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Papers by Sayyed M Haybatollahi
Pain Practice, 2021
Background: Knee pain is a major source of distress and disability, with pain progression highly ... more Background: Knee pain is a major source of distress and disability, with pain progression highly variable between individuals. Previous studies defining pain trajectories have all used a single measure of pain, and these differ across studies. Different measures reflect diverse pain mechanisms. To ascertain the clinical utility of pain trajectories we explored associations between opioid and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use. Methods: We model pain trajectories using two measures-Intermittent and Constant Osteoarthritis Pain (ICOAP) and the painDETECT, in 2141 participants, across 3 waves (the baseline, 1-and 3-year assessments) of the Knee Pain In the Community (KPIC) cohort. Results: Latent class growth analysis identified 6 trajectories using ICOAP subscales (High Stable, Low Stable, Moderate Worsening, Moderate Recovering, Worsening, and Recovering), and 4 trajectories using painDETECT (High stable, Low stable, Moderate Worsening, and Moderate Recovering). There was a high degree of correspondence between people assigned to pain trajectories between ICOAP intermittent and constant subscales, but less so using painDETECT. Opioid use was associated with ICOAP trajectories only (e.g., High Stable and Worsening intermittent ICOAP trajectories) and in women. Conclusion: Different measures of pain produce different patterns of pain progression and these are differentially related to medication use. Opioid use is linked to trajectories of pain based on the impact of pain on behaviour and not pain symptoms. Thus, managing pain's behavioural impact is more central to understanding opioid use than managing pain symptoms. These findings support more in-depth questioning about the type of pain and its progression in clinical practice.
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2015
Previous studies have reported multifaceted, controversial social outcomes of densely built urban... more Previous studies have reported multifaceted, controversial social outcomes of densely built urban settings. Social sustainability of urban environments have rarely been studied in a context-sensitive manner, identifying the specific ways urban structural characteristics contribute to the behavioural, experiential and well-being outcomes. In this study, an online public participation geographic information system (PPGIS) methodology allowed the place-based study of urban and suburban contexts in the metropolitan region of Helsinki, Finland. Respondents ( N = 3119) located their meaningful places and reported the experiential and well-being outcomes. GIS-based measures of urban structures were calculated within a 500m buffer around their homes. Structural equation modeling was used to assess the contextual variation and the mediational role accessibility and perceived environmental quality play in linking urban structural characteristics with well-being outcomes. Our findings indicate...
Travel behaviour and society, 2021
Activity spaces are used to capture patterns in urban mobility and to portray the spatial distrib... more Activity spaces are used to capture patterns in urban mobility and to portray the spatial distribution of day-to-day activities. The literature exploring variation in individual activity spaces identifies strong associations between several activity space characteristics and the built environment of the residential location. This cross-sectional study adds to this evidence by examining whether these associations persist after adjusting for residential self-selection. Adults’ everyday mobility was studied using public participation GIS, a participatory mapping method allowing the large-scale collection of laymen-produced spatial data. Activity spaces were defined with a customized minimum convex polygon modelled on the respondents’ frequently visited locations. We used linear regression and multinomial logistic regression analyses to study the associations between residential preferences, residential location, and activity space size and centricity. According to our results, resident...
Journal of Data, Information and Management
The increasing data scales in today’s business sectors coupled with the necessity of risk managem... more The increasing data scales in today’s business sectors coupled with the necessity of risk management raise the importance of business intelligence tools as an integrated solution for the insurance industry. These tools have mostly been used to achieve effective risk management. Although methods of risk management in the insurance industry have been proposed many years ago, the research effort has primarily been focused on predictive analyses. This study aimed to investigate the role of business intelligence as a solution to illustrate its potential in risk management particularly for decision-makers in agricultural insurance. We hypothesized that this would make a preferable decision in uncertain conditions. Sample data from the online transaction process system of Iran agricultural insurance fund were preprocessed in SQL server. Multidimensional online analytical processing architecture was analyzed using Targit business intelligence tool. Our results identified financial risks tha...
