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Performance evaluation based on strictness and leniency errors / Dr. Roziyana Jafri and Dr. Syahida Abd Aziz
Full text linkPerformance management is vital to the human resource functioning of public as well as private organizations. Performance management involves a never-ending process of observing performance, setting goals, and attaining objectives (Aguinis et al., 2011). If an employee's performance management results are in question, it could have debilitating consequences for the individual as well as for the organization’s goals and strategic plan. This requires organizations, namely managers, to ensure that employees’ outputs and actions are congruent with the organization’s objectives. Consequently, when performance management is aligned with strategic goals, it contributes to the organization’s competitive advantage. Performance management necessitates examining the facts of work performance and being aware that human judgments usually have a margin of error (Erbasi et al.,2012). When an organization implements performance management throughout the year, numerous frequent errors occur. However, only two types of issues, namely strictness and leniency, affect the effective implementation of performance management and the emergence of biased presumptions. Employer and employee must collaborate to achieve the organization’s objectives and maintain a positive relationship. From the perspective of an organization, these errors have a negative impact on organizational performance since disgruntled employees maintain poor relationships with coworkers (Mansor et al.,2020). When employees are dissatisfied with performance management, these errors have an effect from the individual's standpoint. They believe they receive no benefit and will not remain with the organization for an extended period of time
Cashless payments influence impulse buying behaviour / Dr. Syahida Abd Aziz and Dr. Roziyana Jafri
Full text linkConsumers today are more likely to purchase a product on a whim, regardless of whether they are shopping online or in-store. Consumers become increasingly prone to making rash decisions as time passes. Numerous individuals engage in more casual or compulsive shopping, particularly via online channels. As technologies have advanced, debit and credit cards, e-wallets with quick response (QR) code options, contactless cards such as SamsungPay, ApplePay, MAE, and the Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) feature, as well as many others have become more prevalent, thereby accelerating the process of making a purchase. With mobile wallets gaining the most traction among first-time users (33%) followed by online cards (30%) and QR code payments (26%), cashless payments are on the rise (Visa, 2022). As a result of this significant shift in consumer behaviour and the widespread adoption of digital payment methods, Malaysia is gradually becoming a cashless society
Technology anxiety in consumer purchase behaviour / Dr. Syahida Abd Aziz and Dr. Roziyana Jafri
Full text linkRapidly evolving advanced technologies in various fields are constantly influencing consumer purchase behaviour. Specifically, the past decade has demonstrated technology hugely reshaping consumer expectations of relevant products and personal preferences (Rangaswamy et al., 2022). Despite the embedment of advanced technologies in a product to enhance product utility, consumers are increasingly anxious and concerned with the extraordinary pervasiveness of technology applications, hence elevating their demurrals of employing available technological systems. As such, the appraisal of consumer sentiments, including anxiety levels, towards the installed technology systems in products is consequential to thoroughly understanding consumer purchase intention
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The value of coaching on the employee and the organization / Dr. Roziyana Jafri, Dr. Kardina Kamaruddin and Dr. Syahida Abd Aziz
Full text linkDue to intense global competition, organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of human resources. Effective human resources are also viewed as a primary source of competitive advantage that propels businesses to success. To enhance the performance of the organization, human resource management is investing in its human capital to develop its talents. Organizations are turning to coaching to improve employee performance and gain a distinct competitive advantage in the market. By introducing coaching, they are targeting personnel in their business, hoping to improve each one’s performance
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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