Psychological Contract Violation Management and Organizational Citizenship Behaviours in Selected Commercial Banks in Kampala District

The purpose of the study was to find the relationship between psychological contract violation psychological contract violation management and Organizational citizenship behaviours The research was carried out in selected commercial banks in Kampala District The researcher used a simple random sampling lottery approach to select a sample of 144 respondents Self-administered questionnaires were administered data collected and analyzed using SPSS software version 19 adopted for windows The results indicated that there is a significant relationship between the study variables Psychological contract violation and OCB r - 37 01 Psychological contract violation management and OCB r 0 48 p 01 The researcher concluded that whenever employees perceive a psychological contract violation the organisation is likely to suffer serious consequences Employees begin to engage in undesirable behaviours The researcher recommended that employers should ensure that the promised obligations to the employees are fulfilled and not violated This will enable employees gain a sense of belonging in the organisation and go an extra mile to make sure that the set goals and objectives are achieved The researcher suggested further study on the same variables to be carried out in other organizations and a comparative study carried out with a larger sample size in the Ugandan banking industr

Performance Management Practices in Institutions of Higher Education: An Instrument Development.

Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument for measuring and assessing perceived performance management practices in Institutions of Higher Education in Uganda These practices are based on metaphors derived from the agency upper echelon resourcebased view dynamic capability and goal setting theories Design methodology approach Item development was a result of an intensive literature review reliability assessment exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses A survey that involved a sample of 447 respondents in four Institutions of Higher Education in Uganda was conducted Findings Results show that the items are related to individual member s perceived performance management practices that were based on appropriate employer-employee relationships locus of decision making identifying and utilising available resources and involving employees in goal setting to achieve performance in an ever changing environment Using the confirmatory factor analysis CFA structural equation modelling SEM moderate model fit indices and construct validity results plausibly yielded a model that fits the data Goodness-of-fit index GFI 961 comparative fit index CFI 977 and normed-fit- index NFI 944 and Tucker Lewis Index TLI 969 were above suggested threshold values 90 and RMSEA 039 was obtained Research limitations implications The data used is a single sample from a studied population even when a systematic procedure of instrument development i e descriptive statistics reliability and inter-correlation analysis exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted could limit generalisability of the results The procedure could be replicated using different samples in the same population Originality value Scores at the individual level could be used to promote performance management practices in Institutions of Higher Education in Ugand

Institutional isomorphism, self-organisation and the adoption of management controls

Research Question: The purpose of this study is to examine whether self-organisation mediates the relationship between institutional isomorphism and the adoption of management controls. Motivation: Research on institutions has tended to emphasize how organizational processes are shaped by institutional forces that reinforce continuity and reward conformity. Such insight raises the question of how actors ever imagine changing institutions. Idea: The study blends institutionalism with complexity theory, for a better understanding of the micro/macro dynamics of organizations which lead to organizations adopting management controls. Data: The study employed a cross-sectional survey to collect data from 202 manufacturing firms, with the help of a multi-dimensional self-administered questionnaire. Tools: Data were analysed quantitatively using descriptive statistics, and PLS-SEM. The nature and strength of the relationships between the variables was tested using the bootstrapping method Findings: This study established that organisations adopt management controls, as a means of reacting to isomorphic pressures present in the environment. However, the adoption process is enhanced by the self-organising capacity of the staff, within the firms. Contribution: The study represents a novel attempt to blend institutional and complexity theories in order to explain how organization actors can transform institutions in which they are embedded

Children’s conceptions of peace in two Ugandan primary schools: Insights for peace curriculum

Oppenheimer urged communities all over the world to study how children come to understand peace, conflict, and war. Set in various countries, their review of studies, as well as more recent examinations reveal trends in how children view these phenomena, often differing by gender, age, and extent to which they were exposed to highly dangerous and traumatizing situations, like being forced to be child soldiers or sex slaves. No such research has been published in the contemporary post-war Uganda context. Using focus group methodology, we asked: How might Ugandan primary school children’s stories about peace (traditional and otherwise) help them navigate conflict? What sorts of conflicts do these children observe in their home, school, and community, and how do they describe peace as being resolved by themselves or others? The purpose of our study was to contribute to the knowledge base on peace education in Uganda and to ultimately develop written materials that students can use as part of their learning in their respective schools. Local studies like this one are relevant to the global situation because racial and economic conditions are global phenomena. The local manifestations can speak to those racial and economic conditions as perspectives not often used to put the global situation in relief. This paper explores the findings related to the children’s overarching conceptions of peace and their ideas of peacebuilding, including activities that both hinder and encourage peace. The voices of the children speak strongly of the connection between peace and access to basic necessities in the community

A study of Ugandan children’s perspectives on peace, conflict, and peace-building: A liberation psychology approach

Bulhan (2015) urged psychologists to advance their research and practice by attending to metacolonialism, a structural phenomenon built on a history of violence and oppression that assaults all manner of individual, community, and societal well-being. In line with this urging, a primarily Ugandan team of researchers conducted a study of primary schoolchildren’s perspectives on conflict, peace, and peace-building. In the original study, which is briefly reviewed in this manuscript, the children were drawn from 2 Ugandan schools, one located in the northern region and the other in the central region. At each stage of the research process, the team members sought to recognize and resist the reproduction of metacolonialism while move toward more emancipatory practices. In this theoretical article, we explain how we applied a liberation psychological approach to the design, conduct, and analysis of the study. We also show how the findings of the study contribute to our ongoing work in fostering structural changes in one of the schools, its surrounding region, and the nation as a whole

THE ADOPTION OF MANAGEMENT CONTROLS FROM A COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether self-organisation predicts of adoption of management controls in manufacturing firms. The study employed the lens of complex adaptive systems theory to investigate the research question. The study used a cross-sectional survey to collect data from 202 manufacturing firms with the use of a multi-dimensional self-administered questionnaire Data were analyzed quantitatively using PLS-SEM. The findings indicate a positive relationship between innovativeness, emergence and adoption of management controls. The hypothesis for networks of interaction was not supported

Problem-based learning and action learning in Ugandan universities

The purpose of the study was to compare the action learning approach with the traditional didactic learning and establish the relationship between problem-based learning and action learning. We employed a quasi experiment where the Marquardt Action Learning model was combined with the constructivist theories of learning. The quasi experiment was composed of three groups, namely the treatment group (action learning group), the traditional group and the control group. To stimulate participant thought and reflection, a community of practice environment was created and just-in-time classes were conducted, based on the constructive theories of learning. Although the study involved various constructivist theories, the article concentrates on problem-based learning; hence, it is quiet about other constructivist theories. The results indicate significant differences between the action learning and traditional didactic learning. Furthermore, a significant relationship between problem-based learning and action learning was established. The robust strength of reflective practice and self-directed learning in the prediction of action learning is also highlighted. The findings can be utilised to design future training programmes in universities and other workplaces in order to equip workers with reflective practice and self-directed learning skills that are vital in solving workplace problems