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Introducing an Integrated Model of Individual Agility: Agile Practicing, Agile Learning, and Agile Thinking in the Workplace
No full textToday’s business environment is increasingly marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). To stay competitive in VUCA environments, organizations are increasingly implementing agility into their business models. Agility as the ability to sense and respond to change has gained remarkable popularity and is increasingly used across various industries. Previous research, predominantly originating from technical and software fields, usually focused on specific parts, like the implementation of agile practices (e.g., Scrum or Kanban). In the literature, however, agility is often described as a holistic framework that encompasses various dimensions within an organization. It changes work systems by prioritizing people over processes and promotes a shift towards people-centric values and communication. Agility influences organizational dynamics as it challenges employees’ ways of thinking, learning, and behaving.
This dissertation adopts a psychological perspective to the study of agility by focusing on the experiences of individuals in organizations. Individual agility is defined as an employee's skillset to proactively recognize change and adapt as needed. The overall research objective is to create a more holistic understanding of individual agility in the workplace. Therefore, this dissertation introduces an integrated model of individual agility that presents individual agility as a competitive advantage for organizations in today's VUCA environment. In this model, individual agility is categorized into three agile facets: (1) agile practicing, (2) agile learning, and (3) agile thinking. Three empirical field studies—one per agile facet— investigate their relations to employees’ affective, behavioral, and cognitive workplace outcomes. Each study addresses the overall research objective of this dissertation by shedding light on one facet of individual agility and its impact on workplace outcomes. Additionally, each study serves a specific objective within its respective facet of individual agility: exploring mediating and boundary conditions in agile practicing (Study 1); fostering the integration of agile learning into occupational literature (Study 2); and validating agile thinking within organizational psychology (Study 3).
Study 1 contributes to the overall research objective, by analyzing the relation between agile project management (i.e., agile practicing) and emotional exhaustion at work (affective outcome). Two field studies (Study 1a and 1b), each with a two-wave design (N = 307), found a negative relation between agile project management and emotional exhaustion. Regarding the study-specific objectives, namely, mediating and boundary conditions, higher levels of agile project management had significant negative indirect effects on emotional exhaustion via lower levels of work-related stress as a mediator. This indirect effect was significantly stronger for higher levels of a culture for psychological empowerment as a moderator. Contrary to the hypotheses, social competence and perceived team support had no moderating effects in this mediation process.
Study 2 addresses the overall research objective, by exploring the effects of Working Out Loud (i.e., WOL as an agile learning method) on three workplace outcomes: vigor (affective outcome), WOL behavior (behavioral outcome), and psychological empowerment (cognitive outcome). An intervention study (N = 507) with three measurement points—before WOL (pre), after WOL (post), and six months later (follow-up)—found an increase in participants’ WOL behavior and psychological empowerment at work both in the short- (pre/post) and long-term (pre/follow-up). Contrary to the hypothesis, there was no effect of WOL on participants’ vigor at work. In light of the study-specific objective, namely, to foster the integration of agile learning into research, four meta-principles for agile learning were introduced: self-direction, iteration, collaboration, and technology.
Study 3 adds to the overall research objective, by investigating the relation between the agile mindset (i.e., agile thinking) and four workplace outcomes: performance and innovative work behavior (behavioral outcomes), as well as vigor and emotional exhaustion (affective outcomes). A two-wave study (N = 411) tested the factorial, discriminant, and incremental validity of the agile mindset. In the individual analysis, significant effects between the agile mindset and all four workplace outcomes were found, with positive relations to performance, innovative work behavior, and vigor, as well as a negative relation to emotional exhaustion. Addressing the study-specific objective, namely, validating the agile mindset as a new construct, the effects were controlled for well-established psychological constructs. Results showed that enhancing the agile mindset can positively affect performance and innovative work behavior, beyond the influence of core self-evaluation, proactive personality, and prevention vs. promotion focus. Concerning affective outcomes, only a positive relationship for vigor when controlling for prevention vs. promotion focus was found, while the effect on emotional exhaustion diminished.
Taken together, the findings of this dissertation provide valuable insights into a more holistic understanding of individual agility in the workplace by introducing an integrated model of individual agility with three agile facets: (1) agile practicing, (2) agile learning, and (3) agile thinking. This systematic categorization facilitates a comprehensive examination of various facets of individual agility and enables a more nuanced understanding of its mechanisms within organizational dynamics. Three empirical field studies examine the impact of individual agility on a broad range of workplace outcomes. Across different methodological approaches—two-wave study, intervention study, validation of a new construct—individual agility shows desirable effects on workplace outcomes, leading to competitive advantages for organizations. The insights of this dissertation form an initial foundation for future research aiming to understand the complex and holistic role of individual agility. From a practical viewpoint, the results are particularly useful for organizations that want to improve their competitiveness through agility in today’s VUCA environment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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