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WORK-LIFE INTEGRATION STRATEGIES AND CAREER SUCCESS IN THE NIGERIAN BANKING INDUSTRY
Get PDFThis study examined the relationship between work-life integration strategies and career success in the Nigerian banking industry. The target population of the study comprise employees of deposit money banks (DMBs) in Rivers State, Nigeria; however the study was streamlined to ten biggest DMBs in Rivers State, Nigeria.Using purposive sampling techniques a sample of 250 respondents were drawn from the selected DMBs. A quasi-experimental research design was employed, and data was collected through a cross-sectional survey, and the researchers gathered their data from primary sources using a 5-point Likert-type validated questionnaire. The correlation analysis using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 25 was used for data analysisas it allows the researcher to estimate relationship between two variables. The result illustrates that work-life integration strategies has a positive influence on career success in the Nigerian banking industry. Specifically, the dimensions of work-life integration such as flexible work arrangements, transparent/open communication, employees’ training and development, wellness programmes, encouraging time-off/leave policy, and measuring work results, not hours respectively, were revealed to have a positive and statistically significant correlation with career success in the Nigerian banking industry. Based on these findings above, this study concludes thatflexible work arrangements, transparent/open communication, employees’ training and development, wellness programmes, encouraging time-off/leave policy, and measuring work results, not hours respectively, play significant roles in enhancing employees’ career success in the Nigerian banking industry.This study therefore is a strategic imperative for top management and other decision makers in the Nigerian banking industry seeking to encourage career success of their employees and to foster a thriving and sustainable workplaceby formulating suitable policies and guidelines to ensure the implementation of favourable work-life integration strategies. Other theoretical and practical implications for managing work life integration and promoting career success are also discussed
GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ORGANISATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY IN THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY IN RIVERS STATE
Get PDFThis cross-sectional study examined how the Food and Beverage (F&B) businesses in Rivers State interacts with organisational sustainability (OS). A standardized questionnaire based on a 5-point Likert-type scale was used to collect information from 303 participants. The data were analyzed via descriptive statistics and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The findings indicate a statistically significant beneficial correlation between GHRM practices and OS. These results suggest that implementing GHRM, even if minimal, can improve the performance and sustainability of F&B. The practical results suggest that Food and Beverage companies may improve operational efficiency and viability over time by incorporating sustainability projects into their HRM policies and practices. The professional implications highlight the significance of aligning Human Resource Strategies with environmental and social goals in order to promote sustainability and competitiveness. Based on the findings above, the study recommends that GHRM be integrated into company policies, that environmentally friendly methods of employment be adopted, and that businesses promote a culture of social responsibility. The study also recommends that F&B companies do more research to investigate the many mechanisms by which GHRM influences the OS, allowing for the development of targeted implementation strategies to optimize effectiveness
WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN NIGERIA BANKING INDUSTRY
Get PDFThis study investigates the relationship between work-life balance and organizational commitment in the Nigerian banking industry. The descriptive survey research design the cross-sectional strategy to obtain data from the respondents. The population consists of bank employees in Rivers State, Nigeria. A sample size of 310 bank employees was determined using purposive sampling and Taro Yamen’s formula. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire distributed to participants, with a high response rate of 90.7%, resulting in 281 usable responses. Analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics, including mean, standard deviation, and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The findings indicate a significant positive correlation between role engagement and all dimensions of organizational commitment, as well as between role conflict and organizational commitment. These results underscore the importance of fostering work-life balance initiatives to enhance organizational commitment in the Nigerian banking sector. Recommendations include implementing flexible work arrangements, supporting employee well-being, and providing training opportunities to improve work-life balance skills
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR AND CONTINUANCE COMMITMENT IN THE RIVERS STATE CIVIL SERVICE
Get PDFThis study examined the relationship between transformational leadership behaviour and continuance commitment. A sample of 185 randomly selected managerial and non-managerial employees from ten (10) purposively drawn major Oil and Gas companies in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. A quasi-experimental research design was used, and data were collected through a cross-sectional survey using a questionnaire. The Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 15 was used for data analysis.The findings indicated the existence of a strong positive and statistically significant relationship between leaders’ transformational leadership behaviour and continuance commitment in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry. Specifically, leaders’idealised influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individualized considerationwere revealed to have a strong positive and statistically significant influence on the employees’ personal sacrifices and low alternatives in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry. Based on these findings, the study concludes that leaders’ transformational leadership behaviourplays a significant role in enhancing continuance commitment in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry. Specifically, leaders’ idealised influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration play a significant role in enhancing the employees’ personal sacrifices and low alternatives in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry. Other theoretical and practical implications for enhancingemployees'continuance commitment in the Nigerian workplace are presented
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
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