150 research outputs found
Compassion Enhances Adaptive Performance of Health Employees by Broadening Their Creative Cognition
No full textContemporary healthcare settings characterize cognitively complex and emotionally divergent work demands entailing a high pressure on healthcare professionals for adaptive performance. This study underscored the significance of a well-integrated set of emotional and cognitive capabilities, connecting compassion and creative cognition, for healthcare professionals to address the demand for adaptive performance. Building on Broaden and Build theory (B&B) of positive emotions, this study hypothesized that compassion, which is positive emotion comprising of care and assistance to reduce others suffering, can enhance adaptive performance of healthcare professionals when positively associated with their creative cognition. This study used purposive sampling method and collected data from 408 doctors serving in public service hospitals to test the mediating role of compassion between adaptive creative cognition and adaptive performance of healthcare professionals. The statistical results demonstrate a direct and significant association of compassion with creative cognition as well as adaptive performance as well as a significant mediating role of creative cognition between compassion and adaptive performance of healthcare professionals. This study indirectly through creative cognition. This study proffered a discovery of unique integration between two distinctly identified facets of adaptive job performance. This finding highlights how specific emotions trigger creativity to satisfy the unique performance demands in healthcare settings.N
A Diary Investigation of Daily Emotions, Emotional Display, and Leaders’ Authenticity in a Cohort of City Traffic Police
No full textIn this chapter (Chapter 2), Muhammad Ali Asadullah, Usman Abdullah, and Ahmad Siddiquei report on the findings of a daily diary study they conducted in the context of a Pakistani police department. In their research, the authors sought to investigate the effects of positive and negative emotion on three dimensions of emotional labor (surface-acting, deep-acting, and genuine emotions) and their subsequent impact on both leader and follower perceptions of authenticity. In this study, 69 police officers completed diary entries twice daily - at the beginning and end of their shifts - over two working days, where they reported their emotions (using the PANAS, Watson, Clark, & Tellegan, 1988) and emotional labor (using scales developed by Grandey, 2003, and Kruml & Geddes, 2000). Both the participants and their superior officers then rated their leadership authenticity (using the scale developed by Walumbwa, Avolio, Gardner, Wernsing, & Peterson, 2008). The results were that, while negative emotions were found to link to deep-acting and surface-acting to selfperceptions of authenticity, both deep-acting and genuine emotion were found to relate to self-perceptions of authenticity
عبد المجید سالک کی خاکہ نگاری: تعارف اور فن: ABDUL MAJEED SALIK’S SKETCH WRITING: INTRODUCTION AND ART
No full textPoets, writers and intellectuals are sensitive and conscious members of any society. These people are devoted to the spirit of love, peace, progress, prosperity and goodwill. They try to create awareness in the society through their creations. Many great poets, writers and intellectuals were born in the Indian subcontinent. Among them, great people like Mirza Asadullah Ghalib, Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Hussain Azad, Abul Kalam Azad, Agha Shorush Ka Shamiri, Ghulam Rasool Mehr, Hasrat Mohani, Maulvi Abdul Haq, Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan and Ehsan Danish. Included. An important name among these people is Abdul Majeed Salik, who is a well-known poet and writer
Comparison of Outcomes of the Open and Plastibell Methods in 600+ Boys Circumcised by a Single Surgeon-A Quasi-experimental Study from Pakistan (A Lower-middle Income Country)
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A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS IN LASI
No full textLasi is one of the dialects of Sindhi language, which is spoken in district Lasbela, Balochistan (Ali, Zafar & Brohi, 2021; Ali, et al., 2022). This study investigates the process of morphological properties of transitive and intransitive verbs in Lasi. Verb is a linguistic feature which means to expresses actions. The data are collected from the native speakers of Lasi through participant observation, informal talks, and unstructured interviews so that we may have primary data. Descriptive and exploratory research designs (Creswell, 2013) are used in the study. Using Haegeman’s (1994) theory of agreement and X-bar theory, the current study finds that transitive and intransitive verbs in Lasi agree with their subjects in number, gender, and person in present and future tenses. It is also found that transitive verbs do not agree with subjects in past tense; in fact, agreement is seen between verb and object. However, intransitive verbs do agree with their subjects in present, past, and future tense. It is also found that passive forms do not require vivid subjects in the surface structure of sentences. The results show that Lasi allows dropping NPs in surface, but inflections with verbs show recover the hidden arguments (NPs)
Comparative perspective of training evaluation practices : a study of ‘Entry Level Professional Training’ of call center agents inside Pakistan
