The Influence Relationship between the Personal Characteristics of Taekwondo Demonstrators, performing commitment, Satisfaction with Performance and Performance Continuous Behavior

The relevance of the study is due to the growing need of the state and society to improve the efficiency of the Investigative Committee of Russia. Improving the effectiveness of investigative activities is impossible without taking into account the personal characteristics of the investigator. It is important to study personal and professional resources of employees that help improve productivity and performance. More and more women choose professions that were traditionally considered male. Of scientific interest is the study of the personal characteristics of employees of the preliminary investigation units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, where women work along with men. In this regard, the purpose of the study is to identify personal characteristics of male and female employees of investigative bodies. The article presents the research of male and female personality characteristics in the group of law enforcement authority's employees. The sample consisted of 23 officers aged 22 to 43 years (11 men, mean age was 29.18±4.05 years, 12 women, mean age 29.42±4.62 years).The average period of service in law enforcement authorities was 4.7±4.1 years. A fivefactor personality questionnaire was used in the study. It was revealed that male employees of the law enforcement authorities are characterized by a high level of self-control, a tendency to dominate, combined with perseverance and prudence. Female officers are prone to emotional stress, they also persistent, curios and tend to dominate. In addition, the influence of age and length of service on the personality characteristics of the officers, both male and female, was discovered.

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Assessing the Perception of Academicians about Organizational and Personal Aspects of Job Stress and Performance: A Qualitative Study

Revista Amazonia Investiga ◽

10.34069/ai/2020.36.12.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (36) ◽

pp. 51-58

Author(s):

Atif Jamal ◽

Ayesha Ch. ◽

Babak Mahmood ◽

Paris Zaka ◽

Muhmmad Furqan Ashraf

Keyword(s):

Job Stress ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Stressful Situation ◽

Department Heads ◽

Face To Face ◽

Qualitative Research Study ◽

Institutional Goals ◽

Interview Guide ◽

And Performance ◽

Purposive Sample

Performance of academicians negatively associated with job stress and many other factors most obvious are institutional and personal characteristics of academia. Academia performs assigned tasks within their position and expected roles at universities. Qualitative research study was conducted to assess the perception of academicians about organizational and personal aspects. A purposive sample of 60 participants as academia heads and academia (teachers) from eight public sector universities were targeted. Semi-structured face to face and telephonic interviews were conducted by using interview guide/checklist with open statements for getting different perception and working experience of academia heads as (Deans, Department Heads, InCharge), and of academia (teachers). Data were recorded in the form of mobile recorder and written notes. Transcripts were written and thematic analysis was used to analyze the data for important themes relevant to research objectives. Results of research shows that academia heads assign different tasks to academia, sometime oppose the interest of academia, may create stressful situation. Academia heads have diverse responsibilities to take part in different activities to obtain institutional goals, based on their domain, also face some stress. It was suggested that academia heads must assign work according to academia interest; knowledge and domain, also need to take investigate reasons of disappointment among academia. Work overload and autonomy need urgent concentration.

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ANXIETY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH (BASING ON THE MATERIALS OF THE LITERARY REVIEW)

BULLETIN Series Psychology ◽

10.51889/2021-3.1728-7847.10 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 68 (3) ◽

Author(s):

S.K. Kudaibergenova ◽

Keyword(s):

Professional Sports ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Law Enforcement Officers ◽

Optimal Level ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Necessary Condition ◽

Psychophysiological State ◽

And Performance ◽

The Relationship ◽

Sports Activities

This article is devoted to a review of research on anxiety states in fundamental and applied writings. The issues of prevalence, etiological factors of anxiety, historical and modern perceptions about this emotional state are considered. Main symptoms and specificity of manifestations of various types of anxiety, as well as the influence of gender, age and personal characteristics of an individual on its manifestations are highlighted. The studies of anxiety reveal the relationship with the productivity and performance of professional / sports activities, communication and psychophysiological state of a person. Currently, anxiety is considered not only a negative emotional phenomenon, but also as a necessary condition for the normal functioning of the psyche at its optimal level. The ruminations of anxious experiences in the types of activities associated with special working conditions (athletes, law enforcement officers, defense officials) are revealed.

