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Objective work–nonwork conflict: From incompatible demands to decreased work role performance
2011
Research on work–nonwork conflict (WNC) is based on the assumption that incompatible demands from the work and the nonwork domain hamper role performance. This assumption implies that role demands from both domains interact in predicting role performance, but research has been largely limited to main effects. In this multi-source study, we analyze the incompatibility of demands by testing the interaction of work and nonwork demands on task performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The sample consisted of 61 employees of a German hospital and we used three independent sources of data: self-ratings of work demands, partner-ratings of nonwork demands, and colleague-ratings of …
Are altruistic leaders worthy? The role of organizational learning capability
2015
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between altruistic leader behaviors, organizational learning capability and organizational performance.Design/methodology/approach– The sampling frame consists of several databases or listings of business that consider people as a key element of the organization and are considered by their employees to be good firms to work for or organizational environments where human resources management has high priority (n=251). The authors use structural equation modeling to test if the relationship between altruistic leader behaviors and organizational performance is mediated by organizational learning capability.Findings– Results …
Recovery during the weekend and fluctuations in weekly job performance : a week-level study examining intra-individual relationships
2010
For most employees, the weekend offers the opportunity to recover and unwind from demands faced during the working week. In this study, first, we examined which factors contribute to employees' successful recovery during the weekend. Second, we investigated if being highly recovered after the weekend benefits different dimensions of job performance during the week. Using a within-person design we conducted a week-level study with 133 employees over four working weeks. Participants responded to weekly web-based surveys at the beginning and at the end of the working week. Hierarchical linear modelling showed that psychological detachment, relaxation, and mastery experiences during the weekend…
Understanding The Mediating Role of Quality of Work Life on the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors.
2016
Organizational citizenship behaviors are not directly rewarded by organizations. However, they seem to contribute to excellent performance at work. The aim of this study is to test quality of working life’s (QoWL) mediating role in the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). 203 French adults working regularly in teams completed validated self-report measures corresponding to each construct. The collected data showed that in the studied sample, a high quality of working life was associated with Sportsmanship behaviors. However, mediation was not observed for the other OCB subscales: Altruism, Helping, or Civic virtues. These behaviors…
Children’s life world as a perspective on their citizenship: The case of the Finnish Children’s Parliament
2012
The latest childhood studies present children’s citizenship as a process of engaging in matters related to children themselves in their everyday lives. However, only a few studies have been conducted on what those issues are and what they actually tell about children’s citizenship. This study explores the nature of children’s participation and citizenship by adopting a life world perspective. The aim is to examine what kind of issues children want to participate in and influence. The data are drawn from an online discussion in the Finnish Children’s Parliament. Altogether 61 children participated in the discussion, with 566 postings. The analysis of the children’s online discussion shows t…
La producción narrativa en el encuentro con la otredad
2020
En este artículo se presenta una investigación basada en una propuesta metodológica que busca el objetivo de dotar de más protagonismo a las participantes en ella a partir del uso de las producciones narrativas como base para la investigación y la transformación social, mediante la creación de un círculo de mujeres de cultura gitana y no gitana. Las producciones narrativas, como herramienta metodológica cualitativa, se basan en el conocimiento local y situado, y se encuentran en relación con lo que experimentamos. La idea central es producir un texto estructurado a partir de la información recopilada por la investigadora durante las sesiones, combinando la observación participativa y la rea…
Testing the participatory education evaluation concept in a national context
2012
Abstract The article focuses on the realisation of participatory evaluation (PE) in national educational evaluation activity. The realisation of PE is examined by adapting the Daigneault and Jacob model (2009 ; originally Cousins & Whitmore, 1998 ) to five national-level educational evaluations carried out in Finland. According to the chosen frame of reference, self-evaluation regarding the realisation of these five evaluations as well as the analysis of reports that are yielded from the evaluations is used as the research method. PE was realised at a general level in the Finnish national level educational evaluations, but during the process there were considerable differences between the s…
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science
2021
Initiatives that attribute expert status to ‘ordinary citizens’ proliferate in a range of societal realms and are generally celebrated for ‘democratising expertise’. By tapping new sources of knowledge and participation simultaneously, such ‘citizen expertise’ practices seem to provide responses to the contemporary decline of trust in political elites and traditional experts that seriously challenges the legitimacy of democratic policy-making. This study distinguishes between three quintessential types of citizen expertise (‘local knowledge’, ‘service user involvement’ and ‘citizen science’) and, from an integrated perspective, critically discusses the value of citizen expertise for public…
Cómo diseñar talleres para promover la salud en grupos comunitarios
2014
ResumenUna de las estrategias de promoción de la salud es el desarrollo de habilidades para la vida considerando a las propias personas como principal recurso para la salud. Un taller ha de conseguir que sus participantes se conviertan en «activos» para tomar decisiones y generar salud, centrándose en el desarrollo y adquisición de habilidades en grupo de una manera motivadora y con la finalidad de alcanzar unos objetivos. Los conceptos que fundamentan el diseño de un taller y que han de plantearse como etapa 0 son: planificación participativa, capacitar, aprendizaje significativo, aprender en grupo y técnicas participativas.Las etapas que se deben seguir para diseñar un taller y facilitar …
La cultura de paz en la educación para la ciudadanía y los derechos humanos en los libros de texto de educación primaria
1969
This article examines the contribution of education in the construction of the culture of peace in 11 educational textbooks for primary students, which were edited in the Autonomous Community of Cataluña in 2009, given that the area is the most explicitly linked to peace. A documentary study was carried out by way of the comparative methodology, along with an analysis of the content through the use of a previously designed and validated instrument favored by independent evaluators. The results show certain gaps: the absence of the word “peace” in 63 per cent of the books; inattention to the past and the future (absent in 38.5 and 72.7 per cent, respectively); a lack of participative and dem…