126 research outputs found
Introduction to Global Politics
No full textEvren Celik Wiltse is a contributing author, “Chapter 6: Liberalism, Cooperation, Collective Security and Neoliberal Institutionalism”https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/hppr_book/1015/thumbnail.jp
Globalization: Universal Trends, Regional Implications
No full textEvren Celik Wiltse is a contributing author “Globalization and Mexico.”https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/hppr_book/1016/thumbnail.jp
Attitudes towards e-bookkeeping in Turkey: Initial research
No full textYiğit Şakar, Ayşe (Arel Author), Ayrancı, Evren (Arel Author)Accounting profession has evolved and with the use of computer technology, many concepts related to accounting have emerged. This study considers one of such, e-bookkeeping, and uncovers the attitudes of accounting professionals towards e-bookkeeping practice in Turkey. An important point is that this practice has not gone into effect at the time this study is prepared, thus these attitudes are preliminary. The results yield that accounting professionals’ attitudes depend on five factors and these attitudes change solely according to the size of business
A Mixed Integer Linear Program for Election Campaign Optimization Under D’Hondt Rule
No full textElection campaign optimization problem (ECOP) can be described as finding the best way to allocate a political party’s resources among different election locations in order to maximize the seats or member of parliaments (MPs) won. For this purpose, first one has to determine the minimum amount of votes needed to pass the opponent to win extra seats. The analysis are carried out on one of the most popular election rules: D’Hondt rule and mathematical formulae are derived to exactly determine the required vote amounts. Next, a mixed integer linear program to capture the problem is proposed. Finally, the methodology is tested on the Turkish Parliamentary elections data and it is observed that with small amount of budget shifts among election regions significant gains can be obtained
İzmir’de Kozmopolitan Bir Mikro-Evren: Bornova Anadolu Lisesi
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Connecting work flexibility and job satisfaction in Turkey : a study of a leading Turkish University
No full textAyrancı, Evren (Arel Author)Working flexibility and job satisfaction are considered in this study. The most important assets of any organization are its human resources, which differ from other assets due to their psycho-social nature. This distinct nature requires the job satisfaction of workers to be considered, further driving the authors to focus on work flexibility. The inherent demographic differences among workers may also influence job satisfaction. This possibility led the authors to consider the potential relationships between demographic characteristics and job satisfaction in the analysis of work flexibility. The analysis was performed on the teaching staff of one of the leading foundation (private) universities in Turkey, and work flexibility involved teaching in classrooms and via distance education. The results indicated that job satisfaction was influenced by different factors depending on the teaching style and that some of these factors varied according to the demographic characteristics of the participants
The linkage between Turkish managers’ leadership orientations and their innovativeness feature: an empirical study
No full textAyrancı, Evren (Arel Author), Çolakoğlu, Nurdan (Arel Author)The dual issues of leadership features and innovativeness constitute an important component of the related literature along with the studies focusing on the connections between these two. The current study considers this connection with the notion that innovativeness should be included as a feature of a leader, but it also moves further by trying to understand how leadership orientations and innovativeness are patterned together within the leadership concept. To this end, the authors of the current study collect data from the top managers of businesses in the Istanbul Leather Organized Industrial Zone and perform inferential analyses. It is discovered that leadership orientations have three and that innovativeness has five distinct factors. A structural equation model that includes all of these factors together under the concept of leadership is proposed. Although all of the innovativeness factors are found to be integrated within this model, only one factor for leadership orientations – people orientation – can be integrated within the model. In other words, innovativeness can entirely be included within the proposed model of leadership, but leadership orientations can only partially be included. Most of the innovativeness factors are positively and moderately related to leadership, albeit assertiveness is not considerably favored. Overall, the emphasis appears to be on people oriented and innovative leadership
An empirical study on the nexus between the emotional intelligence of top managers and their assessment of intellectual capital
No full textÇolakoğlu, Nurdan (Arel Author), Ayrancı, Evren (Arel Author)This study considers intellectual capital based on the assumption that this capital, which possesses social aspects, is related to the emotional capacities (i.e., emotional intelligence) of an organization’s members. A literature review indicates that this relationship has been previously noted and studied, and researchers agree that the emotional intelligence of the members of an organization affects the organization’s intellectual capital. Based on this analysis, this relationship is examined in the Turkish business context. Data are collected from top managers, who can affect the intellectual capital oftheir businesses and who, as human beings, are emotional. Thus, in this study, the emotional intelligence of top managers and their opinions regarding the intellectual capital of their businesses are considered to be related, with interesting results. When all of the factors of emotional intelligence that are likely to affect opinions regarding intellectual capital are examined using a multivariate model, the effect of emotional intelligence is revealed. Primarily, three factors of the emotional intelligence—empathy and communication skill, self-awareness and sociability—affect the participants’ opinions regarding the intellectual capital of their businesses. Univariate models are used to evaluate the effect of each emotional intelligence factor on the participants’ opinions regarding the intellectual capitalof their businesses. Empathy and communication skills affect opinions about the quality of human capital. Self-awareness affects opinions about the organizational commitment of workers. Sociability can affect opinions about information technology and information sharing. In summary, emotional intelligence affects opinions about human capital quality, information technology and information sharing
A research on the relationship between top managers’ intelligence and their ideas about business process reengineering: consideration of emotionality and spirituality
No full textAyrancı, Evren (Arel Author), Ertuğrul Ayrancı, Ayşegül (Arel Author)With its dramatic boosts to effectiveness and efficiency, Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a crucial tool for business success, thus countless businesses in various industriesare inspired to get its benefits. Though these benefits are heavily related to technical matters such as cost, speed and quality; there is also a human side associated with BPR. This study is interested in an odd dimension of this human side: top managers’ emotional and spiritual intelligence. More precisely, top managers’ emotional and spiritual intelligences are believed to be related with their ideas about the targets and critical success factors of BPR. This study not only scrutinizes this belief, but also fills in a great gap as the literature does not offer a similar research. The operationalization stage of the study includes data from top managers of businesses in İkitelli Organized Industrial Zone (OIZ) and the findings clearly point out that top managers’ spiritual intelligence is strongly and positively related with their ideas about BPR whereas there is no connection between their emotional capabilities and their mentioned ideas
Exploring the connections among spiritual leadership, altruism, and trust in family businesses
No full textPolat Dede, Nurten (Arel Author), Ayrancı, Evren (Arel Author)The purpose of this study is to test the claim that the top manager family members’ altruism and trust with regard to other family members should be connected with these top managers’ spiritual leadership feature. Data are collected from the top manager family members, who are in charge of their family businesses in Beylikduzu Organized Industrial Zone. Many instruments’ items are used for spiritual leadership, altruism and trust. The scope of spiritual leadership is wider than those of altruism and trust; besides references to the family, spiritual leadership also includes references to the participants, their subordinates and their businesses. The participants’ spiritual leadership factors are powerfully and positively related with their altruism and trust with regard to other family members. If altruism and trust are posited to affect spiritual leadership factors, this effect is partly achieved. Only some items of altruism and trust can affect spiritual leadership feature. The literature points out that spiritual leadership is suitable for family businesses on the grounds that intra-family altruism and trust can be related with spiritual leadership feature. The current study proves this relationship. Such knowledge can be used for family business succession, mentoring and coaching applications in family businesses, conflict management towards the issues related with both the family and the business, and structuring family’s involvement in the business
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