scholarly journals Organizational culture as an important factor of enterprise crisis management in the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
Srđan Žikić ◽  
Milena Valjević
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Business Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly has serious socio-economic effects. The whole world is going through a unprecedented crisis with all the characteristics of unpredictability and difficult prevention. Today, there is practically no organization that has not been affected by this crisis. During a period of great uncertainty, it is very important that organizations properly understand the impact of this threat on internal and external stakeholders. Only companies that are able to manage the crisis effectively with an adequate organizational culture and leadership can maintain a competitive advantage. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop and support an ethically oriented organizational culture that will strongly support ethical standards. The proactivity and ethical approach of this type of organizational culture contributes to mitigating the negative effects of the crisis and provides adequate support to employees. Based on the above facts, the basic motive of the research was to determine the extent to which an ethically oriented organizational culture is supported in the company during a period of severe business crisis and uncertainty. The research is based on the answers collected by a standardized and structured survey questionnaire on a sample of 100 respondents.

Green Organizational Culture: An Exploration of Dimensions

2021 ◽  
pp. 097215092110498
Author(s):  
Priyanka Aggarwal ◽  
Tanuja Agarwala
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Questionnaire Development ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
The Impact

Awareness of environmental issues and stakeholder expectations has led organizations to be concerned about the impact of their products, processes and packaging on the natural environment. Environmental sustainability has become an essential tool for the competitive advantage of firms. Organizations need to bring about cultural transformation to sustain competitive advantage. This orientation has brought green organizational culture to centre stage as firms seek to institutionalize and incorporate environmental focus throughout the organization. The belief that integrating environmental concerns with organizational culture should result in sustainable competitive advantage mandates that firms measure the extent of ‘greening’ of the culture. Literature review reveals that ‘green organizational culture’ has begun to receive attention in recent years. However, a standardized and empirically validated instrument is not available for measuring the extent to which green values are internalized throughout the firm. The present study aims to fill this gap by developing a questionnaire to study green organizational culture (GOC). The model proposed by Harris and Crane (2002 , Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 15, pp. 214–234) is used as a basis for questionnaire development. A two-stage method of structural equation modelling in AMOS 23 is employed for data analysis. Exploratory factor analysis in SPSS reveals three dimensions of the construct measured by two items. Confirmatory factor analysis confirms the factor structure. The instrument satisfies the conditions of convergent and discriminant validity and the model fulfils the criteria for model fitness. Measurement of green organizational culture has important implications for creating and reinforcing greening through human resource policies and practices.

scholarly journals The teoretical aspects of Risk management and Crisis management

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 377-382
Author(s):  
Josef Zrůst
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Reciprocal Relations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Subsequent Stabilization

This article defines the theoretical specification of risk management and crisis management. The main goal of this article is to define the basic features and understand the reciprocal relations between risk management and crisis management and their function in the business environment.Risk management is a process of risk regulation. It helps to protect an enterprise from the impact of existing and future risks. Part of this process is the decision process which derives from risk's analysis.Crisis management can be defined as a permanent process of monitoring single factors of efficiency with the goal to identifying and applying proactive steps leading to the prevention of crisis creation and its negative effects. Another definition evaluates crisis management as a process of crisis identification and the enterprise's subsequent stabilization.The specification of areciprocal relationship between risk management and crisis management arises from the definition of risk as a source of danger causing current or future crisis in the enterprise.

scholarly journals Design and design thinking in building an innovative organizational culture

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4-1) ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Justyna Starostka
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Multicultural Teams ◽  
Fast Prototyping ◽  
The Impact

Abstract For many companies innovations are crucial for achieving a competitive advantage. Many factors have been revealed to be determinants of company innovativeness. One is organizational culture which can support or diminish innovative attempts of employees. In recent years there is a growing interest in design and design thinking as methods of implementing innovations. Interdisciplinary, multicultural teams, fast prototyping, co-creation with users are only examples of specific methods that are being promoted by designers and design thinkers, that can significantly affect organisational culture. The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of design and design thinking on the organizational culture. In the first part literature findings are presented. The second part shows results of the exploratory research that has been conducted among designoriented companies from Sweden and Poland. This project was qualitative study aimed to compare managers’ attitudes towards design; to look into existing processes in companies connected with design and to explore the different roles that designers play in organizations.

scholarly journals Innovations in Agritourism: Evidence from a Region in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 4858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Roman ◽  
Monika Roman ◽  
Piotr Prus
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Hierarchical Clustering ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Central Statistics

The objective of the article is to present the study of agritourism innovativeness. The analysis covers agritourism farms in Poland. It is also essential to identify the factors affecting the process of implementing innovation in agritourism. The objective of the article is to formulate conclusions on the impact of innovations on the development of agritourism and the competitiveness of agritourism farms that can be used by representatives of various agritourism-supporting institutions and organizations. A diagnostic survey–study was conducted in 2018, applying a survey questionnaire with a sample of 81 self-employed agritourism farm owners. Ward’s hierarchical clustering method was applied to group the counties in terms of innovativeness. For this purpose, the data provided by the central statistics authority (GUS) and the authors’ own survey study were used. The study confirms, e.g., the key significance of innovation for the development of agritourism in the counties analyzed. Additionally, in the article there is developed an original farm’s competitive positioning index and gaining a competitive advantage on the agritourism services market, with three farms in Germany, France and Poland, respectively as an example.

