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Perceptions of altruism of the chief executive officer: a mixed-methods study
No full textAltruism is defined as discretionary behaviours that have the effect of helping colleagues, supervisors, teams and people in organizations related to organizationally relevant tasks or problems. As an important element of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB), altruism has been found to influence group and firm effectiveness. Recent studies have extended altruism discussions to board members in boardrooms. However, little is known about altruism demonstrated by CEOs towards employees. Using a mixed method approach and drawing on literature on OCB, social support, organizational support theory, social exchange theory and social learning theory, this thesis explores CEO altruism towards employees with three related papers. The data were collected through interviews with, and surveys of CEOs, managers and employees of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia. Using SMEs as the context of the study, this research applied comprehensive thematic and content analysis to find major categories of CEO altruism in the qualitative component, and statistical analysis of structural equation modelling using AMOS for the quantitative studies. In Paper A, CEO and employee perceptions of CEO altruism categories and impacts are explored in an interview study and participant observation. Findings indicate CEO altruism revolves around work-related and non-work-related issues and explains positive employee attitudes and performance. Paper B is a mixed method study that consists of Study 1, Study 2 and Study 3, and was designed to test the relationship of CEO altruism with employee attitudes and performance, develop CEO altruism scales and test the relationship of CEO altruism with employee attitudes. Study 1 shows that CEO altruism has a positive relationship with employee attitudes and performance. Study 2 finds two CEO altruism categories while Study 3 indicates that CEO altruism is associated with job satisfaction mediated by perceived organizational support. Paper C, a survey study rated by SME managers, is aimed to test the relationship of perceived CEO altruism with employee performance. The study found that perceived CEO general altruism is a good predictor of employee OCB mediated by manager altruism. Overall this thesis introduces CEO altruism towards employee work-related and non-work-related issues, presents some features of CEO altruistic practices and adds another predictor of employee attitudes and performance to the literature. These findings suggest that CEOs who demonstrate altruism towards employees are perceived as having exemplary behaviour for managers and employees --abstract
The Empowerment Strategy of Gapoktan Toward an Agribusiness Microfinance Institution in Rural Areas
No full textGoing 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
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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