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EMPIRICAL STUDY: LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZATION CULTURE, EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT ADOPTION: Received: 10th May 2023; Revised: 26th September 2023, 25th October 2023; Accepted: 01st November 2023
No full textContinuous Improvements (CI) is well-known for its significance in driving and facilitating process and products improvements in organizations. For decades, large organizations used CI to improve and streamline process and workforce. CI thinking and adoption is critical for IT functions to improve aspects such as innovation, team productivity, service reliability, and cost optimization. The role of organization culture, leadership, employee engagement become key for adoption of CI to ensure stability, scalability, and sustainability to business functions through right tools, technologies, and services. There is need for research on the influence of trio on adoption of CI in the context of IT. The trio are interrelated components that play a crucial role in the success and sustainability of any organization. The aim of this study is to evaluate these three factors, its influence on adoption of CI by IT function using a quantitative approach. This study engages IT stakeholders from ITES, global companies which have their global IT development centres in India to ascertain their views. The finding of the study shows organization culture has a strong influence on adoption of CI in IT. This study can provide critical insights to management in streamlining IT practice, design organization mechanisms for better adoption of CI in IT
SUBSTANCE OF AMULETS AND CULTURAL DUTY: Received: 10th March 2023; Revised: 28th June 2023, 31st July 2023; Accepted: 08th August 2023
No full textSince ancient times, each culture had an object called an “amulet” as a spiritual anchor to protect people from negative energy, evil, and injury. Humans were born in the world, and they need to confront many things for living their lives and survival. These things occurred with fear, pain, suffering, and others. Hence, amulets were created to strengthen mental power for getting ready to fight against what humans were unable to overcome. Humane belief in amulets has been passed down from generation to generation until today, the era of technological advancement and goodness. Those prosperities are a tool that humans can use to eliminate problems and feelings reasonably, such as small Buddha images, amulets, and symbols in different forms. Thus, this article aims to reveal knowledge or some theoretical opinions to support the legitimacy of amulet art containing history, art, culture, and phenomena by proof and references from research studies that present the importance of objects or amulet art in terms of how they have an effect or produce any factor on humans and what is the main purpose of amulet art that can be proven by scientific theories (scientific tools) from utilization and mental development and restoration rather than credulity
HOW IS MASCULINE IDEOLOGY REPRESENTED IN RADITYA DIKA'S STAND-UP COMEDY? Received: 23rd June 2023; Revised: 12th September 2023, 03rd October 2023; Accepted: 07th October 2023
No full textThis research aims to explicate how the ideology of masculinity is represented in Raditya Dika's stand-up comedy. Stand-Up Comedy Raditya Dika (SUCRD) is a collection of stand-up comedy performances created by comedian and writer Raditya Dika since 2016. Humor centered around masculinity and all things related to it consistently features in Raditya Dika's stand-up material. Using Roland Barthes' semiotic approach, this research examines masculinity within the context of SUCRD performances, with a specific focus on one episode titled Cowok Goblok featuring two monologues. This episode serves as an illustrative example of how masculine ideology is represented. The researcher limits the scope to one episode to avoid data saturation. Two key findings emerge from this study. Firstly, masculine ideology is conveyed verbally through the use of affiliative humor and self-enhancing humor. Secondly, masculine ideology is represented through narratives about decision-making, maturity, characteristics, expectations, and appearance of men. Stand-up comedy serves as a medium and space for the perpetuation of masculinity
SELF-ORIENTALISM REPACKAGED: WONG WING FRIED RICE: Received: 24th January 2023, Revised: 12th April 2023, 14th April 2023, Accepted: 21st April 2023
No full textGlobalization has prompted a multicultural retheorization of both consumer and market (Fu et al., 2014; Riefler et al., 2012; Kipnis et al., 2019). In short, the Canadian multicultural market consists of international goods which are authentic, domestic goods purporting authenticity (e.g., orientalizing), and multinational, fusion innovations that are authentic-ish (e.g., self-orientalizing; Hui, 2019; Li, 2020; Stephens, 2021). What results is a fetishistic commercialization of multiculturalism, where brands are packaging ethnicity and race to vie for consumer attention. This paper addresses the latter variety — self-orientalist packaging designed for products born out of (formerly) Chinese Canadian enterprises, namely Wong Wing Fried Rice. Developing an analytical and theoretical approach that can support the identification of racialization, racist typologies are situated in graphic design. Themes derived from the analysis include racism, orientalism, self-orientalism, exoticism, cultural appropriation, among others. Findings reveal how self-orientalist packaging and label design is discursively negotiated as both internalized racism and anti-racist resistance, necessitating a more nuanced approach that reflects the sociopolitical context in which products are branded. The adoption of transversalist tenets, an anti-racist modality outlined by the methodological component of this study, presents one possibility
PAULO COELHO'S VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE: SEMIOTICS STUDY: Received: 23rd November 2023; Revised: 8th January 2023, 17th February 2023, 04th April 2023; Accepted: 11th April 2023
No full textVeronika Decides to Die is one of Paulo Coelho's best-selling novels, through which he describes in details what is happening inside the wall of mental hospitals. The novel was first published in 1998. The researcher selects this novel as there is no study has been done so far in analyzing Veronika Decides to Die from a semiotics viewpoint. There are two main Semiotics theories, one is represented by the Swiss linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure and another is represented by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce's triadic theory of icon, index and symbol. The latter has been selected as a tool in answering the research question of: What are the main signs in Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die
