The paper examines African immigrant parents' views on dental decay and whether such views affect their decision to obtain dental insurance for their children. The paper also…
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Purpose
The paper examines African immigrant parents' views on dental decay and whether such views affect their decision to obtain dental insurance for their children. The paper also examines the cultural underpinnings of the immigrants' oral health care practices.
Design/methodology/approach
The data for the study were collected in the states of Indiana and Virginia. The data were collected in 2005 by the author and a research assistant. A total of 420 parents (220 males and 200 females) took part in the research, answering questions about 601 children.
Findings
The results indicate that a sizeable number of African immigrant school‐aged children are denied dental health due to a combination of cultural perceptions on dental health (such as families taking responsibility for cleaning their teeth themselves), parental ignorance on dental health, parents' perception of dental health practice in the USA, and the parents' weak financial standing.
Originality/value
The study is of considerable importance to dental care providers, public health specialists, social workers, and more especially the school systems that have African immigrant children, because as people who provide information and guidance to such immigrants, knowing about how the immigrants' cultural backgrounds influence their decisions about dental care will help to serve the immigrants more effectively.
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Raphael Papa Kweku Andoh, Nester Kumiwaa Owusu, Cecilia Hayford, Linda Obeng Ansong and Abraham Ansong
The purpose of this study was to investigate the implications of green knowledge sharing (GKS), organizational green culture (OGC) and green training and development (GTD) for…
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Purpose
The purpose of this study was to investigate the implications of green knowledge sharing (GKS), organizational green culture (OGC) and green training and development (GTD) for organizational environmental citizenship behavior (OECB) in the hotel sector in Ghana.
Design/methodology/approach
Using self-administered survey procedures, 415 operational-level employees in hotel facilities provided the data and was analyzed through partial least square structural equation modeling. Bootstrapping was conducted using 10,000 subsamples and Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) performed.
Findings
It was established that GKS influences both OECB and OGC. OGC also influenced OECB and played a mediating role in the influence of GKS on OECB. Similarly, GTD played a positive moderating role in the link GKS has on OECB. Finally, it was revealed via IPMA that OECB’s most important antecedent is GKS.
Practical implications
Due to the roles of GKS and GTD in promoting OGC and OECB, organizations should motivate their employees to share green knowledge and also invest more in GTD. Gamification and sponsoring employees to attend GTD programs are examples of actions to be taken in this regard.
Originality/value
This study explores antecedents of OECB which is overlooked in the literature in general and specifically, hospitality industry-focused green studies. Using IPMA, it also determines the most important antecedent of OECB which most studies focused on the hospitality industry do not go further to do.
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Abraham Ansong, Raphael Papa Kweku Andoh, Linda Obeng Ansong, Cecilia Hayford and Nester Kumiwaa Owusu
The purpose of this study was to investigate the implications of green knowledge sharing, green empowerment and participation and green values toward hotel employees’ green…
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Purpose
The purpose of this study was to investigate the implications of green knowledge sharing, green empowerment and participation and green values toward hotel employees’ green creativity.
Design/methodology/approach
Data was gathered from operational level employees of hospitality facilities Ghana. Through the partial least square structural equation modeling, bias-corrected and accelerated (BCa) confidence intervals obtained from 10,000 bootstrap subsamples were used to determine the significance of the hypothesized paths. This was preceded by examining the quality of the measurement and structural models.
Findings
It was established that green knowledge sharing is a positive predictor of green empowerment and participation. Green empowerment and participation also positively predicted employee green behavior and also partially mediated the link between green knowledge sharing and employee green behavior. Green values also positively moderated the connection green knowledge sharing has with employee green behavior.
Practical implications
To enhance the green creativity of their employees so that the sustainability objectives are attained, general managers in hotels should institute strategies that promote green knowledge sharing among their employees, ensure the green empowerment and participation of their employees and inculcate green values in their employees.
Originality/value
This study expands the hotel greening literature by establishing the mediating and moderating processes for employee green creativity which is underrepresented in the literature. Besides, it extends the social learning theory in a green context.
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The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the kinds of injuries that preschool teachers working in Indiana, USA, believed to be the most common in their preschool (3‐6 year…
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Purpose
The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the kinds of injuries that preschool teachers working in Indiana, USA, believed to be the most common in their preschool (3‐6 year olds) classrooms, the causes of such injuries, and the most important precautions they take to prevent them. Also examined are the measures the teachers take when an injury occurs.
Design/methodology/approach
A total of 155 preschool teachers take part in the research by completing a questionnaire. The data are analyzed using basic descriptive statistics.
Findings
On the question of what constituted the most important classroom injury prevention measure, 26 percent of the respondents report “close supervision of children”, 24 percent select “ensuring classroom safety”, 23 percent pick “cautioning children”, 17 percent choose “setting and enforcing rules” in the classroom, 7 percent select “modeling for social behavior” and 3 percent “safe gross motor activities”. With respect to action taken when an injured occurs, 36.1 percent of the respondents report “first aid”, 15.5 percent “comforting children”, 11.6 percent “referring children to school nurse” and “writing injury report”, 10.3 percent “cautioning against running and pushing”, 8.4 percent “explaining injury to children” (8.4 percent) and 6.5 percent “checking the nature of injury”.
Originality/value
This study sheds light on injury causation in preschool classrooms as well as management of such injuries. Results from this data can be used in helping to improve preschool teachers' knowledge of injury in general and of classroom injury in particular.