Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the fragmented literature on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), leader–member exchange (LMX), learning, innovative work behavior (IWB) and employee performance across different countries, disciplines and organizations, thereby broadening the literature breath and making gap identification comprehensive. Second, it provides information on how much studies have been concentrated on Africa with the goal of provoking scholarly work in a unique cultural setting on the interrelatedness of these concepts. Design/methodology/approach Relevant literature search was undertaken using key search terms, “employee performance,” “OCB,” “LMX,” “IWB,” “individual learning” and “team learning.” Findings The findings show positive relationships between the behaviors and employee performance. They also reveal an interesting diversity in the study across multidisciplinary fields holding both cultural and contextual significance for academia and practitioners. Research limitations/implications – The limitation of literature to peer-reviewed journals from the authors’ university library might have missed important information not in this domain. Further studies must make use of additional search terms and engines excluded from this study to provide a more comprehensive analysis. Practical implications The paper has important managerial implications for practitioners. The analysis can support the understanding of employee performance from a broader and more diverse view points; and help in providing insight into real-life opportunities, constraints and solutions in enhancing performance management. Originality/value – This systematic literature review highlights important knowledge gaps which need to be explored especially in the African and Ghanaian contexts.
Various tools for safety performance measurement have been introduced in order to fulfil the need for safety monitoring in organisations, which is tightly related to their overall performance and achievement of their business goals. Such tools include accident rates, benchmarking, safety culture and climate assessments, cost-effectiveness studies, etc. The current work reviews the most representative methods for safety performance evaluation that have been suggested and applied by a variety of organisations, safety authorities and agencies. This paper discusses several viewpoints of the applicability, feasibility and appropriateness of such tools, based on the viewpoints of managers and safety experts involved in a relevant research that was conducted in a large aviation organisation. The extensive literature cited, the discussion topics, along with the conclusions and recommendations derived, might be considered by any organisation that seeks a realistic safety performance assessment and establishment of effective measurement tools.
Teacher shortages are a significant concern in many countries. Hiring pre-service teachers could help to alleviate this problem while providing students an opportunity to develop skills in a realwork context. However, being employed alongside full-time studying might compete with attendance or self-study and, thereby, hinder study progress. This study analyzed the effect of student employment on the study progress of 132 pre-service teachers, using 25 repeated measures over 4 years (n = 3,245). Employment hours, remuneration, domain-relevance, and timing (year of college) were taken into account. Multilevel growth analyses showed that students who spent more time on a paid teaching job in year 3 or 4 obtained significantly more study credits compared to those who were not paid or got paid for a job outside of education. Overall, student employment did not relate to less study progress and depending on domain-relevance, timing and remuneration, the effect can even be positive.
Students in Higher Music Education (HME) are not facilitated to develop both their artistic and academic musical competences. Conservatoires (professional education, or ‘HBO’) traditionally foster the development of musical craftsmanship, while university musicology departments (academic education, or ‘WO’) promote broader perspectives on music’s place in society. All the while, music professionals are increasingly required to combine musical and scholarly knowledge. Indeed, musicianship is more than performance, and musicology more than reflection—a robust musical practice requires people who are versed in both domains. It’s time our education mirrors this blended profession. This proposal entails collaborative projects between a conservatory and a university in two cities where musical performance and musicology equally thrive: Amsterdam (Conservatory and University of Amsterdam) and Utrecht (HKU Utrechts Conservatorium and Utrecht University). Each project will pilot a joint program of study, combining existing modules with newly developed ones. The feasibility of joint degrees will be explored: a combined bachelor’s degree in Amsterdam; and a combined master’s degree in Utrecht. The full innovation process will be translated to a transferable infrastructural model. For 125 students it will fuse praxis-based musical knowledge and skills, practice-led research and academic training. Beyond this, the partners will also use the Comenius funds as a springboard for collaboration between the two cities to enrich their respective BA and MA programs. In the end, the programme will diversify the educational possibilities for students of music in the Netherlands, and thereby increase their professional opportunities in today’s job market.
