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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
291

"Our Women": Construction of Hindu and Muslim Women's Identities by the Religious Nationalist Discourses in India

Imam, Zeba 2009 December 1900 (has links)
Secular nationalism, India?s official ideology and the basis for its secular Constitution, is being challenged by the rising religious nationalist discourses. This has resulted in an ongoing struggle between the secular and religious nationalist discourses. Since women are regarded as symbols of religious tradition and purity, the religious nationalist discourses subject them to increasing rules and regulations aimed at controlling their behavior to conform to the ideal of religious purity. In this study I examine the subject positions that the Hindu and Muslim nationalist discourses in India are constructing for "their women" and its implication for women's citizenship rights. I focus my research on two topics, where religious nationalist discourses intersect with the women's question in obvious ways. These are "the Muslim personal law" and "marriages between Hindu women and Muslim men". The Muslim personal law has emerged as the most important symbol of Muslim identity over the years, and holds an important position within the Hindu and the Muslim nationalist discourses as well as the secular discourse. The debates around the Muslim personal law are centered on questions of religious freedom and equal citizenship rights for Muslim women. The issue of marriages between Hindu women and Muslim men is located in the Hindu nationalist discourse?s larger theme pertaining to the threat that the Muslim "other" poses to the Hindu community/nation. I juxtapose the religious nationalist discourses with the secular nationalist discourse to understand how the latter is contesting and negotiating with the former two to counter the restrictive subject positions that the religious nationalist discourses are constructing for Hindu and Muslim women. The study is based on the content of debates taken from three mainstream English newspapers in India. Further, interviews with people associated with projects related to women rights and/or countering religious nationalism are used to supplement the analysis. The analysis is carried out using concepts from Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory. The analysis suggests that the subject positions being constructed by the religious nationalist discourses for Hindu and Muslim women, although different from each other, freeze them as subjects of religious communities, marginalizing or rejecting their identities as subjects of State with equal citizenship rights. The women rights and secular discourse counters this by offering a subject position with more agency and rights compared to the former two. However, it is increasingly getting trapped within the boundaries being set by the religious nationalist discourses. I argue that there is a need for women rights and secular discourse to break the boundaries being set by the religious nationalist discourses. In order to prevent the sedimentation of the meaning "women as subjects of community", the secular discourse needs to employ the vocabulary of liberal citizenship as rearticulated in feminist, pluralist terms.
292

What Makes a Good Citizen? An Examination of Personality and Organizational Commitment as Predictors of Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Watrous-Rodriguez, Kristen M. 2010 May 1900 (has links)
This study utilized the meta-theoretical framework developed by McCrae and Costa in 1996 that explains individual differences in human nature and the theory regarding the role of individual differences in task performance and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) proposed by Motowidlo, Borman, and Schmit in 1997, to examine the interrelationships among the Big Five personality traits (conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, emotional stability, and openness to experience), three components of organizational commitment (affective, normative, continuance), and OCB. Two samples were included; Sample 1 (N = 133) consisted of employed undergraduate students and their coworkers and Sample 2 (N = 241) consisted of older, more stably employed adults. Participants in both samples completed measures of personality, organizational commitment, and OCB. Further, in Sample 1, coworker participants provided a rating of the primary participants' OCB. Four sets of analyses were conducted to examine: 1) personality-OCB relationships, 2) organizational commitment-OCB relationships, 3) personality-organizational commitment relationships, and 4) organizational commitment as a mediator of personality-OCB relationships. Results of the first set indicated that conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and emotional stability were positively related to OCB in at least one analysis. Results of the second set indicated that affective and normative commitment were positively related to OCB in both samples. While not consistent across samples, results of the third set indicated that conscientiousness, agreeableness, and extraversion were positively related to both affective and normative commitment; openness to experience was negatively related to normative commitment; conscientiousness was positively related to continuance commitment; and emotional stability and openness to experience were negatively related to continuance commitment in at least one analysis. Results of the fourth set indicated that, in Sample 1, affective and normative commitment partially mediated the conscientiousness-OCB relationship. Further, in Sample 2, affective and normative commitment partially mediated relationships between each of agreeableness and extraversion and OCB. Overall, these findings offer support for McCrae and Costa's meta-theoretical framework and Motowidlo, Borman, and Schmit's theory.
293

The relationship study of the hospital organization culture, leadership,and organizational citizenship behaviors.

