The Strategic Relevance of IT-enabled Organizational Virtues

Inspired by recent calls for a greater infusion of ethics into business organizations, this research-in-progress paper proposes an ethical perspective to the development of organizational capabilities. Drawing upon Pavlou and El Sawy’s (2010) recent work, it recognizes that organizations need both dynamic and improvisational capabilities in order to be successful. This paper proposes that certain ethical characteristics of organizations, notably organizational virtues, influence these dynamic and improvisational capabilities. The paper also recognizes the salience of IT, in terms of organizational IT affordances, in engendering such virtues. Specifically, certain core organizational IT affordances are theorized to influence the development of such organizational virtues. Overall, this paper contributes by articulating the strategic usefulness of organizational ethicality (in terms of virtues) and the important role IT plays in this mix. The theory presented here is the first step in this research and will guide the future empirical study

Moderating-mediating effect of religious spirituality and work engagement: antecedents of job performance

The effectiveness of nursing practices resulting in decreasing patient waiting time, increasing patients’ satisfaction, as well as sustaining high-quality healthcare delivery as a whole. Thus, it is crucial to evaluate nurses’ performance in taking an active part to act quickly and effectively. Yet, patients’ satisfaction is no longer limited to diagnosis and treatment, but services and care they receive. Caring processes have a major influence in controlling patient experiences and formulating their expectations as well as their perceptions of nursing performance. Therefore, this study incorporated the caring process into nurses' performance criteria and aimed to recognize contributing factors to nurses’ job performance. Precisely, this study examines the relationship between workload (WL), supervisor support (SS), moral competence (MC), work engagement (WE), and job performance (JP). This study treated WE as a mediating variable between WL, SS, MC, and JP. This study also incorporated the moderating effect of religious spirituality (RS) on the relationship between WL, SS, MC, and WE due to the inconsistent findings of previous studies that were found. A quantitative research design was conducted. Data were collected from four general hospitals in Peninsular Malaysia using a cross-sectional method. 718 questionnaires were distributed to 718 Staff Nurses who were sampled using a non-proportional quota sampling technique. Smart-PLS 3.2.8 was used in testing the study hypotheses. The statistical results of this study indicated that only the direct relationship between MC and JP as well as the direct relationship between WL, SS, and MC on WE were supported. The result also supports the positive significant relationship between WE and JP. In terms of mediation effect, WE only mediate the relationship between SS, MC, and JP. While for the moderation results, RS was only found to have a significant moderating role in the relationship between SS and WE. Based on the findings, hospitals’ management should give more focus on nurses’ job demands-resources and personal resources to boost their work engagement as well as enhancing their job performance. Finally, the implications, limitations of the study, and future research direction were also discussed in this study