How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

Knowledge Management

Abstract : A study is reported of the variations in organizational commitment and job satisfaction, as related to subsequent turnover in a sample of recently-employed psychiatric technician trainees. A longitudinal study was made across a 10 1/2 month period, with attitude measures collected at four points in time. For this sample, job satisfaction measures appeared better able to differentiate future stayers from leavers in the earliest phase of the study. With the passage of time, organizational commitment measures proved to be a better predictor of turnover, and job satisfaction failed to predict turnover. The findings are discussed in the light of other related studies, and possible explanations are examined. (Modified author abstract)

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Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Among Psychiatric Technicians. Technical Report No. 16.

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Advances in experimental social psychology

Business Research Methods -11/E.

Purpose – This study aims to examine the pattern of behavior of turnover intentions in developing countries vis-a-vis Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a sample of 329 collected from 16 public universities in the province with about 3,500 population for analysis. The hypothesized relationships are tested using Amos 18 through path analysis. Findings – The results indicate employee's turnover intention is predicted by employee development perceptions. The study validates the theory of development-attitude-behavior relationship. Research limitations/implications – The paper carries discussion about the methodology used in the paper, limitations of the research and recommendations for possible future research. Originality/value – This is an empirical study of academia in a region of Pakistan with a sufficiently large sample that has not been carried out earlier. The study has importance for those at the helm of affairs and policy makers.

Employee development and turnover intention: theory validation

The centrality of resource-based view (RBV) from different angles and in diverse situations has widely been acknowledged, explored and researched. Keeping in view that the area still needs researchers’ attention. This study looks into the possible impact of market orientation (MO) on organizational performance. The study will also be looking at the moderating role of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in the MO and organizational performance link among the small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This is a survey type of qualitative and questionnaire based research. Sample size of the study is 213. The results of the study reveal the presence of positive relationship among the MO and organizational performance. The results of the study also demonstrate that the effects of MO on organizational performance are positively moderated by EO behaviors. This study covers the limitation of the previous studies by utilizing EO as a five-dimensional construct. This research fills the gap by probing the association of MO with organizational performance moderated by EO in a developing economy’s context like Pakistan. This is an empirical study with a reasonable sample size and the results have both academic as well as practical implications. The study has a number of limitations like using a single informant for data collection and studying only one city. Future research directions have also been provided.

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Market orientation and performance: The interaction effect of entrepreneurial orientation

A researcher mostly needs some statistical technique for the interpretation of the data at hand. This choice depends on the nature of the data and the researcher’s own understanding and preferences of the available techniques. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is one among those techniques. The purpose of the present study is to present some basic aspects this powerful interdependence technique with and analysis of the most common issues of SEM. This paper will present a case as to how SEM excels other statistical techniques. Literature reveals that SEM is one of the most favored statistical techniques among the social science researchers and has been found to be better than other multivariate techniques including multiple regression analysis in examining series of dependence relationships simultaneously. However, it has been felt that the use of SEM in social research is equal to naught. Side by side there hardly exists any published review that systematically describes and critique the use of SEM. The present research is an endeavor to fill that gap. The study contributes to literature on SEM specifically and provides more holistic view of SEM for researchers to use SEM more effectively.

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Use of Structural Equation Modeling in Social Science Research

The basic aim of this study was to investigate the effect of transformational and transactional leadership styles on job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational commitment, employees' perceived performance and turnover intentions amongst the private sector schools' teachers of District Charsadda of khyber pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan. Data were collected from three hundred and fifty six (356) teachers through time tested questionnaire. All variables were measured through adapted items except transformational and transactional leadership which were measured through developed items. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for data analysis. Transformational Leadership showed a significant positive correlation with job satisfaction, organizational commitment, employees' perceived performance and organizational citizenship behavior while it showed a statistically significant negative correlation with employees' turnover intention. Similarly, Transactional Leadership showed a significant positive correlation with job satisfaction, organizational commitment, employees' perceived performance and organizational citizenship behavior while it showed a statistically significant negative correlation with employees' turnover intention. Regression also showed that transformational and transactional leadership styles had significant impact on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, employees' perceived performance and organizational citizenship behavior and turnover intentions of teachers. (Nazim Ali, Shahid Ali, Anjum Ahsan, Wali Rahman, Shahid Jan kakakhel. Effects of Leadership Styles on Job Satisfaction, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Commitment and Turnover Intention(Empirical Study of Private Sector Schools' Teachers). Life Sci J 2014;11(4s):78-86). (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com . 10

Effects of Leadership Styles on Job Satisfaction, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Commitment and Turnover Intention (Empirical Study of Private Sector Schools' Teachers)

Overqualification has both positive and negative outcomes; however, extant literature exhibits a tilt in favor of its negative aspect against its positive side. This tilted approach results in derision of a condition which could produce positive results. We argue, through empirical evidence, that there might be some circumstances/conditions, like the intentions of employees about their current job, that may play an important role in enabling organizations to be benefitted from the surplus KSAs of the overqualified employees and overqualification can be used as a tool to mitigate the effects of its negative consequences. To empirically test this condition, a sample of 193 teachers and 193 students have been selected through cluster sampling technique. The results exhibited that if overqualified employees perceive their current job as a career job then there is a more likelihood that they will be involved in some innovative and creative behaviors instead of deviating negatively from the organization norms. The results provide some new research insights that could be used to better understand the phenomenon of overqualification. The results of the study have practical implications for HR managers.

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Wali Rahman

Papers

Employee development and turnover intention: theory validation

Market orientation and performance: The interaction effect of entrepreneurial orientation

Use of Structural Equation Modeling in Social Science Research

Effects of Leadership Styles on Job Satisfaction, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Commitment and Turnover Intention (Empirical Study of Private Sector Schools' Teachers)

Two angles of overqualification-the deviant behavior and creative performance: The role of career and survival job