Learning-by-Doing Teamwork KSA

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Víctor Martín-Pérez ◽  
Natalia Martín-Cruz ◽  
Pilar Pérez-Santana
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Initial Knowledge

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of strategic management simulations as a learning-by-doing tool so that university students can learn to work in a team, that is, they can enhance their knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) for effective teamwork. The authors have carried out an analysis of the effect of strategic management simulation on the teamwork KSA with a group of undergraduates studying in the School of Business. The results show that teamwork KSA can improve and that the initial knowledge of teamwork KSA, at the individual level, is the only factor which conditions the students’ learning. Initial knowledge of the teamwork KSA and the spread of this knowledge within the team are not a determinant influence on the learning-by-doing of the individual. Neither are features such as intelligence, personality, attitude to teamwork and teamwork self-efficacy, both in terms of the individual as well as the team.

The Role of Strategic Management Simulation as a Tool for Teamwork KSA Learning

2014 ◽  
pp. 216-234
Author(s):  
Víctor Martín Pérez ◽  
Natalia Martín Cruz
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Initial Knowledge

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of strategic management simulations as a learning-by-doing tool so that university students can learn to work in a team, that is, they can enhance their Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) for effective teamwork. The authors carry out an analysis of the effect of strategic management simulation on the teamwork KSA with a group of undergraduates studying in the School of Business. The results show that teamwork KSA can improve and that the initial knowledge of that teamwork KSA, at the individual level, is the only factor that conditions their learning. Initial knowledge of the teamwork KSA and the spread of this knowledge within the team are not determinant influences on the learning-by-doing of the individual. Surprisingly, neither are features such as intelligence, personality, attitude to teamwork, and teamwork self-efficacy, both of the individual and the team.

Exploring entrepreneurial orientation and intentions among technical university students

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 718-736
Author(s):  
Swagatika Sahoo ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Panda
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of the contextual antecedents on the individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) of university graduates, which, in turn, affects their entrepreneurial intentions (EIs). Design/methodology/approach Primary data were collected in the form of 510 valid responses from engineering students across two technical universities in India, through a structured questionnaire consisting of scales adapted from the extant literature, and the data were empirically validated in this study. The reliability and validity measures of the constructs were validated through the confirmatory factor analysis, and the proposed hypotheses were validated using structural equation modelling. Findings The results of this empirical analysis validate that the contextual antecedents have a significant positive impact on students’ entrepreneurial orientation (EO), which, in turn, has a significant positive influence on EIs. Research limitations/implications This analysis depicts the significance of EO as a perceptual driver at the individual level and substantiates that the availability of resources such as startup capital, access to business information, social networks and supportive university context significantly affects the decision-making process of an individual to venture into an otherwise uncertain occupation of entrepreneurship. Practical implications The study has the likely potential to help university administrators and policymakers to allocate resources, develop strategies and provide effective entrepreneurial learning in entrepreneurship-oriented courses aimed at honing entrepreneurial skills and self-confidence of the university students. This holistic model can be used as a tool for resource planning and prioritising in order to provide the desired contextual support essential for fostering the IEO of the university students towards adopting entrepreneurial career, thereby assisting them to achieve their career goals and the broader objective of nation-building. Originality/value This study adopts an innovative approach to empirically validate the EO construct at the individual level, which has been studied at the organisation (firm) level till today. This research explores the relevant contextual antecedents and analyses their impact on IEO as well as the explanatory capacity of IEO to explain students’ EIs in the contextual backdrop of universities in a fast transitioning economy like India.

scholarly journals Schwartz Value Clusters in Modern University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Olga V. Maslova ◽  
Dmitry A. Shlyakhta ◽  
Mikhail S. Yanitskiy
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Initial Sample ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Basic Personal Values

