Browsing by Author "Acar, Pinar"

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The Discovery of HR from Strategy-as-Practice Perspective: A case study in durable consumer goods industry
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2015) Acar, Pinar; Gurbuz, F. Gulruh; Yener, Mujdelen I.
The aim of this study is to explore Human Resource Management (HRM) practices from Strategy-as-Practice (S-as-P) perspective in a company which has a reputable brand at an international level. The research also tries to discover the missing link between Strategy-as-Practice and HRM. In addition, the study tries to explain how S-as-P and HR interact and work together. This study was performed as a case study through using qualitative research methods. In the research, interview techniques which are semi-structured and open-ended questioning was used. The sample of the study is composed of HR directors, Strategic Planning directors and employees. This study is original in the nature as it tries to discuss Strategic HR from strategy as practice perspective. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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The effects of organizational culture and innovativeness on business performance in healthcare industry
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Acar, A. Zafer; Acar, Pinar
One of the most important research questions in the field of strategic management is the performance differences between companies that compete with each other in product/service market and the way to sustain competitive advantage. Competitive advantage is reflected in superior economic performance compared to rivals. Innovation is one of the most important capabilities to differentiate products, services, procedures, and overall our business in order to gain superior performance outcomes. Recent studies reveal the importance of organizational culture in order to be innovative and positive effects on business performance. Today, healthcare industry also became more competitive through new liberal policies. Thus innovativeness is a necessity to reach competitive advantage. In this context, the aim of this study is to identify the effects of organizational culture and innovativeness on business performance. To reach this aim a questionnaire survey is performed among the 332 employees of the 65 private hospitals. The database analyzed by SPSS v. 15 statistical program using multivariate data analyses techniques through developed hypothesis. According to the findings of this research supported the positive effects of innovation and organizational culture on the business performance in context of healthcare industry. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the 8th International Strategic Management Conference
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The Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Mobbing: An Application on Construction Companies
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Kıyak, Mithat; Kiyak, Mithat; Sine, Burcu; Sağlık Yönetimi / Healthcare Management
This study focuses on the relationship between the concepts of mobbing and organizational culture in construction companies. The Mobbing Questionnaire used in this study is taken from Leymann and composed of 45 items and five factors: the victim's reputation, communication toward the victim, the social circumstances, the nature of or the possibility of performing in the victim's work, and violence and threats of violence. The Organizational Culture Scale was taken from Quinn and Cameron who defined culture as a competitive advantage in organizations and described four types of cultures in their competitive values model. This model is a quadrant with four types of culture: collaborate (clan) culture, create (adhocracy) culture, control (hierarchy) culture, and compete (market) culture. To test the hypotheses, a field survey using questionnaires was conducted. The survey of this study is conducted on blue-collar workers and white-collar officers of different construction companies located in Istanbul, Turkey. Four firms and 250 employees were contacted personally and asked to participate in the survey. The obtained data from the questionnaires were analyzed through the SPSS 20.0 statistical package software. Analyses results revealed that there is a negative relationship between organizational culture and mobbing, and both dimensions of organizational culture affect the mobbing dimensions.
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Willingness to take risk and entrepreneurial intention of university students: An empirical study comparing private and state universities
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Yurtkoru, E. Serra; Acar, Pinar; Teraman, Begum Seray
Besides its benefits for many organizations, entrepreneurship is regarded as an important phenomenon for many studies. As a result of these studies, it is argued that entrepreneurial personality factors are insufficient to have reliable and generalizable outcomes, thus attention is reverted to intentional processes. Also risk taking willingness is believed to be distinguishing factor for entrepreneurial features. In line with literature the purpose of this study is to measure the effect of willingness to take risk on entrepreneurial intentions and compare state and private university students. 207 state and 214 private university students are analyzed and results revealed some differences between two groups and partial effect of willingness to take risk on entrepreneurial intension (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Wisdom and management: a conceptual study on wisdom management
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Ekmekci, Asli Kucukaslan; Teraman, Seray Begum Samur; Acar, Pinar
Essentially, management and philosophy contribute each other in ever aspects and this is creating a managerial philosophy since managers face uncertainties during their decision making process in every day. Managers could not realize their creativity without any philosophical thought and questioning (Moseley, 2010). Philosophy is a love of wisdom, however, wisdom could be determined according to what individuals think and what they see. Unwise people, close their minds, emotions and senses, they prefer not to observe, feel and think (McKenna and David, 2005). Wisdom implies combination of knowledge and thoughts around predetermined principles. Wisdom includes both rational (scientific) intellectual practices and mental processes. In that case, our vision and related strategies explain meaning of our lives and how we could spend such life. Human beings are trying to make sense the world around them with limited knowledge, struggle to create a synergy between the mind and character and to balance both sides well being and truths (McKenna and David, 2005). Todays managers are obliged to make strategic decisions in every day and during this process they analyze their immediate environments and look at their personal backgrounds. Some of them reap the rewards of positive returns, on the other hand, the others stand to failures (Malan and Kriger, 1998). Regarding to this difference, we will be aware of some latent concept "wisdom", that has not been analyzed in the management and organization literature, especially in leadership studies until now. Even this concept has not been discussed in the psychology literature until 1980s, but both disciplines has just begun to analyze it recently (McKenna, Rooney and Kenworthy, 2013). Although many researches in this field are interested in developing a valid definition but there is no agreement on the precise definition of wisdom (Schmit, Muldoon and Pounders, 2012). However, definition efforts made for twenty years could be considered constructive in clarifying old but newly emerged concept. Besides, the point of multidimensional construct of wisdom is supported by many researchers.(Webster, 2003). Wisdom is referred to the top of an inner voice about human nature and the tools leading to the attainment of life objectives (Baltes and Staudinger, 2000). In other words, wisdom represents an idea about complicated and uncertain situations such as cognitive functioning, intellectual development, life planning and management. It denotes a process rather than a specific situation(Ardelt, 2003; 2004). Wisdom dimensions on which there is an agreement includes practical, reflective, openness to experience, interactional tendency, tolerance for ambiguities, ethical sensitiveness and having an experience (Munro, 2012; Schmit vd. 2012; Webster, 2003). Thus, this study aims to gain holistic perspective with explicit and implicit assumptions regarding wisdom by using different definitions made before. Also, this study aims to suggest clues on how to develop wisdom and how to apply it into the management field, i.e managerial wisdom. This descriptive research tries to light the way of new applications of "wisdom" rather than measuring managerial wisdom levels of individuals via empirical research. Main research question of this study is whether it is sufficient to have a technical knowledge in any field in order to be successful. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).