An emerging stream of work on money can be found in the management and organizational behavior li... more An emerging stream of work on money can be found in the management and organizational behavior literature; however, individuals' attitude toward money (whether loving or hating it) is a relatively new concept to wait to be explored by scholars. Generally, growing body of literature has to researches investigating the positive side of money. Nevertheless, in this study we aim to explain not only positive, but also negative side of money differentiating individuals very much and very little fond of money and investigate the relationship between love of money, machiavellian personality and unethical behavior of individuals. Focusing individuals' passion for money or wealth, we also purpose to illuminate the issue whether individual groups being very much and very little fond of money represent different level of machiavellian personality and unethical behavior. In addition, we investigate how differentiates unethical behavior in terms of individual's machiavellianism level....
The International Journal of Business and Management, 2013
As we moved into new economy, decentralization is a very powerful strategy day by day. A large nu... more As we moved into new economy, decentralization is a very powerful strategy day by day. A large number of traditional organizations are decentralized- some of them decentralize a part of the organization, some of them decentralize whole of the organizations- because of being a winner of the competition. As a decentralized organization, starfish organization is a new concept of the organizational science literature. In this framework, we focus on the starfish organization’s structure. The aim of this study is to represent starfish organization, as a new organizational form and a kind of business model of the management literature. Hence, in this study, starfish organization’s definition, its difference from traditional organizations, its organizational structure and its working are explained first. Then, some instruction about transforming starfish organization from the traditional organization will be given. Finally some cases will be given about transforming to starfish organization...
International journal of business and social research, 2015
Following the previous studies on ‘extra-role behavior’, this study focuses especially on ‘... more Following the previous studies on ‘extra-role behavior’, this study focuses especially on ‘promotive extra-role behavior’ as well as ‘positive work behavior’, and explores of ethical ideologies on them. On that framework, this paper aims to achieve the effect of ‘ethical ideologies’ (idealism and relativism) on promotive extra-role behaviors (helping and voice) and positive work behavior. Moreover, we examine the impact of being high and low idealist personality as well as high and low relativist personality on level of ‘helping extra-role behavior’, ‘voice behavior’, ‘extra-role behavior’, and ‘positive work behaviors’ that individuals exhibit. This paper also aims to explore the influence of demographic variables on helping, voice, and positive work behavior. In order to achieve the goals mentioned, we collected data from 356 MBA students, and used the ordinal logistic regression analysis. Results indicate that idealism significantly correlates to h...
There are many researches investigating the relationships among the concept of perceived external... more There are many researches investigating the relationships among the concept of perceived external prestige, organizational identification, in-role performance and extra role performance in the literature. Unlike the previous researches, we aim to delineate the concept of organizational identity complexity at the root of social identity complexity at organizational level. In addition, this paper is purposed to explore mediating role of organizational identity complexity on the relationship between perceived external prestige and in-role/ extra role performance. It is also investigated differences in perceived external prestige, organizational identity complexity and in-role/ extra-role performance in terms of the employees’ occupation and institutions which they work for. Hence, we focused on outsourcing labors that have multiple organizational identities to illuminate the complexity/congruence for organizational identity. So present research was conducted on 230 blue-collar outsourc...
Focusing primarily on organizational identity, the researcher argues theoretically and shows empi... more Focusing primarily on organizational identity, the researcher argues theoretically and shows empirically that the mediating role of organizational identity complexity/congruence on the relationship between satisfaction with organization and intention to retain. In addition, they investigate for differences in organizational identity complexity, satisfaction with organization and intention to retain in terms of employees' demographic characteristics. Thus, the researcher focused on outsourcing labors having multiple organizational identities to delineate the employees' organizational identity complexity/congruence and collected the data from outsourcing labors working in two public university campuses in Turkey. The results demonstrated that outsourcing labors experience congruence was not a complexity in organizational identity. Furthermore, it was recognized that organizational identity complexity/congruence mediates the relationship between satisfaction with organization and intention to retain it. The researcher has also got scientific proof that there are significant differences in employees' satisfaction with an organization, organizational identity complexity/congruence and intention to retain in terms of employees' demographic characteristics.
