Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.2AND3.013
Geeta Sachdeva, M. Narwal
The present study addresses the globally acknowledged problems of burnout among teachers, especially as this affects private professional institutions. The study included two phases. The first phase of study uses MBI i.e. Maslach Burnout Inventory to observe the levels of burnout.In second phase of the study an attempt has been made to observe the differences in 3 factors of job burnout i.e. emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and personal accomplishment on the basis of 4 Demographic variables i.e. age, education,gender, and marital status. Results from the present study confirmed that teachers working in private professional institutions report high level of burnout. Their observed level of emotional exhaustion was more than the standard level. Besides this their depersonalisation level was more and personal accomplishment was low. But no noticeable differences were found in the dimensions of job burnout on the basis of age, gender, marital status, and education, but overall job burnout was higher than the standard level. It is recommended that teacher burnout should not be seen only as individual problem, but also an organisational problem and effective strategies on administrative part must be put in place in order to keep healthy, low burnout environment.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.2AND3.009
A. Pai, V. Krishnan
The purpose of this paper is to understand how transformational leadership is related to psychological empowerment and how it affects happiness index in a follower's life. A total of 103 employees from various Indian information technology organisations rated their superior's transformational leadership behaviour and their own empowerment and happiness. For this study, two dimensions of empowerment were taken into consideration-meaning and competence. Five dimensions of transformational leadership were captured-idealised influence attributed, idealised influence behaviour, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualised consideration. Findings suggest that idealised influence attributed and competence are the best predictors of happiness. Regression analyses also show that both competence and meaning partially mediate the relationship between each of the five dimensions of transformational leadership and follower's happiness. The paper makes recommendations to managers and organisations for improving their leadership styles, which in turn may strengthen positive attitudinal and behavioural changes among employees, thereby making them more productive.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.2AND3.014
Vibhuti Gupta, Devalina
The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions postulated by Barbara L. Fredrickson proposes that emotions like joy, interest, contentment, and love enable an individual to broaden his/her patterns of thinking and acting, which in turn build the personal coping resources, whether intellectual, physical, social, or psychological, by way of creating novel ideas, actions or social relationships. This paper is a review of 15 empirical studies carried out during 1998-2012 that support the contributions of this theory to the creation of a healthy workplace by fostering positive emotions in employees. Positive emotions were found to be pivotal in enhancing employee performance, encouraging innovation and creativity that result in sustainable business practices, helping organisations make good decisions, facilitating work-flow and motivation, developing authentic and charismatic leadership styles, job enrichment, better team performance, and satisfactory customer relations. A link between positive emotions and an upward spiral of personal and organisational resources has also been established where positive self-evaluation, development of resilience, a climate of social support, layout of clearer goals, high quality social-interaction, good health and productivity of workers have been found to promote effective coping.
芭芭拉·l·弗雷德里克森(Barbara L. Fredrickson)提出的积极情绪的拓展和构建理论认为，像喜悦、兴趣、满足和爱这样的情绪使个人能够拓宽他/她的思维和行为模式，从而通过创造新的想法、行动或社会关系，建立个人应对资源，无论是智力的、身体的、社会的还是心理的。本文回顾了1998年至2012年期间进行的15项实证研究，这些研究支持该理论通过培养员工的积极情绪来创造健康的工作场所。研究发现，积极情绪在提高员工绩效、鼓励创新和创造力(从而形成可持续的商业实践)、帮助组织做出正确决策、促进工作流程和激励、发展真实和有魅力的领导风格、丰富工作、更好的团队绩效和令人满意的客户关系方面发挥着关键作用。积极情绪与个人和组织资源的螺旋式上升之间也建立了联系，积极的自我评价、恢复力的发展、社会支持的气氛、更明确的目标的布局、高质量的社会互动、工人的健康和生产力都有助于促进有效的应对。
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.2AND3.008
B. Sahoo, S. Sia, Niranjan Sahu, A. Appu
The major thrust of the present paper, pertaining to employees' growth and development at work, attempts a systematic analysis of attitudinal outcomes and performance improvement due to psychological capital. The constructs, namely psychological capital, and work attitudes like job involvement, job satisfaction, organisational commitment, cynicism, and turnover intention have been described. Based on far reaching Indian as well as western literature and findings, it is suggested that psychological capital would be positively related to desirable attitudes like job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and job involvement whereas negatively related to undesirable attitudes like organisational cynicisms and turnover intention. Through extensive literature and findings, the researcher is aiming to formulate a conceptual model of psychological capital based on propositions and to show how psychological capital is related to job attitudes. With respect to organisational development, this paper also covers practical implication where systematic intervention of psychological capital is given utmost priority. With reference to various organisations and workplaces, how psychological capital can be applied in a scientific direction through proper training, workshop, and web-based programme in order to promote healthy and balanced life.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.2AND3.007
M. Valle, K. Kacmar, Martha C. Andrews
The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the moderating effect of the supervisor's perceived insincerity of their subordinate's influence attempts on the relationship between supervisor perceptions of supervisor-subordinate similarity, liking, and influence, and the outcomes of performance and promotability. Data on 203 subordinates from 59 managers of a state agency were used to test the study hypotheses. The results indicate that the relationships between promotability and similarity and liking, and between performance and liking were attenuated by supervisor perceptions that the subordinates were insincere in their influence attempts. Implications for the importance of sincerity in interactions with others and directions for future research are offered.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.2AND3.016
Amit Sharma, Ashok Aima, B. Sharma
This paper examines the gender difference among the customers regarding customer value in Life Insurance Sector in J&K. It is a fact that Life Insurance players in J&K have realised that their business advantage depends on customers preference based upon their gender to select the company or insurance plans. The study is based upon the primary data obtained from customers of four leading life insurance companies operating in Jammu&Kashmir through purposive sampling. A questionnaire was framed containing items of demographics and statements managing superior customer value based upon seven point Likert scale. The findings indicate that the demographic variables viz., gender, purpose of insurance and insurance plan wise, there is no significant difference regarding customer value in the perception of customers of life insurance companies operating in state.
