scholarly journals The Organizational Climate for Sustainable Commuting: An Italian Validation Study in the Academic Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9215
Author(s):  
Guido Martinolli ◽  
Marco de Angelis ◽  
Núria Tordera ◽  
Luca Pietrantoni
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Validation Study ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
Language Data ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Unidimensional Structure ◽  
Academic Sector

Promoting sustainable commuting represents a valuable contribution to tackle the climate crisis, and organizations could act as frontrunners in this regard. Accordingly, conceptualizing and measuring how organizational environments contribute to sustainable commuting has become relevant. This study aims to conceptualize and operationalize the construct of Organizational Climate for Sustainable Commuting (OCSC) and validate the OCSC scale in the Italian language. Data were gathered in an Italian university from 8542 participants. The validation was based on EFA and CFA, reliability, and aggregation indices analyses. To validate the scale, convergent, discriminant, internal construct, and criterion validities were assessed. Results confirmed a unidimensional structure of the tool, satisfactory reliability, justified aggregation, and provided evidence for validity. The proposed concept and scale offer a new perspective and measurement tool to be used when promoting sustainable commuting in the workplace is the objective.

Bullying and turnover intentions: how creative employees overcome perceptions of dysfunctional organizational politics

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk De Clercq ◽  
Tasneem Fatima ◽  
Sadia Jahanzeb
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Organizational Politics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

PurposeThis study seeks to unpack the relationship between employees' exposure to workplace bullying and their turnover intentions, with a particular focus on the possible mediating role of perceived organizational politics and moderating role of creativity.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses are tested with multi-source, multi-wave data collected from employees and their peers in various organizations.FindingsWorkplace bullying spurs turnover intentions because employees believe they operate in strongly politicized organizational environments. This mediating role of perceived organizational politics is mitigated to the extent that employees can draw from their creative skills though.Practical implicationsFor managers, this study pinpoints a critical reason – employees perceive that they operate in an organizational climate that endorses dysfunctional politics – by which bullying behaviors stimulate desires to leave the organization. It also reveals how this process might be contained by spurring employees' creativity.Originality/valueThis study provides novel insights into the process that underlies the connection between workplace bullying and quitting intentions by revealing the hitherto overlooked roles of employees' beliefs about dysfunctional politics and their own creativity levels.

PROFILES OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE OF ACADEMIC TEACHERS OF MILITARY UNIVERSITIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 195-207
Author(s):  
Mirosław Laskowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
Education System ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Social ◽  
Standardized Measurement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Many

Among the many requirements posed today for the education system, the question of teacher competence deserves special attention. Previous explorations have demonstrated the unquestionable excellence of professional competences over formal qualifications, including in other professions. Psychological competences, increasingly appreciated by psychologists, are still searching for their place in pedagogy and other scientific disciplines. When I examined the social competence profiles of a particular group of teachers of academic military universities, I decided to show a new perspective on education in the army. I presented the subject matter with the help of a standardized measurement tool on the example of The War Studies University in Warsaw.

How blended learning can create a more inclusive culture

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-122
Author(s):  
Angela Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Company Culture ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Lasting Change

Purpose – The challenges and problems that organizations face nowadays are often due to there being a gap between their current situation and where they want to be. Often this disparity between perception and reality is caused by something deep and fundamental in the company culture – something that may not be readily apparent to those working there. This paper aims to deal with the question of how to create genuine, lasting change in organizational climate so that all employees feel they can bring all of themselves to work, without fear or judgment and with a deep belief that their contributions will be heard. Design/methodology/approach – There are a number of reasons why driving an inclusive culture is so difficult and this paper identifies a new perspective on developing and embedding inclusion. Most importantly, it addresses how a bespoke, blended approach to any input will allow you to implement training that really works. Findings – Many organizations view fixing problems with company culture as an expensive luxury with unpredictable outcomes. As a result, the kind of training that embeds genuine, lasting change is often overlooked in favor of short-term solutions that do not get to the root of the problem. A bespoke, blended approach allows for training that really works long term and therefore ensures the greatest possible value for your organization. Practical implications – A blended approach done well should be a powerful, joined up and strategic driver that enables an inclusive culture to be created, resulting in it becoming business as usual, where the best available talent is attracted, thrives and drives your strategic aims and your business forwards. Originality/value – Often the kind of training that gets done in this area is short term and does not get to the root of the problem. This paper provides guidance in developing and embedding inclusion and although it may challenge beliefs if these principles are followed it will guarantee rapid, lasting improvements at all levels.

