Employee Commitment to Organizational Change with the Role of Job Satisfaction and Transformational Leadership | Author : Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy, Phan Dang Ngoc Yen Van | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :This study aimed to analyze the role of job satisfaction and transformation leadership for employees’ commitment to organizational change. Based on a survey sample of 381 employees in post-merger enterprises in retail and pharmaceutical sector and a linear regression model. The results revealed that Transformational leadership was associated positively and significantly with Affective Commitment (ß = .42, p < .000), Normative Commitment (ß = .32, p < .000), and Continuance Commitment (ß = .27, p < .000); Job satisfaction was associated positively and significantly with Affective Commitment (ß = .24, p < .000) and Normative Commitment (ß = .30, p < .000) among employees’ to organizational change. The results of this study provide a foundation of theory and practice for organizational changes that can efficiently exploit the human resource for the development in the next period. |
| Specificity of Multiculturalism in Switzerland | Author : Miroslaw Matyja | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Switzerland consists of different regions, cultures and languages. The minorities in Switzerland are in the first place ethno-linguistic minorities, whose are unified by a common language. Therefore, since the foundation of the Confederation in 1848 the Helvetic state has been considered a multilingual country. The confederation and cantons are obliged to protect linguistic minorities. The grounds of the Swiss social structure, with traditional multiculturalism and four national languages are two principles: language freedom (Sprachenfreiheit) and territoriality (Territorialitätsprinzip). Switzerland has no official state religion. Predominant religion is Christianity, the largest religious minorities is established by Islam. The largest Christian denominations are Catholic Church (37.7%) and Swiss Reformed Church (25.5%). The influx of new cultural minorities to Switzerland began after the Second World War and was directly connected with economic migration, with the large influx of gastarbeiters from southern European countries and refugees from the Third World and from the former Yugoslavia.International law includes the protection of national, yet not cultural minorities. In Switzerland the protection of national minorities is also based on international standards. |
| A Proposed Paradigm for the Requirements for Designing and Using Digital Games-Based Learning by Educable Intellectual Disabled Children | Author : Magda Saleh, Marwa Battisha | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :This study aims to shed further light on how to utilize digital games in education as a contribution to developing educable intellectual disabled children s teaching and learning practices via identifying the requirements for their design and use at those children s classes. Notably, the researchers focused on using digital games in promoting educable intellectual disabled children s learning experiences highlighting their different practical mechanisms and teaching practices based on literature review. Also, types of digital games capable of fulfilling the teaching requirements of those children were identified by making a list of the requirements for designing and using digital games-based learning at educable intellectual disabled children s classes consisting of 38 various requirements divided into 3 major dimensions, namely: (1) educational requirements for using digital games-based learning; (2) instructional design requirements for using digital games-based learning; and (3) practical application requirements for using digital games-based learning. Then, the proposed list was applied to a sample consisting of 25 faculty members at 5 Egyptian universities. Following data statistical analysis, it was revealed that the questionnaire total mean score is 2.73 with a relative weight of 90.1%. In a nutshell, such values verify that the questionnaire all proposed requirements are, indeed, very important for using digital games-based learning at educable intellectual disabled children s classes. |
| Twitter Discourse Analysis of US President Donald Trump | Author : Tanase Tasente | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Twitter has become a very powerful channel of political communication in recent years, many times overtaking, along with Facebook, traditional channels of mass communication, such as: TV, radio or newspapers. More then 500 million tweets are sent every day (5,787 tweets every second), and 326 million people use Twitter every month, even if there are 1.3 billion Twitter accounts. From the perspective of political communication, Twitter is ahead of Facebook, according to a study conducted in 2018 by Twiplomacy, which shows that 187 governments and heads of state maintain an official presence on Twitter. This mechanism of mass communication has benefited the politicians, especially those in the United States of America, who have generated a unique phenomenon in political communication: creating a map on polarization in the online environment.. This study focused on analyzing the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that facilitate Twitter Communication of Donald Trump, the President of United States of America (number of followers, types of tweets, engagement rate and interaction rate etc.) and analyzing Donald Trump s Twitter speech and identify the most commonly used expressions in Social Media during the term of President. The monitoring period is 22.01.2019 - 16.08.2019. |
