Pub Date : 2021-07-28DOI: 10.1504/ijhrdm.2021.10039957
Jukka Moilanen, T. Montonen, P. Eriksson
This article draws attention to how scientists make sense of commercialisation activities at the university. Using the critical sensemaking lens (CSM), it illustrates how the juxtaposition of the d...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-28DOI: 10.1504/ijhrdm.2021.116921
T. Montonen, P. Eriksson, Eeva Aromaa
This article explores identities in-between and the experience of liminal and hybrid identities in academic work. The longitudinal qualitative case study illustrates how liminal identities crossing...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-28DOI: 10.1504/ijhrdm.2021.10039970
P. Misra, Prachi Deepak Patil, Aparna Gupta
With the Indian retail industry in a boom phase, it is anticipated that the Indian retail market will increase by approximately 60% and be at USD1.1 trillion by 2020. Interestingly, along with the changing environment in the retail space, customer preferences and expectations have also been changing at a very fast pace. In the past researchers explained two dimensions of customers on the basis of their purchase intent - hedonic, who relate to the feelings of sensation and utilitarian whose primary intent is to fulfil the task or requirement (Batra, 1990; Voss et al., 2003). The present research seeks to study the impact of atmospheric factors, i.e., layout of the store, it is physical structure and ambience, lighting, profile, i.e., crowd and staff profile, as well as the location on the dependent variable, customer satisfaction for retail store operations in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR).
随着印度零售业处于繁荣阶段，预计到2020年，印度零售市场将增长约60%，达到1.1万亿美元。有趣的是，随着零售环境的变化，消费者的偏好和期望也在快速变化。过去，研究人员根据顾客的购买意图解释了顾客的两个维度——享乐主义，他们与感觉感受有关，功利主义，他们的主要意图是完成任务或要求(Batra, 1990;Voss et al.， 2003)。本研究旨在研究大气因素的影响，即商店的布局，它是物理结构和氛围，照明，轮廓，即人群和工作人员的轮廓，以及位置对因变量，顾客满意度的零售店运营在德里和国家首都地区(NCR)。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-28DOI: 10.1504/ijhrdm.2021.116935
L. Christie, Katherine Dubrowski
This teaching case study examines strategic decisions made at a non-profit organisation to elevate staff and improve morale following voluntary employee turnover. A values survey administered before, and after, implementation of strategic decisions provides insight regarding personal and organisational values centred on collaboration, empowerment, accountability, and embracing change. Analysis of employee ratings across the two time periods revealed employees' views of the organisation had changed following employee turnover. Further analysis of the perceived rationale for ratings was used to explain how recent efforts to reorganise resulted in the collective embodiment of organisational values.
{"title":"Understanding the effects of inclusive strategic decision-making on embodiment of organisational values","authors":"L. Christie, Katherine Dubrowski","doi":"10.1504/ijhrdm.2021.116935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhrdm.2021.116935","url":null,"abstract":"This teaching case study examines strategic decisions made at a non-profit organisation to elevate staff and improve morale following voluntary employee turnover. A values survey administered before, and after, implementation of strategic decisions provides insight regarding personal and organisational values centred on collaboration, empowerment, accountability, and embracing change. Analysis of employee ratings across the two time periods revealed employees' views of the organisation had changed following employee turnover. Further analysis of the perceived rationale for ratings was used to explain how recent efforts to reorganise resulted in the collective embodiment of organisational values.","PeriodicalId":35409,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42887708","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 : 2021-07-28DOI: 10.1504/ijhrdm.2021.116922
Shreya Mishra, Manosi Chaudhuri, A. Dey
Workplace bullying is a worldwide phenomenon, and the onus of safeguarding the employees from the same, remains with the top managers of the organisation. While exploring this phenomenon, the authors wondered what if the executives within the top management themselves become the target of bullying? Thus, this paper aims to explore aspects of workplace bullying within the top managers of organisations. A constructivist approach was taken for the study, which adopted a constructivist grounded theory method to capture and analyse 13 in-depth interviews with top executives from public and private sector organisations in India. It was found that top managers face intensified bullying. The study explored the antecedents, forms, repercussions, and ways of coping with bullying. Findings show that targets primarily face peer bullying and/or mobbing. This study bridges a gap in the literature which lacks empirical studies on bullying at the top level of organisations.
