How to Motivate Employees’ Environmental Citizenship Behavior through Perceived Interpersonal Circle Power? A New Perspective from Chinese Circle Culture

Employees’ spontaneous environmental citizenship behavior (ECB) is a key factor in facilitating the low-carbon transition of enterprises. However, little research has focused on the impact of interpersonal interactions on ECB. To explore how ECB is affected by special interpersonal circles in Chinese organizations, we propose a new concept: perceived interpersonal circle power (PICP). From the two dimensions of PICP, leader-oriented perceived interpersonal circle power (PICP-L) and colleague-oriented perceived interpersonal circle power (PICP-C), we establish a mechanism model to explore the effect of PICP on ECB. A structural equation model was used to test our hypotheses through 332 questionnaires, and the results show that PICP-L and PICP-C differ significantly in the directions and strengths of their effects on ECB. PICP-C has a direct positive driving effect on environmental engagement behavior (EEB) and environmental helping behavior (EHB). High PICP-C can also encourage EEB via affective organizational commitment (AOC). Conversely, PICP-L has no significant effect on EEB. More unexpectedly, PICP-L has a significant negative influence on EHB. This study provides a new direction for future theoretical research on ECB, as well as a new opportunity for policy-making and enterprise management practices to promote employees’ ECB.

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Do Environmental Transformational Leadership Predicts Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards Environment in Hospitality Industry: Using Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13105594 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (10) ◽

pp. 5594

Author(s):

Jehanzeb Khan Gurmani ◽

Noor Ullah Khan ◽

Muhammad Khalique ◽

Muhammad Yasir ◽

Asfia Obaid ◽

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Keyword(s):

Transformational Leadership ◽

Organizational Citizenship ◽

Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽

Social Information Processing ◽

Structural Equation Modelling ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Meaningful Work ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

Equation Modelling ◽

The Impact

Voluntary pro-environmental behaviors in the workplace such as organizational citizenship behavior towards environment (OCBE) are pertinent for the organizations striving to become environmentally responsible entities. The significance of OCBE for green organizational initiatives has led scholars to strive for expanding its nomological network. Approaching from the theoretical angle of the social information processing approach, this quantitative, survey-based study theoretically links and empirically tests the impact of environmental transformational leadership on organizational citizenship behavior towards environment (OCBE) via mediating mechanism of perceived meaningful work. Data from a sample of 311 employees working in Pakistan’s hospitality sector were collected and analyzed to test the hypothesized relationships using structural equation modelling. Results indicated the indirect effect of perceived meaningful work on the relationship between environmental transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior towards environment. Implications of both theoretical and practical nature are laid out in the relevant sections of the paper.

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The impact of employment relationships on firm sustainability

Employee Relations ◽

10.1108/er-12-2020-0522 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Francisco Rincon-Roldan ◽

Alvaro Lopez-Cabrales

Keyword(s):

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Chief Executive Officers ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Chief Executive ◽

Negative Influence ◽

Employment Relationship ◽

Content Type ◽

Employment Relationships ◽

Hr Managers ◽

The Impact

PurposeThe aim of this study was to analyse the influence of different employment relationships (ERs) on the sustainability results of cooperatives. The authors approached the type of ER comparing the inducements offered by the firm with the contributions that the manager expects from employees. In this way, the authors study how the orientation toward the employment relationship influences the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the firm.Design/methodology/approachThis article presents a theoretical and empirical research model about the relationship between ERs and sustainability. The necessary information was obtained through a questionnaire that was completed by the human resource (HR) managers and chief executive officers (CEOs) of 124 cooperative companies, and structural equation modelling was applied to evaluate the relationships between the proposed constructs, using the partial least squares technique (PLS-SEM).FindingsThe obtained results suggest that mutual investment and overinvestment ERs favour economic, social and environmental sustainability, whereas quasi spot contract and underinvestment ERs have a negative influence on all three types of sustainability. Therefore, it is confirmed that the type of ER adopted can condition the sustainability of the company, either favouring or worsening it.Originality/valueThis work contributes to covering the lack of studies about which ERs impact the sustainability of organisations, and it provides information on the role of ERs in the search for a more sustainable organisation, demonstrating that the type of employment relationship developed by the firm has a relevant impact on its sustainability.

