Sesen Harun

Cyprus International University

Purpose To encourage entrepreneurship, which accelerates economic growth by increasing employment opportunities and competitiveness, stakeholders must conduct studies and develop policies that consider both the current situation and future expectations. This study aims to examine the environmental and personal factors that influence students’ entre...

Purpose The aim of this research is to investigate the association between perceived overqualification and leisure crafting in the context of immigrants. Drawing on the cross-cultural adaptation theory, the study tests the moderating role that acculturation plays in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a total of...

İş güvencesizliği algısı çağımızın hızlı değişen iş yaşamının şartlarına bağlı olarak istihdamın sürekliliği ve istikrarına yönelik bir tehdidi yansıtmaktadır. Son dönemlerde teknolojik, ekonomik ve politik değişikliklerle beraber yaşanılan pandemi sonrasında birçok kişiyi işlerinin geleceği konusunda tedirginlik yaşamasına sebep olan iş güvencesiz...

The current working environment requires employees to have some control over their jobs. Drawing on the job demands–resource (JD-R) theory, we investigated the relationship between job crafting and job boredom. Based on the generational cohort theory, we determined the strength of the relationship using generational diversity as a moderator. Data f...

Exploring the darkest side of organizations may have a potential to change our previous assumptions about business life. Scholars both in management and organizational research fields have shown interest in the "bright" side of behavioral life and have looked for the ways to create a positive organizational climate and assumed a positive relation b...

Purpose This research aimed to determine how and why inclusive leadership is effective in innovative work behaviors (IWBs). For this purpose, a conceptual model including inclusive leadership, IWBs, psychological resilience capacity and leader–member exchange (LMX) has been proposed. Design/methodology/approach To test the proposed model, a questi...

This book has been written by researchers who share the common trait of admiration for the research process. The aim of the book is to support the academicians and students who do research in social sciences, for gaining competence, skills, and knowledge on statistical analysis, interpretation, and reporting. For this purpose, attention was paid to...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to determine the impact of getting a higher education degree in a developed country on entrepreneurial intentions of individuals in developing countries by using the social cognitive career choice theory. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative methodology was utilised through the application of a questio...

Purpose This article aims to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and job performance on the basis of social exchange theory and perceived organizational support theory. The article also attempts to examine the mediating role of self-efficacy and the moderated mediation role of leader support in this relationship. Design/me...

Understanding the entrepreneurial intentions of university students is an important factor for increasing the spirit of entrepreneurship in university education. This study’s goal is to evaluate the relationship between the positive psychological capital of university students and entrepreneurial intentions in the context of gender differences. Thi...

This study tries to examine the relationship between perceived overqualification and extra-role behaviours; conducted on the basis of person-environment fit and sense-making theories, the research tests how organizational tenure moderates this relationship. The respondents consisted of 320 white-collar workers employed by firms operating in the pri...

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has significantly impacted hotel employees’ mental, emotional, and psychological well-being. This study examines the impact of COVID-19-fueled fears on hospitality workers’ turnover intentions, specifically subjective well-being as a potential moderator variable. Of the 500 U.S. hotel employees contacted, 3...

PURPOSE: This study examines the effect of university students’ positive psychological capital (PsyCap) on entrepreneurial intentions (EI) and tests the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) on this relationship. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The quantitative study design was based on cross-sectional data collected from 564 universi...

Throughout the historical ages, migration movements have occurred due to different reasons such as wars, internal disturbances, environmental disasters, economic depressions, technological developments, and education. Efficient integration of individuals into society as a result of migration depends on the development of a multicultural perspective...

This study was designed to explore the relationship between Transformational Leadership and Innovative Behaviour, having the potential for propelling satisfaction, commitment, and efficiency; inspired by the model testing the role of positive psychological capital mediation and the moderation of LMX in this relationship. Used data were attained glo...

This study aimed to investigate the personal and contextual determinants affecting the employability perception of university students using a comprehensive model, and to compare the effects of these determinants with each other. The sample consisted of 463 university students from Turkish universities in İstanbul. Following explanatory and confirm...