The goal of this study was to examine the role of organizational causal attribution in understand... more The goal of this study was to examine the role of organizational causal attribution in understanding the relation of work stressors (workrole overload, excessive role responsibility, and unpleasant physical environment) and personal resources (social support and cognitive coping) to such organizational-attitudinal outcomes as work engagement, turnover intention, and organizational identification. In some analyses, cognitive coping was also treated as an organizational outcome. Causal attribution was conceptualized in terms of four dimensions: internalityexternality, attributing the cause of one's successes and failures to oneself, as opposed to external factors, stability (thinking that the cause of one's successes and failures is stable over time), globality (perceiving the cause to be operative on many areas of one's life), and controllability (believing that one can control the causes of one's successes and failures). Several hypotheses were derived from Karasek's (1989) Job Demands-Control (JD-C) model and from the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model (Demerouti, Bakker, Nachreiner & Schaufeli, 2001). Based on the JD-C model, a number of moderation effects were predicted, stating that the strength of the association of work stressors with the outcome variables (e.g. turnover intentions) varies as a function of the causal attribution; for example, unpleasant work environment is more strongly associated with turnover intention among those with an external locus of causality than among those with an internal locuse of causality. From the JD-R model, a number of hypotheses on the mediation model were derived. They were based on two processes posited by the model: an energy-draining process in which work stressors along with a mediating effect of causal attribution for failures deplete the nurses' energy, leading to turnover intention, and a motivational process in which personal resources along with a mediating effect of causal attribution for successes foster the nurses' engagement in their work, V mediation models partly supported the two simultaneous underlying processes proposed by the JD-R model. While in the energetic process the dimension of externality mediated the relationship between stressors and turnover partially, all the dimensions of causal attribution appeared to entail significant mediator effects in the motivational process. The general findings supported the moderation effect and the mediation effect of causal attribution in the work stress process. The study contributes to several research traditions, including the interaction approach, the JD-C, and the JD-R models. However, many potential functions of organizational causal attribution are yet to be evaluated by relevant academic and organizational research.
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2015
Cartographic Perspectives, 2014
ABSTRACT Maps should be legible at all scales, and the information density of a map should be ada... more ABSTRACT Maps should be legible at all scales, and the information density of a map should be adapted to fulfill this goal. However, there are situations in which overlapping symbols might not be easily avoided. These kinds of cluttered or over-plotted situations often occur today in geovisual analytics and in map mash-ups created using Web 2.0 technologies. In this research project, we examine via a user test the extent to which occluded symbols can still be identifiable. Specifically, we tested how different levels of occlusion affected the accuracy and response time of finding symbols that varied in either color hue, abstract shape, or pictogram. The results of the test show that the efficiency of the symbols decreases when the symbols become partially occluded. Still, even half-occluded complex shapes can be identified quite accurately. Symbols varying in color hue seem to tolerate occlusion the best.
International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
Participants were Ghanaian (N = 320) and Finnish (N = 520) industrial workers. Data was collected... more Participants were Ghanaian (N = 320) and Finnish (N = 520) industrial workers. Data was collected with Blader and Tyler's (2003) scale. The Ghanaian participants responded to the English version, and the Finnish participants, a Finnish version. The analyses investigated differences on the three justice components (distributive, procedural and interactional). Further analyses examined which of the three best predicts job satisfaction, the relationships between demographic variables and justice perceptions. T-test, correlations, and regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses. Contrary to our expectations, Ghanaian respondents evaluated higher distributive and procedural justice. As predicted, they indicated more sensitivity to interactional justice than their Finnish counterparts. Significant links between all three justice components and job satisfaction were recorded in both samples. Interactional justice indicated the strongest influence. Demographic variables showed ...
ABSTRACT The increased and sustained importance of religion in the workplace has made religiosity... more ABSTRACT The increased and sustained importance of religion in the workplace has made religiosity an important area of interest in organizational psychology. The current study examined the impact of religion on organizational behaviour among three Ghanaian religious groups: Christianity, Islam, and Traditional African Religion. Workers affiliated with these groups were assessed with standardized research instruments that measured their perceptions of workplace safety, compliance with safety management procedures (safety behaviour), perceived organizational support (POS), job satisfaction, and participation in organizational citizenship behaviours (OCB). Their accident involvement during the past 12 months was also examined. Preliminary analyses with ANOVA indicated that workers affiliated with the Christian faith had the best perspectives on the organizational variables under study. Chi-square and MANOVA revealed that the results were due more to education and socio-economic factors...
International Journal of Organizational Analysis
Purpose: From a practical perspective, understanding age and job satisfaction related participati... more Purpose: From a practical perspective, understanding age and job satisfaction related participation in organizational citizenship behaviours would benefit management's decisions regarding workers' adaptability, general work effectiveness, and the effective handling of demographic-dependant organizational characteristics. The study examined the extent to which age and job satisfaction levels were predictive of organizational citizenship behaviours. Members of the sample were 320 Ghanaian industrial workers. Design/Methodology/Approach Data was collected by cross-sectional self-reports. The internal consistency reliability was tested with Cronbach’s alpha. A one-way ANOVA and post-hoc analyses were used to compare the mean scores of the four age-cohorts. Hierarchical multiple regression was employed to test the main and interaction effects of age and job satisfaction on organizational citizenship behaviours. A two-way interaction effect of age and job satisfaction on organizat...
