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Onboarding for success: Exploring the effects of socialization tactics on newcomer well-being
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This study aimed to examine how the organizational socialization process affects newcomers’ work engagement and well-being. It employed relational cohesion theory and social exchange theory to argue that relational factors, specifically perceived organizational support and on-the-job embeddedness, would act as mechanisms linking the organizational socialization process to key affective outcomes
Design/methodology/approach
A two-wave study in the chemical industry was conducted. Data was collected during and after the onboarding process with 72 newcomers who joined the organization between January and April of 2023 and completed the organizational onboarding program.
Findings
The results demonstrated that both perceived organizational support and on-the-job-embeddedness mediated the indirect relationship between socialization tactics used in the onboarding program and work engagement. Further, the findings also demonstrated that work engagement was a mediator in the relationship between perceived organizational support and on-the-job-embeddedness and newcomers’ well-being. Lastly, socialization tactics influenced newcomers’ well-being through a serial effect of perceived organizational support and work engagement and on-the-job embeddedness and work engagement.
Originality/value
This research highlights the critical role of carefully selected socialization tactics in organizations. By choosing the right approaches, organizations can not only meet their objectives but also gain from the active participation and commitment of their new employees. This, in turn, leads to a significant increase in overall employee well-being.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
Barriers and policies affecting the implementation of sustainable tourism: the Portuguese experience
Full text linkThis paper identifies and ranks the factors that hinder the implementation of sustainable tourism in a developing destination. It uses a Delphi method combined with Q-Sort technique with three rounds of ranking by experts and analyzes the results with the Kendall’s W test. It finds that the experts agreed on the most and least important factors, such as the lack of long-term vision, the lack of clear definitions, the lack of integration into government policy, the excessive bureaucracy and the economic priority versus environmental priority. It also finds that the experts disagreed on the other factors, showing a variation in opinions. It compares the results with the literature and confirms the importance of long-term vision, government integration, bureaucratic reduction and clarity in policies for sustainable tourism. The experts became more aware over the rounds, indicating progress in addressing the barriers. It concludes by presenting some policy-making guidelines for a tourism destination manager.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Naturalizar, reconectar, reimaginar: Los ríos urbanos como espacios de transformación urbana
No full textAo longo da história, os rios foram elementos estruturantes dos assentamentos humanos, mas muitos têm sido progressivamente marginalizados pela urbanização contemporânea, reduzidos a infraestruturas técnicas invisíveis às políticas públicas e dissociadas da vida quotidiana. Este afastamento reflete modelos de governação setoriais e pouco participativos, que não reconhecem os rios enquanto sistemas ecológicos, sociais, espaciais e políticos integrados
Qualitative evaluation of innovation ecosystems: Example Portugal
No full textThe design of efficient and effective innovation ecosystems is crucial to every society, particularly
for addressing structural change through innovation. We developed a methodology to map the
established research and innovation landscape based on responses to a qualitative questionnaire
and interviews. The dimensions for assessing entities that undertake knowledge creation and
technology transfer are Scientific Merit, Economic and Social Impact, and Compliance. This
approach complements the conventional methodology, based on quantitative key performance
indicators, also used (Wehrspohn et al, 2025). We successfully tested our methodology in the
Portuguese Research & Development (R&D) system.publicad
Environmental frames: Exploring culture in Socio-Ecological Systems (SES)
No full textUsing a critical case from the Global North (i.e., a Danish private-equity firm, committed to the utmost environmental protection activities) one emulated a stress test upon a highly homogenous sample-group from the Global South to comprehend if in a seven-hour timespan one would be able to influence a behavioral framework. Through the fashioning of a 7-hour length virtual seminar, the participants on the event were challenged in their cultural DNA with a content on Environmental and Sustainable Development and a rhetoric of Environmental Activism, covering carbon-rescuing, natural habitat’s reconstruction and paths to zero carbon footprints. Our starting point was the general focus research question (GFRQ): Will one be able to influence an environmental frame, rooted in deep cultural assumptions?
Confronting two diametrically opposing national cultures (Denmark and Nepal) and agencies (i.e., the speaker’s activism versus the participant’s passive listening), one aimed to comprehend the resilience of the latter, Nepalese (NP) individual to outer influences from dissimilar national and corporate cultures. Then one measured the impact of the event on individual’s opinions, centered on the environmental pillar of the sustainable development goals (SDGs): SDG6; SDG7; SDG11; SDG13; SDG14 and SDG15.
