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Boundaryless career orientation and Internet professionals' grievance strategies: evidence from China
Authors: Zheng Xiaojing 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThis article aims to examine the role of boundaryless career orientation in influencing Internet professionals' strategies toward workplace problems in China's Internet companies, which feature prominent problems including excessive overwork. It addresses one question: how do Chinese Internet professionals make grievance strategies?Design/methodology/approachThis article draws on qualitative data based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 134 employees from 6 representative Chinese Internet companies. The data were collected during 2018-2021 and analyzed with a grounded theory approach.FindingsThis article highlights the role of boundaryless career orientation in explaining Chinese Internet professionals' strategies toward workplace grievances. The author develops a comprehensive model to illustrate how boundaryless career orientation influences four grievance strategies namely, strategic compliance, exit, dissent expression and resistance that correspond to four different motives to advance the professionals' boundaryless career: learning, transferring, relieving and resolving. Internet professionals choose different grievance strategies based on how each option can benefit their boundaryless career goals.Originality/valueThis article is one of the first to bring in boundaryless career orientation as a key factor in explaining Chinese Internet professionals' grievance strategies. It provides a fuller picture than previous studies by showing wide varieties of professionals' grievance behaviors. The finding of high-level boundaryless career orientation among Internet professionals offers insights on how companies can improve employment relations by improving career management practices.
Changing the perception of core competency using student journey – tracking research on the core competencies of EECS students in technological universities
Authors: Chang Jen-Chia , Shih Hsiao-Fang , Yu Yu-Hsien 
Published: October 2023

PurposeIn this study a survey with a questionnaire was used to track the learning situation and core competencies of students in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Science and Technology. A determination of areas that need to be strengthened is used as a reference in the cultivation of core competency in higher education.Design/methodology/approachA total of 320 junior students in electrical engineering and computer science were surveyed and given questionnaires. A total of 219 valid questionnaires were collected for a paired sample t-test, to find and compare changes in core competencies of the group over a period of three years.FindingsHigher education institutions are presently more inclined to competency-oriented education, training and learning. This establishes good relevant practices, enhances core competencies in students and improves their chances of satisfactory future employment. In this study it was found that the general core competencies of students were better than their professional core competencies, and the self-reported core competencies of freshman students were better than those of the junior students. The results showed that core competencies did not grow with the years. This result is most likely due to a gain of knowledge which makes them more able to understand their own shortcomings.Originality/valueMost studies investigating the core competencies of higher education students are cross-sectional studies. This study follows students over a period of three years and provides the results of a longitudinal survey of a group of students' core competencies.
Exploring the nexus between reattachment to work, presenteeism and organisational resilience of MNEs: a conceptual analysis
Authors: Bandyopadhyay Soumyadeep , Randev Kadumbri Kriti 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the different contextual and psychological determinants of organisational resilience (OR) in the context of global mobility in multinational enterprises (MNEs). Banking upon the conservation of resources theory, this paper studies how and when reattachment to work (RTW), work engagement (WE) and two types of presenteeism lead to OR. Further, in the backdrop of the post-pandemic world of work, this paper also conceptualises the conditional effects of trait resilience (TR), organisational support (OS) and expatriation type (ET) on the aforementioned linkages.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper develops a conceptual framework that depicts various antecedents of OR in MNEs. Several testable propositions are also offered alongside the model’s moderated mediation and moderated moderation relationships.

Findings
The conceptual framework depicts the causal relationships between RTW and OR, such that Flexible RTW increases OR through higher WE and functional presenteeism under the conditional influences of TR, OS and ET, whereas rigid RTW decreases OR through lower WE and dysfunctional presenteeism under the conditional effects of TR, OS and ET.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first of its kind that explores the psychological and contextual antecedents of the OR of MNEs and offers numerous testable propositions. The nexus of unique relationships presented in the conceptual framework bridges a crucial gap in the literature that explores the complexities of the post-pandemic workplace in the context of global mobility.
Teachers' assessment of the challenges faced during COVID-19 outbreak and new-normal teaching: qualitative study
Authors: Fernandes Semila , Mahendiran Sathish , Balasudarsun N.L. 
Published: October 2023

