The Influence of Servicescape, Brand Experience and Social Media Marketing on Purchase Decisions through Brand Image as Variables Intervening in the Filosofi Kopi Medan

This study aims to determine the effect of servicescape, brand experience and social media marketing on purchasing decisions through brand image as an intervening variable in the Filosofi Kopi Medan. The type of research in this study is associative research, namely research that connects two or more variables using quantitative descriptive with the number of samples taken in this study as many as 150 people as respondents who are consumers who have visited the Filosofi Kopi Medan and the data analysis techniques used to test the hypothesis in this study is descriptive analysis and analysis using SEM-lisrel. The results of this study on testing the direct effect show that the variable Servicescape influence on Brand Image is concluded to have no significant effect, the Brand Experience variable on Brand Image has a positive effect, Social Media Marketing has a positive and significant effect on Brand Image, Brand Image variable on Purchase Decision has a positive and positive effect. significant, Servicescape variable on Purchase Decision has no significant effect, Social Media Marketing variable on Purchase Decision has a positive and significant effect, Brand Experience variable on Purchasing Decision has a positive and significant effect, while the results of the indirect effect test show that, Brand Experience variable, through Brand Image on consumer purchasing decisions has an indirect effect, Servicescape variable through Brand Image on consumer purchasing decisions does not have an indirect influence, Social Media Marketing variables through Brand Image on consumer purchasing decisions do not have an indirect influence. For more details have been presented in this study. Keywords: Servicescape, Brand Experience, Social Media Marketing, Brand Image, Consumer Decisions, Marketing Management.

Foreign ownership and centralized collective bargaining: Direct and indirect influences

Using firm-level data from Germany, this study examines the link between foreign ownership and the coverage by centralized (multi-employer) bargaining agreements. Conforming to theoretical considerations, the empirical analysis shows that it is important to distinguish between a direct and an indirect influence of foreign ownership on centralized collective bargaining. The direct influence of foreign ownership lowers the probability that a firm is covered by a centralized agreement. The indirect influence works through the unionization of the workforce. If the size of the firm does not exceed a critical level, the indirect influence counteracts the direct influence. Foreign ownership leads to a higher share of union members which, in turn, has a positive influence on the coverage by a centralized agreement. However, in very large firms the indirect influence appears to be negative. Foreign ownership is associated with a lower share of union members.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JOB INVOLVEMENT, ANDEMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN INCREASING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Employee job involvement is critical in an organization, especially when it comes to increasing organizational effectiveness and improving organizational performance. Similarly, employee engagement involves a sense of emotional involvement from within the employee, which ultimately increases the organizations effectiveness. The objective of the research is to obtain information about the influence of job involvement and employee engagement on organizational effectiveness. In this study, the researcher attempt to study how this job involvement influences organizational effectiveness, how employee engagement influences organizational effectiveness, and how this job Involvement has indirect influence is mediated by employee engagement. The research was conducted on all employees of the Human Resource Development Agency of Indonesias Tourism Ministry of Indonesia by using a survey method with path analysis applied in testing the hypothesis. The number 86 employees as the sample was selected by using the Slovin formula. From the results structural equation modeling the researcher finds a significant influence of job involvement on organizational effectiveness, and significant influence of employee engagement on organizational effectiveness, and also the indirect influence of job Involvement on organizational effectiveness mediated by employee engagement of the employee of Human Resource Development Agency of Indonesias Tourism Ministry of Indonesia.

Coping strategy and substance use disorders: The mediating role of drug hazard knowledge

Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is a social phenomenon that has plagued communities, including adolescents. Coping strategy and drug hazard knowledge are seen as important factors in curbing drug use amongst young people. This study aims to identify the indirect influence of coping strategy through drug hazard knowledge as a mediator in substance use disorders. The research employed a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional design, with a sample of 381 adolescents, 313 males and 68 females, selected using a simple random sampling technique. The research instruments comprised the Drugs Abuse Screening Test-28, a coping scale, and drug hazard knowledge scale. AMOS 20.0 for Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used for the analysis. The results show no significant indirect influence of coping strategy through drug hazard knowledge as a mediator in substance use disorder among adolescents. This indicates that drug hazard knowledge has no significant influence on substance use disorders.

THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATION COMMITMENT AND COMPENSATION ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE MEDIATED BY ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR (OCB)

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to describe and explain the influence between variables of Organizational Commitment, Compensation, Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), and Employee Performance.Methods: This study includes quantitative and descriptive research. The sample in the study amounted to 50 employees taken using a saturated sampling technique. The data obtained are analyzed using path analysis.Results: The results of this study prove that there is a direct significant influence of organizational commitment and compensation on employee performance. In addition, the results of this study also prove that there is no indirect influence of organizational commitment on employee performance mediated by OCB and there is an indirect influence of compensation on employee performance mediated by OCB.Conclusion and suggestion: The company should focus more on increasing the direct influence of organizational commitment on employee performance.

Keeping Men on Track: The Management of Single Male Employees by the New Zealand Government Railways Department 1923-1940

<p>The New Zealand Government Railways Department undertook a wide range of reforms in the 1920s as a result of concerns about the threat of road competition and the longevity of New Zealand’s railway infrastructure. Some of these reforms were structural and financial, but many were motivated by desires to create a more efficient, modern and useful workforce. Unmarried men made up a third of the NZGRD’s workforce in 1927 and this thesis is an investigation of how the management of the NZGRD attempted to mould them. By investigating and analysing the ways in which the New Zealand Railways Department communicated with its workforce, this study will address how the New Zealand Government Railways Department used soft power to affect its worker’s lives. From the designs of railway houses through the range of publications given to employees the New Zealand Railway Department had indirect influence on almost every aspect of the lives of their employees, from their physical existence to what art and literature they were exposed to.</p>

Keeping Men on Track: The Management of Single Male Employees by the New Zealand Government Railways Department 1923-1940

<p>The New Zealand Government Railways Department undertook a wide range of reforms in the 1920s as a result of concerns about the threat of road competition and the longevity of New Zealand’s railway infrastructure. Some of these reforms were structural and financial, but many were motivated by desires to create a more efficient, modern and useful workforce. Unmarried men made up a third of the NZGRD’s workforce in 1927 and this thesis is an investigation of how the management of the NZGRD attempted to mould them. By investigating and analysing the ways in which the New Zealand Railways Department communicated with its workforce, this study will address how the New Zealand Government Railways Department used soft power to affect its worker’s lives. From the designs of railway houses through the range of publications given to employees the New Zealand Railway Department had indirect influence on almost every aspect of the lives of their employees, from their physical existence to what art and literature they were exposed to.</p>

Influence of Beauty Service Workers' Psychological Capital on Their Creative Behavior According to Empowerment and Shared Leadership

This study looks into the influence of psychological capital of beauty service industry workers on their creative behavior and aims to empirically investigate causal relationships between variables by identifying the influence of empowerment and shared leadership, which are the mediator variables. For this purpose, convenient sampling was conducted on beauty service industry workers, and 711 was chosen as the final sample. The sampled data were analyzed using SPSS 24.0 and AMOS 23.0 programs. As a result, psychological capital was confirmed to have influence over empowerment with no direct influence on shared leadership and creative behavior but indirect influence mediated by empowerment on them. It was further confirmed that psychological capital has indirect influence mediated by empowerment and shared leadership. On the other hand, empowerment was found to have an influence on shared leadership and creative behavior, with also shared leadership having a significant influence on creative behavior.

Professionalization of The Principal’s Role

The aim of this work is to point out the importance of the professionalization of the principal’s role in education institutions, with an accent on preschool institutions. The sample included principals (N=57) of preschool institutions in Central Croatia. The goal was to test the mediation relationship through SEM and examine the direct influence of interpersonal relationships within the preschool institution on the development of its work quality; furthermore, to test the indirect influence of these relationships by introducing the mediation variable of professional competence. The structured modelling in the AMOS was applied for testing the direct and indirect influence. The contribution of interpersonal relationships on the work quality is high and statistically significant (β=0,920), which confirms the direct influence. For testing the mediation effects, a bootstrapping method was designed that confirmed the indirect influence of interpersonal relationships on the work quality with the statistically significant serial mediator of professional competence (p= 0,016), thereby confirming partial mediation. This research determined that positive interpersonal relations, mediated by the principal’s professional competence, have a positive effect on the work quality of a preschool institution. In order for preschool institutions to reach the desired quality, it is necessary for them to be managed by professionally empowered and expert principals who promote prime cooperative relationships as the starting point in developing a high-quality institution. The results of this research contribute to a clearer perception and understanding of the professionalization of the principal’s role through key areas of his/her work and activity, and the possibility of their practical implementation into education institutions.