The Role Of Organizational Culture And Commitment On Job Embeddedness And Stay Intention In Hong Kong

This research focuses on investigating the work and non-work dimensions of job embeddedness to stay intention and its relationship with organizational culture and commitment in Hong Kong, using a mixed methods approach. A large organization with over 200 staff in one of the major retail sectors in Hong Kong was chosen for a case study. To investigate the relationship between job embeddedness, organizational culture, organisational commitment and stay intention, firstly, a questionnaire survey was conducted (100 respondents) and a partial least square approach was used to identify relationship. Secondly, face-to-face interviews were conducted (9 respondents) at the company to triangulate the relationships among the constructs. Finally, face-to-face interviews results and documented exit interviews from the company were also analyzed to validate three important factors of cultural practice (fair reward, competence development and empowerment) which is crucial for talent management. The positive relationship of stay intention with organizational culture; organizational commitment; and job embeddedness were investigated using quantitative research approaches and triangulated with the qualitative research findings. The work dimension of job embeddedness was more applicable to stay intention. Job embeddedness was found to mediate the effect between organizational culture and stay intention, and between organizational commitment and stay intention. Analysis of the face-to-face and exit interviews identified fair reward, competence development and empowerment as important factors for talent management. The job embeddedness model (Mitchell et al. 2001) has not been investigated in the approach within the context of Hong Kong as this research. Three cultural factors - fair reward, competence development and empowerment are important for supporting talent management in the company and would probably help staff recruitment and retention

Ground-state fidelity in one-dimensional gapless model

A general relation between quantum phase transitions and the second derivative of the fidelity (or the "fidelity susceptibility") is proposed. The validity and the limitation of the fidelity susceptibility in characterizing quantum phase transitions is thus established. Moreover, based on the bosonization method, general formulas of the fidelity and the fidelity susceptibility are obtained for a class of one-dimensional gapless systems known as the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid. Applying these formulas to the one-dimensional spin-1/2 $XXZ$ model, we find that quantum phase transitions, even of the Beresinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless type, can be signaled by the fidelity susceptibility.Comment: 4+ pages, no figure, published versio

Slip distribution and tectonic implication of the 1999 Chi‐Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake

We report on the fault complexity of the large (M_w = 7.6) Chi‐Chi earthquake obtained by inverting densely and well‐distributed static measurements consisting of 119 GPS and 23 doubly integrated strong motion records. We show that the slip of the Chi-Chi earthquake was concentrated on the surface of a ”wedge shaped” block. The inferred geometric complexity explains the difference between the strike of the fault plane determined by long period seismic data and surface break observations. When combined with other geophysical and geological observations, the result provides a unique snapshot of tectonic deformation taking place in the form of very large (>10m) displacements of a massive wedge‐shaped crustal block which may relate to the changeover from over‐thrusting to subducting motion between the Philippine Sea and the Eurasian plates

Mount St. Helens aerosol evolution

Stratospheric aerosol samples were collected using a wire impactor during the year following the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Analysis of samples shows that aerosol volume increased for 6 months due to gas-to-particle conversion and then decreased to background levels in the following 6 months

Investigating the Effect of Stratospheric Radiation on Seed Germination and Growth

Three seed types: bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), corn (Zea mays) and radish (Raphanus sativus) were flown in a high altitude weather balloon into the mid-stratosphere to investigate the effects of high altitude radiation on germination success and seedling growth. After recovering and planting the seeds, the bean seeds showed lower germination success with exposure to high altitude radiation, and consequently stunted seedling growth. Cord and radish seeds experienced a statistically significant positive effect on germination success form radiation exposure compared to control seeds, but negative effect on seedling growth. Overall, the field experiments presented here support laboratory studies that show radiation exposure on vegetable seeds has a mixed effect on the germination success and negative effect on seedling growth on investigated seed types

Superconductivity and spin triplet collective mode in the t-J model close to antiferromagnetic instability

To investigate relations between long-range antiferromagnetic (AF) order, superconductivity and two particle triplet collective excitations we consider a modified two dimensional t-J model at doping close to half filling. The model includes additional hopping t'' and nearest sites Coulomb repulsion V. The additional parameters allow us to control closeness of the system to the AF instability. We demonstrate the possibility of co-existence of long-range AF order and d-g-wave superconductivity. In the phase with long-range AF order we find, analytically, superconducting gaps and spin wave renormalization. We demonstrate that at approaching the point of the AF instability the spin triplet collective excitation arises with energy below the superconducting gap.Comment: 9 page