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Does motivation play moderating role on organizational citizenship behavior? Evidence from Indonesian telecommunication firms

Management Science Letters ◽

10.5267/j.msl.2020.12.004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1667-1676

Author(s):

Maria Grace Herlina ◽

Nopriadi Saputra

Keyword(s):

Transformational Leadership ◽

Organizational Citizenship ◽

Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽

Structural Equation ◽

High Speed ◽

Extrinsic Motivation ◽

Work Motivation ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

The Impact

Highly competitive and continuous business changes in telecommunication industry make organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) strategically important. This research aims to test the impact of transformational leadership of the direct supervisor on working motivation of the employees. Does supervisor's leadership capability impact on employees' work motivation more intrinsically or extrinsically? The study was conducted in an Indonesian telecommunication company which provides television cable and high-speed internet services for the high-rise building in Java and Sumatra. It involved 199 employees as the respondents. The collected data was analyzed with structural equation modelling approach. The statistical test has proved that transformational leadership has a positive impact on work motivation and organizational citizenship behavior. The motivation – both extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation, impacts on organizational citizenship behavior significantly. Although transformational does impact on organizational citizenship behavior both directly and indirectly, but the working motivation does not play a mediating role in the relationship between transformation leadership and organizational citizenship behavior.

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Direct effects of knowledge management practices on organizational performance

Business Information Review ◽

10.1177/0266382120909073 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 30-37

Author(s):

Edwin Alexander Henao-García ◽

Nelson Lozada ◽

Jose Arias-Pérez

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Organizational Performance ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Management Practices ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Feedback Systems ◽

Nonfinancial Performance ◽

Knowledge Management Practices ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

The relationship between knowledge management (KM) and firm performance is an interesting field for both scholars and practitioners. Despite the extant literature, more studies are required in order to clarify the abovementioned relationship. The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of KM practices on financial and nonfinancial performance. KM practices are knowledge creation practices, continuous learning practices (CLP), knowledge and feedback systems (KFS), and management of employees’ individual competencies. Methodologically the study uses partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results show that KFS affect firms’ financial performance and that CLP do not influence oneither financial or nonfinancial performance.

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Role of Employee Engagement on Compensation System and Employee Performance Relationship among Telecommunication Service Providers in Bangladesh

International Journal of Human Resource Studies ◽

10.5296/ijhrs.v8i3.13081 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 19

Author(s):

Abu Shams Mohammad Mahmudul Hoque ◽

Zainudin Bin Awang ◽

Benazir Ahmed Siddiqui ◽

Malam Salihu Sabiu

Keyword(s):

Performance Appraisal ◽

Employee Engagement ◽

Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽

Management Practices ◽

Service Providers ◽

Employee Performance ◽

Compensation System ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

Telecommunication Service ◽

The Impact

Past studies endorsed that there is a quite number of factors have been considered as the influencing factors of employee performance in an organization. Some of these are selection, training and development, performance appraisal, promotion, job design, security, and satisfaction, compensation system, employee commitment, personality, emotional intelligence, organizational citizenship behavior among others. While several studies considered investigating the influence of human resource management practices on employee performance in different context such as America, Africa and Europe, but very little attention have given in South-Asian countries like Bangladesh. Hence, this manuscript attempted to investigate the impact of compensation system on employee performance using quantitative analysis. To do so, survey was conducted as well as perceptions of 200 employees working in telecommunication service providers in Bangladesh were obtained to analyze the relationships. The data is analyzed and hypotheses were tested by using IBM-SPSS-AMOS package 25.0. The study found that employee engagement partially mediates the relationship between compensation system and employee performance by the data of this study. This research indorsed that there is a candid need to implement better compensation system by the entrepreneurs which will ensure better employee performance in line with consistent growth of firms as well as Bangladeshi GDP.

