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Transformational Leadership, Work Engagement and Performance Among Public Service Employees in Uganda
Get PDFThis study aims at examining the relationship between transformational leadership, work engagement and performance among employees of the public service in Uganda. The study also reports an investigation into the mediating effect of work engagement on the relationship between transformational leadership and performance. To test the relationships between transformational leadership, work engagement and performance, the author applied the Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient. The mediating effect was tested using the three step regression analysis proposed by Baron and Kenny (1986). Data was collected from 132 employees of Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development in Uganda. The results show a positive and significant relationship between transformational leadership, work engagement and employee performance. Though, the inspirational motivation component of transformational leadership is not related to overall work engagement. And the transformational leadership component of individualised consideration is not related to overall performance. Work engagement is found to fully mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ performance. So even when the results of this study to a certain extent are explained by the social exchange theory, emphasis should be on creating an environment of work engagement by management because this has shown to increase employee performance. However, a possible limitation could be arising from the use of self-report questionnaires. That is, responses generated from the “employees only” could have been biased because they might have expected chastisement for negative responses. Keywords Transformational leadership, Work engagement, Performance DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-23-03 Publication date:August 31st 202
Fostering Student Engagement Through Academic Interest: Understanding Its Central Role in Belonging and Participation in High School
Get PDFThis study investigated the relationship between academic interest and student engagement among Senior Three (S.3) students in selected secondary schools within Wakiso District, Uganda. It focused on how intrinsic motivation affects the cognitive, emotional, and behavioural aspects of learning, especially the sense of belonging and participation. Guided by engagement theory and Hidi and Renninger’s four-phase model of interest development, the research used a quantitative correlational design. Data were collected through structured questionnaires given to a sample of 297 students, chosen using a proportionate stratified random sampling method. Pearson’s correlation analysis showed significant positive relationships between academic interest and overall engagement (r = .605, p < .01), sense of belonging (r = .543, p < .01), and participation (r = .480, p < .01). Stronger correlations were also found between sense of belonging and engagement (r = .862, p < .01), and between participation and engagement (r = .836, p < .01). These results highlight the important role of academic interest in encouraging meaningful school engagement. The study recommends promoting student interest through learner-centred teaching, relevant curricula, and inclusive learning environments. The implications for educational practice and policy emphasise the importance of academic interest as a key factor in increasing engagement and improving academic outcome
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
Gender, Organizational Commitment and Job Performance in the Ugandan Local Government
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper was to establish the association between gender, organizational commitment and job performance of sub-county chiefs in the Ugandan local government. Most of the literature review indicates the effect of gender on organizational commitment, the effect of gender on job performance and the relationship between organizational commitment and job performance. A total of 320 sub-county chiefs were involved in the study and were selected using multi-stage stratified random sampling. A self-administered questionnaire used to collect data measured the following variables: Organizational commitment, job performance, and demographic variables of gender, age, educational level and tenure (years of experience). Data was entered into the computer using SPSS program. Factor analysis was carried out to establish different components of job performance, which were: cooperation, time consciousness, organization citizenship behavior (OCB), and communication. The already established components of organizational commitment that were used were: affective, continuance and normative commitment. A t-test, Pearson correlation and regression analyses were carried out to test the hypotheses. Results indicated that: gender does not significantly influence organizational commitment as well as it components of affective, continuance and normative commitment; males and females do not significantly differ on their levels of job performance and its components of cooperation, time consciousness, organization citizenship behavior and communication; there was a positive significant relationship between overall job performance and affective commitment as well as normative commitment; and only affective commitment was a significant predictor of job performance. Employees who value hard work, and are committed and highly participate in organizational activities are likely to be outstanding (good) performers. However, targeting one employee attitude in order to improve performance may not be enough. It is very important to focus on a combined pattern of work attitudes to obtain the desired goals. Keywords: Gender, Organizational commitment, Job performance DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-14-03 Publication date:May 31st 202
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
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