People differ in their value hierarchies, i.e., in the importance they attach to basic personal values. A large number of studies were performed to establish similarities and differences between national, ethnic, or professional groups in terms of Schwartz’s values structure. In addition to this sample-level approach, we found it useful to disclose a number of subgroups within those larger social groups, which are more homogeneous in themselves and reflect the individual-level types of personal values systems. The study was performed on university students (n = 1237) who were asked to fill in the SVS и PVQ Schwartz’s questionnaires. The sample was then treated with the K-means cluster analysis, which resulted in the division of the initial sample into three subgroups or clusters according to their values hierarchy being measured separately at the (1) Normative Ideals scale and (2) the scale of Behavioral Priorities. These clusters were equally common among male and female students, but they were unequally found in young people coming from different ethnic groups and regions, demonstrating the role of socio-cultural environment in building up personal values. The results may extend our capabilities for the prediction of the social, economic, and political behavior of the younger generation.

scholarly journals Behavioural strategy: Adaptability context

Management ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Piórkowska
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Adaptive Performance ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Behavioural Strategy ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Individual

SummaryThe paper is embedded in the following fields: strategic management in terms of behavioural strategy concept, adaptability construct, and micro-foundations realm as well as organizational theory and psychology. Moreover, the paper concerns to some extent a multi-level approach in strategic management involving individual, team, and organizational level. The aim of the paper is to contribute to extend, on one hand, the ascertainment set in the field of behavioural strategy as behavioural strategy encompasses a mindboggling diversity of topics and methods and its conceptual unity has been hard to achieve (Powell, Lovallo, Fox 2011, p. 1371), and on the other hand, to order mixed approaches to adaptability especially to gain insights on micro-level adapting processes (individual adaptability and adaptive performance) in terms of the multi-level approach. The method that has been used is literature studies and the interference is mostly deductive. The structure of the manuscript is four-fold. The first part involves the considerations in the field of adaptability and adaptive performance at the individual level. The issues of adaptability and adaptive performance at the team level have been presented in the second part. The third part encompasses the organizational adaptability assertions. Finally, the conclusion, limitations of the considerations highlighted as well as the future research directions have been emphasized. The overarching key finding is that the behavioural strategy concept may constitute the boundary spanner in exploring and explaining adaptability phenomenon at different levels of analysis.

scholarly journals What we evaluate, when we evaluate the level of mathematic skills?

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Laura Tuohilampi
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Skill Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Context Of Learning ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Narrow Area

The evaluation of skill-level in mathematics and the proposed activities to improve the skill-level often include only narrow area of the context of learning. Measuring the skill-level and its background variables is often targeted to traits on individual-level, such as liking mathematics, feeling of self-efficacy, or gender. To improve the individual-level traits, measures targeted to individuals, such as the use of games in mathematics teaching to improve the attitudes towards mathematics, have been suggested. However, learning happens on many contexts with different dimensions that cannot be separated from one another. An individual learns and forms concept structures in social interaction, which has been shaped by the prevailing culture. The challenges in learning mathematics should be examined from a perspective that is wider than the individual. When the mechanical increase in skill-level of an individual is scrutinized, we may forget the purpose and benefits of increasing the skill-level in comparison with the prevailing concept.

How Social Anxiety and Reduced Self-Efficacy Induce Smartphone Addiction in Materialistic People

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Kang Lee ◽  
Chun-Tuan Chang ◽  
Zhao-Hong Cheng ◽  
You Lin
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Smartphone Addiction ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

Recent research has suggested that materialism influences consumers’ usage of technological communication devices, especially smartphones. The current study contributes to this evolving research stream by examining more closely the dynamics of mechanisms that might potentially cause smartphone addiction. We propose self-efficacy and social anxiety as two underlying mechanisms and further test whether their mediating effects are consistent across people with differing levels of power distance belief (PDB). We also examine the moderating role of PDB at the cultural level (Study 1: China vs. the United States) and at the individual level (Study 2: Taiwan). The empirical data are analyzed using the parallel multiple mediator model proposed by Hayes. The results confirm that these two mediators explain the relationship between materialism and smartphone addiction. The mediating effects are stronger for people with a high level of PDB than for their counterparts with low PDB. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

scholarly journals When Servant Leaders Inspire Followers to Become Organizational Citizens? Empirical Evidence From Vietnam

