Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.26466/opusjsr.1190250
Mesut Yeter, Nil Konyalilar
Nowadays, the rapid growth of the civil aviation sector has brought with it great difficulties that cannot be predicted. Under these conditions, known classical leadership models have become more limited in effect. Today, the most fundamental problems of companies are that they do not have effective leaders who enable competition and performance. Organizations that are exposed to great changes, especially with the rapid growth in the sector and the development of technology, need leaders who can manage change and affect employee performance in order to overcome the challenges they face. In this study, the effect of leadership styles on job performance in ground handling companies, which have an important place in the aviation sector, was examined. The effect of inclusive and transformative leadership on job performance was investigated by using scales consisting of a total of twenty questions covering the variables of inclusive leadership, transformational leadership, and job performance. Data were collected from 213 employees working in ground handling companies at airports located in different regions of Turkey, by survey method, and analyzed with the help of Amos and SPSS. As a result of the analyzes made, it has been determined by this study that inclusive and transformative leadership approaches affect the work performance of the employees positively, that when these leadership approaches are exhibited, the employees express their ideas more effectively and adopt the organizational goals as their own goals by being a partner in change.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.26466/opusjsr.1160988
Ahmed Taha Arifoglu, Orhan Koçak
Forced migrants face many problems during the forced migration process. At the forefront of these problems is the negative impact of the forced migration process on their social functionality. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors contributing to the social functionality of Syrian youth under temporary protection status in Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of 326 young Syrian forced migrants aged 18 to 29 who are under temporary protection status in Turkey and was conducted in Istanbul, Sakarya, and Izmir. The study was carried out with the quantitative method and snowball sampling. The obtained data were evaluated by correlation, mediator and moderator analysis methods. According to the data obtained in the study, Perceived social support and satisfaction with life have a significant effect on social functionality. Satisfaction with life has a full mediating effect on the effect of perceived social support on social functionality. In other words, as a Syrian youth's perceived social support grows, so does their social functionality, and satisfaction with life has a full mediating positive effect on this relationship. Planning activity, which is an active coping strategy, has a positive moderating effect on the connection between perceived social support and social functionality, according to this model. In this context, social work practice with a multidimensional community is recommended.
{"title":"Forced Migrant: The Factors Contributing to Social Functionality of Syrian Youth","authors":"Ahmed Taha Arifoglu, Orhan Koçak","doi":"10.26466/opusjsr.1160988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26466/opusjsr.1160988","url":null,"abstract":"Forced migrants face many problems during the forced migration process. At the forefront of these problems is the negative impact of the forced migration process on their social functionality. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors contributing to the social functionality of Syrian youth under temporary protection status in Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of 326 young Syrian forced migrants aged 18 to 29 who are under temporary protection status in Turkey and was conducted in Istanbul, Sakarya, and Izmir. The study was carried out with the quantitative method and snowball sampling. The obtained data were evaluated by correlation, mediator and moderator analysis methods. According to the data obtained in the study, Perceived social support and satisfaction with life have a significant effect on social functionality. Satisfaction with life has a full mediating effect on the effect of perceived social support on social functionality. In other words, as a Syrian youth's perceived social support grows, so does their social functionality, and satisfaction with life has a full mediating positive effect on this relationship. Planning activity, which is an active coping strategy, has a positive moderating effect on the connection between perceived social support and social functionality, according to this model. In this context, social work practice with a multidimensional community is recommended.","PeriodicalId":422780,"journal":{"name":"OPUS Journal of Society Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132630806","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 : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.26466/opusjsr.1127671
Sinem Cece, İlker Köse
The standards developed for measuring quality ensure the management of the dynamic structure of health services, the reduction of uncertainties, and the prevention of errors since quality relies on measurement, evaluation, and continuous improvement. Additionally, the models used in measuring health service quality are divided into two: case-based and indicator-based. Using the document analysis method, this study compared the Joint Commission International (JCI), Healthcare Quality Standards (HQS) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) – Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) models, which are included in the indicator-based health quality measurement models, in terms of the concepts, processes, and standards featured in them. Within the scope of the study, a total of 1,141 standards from all three models were examined. Ethical approval was taken from local ethics committee on 10/08/2020. Upon the comparison, it was understood that the HQS and JCI models were more similar in "presence rates" than the HIMSS-EMRAM model in terms of concept (83%), process (66%), and standard (64%). It was concluded that HIMSS EMRAM standards can be used as a very useful tool for making improvements and identifying deficiencies in HQS and JCI processes.
