The purpose of this study is to examine the dynamic relationship between daily job characteristics proposed by job characteristics theory (job autonomy, task variety, significance, identity, and ...feedback) and change oriented organizational citizenship behavior (OCB-CH). A daily diary survey study design was used, in which 61 employees working in different organizations in Greece, completed a structured questionnaire for five consecutive working days (N = 305 occasions). Results from multilevel regression analysis supported the role of daily job autonomy, daily task significance and daily job feedback as within-person positive correlates of OCB-CH. Our model explained 17.72% of the variance in OCB-CH ratings. The study highlights the importance of core job characteristics, for the execution of daily OCB-CH in organizations. However not all job characteristics are suitable for promoting the execution of daily OCB-CH. Managers can enhance their employees' daily OCB-CH by interventions aiming at increasing daily task variety, and task significance along with the degree of daily job autonomy granted to employees.
Recently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on which the notion of universality rests. Rather than jettison the ...idea of universal citizenship, however, R. Andrés Guzmán builds on these critiques to reaffirm it especially within the fields of Latina/o and ethnic studies. Beyond conceptualizing citizenship as an outcome of recognition and admittance by the nation-state—in a negotiation for the right to have rights—he asserts that, insofar as universal citizenship entails a forceful entrance into the political from the latter’s foundational exclusions, it emerges at the limits of legality and illegality via a process that exceeds identitarian capture. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosopher Alain Badiou’s notion of “generic politics," Guzmán advances his argument through close analyses of various literary, cultural, and legal texts that foreground contention over the limits of political belonging. These include the French Revolution, responses to Arizona’s H.B. 2281, the 2006 immigrant rights protests in the United States, the writings of Oscar “Zeta" Acosta, Frantz Fanon’s account of Algeria’s anticolonial struggle, and more. In each case, Guzmán traces the advent of the “citizen" as a collective subject made up of anyone who seeks to radically transform the organizational coordinates of the place in which she or he lives.
Education for Global Citizenship (GCE) is a key issue in current educational debates. Throughout this study, through a review of the literature, a historical journey is made through the past, present ...and future lines of GCE. This theoretical journey covers the evolution of GCE from the 1960s to the present to allow us to gain perspective on how it has become increasingly important in this global and interconnected society. The future directions guide a Critical Global Citizenship in which the important thing is not only to raise awareness and promote action, but also to be able to critically understand social reality and existing inequalities in order to transform the world into a better place, free of oppression and injustice.
The concept of empowering leadership (EL) has seen increasing scholarly interest in recent years. This study reports a meta-analysis investigating the effects of EL on employee work behavior. On the ...basis of data from 105 samples, we found evidence for the positive effects of EL on performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and creativity at both the individual and team levels. We further examined these relationships by exploring potential boundary conditions and the incremental contribution of EL over transformational leadership and leader–member exchange. Furthermore, at the individual level, both trust in leader and psychological empowerment mediated the relationships of EL with task performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and creativity. We also found evidence that leader–member exchange was a significant mediator between EL and task performance. At the team level, empowerment mediated the effects of EL on team performance, whereas knowledge sharing showed no significant indirect effect. Our results have important theoretical and practical implications and suggest some areas that require further research.
Redobândirea cetățeniei române de către cetățeni ai Republicii Moldova și ai Ucrainei a cunoscut o îmbunătățire graduală a cadrului legislativ. Politica statului român de a acorda cetățenie română ...cetățenilor moldoveni și ucraineni a creat tensiuni regionale în diferite perioade de timp, iar perioada de soluționare a unei cereri de redobândire a cetățeniei române a crescut de la câteva luni între anii 1991 și 2001 la aproximativ doi, trei ani în prezent. Dacă între anii 2001 și 2007 procedura redobândirii cetățeniei române a fost aproape blocată, atunci după aderarea României la Uniunea Europeană și la NATO această procedură va cunoaște o îmbunătățire considerabilă. În mod special ne referim la modificările legislative operate în anul 2010 în legea cetățeniei române, care redefinesc fundamental dreptul la redobândirea cetățeniei române și reorganizează din temelii aparatul instituțional administrativ care supervizează implementarea lui.Singura provocare actuală în domeniul redobândirii cetățeniei române o reprezintă termenul exagerat de lung pentru analizarea/soluționarea unei astfel de cereri.
ROMANIAN CITIZENSHIP REGAINING BY CITIZENS OF
THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA AND UKRAINEThe regain of Romanian citizenship by citizens of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine has seen a gradual improvement of the legislative framework. The Romanian state's policy of granting Romanian citizenship to Moldovan and Ukrainian citizens created regional tensions over various periods of time, and the period for resolving a request for regaining Romanian citizenship has increased from several months between 1991-2001 to about two or three years at the moment. If between 2001 and 2007 the procedure for regaining the Romanian citizenship was almost blocked, after Romania's accession to the European Union and NATO this procedure will experience considerable improvement, in particular I refer to legislative changes occurring in 2010 on the law of Romanian citizenship, which fundamentally redefine the right to regain the Romanian citizenship and reorganize from the ground up the administrative institutional apparatus that oversees its implementation.The only current challenge in the field of regaining Romanian citizenship is the excessively long term for analysing/resolving such a request.
El objetivo de este artículo es establecer la importancia de la cultura de paz y la formación ciudadana dentro del reto de educar para la paz. El estudio consiste en una revisión narrativa ...desarrollada desde la realidad colombiana, tomando como fuente de información documentos académicos e institucionales. El análisis permitió identificar que la cultura de paz y la formación ciudadana constituyen conceptos cruciales e inherentes a la educación para la paz, por lo tanto, adquieren una dinámica de interdependencia que se torna imprescindible promover en sociedades donde ha prevalecido la violencia, como es el caso de Colombia.
This book explores the relationship between state formation and political identities in the context of Sudan's conflict. Idris examines how hierarchy was historically constructed and politically ...institutionalized in the Sudan, acknowledging the centrality of the historical legacy of slavery and colonialism in Sudan's postcolonial crisis
In a number of studies, researchers interested in positive organizational behavior have sought to better understand the favorable aspects of work engagement-a pervasive state of emotional attachment ...and motivation toward work. In this study, however, we investigate a potentially negative outcome of engagement. Drawing upon conservation of resources theory, we hypothesize that engagement will be associated with higher work interference with family due to the resources engaged employees may expend when they engage in extrarole work behavior such as organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). We further propose that conscientiousness, as a personal resource, serves to buffer the relationship between OCB and work interference with family. Examining multisource data, collected at multiple points in time, from 3 diverse samples (total
N
= 844), we find that state engagement is associated with higher levels of work interference with family and that this relationship is mediated by the performance of OCBs. The findings also indicate that engaged employees who are highly conscientious experience lower levels of work interference with family than engaged employees who are less conscientious. The implications of our study and directions for future research are also discussed.
The aim of this article is to problematize the public regarding transformations that have allowed for passing from a public health discourse to a collective health discourse. We have focused on the ...ruptures produced by a set of practices that allow for another condition of possible positions. The starting point is a genealogy of public and the way this has been transformed when articulated with new objects in the health field proposed by the sanitary reform: duty and citizenship. For this analysis, we have used Foucauldian concepts, such as truth, power, and subjectivity. Thus, this article discusses the configuration form of public in terms of experience of otherness, experience of population/poverty/State/epidemics, and experience of health/State/duty/citizenship.
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