Lee, June-Shain 25 August 2003 (has links)
The relationship study of the hospital organization culture, leadership,and organizational citizenship behaviors. Abstract This research is aimed at hospital organization culture, leadership, organizational citizenship behaviors of medical organizations. The sample of this research focuses on 10 local teaching medical centers in southern Taiwan, which includes 51 departments and superiors, and the number of polled employees reaches 273.This has resulted in: ¡]1¡^Leadership and organizational citizenship behaviors have positively correlation; contingent reward is most correlated with courtesy.¡]2¡^Organizational culture and organizational citizenship behaviors have positively correlation; social responsibility is most correlated with civic virtue.¡]3¡^Organizational culture and leadership have positively correlation; scientific truth seeking is most correlated with providing an appropriate model.¡]4¡^ Leadership positively associates with organizational citizenship behaviors; identifying and articulating a vision is the most associated with conscientiousness.¡]5¡^ Organizational culture positively associates with organizational citizenship behaviors; in this item, civic virtue is most affected¡]6¡^ Organizational culture positively associates with leadership; scientific truth seeking is the major factor to providing an appropriate model. As to the influence of the interaction of leadership and organizational culture to organizational citizenship behaviors, the result is as the following: ¡]1¡^in the condition of emphasizing on social responsibility culture, providing individualized support positively associates with courtesy base on low social responsibility while the 2 factors are not obviously related to each other base on high social responsibility; providing individualized support positively associates with altruism base on low social responsibility while these two factors are negatively associative to each other base on high social responsibility ¡]2¡^in the condition of emphasizing on strengthening relations culture, providing individualized support positively associates with altruism base on weak relations while the 2 factors are negatively associates to each other base on high strong relations ¡]3¡^in the condition of emphasizing on customer orientation culture, providing individualized support positively associates with civic virtue base on weak customer orientation while the 2 factors are negatively associates to each other base on strong customer orientation ¡]4¡^ in the condition of emphasizing on scientific truth seeking, high performance expectations positively associates with civic virtue, however, high performance expectations influences civic virtue more in strong scientific truth seeking than in weak scientific truth seeking ¡]5¡^ in the condition of emphasizing on integrity and trust culture, high performance expectations positively associates with altruism, however, high performance expectations influences altruism more in strong integrity and trust culture than in weak integrity and trust culture. Furthermore, providing individualized support positively associates with altruism; in comparison with strong integrity and trust culture, the influence between these two factors is more in weak integrity and trust culture.
294

The relationship among Supervisor, Trust and Organizational citizenship behavior

Hsien, Huang-Hsin 17 April 2004 (has links)
The main purpose of this research is investigated based on the organizational behavior about the relationship among Supervisor, Trust and Organizational citizenship behavior. The research methods use questionnaires survey. The survey instrument was mail to the student nurses and teacher, and there are 298 effective questionnaires retuened. The main findings of the empirical study are as follow: 1.Trust holds a relation toward the altruism, conscientiousness, courtesy and civic virtue; but no relation toward the sportsmanship. 2.Coordingating supervisory behavior of trachers holds a relation toward the sportsmanship and civic virtue. Accepting supervisory behavior holds a relation toward the altruism, conscientiousness, courtesy; but no relation toward the sportsmanship. Teaching supervisory behavior holds a relation toward the sportsmanship and civic virtue. 3.Only teaching supervisory behavior holds a relation toward the trust; the others no relation toward the trust. 4.Accepting supervisory behavior and teaching supervisory behavior hold relation toward the altruism, conscientiousness, courtesy and civic virtue through the trust. 5.The research supports the link of the supervisory behavior ¡V trust ¡V organizational citizenship behavior.
295

The Relationships among Organizational Justice,Trust, and Customer Citizenship Behavior

Hung, Chung-Rung 05 September 2005 (has links)
Organizational citizenship behavior¡]Smith, Organ, & Near, 1983¡^refers to discretionary behaviors that benefit the organization but are not formally rewarded or appraised. Previous research has traditionally identified employee perceptions of justice or equity, and trust with the organization as determinants¡]Motowidlo & Van Scotter, 1994; Organ & Konovsky, 1989¡^, but this conceptualization has been focused on employee¡¦s behaviors¡]Orr, Sackett, & Mercer, 1989; Podsakoff, Aheame, & Mackenzie 1997¡^. This study develops a new concept as an important variable, customer citizenship behavior(CCB), underlying logistics industry in Taiwan, to further the understanding of citizenship behaviors. It is important to study because it affects organizational performance. And, with the growing importance of Customer Relationship Management(CRM), the relationship between the business context and CCB has not been addressed. The business context is defined to include: organizational justice, trust in business teams, and satisfaction with the other customer service relationships. Hypotheses are developed linking these aspects of the business context to CCB.The main purpose of this research is to investigate the relationships between organizational justice, trust and CCB and indirect effects as the mediated variable¡¨trust¡¨between organizational justice and CCB.Those relationships could be examined through questionnaire survey method. The main findings of the empirical study are as follows¡G 1. Organizational justice holds the positive relationship toward CCB 2. Organizational justice holds the positive relationship toward Trust 3. Trust holds the positive relationship toward CCB 4. Trust holds the significant indirect effects between organizational justice and CCB 5. Personal attributes holds the significant influence toward CCB
296