Purpose Technology acceptance is an incremental approach that has developed over the years. Takin... more Purpose Technology acceptance is an incremental approach that has developed over the years. Taking technology acceptance or adoption literature into consideration, the paper aims to investigate the mediating role of adoption readiness, constructed on the basis of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT), on the relationship between user resistance as well as user anxiety and attitude toward using a system. Design/methodology/approach In consideration of previous studies, the public personnel’s adaptation of electronic document management systems is within the scope of the present research. Gathering data from 262 administrative personnel working in a public university, explanatory and second-order confirmatory factor analyses were done for the UTAUT scale. In addition, reliability and construct validity were tested for each scale; UTAUT, user resistance, user anxiety and attitude toward using. Relationships among variables of the research were controlled by the...
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 2019
The business model is a relatively new concept in entrepreneurship and strategic management liter... more The business model is a relatively new concept in entrepreneurship and strategic management literature. Thus, the growing body of business model literature contains qualitative research, especially case studies. The key reason business models are explained via case studies is that the business model concept is recorded in the literature from successful firms' business model practices to business model theory and, as a result, different theories arise accordingly. Following the previous implications, the purpose of this article is to demonstrate how business models are developed and implemented. A case study of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality's transportation strategy and implementation of a business model has been conducted in detail, followed by an explanation of the concept. To focus on the maritime industry and bridge the gap in Turkey's water transportation, a business model development process for the water transportation industry was proposed and then applied to all industries. The evaluation of the business model concept from a process perspective led us to achieve a generalized model, indicating how a successful business model can be implemented by other firms. As a result, we found that a successful business model must be valuable, profitable and sustainable. In addition, a successful business model greatly contributes to the sustainability of any firm and offers a novel framework to firms which desire to get a competitive advantage.
Yonetim Istanbul Universitesi Isletme Iktisadı Enstitusu Dergisi, 2014
Literaturde sosyal sermaye, bilgi paylasimi ve motivasyon kavramlari konusunda yapilan calismalar... more Literaturde sosyal sermaye, bilgi paylasimi ve motivasyon kavramlari konusunda yapilan calismalarin sayica fazla olmasi, bu kavramlarin organizasyonlar icin ne kadar onemli oldugunu ortaya koymaktadir. Calisanlarin bilgi paylasma davranislarinin organizasyonlar icin ne kadar kiymetli oldugu noktasindan hareketle; bu calismada, bilgi paylasma davranisi ortaya cikmadan olusan bilgi paylasma tutumu incelenmis ve tutumlarin yonlendirilmesiyle davranis degisikliginin gerceklestirilebilecegi varsayimina dayanarak sosyal sermaye ile bilgi paylasma tutumu arasindaki iliskide motivasyonun aracilik rolunu arastirmak amaclanmistir. Ayrica calisanlarin demografik ozellikleri acisindan sosyal sermaye, bilgi paylasma tutumu ve motivasyonlarinda bir farklilik olup olmadiginin arastirilmasi, bu calismanin bir diger amacidir. Arastirmanin kapsamini Turkiye’deki Telekomunikasyon sektorunde calisan beyaz yakali calisanlar olusturmaktadir. Bu kapsam dahilinde 400 calisandan alinan verilerle yapilan analiz sonuclari; icsel motivasyon boyutlarindan ozgeciligin sosyal sermaye ile bilgi paylasma tutumu arasindaki iliskide aracilik rolu ustlendigini ve dissal motivasyon boyutlarindan karsilikli fayda bekleme boyutunun da sosyal sermaye ile bilgi paylasma tutumu arasindaki iliskide aracilik rolu ustlendigini gostermektedir.
The concept of organizational cronyism has been investigated to explain different concepts inthe ... more The concept of organizational cronyism has been investigated to explain different concepts inthe literature. In this study, we aim at researching the influence of organizational cronyism onorganizational commitment of individuals and explain how the influence differentiates theircareer satisfaction or frustration with work perception of individuals. Therefore, we focusedon government officials working in a public institution and examine their perception ofcronyism in the organization. Having gathered the data from 193 government officials,confirmatory as well as explanatory factor analyses initially was initially conducted on thescales of organizational cronyism, organizational commitment, career satisfaction andfrustration with work. After controlling the validity and reliability of the scales, measurementmodel and structural model testing were carried out. Results indicated that organizationalcommitment partially mediated the relationship between organizational cronyism and career...
