Relation between organizational commitment and professional commitment: an exploratory study conducted with teachers

The existence of several kinds of commitments in the workplace is well known. However, there are few studies that relate these different commitments or those established by deterministic models. This study explored the relationship between organizational and professional commitment in public higher education professors according to the multidimensional perspective of Meyer and Allen (1991), based on a convenience sample of 219 teachers. The proposed models were estimated through structural equation modeling methodology. Model 1 specified a relationship of direct influence of Professional Commitment on Organizational Commitment and Model 2 established the opposite relationship of direct influence of organizational commitment on professional commitment. Both models presented a good fit to the data without statistically significant differences between them. Nevertheless, the explanatory power of Model 1 was superior to Model 2, due to the fact that it includes a larger number of determinant relationships that are statistically significant. Theoretical and practical implications were discussed and new directions for future research were identified.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Employees’ emotional awareness as an antecedent of organizational commitment—The mediating role of affective commitment to the leader

Commitment has been perceived as a strategic topic in organizations due to its positive effect on retaining talent, increasing performance, or boosting employees’ innovative behavior. However there are many focis of commitment in the workplace, which has represented a challenge to human resources management, who need implement measures to improve the employee’s commitment. Recent research has suggested a need to conduct studies about commitment, namely antecedents and the relationship between different focis, to understand the dynamic and directionality between them. Hence, the purpose of this work is to analyze how employees’ emotional awareness relates with two focis of commitment (the leader and the organization), also assessing the mediating role of affective commitment to the leader. The study uses structural equation modeling and Lisrel to test the hypotheses considering the multidimensionality of organizational commitment (affective; normative; and continuance), employees emotional awareness (understanding self-emotions; self-control when facing criticism; and understanding others’ emotions), and the affective commitment to the leader, under the scope of Social Exchange Theory. The Mackinon’s Z Test was used to assess the mediation role of affective commitment to the leader. The sample is composed for 403 employees from two multinational companies. The results provide empirical evidence about the mediating role of affective commitment to the leader in the relationship between employees’ emotional awareness and organizational commitment, and the employees’ emotional awareness as an antecedent of commitment. The implications for theory and practice are discussed.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Dual Commitment to Leader and Organization: Alternative Models Based on the Employees’ Emotional Awareness

Management has been considering employee commitment as one of the strategic priorities, due to many studies suggesting the positive influence of commitment on high performance, innovative work behavior, employee retention, and many other important business outcomes. Nevertheless, commitment is considered an abstract construct, from which human resources management needs to create policies and practices that effectively support the business strategy and organizational culture. The existence of many foci of commitment in the workplace has been a challenge in that scenario, being important to understand how different foci relate to each other and how they influence the employee commitment process. To contribute to filling this gap, this research aims to compare two different models, analyzing the relationship between two foci of commitment, namely the affective commitment to the leader and organizational commitment. For this purpose, the employees’ emotional awareness has been considered as an independent variable. Hence, this study seeks to identify which model has higher explanatory power, and consequently, a more significant impact on the process of the employees’ commitment. The implications for theory and practice are discussed.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

O DIREITO À SAÚDE E OS “LIMITES” DO ESTADO SOCIAL: MEDICAMENTOS,POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS E JUDICIALIZAÇÃO

O percurso para a construção do Estado Democrático de Direito inclui a redefinição e ressignificação de muitos elementos e conceitos presentes nos modelos estatais anteriores. É necessário partir de uma teoria do/para o Estado constitucional para se analisar as premissas do neoconstitucionalismo, tendo sempre presente seus limites e possibilidades. Assim, verifica-se o caminho desenvolvido pelo ente estatal ao longo do tempo, bem como as mudanças e descompassos de suas funções, até a chamada “prevalência” do Judiciário sobre os demais poderes, além da denominada judicialização da política. Estas modificações em um contexto global revelam a preocupação com a efetivação dos direitos sociais, dentre eles o direito à saúde e a questão dos medicamentos. Todavia, não se pode esperar apenas do Poder Judiciário a solução para os problemas sociais, por isso, destacam-se estratégias coletivas em uma sociedade “mundializada”, marcada de incertezas e riscos. O método de abordagem adotado é o dialétic

