Professionals And Executives Support A Relationship Between Organizational Commitment And Spirituality In The Workplace

This research was aimed at the study of organizational commitment to the relationship of spirituality in the workplace.  In addition, organizational commitment and spirituality in the workplace was analyzed as stand alone variables.  The design of this study was to interpret, develop, test and present research that explains the connection between workplace spirituality and a person’s perception to the relationship of organizational commitment.  The ultimate goal of this research was to examine the relationships of the variables that would lead to further growth in employee development, increased job performance, lower turnover rates, higher profits and employee retention as they relate to organizational goals and strategies.  his research indicated that there is a widespread belief that for companies to survive into the 21st century in the face of economical downturn and global competition, it is necessary for leaders and employees to tap into their spiritual resources.  All the collected evidence from this research points to a strong and significant relationship between the variables.  The potentially groundbreaking nature of this research leaves no doubt that the intuitively positive relationship between spirituality in the workplace and organizational commitment may transform individual and organizational lives in ways unrestricted by natural law

Business Executives and Professionals Identify Relationship between Spirituality at Work and Job Satisfaction

This research was aimed at the study of job satisfaction to the relationship of spirituality in the workplace. In addition, job satisfaction and spirituality in the workplace was analyzed as stand alone variables. The design of this study was to interpret, develop, test and present research that explains the connection between workplace spirituality and a person’s perception to the relationship of job satisfaction. The ultimate goal of this research was to examine the relationships of the variables that would lead to further growth in employee development, increased job performance, lower turnover rates, higher profits and employee retention as they relate to organizational goals and strategies. This research indicated that there is a widespread belief that for companies to survive into the 21st century in the face of economical downturn and global competition, it is necessary for leaders and employees to tap into their spiritual resources. All the collected evidence from this research points to a strong and significant relationship between the variables. The potentially groundbreaking nature of this research leaves no doubt that the intuitively positive relationship between spirituality in the workplace and job satisfaction may transform individual and organizational lives in ways unrestricted by natural law

Using Longitudinal Data on Establishments to Analyze the Effects of Union Organizing Campaigns in the United States

Most studies of the impact of unions use individual rather than establishment level data. In this paper, we combine information on union organizing activity from the U.S. National Labor Relations Board Representation Case files with information on a wide range of economic variables form the U.S. Bureau of the Census' Longitudinal Research Datafile (LRD). These economic variables include production worker wages, employment and hours, nonwage labor costs, shipments, and materials costs. Our results indicate that successful unionization of production workers leads to significant declines in employment and output in manufacturing plants. Surprinsingly, these "scale" effects are not associated with any increase in relative wages.

High-impact and transformative science (HITS) metrics: Definition, exemplification, and comparison

Countries, research institutions, and scholars are interested in identifying and promoting high-impact and transformative scientific research. This paper presents a novel set of text- and citation-based metrics that can be used to identify high-impact and transformative works. The 11 metrics can be grouped into seven types: Radical-Generative, Radical-Destructive, Risky, Multidisciplinary, Wide Impact, Growing Impact, and Impact (overall). The metrics are exemplified, validated, and compared using a set of 10,778,696 MEDLINE articles matched to the Science Citation Index ExpandedTM. Articles are grouped into six 5-year periods (spanning 1983–2012) using publication year and into 6,159 fields constructed using comparable MeSH terms, with which each article is tagged. The analysis is conducted at the level of a field-period pair, of which 15,051 have articles and are used in this study. A factor analysis shows that transformativeness and impact are positively related (ρ = .402), but represent distinct phenomena. Looking at the subcomponents of transformativeness, there is no evidence that transformative work is adopted slowly or that the generation of important new concepts coincides with the obsolescence of existing concepts. We also find that the generation of important new concepts and highly cited work is more risky. Finally, supporting the validity of our metrics, we show that work that draws on a wider range of research fields is used more widely

Bacterial expression of the bifunctional alpha-amylase/subtilisin inhibitor from barley

The bifunctionai α-amylaBe/subtilisin inhibitor (BASI) is an endogenous inhibitor of the high pi cereal α-amylases encoded by the amyl genes. Evaluation of the potential role of this protein in malting and brewing would be greatly assisted by the availability of large quantities of the protein. We have produced the protein by expression of the barley gene in bacteria. The barley gene was cloned into a pMAL vector and expressed as a fusion protein. The purified fusion protein was successfully cleaved with a specific protease to release the native BASI protein. The BASI produced by bacterial expression will be a useful source of the protein for studies of interactions with barley α-amylases and studies of the influence of this protein on malting and brewing

High-impact and transformative science (HITS) metrics: Definition, exemplification, and comparison

<div><p>Countries, research institutions, and scholars are interested in identifying and promoting high-impact and transformative scientific research. This paper presents a novel set of text- and citation-based metrics that can be used to identify high-impact and transformative works. The 11 metrics can be grouped into seven types: Radical-Generative, Radical-Destructive, Risky, Multidisciplinary, Wide Impact, Growing Impact, and Impact (overall). The metrics are exemplified, validated, and compared using a set of 10,778,696 MEDLINE articles matched to the Science Citation Index Expanded^TM. Articles are grouped into six 5-year periods (spanning 1983–2012) using publication year and into 6,159 fields constructed using comparable MeSH terms, with which each article is tagged. The analysis is conducted at the level of a field-period pair, of which 15,051 have articles and are used in this study. A factor analysis shows that transformativeness and impact are positively related (<i>ρ =</i> .<i>402</i>), but represent distinct phenomena. Looking at the subcomponents of transformativeness, there is no evidence that transformative work is adopted slowly or that the generation of important new concepts coincides with the obsolescence of existing concepts. We also find that the generation of important new concepts and highly cited work is more risky. Finally, supporting the validity of our metrics, we show that work that draws on a wider range of research fields is used more widely.</p></div