Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2011 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 5 Articles
This study aimed to investigate how scenario-based planning (a strictly cognitive management tool) can be combined with organisational change navigation (a practice addressing the emotionality of change) and how this integrated process should be aligned with the prerequisites imposed by a developing country context and an Afro-centric leadership perspective in order to make the process more context relevant and aligned.\nA management tool incorporating the change navigation and the unique features\nof developing countries and Afro-centric leadership was formulated and empirically validated. This management tool is referred to as a change navigation based, scenario planning process (CNBSPP)....
The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that factors that affect the retention of Generation X public servants.\r\nThe study showed that the factors affectting the retention of Generation X public servants include work content, utilisation of skills, career advancement, work-life balance, compensation, security needs, leadership and drive....
This paper analyses the effect of demographic factors and investment experience on retirement planning intention. As noted in many discussions, issues surrounding retirement have emerged as one of the main topics in public debate, mainly because the world population continues to age. The lost of regular income during the golden years apparently becomes an obstacle for one to chase and realise his or her dream. Seemingly, post-working life is a completely new experience and the adaptation to this new living style is challenging especially with longer life expectancy. Recognising the importance of retirement planning, 300 structured questionnaires were administered in April 2009. The final sample consists of 216 after the account for non-replied questionnaires and the removal of incomplete data. Pertinently, Malaysia represents a unique platform for this research due to its multiracial cultures. Overall, the results of this research show that demographic characteristics affect behavioural intention, i.e. marital status, age, and income level. Investment experience is another factor reported to have significantly affected retirement planning intention in this study....
Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is a newly emerging concept in the literature of organization behavior. Despite an increasing number of studies on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), no unifying work is focused on the measurement of degree of change in OCB in a public sector organization and a private sector organization. We hypothesized that there is a significant difference in the degree of OCB of employees in public sector and private sector organization. Data were collected from 200 employees consisting of managerial and non-managerial staff from both the public sector and private sector organizations. The results showed that employees in public sector organization have greater degree of OCB in comparison to private sector organizations and also the job satisfaction increases or decreases based on increase or decrease in OCB. The purpose of this study is to invoke Organization Citizenship Behavior in private sector organization. Obtained result was in the line of the hypotheses. In terms of organizational citizenship behavior; a significant difference is noticed between public sector and private sector organization. As expected, public sector employees have exhibited higher degree of OCB as compared to private sector employees. Most importantly, organizational citizenship behavior is being proven as the catalyst for enhancing job satisfaction level of employees....
The aim of this study was to investigate the awareness levels of academic staff members at higher education institutions in South Africa of sexual harrassment policies and procedures in their institutions.\r\nThe results showed that despite indications that sexual harassment policies do exist and that they are regarded as effective tools in addressing sexual harassment, the implementation of such policies is not effective and few academic staff members received training and/or guidance on the utilisation of the policy. Significant correlation coefficients were found between the elements of an effective policy and between population group and some of the elements...
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