{"title":"An Empirical Assessment of Demographic Divergence in Managing Customer Value","authors":"Amit Sharma, Ashok Aima, B. Sharma","doi":"10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.2AND3.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.2AND3.016","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the gender difference among the customers regarding customer value in Life Insurance Sector in J&K. It is a fact that Life Insurance players in J&K have realised that their business advantage depends on customers preference based upon their gender to select the company or insurance plans. The study is based upon the primary data obtained from customers of four leading life insurance companies operating in Jammu&Kashmir through purposive sampling. A questionnaire was framed containing items of demographics and statements managing superior customer value based upon seven point Likert scale. The findings indicate that the demographic variables viz., gender, purpose of insurance and insurance plan wise, there is no significant difference regarding customer value in the perception of customers of life insurance companies operating in state.","PeriodicalId":130584,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Organization and Human Behaviour","volume":"294 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131645388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human Resources is considered as most valuable asset for any organisation. In this age of information and technology, it has become imperative to manage data related to human resource. In this background, Human Resource Management System has come to limelight. The present paper provides perceptual understanding of Human Resource Information System in Indian organisations. Paper successfully highlights poor awareness and availability of HRIS in Indian scenario. Further, hypotheses and cross tabulation of data provides in-depth understanding of variations based on gender, sector and nature of organisations. And lastly, scopes for future researches have also been discussed.
{"title":"A Perceptual Study of Human Resource Information System in Indian Organisations","authors":"B. Punia, N. Garg","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2693434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2693434","url":null,"abstract":"Human Resources is considered as most valuable asset for any organisation. In this age of information and technology, it has become imperative to manage data related to human resource. In this background, Human Resource Management System has come to limelight. The present paper provides perceptual understanding of Human Resource Information System in Indian organisations. Paper successfully highlights poor awareness and availability of HRIS in Indian scenario. Further, hypotheses and cross tabulation of data provides in-depth understanding of variations based on gender, sector and nature of organisations. And lastly, scopes for future researches have also been discussed.","PeriodicalId":130584,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Organization and Human Behaviour","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128082793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21863/johb/2015.4.4.022
S. Kundu, Desh Rattan, V. Sheera, Neha Gahlawat
{"title":"Recruitment and Selection Techniques used in Corporate Sector: A Comparative Study of Indian and Multinational Companies","authors":"S. Kundu, Desh Rattan, V. Sheera, Neha Gahlawat","doi":"10.21863/johb/2015.4.4.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21863/johb/2015.4.4.022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":130584,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Organization and Human Behaviour","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115377881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.1.001
S. M. Khan
{"title":"Moderating Effect of Personal Background Variables on the Relationship of Multi-Dimensional Organisational Commitment and Perceived Work Environment - Sub Group Analysis","authors":"S. M. Khan","doi":"10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.1.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.1.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":130584,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Organization and Human Behaviour","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122673762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21863/JOHB/2015.4.1.005
Nidhi Sharma, P. Rishi
There may be many challenges that retirees experience when they leave the workplace. Many people are unable to foresee this critical aspect of their future. Therefore, a study of the effect of retirement on army officer's lifestyle, well-being and ability to cope, was undertaken keeping in mind that even after laying down the uniform, an army officer continues to have that ingrained code of conduct and ethical values that he has served and practised in his professional and personal life. Retirees experience adversity in emotional and their wellbeing. One must study the disparity that is felt when an officer retires and settles in an environment which may be different from his earlier one. This will help in identifying the coping ability, their well-being and lifestyle factors associated with retirement so that it promotes a peaceful and satisfying post retired life. It was found through qualitative analysis of semi structured interviews that retirement might coincide with many important life changes and adopting a new lifestyle. Lifestyle changes may require unforeseen adaptation and adjustments that result in a sense of disenchantment affecting their well-being.
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