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The determinants and performance consequences of CEO strategic advice seeking

Journal of General Management ◽

10.1177/0306307019833491 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 232-242

Author(s):

Alex Vestal ◽

Rebecca Guidice

Keyword(s):

Organizational Performance ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Strategic Leadership ◽

Upper Echelons Theory ◽

Advice Seeking ◽

Seeking Behavior ◽

Ceo Age ◽

And Performance ◽

Strategic Advice ◽

Organizational Tenure

Leveraging insights from research on strategic leadership, this article theorizes that CEOs’ personal characteristics predict the extent to which CEOs seek strategic advice from executives at other organizations. Further, seeking strategic advice from executives at other organizations is argued to improve organizational performance. The hypotheses are tested with survey data from 287 CEOs of nonprofit agencies in Florida and archival data on organizational performance. Results indicate that CEOs with longer organizational tenure and a higher need for cognitive closure (NFCC) seek less advice from executives at other organizations. Results also show that organizations with CEOs that seek more strategic advice have better performance. These findings contribute to the strategic leadership literature in two general ways. First, through the lens of upper echelons theory, the study highlights three attributes of CEOs that help to explain their advice-seeking behavior: CEO age, CEO organizational tenure, and CEO NFCC. Second, grounded in network theory, the study draws attention to the beneficial effect of CEO advice seeking on organizational performance (i.e. growth in financial donations).

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The Relationship between Self-Esteem and Achievement Goals in University Students: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Defensive Pessimism

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12187531 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (18) ◽

pp. 7531

Author(s):

María del Mar Ferradás ◽

Carlos Freire ◽

José Carlos Núñez ◽

Bibiana Regueiro

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Achievement Goals ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Defensive Pessimism ◽

Academic Context ◽

And Performance ◽

The Relationship ◽

Learning And Performance

Although achievement goals have been the subject of much study about their implications for learning and performance, interest has been less marked in understanding their precursors, particularly those linked to students’ personal characteristics. In this study, we examine the role of a defensive pessimism strategy as a mediator and moderator of the relationships between self-esteem and achievement goals in a sample of 1028 university students. Analysis of mediation and moderation was performed using the PROCESS macro within SPSS. The results showed that defensive pessimism partially mediates and moderates the effect of self-esteem on approach goals (learning and performance). We found no significant mediation or moderation effect for defensive pessimism in the relationship between self-esteem and performance-avoidance goals. These findings suggest that defensive pessimism is an effective strategy to encourage motivational involvement in students with low self-esteem in the academic context.

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Research on the Construction of the Capacity of General Practice Trainers of Community Training bases in China

10.21203/rs.3.rs-649080/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Xin Rao ◽

Qiaoli Su ◽

Shuangqing Li ◽

Xingyue Wang

Keyword(s):

General Practice ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Community Practice ◽

Literature Analysis ◽

Organization Management ◽

Management Ability ◽

The Index System ◽

Research Ability ◽

And Performance ◽

Basic Level

Abstract Background: To explore the construction of the trainers' ability system of the community practice base of general practice under the background of hospital / community integrated teaching of general practice. Methods: literature analysis, Delphi discussion and questionnaire survey were used in the study, and exploratory factor analysis was used to extract competency. Results: there are 4 first level indicators and 20 second level indicators in the system, among which the first level indicators are: personal characteristics and professionalism, teaching and research ability, basic level clinical practice ability, and base organization management ability. Conclusion: the index system enriches the theory of teachers' ability in community practice base of general practice medicine, and provides empirical research basis for the selection, ability training and performance evaluation of teachers in community practice base of general practice medicine.