Doel van dit project is het vergaren van kennis over de eigenschappen en kenmerken van de ‘afvalstroom’ van materiaal die ontstaat tijdens de verwerking van Nylon 12 met de 3D-printtechnologie Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) en de mogelijkheden om dit materiaal voor andere toepassingen te gebruiken. Onder ‘afval’ verstaan we het restmateriaal dat niet meer ingezet kan worden in het proces. SLS is de meest volwassen 3D-printtechnologie die een hoge nauwkeurigheid biedt en geschikt is voor kleinserie producties. De producten hebben goede mechanische en thermische eigenschappen. Een SLS machine print met high performance thermoplastics, hoofdzakelijk Nylon 12 (PA12), een veelgebruikte kunststof binnen de high-tech maakindustrie. Het Nylon 12 materiaal wordt in poedervorm gebruikt, zowel als basismateriaal voor de print als voor ondersteunings- of supportmateriaal. De afvalstroom ontstaat uit poeder dat is gebruikt als support materiaal, maar waarvan de eigenschappen door blootstelling aan warmte dusdanig veranderd zijn dat het niet langer geschikt is voor vervaardiging via SLS. Door vermenging van nieuw en gebruikt poeder is het mogelijk een gedeelte van het materiaal opnieuw in te zetten. Desondanks ontstaat er per printjob meer gebruikt poeder dan er vermengd kan worden. Tot op heden zijn er geen toepassingen bekend waarin dit afvalpoeder hoogwaardig ingezet kan worden, en het materiaal belandt bij een afvalverwerking. Aanleiding voor dit onderzoeksproject is de kennisvraag van zowel kennisinstellingen als bedrijven naar toepassingen voor deze afvalstroom Nylon 12. In dit project zal het consortium zich onder leiding van het lectoraat Kunststoftechnologie van Windesheim richten op de volgende praktijkvraag: ‘In welke verwerkingsprocessen en/of producten kan het Nylon 12 poeder hoogwaardig worden ingezet’. Het consortium bestaat uit deskundigen in het vakgebied, die kennis en ervaring hebben met SLS printen, het materiaal en kunststofontwerp- en verwerkingstechnieken. Er zijn een tweetal MKB-bedrijven bij het project betrokken. De beoogde projectresultaten zijn: - Nieuwe kennis over de eigenschappen van de afvalstroom ‘Nylon 12’ die ontstaat als resultaat van verwerking met Selective Laser Sintering. - Nieuwe kennis over de toepassingsmogelijkheden van deze afvalstroom en de grondstofbesparingen die mogelijk gerealiseerd kunnen worden. - Onderzoeksrapport.
On a societal scale, the ‘problem with work’ is that everyone is exhausted, job security has been replaced by ‘flex work’ and much important work had been invisibilised. While billions of people are displaced and illegalized from work, others have physical/ mental conditions caused by work. The problem with work merits scrutiny not only from medical, corporate or legal perspectives. It needs tackling without an agenda of productivity, with an open regard and embodied, intuitive research. Artistic research has this scope. It taps into knowledges that are underused/repressed, by involving the body, harnessing intuition, experience and situatedness, and activating a plurality of voices. The aim of this research is to gain a deeper understanding of what is (not) work, who we are when we perform work, and when we don’t or are not able to work. Why are certain activities or roles called work and what happens when the term is applied to activities that are not normally deemed work, but which include comparable elements? Three research questions are addressed: 1. What can be learned about work by regarding every job, or all the work, as a performance? 2. What can be learned about performance (art) by looking at it through the lens of work? 3. What are ethical practices in collaborative and participative work processes? The research is carried out through an artistic approach that contains a particular way of making, teaching and researching which is collaborative, performative and transdisciplinary. It proposes the body as a thinking apparatus, experience as a way of gathering information and doing, writing, exchanging and performing as both method and dissemination. This research aims to contribute to a better understanding of what work is in our lives. The research has social, artistic and educational targets and target groups, which are also intertwined.
