Influence of Personal Values and Value Congruence on Unethical Practices and Work Behavior

organizational values, personal values, value congruence, unethical practices, work behavior,

Do stakeholder management strategy and salience influence corporate social responsibility in Indian companies?

Purpose – This study aims to examine whether strategy towards primary stakeholders and their salience influence corporate social responsibility towards the corresponding stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected through a questionnaire from 150 senior level managers including CEOs. The stakeholder management strategy, salience, and corporate social responsibility were assessed in the context of employees, customers, investors, community, natural environment, and suppliers. Findings – The favorable strategy towards stakeholders increases the corresponding corporate social responsibility towards them. The salience of all stakeholder groups also enhances the corresponding corporate social responsibility. When salience and strategy are considered, the salience of a particular stakeholder group suppresses the effect of strategy fully or partially on corporate social responsibility. Research limitations/implications – The salience of a stakeholder is a potent antecedent of corporate social responsibility compared with strategy towards that stakeholder. Originality/value – A questionnaire is developed to assess corporate social responsibility in the Indian context, and the link between strategy, salience, and corporate social responsibility is established.Corporate image, India, Social responsibility, Stakeholders

Worsening Sleep Deprivation During COVID-19 and the Way Out

Pandemic related changes are different from the usual stress based changes that we may face in our everyday life. With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, the human race has witnessed major stressors among which sleep and related difficulties have been a prominent one. From social isolation to persistent emotional uncertainty and juggling between work and home while staying indoors, multiple factors have resulted in elevated sleep deprivation. These pose a risk for multiple physical and emotional morbidities. To this end, we attempt to highlight the possible factors behind sleep deprivation and the associated difficulties. The paper also lays a course of action to improve sleep hours and quality, which are doable and easy to adopt

Natural hazards, trauma, and its amelioration: Lessons learned from India

This is an author's accepted manuscript of an article published by Elsevier in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104548 The author's accepted manuscript may differ from the final published version.Foregrounding the devastating natural hazards of the 1999 supercyclone and 2004 tsunami in India, this narrative review critically examines survivors' trauma, its symptoms, risk factors, salient causes, resilience, and the amelioration of trauma. Documents were extracted from the Scopus and Google Scholar databases, further sourced from cross-referenced and recent publications, and were analyzed on the above facets of trauma. Findings suggest that trauma manifests through somatic and psychosocial symptoms. Individuals at risk of trauma are children, older people, females, widows, socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, displaced persons, and those with physical and intellectual disabilities, and non-adaptive personalities. However, coastal fishing communities and indigenous people are less prone to post-hazard trauma. The salient causes of trauma are the loss of life, loss of property, severity of exposure during the hazard, and inadequacy of and inequity in received social support post-hazard. Survivors’ intrapersonal resource possession and interpersonal resource gain post-hazard help nurturing resilience. In ameliorating trauma, pre-hazard evacuation of people and community preparedness can minimize the effects of exposure, loss of resources, and trauma. If such responses are inadequate, responsive search and rescue operations, subsequent psychological first aid and psychosocial support during natural hazards can decrease trauma. Trauma can be reduced post-hazard by facilitating an environment for garnering informational, emotional, and material support, building collective resilience, promoting cross-sector collaboration, preventing corruption and abuses, and executing micro-plans. These observations inform the details of interventions provided to the survivors after the natural hazard and their effectiveness, which may help developing strategies for the amelioration of trauma. The findings are discussed with implications, directions for research, and contributions to knowledge

Antecedents, work-related consequences, and buffers of job burnout among Indian software developers

This study examines the antecedents, consequences, and buffers of job burnout among software developers using job demands resources theory. Data were collected from 372 software developers in India using questionnaires. Results reveal that software developers experiencing more role ambiguity, role conflict, schedule pressure, irregular shifts, group noncooperation, psychological contract violation, and work-family conflict are at a greater risk of job burnout. The most important antecedent of job burnout was found to be work-family conflict. Job burnout increased job performance but decreased organizational commitment and interpersonal relationships. Subjective well-being and practicing yoga and meditation were inversely related to burnout-linked job performance. Subjective well-being, social support, and practicing yoga and meditation were also found to decrease the adverse association of job burnout with organizational commitment and interpersonal relationships. In the context of work-related consequences, job burnout had the biggest adverse association with organizational commitment, and practicing yoga and meditation was found to be the most influential buffer to counter the adverse consequences of job burnout