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Using Job Analysis Techniques to Understand Training Needs for Promotores de Salud

Health Promotion Practice ◽

10.1177/1524839918763584 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 455-465

Author(s):

Javier H. Ospina ◽

Toshiko A. Langford ◽

Kimberly L. Henry ◽

Tristan Q. Nelson

Keyword(s):

Community Health ◽

Health Worker ◽

Community Health Worker ◽

Evaluation System ◽

Job Training ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Job Analysis ◽

Planned Parenthood ◽

Job Tasks ◽

And Performance

Despite the value of community health worker programs, such as Promotores de Salud, for addressing health disparities in the Latino community, little consensus has been reached to formally define the unique roles and duties associated with the job, thereby creating unique job training challenges. Understanding the job tasks and worker attributes central to this work is a critical first step for developing the training and evaluation systems of promotores programs. Here, we present the process and findings of a job analysis conducted for promotores working for Planned Parenthood. We employed a systematic approach, the combination job analysis method, to define the job in terms of its work and worker requirements, identifying key job tasks, as well as the worker attributes necessary to effectively perform them. Our results suggest that the promotores’ job encompasses a broad range of activities and requires an equally broad range of personal characteristics to perform. These results played an important role in the development of our training and evaluation protocols. In this article, we introduce the technique of job analysis, provide an overview of the results from our own application of this technique, and discuss how these findings can be used to inform a training and performance evaluation system. This article provides a template for other organizations implementing similar community health worker programs and illustrates the value of conducting a job analysis for clarifying job roles, developing and evaluating job training materials, and selecting qualified job candidates.

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Toward better understanding developmental reflection differences for use in management development research and practice

Journal of Management Development ◽

10.1108/jmd-11-2020-0349 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Todd Maurer ◽

Nikolaos Dimotakis ◽

Greg Hardt ◽

A.J. Corner

Keyword(s):

Psychometric Testing ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Performance Outcomes ◽

Future Research ◽

Leadership Responsibilities ◽

Content Type ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Testing Sample ◽

Structure Reliability ◽

And Performance

PurposeWe introduce a new approach to developmental reflection in which the focus is on differences in how people reflect. When reflecting on challenging experiences, people achieve better development when they tend to look for causes of what happened within changeable personal characteristics, and they subsequently focus on the improvement of those personal characteristics.Design/methodology/approachSupervisors and subordinates with leadership responsibilities in diverse jobs in varied industries provided survey data (444 individuals in a psychometric testing sample, and 419 paired subordinate/supervisor dyads in a model-testing sample).FindingsThe reflection difference construct had the expected factor structure, reliability, and was distinguishable from eight conceptually related variables in the literature. Reflection differences were predicted by the theoretically relevant job, person, and situational variables and were associated with development and performance outcomes.Practical implicationsThe reflection construct might be used for prediction to identify the individuals who are likely to get the most from challenging experiences and improve. Further, by identifying predictors of reflection, ideas for enhancing reflection are provided. Also, by uncovering specific underlying dimensionality of reflection, this offers specific targets for interventions beyond generally encouraging people to reflect.Originality/valueThis study establishes support for: (1) the new theoretical framing of reflection differences, (2) a new preliminary model of antecedents and outcomes, and (3) an initial scale for future research and practice that can be more explicit about understanding and addressing underlying differences in how people reflect.

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Risk Perception and Product Safety in User-Centered Design

Volume 7: 31st International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology ◽

10.1115/detc2019-98371 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Mingzhi Cai ◽

Erin N. Seligsohn ◽

Zhinan Zhang ◽

Yan Wang

Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

Perceived Risk ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Product Safety ◽

User Centered Design ◽

Warning Label ◽

Government Regulations ◽

Design Variables ◽

And Performance ◽

User Centered

Abstract When customers decide which product to buy, the perceived risks associated with the purchase are typically part of consideration. The customer’s purchase decision is directly related to the perceived risk about finance, safety, reputation, or others. It is important to incorporate the customer’s perception of risks in user-centered product design. Existing research of risk perception in product development focuses on the warning label design to ensure that consumers are aware of product safety and potential hazards. There is limited work on how to design the product itself with the consideration of risk factors. In this research, the effects of risk perception from consumers on design are studied. The results show that the perceived product safety by customers can be independent from objective measurements of risks. The perceptions are influenced by individual experiences, information obtained from government regulations and standards, as well as personal characteristics. Design variables related to the levels of comfort, aesthetics, and performance for automobile could affect the customers’ perception about vehicle safety.

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