Despite all the ink split and words spoken, career satisfaction concept has not been evaluated su... more Despite all the ink split and words spoken, career satisfaction concept has not been evaluated sufficiently in some research areas, notably education and alumni literature. We aim to explain career satisfaction extending for individuals' university education satisfaction, alumni satisfaction, unlike the previous studies. This paper also aims to shed light on differences in alumni satisfaction and career satisfaction in terms of employees' demographic characteristics. Furthermore, we design a model in order to explain individuals' career satisfaction associating with their alumni satisfaction, gap period and gender. In order to test the hypotheses, we draw a sample of 963 respondents graduated from a public university in Turkey. Linear regression analysis results indicate that alumni satisfaction explains significant level of career satisfaction. The explaining value is remarkable to turn researchers' attention to investigate this field. In addition, alumni satisfaction scores show that there are significant differences in alumni satisfaction based upon age and gap period. Career satisfaction scores also indicate that there are significant difference in career satisfaction in terms of gender, occupation and gap period, as seen in t-test and ANOVA results. Finally, according to ordinal logistic regression analysis results, individuals having higher degree of alumni satisfaction are 4.56 times likely to get upper level career satisfaction than individuals having relatively low degree of alumni satisfaction. Moreover, individuals getting a job in two years after graduated from university are 3.97 times likely to get satisfaction from their career than those getting a job two years later after graduated from university. In addition, males are 1.74 times more likely to get higher satisfaction from their career than females. So the present research contributes a literature gap about satisfaction of alumni and career fields.
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development
The business model is a relatively new concept in entrepreneurship and strategic management liter... more The business model is a relatively new concept in entrepreneurship and strategic management literature. Thus, the growing body of business model literature contains qualitative research, especially case studies. The key reason business models are explained via case studies is that the business model concept is recorded in the literature from successful firms’ business model practices to business model theory and, as a result, different theories arise accordingly. Following the previous implications, the purpose of this article is to demonstrate how business models are developed and implemented. A case study of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s transportation strategy and implementation of a business model has been conducted in detail, followed by an explanation of the concept. To focus on the maritime industry and bridge the gap in Turkey’s water transportation, a business model development process for the water transportation industry was proposed and then applied to all industries. The evaluation of the business model concept from a process perspective led us to achieve a generalized model, indicating how a successful business model can be implemented by other firms. As a result, we found that a successful business model must be valuable, profitable and sustainable. In addition, a successful business model greatly contributes to the sustainability of any firm and offers a novel framework to firms which desire to get a competitive advantage.
All conventional organization systems move towards its end and fall down on doing business. The n... more All conventional organization systems move towards its end and fall down on doing business. The new economy requires some default issues for organizations anymore to meet the need of dynamic, fast-changing and fluctuated environment. Organizations should accept changing business world dynamics and shape their strategic framework to survive in destructive competition aura. The known theory explains this circumstance is the chaos theory. Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred as the butterfly effect. It assumes random but followed a pattern behaviors, an extreme complexity and nonlinear and non-periodical system. In terms of organizational paradigm, chaos theory refers to a subset of chaos incorporates principles of quantum mechanics and presents them in a complex systems environment. Today organizations should recognize the “layout in chaos” as an inevitable part of the environment....
The concept of organizational cronyism has been investigated to explain different concepts in the... more The concept of organizational cronyism has been investigated to explain different concepts in the literature. In this study, we aim at researching the influence of organizational cronyism on organizational commitment of individuals and explain how the influence differentiates their career satisfaction or frustration with work perception of individuals. Therefore, we focused on government officials working in a public institution and examine their perception of cronyism in the organization. Having gathered the data from 193 government officials, confirmatory as well as explanatory factor analyses initially was initially conducted on the scales of organizational cronyism, organizational commitment, career satisfaction and frustration with work. After controlling the validity and reliability of the scales, measurement model and structural model testing were carried out. Results indicated that organizational commitment partially mediated the relationship between organizational cronyism and career satisfaction. In addition, organizational commitment partially mediated the relationship between organizational cronyism and frustration with work.
