Management skills training needs analysis of company and battalion commanders in the Turkish army

Cataloged from PDF version of article.The Turkish Army like other organizations tries to keep up with the change in all areas and uses some methods of change. One of the areas is management and the method of change used by The Army is training and development of its officers at managerial positions. The army needs to know whether its officers need training or not. A needs analysis should be done for this. This study tries to determine whether the officers at two managerial positions, company and battalion commanders, need training in nine topics of management skills. The topics are: problem solving, stress management, organizing/coordinating, conflict management, motivating, coaching and counseling, team building, communication, empowering/delegating. A questionnaire is developed and used to collect the data. Determining the needs is the first step of designing training programs.Meydan, Cem HarunM.S

Bir Örgüt Formu Olarak Okul ile Özdeşleşmede Akademik Başarı ve Özdisiplinin Rolü

This study aims to identify the relationship between students’ organizational identification with their personality and academic success. Conscientiousness, one of the most important five personality traits, has been taken as a personality trait involving submissiveness, orderliness, discipline, responsibility, and achievement orientation. Furthermore, it is a result of learning and socialization while functioning as an evaluator. Considering schools, students’ academic success is an important factor since students who have a high level of academic success try to achieve their personal goals that contribute to schools’ overall goals. Organizational identification as the other variable of the study is defined as a cognitive linking between the definition of the organization and the definition of the self. Considering the students who have high level of academic success and have self-discipline, they would identify themselves with their school. Taking this as the hypothesis of the study, data have been gathered from 506 collage students. Research results showed that individuals’ time spent at school and their conscientiousness were effective while academic success was not effective on their organizational identificationBu çalışma, öğrencilerin okulları ile özdeşleşmeleri ile akademik başarı ve kişilikleri arasındaki ilişkileri ortaya koymayı hedeflemektedir. Kişilik değişkeni olarak Beş Faktör Kişilik özelliklerinden özdisiplin ele alınmıştır. Özdisiplin kişilik özelliği, itaatkârlık, düzenlilik, disiplin, sorumluluk, başarı yönelimlilik gibi özellikleri bünyesinde barındırmakta, bu özelliklerin yanında öğrenme ve sosyalleşmenin sonucu olmakta ve değerlendirici bir yönü de bulunmaktadır. Araştırmanın diğer değişkeni olan özdeşleşme, bireyin kendi benliğiyle örgütünü tanımlaması arasındaki bilişsel bağ olarak ifade edilmektedir. Okullar değerlendirildiğinde öğrencilerin akademik başarılarının okullar için önemi ön plana çıkmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, akademik başarısı yüksek ve bireysel hedeflerini gerçekleştirmeye çalışan öğrenciler aynı zamanda okulun hedeflerine de katkıda bulunmaktadır. Akademik başarı seviyesi yüksek ve özdisiplinli öğrencilerin kendilerini okullarıyla tanımlama düzeylerinin yüksek olacağı değerlendirilerek hipotezler geliştirilmiş ve geliştirilen hipotezler 506 üniversite öğrencisinden toplanan veri ile analiz yapılarak test edilmiştir. Veriler anket yöntemi ile toplanmış, bu maksatla özdeşleşme ve özdisiplin ölçekleri kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonuçları, öğrencilerin okulda bulundukları süre ile özdisiplinli olmalarının okulları ile özdeşleşmede etkili faktörler olduğuna, ancak akademik başarının etkili bir faktör olmadığına işaret etmektedir

Kişilerarası Çatışma Çözme Yaklaşımlarında Kontrol Odağının Rolü

Bu çalışmada, iletişim süreçlerine odaklanan kişilerarasıçatışma çözme yaklaşımlarıile kişisel bir değişken olan kontrol odağının bu yaklaşımların benimsenmesinde herhangi bir rolünün olup olmadığının araştırılmasıamaçlanmıştır. Araştırmanın örneklemini Ankara’da öğrenim gören ve yaşları18 ile 26 arasında değişen 307 üniversite öğrencisi oluşmaktadır. Araştırmada anket yöntemiyle veri toplanmışve ölçüm araçlarıolarak; ulusal kültüre uyarlama çalışmalarıyapılmışolan KişilerarasıÇatışma Çözme YaklaşımlarıÖlçeği ve Kontrol OdağıÖlçeği kullanılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular; özellikle iç kontrol odaklıkişilerin yapıcıve olumlu çözüm süreçleri açısından yüzleşmeye daha çok önem verdiklerini, genel davranışsergilediklerini, çatışmaya yaklaştıklarını, kendilerini daha çok açtıklarınıve duygularınıdaha fazla sergilediklerini göstermektedir. Bununla birlikte demografik değişkenlerden cinsiyetin de çözüm yaklaşımlarının benimsenmesinde önemli rol oynadığıve kadınların çatışma süreçlerinde daha fazla yüzleştikleri, kendilerini daha çok açtıklarıve daha fazla duygusal ifadeler sergileyerek çözüme yönelik daha aktif ve etkili davranışlarda bulunduklarıortaya çıkmıştır. Tüm bu bulgular, kişilerarasıçatışma çözme süreçlerinde kişilik ve cinsiyet değişkenlerinin önemli rol oynadığınıgöstermektedir