CALCULATING BEDLOAD TRANSPORT IN RIVERS: CONCEPTS, CALCULUS ROUTINES AND APPLICATION

Rivers are immensely important to human activities such as water supply, navigation, energy generation, and agriculture. They are also an important morphodynamic agent of erosion, transport and deposition. Their capacity to transport sediment depends on their hydraulic characteristics and can be predicted by mathematical models. Several mathematical models can be used to compute bed-load transport. Each one is appropriately better for certain conditions. In this paper, we present an application built in Microsoft Excel to compute the bed-load transport in rivers based on the Van Rijn mathematical model. The Van Rijn model is appropriate for rivers transporting sandy sediments in conditions of subcritical flow. Hydraulic parameters such as channel slope, stream power, and Reynolds and Froude numbers can be calculated using the application proposed here. The application was tested in the Parana River and results from the calculations are consistent with data obtained from fieldwork surveys. The error of the application was only 20%, which shows good agreement of the model with survey values.CNPqMato Grosso do Sul Research FoundationSao Paulo Research FoundationNational Council of Technological and Scientific DevelopmentCAPESSao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Geociencias & Ciencias Exatas, Ave 24A,1515, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP, BrazilUniv Fed Mato Grosso do Sul, Dept Geog, Ave Rio Branco 1270, BR-79304902 Corumba, MS, BrazilUniv Fed Sao Paulo, Dept Ciencias Ambientais, Rua Sao Nicolau 210, BR-09913030 Diadema, SP, BrazilUniv Kentucky, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, 101 Slone Res Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506 USAUniv Fed Sao Paulo, Dept Ciencias Ambientais, Rua Sao Nicolau 210, BR-09913030 Diadema, SP, BrazilCNPq: 140334/2015-7CNPq: 308563/2013-1CNPq: 312386/2014-1FUNDECT/CNPq: 083/2016]FAPESP: 2007/55987-3FAPESP: 2014/06889-2CNPq: 443437/2014-9CNPq: 447402/2014-5CAPES: 140334/2015-7CAPES: 308563/2013-1CAPES: 312386/2014-1FAPESP: 2014/23334-4Web of Scienc

The risk of dengue for non-immune foreign visitors to the 2016 summer olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Background: Rio de Janeiro in Brazil will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. About 400,000 non-immune foreign tourists are expected to attend the games. As Brazil is the country with the highest number of dengue cases worldwide, concern about the risk of dengue for travelers is justified. Methods: A mathematical model to calculate the risk of developing dengue for foreign tourists attending the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 is proposed. A system of differential equation models the spread of dengue amongst the resident population and a stochastic approximation is used to assess the risk to tourists. Historical reported dengue time series in Rio de Janeiro for the years 2000-2015 is used to find out the time dependent force of infection, which is then used to estimate the potential risks to a large tourist cohort. The worst outbreak of dengue occurred in 2012 and this and the other years in the history of Dengue in Rio are used to discuss potential risks to tourists amongst visitors to the forthcoming Rio Olympics. Results: The individual risk to be infected by dengue is very much dependent on the ratio asymptomatic/symptomatic considered but independently of this the worst month of August in the period studied in terms of dengue transmission, occurred in 2007. Conclusions: If dengue returns in 2016 with the pattern observed in the worst month of August in history (2007), the expected number of symptomatic and asymptomatic dengue cases among tourists will be 23 and 206 cases, respectively. This worst case scenario would have an incidence of 5.75 (symptomatic) and 51.5 (asymptomatic) per 100,000 individuals.LIM01-HCFMUSPCNPqFAPESPBrazilian Ministry of Health (Fundo Nacional de Saude)Dengue Tools under the Health theme of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European CommunityLeverhulme Trust Research FellowshipUniv Sao Paulo, Sch Med, Sao Paulo, SP, BrazilHCFMUSP LIM01, Sao Paulo, SP, BrazilFlorida Int Univ, Ctr Internet Augmented Res & Assessment, Miami, FL 33199 USAUniv Fed Sao Paulo, Escola Paulista Med, Sao Paulo, SP, BrazilUniv Strathclyde, Glasgow, Lanark, ScotlandNanyang Univ, Lee Kong Chian Sch Med, Singapore, SingaporeFundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Programme Sci Computat, Rio De Janeiro, BrazilLondon Sch Hyg & Trop Med, London WC1, EnglandUniv Fed Sao Paulo, Escola Paulista Med, Sao Paulo, SP, BrazilCNPq: 300981/2014-7FAPESP: 2012/18463-4MS: 777588/2012Dengue Tools: 282589Leverhulme: RF-2015-88Web of Scienc