40 research outputs found
The process of choosing a management career: evaluation of gender and contextual dynamics in a comparative study of six countries: Hungary, Israel, North Cyprus, Turkey, UK and USA
No full textPurpose – The aim of this article is to identify the reasons MBA students have for their career choices, and to explore the contextual and gender-related aspects of career choice and development, based on a comparative study carried out with participants in six countries, i.e. Hungary, Israel, North Cyprus, Turkey, the UK and the USA. The paper seeks to investigate how cultural values and beliefs and gender differentially influence the career choices of MBA students towards managerial or entrepreneurial careers. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative research design was applied by using a survey instrument that draws on a cross-national study. Findings – Differences exist in influences on career choice and development between women and men in one of the research settings (Turkey). In all six countries, women have a more societal value orientation and tend to undertake more charity work. Men are more likely to believe that “competition is the law of nature” and men appear to opt more for an entrepreneurial career route in all six countries. Originality/value – The study provides an understanding of the major gender-related similarities and differences in the career development of MBA students in six countries, and paves the way for further research in the field
A comparative study on career choice influences of Turkish Cypriot restauranteurs in North Cyprus and the UK
No full textA comparative study of the reasons for and means of setting-up a small business: the case of Turkish Cypriot restaurateurs and lawyers in North Cyprus and Britain.
No full textPhDThis study aims to generate insights into the business start-up activities of Turkish
Cypriot business owners in the restaurant and the legal sectors in North Cyprus and
Britain, by drawing cross cultural comparisons between the two sectors, and the two
countries. The research objectives are to examine the business start-up reasons for
Turkish Cypriot restaurateurs and lawyers; to identify and investigate, the 'forms of
capital' (Bourdieu, 1986) that they acquire and deploy; and to compare and contrast the
business start-up activities of Turkish Cypriots cross-nationally, North Cyprus and
Britain, and cross-sectorally, restaurant and legal sectors.
Methodologically, the research draws on extensive fieldwork with 66 participants
drawn from two different sectors in both countries. Applying a critical realist
methodology, experiences of participants are examined by analysing rich interview
material and documentary evidence.
Business start-up activity of Turkish Cypriots is a multi-faceted phenomenon, which is
examined in this thesis by looking into the interplay of agentic and structural influences.
The agentic influences, such as individual reasons for financial betterment, serving to
their community groups, desire for independence, are intertwined with structural
factors. The most important structural factors appear to be the importance of family and
changing socio-economic conditions. There are cross-country and cross-sectoral
variations in the degree to which these factors influence business set-up experiences.
The thesis makes empirical contributions to this field of study. There have been
extensive studies which have touched on ethnicity, sectoral differences, cross-national
variations and individual forms of capital. However, there has not been a study which
looked at the complex intersection of these key structural influences on business set-up
activity. This study fills this gap and contributes to our understanding of mainstream
and minority ethnic business start-up experiences between business start-up experiences
in one ethnic community across two sectors and two countries. Empirically, the research
findings reveal that both agentic and structural influences shape 'business start-up
activity of Turkish Cypriots in restaurant and legal sectors, in North Cyprus and Britain
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No full textConvergence and divergence of influences on career choice: a comparative analysis of influences on career choices of MBA students in China, Ghana, Greece, Israel, Korea, North Cyrpus, Turkey and UK
No full textConvergence and divergence of influences on career choice: a comparative analysis of influences on career choices of MBA students in China, Ghana, Greece, Israel, Korea, North Cyprus, Turkey and United Kingdom
No full textValidity and Reliability Study for the Turkish Version of Number Sense Screener for 60-71 Months Old Children