No full textLe taux élevé de rotation et recrutement, la complexité du travail et le manque de formation professionelles a augmenté la demande de la formation d'intégration professionnelle pour Représentatives des Services Clients (RSC). La question est: ‘comment est-ce-que les professionnels des centres d'appels déterminent la valeur de la formation d'intégration professionnelle des RSC. Les centres d'appels peuvent être divisés en deux groupes «In-House» et «Subcontractor» à propos la propriété. L'objectif de cette étude est d'étudier la différence dans l'évaluation de la formation d'intégration professionnelle des RSC entre ces deux groupes. «Le modèle de Kirkpatrick» de l'évaluation de formation a été utilisé avec le 5ème niveau de rentabilité de l'investissement. Ensuite, nous avons identifier les groupes de parties prenantes les plus importantes qui peuvent bénéficier d'information de l'évaluation concernant à chaque niveau de «TKM». Les données qualitatives ont été recueillies par 15 entretiens avec des groupes des professionnels de 13 centres d'appels aux Pakistan. Les données quantitatives ont été recueillies des 203 professionnels des 90 centres d'appels du Lahore, Karachi et Islamabad. Sauf pour «Réaction», il n'y avait aucune différence dans les pratiques d'évaluation des centres d'appels ‘In-House' et ‘Subcontractors.' En outre, «taille» de centre d'appels et la «durée» de la formation d'intégration professionnelle a eu un effet significatif sur la différence dans les pratiques d'évaluation. En plus, les données d'évaluation est important pour tous les groupes d'intervenants internes.Higher turnover, increased recruitment, job complexity and lack of vocational training for call center agents has increased the demand of entry level professional training of call center agents. The question is that how call center professionals determine the value of entry level professional training of call center agents. Call centers can be divided in two groups ‘In-House' and ‘Subcontractor' with respect to the ownership. The objective of this study is to investigate the difference in evaluation of entry level professional training of call center agents among these two groups of call centers. ‘The Kirkpatrick Model' of training evaluation was used to study these differences with addition of 5th level return on investment. Further, we identified stakeholder groups inside call centers. Then we attempted to identify the most important stakeholder groups who may benefit from evaluation information obtained at each level of ‘TKM' model. Data was collected from call centers inside Pakistan by using a mixed methods approach for data collection. Qualitative data was collected through 15 group interviews which were conducted with professionals of 13 call centers inside Pakistan. Quantitative data was collected from almost 203 call center professionals of 90 call centers from three cities Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. We found that except for first level ‘Reaction' there was no difference in evaluation practices of in-house and subcontractor call centers. Moreover, ‘size' of call center and ‘duration' of entry level professional training had a significant effect on the difference in evaluation practices
Constructing the Architectonics and Formulating the Articulation of Islamic Governance: A Discursive Attempt in Islamic Epistemology
No full textInternational institutions have promoted a ‘good governance’ agenda as an archetypal model to achieve development for underdeveloped and developing countries. However, closer scrutiny can trace the root of this agenda back to the hegemonic nature of modernity that proposes a specific meta-narrative upon others, as part of Eurocentrism. Many, however, have criticized this Eurocentric paradigm, since the non-Western communities with their own constructed version of ‘good’ in governance have also proven their ability to develop and prosper in the present or in the past. Thus, the cultural and value-laden nature of such vernacular concepts provides the rationale for the existence and practice of other paradigms. In line with this argument, Islam, with its long history of governance and richness of its values can be considered as another alternative, which should be thoroughly examined to disclose and depict its conceptualization and paradigm of ‘good governance’.
The aim of this research, thus, is to explore and analyze the Islamic axioms, foundation principles and values underpinning the field of governance in an attempt to construct the architectonics of a new systemic and dynamic theory and formulate the articulation of ‘Islamic governance’. This discursive and abstract, rather than being an empirical exercise, assumes to produce a ‘good governance’ framework within its own formulation through a value-shaped dynamic model according to maqÉÎid al-SharÊÑah (higher objective of SharÊÑah) by going beyond the narrow remit of classical and contemporary discussions produced on the topic, which propose a certain institutional model of governance based on the classical juristic (fiqh) method. In this new dynamic paradigm, a discourse-oriented approach is taken to establish the philosophical foundation of the model by deriving it from Islamic ontology, which is then articulated using the Islamic epistemological sources to develop and formulate the discursive foundations of this new theoretical framework. A deductive method is applied to the ontological sources and epistemological principles to explain the architectonics of this new theory, which are represented by the constructed axioms, which later help to articulate the working mechanism of the proposed ‘Islamic good governance’ framework through a specifically formulated typology to function as an alternative conceptualization of ‘good governance’.