Purpose This study aims to mediate the impact of workplace stress and job satisfaction on nurses’ perception of training. It sheds light on the links between job satisfaction, Certified Nursing Assistants’ perception of training and workplace stress in nursing homes. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional questionnaire was distributed in 12...

This study investigated the relationship between green entrepreneurship intention (GEI) and green entrepreneurship behavior (GEB). The study explored how university education support and green consumption commitment (GCC) moderate the relationship between green entrepreneurship intention and the GEB of university students in Ghana. The researcher u...

The purpose of this research is to contribute to improving the quality of service in the hospitality industry by helping to understand profoundly the premises of innovative behaviour. For this purpose, a conceptual model including transformational leadership, leader member exchange and innovative behaviour is proposed. To test the research model, d...

Purpose Globalisation has made higher education increasingly multicultural. Although multicultural university students' attitudes and interactions with different cultures affect their academic success as well as entrepreneurial intentions, only a few studies have analysed this topic. Therefore, this study examined the assumption that positive psych...

This study was conducted in order to analyze the effect of the nurses' quality of work life based on fear about COVID-19 and examine the psychological well-being as a moderating variable in this relationship. The survey questionnaire was administered among nurses between 1 November 2020 and 14 November 2020. The self-report survey comprised the nur...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to discuss the possibility of setting up a platform for inclusive policymaking process drawing upon the blockchain concept. The study posits that blockchain also has great potentials in non-financial applications, such as in policymaking, where there is a need for bottom-up approaches with more decentralized, di...

This study examined the role of positive psychological capital in the effect of different leadership behaviours on organizational commitment (OC). Research was conducted at 372 five-star hotel employees operating in the Turkish Cypriot community. A conceptual model was developed including structural relationships among three leadership styles (tran...

Araştırmada yenilikçi iş davranışını etkileyen faktörleri daha iyi anlamak ve konaklama sektörüne yönelik yazını genişletmek amacıyla; dönüştürücü lider ile yenilikçi iş davranışı arasındaki yapısal ilişkileri içeren kavramsal bir model önerilmiştir. Önerilen modeli test etmek üzere hiyerarşik regresyon analizi kullanılmıştır. Veriler Muğla’da faal...

Today, universities are seen as the main actors of technological change, innovation, and social development; this situation causes new roles for universities, as well as forces them to change. At present, universities face very important expectations such as research and entrepreneurial activities by providing the industry-university cooperation al...

Today, universities are seen as the main actors of technological change, innovation, and social development; this situation causes new roles for universities, as well as forces them to change. At present, universities face very important expectations such as research and entrepreneurial activities by providing the industry-university cooperation al...

This research aimed at gaining insight into the behavioural dimensions of projects by recognizing the social capital and the ability of project leaders to incorporate knowledge. The concept and three dimensions of social capital theory, namely structural, relational and cognitive, serve as the basis of the design in this research. The theoretical f...

This data examines the impact of personal (entrepreneurial self-efficacy and locus of control) and contextual (university environment and knowledge about business) factors on entrepreneurial intentions of university students in two Turkish universities. University students are one of the important groups to analyse entrepreneurial intentions. There...

İş becerisi, bireysel seviyede çalışanların görevlerini nasıl ve ne zaman yapacaklarını planlamalarını sağlayan bir iş etkinliğidir. Bu terim, çalışanların motivasyonları, çıkarları ve iş tutkusu ile uyumlaştırmak için ilişkinin sınırlarının yanı sıra, iş görevlerini yeniden tasarlayan bir dizi kendi kendini empoze eden çalışan davranışını içerir....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between perceived overqualification and job crafting, which has the ability to drive satisfaction, loyalty and performance; drawing on the broaden-and-build theory, the study tests the positive psychological capital (PsyCap) moderation role in this relationship. Design/methodology/ap...

The entrepreneurial behavior of the employees in the hospitality industry plays an important role in ensuring “customer satisfaction” by affecting the quality of service provided to customers. In this sense, the promotion of entrepreneurial behaviors is a very important issue in order to maintain the sustainable competitive structure of the hospita...

