School of Humanities and Socialsciences

Empowerment is one of the critical issues confronting the managers in the process of transforming organizations. Theoretically it is accepted as democratizing function with the employee involvement and commitment as key factors. However, lack of a universally accepted definition as well as a concrete model for implementation continues to baffle most organization theorists. While there is a complete consensus on the expected outcomes in terms of increased performance and effectiveness, the debate on its key elements and structural issues carries on. This article attempts to clarify this concept by taking a relook at the prevailing important views. It also examines important perspectives that emerge from this analysis. The importance of examining the antecedents and including them as part of organization as well as job design is emphasized. The difference between the traditional participation programmes and empowerment is also briefly discussed as also the impediments to its successful implementation.

The concept of empowerment becomes relevant for the employees of foreign banks in the face of increased competition from public as well as private sector banks as also the increased level of customer expectations. The paper presents the results of a study conducted on 200 employees of various foreign banks spread across some states in North India. Two instruments were used to assess the levels of perceived levels of empowerment and presence as well as the extent of conditions that facilitate empowerment in the employees. Correlation and regression analyses were applied to fulfill the objectives of research. Discussion in light of previous studies on the subject has been followed up with conclusion and implications for further research.

Purpose-This article offers a bibliometric analysis and explores the relationships among the documents on ecopreneurship by using relational techniques. The results highlight the publication trends; most cited documents, top contributing authors, countries and institutions with highest productivity and most contributing journals to the research field. Design/methodology/approach-Initially, 216 documents were retrieved from the Thompson Reuters Web of Science Core Collection database with three document types: articles, review and book review. All the documents were considered for the analysis. Then VOSviewer and bibliometric analysis using R with an inbuilt utility Biblioshiny were used together for co-word analysis, co-citation network analysis, generating collaboration networks and also generating a unique three-field plot to analyze the evolution of a research field. Findings-The results highlight the publication trends: most cited documents, top contributing authors, countries and institutions with highest productivity and most contributing journals to the research field. The network analysis of co-authorship, co-citation, keyword co-occurrence and bibliographic coupling reveals most prominent relationships between authors, documents, co-cited references, sources and countries for the available documents on the research field. Research limitations/implications-The study helps not only in expansion of knowledgebase on the research topic but also in understanding the evolution of the ecopreneurship to provide research support further in this area. Originality/value-Ecopreneurship is an emerging field of research connecting ecology and entrepreneurship together, making it a potential research area. The contributions made to this research field from 1989 to 2019 serve as a core for conducting this analysis. The study is an effort to help in coordinating research network across countries, authors and affiliating universities.

This study aims to examine the relationship between workplace bullying and Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect (EVLN) coping responses with Perceived Organizational Tolerance (POT) of bullying as moderator using the integrated model of reactance and learned helplessness theory. The data has been collected from junior faculty in higher education institutes of Punjab. The study has been conducted in two phases, with phase 1 including identifying targets of workplace bullying using cut-off scores and phase 2 studying the perceived organizational tolerance. The results show that junior faculty chooses neglect as a coping response and that the level of perceived organizational tolerance moderates the relationship between workplace bullying and exit-voice-neglect. This study contributes to existing literature by employing integration of theories and using multi-level research design. It also is an addition to the literature on the coping response of targets to workplace bullying in higher educatio...

In today’s unpredictable environment, the rapid emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world and its healthcare infrastructure immensely. As nurses are the building blocks of the healthcare personnel labor market, organizations should develop tactics that aid in their retention. With a solid theoretical foundation in self-determination theory, this study aims to understand the role of employee engagement in keeping nurses in 51 hospitals in the Northern Indian region, along with the mediation of organizational culture through smart PLS. In a complementary mediation relationship with organizational culture, nurse retention is positively correlated with employee engagement.

This paper aims to investigate impact of employees’ gender on OCB as per the employees’ perception in Jordanian governmental hospitals. A convenient sample of 126 employees working in the three main governmental hospitals in north of Jordan has been taken for the purpose of this study. The collected data includes linguistic terms that suffer from uncertainty which, in turn, cannot be dealt with traditional numerical values. The…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors of non-academic staff members' at government Universities in North Jordan. A descriptive cross-sectional and correlational research design was used. Three hundred employees were participated in this study that took place during July (2018). This study showed that high level of perceptions of Organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among non-academic staff members at government Universities. Statistically significant positive relationships between the organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior were reported. There were some limitations in this study the sample drawing from public universities only in north Jordan. Thus, these results may not be representative of whole universities. Potential studies included all universities in Jordan were recommended.

The paper attempts to study the presence of homophobia prevalent in Indian society and its representation onscreen through parallel films. It also studies the relevance of these films, which are comparable to ethnographic films in terms of selection of their content and the intent of the filmmakers, in attempting to affect a change in the society for the betterment of minority groups and victims. While doing so, the parallel Indian film Aligarh has been taken as a case study which is based on the life and mysterious death of Professor Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras. The public uproar and unofficial ban and violence against the film during its release provides us with useful anthropological insight into the mindset of a large number of people who resort to violence in the face of change from the accepted and widespread societal norms.

Human resource professionals design and implement various strategies to retain the workforce within an organization. One of the strategies called “employer branding,” has recently gripped their focus. Its role has been highlighted in this study in order to determine the retention of nurses in the organization and to investigate the mediation of organizational culture and career development using social identity theory as a theoretical foundation. For this purpose, a sample of 628 nurse respondents bearing different designations from different departments of private hospitals in northern India was included to test the hypothesis using a structured questionnaire. The impact was examined using structural equations through Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling. The findings showed a positive effect of employer branding on retention and the existence of a complementary mediation relationship when organizational culture and career development were included as mediators. This ...