scholarly journals A Validation Study of the Rainbow Model of Integrated Care-Measurement Tool for Patients in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Stephen Birch ◽  
Lijin Chen ◽  
Yixiang Huang ◽  
Pim Valentijn
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Care ◽  
Validation Study ◽  
Measurement Tool

scholarly journals Would Organizational Climate and Job Stress Affect Wellness? An Empirical Study on the Hospitality Industry in Taiwan during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (19) ◽  
pp. 10491
Author(s):  
Pei-Ling Tsui
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Employee Wellness ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
The Impact

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitality employees face a tremendous amount of job stress due to the decline in revenue and close contact with people. This study has three aims: first, to analyse the status quo of organizational-climate job stress on employee wellness in the hospitality industry during COVID-19; second, to discuss the correlation between organizational-climate job stress and employee wellness in the hospitality industry; and third, to analyze the associations between of personal background and organizational climate on job stress and wellness in the hospitality industry. This research uses a survey method to examine these issues. Participants were employees of franchise hotel branches in Taipei City, which yielded 295 effective sample sizes from five chain hotels. The personal background factor questionnaire, organizational climate questionnaire, job stress questionnaire, and wellness questionnaire served as the main research tools. In this study, Factor analysis, Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis were used for sample analysis. The results revealed a significant relationship between organizational-climate job stress with wellness. Personal background factors, organizational climate, and job stress would affect the wellness of employees. As a result, the present research provides empirical evidence for the impact of organizational climate and job stress on employee wellness in the hospitality industry in Taiwan during COVID-19. The study’s findings, as well as its theoretical and practical implications, are discussed. The main contribution of this study is that the results serve as a reference for hospitality business owners to design better organizational environments for their employees, plan human-resource-related strategies, and provide training for their employees during a pandemic.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Accountability Measurement Tool in Patients with Psoriasis: A Validation Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-502
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Su ◽  
Abigail Cline ◽  
Arjun M. Bashyam ◽  
E. J. Masicampo ◽  
Edward H. Ip ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Validation Study ◽  
Measurement Tool

scholarly journals A new perspective of refractive error calculation with mobile application

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 4892
Author(s):  
Komang Candra Brata ◽  
Mukhammad Sharif Hidayatulloh ◽  
Lutfi Fanani ◽  
Adam Hendra Brata
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Error ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Small Range ◽  
Level Measurement ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Measurement Results ◽  
Snellen Chart ◽  
New Perspective

In many situations, not standardized and limited access to eye health care in several regions of Indonesia becomes the main challenge for myopia patients to measure and monitor their current refractive error condition. Many apps were proposed to provide low-cost alternative measurement tools rather than expensive tools such as Phoropter with Snellen chart and Retinoscopy, but still, those apps need an Internet connection and manually complex steps to operate. These conditions make myopia patients reluctant to use this kind of service. In this regard, we propose an intuitive diopter level measurement app based on mobile application setup, which implements the concept of measure the user face to smartphone screen distance for the rapid diopter calculation processes and at the same time provides a low-cost alternative refractive measurement tool. This paper highlights our experiences when developing a mobile application that can help patients with myopia measuring their blur line distances and evaluate their diopter levels independently. We conduct a number of human trials with the device on a controlled environment to demonstrate the ability of the proposed app to measure the diopter level. The experimental results show that the proposed app is quite successful in measuring the diopter level of myopia patients with a relatively small range of calculation errors compared to optometrist measurement results.

Shame, Moral Motivation, and Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-253
Author(s):  
Russell C. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Moral Motivation ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Contemporary Climate

AbstractAn emotion like shame is endowed with special motivational force. Drawing on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s concept of shame, I develop an account of moral motivation that lends new perspective to the contemporary climate crisis. Whereas religious ethicists often engage the problem of climate change by re-imagining the metaphors, symbols, and values of problematic cosmologies, I focus on some specific moral tactics generated by religious communities who use their traditions to confront climate destruction. In particular, Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries, a Christian non-profit organization that seeks to infuse a renewed commitment in church parishes to bioregions and watersheds, effectively employs shame in the context of its Christian practice and leadership. My analysis of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries demonstrates both the efficacy of shame to motivate environmentally responsible behavior as well as the advantage to religious ethics of considering contextual practices over abstract cosmologies.

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