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The Effects of Organizational Justice and job Motivation on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and its Impact on Taxpayers

Revista Administração em Diálogo - RAD ◽

10.20946/rad.v19i0.31990 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 39

Author(s):

Mobina Ghazi ◽

Seyed Mahdi Jalali

Keyword(s):

Organizational Justice ◽

Organizational Citizenship ◽

Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Interactional Justice ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Statistical Population ◽

Job Motivation ◽

The Impact

This study investigate the impact of organizational justice and job motivation on organizational citizenship behavior and its impact on satisfaction and loyalty of taxpayers. The statistical population of this study was formed by 7191 tax affairs of Tehran employees. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis method was used to evaluate the construct validity and standardization of research. Cronbach's alpha coefficient of questionnaire that calculated 0/97 was used to achieve Reliability of study. Therefore in this study, based on previous research and literature, the conceptual model and hypotheses were developed and tested on a sample of 401 person. Results of data analysis using structural equation modeling showed that all job related characteristics (except for feedback) on all aspects of job motivation, job motivation and organizational justice (except interactional justice) on OCB and Finally OCB is significant because of the satisfaction and loyalty of taxpayers and were confirmed.

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French for Learners in Hesitation Between Mother Tongue and English

Taikomoji kalbotyra ◽

10.15388/taikalbot.2021.15.9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 ◽

pp. 108-122

Author(s):

Natalia Loseva ◽

Liudmila Metelskaya

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Mother Tongue ◽

Negative Influence ◽

Theoretical Research ◽

Language Experience ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Pedagogical Approach ◽

Linguistic Awareness ◽

Russian Speakers ◽

The Impact

Observing the interlanguage of Russian speakers learning French in an academic setting enabled us to note that it is subject to a double influence from the mother tongue (LM langue maternelle) and the first foreign language (LE1 langue étrangère1), which in most cases is English.Teaching methods traditionally practiced in Russia have always emphasized the comparison with LM in order to eliminate the negative effects of interference. In contrast, very few attempts have been made to assess the impact of LE1. The challenge is therefore twofold, to understand the mechanisms of interaction of different languages in the learner’s mind and to develop a more effective pedagogical approach to neutralize the negative influence of plurilingualism and mobilize its constructive potential.The mature linguistic awareness of a multilingual speaking subject establishes fairly clear boundaries between the different language systems that are part of it. While in the consciousness of learners, the partitions that separate different languages are permeable. Sometimes students are not able to attribute a particular term (or word) to a particular system. The problem apparently is attributable to the deficiency (due to lack of language experience) of the discrimination mechanism which would make it possible to detect the “intruder” and to eliminate it.The survey carried out among 54 students who had reached level B1 in French aimed to assess their ability to identify foreign words in a text that included words that did not exist in normative French with Russian or English roots, as well as words of Franglais already adopted by French.The results showed that in 45% of cases, learners have difficulty locating and discriminating a lexeme belonging to another language, which testifies to the absence of clear boundaries between different language systems that make up a learner’s multicompetence. The interpenetration of different systems is facilitated by the existence of a common lexical background due to mutual borrowing. Also, the results support our hypothesis that at the intermediate level (B1) the influence of LE1 is stronger than that of LM, because false anglicisms have been found to be more difficult to detect than words with Slavic roots. It also turned out that the Russian-speaking interlanguage fully adheres to the “Franglais” of native French-speakers.In moving from theoretical research to French as a Foreign Language (FFL) didactics, it should be taken into account that the learner’s vocabulary only partly results from memorizing the studied content (from the “input”). There always remains a part of personal production resulting from the transfer. If the results of the languages transfer are sometimes inadequate, this should not cause the teacher to fight the mechanism itself. Rather, teaching practices should be put in place that would optimize this mechanism.

