Ethical leadership,intrapreneurship, service innovation performance and work engagement in chambers of commerce and industry

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this study which examines how it can be more effective in terms of organizational and managerial aspects with chambers of commerce and industry affiliated to The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey is to analyze the relationships between ethical leadership, work engagement, intrapreneurship, and service innovation behavior. In addition, it is to determine the role of mediation of work engagement effecting on intrapreneurship and service innovation behavior. For this purpose, quantitative analysis methods have been adopted. The data collected from 568 employees who were employed in chambers of commerce and industry operating in Turkey were analyzed. For the validity and reliability of the measurement tools, confirmatory factor analysis, the model’s good fit values and the AMOS Structural Equation Model were used. It was found that ethical leadership had statistically significant effect on employee engagement, intrapreneurship and the subscales of service innovation behavior (employee service innovation behavior and new service development). The results showed that work engagement partially mediated with ethical leadership effecting on intrapreneurship, ethical leadership effecting on the subscales of service innovation behavior. It is thought that the study is important in terms of providing empirical contributions to the ethical leadership, service innovation, intrapreneurship and work engagement literature. Finally, there are some limitations of the study and some suggestions are offered for future studies.     

藉以内部创业战略提升企业竞争力：行为与绩效——中国华为公司内部创业行动案例研究

内部创业（Intrapreneurship）是企业为了提升核心竞争力并获得创新性成果而做出的组织允诺、授权和资源保证的一系列内部创业行动。本文通过对中国华为公司所开展的内部创业行动的观察与调研案例分析,探讨和评价中国成长型企业在内部创业过程中的行动逻辑和内部创业机制,探寻中国企业通过内部创业进一步提升核心竞争力的有效途径和经验。     

What do young adult carers learn through supporting family members? Extending the affirmation model

Abstract

Some writers (e.g. O'Dell, Crafter, de Abreu, Cline 2010 O’Dell, Lindsey, Sarah Crafter, Guida de Abreu, and Tony Cline. 2010. Constructing ‘Normal Childhoods’: Young People Talk About Young Carers. Disability & Society, 25 (6): 643–655.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) have argued that young carers are just one among many categories of youth who navigate the transition to adulthood while already carrying responsibilities usually associated with adulthood. This article explores that position in relation to a research project, undertaken in North-East England, which generated 13 in-depth biographical accounts with 16–25-year-old carers about their transitions to adulthood. It will be argued that their experiences of supporting disabled people in their families resulted in these young adult carers becoming more other-centred than their peers. Otherwise, their transitions to adulthood were mostly typical of young people in other types of adult role. The article discusses whether an affirmation model of disability (Swain and French 2000 Swain, John and Sally French. 2000. Towards an Affirmation Model of Disability. Disability & Society, 15 (4): 569–582.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) can be used to help young adult carers take positive ownership of their identities in the challenging context of post-industrial youth.     

基于双元性感知的组织惰性克服路径研究

在面对外界环境非连续变化的威胁时,大型在位企业往往无力克服组织惰性。企业对外界的感知会影响组织惰性,海尔集团近二十年的管理创新历程表明：企业对外界环境的感知是双元性感知,有助于克服程序惰性和资源惰性。当企业的双元性感知以威胁感知为主导时,会引发企业的内部市场化行为,实施组织扁平化、内部市场核算和全员价值管理等措施能将威胁感知扩散到企业内部的每一个交易主体,推进程序改革,从而克服程序惰性;当企业的双元性感知以机会感知为主导时,会引发企业的内部创业行为,实施组织平台化、小微自治和人单合一等策略能有效扩大机会感知,促使企业员工主动探寻外部机会,引导企业将资源投放到新兴机会领域,从而克服资源惰性。