Recent studies indicate the influence of national cultural values on Organizational Citizenship B... more Recent studies indicate the influence of national cultural values on Organizational Citizenship Behaviours (OCBs). The current study investigated citizenship behaviours from a cross-national perspective: between Ghanaian industrial workers (N = 320) and their Finnish counterparts (N = 520). Data were collected with Van Dyne, Graham and Dinesch's (1994) OCB standardized scale. Because job satisfaction is regarded as one of the robust predictors of OCB, analyses were conducted to assess its impact on citizenship behaviours between the two nations. The relationships between employee demographic factors and OCB performances were also analysed. T-test and hierarchical regression analyses were used to test two hypotheses and a research question. Results revealed statistically significant differences between the two samples. Contrary to expectations, Finnish workers were more active in citizenship behaviours than their Ghanaian counterparts. Job satisfaction was once again confirmed as...
International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
The study tested a model of the antecedents and consequences of organizational justice among Ghan... more The study tested a model of the antecedents and consequences of organizational justice among Ghanaian industrial workers (N = 320). Justice perceptions were examined in terms of their socio-cultural properties and demographic variables. These variables were examined in terms of their impact as antecedents and consequences of justice evaluations. Antecedents comprised work-related and personal characteristics. Consequences comprised perceived organizational support, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational safety climate, safety behavior, and accident frequency. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to test the hypotheses. Mplus-7 indicated a partial mediation effect in a multimediation model. Work-related variables strongly and positively correlated with organizational justice, and were generally better predictors of organizational justice than were personal characteristics. The results have implications to organizational behavior.
The goal of this study was to examine the role of organizational causal attribution in understand... more The goal of this study was to examine the role of organizational causal attribution in understanding the relation of work stressors (work-role overload, excessive role responsibility, and unpleasant physical environment) and personal resources (social support and cognitive coping) to such organizational-attitudinal outcomes as work engagement, turnover intention, and organizational identification. In some analyses, cognitive coping was also treated as an organizational outcome. Causal attribution was conceptualized in terms of four dimensions: internality-externality, attributing the cause of one’s successes and failures to oneself, as opposed to external factors, stability (thinking that the cause of one’s successes and failures is stable over time), globality (perceiving the cause to be operative on many areas of one’s life), and controllability (believing that one can control the causes of one’s successes and failures). Several hypotheses were derived from Karasek’s (1989) Job De...
Australasian Journal of Organisational Psychology, 2015
ABSTRACT Perceived organisational support (POS) refers to an employee's perception concer... more ABSTRACT Perceived organisational support (POS) refers to an employee's perception concerning the degree to which organisational management values their contributions and cares about their wellbeing. Despite the influence of culture on organisational behaviour, there is still a paucity of culture-comparative studies. The study investigated POS from a cross-national perspective with Ghanaian and Finnish industrial workers. We hypothesised and tested a model predicting differences on POS using a cross-sectional data of Ghanaian ( N = 320) and Finnish ( N = 520) industrial workers. The data were collected with Eisenberger, Fasolo, and LaMastro's (1990) Survey of Perceived Organizational Support. Correlational analyses, t -test and hierarchical regression analyses were used to test four hypotheses. The relationships between employee demographic factors and POS were also analysed. The hierarchical regression analysis revealed worker demographic variables as impacting more significantly on POS among Ghanaian workers. Contrary to our expectations, Ghanaian workers perceived more managerial support than their Finnish counterparts. Structural equation modelling revealed job satisfaction as a mediator in these relationships. Path analysis performed to identify specific variables that were moderated by culture revealed organisational position and job satisfaction as potential variables. The theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.
International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 2015
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE, 2014
This study investigated the relationships between organizational justice, organizational safety c... more This study investigated the relationships between organizational justice, organizational safety climate, job satisfaction, safety compliance and accident frequency. Ghanaian industrial workers participated in the study (N = 320). Safety climate and justice perceptions were assessed with Hayes, Parender, Smecko, et al.'s (1998) and Blader and Tyler's (2003) scales respectively. A median split was performed to dichotomize participants into 2 categories: workers with positive and workers with negative justice perceptions. Confirmatory factors analysis confirmed the 5-factor structure of the safety scale. Regression analyses and t tests indicated that workers with positive fairness perceptions had constructive perspectives regarding workplace safety, expressed greater job satisfaction, were more compliant with safety policies and registered lower accident rates. These findings provide evidence that the perceived level of fairness in an organization is closely associated with wor...