Focusing primarily on organizational identity, the researcher argues theoretically and shows empi... more Focusing primarily on organizational identity, the researcher argues theoretically and shows empirically that the mediating role of organizational identity complexity/congruence on the relationship between satisfaction with organization and intention to retain. In addition, they investigate for differences in organizational identity complexity, satisfaction with organization and intention to retain in terms of employees’ demographic characteristics. Thus, the researcher focused on outsourcing labors having multiple organizational identities to delineate the employees’ organizational identity complexity/congruence and collected the data from outsourcing labors working in two public university campuses in Turkey. The results demonstrated that outsourcing labors experience congruence was not a complexity in organizational identity. Furthermore, it was recognized that organizational identity complexity/congruence mediates the relationship between satisfaction with organization and intention to retain it. The researcher has also got scientific proof that there are significant differences in employees’ satisfaction with an organization, organizational identity complexity/congruence and intention to retain in terms of employees’ demographic characteristics.
Following the previous studies on ‘extra-role behavior’, this study focuses especially on ‘promot... more Following the previous studies on ‘extra-role behavior’, this study focuses especially on ‘promotive extra-role behavior’ as well as ‘positive work behavior’, and explores of ethical ideologies on them. On that framework, this paper aims to achieve the effect of ‘ethical ideologies’ (idealism and relativism) on promotive extra-role behaviors (helping and voice) and positive work behavior. Moreover, we examine the impact of being high and low idealist personality as well as high and low relativist personality on level of ‘helping extra-role behavior’, ‘voice behavior’, ‘extra-role behavior’, and ‘positive work behaviors’ that individuals exhibit. This paper also aims to explore the influence of demographic variables on helping, voice, and positive work behavior. In order to achieve the goals mentioned, we collected data from 356 MBA students, and used the ordinal logistic regression analysis. Results indicate that idealism significantly correlates to helping, voice, and positive work behavior.
Despite all the ink split and words spoken, career satisfaction concept has not been evaluated su... more Despite all the ink split and words spoken, career satisfaction concept has not been evaluated sufficiently in some research areas, notably education and alumni literature. We aim to explain career satisfaction extending for individuals’ university education satisfaction, alumni satisfaction, unlike the previous studies. This paper also aims to shed light on differences in alumni satisfaction and career satisfaction in terms of employees’ demographic characteristics. Furthermore, we design a model in order to explain individuals’ career satisfaction associating with their alumni satisfaction, gap period and gender. In order to test the hypotheses, we draw a sample of 963 respondents graduated from a public university in Turkey. Linear regression analysis results indicate that alumni satisfaction explains significant level of career satisfaction. The explaining value is remarkable to turn researchers’ attention to investigate this field. In addition, alumni satisfaction scores show that there are significant differences in alumni satisfaction based upon age and gap period. Career satisfaction scores also indicate that there are significant difference in career satisfaction in terms of gender, occupation and gap period, as seen in t-test and ANOVA results. Finally, according to ordinal logistic regression analysis results, individuals having higher degree of alumni satisfaction are 4.56 times likely to get upper level career satisfaction than individuals having relatively low degree of alumni satisfaction. Moreover, individuals getting a job in two years after graduated from university are 3.97 times likely to get satisfaction from their career than those getting a job two years later after graduated from university. In addition, males are 1.74 times more likely to get higher satisfaction from their career than females. So the present research contributes a literature gap about satisfaction of alumni and career fields.
An emerging stream of work on money can be found in the management and organizational behavior li... more An emerging stream of work on money can be found in the management and organizational behavior literature; however, individuals' attitude toward money (whether loving or hating it) is a relatively new concept to wait to be explored by scholars. Generally, growing body of literature has to researches investigating the positive side of money. Nevertheless, in this study we aim to explain not only positive, but also negative side of money differentiating individuals very much and very little fond of money and investigate the relationship between love of money, machiavellian personality and unethical behavior of individuals. Focusing individuals' passion for money or wealth, we also purpose to illuminate the issue whether individual groups being very much and very little fond of money represent different level of machiavellian personality and unethical behavior. In addition, we investigate how differentiates unethical behavior in terms of individual's machiavellianism level....
The International Journal of Business and Management, 2013
As we moved into new economy, decentralization is a very powerful strategy day by day. A large nu... more As we moved into new economy, decentralization is a very powerful strategy day by day. A large number of traditional organizations are decentralized- some of them decentralize a part of the organization, some of them decentralize whole of the organizations- because of being a winner of the competition. As a decentralized organization, starfish organization is a new concept of the organizational science literature. In this framework, we focus on the starfish organization’s structure. The aim of this study is to represent starfish organization, as a new organizational form and a kind of business model of the management literature. Hence, in this study, starfish organization’s definition, its difference from traditional organizations, its organizational structure and its working are explained first. Then, some instruction about transforming starfish organization from the traditional organization will be given. Finally some cases will be given about transforming to starfish organization...
