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Workplace gossip on impression management strategies, the regulation of organizational political perception and personality traits
No full textIn a workplace organization environment full of gossip and political behavior,
employees often need to be aware and exert effort to deal with it, and the use of
impression management strategies in order to survive, secure resources, and preserve is also a workplace behavior that is often heard. This study is mainly based on the influence of workplace gossip on personal impression
management strategies under the model of limited resources and resource conservation theory within enterprises, and explores the influence of organizational political perception and personality traits on impression management strategies. In this study, a total of 264 data were collected for
analysis by questionnaire survey and 264 valid samples were collected from the authors in Taiwan. The results show that employees' perception of organizational politics plays a moderating role in workplace gossip and impression management strategies. At the same time, personality traits also regulate the relationship between workplace gossip and impression management strategies. Finally, based on the research results, the implications, suggestions and limitations of practical management are put forward for reference in subsequent research.
Keywords: workplace gossip, organizational political perception, personality traits, impression management strategies , resource preservation
The Role of Individual Factors, Institutional Support, and Self-Perceived Employability among International Students in Taiwan
No full textIn an increasingly dynamic global job market, understanding the factors that impact employability has become crucial for all the stakeholders. As a result, employability studies have gained the importance, making it a central concern for students and universities worldwide. This study focuses on the self-perceived employability of international students in Taiwan. To address existing research gaps, the current study explores self-perceived employability among international students, with an emphasis on individual factors such as age, gender, degree type, major, and Mandarin Chinese competence. Additionally, it assesses the influence of employability activities provided by institutions and examines the interplay between self-perceived employability and demographic characteristics, based on institutional support provided and utilized.
The research employs path analysis and surveys 217 international students currently enrolled in Taiwanese universities. Findings highlight the significance of host language competence, revealing its direct effect on institutional support and thereby emphasizing the role of language proficiency in students' perceptions of institutional support. Furthermore, institutional support provided by universities is identified as a mediating factor between perceived Chinese proficiency and self-perceived employability. Gender also emerges as a significant factor, with male students displaying higher levels of self-perceived employability. Degree types strongly correlate with perceptions of employability, underscoring the need for tailored support programs for international students at different academic levels.
The implications of this study underscore the critical need for language enhancement programs, gender-sensitive career services, and comprehensive institutional support systems. By drawing upon social capital, human capital, and signaling theories, this research provides valuable insights into the self-perceived employability of international students in Taiwan. These insights aims to provide a more direct and impactful presentation of the study\ue2s outcome, linking theoretical foundations with practical implications in a clear and concise manner
The Effects of Managerial Coaching on Employee Work Attitude and Motivation: The Mediating Role of Relational Energy
No full textIn recent years, there has been an increasing amount of theoretical and practical research on managerial coaching, which has gradually become a more commonly used leadership approach in business organizations. Previous studies have indicated that managerial coaching is positively associated with employee work behavior. However, the relationship between managerial coaching and employee work attitude and motivation has not been fully explored. This study used job satisfaction and job engagement to represent work attitude and motivation, respectively, to investigate the relationship between managerial coaching and job satisfaction and job engagement. Additionally, this study explored the potential influencing factors between managerial coaching and job satisfaction and job engagement. By adopting the perspective of relational energy, a theoretical model was constructed to examine whether managerial coaching can influence employees' levels of job satisfaction and job engagement through the mediating effect of relational energy.
This study focuses on full-time employees in non-supervisory positions in Taiwan and employs a self-administered questionnaire survey. A total of 344 valid questionnaires were collected. The findings indicate that relational energy plays a mediating role between managerial coaching and job satisfaction and job engagement. Based on the results, implications for management practices are discussed, and suggestions for future research directions or adjustments are provided
Discussion on the CFC Rules and Cashflow Behavior of Enterprises\ue2 OBU Accounts - A Case Study of E Bank
No full textRecently, with global anti-avoidance and anti-money laundering efforts, Taiwan's government has started to take active steps to achieve tax fairness. Following the OECD's BEPS actions, Taiwan revised its Income Tax Act and introduced CFC rules. These prevent Taiwanese companies and individuals from evading local taxes by keeping profits abroad. This has led to concerns among Taiwanese businesses about using international banking branch accounts, possibly reducing their usage and transferring funds to other countries. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of these regulations on the cash flow and account usage in Taiwan's international banking branches, particularly around implementing the CFC rules.