Based on positive organizational scholarship in healthcare, this study examined the relationships between four dimensions of employee perception of training: workplace stress, organizational outcomes, job performance, and turnover intentions. We hypothesized that employee training perception would have a negative relationship with workplace stress...

This study aims to analyze the relation between leadership and positive psychological capital (PsyCap) in the hospitality industry. Questionnaires were applied to employees of five-star hotels operating in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus selected by a sampling method (N = 372). The obtained data were analyzed using IBM SPSS 23. There are ma...

Bu kitabın temel amacı, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde Yerel Yönetimlerin İdari, Mali ve Denetim yapılanmasına ilişkin stratejik hedeflerin belirlenmesi ve bu hedeflere uygun Eylem Planının sunulmasıdır. Bu çerçevede, ilk olarak KKTC yerel yönetimlerine yönelik SWOT (FÜTZ) analizi gerçekleştirilmiş ve SWOT çalışmasına yönelik daha önce yapılmış...

We have conducted the first-ever study of female and male Afghan university students about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. Students at this new university in Afghanistan provided data on their intentions, entrepreneurial disposition, perceptions about the university role, and their beliefs about barriers and motives to entrepreneur...

Mobbing, defined as immoral and systematic harassment by a person or a group of people in the workplace, is an important problem in terms of working life today. It is expected that trade unions, who play an important role in improving the work environment of their members, should take an active role in a serious problem such as mobbing. The aim of...

Özet Araştırmada liderlik tarzlarının pozitif psikolojik sermayeye olan etkisi incelenmiştir. Araştırma doğrultusunda hazırlanan anketler, KKTC’de faaliyet gösteren 5 yıldızlı otel çalışanlarına tabaklı örneklem metoduyla seçilerek uygulanmış (N=372) ve elde edilen veriler IBM SPSS 23 programı ile analiz edilmiştir. Pozitif psikolojik sermaye ve li...

Çoğunlukla örgütsel ortamda bireylerin güçlü tarafları ve bunların nasıl ortaya çıkarıldığı ve geliştirildiğiyle ilişkili bir kavram olarak karşımıza çıkan pozitif psikolojik sermaye (PPS) (Luthans, 2002) konusunda yapılan birçok çalışma mevcuttur. Bu alandaki çalışmalar örgütsel bağlılık (ÖB) iş tatmini ve PPS’nin örgütsel boyutlardaki faktörlerle...

This study explores the consequences of self-leadership on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and innovative behaviors of teachers. For this purpose, a field study was conducted with the data gathered from 440 primary school teachers who work in different cities. To test the research hypotheses, correlation and regression analysis were con...

Purpose Although McGregor 's theory X and Y holds significant attention in literature, research on the managerial assumptions and leadership is very scarce. The present study examined the influence of a leader’s theory X and Y managerial assumptions on follower perceptions of transformational leadership behaviors and the moderating role of the lead...

Purpose In what may be the first study of its kind in business and entrepreneurship, the purpose of this paper is to compare faculty and student perceptions and beliefs about entrepreneurship motives and barriers and student aspirations in order to explore implications for entrepreneurship education (EE). Design/methodology/approach The authors su...

Researches have mainly been focused on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) positive effects to organizations. On the other hand, Compulsory Citizenship Behavior (CCB) is a rather new subject in both national and international literature. Transformation of organizational citizenship behaviors, which are expected to have positive effects on the...

As the studies on team work increases, social loafing has become one of the most important variable that effect teams productivity. In this study, the effect of coworkers’ social loafing on individual’s job satisfaction, organizational commitment and his own social loafing was examined. Data were collected from 175 teachers from technical high scho...

Purpose This paper aims to describe and empirically test a comprehensive model on the entrepreneurial intentions of the university students in which some individual and environmental factors were included. Also, the strengths of individual and environmental factors’ influence are compared. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey was com...