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THE IMPACT OF THE COVID‑19 PANDEMIC ON SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE OF THE AUTO PARTS INDUSTRIES OF THAILAND

Acta Logistica ◽

10.22306/al.v7i4.185 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 245-251

Author(s):

Ampol Navavongsathian ◽

Jirasek Trimetsoontorn ◽

Pattarada Rungruang ◽

Surat Janthongpan

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Management Practices ◽

Primary Data ◽

Supply Chain Performance ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Chain Management ◽

Auto Parts ◽

The Impact

This research aims to analyse the impact of the COVID‑19 Pandemic on Supply Chain Performance of the Auto Parts Industries of Thailand. The primary data collected from an online questionnaire sent to 400 samples obtained by a stratified sampling method selected from tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 auto parts manufacturers. The structural equation model applied for analysis. The results showed that the COVID‑19 Pandemic, Environment performance, Negative performance, and operation performance affected supply chain performance. For suggestions from this research, first of all, the company's knowledge of internal management. And government involvement has a direct impact on the performance of the auto parts supply chain. The government's participation as factors of external influence also has an immediate effect on supply chain management. Company practices show that governments have played an essential role in promoting the auto parts industry's survival since its upstream. Midstream and downstream pressure has an indirect effect on corporate and consumer of supply chain management practices.

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Impact of Financial Management Practices on SMEs Profitability with Moderating Role of Agency Cost

Information Management and Business Review ◽

10.22610/imbr.v9i1.1593 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 23-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Saqib Muneer ◽

Rao Abrar Ahmad ◽

Azhar Ali

Keyword(s):

Financial Management ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Management Practices ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Agency Cost ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Primary Data ◽

Medium Enterprises ◽

The Impact

The importance of Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) towards economic development and growth is considerable. Some SMEs are facing difficulties to their development due to the lack of financial resources and management experience. The objective of this study is to check the relationships of financial management practices on profitability of small and medium enterprises and also to check the impact of agency cost on this relationship. This study consists of data analysis of two hundred SMEs from Faisalabad Pakistan. The study used primary data predominantly. SPSS 23 is used for descriptive analysis and Structural Equation Model (SEM) through Partial Least Square (PLS) 3 for hypothesis testing. The findings of this study indicate the presence of positive relationship between financial management practices and SMEs profitability but agency cost as a moderator has no effect on this relationship. The study strongly recommends higher adherence to financial management practices. Policy makers, developments partners, owners, and managers of SMEs may use these findings for sustainability of their business in Pakistan.

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Workplace Friendship, Helping Behavior, and Turnover Intention: The Meditating Effect of Affective Commitment

10.47260/amae/1054 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 55-75

Author(s):

Yu-Ping Hsu ◽

Chun-Yang Peng ◽

Ming-Tao Chou ◽

Chun-Tsen Yeh ◽

Qiong-yuan Zhang

Keyword(s):

Turnover Intention ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Affective Commitment ◽

Helping Behavior ◽

Negative Influence ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Future Research ◽

Research Subjects ◽

Workplace Friendship ◽

The Social

The present study drew from the social identity theory to explore the workplace friendship and adopted the social support theory to examine the effects of workplace friendship on affective commitment, helping behavior, as well as turnover intention. Research subjects of this study were civil affairs workers in Tainan and Chiayi County, Taiwan. Random sampling was used to collect anonymous questionnaires. The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) demonstrated that workplace friendship had positive influences on affective commitment and helping behavior and a negative influence on turnover intention. Prior research offered little empirical evidence of affective commitment as a mediating mechanism linking the workplace friendship–helping behavior and workplace friendship–turnover intention relationships. The present study found that effective commitment played an important mediating role. Implications for practice were discussed, and directions for future research were provided.

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