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Impact of Work-life Balance on Employee Retention: The Mediation and Moderation Effect of Employee Commitment, Psychological Empowerment and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour
Get PDFIT and ITES industry has revolutionized the world and facilitated the transformation with undreamt rapidity in the global scenario. India acts as a global leader for spectacular growth in the field of information technology, which has attained USD 126 billion as revenue for both domestic and exports in the financial year 2017-18 and estimated to reach annual revenue of US $350 billion by the financial year 2025. The industry is growing at a fast speed with its increasing opportunities, services, and amplified GDP. In the contemplation with meeting the demands of the exceptional growth, industries are achieving excellence preference on survival and sustainability with the major lifeline of technology, people and process. Work-life balance measures need to be enforced to persuade and motivate the software professionals to evade organizational pressure and challenges.
Numerous researches have focussed on employee retention, which is inclined through various organizational initiatives and benefits of software organizations. However, the earlier research highlighting on WLB measures to motivate and retain the potential workforce are scant in India. Consequently, the study explored the impact of work dimensions and family dimensions of work-life balance towards enhancing perceptions on employee retention in Indian IT-ITES industry. Moreover, the research emphasizes on gauging the perceptions of employees of Indian IT-ITES industries on work-life balance, employee commitment, psychological empowerment, organizational citizenship behaviour and retention of professionals to formulate a coherent and logical connection among these study variables.
An opinion survey was fabricated among the professionals of Indian IT-ITES industry located in east, west, north and south geographic region of India. The survey has been conducted in various IT and ITES Industries like Infosys Ltd., Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Tata Technology Ltd., Mind Tree Technology Ltd., and Wipro Ltd. located in major cities of India such as Pune, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad and Jamshedpur to collect pertinent information to carry out the proposed research. The present study focuses on these five industries as all are specified in the context of both IT and ITES. A structured questionnaire encompasses of one hundred twenty one items were administered among eight hundred forty seven participants by adopting simple and stratified random sampling. In the process of opinion survey, six hundred sixty five positive and valuable responses were used owing at seventy eight percentages of response rate. The response of the participants was analyzed through SPSS 20 and AMOS 20. The preliminary analysis of data was conducted by using the descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis. Subsequently, the hypothesized research model was validated by using statistical tools such as exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modelling.
The outcome of the study exhibits that work and family dimensions have an imperative connection with work-life balance. Likewise, the study has found that work-life balance has a positive and significant association with employee commitment, psychological empowerment, and retention of professional. Further, employee retention has significant connections with employee commitment and psychological empowerment. Along with these employee commitment and psychological empowerment acts as a partial mediator the relationship between work-life balance and retention of professionals. Additionally, organizational citizenship behaviour is moderating the positive relationship between work- life balance and psychological empowerment, work- life balance and employee commitment where the relationship has found better when OCB is stronger.
Therefore, the study provides a comprehensive approach which may act as a blueprint for IT-ITES industries to improve and enhance perceived WLB as well as employee retention. Moreover, the research might offer substantial evidence to the HR and software managers for better perceived WLB measures and retain competent workforce through suitable mechanism and policies in the workplace along with the enrichment of professional competencies and motivation towards organizational performance
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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