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Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Employee Psychological Contract in Selected Glove Manufacturing Companies in Selangor, Malaysia
Get PDFMergers and Acquisitions (M&A) represent pivotal corporate manoeuvres designed to enhance business growth, market competitiveness, and financial gains. The glove manufacturing sector in Malaysia has experienced a notable surge in M&A activities in recent years. Although these strategic undertakings hold the potential for considerable corporate advantages, they also bear a substantial impact on the psychological contracts of employees. The psychological contract embodies the tacit set of expectations, perspectives, and convictions held between employees and employers. It covers the perceived mutual commitments, assurances, and collective understandings within the employment bond. These contracts, though unspoken and not codified in formal documents, are derived from interactions, the organization's ethos, and its policies and practices. Essentially, psychological contracts mirror employees' personal beliefs about their anticipated benefits from the employer, alongside their own contributions. Expectations might span job stability, career progression opportunities, acknowledgment, work-life harmony, and the broader work experience. The nature of a psychological contract is fluid, adjusting with shifts in the workplace, policy modifications, leadership changes, and personal employee journeys. Effectively navigating and honouring these contracts is vital for nurturing positive employee engagement, contentment, and organizational triumph. When employees' preconceptions are met by their actual work experiences, it fosters a thriving and efficient workplace. Conversely, discrepancies or breaches of the psychological contract can precipitate employee discontent, sagging morale, and waning organizational allegiance. This study delves into the effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on the psychological contracts of employees in Selangor, Malaysia's glove manufacturing industry. As M&A becomes increasingly commonplace in today's fast-evolving business milieu, it's imperative to scrutinize its impact on the fabric of the employer-employee relationship. The inquiry is set against the backdrop of Selangor's glove industry, a sector of significant economic weight, and examines how corporate amalgamations may reshape the workforce's landscape. The analysis of the interplay between a range of elements and the facets of the psychological contract amid mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has yielded insightful revelations. Within the cognitive realm, components such as supportive interrelations, supervisory and peer backing, along with a sense of fairness, are found to bolster psychological well-being and presence, thereby fostering employee engagement. Conversely, detrimental elements like workplace aggression, high staff turnover, stress, and subpar performance impinge upon the affective aspect, eroding employee dedication. Moreover, efficacious dialogue, personal convictions of the workforce, and the practice of mindfulness contribute positively to the affective sphere. In terms of behaviour, the working milieu’s factors, including supervisory and collective organizational backing, are pivotal in shaping staff conduct. M&A activities precipitate profound alterations in behaviour, amplifying collaborative efforts and cultivating a culture of enhanced transparency within teams. The research underscores the complex nature of psychological contracts during periods of M&A, offering key strategies for guiding employees through these organizational changes. The establishment of nurturing relationships, the assurance of fairness, the resolution of workplace conflicts, and the advancement of transparent communication and mindfulness are identified as vital to the successful navigation of M&As. By attentively managing these facets of the psychological contract, organizations can secure a positive and engaging employee experience and maintain steadfast dedication during times of transition. While the cross-sectional design of this study may introduce common method bias, constraints within the organizational setting limited the methodology choices. Nevertheless, the study's practical findings reveal that M&A activities exert a considerable impact on how individuals perceive their employment relationship. Employees adept at navigating organizational changes tend to perceive their psychological contract as evolving into a revised, and sometimes less advantageous, one. Therefore, it becomes imperative for organizational leaders to actively foster employees' adaptability to change, thus shielding them from the potential negative impacts of M&A. This paper contributes unique insights into the shifts in psychological contracts post-M&A, particularly within the glove manufacturing industry, with a special emphasis on the experiences of mid level employees
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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