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Publication date: 11 September 2017

Benjamin K. Seltzer, Deniz S. Ones and Arkun Tatar

The relationships between the Big Five personality traits and life and job satisfaction have been examined extensively. Despite this attention, however, most existing theories…

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Purpose

The relationships between the Big Five personality traits and life and job satisfaction have been examined extensively. Despite this attention, however, most existing theories focus on a few global dimensions of the Big Five while relying primarily upon a selection of theoretically relevant but unmeasured facets to illuminate their factor-level explanations. The purpose of this paper is to examine personality–satisfaction relationships for job and life domains at the facet level to better identify and explain why certain global Big Five traits consistently relate to satisfaction, taking both factors and facets into account.

Design/methodology/approach

Data from over 20 specific occupational samples were pooled meta-analytically to examine personality facet of job/life satisfaction relationships and their generalizability. Bifactor latent variable modeling using meta-analytic input was used to examine independent contributions of general and unique personality facets.

Findings

The dominance facet of extraversion, low self-esteem facet of neuroticism, and responsibility facet of conscientiousness were most closely related to satisfaction variables. There were independent contributions of general and unique facet level personality–satisfaction relations for the neuroticism and conscientiousness domains, but not for the extraversion domain.

Research limitations/implications

Findings contribute to the literature on the bandwidth–fidelity dilemma in measuring personality and theories involving personality at work.

Originality/value

This study established the generalizability of Big Five traits–satisfaction relations and identified the empirically supported personality paths to understanding job and life satisfaction. This study also demonstrated how meta-analysis can be combined with bifactor models to understand substantive relations.

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Career Development International, vol. 22 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1362-0436

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Career Development International, vol. 22 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1362-0436

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Publication date: 4 November 2013

Brenton M. Wiernik, Deniz S. Ones and Stephan Dilchert

Research has shown that individuals of different ages hold different environmental attitudes and perform environmental behaviors of different kinds and to varying degrees. The…

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Research has shown that individuals of different ages hold different environmental attitudes and perform environmental behaviors of different kinds and to varying degrees. The strength and direction of age-effects observed across studies has been inconsistent, however. This study aims to examine the relationship between age and a variety of environmental sustainability-related psychological variables using meta-analytic techniques.

Design/methodology/approach

Relationships between age and environmental concern, environmental values, attitudes toward environmental behaviors, environmental awareness, environmental knowledge, environmental motives, environmental intentions, and pro-environmental behaviors were examined. Data from relevant studies between 1970 and 2010 were meta-analyzed to determine the magnitudes of relationships between age and environmental variables, and to investigate whether effects generalize across studies.

Findings

Most relationships were negligibly small. Small but generalizable relationships indicated that older individuals appear to be more likely to engage with nature, avoid environmental harm, and conserve raw materials and natural resources.

Originality/value

Stereotypes about age-differences in environmental sustainability are commonly held in organizations. If work and organizational psychologists are to encourage and help individuals to be more environmentally responsible at work, understanding how age affects these efforts is imperative. By meta-analytically estimating age-differences in environmental sustainability variables, the present study helps to dispel erroneous stereotypes and guide organizations to implement effective environmental interventions.

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Journal of Managerial Psychology, vol. 28 no. 7/8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0268-3946

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Publication date: 3 April 2018

Qaisar Iqbal, Siti Hasnah Hassan, Sohail Akhtar and Shahid Khan

The purpose of this paper is to find out the relationship between employee’s green behaviors (EGBs) and environmental sustainability (ES). Presently, many ES issues have impact on…

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The purpose of this paper is to find out the relationship between employee’s green behaviors (EGBs) and environmental sustainability (ES). Presently, many ES issues have impact on organizations, e.g., energy cost and climate change. In business world, there is a positive trend among organizations to start reporting over performance of ES keeping their role as corporate social responsibility alive.

Design/methodology/approach

Self-administered questionnaires were floated to gather data from employees of manufacturing and service industry. In order to analyze the collected data, regression analysis and correlation coefficient were employed to check hypotheses. Statistical Package of Social Sciences has been used for data analysis.

Findings

Results reveal that there is a direct positive relationship between EGB and environment sustainability. The five dimensions of EGB, i.e., working sustainability, conserving, avoiding harm, influencing others and taking initiative also have significant association with ES. ES carries with itself sensational openings for the HRM role and with the opportunity originates responsibility.

Practical implications

This study emphasizes the revised planning of training and development programs to create awareness among employees and strategies to improve ES and corporate social responsible level of organizations in competitive world.

Originality/value

This research carries a new horizon to explore the association of EGBs with ES in banking sector. The study presents first-ever empirical evidence about the relationship between ES and EGBs from developing countries.

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World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, vol. 15 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2042-5945

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Publication date: 8 February 2016

I.M. Jawahar

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Career Development International, vol. 21 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1362-0436

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Publication date: 13 February 2017

I.M. “Jim” Jawahar

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Career Development International, vol. 22 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1362-0436

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Publication date: 19 September 2012

Şeyda Deniz Tarım and Amy Kyratzis

Purpose – Disputes provide a way for children to negotiate how they stand in relationship to one another in the local peer group interaction (Goodwin, 1990, 2006). This study…

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Purpose – Disputes provide a way for children to negotiate how they stand in relationship to one another in the local peer group interaction (Goodwin, 1990, 2006). This study follows the everyday peer disputes and classroom negotiations of a peer group of 8-year-old to 12-year-old Turkish–English speaking (and Meskhetian Turkish–English–Russian speaking) children attending a Turkish Saturday School in the United States, where a monolingual Turkish norm is projected by the teachers, to see how these institutional language norms are used as a resource for the peers to conduct their everyday interactions.

