Job Resources as a mediator between management trust climate and employees' well-being: A cross-sectional multilevel approach

Adopting the notion that environmental factors affect employees, we investigated the importance of management trust climate as a precursor to job resources (i.e. personal development), positive work outcomes (engagement and job performance) and better well-being (i.e. avoidance of burnout and sleeping problems). Because the Malaysian society is considered to have a higher level of trust than other Asian countries, we used a snowball sampling method and recruited 377 employees from 44 private organisations (62% response rate) in Malaysia as participants in the current study. Multilevel analyses revealed that management trust climate led to higher levels of personal development and job performance; however, it showed no relation to sleeping problems. In addition, personal development mediated management trust climate and job performance, whereas engagement mediated personal development and job performance. Higher burnout led to increased sleeping problems. This study showed organisational level to be an antecedent of job resources and its job resource-engagement model. Since trust conveys a soft psychological contract between two parties, organisations should be aware of the ways trust can be cultivated within the organisation, such as by allowing employees to grow and develop their skills. This may be an effective strategy for ensuring that employees are able to grow within their organisations and execute their duties effectively, without reprisals from higher management

Testing Spontaneous Parity Violation at the LHC

We construct a supersymmetric SU(2)_L X SU(2)_R X U(1)_B-L model in which a discrete symmetry (C-parity) implements strict left-right symmetry in the scalar (Higgs) sector. Although two electroweak bidoublets are introduced to accommodate the observed fermion masses and mixings, a natural missing partner mechanism insures that a single pair of MSSM Higgs doublets survives below the left-right symmetry breaking scale. If this scale happens to lie in the TeV range, several new particles potentially much lighter than the SU(2)_R charged gauge bosons W_R^+- will be accessible at the LHC.Comment: 12 pages, REVTex

The Monetary Approach to Exchange Rate Determination in Five ASEAN Countries

This study examines the monetary model of exchange rate determination for five ASEAN countries, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; and to estimate their exchange rate misalignments before the 1997 currency crisis. The validity of the monetary models; the relationship between exchange rates and macroeconomic fundamentals; the restoration of the long-run equilibrium exchange rates; and the out-of-sample forecasts of monetary model were examined using vector error-correction model. The results showed that the series used are stationary and cointegrated. The likelihood ratio tests cannot reject the structural identification of the implied cointegrating relation is the sticky-price monetary model for all five ASEAN countries but rejected almost all the flexible-price monetary model and the imposed restriction of proportionality between the exchange rate and relative money. The estimated long-run parameters for Indonesia and Singapore strongly support the theory of monetary models while the result for the Philippines provides weak support. However, the long-run coefficients for Malaysia and Thailand are inconsistent with the theory. The error-correction terms are significant and correctly signed. The speeds of adjustment are rapid in Indonesia and Thailand while the speeds for Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore are slower. Using the final parsimonious vector error-correction models, out-of-sample predictions for ASEAN five exchange rates are generated. The plotted actual and fitted exchange rates show that the models are able to track the actual exchange rate trend quiet well. The resulting residuals between the actual and the fitted values of exchange rate are the estimated misalignments. The results indicated that the Indonesia rupiah, Malaysian ringgit, Philippines peso and Singapore dollar were overvalued before the currency crisis while Thai baht was undervalued on the eve of the crisis. However, these five countries suffered modest misalignment. Therefore, little evidence of exchange misalignment is found to exist in 1997:Q2. In addition, the measure of the exchange rate valuation for ringgit Malaysia after imposing the pegging system shows that the RMAJSD exchange rate has been pegged at equilibrium level after the implementation of pegging RM3.80 to one US dollar

Psychosocial safety climate versus team climate: The distinctiveness between the two organizational climate constructs

The importance of organizational climates in enhancing employee job performance is well studied in the literature. In this study, by using a multilevel survey, the study investigated the effect of psychosocial safety climate (PSC) and team climate on job performance, particularly through job engagement. The study also predicted that only PSC (and not team climate) predicted job resources (i.e. role clarity and performance feedback). A total of 412 employees from 44 teams (72.6% response rate) in Malaysian private organizations participated in the current study. Research findings revealed that performance feedback and role clarity mediate the relationship between PSC and job engagement, and that there is no direct effect between the variables, team climate and job resources. As expected, the study also discovered that job engagement mediates the relationship between PSC and team climate on job performance. This suggests the importance of PSC as the precursor to better working conditions (i.e. job resources) and to indirectly boosting employees’ engagement and job performance. This paper compared two distinctive organizational climate constructs in affecting the different types of job resources through multilevel approach within the Asian context

The internet milieu: individualization within a globalised community

Communication technologies have become deeply embedded in our lives, mediating the ways in which information is presented. Due to the global nature of this channel of communication, the world has shrunk and members of the internet may share similar cultural norms of thinking and behaving. Yet, paradoxically, the Internet is personal in that each individual has an interactive opportunity in choosing the options that can expand the breadth and depth of the information they are reading, who they interact with, and the means to achieve that interaction. These options can be expressed through a variety of media techniques. This paper is based on a study of selected websites hosted in English. It looks at language use in the Internet and illustrates the paradoxes between global and individual mediations of meanin

ABJM Amplitudes in U-gauge and a Soft Theorem

We report progress in computing and analyzing all tree amplitudes in ABJM theory. Inspired by the isomorphism between the orthogonal Grassmannian and the pure spinor geometries, we adopt a new gauge, called u-gauge, for evaluating the orthogonal Grassmannian integral for ABJM amplitudes. We carry out the integral explicitly for the 8-point amplitude and obtain the complete supersymmetric amplitude. The physical and spurious poles arise from the integral as expected from on-shell diagrams. We also derive a double scalar soft theorem of ABJM amplitudes and verify it for known amplitudes.Comment: 35 pages, 6 figures; v2. minor correction