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If Nigeria's economy is essentially import based, then the issue and fact that her infrastructure for industrial development and export are grossly underdeveloped, when the nation is having abundant national mineral resources to improve on her foreign earning, being a maritime and oil producing nation, Nigeria is not gaining enough from this natural resources due to the poor position of policy guiding the shipping trade and oil business. In this research work emphasis was laid on indigenous shipping operations in the areas of cargo oil shipment (importation and exporting) with the necessary policy guiding the operation in the business i.e. the National Shipping Policy Act of April, 1987 and the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNTAD) code of conduct on conference lines and the role of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in area of oil shipment as defined by the NNPC policy on oil transportation by sea. Emphasis on the demerits of foreign shipping lines, continued domination of the shipping trade particularly in area of oil cargo; the challenges, prospect and the need of indigenous participation in oil shipment business, that Nigeria can use at the benefit of balance of payment was researched. While, the foreign shipping lines and operators continue to dominate the oil shipment trade in Nigeria even at the turn of the 21st century, Nigeria's corporate policy on shipping especially as it affects her indigenous operations remains hazy and at best epileptic. This research work in addition unraveled some of the policy and action that have kept Nigerian Indigenous Shipping Companies in a perpetual state of near paralysis and how such avoidable trends could be reversed in favour of growth and development of the Nation in general.
{"title":"Challenges and Prospects of Indigenous Shipowners’ Participation in Oil Shipment In Nigeria","authors":"E. N. Amasike","doi":"10.7176/jrdm/77-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jrdm/77-04","url":null,"abstract":"If Nigeria's economy is essentially import based, then the issue and fact that her infrastructure for industrial development and export are grossly underdeveloped, when the nation is having abundant national mineral resources to improve on her foreign earning, being a maritime and oil producing nation, Nigeria is not gaining enough from this natural resources due to the poor position of policy guiding the shipping trade and oil business. In this research work emphasis was laid on indigenous shipping operations in the areas of cargo oil shipment (importation and exporting) with the necessary policy guiding the operation in the business i.e. the National Shipping Policy Act of April, 1987 and the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNTAD) code of conduct on conference lines and the role of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in area of oil shipment as defined by the NNPC policy on oil transportation by sea. Emphasis on the demerits of foreign shipping lines, continued domination of the shipping trade particularly in area of oil cargo; the challenges, prospect and the need of indigenous participation in oil shipment business, that Nigeria can use at the benefit of balance of payment was researched. While, the foreign shipping lines and operators continue to dominate the oil shipment trade in Nigeria even at the turn of the 21st century, Nigeria's corporate policy on shipping especially as it affects her indigenous operations remains hazy and at best epileptic. This research work in addition unraveled some of the policy and action that have kept Nigerian Indigenous Shipping Companies in a perpetual state of near paralysis and how such avoidable trends could be reversed in favour of growth and development of the Nation in general.","PeriodicalId":35409,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74955000","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}
There have been considerable reports on flood frequency, vulnerability and risk especially on Makurdi. However, not much has been known about the proportional contribution of the causal factors and distribution among vulnerable areas. This aspect remains fundamental in flood disaster and risk management decisions and actions. It is on this premise that this study applied the spatial multi-criteria evaluation technique (SMCE). The four (4) broad categories of flood causative factors: Climatic (rainfall) , soil (textural distribution of clay and sand content), morphometric (slope, linear and areal) and Land Use / Land Cover (built-up land, bare land, farm land, vegetated land, wetland and water bodies/broad river) were used for the analytic hierarchy process and weighted sum overlay technique. The analysis revealed percentage contributions of the most effective flood causing factors as follows: Rainfall (44.89%), morphometry (34.02%), Landuse / Landcover (12.8%) and soil (6.28%). The weighted sum overlay result shows that low flood vulnerability areas occupy 43.11% (460.782 km 2 ), moderate flood vulnerability areas 31.13% (332.717 km 2 ) and high flood vulnerability 25.75% (275.238 km 2 ). Since this study identified rainfall as the major determinant of flooding it recommends that annual and seasonal rainfall predictions should be enhanced in Makurdi. Also, the area with high flood vulnerability which coincides with built-up area should drive the promotion of flood resilience city structures and enforced by relevant public institutions such as Federal Ministry of Environment, Urban Planning Departments, Works and Housing. Therefore, remediation actions can be applied for the high vulnerability areas while mitigation actions can be focused more on the moderate flood vulnerability areas.
