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Employment Strain and Job Satisfaction in Nigeria: An overview
No full textEmployment strain at work, hierarchical dedication and job satisfaction among employees have,
as of late, become the general wonder that specialists are currently eager to contemplate. The
quintessence of each organization's work is evolving as it is driven by rapid, creative
developments, globalization and monetary interest for improved operational skills. These
progressions also benefit both individuals and organizations as they appear to result in
increased work pressure and decreased job satisfaction. Based on the assertions therefore, this
study examined employment strain and job satisfaction in Nigeria. Employment strain model
provided the conceptual framework. The designs were descriptive and exploratory, a qualitative
methodology and secondary method of data collection were used to generate information. The
study revealed that employment strain has immediate negative impact on job satisfaction. It
indicates a conflict of interest between the employer, who wants the employee to work hard, and
the employee, who wants the compensation with the minimum effort required. Employment strain
has been seen as an antecedent of job satisfaction, which can be induced by work overload,
competition, self-esteem and impossible responsibilities; high employment strain has created
negative psychological effects (depression), physiological effects (headaches, heart disease) and
behavioral effects (absenteeism, substance use) on employees; also a depreciation of job
satisfaction will have an effect on the organizational engagement, which will have an impact on
the efficiency of their jobs
THE NIGERIA PUBLIC SERVICE REFORMS OF 1999-2007: A PANACEA FOR FEDERAL STAFF MOTIVATION
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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
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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