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Workplace romance: rationale for human resource practitioners’ intervention. a case of a local authority in Zimbabwe
No full textAbstract,Workplace romance is a reality in many organizations, both at a global scale and in the Zimbabwe context but according to Powell and Foley (1998) it is also a subject that is rarely talked about by scholars evidenced by meagre scholarly literature. In this regard the high frequency in which these relationships occur has not been quite proportionate to the minimal attention that Zimbabwean H.R practitioners have given the subject of workplace romance. In this light, it is fundamental to explore workplace romance in a Zimbabwean context so as to further understand this phenomenon. Ariani et al. (2011) emphasize that H.R leaders should think more broadly and strategically about managing workplace romance. Furthermore, the scholars argue that the H.R leaders should be at the heart of managing workplace romance by taking ownership of and accountability for the challenging task of managing risks and rewards of workplace romance. This research study explored the forms of workplace romance in a local authority in Zimbabwe and the role played by Human Resource Practitioners in managing it. A sample size of 27 respondents was drawn from a sample frame of 73 employees who make up the staff compliment of personnel at the headquarters that houses the administrative departments of the local authority. Moreover, the research endeavour was qualitative in nature, making use of semi-structured interviews and semi-structured questionnaires as primary sources of data as well as company material and various literature as secondary data sources. The qualitative approach was resourceful in the research in as far as providing a rich, comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the subject under study
Curbing Precariousness Facing Non-Standard Employees in the Private Security Industry: Employers’ Viewpoint
No full textThe pervasiveness of precariousness facing non-standard employees in Zimbabwe’s private security industry has for long become a major cause of concern, specifically as the global demand for decent employment is gaining momentum. This qualitative research study examined strategies applied by and challenges facing employers in curbing precariousness among the predominantly fixed-term contracted employees in the private security industry in Zimbabwe. The study involved 15 participants who were purposively identified from the Security Association of Zimbabwe, the largest employer association in the industry. A major finding of the study was that the nature of business service in the security industry led companies to engage personnel mostly on a fixed-term contractual type of employment. Such employment was found to be associated with poor and decimating conditions of work for the security personnel in the industry, and that much of their work life was enveloped in intense precariousness. The major impediments amplifying the failure to tackle employee precariousness in the security industry include the existence of fragmented relationships between two divergent employer associations in the industry, the prevalence of unregistered security firms, perceived improper regulation of the industry, and weakened employee representation by workers’ committees and trade unions operating in the industry. It is the study contention that the creation of an enabling environment to redress unfair and poor working conditions facing security guards is indispensable. Government lobbying to restructure the business regulatory framework is considered fundamental to the independent and autonomous functioning of the industry, and a precursor to tackling aggravated employee precariousness
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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