有大量关于洪水频率、脆弱性和风险的报告，特别是在马库尔迪。然而，人们对致病因素的比例贡献及其在脆弱地区的分布知之甚少。这方面仍然是洪水灾害和风险管理决策和行动的基础。在此前提下，本研究采用了空间多准则评价技术(SMCE)。洪水成因的四大类:气候(降雨)、土壤(粘土和沙子含量的质地分布)、形态(坡度、线性和面积)和土地利用/土地覆盖(建成区、裸地、农田、植被、湿地和水体/宽阔河流)，采用了层次分析法和加权叠加技术。结果表明，降雨(44.89%)、地貌(34.02%)、土地利用/覆被(12.8%)和土壤(6.28%)对洪涝影响最大。加权叠加结果表明，低洪水易损性区占43.11% (460.782 km 2)，中度洪水易损性区占31.13% (332.717 km 2)，高洪水易损性区占25.75% (275.238 km 2)。由于这项研究确定降雨量是洪水的主要决定因素，因此建议加强马库尔迪的年度和季节性降雨量预测。此外，与建成区重合的高洪水脆弱性地区应推动防洪城市结构的推广，并由联邦环境部、城市规划部门、工程和住房等相关公共机构实施。因此，可对高易损性区域采取补救措施，而对中度易损性区域采取缓解措施。
{"title":"Spatial Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Proportional Accountability of Flood Causal Factors and Vulnerable Areas in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria","authors":"C. Ndabula","doi":"10.7176/jrdm/77-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jrdm/77-03","url":null,"abstract":"There have been considerable reports on flood frequency, vulnerability and risk especially on Makurdi. However, not much has been known about the proportional contribution of the causal factors and distribution among vulnerable areas. This aspect remains fundamental in flood disaster and risk management decisions and actions. It is on this premise that this study applied the spatial multi-criteria evaluation technique (SMCE). The four (4) broad categories of flood causative factors: Climatic (rainfall) , soil (textural distribution of clay and sand content), morphometric (slope, linear and areal) and Land Use / Land Cover (built-up land, bare land, farm land, vegetated land, wetland and water bodies/broad river) were used for the analytic hierarchy process and weighted sum overlay technique. The analysis revealed percentage contributions of the most effective flood causing factors as follows: Rainfall (44.89%), morphometry (34.02%), Landuse / Landcover (12.8%) and soil (6.28%). The weighted sum overlay result shows that low flood vulnerability areas occupy 43.11% (460.782 km 2 ), moderate flood vulnerability areas 31.13% (332.717 km 2 ) and high flood vulnerability 25.75% (275.238 km 2 ). Since this study identified rainfall as the major determinant of flooding it recommends that annual and seasonal rainfall predictions should be enhanced in Makurdi. Also, the area with high flood vulnerability which coincides with built-up area should drive the promotion of flood resilience city structures and enforced by relevant public institutions such as Federal Ministry of Environment, Urban Planning Departments, Works and Housing. Therefore, remediation actions can be applied for the high vulnerability areas while mitigation actions can be focused more on the moderate flood vulnerability areas.","PeriodicalId":35409,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90590067","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}
The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) dataset is used to examine projected trend in temperature and precipitation over Jimma zone. The changes are computed under three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs; SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP6 and SSP5-8.5) from 1980-2020. This study was undertaken to analyze rainfall and Temperature trend in Jimma zone, ONRS of Ethiopia. The study employed Mann-Kendall’s test to detect change in rainfall trends. Results for rainfall trend analysis for Jimma zone indicated decreasing trends, Overall, the observed trends were not statistically significant at 1% and 5%. Temperature is projected to increase over the entire domain under all three SSPs, by as much as 6 °C under SSP5-8.5, and with more pronounced increased. The mean temperature in the study area ranges from 20’C to 25 ‘C with annual average temperature of 22 ‘C. The rate of change of temperature was found to be 0.0181, 0.3536, 0.2041 and 0.026 ‘C per decade for mean, minimum and maximum respectively during the period of 1980–2020. The results of MK test for monthly precipitation data revealed a statistically significant decreasing trend (at 10% level of significance). attributed to an increase in the minimum temperature. It is, therefore, imperative to adjust the agriculture activity with the variability situation and design planned climate change adaptation strategies so as to enhance the adaptive capacity and resilience of rainfed dependent smallholder farmers
{"title":"Temperature and Precipitation Trends Using CMIP6 Model Data Using the Different Senarios in Jimma Zone, ONRS of Ethiopia","authors":"G. Fufa, Solomon Addisu, A. Regassa","doi":"10.7176/jrdm/77-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jrdm/77-01","url":null,"abstract":"The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) dataset is used to examine projected trend in temperature and precipitation over Jimma zone. The changes are computed under three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs; SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP6 and SSP5-8.5) from 1980-2020. This study was undertaken to analyze rainfall and Temperature trend in Jimma zone, ONRS of Ethiopia. The study employed Mann-Kendall’s test to detect change in rainfall trends. Results for rainfall trend analysis for Jimma zone indicated decreasing trends, Overall, the observed trends were not statistically significant at 1% and 5%. Temperature is projected to increase over the entire domain under all three SSPs, by as much as 6 °C under SSP5-8.5, and with more pronounced increased. The mean