GLOBAL E-LEARNING AND EXPERIENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROGRAMS AND STUDENTS: Received: 17th January 2023; Revised: 05th March 2023, 19th April 2023; Accepted: 24th April 2023
No full textElectronic learning (e-learning), pedagogy using online technology without physical proximity among the people involved, accelerated due to the recent pandemic and continues its metamorphosis in our endemic world. This new world creates new opportunities to apply e-learning in global contexts, by itself or blended with traditional methods as conditions warrant. Four iterations of a model are described and discussed in terms of adaptability, student satisfaction variables, development of intercultural competence, and global identity. The newest iteration combines previous iterations' e-learning and experiential learning opportunities with participants' occupational and program-specific experiences. The authors include testable outcomes and future possibilities
AESTHETIC VALUE: ATTACHMENT TO DIGITAL EXPERIENCE AND REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCE: Received: 21st February 2023; Revised: 24th May 2023, 05th June 2023; Accepted: 13th June 2023
No full textThe purpose of this academic article was to proof the phrase “Phygital Experiences” by present the merging of digital experiences and real-life experiences in the view of value and aesthetics through 5 roles of digital approach, namely, the role of digital age towards education, the role of digital age towards work, the role of digital age towards economy, the role of digital age towards art and culture, and the role of digital age towards tourism. The study results revealed that technological evolution brings about new forms of interaction that people across the world consume and treat each other. Though digital experience enables people to have comfort, access information and communicate with each other more easily, people do not have profundity and meticulousness to understand experience. On the contrary, real-life experiences offer more experiences of participation in terms of sensory perception or emotional perception. However, they are unable to offer borderless connection and data accessibility as comfortable as digital experiences. Therefore, it can be said that digital experiences and real-life experiences cannot be separated since both of them can fulfill human’s good experiences in a different way, making humans feel fulfilled and enjoyable while they can admire things surrounding themselves. Humans receive benefits from technologies while connecting to the world they can touch
LOCAL TAXES BETWEEN OBLIGATION AND FISCAL CITIZENSHIP: Received: 29th April 2021; Revised: 22nd July 2021, 20th November 2021, 02nd December 2021; Accepted: 31st December 2021
No full textThe fiscal compliance of the taxpayer reported in percentages regarding the realization of the receipts exceeds in meaning the payment of an obligation established at the level of fiscal policy. As an individual or an entity, the citizen-taxpayer transfers sums of money in the form of tax, but this transfer has in addition to the historical-economic-legislative component and a defining psycho-social one for what we call fiscal citizenship. Visible only in the voluntary fulfilment of fiscal obligations, less in positive attitudes and beliefs, perceptions, motivation, and trust in local authorities, fiscal citizenship remains the barometer of the citizen-public administration or public service relationship. Fiscal citizenship and its defining elements can indicate the extent to which citizens feel defended by democracy and the rule of law. It cannot strengthen fiscal citizenship without strengthening trust in public authorities in terms of fiscal policy and taxation, without the responsibility for the efficient use of the amounts collected, without considering the taxpayer in a threefold way: partner, beneficiary, and client of the local public tax service. A culture based on rights and responsibilities or the reciprocity of responsibility and the empowerment of the citizen-taxpayer is needed
EXPLORING WORK PLACEMENT EXPERIENCE: CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, MAURITIUS: Received: 1st June, 2021; Revised: 28th October, 2021; 19th January, 2022; Accepted: 09th February, 2022
No full textThe inclusion of job training and learning has recently been acknowledged as not only a key element of organizational initiatives to enhance learners' job readiness, but even as an organizational initiative to establish themselves in the marketable global education industry (Tran & Soejatminah, 2016). University students’ work-readiness continue to be a significant issue, with Mauritian industries lamenting a lack of soft skills and real-life experiences deemed necessary for recruitment. The University of Technology, Mauritius (UTM) has completely adopted the Work Placement principles since 2014 to extend numerous options to its learners to offer relevant work experiences. The present study aims at exploring the role of the Work Placement experience among the students studying at the UTM. A survey was conducted using an online questionnaire among 230 participants to measure soft-skill development. Before and after the internship, descriptive statistics such as means, standard deviations, and varying scores were investigated using SPSS. The results reveal that students have a positive attitude toward the acquired skills and abilities through Work Placement. The majority of the students asserted that through their Work Placement experiences, they have acquired important soft skills and have become excellent team players and good communicators
EMOTIONAL ABUSE AS HUMAN INSECURITY: A MYTH OR REALITY? Received: 31st August 2021; Revised: 15th December 2021, 19th February 2022; Accepted: 23rd February 2022
No full textThe paper is focused on emotional abuse on both genders in intimate relationships as human insecurity, how it is being under-reported and perceived by many in the Nigerian society as an insignificant issue since it is not physical, and where many are advised to bear it in silence or even accused of being the cause of it most of the times. The study examines the signs, causes, and effects, which makes it a form of human insecurity. The study is anchored on Attachment Theory. Secondary data were employed in gathering information and content data analysis was used in analysing the data for the study. The paper concluded that emotional abuse is a reality that many are not accepting and that speaking out to the right people (such as talking to trusted family members, friends, associates and therapists) is the first and main strategy in which the problem can be solved