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Psychological Conditions as an Antecedent of Training Effectiveness
No full textThe burgeoning level on interest in employee engagement has increased in the late 1990s and continued to grow rapidly. It has become the main attraction among practitioners as well as academics from different fields of studies, such as human resource management, human resource development, and psychology. Competiveness in the business environment gives an impetus for companies to find the best method to retain and develop their employees. The companies, whether they are in private or public sectors, have to discover what it takes to improve and sustain the performance of their workforce. This study aimed to investigate the psychological conditions of engagement as an antecedent of training effectiveness. This study adopted Kahn’s psychological conditions of engagement, which encompasses psychological meaningfulness, psychological safety, and psychological availability. It also sought to examine the mediating role of motivation to learn, motivation to transfer, self-efficacy, and learning, on the relationship with training effectiveness. A total of 94 middle managers in the public sector in Malaysia, who attended the leadership assessment programme, participated in this study. A time-lagged design was used to investigate the relationships in this study. For Time 1, data were collected prior to the training programme commencing, Time 2 involved data collection that was performed immediately after the participants finished the training programme, and the final stage of data collection, that is Time 3, was done four (4) months after the managers participated in the programme. The Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyse the data. Based on the study findings, psychological conditions of engagement directly predict motivation to transfer, motivation to learn, and self-efficacy. The results showed that psychological conditions of engagement act as an antecedent of the proposed model. This study underpinned the importance of psychological conditions of engagement as a pre-training condition for transfer of training. Finally, theoretical, practical, and methodological contributions as well as directions for future research were discussed
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
Rapport d'évaluation du projet EDORA "European development Opportunities for Rural Areas"
No full text[Departement_IRSTEA]Territoires [TR1_IRSTEA]DTAM [Axe_IRSTEA]DTAM1-REPRO [Type_IRSTEA]Rapport d'étudeCe rapport propose une analyse critique de ce travail et se structure en trois parties. Il développe tout d’abord une analyse scientifique transversale - sur les plans conceptuel et empirique - des résultats EDORA tels que la présente le rapport final et ses annexes (I). Il propose une lecture des résultats à l’aune du contexte français et souligne les apports au cas national (II). Le rapport dans un ensemble d’annexes sélectionne quelques figures et graphes issus du rapport qui permettent d’illustrer l’analyse critique et viennent compléter la fiche technique déjà réalisée en 2011 (III)
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
Factors that influence public awareness towards Takafulink Wanita Plan offered by MAA Takaful Berhad, Seremban branch / Noor Fariza Edora Zainudin
Full text linkThis study is designed to investigate the public’s awareness towards Takafulink Wanita Plan offered by MAA Takaful Berhad Seremban Branch. Level of income, educational level and sales promotion are the independent variables. The dependent variable is public awareness towards Takafulink Wanita Plan. The objective of the study is to investigate the level of public awareness towards Takafulink Wanita Plan, secondly to determine whether there is correlation between independent variables and dependent variable and thirdly to determine the rank that influence public awareness towards Takafulink Wanita Plan. The data set in this study are collected among female employees that work nearby around 1kilometre from MAA Takaful Berhad, Seremban Branch through questionnaires. 100 respondents in that area had become the sample in this study by answering the questionnaires that randomly distributed. The findings indicate there is low level of public’s awareness towards Takafulink Wanita Plan offered by MAA Takaful Berhad. Besides, all the independent variables have correlation with the public’s awareness and educational level is the first rank that influence the public’s awareness towards Takafulink Wanita Plan. There are also several recommendations that researcher suggest based on the findings
Rapport d'évaluation du projet EDORA "European development Opportunities for Rural Areas"
No full text[Departement_IRSTEA]Territoires [TR1_IRSTEA]DTAM [Axe_IRSTEA]DTAM1-REPRO [Type_IRSTEA]Rapport d'étudeCe rapport propose une analyse critique de ce travail et se structure en trois parties. Il développe tout d’abord une analyse scientifique transversale - sur les plans conceptuel et empirique - des résultats EDORA tels que la présente le rapport final et ses annexes (I). Il propose une lecture des résultats à l’aune du contexte français et souligne les apports au cas national (II). Le rapport dans un ensemble d’annexes sélectionne quelques figures et graphes issus du rapport qui permettent d’illustrer l’analyse critique et viennent compléter la fiche technique déjà réalisée en 2011 (III)
Potential of kenaf and coir fibers as thermal insulators / 'Aamirah Azme and Nurul Edora Abdul Rahim
Full text linkThis study was done to investigate potential of using kenaf and coir fibers as thermal insulators. Different fiber ratio of 100%) kenaf, 100% coir, 75% kenaf 25% coir and 25% kenaf 75% coir were used in creating the insulators walls. The thermal conductivity of each fiber was recorded for every 10 minutes. Thermal insulating capabilities were observed based on the change in temperature. The model buildings were exposed under the sunlight for 8 hours. From the results, it was found that denser materials have higher thermal conductivity and therefore are poor insulators, whereas the lightweight materials have lower thermal conductivity and considered as better thermal insulators. The 75% kenaf 25% coir of treated fiber was founded to be the best combination as thermal insulators. Meanwhile, 100% untreated kenaf fiber was known as the best fiber for making thermal insulator
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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