No full textIn this study, it was aimed to carry out the validity and reliability study of Number Sense Screener (NSS)’s Turkish version for 60-71 year-old children. The universe of the study in which general survey model was used consists of children at 60-71 years of age, who were continuing their education during the spring term of academic year 2017-2018 in public and private kindergartens under the Ministry of National Education within the central district of Aydin/Turkey. As for the sample of the study, 658 children contunuing their education in 12 different preschools pre-determined according to socioeconomic status (low-middle-high) were included through systematic sampling method. Validity and reliability studies were carried out using data from the NSS application. Drawing from the analyses, it was determined that item difficulty values of the assessment tool ranged between 0.08 and 0.96, item discrimination indices ranged between 0.17 and 0.53 and item infit and outfit values ranged between 0.50-1.50. Having used Guttman's lambda-2, Alpha coefficient, Feldt-Gilmer coefficient, Feldt-Brennan coefficient and Raju's beta coefficient, it was determined that reliability coefficient calculated for the entire assessment tool varied between .826 and .837. Following DIF analysis, it was concluded that assessment tool items were not biased towards gender. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that the Turkish version of NSS is a valid and reliable assessment tool for assessing the number sense of children at 60-71 months of age
Analyse of the Relation between the Coloured Progressive Matrices Test and the Cognitive Abilities Test Form-6 in the Preschool Period of Gifted Children
No full textThe diagnosis of preschool gifted children in Turkey has just come up in recent years. Therefore, there is a need for measurement tools that can be applied during the diagnosis phase of preschool gifted children. The aim of this study was to diagnose the relation between the non-verbal and culture-independent Colour Progressive Matrices Test that's frequently used in the international field during the preschool period and the Cognitive Ability Test Form-6, which is a group of tests that assess the cognitive abilities of children in different age groups including verbal, quantitative and nonverbal dimensions, and which is also used in the diagnosis of gifted children in the international arena, to contribute to the diagnosis of preschool gifted children. The sample of the study consisted of 125 children who attended nine preschool education institutions determined by the socio-economic level (low-middle-high) in the central district Efeler of the province Aydin. The mean age of the children is 4.9 and the standard deviation is .8. 49 of the children were girls (39.2%) and 76 were boys (60.8%). Colour Progressive Matrices Test and Cognitive Abilities Test Form-6 were implemented individually to the children. The study revealed that the tests had correlation, the verbal and quantitative dimensions of the Cognitive Abilities Test Form-6 were found to predict the nonverbal cognitive ability of the Coloured Progressive Matrices Test.</jats:p
Integrated Production and Transportation Scheduling Problem With Multiple Plants, Multiple Vehicles and Perishable Products
No full textThe integrated production and transportation scheduling problem is one of the interesting topics in the literature. This paper addresses Integrated Production and Transportation Scheduling Problems with Multiple Plants, Multiple Vehicles, and Perishable Products (PTSP-MP-MV). To the best of our knowledge, this problem has not been studied in the literature. In this problem, each plant has a different capacity and a different production rate. There is a single machine and a limited number of homogeneous vehicles in each plant. Each vehicle can be used more than once because of the vehicle capacity and planning horizon restrictions. Only one type of product is produced, and this product has a limited lifespan. The objective of the problem is to minimize the total cost including production, distribution, and vehicle costs. We propose a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation for the problem and strengthen it with several valid inequalities to improve lower bounds. The performance of the formulation is calculated using a newly generated set of test instances. Computational results show that small-sized instances with 5 and 10 customers can be solved optimally in less than 90 s. Satisfactory results are obtained for the test instances up to 20 customers whose optimality gap values are calculated as 0.54% nearly 1 h. It is also shown that the valid inequalities are improved lower bounds about 3%. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Acknowledgements. This study is derived from the author Gozde CAN ATASA-GUN’s PhD thesis entitled “The Coordinated Production and Transportation Scheduling Problem with Multiple Plants and Multiple Vehicles” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ismail KARAOGLAN) which is supported by Konya Technical University Coordinatorship of Scientific Research Projects with the project number of 18101021 and has not been published elsewhere.Konya Teknik Üniversitesi, KTÜN: 1810102