International journal of business and social research, 2015
Following the previous studies on ‘extra-role behavior’, this study focuses especially on ‘... more Following the previous studies on ‘extra-role behavior’, this study focuses especially on ‘promotive extra-role behavior’ as well as ‘positive work behavior’, and explores of ethical ideologies on them. On that framework, this paper aims to achieve the effect of ‘ethical ideologies’ (idealism and relativism) on promotive extra-role behaviors (helping and voice) and positive work behavior. Moreover, we examine the impact of being high and low idealist personality as well as high and low relativist personality on level of ‘helping extra-role behavior’, ‘voice behavior’, ‘extra-role behavior’, and ‘positive work behaviors’ that individuals exhibit. This paper also aims to explore the influence of demographic variables on helping, voice, and positive work behavior. In order to achieve the goals mentioned, we collected data from 356 MBA students, and used the ordinal logistic regression analysis. Results indicate that idealism significantly correlates to h...
There are many researches investigating the relationships among the concept of perceived external... more There are many researches investigating the relationships among the concept of perceived external prestige, organizational identification, in-role performance and extra role performance in the literature. Unlike the previous researches, we aim to delineate the concept of organizational identity complexity at the root of social identity complexity at organizational level. In addition, this paper is purposed to explore mediating role of organizational identity complexity on the relationship between perceived external prestige and in-role/ extra role performance. It is also investigated differences in perceived external prestige, organizational identity complexity and in-role/ extra-role performance in terms of the employees’ occupation and institutions which they work for. Hence, we focused on outsourcing labors that have multiple organizational identities to illuminate the complexity/congruence for organizational identity. So present research was conducted on 230 blue-collar outsourc...
Focusing primarily on organizational identity, the researcher argues theoretically and shows empi... more Focusing primarily on organizational identity, the researcher argues theoretically and shows empirically that the mediating role of organizational identity complexity/congruence on the relationship between satisfaction with organization and intention to retain. In addition, they investigate for differences in organizational identity complexity, satisfaction with organization and intention to retain in terms of employees' demographic characteristics. Thus, the researcher focused on outsourcing labors having multiple organizational identities to delineate the employees' organizational identity complexity/congruence and collected the data from outsourcing labors working in two public university campuses in Turkey. The results demonstrated that outsourcing labors experience congruence was not a complexity in organizational identity. Furthermore, it was recognized that organizational identity complexity/congruence mediates the relationship between satisfaction with organization and intention to retain it. The researcher has also got scientific proof that there are significant differences in employees' satisfaction with an organization, organizational identity complexity/congruence and intention to retain in terms of employees' demographic characteristics.
Purpose Technology acceptance is an incremental approach that has developed over the years. Takin... more Purpose Technology acceptance is an incremental approach that has developed over the years. Taking technology acceptance or adoption literature into consideration, the paper aims to investigate the mediating role of adoption readiness, constructed on the basis of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT), on the relationship between user resistance as well as user anxiety and attitude toward using a system. Design/methodology/approach In consideration of previous studies, the public personnel’s adaptation of electronic document management systems is within the scope of the present research. Gathering data from 262 administrative personnel working in a public university, explanatory and second-order confirmatory factor analyses were done for the UTAUT scale. In addition, reliability and construct validity were tested for each scale; UTAUT, user resistance, user anxiety and attitude toward using. Relationships among variables of the research were controlled by the...
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 2019
The business model is a relatively new concept in entrepreneurship and strategic management liter... more The business model is a relatively new concept in entrepreneurship and strategic management literature. Thus, the growing body of business model literature contains qualitative research, especially case studies. The key reason business models are explained via case studies is that the business model concept is recorded in the literature from successful firms' business model practices to business model theory and, as a result, different theories arise accordingly. Following the previous implications, the purpose of this article is to demonstrate how business models are developed and implemented. A case study of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality's transportation strategy and implementation of a business model has been conducted in detail, followed by an explanation of the concept. To focus on the maritime industry and bridge the gap in Turkey's water transportation, a business model development process for the water transportation industry was proposed and then applied to all industries. The evaluation of the business model concept from a process perspective led us to achieve a generalized model, indicating how a successful business model can be implemented by other firms. As a result, we found that a successful business model must be valuable, profitable and sustainable. In addition, a successful business model greatly contributes to the sustainability of any firm and offers a novel framework to firms which desire to get a competitive advantage.
Yonetim Istanbul Universitesi Isletme Iktisadı Enstitusu Dergisi, 2014
Literaturde sosyal sermaye, bilgi paylasimi ve motivasyon kavramlari konusunda yapilan calismalar... more Literaturde sosyal sermaye, bilgi paylasimi ve motivasyon kavramlari konusunda yapilan calismalarin sayica fazla olmasi, bu kavramlarin organizasyonlar icin ne kadar onemli oldugunu ortaya koymaktadir. Calisanlarin bilgi paylasma davranislarinin organizasyonlar icin ne kadar kiymetli oldugu noktasindan hareketle; bu calismada, bilgi paylasma davranisi ortaya cikmadan olusan bilgi paylasma tutumu incelenmis ve tutumlarin yonlendirilmesiyle davranis degisikliginin gerceklestirilebilecegi varsayimina dayanarak sosyal sermaye ile bilgi paylasma tutumu arasindaki iliskide motivasyonun aracilik rolunu arastirmak amaclanmistir. Ayrica calisanlarin demografik ozellikleri acisindan sosyal sermaye, bilgi paylasma tutumu ve motivasyonlarinda bir farklilik olup olmadiginin arastirilmasi, bu calismanin bir diger amacidir. Arastirmanin kapsamini Turkiye’deki Telekomunikasyon sektorunde calisan beyaz yakali calisanlar olusturmaktadir. Bu kapsam dahilinde 400 calisandan alinan verilerle yapilan analiz sonuclari; icsel motivasyon boyutlarindan ozgeciligin sosyal sermaye ile bilgi paylasma tutumu arasindaki iliskide aracilik rolu ustlendigini ve dissal motivasyon boyutlarindan karsilikli fayda bekleme boyutunun da sosyal sermaye ile bilgi paylasma tutumu arasindaki iliskide aracilik rolu ustlendigini gostermektedir.
The concept of organizational cronyism has been investigated to explain different concepts inthe ... more The concept of organizational cronyism has been investigated to explain different concepts inthe literature. In this study, we aim at researching the influence of organizational cronyism onorganizational commitment of individuals and explain how the influence differentiates theircareer satisfaction or frustration with work perception of individuals. Therefore, we focusedon government officials working in a public institution and examine their perception ofcronyism in the organization. Having gathered the data from 193 government officials,confirmatory as well as explanatory factor analyses initially was initially conducted on thescales of organizational cronyism, organizational commitment, career satisfaction andfrustration with work. After controlling the validity and reliability of the scales, measurementmodel and structural model testing were carried out. Results indicated that organizationalcommitment partially mediated the relationship between organizational cronyism and career...
Despite all the ink split and words spoken, career satisfaction concept has not been evaluated su... more Despite all the ink split and words spoken, career satisfaction concept has not been evaluated sufficiently in some research areas, notably education and alumni literature. We aim to explain career satisfaction extending for individuals' university education satisfaction, alumni satisfaction, unlike the previous studies. This paper also aims to shed light on differences in alumni satisfaction and career satisfaction in terms of employees' demographic characteristics. Furthermore, we design a model in order to explain individuals' career satisfaction associating with their alumni satisfaction, gap period and gender. In order to test the hypotheses, we draw a sample of 963 respondents graduated from a public university in Turkey. Linear regression analysis results indicate that alumni satisfaction explains significant level of career satisfaction. The explaining value is remarkable to turn researchers' attention to investigate this field. In addition, alumni satisfaction scores show that there are significant differences in alumni satisfaction based upon age and gap period. Career satisfaction scores also indicate that there are significant difference in career satisfaction in terms of gender, occupation and gap period, as seen in t-test and ANOVA results. Finally, according to ordinal logistic regression analysis results, individuals having higher degree of alumni satisfaction are 4.56 times likely to get upper level career satisfaction than individuals having relatively low degree of alumni satisfaction. Moreover, individuals getting a job in two years after graduated from university are 3.97 times likely to get satisfaction from their career than those getting a job two years later after graduated from university. In addition, males are 1.74 times more likely to get higher satisfaction from their career than females. So the present research contributes a literature gap about satisfaction of alumni and career fields.
