July'21
The IUP Journal of Organizational Behavior
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The Impact of Lifestyle Orientations on Professionals: A Study of Academicians and Public Executives
The study aims to prove that lifestyle orientation is constructed on personalized values and beliefs without significant professional background interference, job roles, and age. Furthermore, the study discusses the changing perception of self-actualization in professional life. The study was conducted on a sample of 51 government employees of Aligarh with different job profiles, comprising academicians and public executives. The propensity towards two lifestyle orientations (enfolding/enlarging) of professionals was developed by Udai Pareek (2002). Further, a qualitative approach was used where respondents were asked to state whether self-actualization is a significant contributor towards their success or not. Statistically, no significant difference was found between academicians and public executives on the constructs of enlarging and enfolding lifestyle based on their job role, age group, and work experience. However, every respondent attributed self-actualization differently by adding a different meaning to it according to their personal and professional experiences. The study provides a brief idea about the difference between enlarging and enfolding lifestyle, which results in the difference in employees' work patterns in the organization. The knowledge of two lifestyles would help draft strategies accordingly. FullArticle...
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The Influence of Family-Supportive Organization Perception and Work-Family Conflict on Absenteeism: The Mediating Role of Work Engagement
Employees are the crucial asset of an organization, especially in the apparel sector, as they directly influence operations and organizational performance. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the reasons for the unscheduled absenteeism and the influence of Family-Supportive Organization Perception (FSOP) and Work-Family Conflict (WFC) on work engagement and absenteeism of a selected apparel sector firm's machine operators. The primary data was collected through self-administrated surveys from 155 machine operators, and among those respondents, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 50 machine operators. The study revealed that family responsibilities, health issues, society and cultural factors, workplace-related factors, behavioral/personal factors, and general factors are the causes for unscheduled absenteeism. FSOP, WFC, and work engagement have resulted in high levels, and absenteeism has resulted in low levels as per the results of the study. There is a significant and moderately negative relationship between FSOP and absenteeism, work engagement and absenteeism, WFC and work engagement, and there is a significant and moderately positive relationship between WFC and absenteeism, and FSOP and work engagement. Further, work engagement partially mediates the relationship between FSOP and absenteeism, and WFC and absenteeism. The findings of the study have various managerial implications for other apparel manufacturing firms. FullArticle...
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Training Needs of Self-Help Groups (SHGs)
The objective of the paper is to study the training needs of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in the Union Territory of Puducherry. The study variables were developed from the existing review of literature relating to SHGs' training needs and 251 samples of primary data of SHGs were gathered using a well-structured questionnaire. The statistical package of SPSS was utilized to analyze the data using the techniques of descriptive statistics with frequency analysis and simple mean analysis, ANOVA, chi-square test and correspondence analysis. The results show that a majority of the groups (29.9%) have two persons who have undergone formal training in some activity, while a good proportion of groups (22.7%) have no members who have undergone any formal training. FullArticle...
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