A study on the effects of Organizational Culture and Job Characteristics on Organizational Citizenship Behavior ¡VThe Employees in Aviation Industry of Taiwan

Hsiao, Wen-Jui 05 September 2005 (has links)
The purposes of this study were the relationship among Organizational Culture, Job Characteristics, and Organization Citizenship Behavior in the Aviation Industry of Taiwan. The questionnaire survey was adopted for the study. The samples included 1,000 employees who worked in aviation industry of Taiwan. The data were analyzed by the following statistical methods¡GStatistically analyzed, T-test, One-way ANOVA., Pearson product-moment correlation, multiple regression and hierarchical regression statistical techniques. The main findings in this study were: a. Organizational Culture and Organizational citizenship behaviors had positively correlation. Particularly, Innovative Culture had the best correlation with Organizational citizen behaviors. b. Organizational Culture had direct effect on Organizational citizen behaviors. Particularly, the influence of Innovative Culture had the notable effect on Organizational citizen behaviors.The Innovative Culture had significant prediction on the Conscientiusness, Civil Virtue ,Altrusim, Courtesy. c. Job characteristic and Organizational citizenship behaviors had positively correlation. Particularly, The Feedback of Task had the best correlation with Organizational citizen behaviors. d. Job characteristic had direct effect on Organizational citizenship behaviors.The Feedback of Task had significant prediction on Courtesy. The result showed that if the organization emphasizes the Feedback of Task in the work design, then staff's Courteous aspect displays can be higher. e. Job Characteristics and Organizational citizenship behaviors had positively correlation. Particularly ,Supportive culture had the best correlation with Dealing With Other. f. Job Characteristics had direct effect on Organizational Culture.Particularly, Autonomy had significant prediction on Support culture.It showed that organization culture was Support culture , then the staff¡¦s Autunomy aspect dispalyed higher. g. The result of interacted effect between Job Characteristics and Organizational Culture on the effectiveness of Organizational citizenship behaviors had partirlly direct effect. ¡]a¡^ Supportive Culture:When the airline was in the Support culture, its work Automomy higher, its staff ¡¥s Sportsmanship could be higher. ¡]b¡^ Innovative Culture: If the airline was in the Innovative Culture, when it adopted the high Feedback of Task, then the staff had more Altrusim. ¡]c¡^ Bureaucratic Culture:When the airline was Bureaucratic Culture, the higher Feedback of Task was adopted , the more Courtesy of staff ¡¥s behavior. Based on the above conclusions, this study offers some suggestions as the references for managers in Aviation Industry and researchers.
297

The effects of corporate citizenship image and reputation on organizational attractiveness to prospective employees

Hou, Ching-yin 15 August 2006 (has links)
Abstract The reason why organizations attract potential employees has been studied for a long time, excellent human resources are relatively limit under tight labor market. Therefore businesses compete with each other at recruiting these employees, but only to increase the attractiveness of organization itself ultimately keeping advantage of appeal of talented people. Talking about organizational attractiveness, corporate reputation and image first come to people¡¦s mind. The reputation index conduct by CommonWealth magazine annually influences corporate reputation and image of the public. As the development of globalization, businesses have to concern more while making an important decision.Such as ethical, legal and discretionary concerns, so called corporate citizenship. This study is intended to find relationship between corporate citizenship image, reputation and organizational attractiveness. 19 businesses are selected out form CommonWealth magazine 2006 corporate citizenship survey, 340 graduating master or bachelor students as responds. Results show that corporate citizenship image positively influence organizational attractiveness and there is a significance between high and low corporate citizenship image groups in reputation and organizational attractiveness.
298

The Study of Relationship among Transformational Leadership, Organization- al Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior : The Evidence from Southern District Branch Chunghwa Telecommunication, Corporation. .