The socio-ecological system (SES) of the focal country revealed a close-fit to a logic of dual paradigm (openness and resistance) found at the microsphere of environmental frames, with openness being neat-tied to manmade dimensions. The results from the enquiry were validated against three (3) streams of supplementary data: the 6-D model of Geert Hofstede (GH), plus the 7-D model of Fon Trompenaars (FT); and the six SDG indexes, aforementioned, and finally confirmed using the index of nature connectedness (IoNC) with results revealing unequivocally a wider perceptive framework, with an accentuated criticism on own’s nation environmental frame, and particularly on four dimensions that are more susceptible to determine urban-living public policy and investment; and on the other hand, highly resilient on other two dimensions related to nature and wild life.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Mind the gap: Perceived economic inequality and the well-being gap around the globe
No full textThe link between economic inequality and individual well-being has been gaining increasing research attention. This study examines this relationship using data from 71 countries with diverse national incomes, addressing three key research gaps: (1) incorporating measures of both perceived and objective economic inequality, (2) extending analysis to multiple components of well-being beyond happiness, including meaning in life, harmony, and spirituality, and (3) assessing levels of both current and ideal well-being. Findings reveal that perceived economic inequality predicts personal well-being more strongly than objective inequality. In addition, perceived inequality is associated with a wider gap between current and ideal levels of happiness, meaning, harmony, and spirituality, although national income moderates the effects of meaning, harmony, and spirituality. We discuss the implications of these results, highlighting the need for more culturally sensitive studies on perceived economic inequality and well-being.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
Indicadores Culturais: Teatro em Portugal
No full textO Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) recolhe e publica desde 1950 informação sobre sessões e espetadores de teatro em Portugal. Neste texto toma-se como referência a série temporal 1950 a 2024. Esta série histórica permite uma aproximação à evolução anual da oferta (sessões), da procura (espetadores) e das receitas da atividade teatral no país num período longo
Musical expertise and cognitive abilities: No advantage for professionals over amateurs
No full textCognitive advantages in musicians are often attributed to far transfer from music training. If this causal interpretation is correct, greater musical expertise should generally predict larger cognitive gains. To test this prediction, we reanalysed data from the Music Ensemble project—a large-scale initiative including 33 laboratories across 15 countries. We compared 608 nonmusicians, 289 amateur musicians, and 352 professional musicians on measures of musical ability, cognition, and personality, controlling for demographic differences. As expected, musical abilities increased with expertise: professionals outperformed amateurs, who outperformed nonmusicians. Cognitive performance, however, showed a different pattern. Only short-term memory (STM) for melodies increased monotonically with expertise. Verbal STM was similar across groups. Other domains revealed nonlinear associations: both musician groups outperformed nonmusicians in visuospatial STM, vocabulary, and executive functions, but professionals did not exceed amateurs in any domain and even performed worse in nonverbal reasoning. Personality also differed: professionals scored higher on open-mindedness than both other groups, but lower on agreeableness than amateurs. Thus, despite superior musical abilities and distinctive personalities, professional musicians showed no cognitive advantage over amateurs. This dissociation questions the assumption that musicians’ cognitive differences stem from training and points to alternative explanations such as selection effects.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
How does vulnerability framing by microfinance institutions leverage funding success in crowdfunding?
No full textThis study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability-oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre-campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding. Using a unique dataset of 334,852 microloans issued by 140 MFIs across 59 countries on the Kiva platform, we distinguish between MFIs exclusively listed on Kiva and those also featured on Mix Market. Our findings reveal a pronounced funding bias among MFIs that do not emphasise vulnerability in their framing. In contrast, MFIs that adopt a prognostic vulnerability frame tend to reverse this bias—particularly those solely reliant on Kiva. While both types of MFIs demonstrate some capacity to mitigate funding inequality, the effect is significantly more pronounced among those exclusively listed on Kiva. Our results also point to a potential mission drift, possibly incentivised by Kiva's vulnerability badge system, which may reward financial stability over genuine outreach to vulnerable borrowers. Overall, the findings underscore the central role of institutional framing in shaping MFIs' funding strategies and access to capital for marginalised entrepreneurs in the pre-campaign phase.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Early childhood education settings are also organizations: Indirect associations between transformational leadership and children’s autonomy support through teachers’ self-efficacy and work engagement
No full textEarly Childhood Education (ECE) teachers play an essential role in delivering high-quality education, yet they often struggle with diverse job demands and lack of job and personal resources to help them manage those demands. To understand the needs of ECE teachers, it is important to study personal and professional factors that support them. Based on the Job Demands-Resources Model, this study aimed to examine the indirect association between ECE transformational leadership and children’s autonomy support through ECE teachers’ self-efficacy and work engagement. Data were collected from 381 ECE teachers (373 women), aged between 23 and 65 years (M = 47.5, SD = 10.3). Participants responded online to a sociodemographic questionnaire and self-report measures. Despite the small effect sizes, the results revealed that teachers’ self-efficacy and work engagement were independently involved in the indirect associations between ECE transformational leadership and children’s autonomy support by ECE teachers, whereas their combined sequential contribution was less evident. These findings help understand the needs of ECE teachers and identify organizational features (e.g., leadership) that can be improved to support ECE teachers’ self-efficacy and work engagement, ultimately fostering higher-quality education.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio