empowerment in public sector research, most of this research focuses on structural empowerment, rather than psychological empowerment, and thus focuses on management practices, rather than on employees’ motivational states. This article examines the processes through which transformational leadership and transactional leadership affect employees’ feelings of psychological empowerment, focusing specifically on the role of goal specificity as a mediating variable. Using data collected from state government employees, the structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses found support for hypotheses that goal specificity mediates the relationships between both transformational and transactional leadership and psychological empowerment. These results contribute to the discussion of transformational and transactional leadership approaches with regard to goal setting in the public sector and provide practical implications that public managers’ leadership behaviors can help employees develop positive attitudes toward goal specificity, which can then lead to feelings of psychological empowerment.

scholarly journals The Successful Adoption of IS in the Tourism Public Sector: The Mediating Effect of Employees’ Trust

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3877
Author(s):  
Marwa Ghanem ◽  
Ibrahim Elshaer ◽  
Alaa Shaker
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Trust Management ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Intention To Use

There have been many attempts to understand the role of trust in the success of Information Systems (IS), but they have mainly studied users’ trust in IS themselves in online contexts, with little attention being paid to other possible trust types and organizational IS contexts. Also, there is a dearth of research on the topic in relation to tourism context and developing countries in general. This study examines the mediating role of three types of trust (management-based, provider-based, and system-based trust) in the relationship between tourism IS qualities (system, information, and service quality) with employees’ satisfaction and the intention to and actual use of a system. Perceptions were tested with data from 200 employees in the public sector of the Egyptian tourism industry using structural equation modeling. The results revealed that trust directly affects intention to use/use and user satisfaction, and it completely mediates the effect of the IS qualities on the intention to use/use and user satisfaction. This study draws attention to the requirement of investigating different types of trust to better understand its impact on tourism IS adaptation in developing countries.

scholarly journals Impact of IoT Adoption on Agility and Flexibility of Healthcare Organization

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 2673-2681 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Healthcare Organizations

This study addresses one of the most critical advents and highly sought after the technological breakthrough of today’s service sector. Internet of things has been finding relevance in today’s service sector as a significant impetus to superior service delivery and advanced service proposition to customers. Healthcare sector is also no exception. This study taking data from the Indian healthcare sector attempts to check the relationship between IoT adoption and proposed service delivery gains experienced by healthcare organizations (if any). The study based on the theoretical premises of cybernetic control theory and technology adoption model by Davis, Hypothesized that IoT adoption must positively influence flexibility and agility and in turn, flexibility positively influence readiness. The empirical evidence supports these hypotheses, and all the findings validate the propositions that healthcare organizations and the players and actors involved in healthcare consider IoT adoption as pivotal. Because the survey outcomes establish path analysis linkages through Structural equation modeling (SEM). SEM results highlight the significant positive impact of IoT adoption on flexibility and agility and in turn, even stronger association and effects of flexibility on readiness in the services offered by healthcare organizations. This study outcomes are very vital for hospital managers and upcoming healthcare practitioners as it establishes empirical evidence supporting IoT adoption as a helpful step and prominent success factor for better flexible patient care delivery and agility.

scholarly journals Impact of Diversity Management on Employees’ Engagement: The Role of Organizational Trust and Job Insecurity

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 420
Author(s):  
Ayman Alshaabani ◽  
Khadija Aya Hamza ◽  
Ildikó Rudnák
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Organizational Trust ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
The Impact

The frequent world changes raised by globalization, new technology development, and the increase in migration movements have generated an immensely diversified workforce. To face these challenges, managers started to seek the best strategies to effectively run this mixed environment and implement the leading diversity management policies for human resource management sustainability, which is also considered as very constructive in boosting employees’ performance, motivation, satisfaction, as well as their work engagement. Consistently, this paper examines the impact of service companies’ diversity management systems on employees’ engagement and the moderating role of organizational trust and job insecurity in that relationship. As we opted for a quantitative study, we managed a survey based on a questionnaire dedicated to 580 employees working in Hungarian companies, specializing in Marketing, Management consulting, IT, and logistics services, to effectively assess the hypothesis concluded from the literature review. With the use of structural equation modeling (SEM) as a data analysis tool, our findings reveal that diversity management has a positive significant effect on Employees’ engagement and that organizational trust and job insecurity truly and significantly mediate that association. Along with social exchange theory, our research contributes to affirming that by implementing proper diversity management practices and by ensuring a trustworthy environment and outstanding work conditions, managers are constructively able to assist their employees, raise their involvement, and minimize the level of job insecurities.

Why share expertise? A closer look at the quality of motivation to share or withhold knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minna Stenius ◽  
Nelli Hankonen ◽  
Niklas Ravaja ◽  
Ari Haukkala
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Supportive Management ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of motivation for knowledge sharing (KS) by assessing how four qualitatively different motivation types, as per self-determination theory (SDT), predict KS, its quality and its undesirable counterpart, knowledge withholding. Design/methodology/approach The study was carried out as a survey (n = 200) in an expert organization. The analyses were conducted using structural equation modeling. Findings Autonomous type of extrinsic motivation (identified motivation) was the strongest predictor of KS (in work meetings) and its quality, whereas the other motivation types (intrinsic, introjected and external) had no independent contribution to variance in KS. Knowledge withholding was negatively associated with identified and positively with external KS motivation. Research limitations/implications Single organization limits the generalizability of the results. Future studies should further investigate the role of identified motivation for various KS behaviors. Practical implications The findings suggest that autonomy-supportive management practices known to facilitate self-determined behavior can improve KS. Fostering external motivation by incentivizing KS may be both ineffective and have undesirable consequences. Originality/value Few prior studies investigate KS motivation beyond external and intrinsic motivation or apply SDT to KS using SDT-based scales. This study distinguishes between four different motivation types and is the first to investigate their differential impact on KS and its quality. It is also the first to demonstrate the importance of identified motivation for KS. It further elucidates how the quality of KS motivation is reflected in knowledge withholding, an overall underinvestigated behavior.

Managing Successful Change Efforts in the Public Sector: An Employee’s Readiness for Change Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imran Hameed ◽  
Abdul Karim Khan ◽  
Meghna Sabharwal ◽  
Ghulam Ali Arain ◽  
Irfan Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Readiness For Change ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sector Research ◽  
Successful Change

This study brings together public and private sector research on change management to highlight the important role of public servants as recipients of change, which is underemphasized in the public management literature. In doing so, we identify and operationalize factors of managing successful change—involved communication and change recipients’ beliefs. The effect of involved communication on developing employees’ readiness for change is explored. Data were collected from public sector research and development organizations in Pakistan. The results of the structural equation modeling support the positive role of involved communication in developing employees’ readiness for change. Employees’ organizational identification and change recipients’ beliefs also exhibit a significant mediating role in the above-stated relationship. This study significantly contributes to the existing literature of change management in the public sector by focusing on employees as key players in an organization’s change process. Practical implications and future research directions are also discussed.

scholarly journals Developing Sustainable Healthcare Systems in Developing Countries: Examining the Role of Barriers, Enablers and Drivers on Knowledge Management Adoption

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jawad Karamat ◽  
Tong Shurong ◽  
Naveed Ahmad ◽  
Sana Afridi ◽  
Shahbaz Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Significant Positive Association ◽  
And Performance

Knowledge management (KM) adoption is crucial to integrating sustainable development within the healthcare sector. Different barriers, enablers, and drivers affect KM adoption. Identifying these barriers, enablers, and drivers and their role in KM adoption is the core of successful KM adoption. However, there is scarcity of studies applying quantitative models and combing barriers, enablers and drivers to check their effect on KM adoption, especially form a developing country’s perspective such as Pakistan. Therefore, this study explores the role of barriers, enablers and drivers on KM adoption in Pakistan. Healthcare professionals participated in the data collection process, and results were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings described that: (1) organizational and strategic barriers have significant negative association with KM adoption; (2) government related enablers have significant positive association with KM adoption; (3) healthcare related drivers, and performance-based drivers have significant positive association with KM adoption. This study concludes that government intervention to promote KM adoption is necessary especially in developing countries. These findings will be helpful for the healthcare professionals and policy makers to promote KM adoption in healthcare sector. Current study contributes to the healthcare literature and body of knowledge by providing the empirical evidence of checking the quantitative effect of barriers, enablers and drivers on KM adoption.

scholarly journals Knowledge Management and Organizational Performance: The Neglected Role of Institutional Accounting Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1639-1655
Author(s):  
Ozavize Freida Ayodele ◽  
Liu Yao ◽  
Hasnah Binti Haron ◽  
Hooi-Cheng Eaw
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Process Capability ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Institutional Performance ◽  
Knowledge Based

The study highlights the part of institutional accounting practices in the relationship between specified KM capabilities and institutional performance. A theoretical model was tested based on the insight from literature and knowledge-based theory (KBT). The data collected from a survey of 322 staff in knowledge-based organizations (KBOs) were analyzed to test the extended model using partial least squares structural equation modeling approach. The result depicts that greater levels of specific KM infrastructure and process capability would positively influence institutional accounting management practices and, consequently organizational performance. Unlike KM process capability, KM infrastructure capability has a positive and significant impact on organizational performance. The study provides a new understanding to management and practice on the vital role played by institutional management accounting practice in KM success in Malaysia. The research offers fresh insight into further studies in diverse settings. The research is insightful as it deviates from the over-researched context in KM literature to extricate the role of accounting in the business KM strategy.

scholarly journals The Effect of Volunteer Management on Intention to Continue Volunteering: A Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction of Volunteers

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402092058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heetae Cho ◽  
Zi’En Wong ◽  
Weisheng Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Volunteer Management ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Reward And Recognition ◽  
Intention To Continue

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between volunteer management and volunteers’ intention to continue participating, based on the environmental psychology model. Moreover, this study investigated the mediating role of volunteers’ job satisfaction in this relationship. Using a sample drawn from volunteers of a cultural event in Singapore, this research conducted confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis. The results showed a positive relationship between volunteer management and volunteers’ intention to continue volunteering, with a full mediating effect of job satisfaction on this relationship. Also, the highest attribution of positive management practices came from reward and recognition, followed by empowerment, schedule flexibility, orientation and training, and social interaction. The findings of this study provide a perspective on how volunteer management can position itself for volunteer retention.

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