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development
The business model is a relatively new concept in entrepreneurship and strategic management liter... more The business model is a relatively new concept in entrepreneurship and strategic management literature. Thus, the growing body of business model literature contains qualitative research, especially case studies. The key reason business models are explained via case studies is that the business model concept is recorded in the literature from successful firms’ business model practices to business model theory and, as a result, different theories arise accordingly. Following the previous implications, the purpose of this article is to demonstrate how business models are developed and implemented. A case study of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s transportation strategy and implementation of a business model has been conducted in detail, followed by an explanation of the concept. To focus on the maritime industry and bridge the gap in Turkey’s water transportation, a business model development process for the water transportation industry was proposed and then applied to all industries. The evaluation of the business model concept from a process perspective led us to achieve a generalized model, indicating how a successful business model can be implemented by other firms. As a result, we found that a successful business model must be valuable, profitable and sustainable. In addition, a successful business model greatly contributes to the sustainability of any firm and offers a novel framework to firms which desire to get a competitive advantage.
All conventional organization systems move towards its end and fall down on doing business. The n... more All conventional organization systems move towards its end and fall down on doing business. The new economy requires some default issues for organizations anymore to meet the need of dynamic, fast-changing and fluctuated environment. Organizations should accept changing business world dynamics and shape their strategic framework to survive in destructive competition aura. The known theory explains this circumstance is the chaos theory. Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred as the butterfly effect. It assumes random but followed a pattern behaviors, an extreme complexity and nonlinear and non-periodical system. In terms of organizational paradigm, chaos theory refers to a subset of chaos incorporates principles of quantum mechanics and presents them in a complex systems environment. Today organizations should recognize the “layout in chaos” as an inevitable part of the environment....
The concept of organizational cronyism has been investigated to explain different concepts in the... more The concept of organizational cronyism has been investigated to explain different concepts in the literature. In this study, we aim at researching the influence of organizational cronyism on organizational commitment of individuals and explain how the influence differentiates their career satisfaction or frustration with work perception of individuals. Therefore, we focused on government officials working in a public institution and examine their perception of cronyism in the organization. Having gathered the data from 193 government officials, confirmatory as well as explanatory factor analyses initially was initially conducted on the scales of organizational cronyism, organizational commitment, career satisfaction and frustration with work. After controlling the validity and reliability of the scales, measurement model and structural model testing were carried out. Results indicated that organizational commitment partially mediated the relationship between organizational cronyism and career satisfaction. In addition, organizational commitment partially mediated the relationship between organizational cronyism and frustration with work.
Focusing primarily on organizational identity, the researcher argues theoretically and shows empi... more Focusing primarily on organizational identity, the researcher argues theoretically and shows empirically that the mediating role of organizational identity complexity/congruence on the relationship between satisfaction with organization and intention to retain. In addition, they investigate for differences in organizational identity complexity, satisfaction with organization and intention to retain in terms of employees’ demographic characteristics. Thus, the researcher focused on outsourcing labors having multiple organizational identities to delineate the employees’ organizational identity complexity/congruence and collected the data from outsourcing labors working in two public university campuses in Turkey. The results demonstrated that outsourcing labors experience congruence was not a complexity in organizational identity. Furthermore, it was recognized that organizational identity complexity/congruence mediates the relationship between satisfaction with organization and intention to retain it. The researcher has also got scientific proof that there are significant differences in employees’ satisfaction with an organization, organizational identity complexity/congruence and intention to retain in terms of employees’ demographic characteristics.
