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  • The Link between Corporate Culture and Turnover

    Employee turnover is totally normal for businesses but high turnover rates can become problematic if managers do nothing. A high churn rate does not only increase operational inefficiencies and costs of staff training, it lowers employees’ morale and eventually cripples productivity. The negative impact of bad workplace culture is enormous. According to 2023 insights from…

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  • Student behaviors, class management, and pedagogical outcomes

    Research hypotheses In terms of academic engagement (Finn et al., 2003), this study uses student attentiveness, involvement and class participation as the student learning behaviors. Student attentiveness refers to concentration in the learning process (Blatchford et al., 2009) and may be adversely impacted by disruptive behavior of students or poor classroom management, which may be…

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  • Work stress, mental health, and employee performance

    Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak—as a typical emergency event—significantly has impacted employees’ psychological status and thus has negatively affected their performance. Hence, along with focusing on the mechanisms and solutions to alleviate the impact of work stress on employee performance, we also examine the relationship between work stress, mental health, and employee performance. Furthermore, we…

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  • Theoretical background and hypothesis development

    In this chapter, we review the related work that forms the basis for our theoretical framework. Specifically, individual theories were examined for five constructs (individual performance, privacy invasion, organizational trust, individual stress and perceived EPM) and substantiated with empirical results from the EPM literature in order to generate theoretically informed and—where possible—empirically grounded hypotheses. Importantly,…

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  • Michael Porter’s Value Chain Theory

    The representation of procurement in Porter’s value chain came as a recognition of the (strategic) importance that procurement gained as a function inside the firm. Value Chain Model: A tool to analyse firm’s sources of competitive advantage According to Cambridge University, the Value Chain is a model used to define the core competencies and activities that will…

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