PurposeSchool teachers had difficulty in monitoring and assessing the students during the COVID-19 lockdown. This study attempts to understand the assessment and teaching challenges during COVID-19 and how this problematic situation was reshaped by new normal teaching.Design/methodology/approachThe qualitative research included perspectives of 84 school teachers using an interview-based approach. Pedagogical assessment, societal assessment and personal assessment were considered in the study.FindingsContent switching, student involvement and individual assessment are the challenges in terms of pedagogy. Buying power of electronic equipment, digital skills, study environment and distraction are the challenges faced in terms of personal challenges. Personal connect and interaction intensity is the challenges faced in terms of social challenges. Teachers adapted to synchronous, blended, flipped and asynchronous modes of teaching.Originality/valueThe authors’ study will support schools in developing their institutional plans to understand teachers' apprehensions better and to check the readiness of the schools towards teaching and learning approaches.
Leadership: emotional and spiritual intelligence in the mix
Authors: Reisdorf Carri , Murray Meghan 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
One critical aspect of strong leadership communication is developing emotional (EQ) and spiritual intelligences (SQ). EQ helps individuals be more empathetic and effective, while SQ promotes an understanding of impacts beyond oneself. This paper aims to explore the relationship between leadership communication and EQ and SQ. Corporations can leverage leaders with high EQ and SQ and/or provide EQ/SQ training to employees.

Design/methodology/approach
Using critical review and integration, the authors consolidate existing literature and best practices to explore, develop and propose strategies for integrating EQ and SQ into the workplace.

Findings
Building upon existing theory and literature, the authors present a model of understanding both EQ and SQ. A generalized four-step process is presented for building EQ/SQ capabilities within the firm.

Originality/value
This study explores the synergy between an employee’s leadership skills and the ability to exhibit EQ and SQ. This research can provide corporations with tangible and targeted ways to enhance their EQ and SQ in their leaders. Firms can improve leveraging individuals with high SQ, in addition to providing SQ training to employees to improve individuals’ SQ.
Entrepreneurship skills: do all dimensions of skills matter for sustainable business start-up?
Authors: Tibaingana Anthony , Sendawula Kasimu , Buyinza Faisal , Kimuli Saadat Nakyejwe Lubowa , Ssemuyaga Emmanuel , Tumusiime Catherine , Mulongo Ronny , Atukwasa Rita 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to establish whether all the dimensions of entrepreneurship skills matter for sustainable business start-up among the youths, using evidence from a developing economy.Design/methodology/approachThis was cross-sectional study which utilized a quantitative approach. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire from 254 youths who undertook skills training at the various government-supported business skills training centers in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA), that is to say, Kampala, Mukono and Wakiso. Data collected were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to derive descriptive, correlational and hierarchical regression.FindingsStudy findings indicate that unlike entrepreneurial skills, management, technical and personal maturity skills matter for the sustainability of business start-up of youths in Uganda. However, when all skills are compared, management skills matter most as compared to technical and personal maturity skills.Originality/valueThis study strengthens the existing literature on the sustainable business start-up of youths in Uganda. It is also relevant for policy decision-making and policy reversal because it demonstrates that skilling is pertinent and should be encouraged and rolled out across the country to encourage sustainable youth business start-ups. To increase sustainable business start-up among youths, management skills should be prioritized, together with technical and personal maturity skills, compared to entrepreneurial skills, which should only be emphasized at the idea generation, planning, resource mobilization and business implementation stages.
Engaging customers through satisfaction; does social media marketing and perceived innovativeness really matter? A time-lagged study in the hospitality industry
Authors: Khan Sarah , Wahab Abdul 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to address the issue of customer engagement faced by the hospitality industry. By employing the Stimulus–Organism–Response (S-O-R) model and engagement theory, this study investigates the influence of social media marketing (SMM) and consumers' perceived innovativeness on customer engagement. Additionally, it explores the mediating role of customer satisfaction. Lastly, it examines the moderating effect of service convenience between customer satisfaction and customer engagement.Design/methodology/approachThis study is quantitative in nature. Data were collected through surveys using a three-wave time-lagged design from 564 consumers of various restaurants.FindingsThe findings reveal that SMM did not directly impact customer engagement; however, it showed a full mediation through customer satisfaction. Perceived innovativeness showed a significant relationship with customer engagement both directly and indirectly. Service convenience also showed significant moderation.Practical implicationsThe study is useful for the hospitality managers and the restaurant industry as a whole in facilitating memorable customer experiences in order engage them for longer time periods. This study would also help give other firms in the service sector a direction to better engage with their customers.Originality/valueThis study by investigating the unique framework produces the useful information for hospitality managers, policy makers and contributes to the body of knowledge from a developing country's perspective. Testification of S-O-R model and engagement theory are also significant theoretical contributions.
Netflix at a crossroad: a time for reinforcement or another reinvention?
Authors: Lewis Michael S. , Frkal Robin Ayers 
Published: October 2023

Research methodology
This case study is developed using secondary sources, including newspapers, periodicals and academic references.

