title: Turnover Intentions: The Mediation Effects of Job Satisfaction, Affective Commitment and Continuance Commitment

authors: Riley, Derek

subjects: turnover intentions

abstract: Retention and productivity levels of a workforce are one of the essential ingredients for organisations to prosper in today's competitive business environment.  Turnover intentions of the workforce are an important consideration for managers of organisations, employees, families, and communities alike.  
This study investigated a comprehensive model of turnover intentions that included two proximal variables, (job satisfaction, and organisational commitment), the distal variables of organisational justice, work strain, work overload, and work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict with the turnover intentions.  A questionnaire was completed by 114 participants of the Allied Health workforce at the Waikato District Health Board, from allied health occupational groups, psychologists, physiotherapists, social workers, dieticians, and speech language therapists.  Job satisfaction, affective commitment, distributive, interactional, and procedural justice, strain and family-to-work conflict were correlated with turnover intentions.  Results of the mediated regression analyses found that job satisfaction and affective commitment are significant mediators between distributive, interactional, and procedural justice, work strain, and family work conflict with turnover intentions.  
The major implications from this research are that managers of organisation need to foster job satisfaction and affective commitment within their organisation to reduce turnover intentions.  In the final chapter, the conclusions are discussed in terms of its practical implications to organisations, employees and the need for future research.

text: Turnover Intentions: The Mediation Effects of Job Satisfaction, Affective Commitment and Continuance Commitment Retention and productivity levels of a workforce are one of the essential ingredients for organisations to prosper in today's competitive business environment.  Turnover intentions of the workforce are an important consideration for managers of organisations, employees, families, and communities alike.  
This study investigated a comprehensive model of turnover intentions that included two proximal variables, (job satisfaction, and organisational commitment), the distal variables of organisational justice, work strain, work overload, and work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict with the turnover intentions.  A questionnaire was completed by 114 participants of the Allied Health workforce at the Waikato District Health Board, from allied health occupational groups, psychologists, physiotherapists, social workers, dieticians, and speech language therapists.  Job satisfaction, affective commitment, distributive, interactional, and procedural justice, strain and family-to-work conflict were correlated with turnover intentions.  Results of the mediated regression analyses found that job satisfaction and affective commitment are significant mediators between distributive, interactional, and procedural justice, work strain, and family work conflict with turnover intentions.  
The major implications from this research are that managers of organisation need to foster job satisfaction and affective commitment within their organisation to reduce turnover intentions.  In the final chapter, the conclusions are discussed in terms of its practical implications to organisations, employees and the need for future research.

year: 2006

title: Voices on the margins: the role of New Zealand cinema in the construction of national and cultural identity

authors: Huijser, Henk J.

abstract: This thesis is based on the proposition that the New Zealand feature film Broken English (1996, Gregor Nicholas) constitutes a ‘break’ in New Zealand cinema on the level of its subject matter. Where feature films before ‘imagined’ New Zealand overwhelmingly in either mono-cultural or bi-cultural terms, Broken English quite specifically provides a multi-cultural perspective. What makes it particularly problematic however is that its creative personnel consists mostly of Pakeha New Zealanders, while the film features virtually no Pakeha characters.

The expectation from the outset then is that this film can tell us much not only about the workings of the film industry in New Zealand, but also about national identity in general, and how this gets defined in particular contexts. As a result, it can also tell us much about the relations of power involved in this process. Overall then, this thesis is an attempt to work through issues of national identity, in relation to concepts of ethnicity, race and diaspora. It takes Broken English as its main focus to explore where policy makers, film makers and viewers from a variety of ethnic backgrounds situate themselves and others within the nation. By extension it investigates how they see the role of cinema in relation to national and cultural identity, and what kind of discourses they draw on in doing so. Although there is a lot of research which deals with different aspects of these discourses, there is little research which combines them and shows how they relate to each other and how they inform both media texts and engagement with those texts. This thesis is an attempt to close those gaps to some extent.

In terms of methodology, this thesis follows a tripartite structure (production-text-reception), linked by a discourse analytic framework. This methodology allows for an exploration of the process of making meaning, and identifies the gaps and fissures between these different realms. In conclusion, this thesis argues that Broken English can be seen on one level as an important attempt to bring different minority groups into the mainstream, and thus represents an inclusive version of the nation. However, the problematic ways in which it does so illustrates the complexities involved in such a project in a contemporary New Zealand context.

text: Voices on the margins: the role of New Zealand cinema in the construction of national and cultural identity This thesis is based on the proposition that the New Zealand feature film Broken English (1996, Gregor Nicholas) constitutes a ‘break’ in New Zealand cinema on the level of its subject matter. Where feature films before ‘imagined’ New Zealand overwhelmingly in either mono-cultural or bi-cultural terms, Broken English quite specifically provides a multi-cultural perspective. What makes it particularly problematic however is that its creative personnel consists mostly of Pakeha New Zealanders, while the film features virtually no Pakeha characters.

The expectation from the outset then is that this film can tell us much not only about the workings of the film industry in New Zealand, but also about national identity in general, and how this gets defined in particular contexts. As a result, it can also tell us much about the relations of power involved in this process. Overall then, this thesis is an attempt to work through issues of national identity, in relation to concepts of ethnicity, race and diaspora. It takes Broken English as its main focus to explore where policy makers, film makers and viewers from a variety of ethnic backgrounds situate themselves and others within the nation. By extension it investigates how they see the role of cinema in relation to national and cultural identity, and what kind of discourses they draw on in doing so. Although there is a lot of research which deals with different aspects of these discourses, there is little research which combines them and shows how they relate to each other and how they inform both media texts and engagement with those texts. This thesis is an attempt to close those gaps to some extent.

In terms of methodology, this thesis follows a tripartite structure (production-text-reception), linked by a discourse analytic framework. This methodology allows for an exploration of the process of making meaning, and identifies the gaps and fissures between these different realms. In conclusion, this thesis argues that Broken English can be seen on one level as an important attempt to bring different minority groups into the mainstream, and thus represents an inclusive version of the nation. However, the problematic ways in which it does so illustrates the complexities involved in such a project in a contemporary New Zealand context.

year: 2002

title: What does 'Ethical Research'' look like? An indigenous perspective on big data & precision medicine

authors: Hudson, Maui

abstract: Southeast Native American Health Data (SENAHD) in partnership with Native BioData Consortium will host an online symposium about the ethical use of Indigenous genetic, environmental, biological, and cultural data. SENAHD is based at UNC Chapel Hill. Our partner, Native BioData Consortium is located on the Cheyanne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. NativeBio is one of the most important voices advocating for Indigenous health equity, data sovereignty, and ethical research practices. NativeBio is coming to the Southeast to recognize and include our region in important conversations taking place across Indian Country

text: What does 'Ethical Research'' look like? An indigenous perspective on big data & precision medicine Southeast Native American Health Data (SENAHD) in partnership with Native BioData Consortium will host an online symposium about the ethical use of Indigenous genetic, environmental, biological, and cultural data. SENAHD is based at UNC Chapel Hill. Our partner, Native BioData Consortium is located on the Cheyanne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. NativeBio is one of the most important voices advocating for Indigenous health equity, data sovereignty, and ethical research practices. NativeBio is coming to the Southeast to recognize and include our region in important conversations taking place across Indian Country

year: 2022