Success factors for teams in business game Dynama
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DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.16(1).2018.30
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Article InfoVolume 16 2018, Issue #1, pp. 309-319
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The current article is based on data from Dynama business games conducted in two Estonian institutions of higher education (Estonian Business School (EBS) and Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applies Sciences) between years 2012 and 2016. The research questions that this paper attempts to explore look at the relationship between the results obtained by different teams in business game Dynama and their teams’ characteristics. The paper also shows how the volume of market research information used affects the results obtained by different teams in the business game. This research of implementational nature primarily helps to develop the teaching methods and basis for team composition in business game Dynama with the purpose of sup¬porting the course and achieving the learning outcomes in a more effective way. The research results may also be of interest to those who use and research business games as a teaching tool. The variables employed in this study enabled us to compare our research with that conducted by A.-E. Lerviks and M. Paltschik at Hanken School of Economics and Business Administration in 1982.
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JEL Classification (Paper profile tab)A220, A230
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- Table 1. Descriptive statistics for teams ment
- Table 2. Comparison of teams on the 1st and 5th place
- Table 3. Comparison of 10 most successful (Success group 1) and 10 least successful (Success group 2) teams based on accumulated profits
- Table 4. Comparison of 10 most successful and 10 least successful teams based on normalized accumulated profits
- Table 5. Comparison of upper and lower quartiles based on normalized accumulated profits
- Table 6. Models for game results based on team characteristics and market information acquired
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Job delight and organizational citizenship behavior: Role of teamwork cohesion as a mediator
Mahfuz Judeh
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.21(1).2023.12
Problems and Perspectives in Management Volume 21, 2023 Issue #1 pp. 131-140 Views: 682 Downloads: 364 TO CITE АНОТАЦІЯIn light of a turbulent work environment, employee performance is considered a critical issue for organizations. Hence, management must set effective strategies and policies to stimulate and enhance employee performance. This study aims to analyze the importance of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) since it could affect individual and organizational outcomes in the context of the insurance sector in Jordan. Through keeping employees delighted and maintaining teams’ solidarity and cohesion, employees are expected to display more OCBs. Data were collected from 240 employees working in the insurance sector in Jordan. The paper aims to better understand the job delight and OCB constructs and their effect on teamwork cohesion.
The results of structural equation modeling showed that OCB was significantly related to job delight and teamwork cohesion. Moreover, teamwork cohesion was found to be significantly related to job delight. In addition, the results demonstrated that teamwork cohesion was a partially significant mediator between job delight and OCB. As such, a high level of employee delight combined with cohesive team members was proposed to encourage employees to display organizational citizenship behaviors.