LIN, SHIH-CHI 01 February 2001 (has links)
The Study of Relationship among Transformational Leadership, Organization- al Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior : The Evidence from Southern District Branch Chunghwa Telecommunication, Corporation. . Abstract In the public sector, its expending organization of human resource is restricted by expenditure examination; therefore it cannot be as flexible as the private sector. In the stimulating aspect, the system of the public sector is more rigid than the private sector; therefore, for this phenomenon, how to lead employees of the public sector efficiently to create achievement is one of the factors that the public sector must consider for success Chunghwa Telephone is the leader of telecommunication in the public sector. The mission of telecommunication in gross output value of Taiwan high-tech manufacture is very significant. Telecommunication is the leader of the top ten businesses, and thus we can realize the importance of telecommunication. The human resource management of telecommunication is extremely different from the traditional manufacture. Chunghwa Telephone, the leader of telecommunication, leads employees towards achievement and stimulates them having commitment for the organization. Therefore, this research is relatively for the employees who proceed to change leading, commitment of organization and behavior of organizing citizen in the south branch of Chunghwa Telephone. The result of this research indicate that: 1. Employees of different attribute (sex, age, marriage, family of children, education, seniority, position, people dealt with from work) have part discrepancies on transformational leadership, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. To get the result from t and One-way ANOVA examine. 2. Transformational leadership, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior have positive relation. 3. Transformational leadership has positive relation with organizational commitment. 4. Transformational leadership has positive relation with organizational citizenship behavior. 5. Organizational commitment has positive relation with organizational citizenship behavior.. 6. The organizational commitment is the important key to enhance the positive relation between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. According to the above results of the research, the command for the public telecommunication is that the leader should improve his way of changing management, have more commitments of organization to workers, and then make workers show up the behavior of organizing citizen to approach to the achievement of public telecommunication. A command of later researchers is to increase changes of research, have comparison between the private telecommunication and public department, amending measurement and proceed certain researches. Key words: Transformational leadership, Organizational commitment, Organizational citizenship behavior.
299

The Relationship among Transformational Leadship , Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior¡XThe case of Electronic Industry in Taiwan.

Hor, Tarng-Juh 01 February 2001 (has links)
The product value of electronic industry in Taiwan ,processes the significant position .It is extremely different traditional manufacture industry ,and service distinguish with electronic human Resource (HR) work. How can the leader manage the employee and the business thus the future strive toward to complete the mission under this complex attribute. It is necessary for him to inspire employees carry out organizational commitment and organization citizenship behavior . Hence researcher proceeds the research of the relationship among the transformational leadership , organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior in electronic industry in Taiwan . The result of this research indicate that: 1. Employees of different attribute (sexuality ,age,marriage ,children ,tenure ,and positions) have no discrimination on transformational leadership .It expresses a lot of diversification in education. Inspiration vision where are top level transformed .It the mean while the education above college is higher in organizational citizenship than senior ¡Vhigh-school educated. 2. Transformational leadership offers a positive relation with organizational commitment. 3. Transformational leadership showers positive relation with organizational citizenship behavior . 4. Organizational commitment presents positive relation with organizational citizenship behavior. 5. Transformational leadership and organizational commitment presents positive relation with organizational citizenship behavior. 6. The organizational commitment is the important factor to enhance the positive relation between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. Considering the results mentional above , some suggestions are made for electronic industry and further research in this field.
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A Study on the Relationships among Organizational Climate, Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior ¢w Taking the C Factory as Example

Chiang, Ching-Ching 03 July 2002 (has links)
Enterprises estimate employees¡¦ job performance, should not only pay attention to in-role performance but also take notice of extra-role performance, and that is organizational citizenship behavior. Because employees have their own right in organizational citizenship behavior, they are easy to express. It is extremely important to explore the reason why employees present organizational citizenship behavior, how the employees show their willing to perform, and that is conducive to the performance of organization. This has become one of the most important issues for organization. If enterprises can understand the employees¡¦ motivation and guide them, then the enterprises can get their expectation and respect as well as improving the performance of organization from the employees. In this study, organizational climate is used as the independent variables, organizational commitment is used as the intervening variable, and organizational citizenship behavior is the dependent variable. The purpose of this research is mainly to find out the relationship and the difference among organizational climate, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior. Furthermore, using the individual variable as the interfered variable to investigate the effect of interference to organizational climate, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior. This research used the method of questionnaire survey as the C case factory. After analyzing the data with quantitative analysis, together with various kinds of statistic methods, the following important discoveries are stated separately as follows: 1. The different individual variables to organizational climate, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior come out a partly remarkable discrepancy. 2. A significant positive correlation was identified among organizational climate, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior. 3. Organizational climate and organizational commitment were positively significant to organizational citizenship behavior. 4. Organizational commitment was found to have a significant mediating effect between organizational climate and organizational citizenship behavior. 5. Individual variables were found to have a significant moderating effect among organizational climate, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior. According to the results of research, organization that were enable to promote organizational climate and increasing employees¡¦ organizational commitment, the workers displayed organizational citizenship behavior to advance the performance of organization, in order to maintain enterprise¡¦s continuous competitive advantages.

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