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401990018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Phan Hanh Thao ◽  
Seung-Wan Kang
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Servant Leaders ◽  
Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Level Of Analysis

The purpose of this article is to contribute to the existing servant leadership literature, especially at the individual level of analysis in new settings, by examining the potential joint effects of servant leadership, dyadic duration, and job self-efficacy, with organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) as the dependent variable. We, after analyzing survey data from 148 leader–follower dyads collected from an engineering venture, find that dyadic duration is a significant moderator of the relationship between servant leadership and OCB. Furthermore, the moderating effect of dyadic duration on the relationship between servant leadership and OCB depends on job self-efficacy, such that the interaction effect is neutralized when job self-efficacy is high rather than low. The findings about interactive effects can provide useful information that will help to better deploy servant leadership in organizations to create positive follower outcomes.

scholarly journals Is an Emphasis on Dignity, Honor and Face more an Attribute of Individuals or of Cultural Groups?

2020 ◽  
pp. 106939712097957
Author(s):  
Peter B. Smith ◽  
Matthew J. Easterbrook ◽  
Yasin Koc ◽  
Vivian Miu-Chi Lun ◽  
Dona Papastylianou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Multilevel Analyses ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Predictive Utility ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Interpersonal Conflicts ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Individual

This study compares the individual-level and sample-level predictive utility of a measure of the cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face. University students in 29 samples from 24 nations used a simple measure to rate their perceptions of the interpersonal cultural logic characterizing their local culture. The nomological net of these measures was then explored. Key dependent measures included three different facets of independent versus interdependent self-construal, relevant attitudes and values, reported handling of actual interpersonal conflicts, and responses to normative settings. Multilevel analyses revealed both individual- and sample-level effects but the dignity measure showed more individual-level effects, whereas sample-level effects were relatively more important with the face measure. The implications of this contrast are discussed.

Change Leadership and Employees’ Commitment to Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Ling ◽  
Yue Guo ◽  
Dusheng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Employee Commitment ◽  
Change Leadership ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Commitment To Change ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual

Abstract. This research develops a multilevel motivation model to examine the mediating effect of collective identity and change self-efficacy on the relationship between change leadership and employee commitment to change. Our model is empirically tested using data collected from 647 employees within 110 teams. The results show that in addition to the positive relationship between change leadership and employee commitment to change, collective identity at the group level and change self-efficacy at the individual level significantly mediate the positive relationship between change leadership and employee commitment to change. This paper rounds off with a discussion of limitations and contributions from theoretical and practical perspectives.

The impact of authentic leadership on individual and team creativity: a multilevel perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shen Lei ◽  
Cuijuan Qin ◽  
Muhammad Ali ◽  
Susan Freeman ◽  
Zheng Shi-Jie
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Team Creativity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to develop and test a multilevel conceptual model which explains how authentic leadership (AL), through an innovative team atmosphere and promotion of self-efficacy, influences creativity. The study delineates two pathways from AL to creativity. The first pathway is an indirect effect through an innovative atmosphere at the team level and self-efficacy at the individual level, while the second pathway focuses on the moderating effect of AL between self-efficacy and individual creativity.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 58 team leaders and 283 employees in a creative industry park in the Yangtze River Delta region from China. Path analysis was conducted to test the proposed hypotheses using the statistical package M-plus (v. 7).FindingsThe results reveal that AL is an important antecedent of creativity. Furthermore, an innovation-based atmosphere at the team level mediates the theorized relationship between AL and individual creativity. However, creative self-efficacy at the individual level does not mediate this relationship. Finally, the study found that AL moderates the relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creativity.Originality/valueThe implications of this study highlight important considerations for enterprises in creative industry parks within and beyond China. This study provides industry leaders with a clearer and more insightful and coherent means of understanding the mediating mechanism between AL and creativity, and the moderating effects of AL between individual self-efficacy and creativity through a new linkage model.

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