Following the previous studies on ‘extra-role behavior’, this study focuses especially on ‘promot... more Following the previous studies on ‘extra-role behavior’, this study focuses especially on ‘promotive extra-role behavior’ as well as ‘positive work behavior’, and explores of ethical ideologies on them. On that framework, this paper aims to achieve the effect of ‘ethical ideologies’ (idealism and relativism) on promotive extra-role behaviors (helping and voice) and positive work behavior. Moreover, we examine the impact of being high and low idealist personality as well as high and low relativist personality on level of ‘helping extra-role behavior’, ‘voice behavior’, ‘extra-role behavior’, and ‘positive work behaviors’ that individuals exhibit. This paper also aims to explore the influence of demographic variables on helping, voice, and positive work behavior. In order to achieve the goals mentioned, we collected data from 356 MBA students, and used the ordinal logistic regression analysis. Results indicate that idealism significantly correlates to helping, voice, and positive work behavior.
Despite all the ink split and words spoken, career satisfaction concept has not been evaluated su... more Despite all the ink split and words spoken, career satisfaction concept has not been evaluated sufficiently in some research areas, notably education and alumni literature. We aim to explain career satisfaction extending for individuals’ university education satisfaction, alumni satisfaction, unlike the previous studies. This paper also aims to shed light on differences in alumni satisfaction and career satisfaction in terms of employees’ demographic characteristics. Furthermore, we design a model in order to explain individuals’ career satisfaction associating with their alumni satisfaction, gap period and gender. In order to test the hypotheses, we draw a sample of 963 respondents graduated from a public university in Turkey. Linear regression analysis results indicate that alumni satisfaction explains significant level of career satisfaction. The explaining value is remarkable to turn researchers’ attention to investigate this field. In addition, alumni satisfaction scores show that there are significant differences in alumni satisfaction based upon age and gap period. Career satisfaction scores also indicate that there are significant difference in career satisfaction in terms of gender, occupation and gap period, as seen in t-test and ANOVA results. Finally, according to ordinal logistic regression analysis results, individuals having higher degree of alumni satisfaction are 4.56 times likely to get upper level career satisfaction than individuals having relatively low degree of alumni satisfaction. Moreover, individuals getting a job in two years after graduated from university are 3.97 times likely to get satisfaction from their career than those getting a job two years later after graduated from university. In addition, males are 1.74 times more likely to get higher satisfaction from their career than females. So the present research contributes a literature gap about satisfaction of alumni and career fields.
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organizational commitment of individuals and explain how the influence differentiates their career satisfaction or frustration with work perception of individuals. Therefore, we focused on government officials working in a public institution and examine their perception of cronyism in the organization. Having gathered the data from 193 government officials, confirmatory as well as explanatory factor analyses initially was initially conducted on the scales of organizational cronyism, organizational commitment, career satisfaction and frustration with work. After controlling the validity and reliability of the scales, measurement model and structural model testing were carried out. Results indicated that organizational commitment partially mediated the relationship between organizational cronyism and career satisfaction. In addition, organizational commitment partially mediated the relationship between organizational cronyism and frustration with work.
delineate the employees’ organizational identity complexity/congruence and collected the data from outsourcing labors working in two public university campuses in Turkey. The results demonstrated that outsourcing labors experience congruence was not a complexity in organizational identity. Furthermore, it was recognized that organizational identity complexity/congruence mediates the relationship between satisfaction with organization and intention to retain it. The researcher has also got scientific proof that there are significant differences in employees’ satisfaction with an organization, organizational identity complexity/congruence and intention to retain in terms of employees’ demographic characteristics.
organizational commitment of individuals and explain how the influence differentiates their career satisfaction or frustration with work perception of individuals. Therefore, we focused on government officials working in a public institution and examine their perception of cronyism in the organization. Having gathered the data from 193 government officials, confirmatory as well as explanatory factor analyses initially was initially conducted on the scales of organizational cronyism, organizational commitment, career satisfaction and frustration with work. After controlling the validity and reliability of the scales, measurement model and structural model testing were carried out. Results indicated that organizational commitment partially mediated the relationship between organizational cronyism and career satisfaction. In addition, organizational commitment partially mediated the relationship between organizational cronyism and frustration with work.
delineate the employees’ organizational identity complexity/congruence and collected the data from outsourcing labors working in two public university campuses in Turkey. The results demonstrated that outsourcing labors experience congruence was not a complexity in organizational identity. Furthermore, it was recognized that organizational identity complexity/congruence mediates the relationship between satisfaction with organization and intention to retain it. The researcher has also got scientific proof that there are significant differences in employees’ satisfaction with an organization, organizational identity complexity/congruence and intention to retain in terms of employees’ demographic characteristics.