{"title":"Comparative Analysis of HQS, JCI and HIMSS-EMRAM Quality Assessment Models Widely Used in Turkey","authors":"Sinem Cece, İlker Köse","doi":"10.26466/opusjsr.1127671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26466/opusjsr.1127671","url":null,"abstract":"The standards developed for measuring quality ensure the management of the dynamic structure of health services, the reduction of uncertainties, and the prevention of errors since quality relies on measurement, evaluation, and continuous improvement. Additionally, the models used in measuring health service quality are divided into two: case-based and indicator-based. Using the document analysis method, this study compared the Joint Commission International (JCI), Healthcare Quality Standards (HQS) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) – Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) models, which are included in the indicator-based health quality measurement models, in terms of the concepts, processes, and standards featured in them. Within the scope of the study, a total of 1,141 standards from all three models were examined. Ethical approval was taken from local ethics committee on 10/08/2020. Upon the comparison, it was understood that the HQS and JCI models were more similar in \"presence rates\" than the HIMSS-EMRAM model in terms of concept (83%), process (66%), and standard (64%). It was concluded that HIMSS EMRAM standards can be used as a very useful tool for making improvements and identifying deficiencies in HQS and JCI processes.","PeriodicalId":422780,"journal":{"name":"OPUS Journal of Society Research","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122555082","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 : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.26466/opusjsr.1171798
Havva Dümen
Security is one of the crucial concepts in International Relations. Due to diversity of the security issues encountered by the states, there is a lack of consensus on the definition of the concept. The traditional understanding of the security focuses on threats militarily and state was at the center. However, different approaches emerged to re-conceptualize the concept by the end of the Cold War. The Copenhagen School and its offshoot securitization is one of these approaches which is being frequently used in International Relations. The aim of this study is to analyze the securitization process of opposition, different identities and other actors by President Bashar al-Assad during the Civil War. This research argues that the opposition is securitized with the help of different identities in order to convince both Syrians and regional and international actors so that the securitizing actor can take the extraordinary measures. This study conducts the methods of literature review to clarify the concept of securitization and under which conditions it took place and discourse and content analysis to highlight the speech acts of Bashar al-Assad during the process. To this end, 46 different speeches and interviews of President Bashar al-Assad are analyzed. In all, it is concluded that speeches/discourses adopted by Assad had implications which served the aims and the targets of his rule and government during the Syrian Civil War.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.26466/opusjsr.1113997
Burhan Akpinar, Ayşenur Kuloğlu, F. S. Erdamar
The aim of this study was to examine the metaverse awareness of Turkish Generation Z pre-service teachers with regard to several variables. A total of 1048 pre-service teachers born after 2000 participated in the study in which the descriptive survey model was used. The data were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistical techniques. The findings revealed that the participants had low metaverse awareness and experience of this technology. Differing from the global Generation Z, they perceived the metaverse more in the context of game and entertainment. The participants thinking that the metaverse is partially beneficial for education emphasized its role as a technological tool that supports education rather than the role of the metaverse as an educational ecosystem itself. This finding may be related to the fact that the Turkish Generation Z preservice teachers were not fully aware of the virtual and digital technology phenomenon such as the metaverse and they were not aware of its educational potential. The low awareness of the T Turkish Generation Z preservice teachers about the metaverse can be considered as a deficiency in terms of compliance of the Turkish Education System with the Information Age. It was concluded as a result of this study that the awareness of Turkish Generation Z preservice teachers, who differ from their global counterparts in some features, about virtual and digital technology is not yet ready for the transformation of Turkish Education System to into a completely virtual and digital form. Thus, this unity should be ensured through intermediate forms such as the Hybrid Model.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-07DOI: 10.26466/opusjsr.1102383
Leyla Şenol
Today, the impact of rapidly changing information and technology can be seen in the workplace. In this rapid change process, the human resources of organizations should be managed correctly and effectively. Today's economic conditions show that the most important resource in both private and public institutions is human resources. In order for employees to be successful and feel happy, job and employee harmony should be ensured, employees should be employed in jobs that are suitable for their personal characteristics, values and beliefs. Municipalities that provide a public service aim to prevent problems before they arise in the service process and to provide quality service. For this, employees who can show proactive behaviour are needed. In this study, the quantitative research method has been preferred to measure employee behaviours, and the job crafting scale and job engagement scale have been used. Data have been collected through questionnaires from 207 participants among the employees of the district municipality within the borders of Kocaeli Province. Demographic characteristics such as age, gender, educational status and institutional seniority of the sample have also been reported in the survey. According to the study's findings, job crafting has a positive impact on job engagement, cognitive crafting has a positive impact on job engagement, and relational crafting has a positive impact on job engagement The SEM results have shown that each hypothesis (H1, H2, and H3) have been accepted.