Bu çalışmada, tükenmişlik süreçlerine etki eden psikolojik sermaye faktörlerinin ortaya çıkarılması amaçlanmaktadır. Anket yönteminin kullanıldığı araştırmada kamu çalışanlarından oluşan bir örneklemden (N=260) veri toplanmış ve yapısal eşitlik modeli ile analiz edilmiştir. Elde edilen temel bulgu, tüm tükenmişlik boyutlarının açıklanmasında, psiko...

Örgütlerde çalışanların sergiledikleri davranış örneklerinden birisi rol ötesi olumlu davranışlardır. Mevcut çalışmada bu davranışlardan vatandaşlık davranışlarına odaklanılarak, bu davranışlara etkisi olan ortamsal ve tutumsal faktörlerin doğrudan ve dolaylı etkilerinin ortaya çıkarılması amaçlanmaktadır. Bu kapsamda özel bir bankanın 384 çalışanı...

This study examined the impact of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on teachers’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in a structural equation model. The study was employed to a group of teachers and their supervisors. The results indicated that job satisfaction and commitment to the school had an impact on OCBs of the teachers an...

The innovation process requires intrapreneurial behaviors of employees concerning stages of idea conception, development, implementation and integration. All organizations should apply and follow a suitable excellence model which leads them toward innovative behaviors. One of the methods for creating an innovative culture in the organizations is th...

Günümüzde girişimcilik tüm ülkeler için desteklenmesi gereken bir olgu olarak görülmektedir. Bu bağlamda özellikle çalışma yaşamlarının başında olan üniversite öğrencilerinin, girişimci niyetler taşımaları da son derece önemlidir. Bu çalışmada, üniversitelerin spor bilimleri alanında öğrenim gören 185 öğrenciden anket yöntemiyle elde edilen veriler...

With the advancements in the strategic management field, logistics management has changed considerably and logistics competency has emerged as a new and important area of research. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to find the core logistics abilities, which enable nations to achieve a competitive advantage in the logistics market. Two d...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of burnout on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in a mediating model in which the job satisfaction was contextual state. Data were obtained from 257 nurses from three university hospitals. While the data involving burnout and job satisfaction were gathered from the nurses, OCB data wer...

Insan faktoru orgutler icin onemli bir kritik basari faktorudur. Orgutler verimliliklerini arttirmak maksadiyla insan faktorunu yonlendiren her turlu degiskeni optimize etmeye calismaktadir. Calisma yasaminin kalitesinin arttirilmasi calisanlarin verimliliklerini etkileyen orgutsel degiskenlerle iliskili oldugu dusunulen onemli bir faktordur. Bu ba...

This study aims to explore the relationship of locus of control in individual behavior with role conflict and role ambiguity in the workplace environment on the basis of data on 153 selected employees from a leading organization in the public sector. The study has attempted to analyze whether perceived role conflict and role ambiguity differ betwee...

Discretionary behaviors that promote the effectiveness of organizations differ from formal role behaviors. These informalrole behaviors have been termed as prosocial organizational behavior (Brief and Motowidlo, 1986; George, 1990) ororganizational citizenship behavior (OCB; Bateman and Organ, 1983; Organ, 1988; Smith et al., 1983). Dennis Organ an...

Örgütsel adalet algılamaları, bireylerin örgüt içinde farklı davranışları üzerinde etkili olmaktadır. İç girişimcilik davranışı da adalet algısından etkilenebilen bir örgüt içi davranıştır. Bu çalışmada, adalet algısının iç girişimcilik davranışı üzerindeki etkisi kamuda çalışan 116 yöneticiden anket yöntemiyle elde edilen veriler ışığında araştırı...

Bu çalısmada bir üniversite ve üç kamu hastanesinde görev yapan 213 hemsirenin duygusal tükenme, duyarsızlasma ve düsük kisisel basarı boyutları ile tanımlanan tükenmislik düzeylerinin, yenilikçilik, risk alma ve fırsatlara odaklanma alt boyutları ile ele alınan örgüt içi girisimcilik tutumları ile iliskisi arastırılmıstır. Arastırma bulguları değe...

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is an important factor that promotes efficient, effective and high performance. OCB is affected by an individual's attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions of the organization and in this context; one might mention many antecedents of OCB. In the present study, the relation between OCB and organizational justi...