scholarly journals The Impact of Indoor Malodor: Historical Perspective, Modern Challenges, Negative Effects, and Approaches for Mitigation

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Dalton ◽  
Claeson ◽  
Horenziak
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Air ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Subjective Responses ◽  
Behavioral Systems ◽  
The Impact

Malodors, odors perceived to be unpleasant or offensive, may elicit negative symptoms via the olfactory system’s connections to cognitive and behavioral systems at levels below the known thresholds for direct adverse events. Publications on harm caused by indoor malodor are fragmented across disciplines and have not been comprehensively summarized to date. This review examines the potential negative effects of indoor malodor on human behavior, performance and health, including individual factors that may govern such responses and identifies gaps in existing research. Reported findings show that indoor malodor may have negative psychological, physical, social, and economic effects. However, further research is needed to understand whether the adverse effects are elicited via an individual’s experience or expectations or through a direct effect on human physiology and well-being. Conversely, mitigating indoor malodor has been reported to have benefits on performance and subjective responses in workers. Eliminating the source of malodor is often not achievable, particularly in low-income communities. Therefore, affordable approaches to mitigate indoor malodor such as air fresheners may hold promise. However, further investigations are needed into the effectiveness of such measures on improving health outcomes such as cognition, mood, and stress levels and their overall impact on indoor air quality.

Wasta, the Impact of Preferment on Organizational Culture and Human Resource Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kassab Sfeir
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Culture Model ◽  
Employee Relationships ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
The Impact

Organizations must continuously monitor their processes. They should make significant changes to retain talent and improve productivity. One way to recognize the need to achieve change is through improving their organizational culture. This article details the investigation of a phenomenon of organizational culture in the Middle East. Wasta is a Middle Eastern system of preferment operating in many institutions in the region affecting employee engagement, advancement, and influence within an organization. Interviews, observations and social network analysis were employed to investigate the degree to which this phenomenon occurs in four universities in Lebanon and its negative effects on employee relationships. The data was input into NVivo to obtain statistical information to support the hypothesis of wasta's negative role. The research process culminated in the development of the wasta organizational culture model (WOC), highlights the impact of wasta on employee relationships supporting further research and collaborative initiatives to improve HR practices in the Middle East.

scholarly journals Business Strategy during Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-272
Author(s):  
Hezi Shayb ◽  
Radu Muşetescu
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Sense Experience ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Business Crisis

AbstractDrawing from a body of strategic management literature, we explore the approaches proposed by theory and available to business decision makers during crisis. We argue that there is no real theory of success of management during crisis but only broad principles that should be followed. In a certain sense, experience and intuition – what could be called soft skills – are as important as hardcore economics. Moreover, the metrics of measuring crisis and the impact of decisions during such circumstances are to be further explored and divided in a comprehensive taxonomy. Despite its popular use, crisis management is at the start of its development. The authors advance both an approach as well as a tool for supporting decisions during business crisis.

scholarly journals Coeducation in Higher Education of Afghanistan: Students’ Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayeed Naqibullah Orfan ◽  
Ebtisam Niazi
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Academic Confidence ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Gender Biases ◽  
The Impact

The study investigated Afghan undergraduate students’ perceptions of positive and negative effects of coeducation. It also examined the impact of students’ gender and ethnicity on their perceptions. A survey questionnaire was used to collect data from 230 randomly selected students from Takhar University. The authors utilized descriptive and inferential statistics to analyze the data. The results showed that students had positive attitudes towards coeducation. They believed that coeducation had both personal and social effects such as improving students’ academic confidence, communication skills, preparing them for real life, promoting gender equality and reducing gender biases and stereotypes. However, less than half of students believed that coeducation had negative effects, e.g., distracting students and male students’ domination of class activities. Moreover, the findings revealed that students’ gender had a significant impact on their responses; female students’ attitude towards coeducation was stronger than that of male students. However, students’ ethnicity did not significantly impact their responses.

scholarly journals Labor force shortage analysis in Romania - size, impact and measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-295
Author(s):  
Valentina Vasile ◽  
Cristina Rodica Boboc ◽  
Simona Ioana Ghiţă ◽  
Irina Băncescu ◽  
Andreea Simona Săseanu
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Under the impact of unfavourable demographic developments, some existing imbalances on the Romanian labor market have worsened. Thus, in 2019 the labor force shortage was estimated to 300000 persons, while in the last ten years the number of vacancies has exceeded 60,000 places, more than double the level at the beginning of the period (2010). This phenomenon may have negative social and economic effects. In this context, the present paper aims at analysing the labor shortages in Romania, at identifying its main determinants and the most important social and economic consequences and recommends a series of measures to mitigate the negative effects of this phenomenon.

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