By analyzing E Bank's Offshore Banking Unit data from 2019 to August 2023 using Excel for pivot analysis and simple linear regression analysis, the results showed that there were indeed changes in the cash flow and destinations of E Bank's OBU accounts. These changes have impacted the earnings of E Bank's OBU. The findings of this study can help banks better grasp customer trends and gain an advantage in the face of regulatory policy changes in the future
How Financial Technology facilitates Service Innovation: A Case Study of F Bank
No full textThe rise of financial technology, especially the development of smartphones and Internet technology, has had a major impact on the traditional banking industry. In order to adapt to these changes, Taiwanese banks began to change strategies and turned to digitalization. Digital transformation is not only a technological innovation but also a necessary response to market changes and evolving consumer demands. The tech giants were no able to adapt to market changes finally failed. It reminds the banking sector to remain flexible and innovative. In this digital and mobile era, the traditional banking business model is being completely overturned.
This study explores the impact when applying financial technology in the digital transformation of F Bank. It examines the reasons for adopting FinTech, the challenges it faces, and the service innovations it brings. The study makes suggestions regarding performance, policy, and human resource needs to meet current market changes and customer demands for future challenges
Sediment-based microbial utilization of simple organic compounds across a tectonic transition offshore southwestern Taiwan
No full textThe South China Sea is an important reservoir of methane hydrates. Previous studies have inferred that thermogenic decomposition is the major source of methane accumulations at active continental margins (represented by the Four-Way Closure Ridge, FWCR), while microbial synthesis predominates at passive continental margins (represented by the Formosa Ridge, FR). However, the relationships between formation mechanisms and microbial activities remain unknown. Considering the differences in microbial community at both sites, this study hypothesizes that variations in microbial community composition and biomass will impact organic substrate utilization pathways, subsequently affecting local methane cycling. To examine this hypothesis, 13C-labelled methanol, methylamine, glucose and acetate were supplemented into sediment/artificial seawater slurry incubations from three depth horizons (5, 57, and 110 mbsf) at the FR and (5, 68, and 120 mbsf) at the FWCR. Our goal is to demonstrate linkages between microbial community structures and potential metabolic pathways. Analyses show that supplementation of methylated compounds induced methane production attributed to the genus Methanococcoides at surface and middle incubation depths from the FR, evidenced by increasing absolute abundances and methane concentrations. Rates and total quantities of methane production were higher in surface versus middle-depth incubations. Additionally, glucose and acetate amendments at the surface FR stimulated some degree of methanogenesis, although total production rates and quantities were lower compared to methyl-compound treatments. Overall, methane production rates across all samples ranged from 3.09 x 10-2 to 7.12 x 10-1 \uce\ubcmole d-1, with the lowest rate in acetate-amended surface FR samples and highest rates in methanol-amended surface FR samples. Tracking 13C-DIC accumulation indicates organic substrate degradation in most samples, varying in extent, degree, and rate across microbial guilds, sites, and depths. 13C-DIC production rates ranged from 1.90 x 10-3 to 3.22 x 10-1 \uce\ubcmole d-1 across the different organic substrates, sites and depths, with lowest production in glucose-amended middle FWCR samples and highest production in glucose-amended surface FR samples. Microbial communities varied among depths and sites, including heterotrophs like Fusibacter and Marinobacter. These results demonstrate that the diverse microbial communities between different geological settings impact organic matter degradation rates and pathways in marine sediments, further validating hypotheses derived from previous environmental signals that microbial activity serves as the predominant methane source at passive continental margins
The Study of Thailand's Free Trade Strategy : 1988-2023
No full textThe present study aims to examine whether Thailand\ue2s free trade strategy is driven by political issues rather than market economy. Using multilateral/regional/bilateral levels as tools to discuss Thailand's free trade strategy, this study differentiates Thailand\ue2s free trade strategies on the basis of regime transition. The findings of the study are that the plethora of military coups and change of leadership have influenced Thailand\ue2s free trade strategy. After World War II, Thailand became a geostrategic ally of the United States, which encouraged its allies to open their markets to free trade as a way to promote political stability and economic growth. Therefore, from the 1960s to the late 1980s, Thailand\ue2s free trade strategy was based on the Sarit Thanart\ue2s bilateralism and multilateral free trade strategy of the U.S. trade security alliance. In 1988, Chatichai Choonhavan became the first democratically elected Prime Minister. He focused on the regional and sub-regional economic core of the Indochina Peninsula, the foreign policy of constructive