Case overview/synopsis
This case study examines the challenges of a market leader in a changing industry and how that leader might respond. Growth was becoming exceedingly difficult for Netflix due to various external forces. For a company that relied on radical innovation to reinvent the video market industry and gain market dominance, Netflix appeared to be focusing on protecting its market position through strategies designed to reinforce its existing strengths and assets. Could Netflix maintain its leadership position and reignite growth by pursuing a reinforcement strategy, or was it time for another reinvention?

Complexity academic level
This case was written for strategic management classes at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The case was classroom tested with undergraduate business students in a strategic management course and masters-level organizational leadership students in a strategic innovation and change management course.
Blended acquisition with temporally signatured/modulated and spatially dispersed source array: The first pilot survey onshore Abu Dhabi
Authors: Ishiyama Tomohide 
Published: October 2023

AbstractRecently, we established a blended‐acquisition method: temporally signatured and/or modulated and spatially dispersed source array that jointly uses various signaturing and/or modulation in the time dimension and dispersed source array in the space dimension. We acquired and processed the first pilot programme with our method onshore Abu Dhabi. In this paper, we review the resulting acquisition‐productivity enhancement in the time dimension and discuss it in the space dimension as well. We then review the deblended‐data‐reconstruction processing, followed by imaging processing, and discuss their performance and resulting data quality. We last establish a relationship between the acquisition productivity and the processing performance. We found that this method significantly enhances the acquisition productivity compared to conventional blending methods. For the processing performance, the deblended data can successfully be reconstructed from the blended data; afterwards, the subsurface sections can naturally be imaged from the deblended data. Furthermore, this method owns a relationship: The deblended‐data‐reconstruction performance increases with the acquisition time (i.e. the acquisition effort that is inversely proportional to the acquisition productivity) up to a plateau; the imaging processing improves the data quality as the flow makes progress and eventually reaches a high data quality after poststack processing, regardless of the acquisition effort.
Dispersion computation of guided waves in a layered transversely isotropic elastic medium sandwiched between two half‐spaces
Authors: Bhattacharya Sankar N. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractA transversely isotropic elastic medium with a vertical axis of symmetry is considered. We obtain dispersion equations in real terms for guided Love and Rayleigh waves in a such a medium consisting of horizontal layers sandwiched between two half‐spaces by brief modifications of the available literatures on dispersion equations in elastic layered media through transfer matrix. To illustrate the applicability, dispersion curves of guided waves are computed for three‐ and five‐layered symmetric models with transversely isotropic coal seam in the middle. The Airy phase is marked by a minimum or maximum of group velocity in a dispersion curve, and this phase is important to get seam structure for mining safety. For the first three modes, the effect of Thomsen anisotropy parameters γ, ε and δ of a coal seam on frequency (fA) and group velocity (UA) of the Airy phase is similar in three‐ and five‐layered models. For guided Love waves, fA and UA have nearly a uniform increase with the increase of γ. For guided Rayleigh waves, the increase of ε causes fA and UA to increase; however, the increase of δ causes fA and UA to decrease.
Pollinator asynchrony drives the temporal stability of flower visitation rates, but not of plant reproductive success
Authors: Tobajas Estefanía , Domínguez‐García Virginia , Molina Francisco P. , Bartomeus Ignasi 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThe stability of ecological communities over time, often quantified using their aggregated abundance or biomass, is thought to be influenced by species richness and the asynchrony of species abundance fluctuations. However, the relationship between community stability and the stability of ecosystem functioning provided by this community has been little explored, especially for functions involving several trophic levels such as plant pollination. Understanding the mechanisms driving community stability and how this should be related to the stability of ecosystem functions is important to predict the resilience of communities in front of the increasing threats to biodiversity.Using a 5‐year dataset across 13 Mediterranean shrublands and 12 plant species, we assessed the effect of pollinator richness and asynchrony as drivers of stability in plant visitation rates and plant reproductive success. Additionally, we analysed whether the effects of species richness and visitation rate on plant reproductive success were consistent over the years.The stability of plant visitation rates is driven by the asynchrony of pollinator species abundances, but the effect of pollinator species richness is only indirect, as richer communities also tend to have more asynchronous populations. In contrast, the stability of plant reproductive success is not related to the stability of pollinator visitation rates. A year‐by‐year analysis reveals that plants in the studied system are unlikely to be limited by pollinator abundance except in specific years, blurring any potential effect of visitation rate stability on reproductive success stability.Synthesis: We highlight the importance of asynchronous fluctuating species that are redundant in their function as an important factor for the stability of ecosystems. This is particularly important for pollinators with diverse responses to environmental fluctuations, as their asynchrony between years ensures stable levels of flower visitation rates. However, we warn that final ecosystem functions such as plant reproductive success, which depends not only on pollinators but on plant competition or resource availability, might be decoupled from first order ecosystem functions (i.e. visitation rates and pollen deposition) when pollination is not a limiting factor.
Reynolds phytoplankton functional classification approach helps evaluate the historical ecological status of the large European Southern Bug River (Ukraine)
Authors: Bilous Olena , Afanasyev Sergey , Abonyi András , Bondar‐Kunze Elisabeth , Hein Thomas 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThe phytoplankton functional group (FG) classification system sensu Reynolds enables evaluating the ecological status of rivers using the Q(r) compositional index. Here, we apply the Q(r) index to analyze the ecological conditions of the Southern Bug River, at the entire river length, in the early 20th century, testing it first on historic river phytoplankton data. Moreover, we combined the FG approach with the saprobic index and taxonomic richness to assess the ecological status of the river more reliably. The Bray–Curtis Similarity index highlighted the spatial clustering of river sites that corresponded well to the bioregions of the Eastern Lowlands and the Pontian Province. The Q(r) index revealed a higher variation in ecological status among sites than the saprobic index. Therefore, we argue that the FG approach provides a sensitive ecological status indication approach for river phytoplankton, including historical human impacts. The method may improve understanding of reference conditions and assessing the ecological status of Ukrainian rivers, as requested by the European Water Framework Directive.
Complying with COVID‐19 policy: The role of citizenship norms for young people's compliance with Sweden's voluntary COVID‐19 recommendations
Authors: Micheletti Michele , Verhaegen Soetkin 
Published: October 2023