Gazetelerde yayımlanan iş ilanları dış kaynaktan personel temininde kullanılan yöntemlerden biridir. Bu yöntemle nitelikli iş gücünün işletmeye çekilmesi için ilanların bazı özelliklere sahip olması gerekmektedir. Bu çalışmada personel temin süreci incelenerek gazete ilanlarının bu süreç içerisinde kullanımına değinilmiş, Türkiye ve İngiltere'de ya...

Örgüt yazınında örgüt-çevre ilişkisinde uyum-seçim tartışması uzun süredir devam eden bir konudur. Bu anlamda koşulbağımlılık, işlem maliyeti, kaynak bağımlılığı ve kurumsal kuram içsel yapının uyumunu savunurken; örgütsel ekoloji dışsal seçime dikkat çekmektedir. Bu çatışmadan kaynaklanan ayrılmaya farklı bir bakış açısı ile yeni bir çözüm sunan b...

İşletmeler günümüzün rekabetçi ortamında yaşamlarını sürdürebilmek için etkili ve verimli çalışmak, bunun için de öğrenme yeteneklerini sürekli olarak geliştirmek zorundadır. Bu durum öğrenen örgüte dönüşümü zorunlu kılmaktadır. Konu ile ilgili olarak yapılan araştırmalar ancak öğrenen örgütlerin başarılarını sürekli kılabileceklerini göstermektedi...

2 Abstract: This paper discusses the methodology and findings on the validity and reliability of the translation of Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ) into Turkish. The translation method was a five-step model including forward translation, assessment of forward translation, backward translation, assessment of backward tra...

İşletmelerin verimlilik ve etkililiğini artırmada insan kaynağına yönelik olarak odaklanılması ve geliştirilmesi gereken konulardan birisi de “Örgütsel Vatandaşlık” davranışlarıdır. Bu çalışmada “Örgütsel Vatandaşlık” olgusu öncelikle kuramsal yönleriyle açıklanmış; daha sonra büyük işletmeler ile küçük ve orta boy işletmeler (KOBİ) üzerine karşıla...

Mesleki tukenmislik, bir orgutteki insan kaynaginin verimli ve etkili calismasini ve bu baglamda orgutsel performansi olumsuz yonde etkileyen bir surectir. Bu calismada iki universite hastanesi ile iki devlet hastanesinin cesitli kliniklerinde gorev yapan 239 hemsirenin tukenmislik duzeyleri bazi degiskenler acisindan incelenmistir. Arastirmada olç...

It is about personal locus of control to where people attribute the reasons and results of theevents in their lives. This locus of control may influence the employees’ helping and courtesybehaviors within the organization. In this study, a questionnaire was delivered to 233 peopleworking in public services to measure their locus of control, helping...

Örgütsel vatandaşlık davranışları "herhangi bir emre dayalı olmayan ve örgüt için fayda sağlayan davranışlar" olarak adlandırılmaktadır. Bu çalışmada örgütsel vatandaşlık olgusu öncelikle kuramsal yönleriyle açıklanmış; müteakiben iki ayrı çalışmanın birleştirilmesi ile oluşturulan yeni bir örgütsel vatandaşlık davranışı ölçeğinin Türkçe'ye çeviri,...

Tükenmişlik bir örgütteki insan kaynağının verimli ve etkili çalışmasını ve bu bağlamda örgütsel performansı olumsuz yönde etkileyen bir süreçtir. Bu çalışmada, Başbakanlık Sosyal Hizmetler ve Çocuk Esirgeme Kurumu’na bağlı olarak Ankara, Eskişehir ve İzmir’de çeşitli kuruluşlarda görev yapan 130 sosyal hizmet uzmanı ile Ankara’daki iki üniversite...

Equal opportunity in working life is one of the most important topics in employment plans of the countries. Personnel selection is the first stage of working life and job advertisement is a widely used method for recruitment. In this study, statements which prevent equal opportunity and lead into discrimination in job advertisements which are publi...