exchanges and the Thai baht economic circle which emphasized on regional free trade strategy. He promoted telecommunications liberalization process, and then let military and corporation get into the telecommunications franchise industry in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. In 2001, during the Thaksin Shinawatra and the post-Thaksin Shinawatra period, the free trade strategy was driven by commercial interests, promotion of privatization of state-owned enterprises and liberalization of service industry in exchange for commercial interests of family business groups, and through agricultural subsidy policies in exchange for the foundation of political power. After the military leader Prayuth Chan-o-cha returned to power in 2014, Thailand\ue2s free trade strategy suspended the liberalization process of energy state-owned enterprises and promoted green energy and aviation charters to restore the official and business protection network, which was found in the 20-year national overall development strategy. Therefore, political and economic power is concentrated, and military state-owned enterprises and large business groups are in a good position to influence free trade strategies
Investigate Instagram Beauty Micro-Influencers' Sponsored Posts and Purchase Intention: Sweepstakes as a Moderator
No full textThis study takes Instagram beauty micro-influencers as the research object, and explores whether the credibility of beauty micro-influencers, sponsorship disclosure, congruence and holding sweepstakes will affect consumers' purchase intentions and the degree of influence. To see if they affect consumers' purchase intentions, the attitude that consumers hold about a brand was used as a mediating variable. The relation among brand attitudes and purchase intentions was tested using sweepstakes as a moderator to see if it was strengthened or weakened.
This study distributed online questionnaires through the Internet. In total, it took the sample from 341 valid respondents who experienced in following beauty micro- influencers. To ascertain the general validity of the questions and the correlation between the variables, structural equation modeling was employed. The following research results were obtained: (1) The credibility of beauty micro-influencers, sponsorship disclosure, congruence have a significant impact on consumer\ue2s attitude toward brand. (2) Customers' attitudes regarding the brand have a favorable impact on purchase intention. (3) Consumer\ue2s attitude toward brand worked as a mediating factor on the relationship between source credibility, sponsorship disclosure, match-up and purchase intention. (4) The relationship among brand attitudes and purchase intentions could not be efficiently moderated by sweepstakes
Recalling Regretful Action (versus Regretful Inaction) May Promote Honesty\uef\ubcThe Mediating Role of Temporal Discounting
No full textIt is hard to live a life without making any mistakes or experiencing any regrets. In recent years, research on the association between the experience of regret and the discounting tendency (i.e., a pervasive tendency to prefer smaller immediate gains to larger delay benefits) suggests that experiencing regrets of action (vs. inaction) may induce a lower discounting tendency, serving as a manifestation of greater self-control. Prior research has shown that greater self-control is associated with an increased tendency toward honesty. Hence, we conducted three experiments to examine whether recalling regretful action (vs. inaction) would be associated with lower discounting (i.e., greater self-control), leading to a higher inclination toward honesty behavior. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the three study conditions (regret of action, regret of inaction, or control). The discounting tendency was measured following experimental manipulations in the three experiments. The matrix task (Experiment 2) and the dice-under-cup task (Experiment 3) were employed to detect the tendency toward honesty. We found that participants who recalled regretful action revealed lower discounting rates (Experiments 1, 2, and 3) and were less likely to cheat in the two honesty detection tasks than did those who recalled regretful inaction (Experiments 2 and 3). The discounting rate mediated the association between recalling regretful action (vs. inaction) and the tendency toward honesty. We provide the first experimental evidence showing that experiencing regrets of action induced an increased tendency to act honestly through lower discounting (i.e., an index of greater self-control). The present findings shed light on an innovative approach to promoting state self-control and honesty
Beyond the Conventional: Exploring the Allure of Glamping - Factors Influencing Consumer Preference in All-Inclusive Holidays
No full textThis research study investigates the factors influencing consumers' decision-making processes when selecting between glamping and resort hotels for all-inclusive vacations, examining the influences of age, family composition, and social media engagement. The methodology employed a survey-based approach with convenience sampling to collect data efficiently within the limitations of time and resources. The study aimed to provide valuable insights for businesses in the tourism and hospitality industry, shedding light on consumer preferences between these accommodation options. Results indicate significant considerations influencing consumer choices, contributing to a better understanding of the evolving trends in the tourism sector