Power Distance as a Moderator of the Relationship between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Impression Management

This research discovers predictive effect of employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors on impression management strategies as well as moderation effect of power distance on this interaction. To that end data was collected from 178 schoolteachers, who work at three different public elementary schools in Turkey, through questionnaire and analyzed with multifarious statistical methods. The results from hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicated that individuals engaged in organizational citizenship behaviors in order to form expected impressions of themselves in others’ minds and perception of power distance has moderating effect on this process

A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance

We present a global atlas of 4,728 metagenomic samples from mass-transit systems in 60 cities over 3 years, representing the first systematic, worldwide catalog of the urban microbial ecosystem. This atlas provides an annotated, geospatial profile of microbial strains, functional characteristics, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) markers, and genetic elements, including 10,928 viruses, 1,302 bacteria, 2 archaea, and 838,532 CRISPR arrays not found in reference databases. We identified 4,246 known species of urban microorganisms and a consistent set of 31 species found in 97% of samples that were distinct from human commensal organisms. Profiles of AMR genes varied widely in type and density across cities. Cities showed distinct microbial taxonomic signatures that were driven by climate and geographic differences. These results constitute a high-resolution global metagenomic atlas that enables discovery of organisms and genes, highlights potential public health and forensic applications, and provides a culture-independent view of AMR burden in cities

A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance.

We present a global atlas of 4,728 metagenomic samples from mass-transit systems in 60 cities over 3 years, representing the first systematic, worldwide catalog of the urban microbial ecosystem. This atlas provides an annotated, geospatial profile of microbial strains, functional characteristics, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) markers, and genetic elements, including 10,928 viruses, 1,302 bacteria, 2 archaea, and 838,532 CRISPR arrays not found in reference databases. We identified 4,246 known species of urban microorganisms and a consistent set of 31 species found in 97% of samples that were distinct from human commensal organisms. Profiles of AMR genes varied widely in type and density across cities. Cities showed distinct microbial taxonomic signatures that were driven by climate and geographic differences. These results constitute a high-resolution global metagenomic atlas that enables discovery of organisms and genes, highlights potential public health and forensic applications, and provides a culture-independent view of AMR burden in cities

A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance

We present a global atlas of 4,728 metagenomic samples from mass-transit systems in 60 cities over 3 years, representing the first systematic, worldwide catalog of the urban microbial ecosystem. This atlas provides an annotated, geospatial profile of microbial strains, functional characteristics, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) markers, and genetic elements, including 10,928 viruses, 1,302 bacteria, 2 archaea, and 838,532 CRISPR arrays not found in reference databases. We identified 4,246 known species of urban microorganisms and a consistent set of 31 species found in 97% of samples that were distinct from human commensal organisms. Profiles of AMR genes varied widely in type and density across cities. Cities showed distinct microbial taxonomic signatures that were driven by climate and geographic differences. These results constitute a high-resolution global metagenomic atlas that enables discovery of organisms and genes, highlights potential public health and forensic applications, and provides a culture-independent view of AMR burden in cities.Funding: the Tri-I Program in Computational Biology and Medicine (CBM) funded by NIH grant 1T32GM083937; GitHub; Philip Blood and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), supported by NSF grant number ACI-1548562 and NSF award number ACI-1445606; NASA (NNX14AH50G, NNX17AB26G), the NIH (R01AI151059, R25EB020393, R21AI129851, R35GM138152, U01DA053941); STARR Foundation (I13- 0052); LLS (MCL7001-18, LLS 9238-16, LLS-MCL7001-18); the NSF (1840275); the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1151054); the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (G-2015-13964); Swiss National Science Foundation grant number 407540_167331; NIH award number UL1TR000457; the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231; the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, supported by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy; Stockholm Health Authority grant SLL 20160933; the Institut Pasteur Korea; an NRF Korea grant (NRF-2014K1A4A7A01074645, 2017M3A9G6068246); the CONICYT Fondecyt Iniciación grants 11140666 and 11160905; Keio University Funds for Individual Research; funds from the Yamagata prefectural government and the city of Tsuruoka; JSPS KAKENHI grant number 20K10436; the bilateral AT-UA collaboration fund (WTZ:UA 02/2019; Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, UA:M/84-2019, M/126-2020); Kyiv Academic Univeristy; Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine project numbers 0118U100290 and 0120U101734; Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa 2013–2017; the CERCA Programme / Generalitat de Catalunya; the CRG-Novartis-Africa mobility program 2016; research funds from National Cheng Kung University and the Ministry of Science and Technology; Taiwan (MOST grant number 106-2321-B-006-016); we thank all the volunteers who made sampling NYC possible, Minciencias (project no. 639677758300), CNPq (EDN - 309973/2015-5), the Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Advanced Theory and Application in Statistics and Data Science – MOE, ECNU, the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong through project 11215017, National Key RD Project of China (2018YFE0201603), and Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (2017SHZDZX01) (L.S.