| The 4 phases of evolution of political communication systems: from the golden age of the parties to the golden age of the users | Author : Tanase Tasente | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The political media communication system began to develop, in a first phase, in the first two decades after the Second World War, this period being called by Blumler and Kavanagh (1999) as "the golden age of the parties" or as “the age of the newspapers”. In the 1960s, a new stage in the evolution of political communication systems began, when few national televisions put a monopoly on the media market, becoming the dominant medium in which political communication unfolded. This stage was named "the television era" or "the modern period of electoral campaigns". Two new aspects to the previous period of evolution are due to the diminution of the voters loyalty and trust towards the political parties and the shift from direct communication to prime-time communication. The third phase of the evolution of political communication systems began to take shape at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century and was called the "postmodern period" or "digital era". Major changes in this period of political communication development have occurred both in technology, consumer behavior of voters, and in communication strategies. After 1990, for many other democratic countries and after 2000, for other totalitarian countries, political communication has undergone a strong transformation into its three points: (1) changing the communication channel and its characteristics far different from classical means, (2) related to the content of the message and the political discourse and, perhaps, the most important aspect (3) the public s ability to actively participate in government acts or protest actions challenging government acts. |
| The influence of personality traits on adolescent alcohol consumption trends | Author : Mihaela Rus, Mihaela Luminita Sandu | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Adolescence is assessed differently is being called the golden age, ungrateful, great elanuri, drama, crisis, anxiety, insecurity, social integration. Gradually, mental development, especially the intellect is mature in relation to social and cultural make it more accountable. It dominates the living new experiences and tend to self assertion expressions of disdain for the family because the teenager begins to believe that it is in adulthood. Alcohol use in adolescents, personality traits and the factors that determine consumption (psychological, hereditary and environmental, social and environmental), represented in particular by the groups entourage who are trained in adolescents, the subject of this research. |
| Features of aggression regarding homeless children | Author : Mihaela Luminita Sandu, Mihaela Rus | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Starting from the fact that man is a social being and the reality that teen, street child, living among people belonging to the same social environment, acting through a set of ways the environment, relationships with others, he must form a proper attitude and prosocial behavior. Respect individuality, training and development in line with its own development guidelines are necessary conditions in the educational process. Street children are those who are deprived of all monitoring and control, those who are exposed to overcrowding, hunger, cold and different risks. Due to their physical and emotional fragility, they are among the first victims of aggression. Their adaptation to life on the road conditions allow them to survive in a context where no professional skills, no money, no shelter and are likely to be exploited, physically and sexually abused. Survival in the street becomes possible through group membership, learn various skills in which they are intended to provide a form of income, their improvised shelters, most often in the channels and / or staircase, he organized a program day. They learn how to conduct profitable activities, limit their definition as legitimate and how to avoid being arrested or convicted, usually know that nothing happens to be minors. |
| The #Brexit on the Facebook pages of the European institutions | Author : Tanase Tasente | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The Brexit referendum was among the first major public events where online users had no "slacktivism" reactions and they led the entire debate and popular will from the inside of the online world to the real world. It is becoming increasingly clear that Social Media is becoming an increasingly powerful tool in political debates, and during the parliamentary, presidential, European parliamentary or even referendum elections, it becomes the channel that can decide the final outcome. However, the debate in the online environment can be altered by two important factors: (1) political bots - which can manipulate public opinion by posting in a large number of fake news and (2) "slacktivism" reactions from online users. , who are content only to quickly distribute unverified information or to push impulse driven on the "like" button and to scroll further. This study focused on analyzing the frequency with which European institutions spoke about Brexit on their Facebook pages and on identifying and analyzing the messages that generate high engagement from users. Thus, we will analyze all the posts published by the three major European institutions - the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union - starting on the first day after the Brexit Referendum in the UK (24 June 2016) until 24 June 2019. |
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