Determination of the Relationship Between Leadership Perceptions of Blue Collars and Organizational Outcomes by Using MLQ Analysis

AbstractThe relationship between leadership and organizational outcomes was investigated by some academicians. Since leadership is a phenomenon that keeps numerous characteristics together and that is the basis of shaping organizational structures, its relationship with organizational outcomes is of particular concern both to the academic world and the business world in practice. Within this scope, the relationship between several different leadership models and organizational outcomes was investigated; however, in the researches, leadership perception studies were carried out only for white collar personnel. When it is considered that particularly most of the employees (followers) working in the production sector are blue collar employees, it is thought that investigating the leadership perceptions of blue collars plays an important role in determining the contribution of leadership types to organizational outcomes.In this study, with the information obtained from 296 blue collar employees who work in food and manufacturing industry in Kocaeli and Istanbul, heavily industrialized provinces in our country, by means of multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ), the relationship of leadership behaviors with organizational outcomes (efficiency, satisfaction and extra effort) was investigated. When the multifactor leadership scale (MLQ) was applied to the participants, it was seen that the nine components that shows all leadership dimensions stated by Bass were not clearly decomposed from each other. As a result of reliability and internal consistency tests applied to these data, active and passive leadership dimensions were revised. As a result of the analysis conducted considering these data, the relationships of active and passive leadership dimensions with organizational outcomes were investigated and it was found out that organizational outcomes had a positive strong relationship with active leadership dimension

Quality management in the Turkish Higher Education institutions: Preliminary findings

Bu çalışma, 10-12, Aralık 2015 tarihlerinde İstanbul[Türkiye]’da düzenlenen 5. International Conference on Leadership, Technology, Innovation and Business Management (ICLTIBM) Kongresi‘nde bildiri olarak sunulmuştur.There is an extensive literature on antecedents and positive/negative consequences of quality management in manufacturing organizations. However, studies that focus on quality management in higher education institutions are inadequate. In addition, these studies are generally based on developed countries and small samples. This study examines the situation of quality management in higher education institutions of a developing country, Turkey. In addition, it uses a relatively large data set (241 faculties and institutes) for this aim. The findings show that although the Turkish higher education institutions have progressed in their quality efforts in recent years, there is still a long way to go.Yıldız Teknik ÜniversitesiGebze Teknik Üniversitesiİstanbul Teknik Üniversites

Sectoral system of innovation and sources of technological change in machinery industry: An investigation on Turkish machinery industry

Bu çalışma, 10-12 Aralık 2015 tarihlerinde İstanbul[Türkiye]’düzenlenen 5. International Conference on Leadership, Technology, Innovation and Business Management (ICLTIBM) Kongresi‘nde bildiri olarak sunulmuştur.Machinery industry is the main sector in investment product sector. Therefore it has an strategic importance. Turkish machinery industry must have a technology policy to achieve competitiveness on a global level. This study, focus on the sectors which can produce and transfer technology and knowledge. Thus it is based on the basis of the sectoral system of innovation which can produce industry specific technology. In this study according to innovation activities 250 different scale firms data were collected using a questionnaire prepared by the Oslo Manual. Data were analyzed. And the results obtained from the data used for researching the level of technological capabilities of the sectors. Finally the sector's position in new technological developments such as Industry 4.0 was evaluated.Yıldız Teknik ÜniversitesiGebze Teknik Üniversitesiİstanbul Teknik Üniversites

Doppler Evaluation of Fetal and Feto-Maternal Vessels During Dystocia in Cats: Four Cases

Doppler ultrasonography has been becoming an essential tool in veterinary medicine, especially in theriogenology. It has being widely used for the evaluation of fetal well-being in pathologic pregnancies in human medicine. The paper highlights the usage of Doppler ultrasonography in veterinary obstetrical pathologies with a review of literature of human and veterinary medicine. Four cats with dystocia and their fetuses were evaluated for fetal and maternal hemodynamics. As a conclusion, flow velocity of the fetal and feto-maternal vessels can inform us of the existence of the pathology related to gestation and also can help choosing the method of treatment in veterinary medicine

Osteoporotic risk and physeal closure in prepubertal ovariohysterectomized cats

We aimed to examine the early effects of prepubertal ovariohysterectomy (P-OHE) on bone loss and proximal physeal closure in cats. Fourteen kittens randomly underwent P-OHE or sham operations (S-OP) at three months (mo) of age and were allocated to group I and group II. Each mo between four and nine mo of age, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans were performed to determine the total body bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content (BMC). Proximal radial physeal closure and radial length were determined by radiography. Bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (BAP), carboxy-terminal collagen teleopeptide (CTX), 17-beta estradiol, progesterone, calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) were measured in the serum samples. No significant differences were observed between the groups in terms of BMD, BMC, BAP, BAP/CTX, P. progesterone and body weight (BW) (between 4 and 9 mo) and for Ca (between 5 and 9 mo) and for CTX levels (between 4 and 8 mo). The 17-beta estradiol was significantly higher at 6,8 and 9 mo of age in the S-OP group due to puberty (P=0.02, P=0.03 and P=0.02 respectively). Although there was a significant difference (P=0.0002) between the P-OHE and S-OP groups in terms of the proximal radial physeal closure times (7.43 +/- 0.20 mo and 6.14 +/- 0.14 mo, respectively), no significant difference was observed for the mean radius length (10.59 +/- 0.10 cm and 10.06 +/- 0.27 cm, respectively) at the last evaluation time. In conclusion, prepubertal ovariohysterectomized cats do not have any osteoporotic risks until nine mo of age and exhibit a delayed physeal closure time without a change in radius length. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V