temperature in the study area ranges from 20’C to 25 ‘C with annual average temperature of 22 ‘C. The rate of change of temperature was found to be 0.0181, 0.3536, 0.2041 and 0.026 ‘C per decade for mean, minimum and maximum respectively during the period of 1980–2020. The results of MK test for monthly precipitation data revealed a statistically significant decreasing trend (at 10% level of significance). attributed to an increase in the minimum temperature. It is, therefore, imperative to adjust the agriculture activity with the variability situation and design planned climate change adaptation strategies so as to enhance the adaptive capacity and resilience of rainfed dependent smallholder farmers","PeriodicalId":35409,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72627356","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}
Systematic and timely training and development of employees is crucial to attaining optimal performance in both the private and public sectors. This study examines the extent to which employees' training and development enhance employees' performance in the Gombe State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development. The study adopted a survey design with a questionnaire and unstructured interview as the instrument of data collection. The study has a population of 271, out of which 155 was sampled through stratified and random sampling techniques. Data were presented using tables and simple percentages, while chi-square was used to test the research hypothesis. The study found no significant difference among the staff in the perception that training and development does not support employees' performance in the Ministry as training and development programmes are not being organised for staff. The study also established that the Ministry's leadership had not shown a good appreciation of the critical role of regular training of staff in enhancing employees' performance. The study recommends, among others, a change in the disposition of the leadership of the Ministry and the Office of the Head of Service to the training of staff through the development of mechanisms for establishing employees' skills deficiency; and requesting the Government to make a budgetary line for staff training in the State’s yearly budgets. Keywords: Training and Development; Employees’ Performance; Performance Evaluation; Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development; Gombe. DOI: 10.7176/JRDM/77-05 Publication date: July 31 st 2021
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Water is one of the vital necessity or the need for human being and for all living things. This study was conducted to assess the existing and to forecast the future water supply and demand status of the Areka town, southern Ethiopia. A total of 196 households (HHs) were randomly selected and interviewed by using a questionnaire. To collect the required data, interview and observation were used and written documents were reviewed. Data analyzed by SPSS and Excel spread sheet. The town population was growing rapidly, but water production was low, i.e. only 720m 3 /d. This covers only 51.9% of the total population. Additional water production of 26.49 l/s (2288.7m 3 /d) was required to fill the gap. Available per capita water demand, i.e. 11.48l/c/d was small as compared to WHO basic access standard, i.e. 20 l/c/d. The total revenue water and non-revenue water from the existing water production were 525.18m 3 /d and 194.81m 3 /d, respectively. About 48% of HHs got their primary water from existing water supply lines and the remaining 52% got their primary water from non-connected sources. In order to narrow the supply and demand gap, expansion of water supply services and additional water sources should be provided.
{"title":"Water Supply and Demand Status of Areka Town, Southern Ethiopia","authors":"Wondimu Elias Worajo, Wolaita Sodo","doi":"10.7176/jrdm/77-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jrdm/77-02","url":null,"abstract":"Water is one of the vital necessity or the need for human being and for all living things. This study was conducted to assess the existing and to forecast the future water supply and demand status of the Areka town, southern Ethiopia. A total of 196 households (HHs) were randomly selected and interviewed by using a questionnaire. To collect the required data, interview and observation were used and written documents were reviewed. Data analyzed by SPSS and Excel spread sheet. The town population was growing rapidly, but water production was low, i.e. only 720m 3 /d. This covers only 51.9% of the total population. Additional water production of 26.49 l/s (2288.7m 3 /d) was required to fill the gap. Available per capita water demand, i.e. 11.48l/c/d was small as compared to WHO basic access standard, i.e. 20 l/c/d. The total revenue water and non-revenue water from the existing water production were 525.18m 3 /d and 194.81m 3 /d, respectively. About 48% of HHs got their primary water from existing water supply lines and the remaining 52% got their primary water from non-connected sources. In order to narrow the supply and demand gap, expansion of water supply services and additional water sources should be provided.","PeriodicalId":35409,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75155588","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}
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