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Career Aspirations of Generation Z in India���s Information Technology Industry: A Grounded Theory Exploration
No full textThe purpose of this dissertation study is to explore the career aspirations of Generation Z (individuals born between the years 1995 and 2012) within India���s information technology (IT) industry���s context. Career aspirations are an individual���s career-related goals and expectations. As of today, researchers have widely studied generation Z in the western context and posited that this newest generation in the workforce aspire to be highly achievement-oriented, want meaningful and interesting work, have a highly evolved self-concept, and expect to use technology on an everyday basis. However, there are no current career development theories that explain generation Z���s career aspirations fully.
A constructivist grounded theory research is flexible and when conducted rigorously, allows for transferability of findings aiding researcher���s attempts to understand a phenomenon in one context and applying it in other. Data were collected from 16 participants through semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and analytical memos. Data were analyzed using three analytical procedures: (a) initial coding, (b) focused coding, and (c) advanced coding or theoretical coding
The findings from this study indicate that participants had low self-awareness and self-efficacy beliefs when they first form their career aspirations. External factors such as the culture, society, and individual economic background influenced participants to pursue engineering education and begin a career in the IT industry. During their time in the IT industry, participant���s work experiences led them adjust their career aspirations and engage in improving their self-awareness and self-efficacy beliefs. Participants were thus able to re-form their career aspirations for the future. The findings from this study led to developing a substantive theory explaining that Gen Z in the Indian IT industry develop career aspirations by: (a) forming career aspirations, (b) developing self-awareness, (c) adjusting career aspirations, (d) developing self-efficacy, (e) re-forming career aspirations. The implications to theory, research, and practice are presented
Perception of Software Employees towards Human Resource Development Roles, Functions, and Professionals
Get PDFThe purpose of this research was to explore the perception of employees working in the software industry towards Human Resource Development (HRD) roles, functions, and professionals. This research adopted a quantitative methodology and administered a survey to understand how the employees perceive the different HRD roles and their importance in the organization. The research also studied the different perceptions employees may have towards the HRD professionals and their competencies. The participants in this study belonged to the software industry and have been working in their current technical job roles for atleast a year. A survey was used to collect data and was designed on an online platform – Google Forms. The survey was designed in a way to include all the roles and functions described in the competency model designed by The Association of Talent Development in 2014. The participants ranked Learning and Knowledge Management as the most important HRD function. The participants also perceived that HRD professionals possess a business acumen and are capable of accommodating cultural differences in the organization. The results of the study indicated a general amiable perception towards the HRD roles, functions, and professionals
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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