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Job Stress and Employees’ Adaptive Performance of the Staff of Selected Banks in Nigeria : .
No full textThis paper examines the effect of job stress on employees\u27 adaptive performance of staff of selected banks in Lagos State, Nigeria. To achieve this objective, research data was collected from primary and secondary sources. A sample size of 133 respondents was chosen using Yaro Yamani method while the sample size was randomly drawn from the staff of branches of GTBank and Access Bank Plc in Lagos State. The theoretical underpinning of this study stems from the role theory and person environment fit. The data was analyzed using correlation matrix and multiple regression analysis. The result shows that the variability changes in the employees\u27 adaptive performance could be accounted for by approximately 97% of factors related to job stress (proxied using different job stress dimensions such as job roles, physical and mental conditions of employees, and work environment). The findings also reveal that there is a significant relationship between job stress and adaptive performance of employees in banking sector in Nigeria. Giving the importance of job stress, especially in the banking sector and how to improve the adaptive performance of the employees, the study recommends that managers and supervisors should reduce all distortions of responsibilities and clarify job roles, know the kind of personality traits among the individuals in their team and improve the physical work environment to reduce pressure on employees. 
The Impact of Technology on Labour Arbitration: Opportunities and Challenges
Get PDFThe application of technology to labour arbitration is revolutionising standard procedures, offering some benefits alongside significant challenges. This research focuses on the impact of technology, Artificial Intelligence, and remote hearings on labour arbitration. These innovations enhance efficiency and lower costs by simplifying proceedings and allowing participants to join virtually. However, they also introduce new societal issues: ethical concerns related to AI bias, security breaches of databases, and the digital divide. The use of digital tools has made arbitration more accessible to the public to some extent; however, this approach may also exclude less privileged populations due to technological gaps and limited digital literacy. By analysing materials from the ISYS database and applying theoretical frameworks such as the Diffusion of Innovations and Access to Justice, this paper discusses both the positive advancements and the challenges they pose. Remote hearings reduce common issues like case backlogs and logistical expenses, but may undermine procedural justice through reduced personal contact and difficulty in interpreting nonverbal cues. The study also questions society’s readiness for widespread digital adoption, emphasising that blind integration of digital infrastructure is unsupported without ethical standards for deploying AI and protections for personal data. Drawing on case studies and stakeholder insights, the paper offers practical guidelines to ensure that technological benefits are accessible and equitably shared, while managing potential risks. The findings underscore the significance of adaptive regulatory systems, capacity-building initiatives, and additional research into the implications of these technological shifts
Determinant of Audit Quality of Quoted Industrial Goods Sector in Nigeria
Get PDFExternal auditing is a key component of a well-functioning capital markets. This is based on the assertion that companies with a reputation for credible financial reporting are likely to change auditors when their audit quality is questioned to avoid capital market consequences of unreliable financial reporting. This study empirically ascertained the relationship between audit quality attributes and financial reporting quality of listed consumer goods companies in Nigeria. The study adopted a correlational research design and adopted 12 out of the entire population of 17 quoted companies in the industrial goods sector using purposive sampling technique to determine sample size. The result of the panel regression with the aid of STATA indicated that audit firm size has a negative significant relationship, auditor tenure has a positive insignificant relationship while audit fees has a negative insignificant relationship with financial reporting quality of quoted industrial goods companies in Nigeria. The study recommended that consumer goods companies should not rely on audit fees paid to auditors as a guarantee of qualitative financial reporting since audit fees contributes negatively and insignificantly to financial reporting quality. Consumer goods companies should not emphasis on elongated tenure of auditors and should reasonably consider the size of audit firms before engaging them. Keywords: Audit Fees, Audit Tenure, Financial reporting, Firm size, audit quality, Industrial goods sector
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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