AbstractSweden's COVID‐19 policy was characterized by reliance on voluntary compliance. Citizens were expected to act responsibly. Previous research has not focused on the role of citizenship norms (duty‐based, engaged, and critical) in the COVID‐19 crisis. This is an important omission, since citizenship norms are expected to raise social responsibility and trigger prosocial behavior. This article asks how important citizenship norms are for explaining voluntary COVID‐19 policy compliance. Additionally, it considers perceptions of how other people comply, individual background factors, and interpersonal and institutional trust. The study focuses on Swedish high school youth, a group reported to comply less with voluntary COVID‐19 measures. Using survey data (N = 1823), we find higher reported voluntary compliance by high school youth who adhere more strongly to the duty‐based citizenship norm. Importantly, believing that other people follow the COVID‐19 recommendations is strongly associated with following them. Thus, next to citizenship norms, “descriptive norms” (i.e., what other people are doing) are central for individuals to decide how they will comply. We further find that differences in worry about the pandemic and socioeconomic background factors (migration background and economic situation of the household) explain variation in compliance. Institutional and interpersonal trust play a less important role. These findings challenge the strong focus on trust in previous research. Our findings have implications for research on policy compliance in the context of crisis, and for public policy.
Differences of RUNX2 gene promoter methylation and transcription level in ankylosing spondylitis
Authors: Wang Feier , Chen Yuting , Kong Jiangping , Xu Shanshan , Xu Shengqian , Shuai Zongwen , Cai Guoqi , Pan Faming 
Published: October 2023

AbstractBackground and ObjectiveAnkylosing spondylitis is a refractory immune disease that seriously affects the life and work of patients. Epigenetic modifications, especially DNA methylation, have become a research hotspot in complex diseases. We aim to explore the changes in runt‐related transcription factor 2 (RUNX2) gene promoter methylation and transcription level in AS.MethodWe detected the RUNX2 gene promoter methylation in 83 AS patients and 83 healthy controls (HCs), then inspected the mRNA difference of RUNX2 between 30 AS patients and 30 HCs by the quantitative real‐time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT‐PCR).ResultsThe RUNX2 gene promoter was hypomethylated in AS patients compared to HCs (p < .001). The research involved 4 CpG regions and 74 CpG sites of RUNX2, of which CpG‐2, CpG‐4 regions, and 18 CpG sites have been differentially methylated. The CpG‐4 island methylation was negatively correlated with C‐reactive protein (p < .05) in AS patients. In the qRT‐PCR validation phase, the mRNA level of RUNX2 in AS patients was significantly higher than HCs (p < .05), and in AS patients who were treated with biologics, the methylation level of CpG‐2 island showed a negative correlation to mRNA (p < .05). ROC results indicated that RUNX2 methylation and its transcription level have good potential to distinguish AS patients from HCs.ConclusionThe RUNX2 gene promoter was hypomethylated in AS patients. Meanwhile, the qRT‐PCR verified the up‐regulated expression on the transcription level, suggesting the abnormal methylation of RUNX2 contributes to the pathogenesis of AS.