{"title":"The Effect of Municipal Employess’ Job Crafting on Job Engagement","authors":"Leyla Şenol","doi":"10.26466/opusjsr.1102383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26466/opusjsr.1102383","url":null,"abstract":"Today, the impact of rapidly changing information and technology can be seen in the workplace. In this rapid change process, the human resources of organizations should be managed correctly and effectively. Today's economic conditions show that the most important resource in both private and public institutions is human resources. In order for employees to be successful and feel happy, job and employee harmony should be ensured, employees should be employed in jobs that are suitable for their personal characteristics, values and beliefs. Municipalities that provide a public service aim to prevent problems before they arise in the service process and to provide quality service. For this, employees who can show proactive behaviour are needed. In this study, the quantitative research method has been preferred to measure employee behaviours, and the job crafting scale and job engagement scale have been used. Data have been collected through questionnaires from 207 participants among the employees of the district municipality within the borders of Kocaeli Province. Demographic characteristics such as age, gender, educational status and institutional seniority of the sample have also been reported in the survey. According to the study's findings, job crafting has a positive impact on job engagement, cognitive crafting has a positive impact on job engagement, and relational crafting has a positive impact on job engagement The SEM results have shown that each hypothesis (H1, H2, and H3) have been accepted.","PeriodicalId":422780,"journal":{"name":"OPUS Journal of Society Research","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131881851","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 : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.26466/opusjsr.1181222
Ela Sümeyye Secim, M. Gönen
The study primarily aimed to examine how the reading beliefs and home literacy environments predict the child’s early reading motivation. The sub-objective of this study was determined as to whether this prediction differed according to the educational level of the mother, the time the child allocated for reading in a day, and the time the child read during the day. In the first stage stratified sampling was used and, in the second stage, the purposive sampling method was used. The sample group of the study consisted of 556 parents who had children between the age of 36-72 months and whose children enrolled preschool education. Personal Information Form, Parent Reading Belief Scale, Home Literacy Environment Scale, and Perceived Motivation Scale for Reading Picture Story Books for Children were used as data collection tools. The obtained data were analyzed by using the multiple regression analysis methods. According to the results, it was seen that the parent reading belief and home literacy environment predicted the child’s reading motivation. Also, this prediction differed according to the education of the mother, the time the child allocated for reading in a day, and the time the child read during the day. The results obtained have the potential to guide preschool parents, teachers, and field experts.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-03DOI: 10.26466/opusjsr.1170924
Kübra Eryi̇ği̇t, R. Kılıç
The purpose of this study is to determine the predictors of mathematics achievement of fourth grade students’ during pandemic by considering academic grit and technology attitude variables. The participants of the study consisted of 246 fourth-grade students studying in public primary schools in Gaziantep province center, Oğuzeli and Şahinbey districts. “Academic Grit Scale”, “Attitude Towards Technology Scale” and “Mathematics Achievement Test” were the tools used to collect data. The results indicated that gender was not the primary factor on mathematics achievement, academic grit and attitude towards technology scores. The academic grit and attitude towards technology are found to be the significant predictors of mathematics achievement and academic grit affects mathematics achievement positively whereas technology attitude affects negatively. In the light of the findings obtained in this study, it could be better to develop activities that support and increase students’ academic grit and to focus on teacher and learner characteristics who integrate technology in their teaching and learning environment, respectively.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-03DOI: 10.26466/opusjsr.1153200
Seray Yeşi̇lirmak, B. Sahin
Entrepreneurial marketing (EM) approach is a new phenomenon for SME’s. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the consciousness about the orientation and investigate the level of the behavior among seven companies located in Ankara, Turkey. The selection is done through cluster representatives of the sectors including construction machinery, medical, renewable energy, rubber, defense & aviation, communication. The companies are determined by theoretical (purposive) sampling and semi-structured face-to-face interviews are applied for data collection. Ethnography analysis is used for the data-treatment technique. Entrepreneurial marketing activities are measured by EM dimensions as proactiveness, calculated risk taking, opportunity-oriented, innovativeness, resource utilization, customer density and value creation. Findings revealed that companies in the research sample have the approach of entrepreneurial marketing however the intensity differs according to sectors. It is aimed to increase the awareness of the approach among the SME’s to create superior customer value. Moreover, to clarify the activities built under entrepreneurial marketing will make a contribution for practical side for marketing decisions and strategies as well as future studies filling the gap in the field.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.26466/opusjsr.1156443
Coşkun Erdağ, Şenyurt Yenipınar
In developed countries, accountability mechanisms, external control and standardized testing to increase student academic achievement have fundamentally influenced school principals and the understanding of principalship. On the other hand, much is unknown about the Turkish principals’ experiences of their accountability environment. However, this is significant because accountability relations might be even destructive for principals and the school learning environment despite the intended formative purposes. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the accountability relationships of Turkish K12 school principals. The data of seventeen purposefully-sampled Turkish school principals were collected through audio recordings and in-depth phenomenological interviews. Data analysis yielded five major themes with supporting sub-themes: bureaucratic accountability environment, market accountability environment, professional accountability environment, accountability intensity, and accountability impacts on stakeholders. Knowing the nature of context-dependent accountability environments can help principals adopt new roles and help policymakers improve their ill-natured accountability relations, principal preparation and development programs.
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