Methodology/approach – This study combines methods of ethnography (data are drawn from a year-long ethnography which followed children's everyday language practices in two school settings) and talk-in-interaction, specifically Membership Categorization Analysis (Sacks, 1972, 1992).

Findings – Children draw upon the monolingual school norm of using Turkish only, and speaking Turkish correctly, by way of positioning themselves moment-to-moment during disputes with one another. Through repeated appeals to their teachers to relax the Turkish-only rule, they also collaboratively index “speaking English” as a positive category-bound activity (Cekaite & Evaldsson, 2008; Evaldsson, 2007), influencing the local moral order of the peer group.

Social implications/originality/value of chapter – The study provides a view of how children living in a transnational society orient to wider societal structures and “build the phenomenal and social worlds they inhabit” (Goodwin & Kyratzis, 2012) as part of their everyday disputes and negotiations with one another.

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Disputes in Everyday Life: Social and Moral Orders of Children and Young People
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78052-877-9

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Publication date: 4 November 2020

Rim Ghezal and Romdhane Khemakhem

This study aims to develop a conceptual model to examine the impact of four organizational factors (expatriate managers, stakeholder engagement, corporate social mission and…

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This study aims to develop a conceptual model to examine the impact of four organizational factors (expatriate managers, stakeholder engagement, corporate social mission and demand management) on the social response activities and their subsequent effect on corporate social performance among subsidiaries of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Tunisia, characterized as a small African economy.

Design/methodology/approach

This study uses data collected from 115 subsidiaries established in an African country – Tunisia. It also applies a partial least square regression to test the hypotheses proposed in a comprehensive framework.

Findings

This study reveals that each of these factors, with the exception of expatriate managers, is found to positively influence the adoption of social response activities by MNE’s subsidiaries. In addition, involvement in such activities is also important in enhancing social performance concerning employees and customers.

Originality/value

Despite years of encouragement from scholars and theorists, studies across Africa have generally shown no interest in corporate social response as a strategic process that safeguards the well-being of host society. This paper proposes a comprehensive model for identifying the antecedents and one consequence of corporate social response activities of MNE’s subsidiaries. Stakeholder theory is used as a theoretical lens to develop a corporate social response framework.

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Review of International Business and Strategy, vol. 31 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2059-6014

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Publication date: 1 February 1995

Deniz Erden

Explores the relationship between the firm characteristics and the control mechanisms in 85 multinational manufacturing companies operating in Turkey. Takes size, age and country…

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Explores the relationship between the firm characteristics and the control mechanisms in 85 multinational manufacturing companies operating in Turkey. Takes size, age and country of origin as firm characteristics. Control mechanisms include ownership, board of directors, top management team and training. Size is more strongly associated with control mechanisms than age or country of origin. MNCs have majority ownership in nearly 70 per cent of the firms. Size is inversely related to ownership. Large MNCs have training programmes when small ones do not. Ownership significantly influences the composition of board of directors. The level of perceived control is related to the amount of ownership.

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Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, vol. 2 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1352-7606

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Publication date: 15 June 2021

Deniz Zargari Afshar and Payam Alemi

At first, the organic/inorganic and hybrid PV materials by their electrical model are described. Then the proposed converter topology, circuit analysis and various operating modes…

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At first, the organic/inorganic and hybrid PV materials by their electrical model are described. Then the proposed converter topology, circuit analysis and various operating modes of converter according to on/off timing of switches are investigated. The current and voltage in the converter components are illustrated and the voltage gain and switching stress of proposed converter are presented. Finally, to show the effectiveness of the proposed converter, the power loss analysis is provided and the simulation is done in PSIM software. In the last section, the advantages of the proposed topology of higher efficiency by lower number of components in compare with other conventional topologies are presented.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, an improved topology of DC-DC converter based on VL technique is proposed for Perovskite Solar cells (PeSCs). The PeSCs attracted a lot of interest due to their potential in combining the advantages of both organic and inorganic components. The proposed converter by using fewer components and higher output voltage generation in compare with conventional ones could be a good candidate for PeSCs due to lower efficiency of this cells. The performance of converter is expressed in continuous conduction mode (CCM) and discontinuous conduction mode (DCM), and the boundary conditions for the proposed converter is presented.

Findings

By using VL technique, this converter is used to boost the lower output voltage levels of PeSCs for grid connection. The PV cell output voltage is increased from 24.5 V to 106 V by proposed converter topology. The step-by-step voltage increasing by charging and discharging of inductor and capacitor is used for boosting the input voltage. By comparing other converters, there is no design complexity in the proposed converter structure, and the power loss is much reduced which increases the converter efficiency. On the other hand, due to using lower number of elements of energy storage elements such as inductors and capacitors, the converter cost is also diminished. Therefore, the design topology simplicity which result simple control algorithm and lower number of components which diminish the system cost by appropriate voltage boosting capability are the main advantages of this proposed topology for new PeSCs which don’t have enough efficiency in compare with old Si PV cells.

Originality/value

In this paper, by using the lower number of components a new structure of DC-DC converter based on the VL technique is proposed. The advantages of this converter such as the simplicity, easier control and high voltage gain by lower power loss, could make this converter a good candidate for new PeSCs where the system whole efficiency will be a critical point to have the unique properties of this new materials in lower loss.

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Circuit World, vol. 48 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-6120

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