This study, through an exclusive analytical discursive approach, finds that Islam as one of the major religions in the contemporary world with the claim of promising the underpinning principles and philosophical foundations of worldly affairs and institutions through a micro method of producing homoIslamicus could contribute towards development of societies by establishing a unique model of governance from its explicit ontological worldview through a directed descriptive epistemology. Thus, the research on governance in this study does not only focus on the positivistic materialist components such as institutions or mechanisms or growth per se, but it encompasses the value-laden holistic nature of human life in accordance with the Islamic worldview as an important contribution. In doing so, it formulates the ‘good governance’ in Islam in relation to the conceptualized ‘ihsani social capital’, which constitutes the main thrust of the constructed model. Nonetheless, this generative (non-cumulative) paradigm of looking into the governance issue should be viewed as an incomplete certainty as production of the continuous ijtihad (reasoning) progression will continue to reveal ways through which its working mechanism can be expanded along with potential developments in its philosophical formation
Affect and Helping Behavior as Explanatory Account of the Relationship between Psychological Safety and Supervisor Satisfaction
No full textPsychological safety is referred as a 'nonthreatening' and 'predictable' work environment leading employees, particularly interested to contribute positively to the organization, to engage and express their true selves at work without suffering negative results. We posit that the employee who is feeling psychologically safe experiences positive emotions, feels happy and shows helping behavior towards his coworkers and supervisors. Particularly, the supervisor reciprocates this helping behavior in form of greater satisfaction to the employee showing helping behavior. We tested our hypothesis in light of Feedback system theory and functional motive theory. We collected data from 453 employees and their supervisor in Pakistani hotels and restaurants through survey method. Result showed that positive affect and helping behavior mediate the relationship between psychological safety and supervisor satisfaction. Cross sectional design of the study is a major limitation of the study. Moreover, we focused on psychological safety only that is one of three dimensions of psychological conditions
Diversity and status of flatfish fishery at Balochistan Coast, Pakistan
No full textFlatfishes are one of the most diverse fishes of the order Pleuronectiformes and are found worldwide and constitute a large proportion of the ground fish catch. The flatfishes are commercially important species of Pakistan having high value and sold locally at higher prices as well as exported in large quantities. The present study aimed to examine the current status of flatfish fishery and their diversity in the coastal waters of Balochistan, Pakistan. These fishes were caught and landed in large quantities at different harbors of Balochistan coast. 3 species in Family Cynoglossidae, 3 species of family Paralichthyidae and 3 species from family Soleidae were recorded. The Cynoglossus arel and S. elongata were the most abundant species and collectively accounts for 82 % abundance in the total flatfish landings. Sur bandar and Pasni are the main fishing grounds for flatfish fishery at Balochistan coast. The highest catch was reported at Sur bandar in 2018 with 2227.99 and 14496.416 in 2019 and the lowest catch reported in Gaddani in 2019 with only 6.55 metric tons. The high demand and increasing catch of these fishes requires a management approach.PublishedReferee
Social-economic contribution of vocational education and training: an evidence from OECD countries
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of national investment in vocational education and training (VET) on the economic growth through the mediating role of social inclusion.
Design/methodology/approach
This study is based on a panel data of 31 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries for 15 years collected through secondary sources.
Findings
The statistical results of the study have supported the entire hypotheses. Particularly, the results demonstrate that the social inclusion strengthens the contribution of VET in the economic growth.
Practical implications
This study offers various policy implications for the policy makers of developing countries. Particularly, the policy makers of developing countries need to emphasize on social inclusion to enhance the contribution of national investment in VET while following the vocational education models of developed nations.
Originality/value
This study offers its theoretical contribution in the literature of VET by highlighting a mediating mechanism to explain how national investment in VET can contribute in economic growth through social inclusion.
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