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 2015
ABSTRACT In the current study we investigated the extent to which neighbourhood preferences could... more ABSTRACT In the current study we investigated the extent to which neighbourhood preferences could be used as a base to group people in order to explore their residential and travel choices. The basic idea of this study was that the preferences people would have for their residential and travel choices might be a robust predictor of their actual travel behaviour, and that the neighbourhood preferences might distinguish people in terms of the characteristics of their living environment. We used a moderation model to test whether the effect of built environment on travel behaviour varied in terms of resident’s type. A total of 3403 inhabitants of the city of Tampere in Finland participated in the study. A web-based public participation GIS survey combining the questionnaires with a map (SoftGIS technique) was used to collect the data. We identified two distinct groups of residents in terms of general neighbourhood preferences. The findings showed that clustering residents based on neighbourhood preferences moderated the association between some features of density measures and travel behaviour. We found significant differences between the two clusters in both the frequencies and the distance of pedestrian and bike travel. The findings revealed that inhabitants of neighbourhoods with a larger percentage of green surroundings had a greater perception of neighbourhood stability than did the residents of neighbourhoods with a smaller percentage of green surroundings.
Pain Practice, 2021
Background: Knee pain is a major source of distress and disability, with pain progression highly ... more Background: Knee pain is a major source of distress and disability, with pain progression highly variable between individuals. Previous studies defining pain trajectories have all used a single measure of pain, and these differ across studies. Different measures reflect diverse pain mechanisms. To ascertain the clinical utility of pain trajectories we explored associations between opioid and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use. Methods: We model pain trajectories using two measures-Intermittent and Constant Osteoarthritis Pain (ICOAP) and the painDETECT, in 2141 participants, across 3 waves (the baseline, 1-and 3-year assessments) of the Knee Pain In the Community (KPIC) cohort. Results: Latent class growth analysis identified 6 trajectories using ICOAP subscales (High Stable, Low Stable, Moderate Worsening, Moderate Recovering, Worsening, and Recovering), and 4 trajectories using painDETECT (High stable, Low stable, Moderate Worsening, and Moderate Recovering). There was a high degree of correspondence between people assigned to pain trajectories between ICOAP intermittent and constant subscales, but less so using painDETECT. Opioid use was associated with ICOAP trajectories only (e.g., High Stable and Worsening intermittent ICOAP trajectories) and in women. Conclusion: Different measures of pain produce different patterns of pain progression and these are differentially related to medication use. Opioid use is linked to trajectories of pain based on the impact of pain on behaviour and not pain symptoms. Thus, managing pain's behavioural impact is more central to understanding opioid use than managing pain symptoms. These findings support more in-depth questioning about the type of pain and its progression in clinical practice.
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2015
Previous studies have reported multifaceted, controversial social outcomes of densely built urban... more Previous studies have reported multifaceted, controversial social outcomes of densely built urban settings. Social sustainability of urban environments have rarely been studied in a context-sensitive manner, identifying the specific ways urban structural characteristics contribute to the behavioural, experiential and well-being outcomes. In this study, an online public participation geographic information system (PPGIS) methodology allowed the place-based study of urban and suburban contexts in the metropolitan region of Helsinki, Finland. Respondents ( N = 3119) located their meaningful places and reported the experiential and well-being outcomes. GIS-based measures of urban structures were calculated within a 500m buffer around their homes. Structural equation modeling was used to assess the contextual variation and the mediational role accessibility and perceived environmental quality play in linking urban structural characteristics with well-being outcomes. Our findings indicate...
Travel behaviour and society, 2021
Activity spaces are used to capture patterns in urban mobility and to portray the spatial distrib... more Activity spaces are used to capture patterns in urban mobility and to portray the spatial distribution of day-to-day activities. The literature exploring variation in individual activity spaces identifies strong associations between several activity space characteristics and the built environment of the residential location. This cross-sectional study adds to this evidence by examining whether these associations persist after adjusting for residential self-selection. Adults’ everyday mobility was studied using public participation GIS, a participatory mapping method allowing the large-scale collection of laymen-produced spatial data. Activity spaces were defined with a customized minimum convex polygon modelled on the respondents’ frequently visited locations. We used linear regression and multinomial logistic regression analyses to study the associations between residential preferences, residential location, and activity space size and centricity. According to our results, resident...
Journal of Data, Information and Management
The increasing data scales in today’s business sectors coupled with the necessity of risk managem... more The increasing data scales in today’s business sectors coupled with the necessity of risk management raise the importance of business intelligence tools as an integrated solution for the insurance industry. These tools have mostly been used to achieve effective risk management. Although methods of risk management in the insurance industry have been proposed many years ago, the research effort has primarily been focused on predictive analyses. This study aimed to investigate the role of business intelligence as a solution to illustrate its potential in risk management particularly for decision-makers in agricultural insurance. We hypothesized that this would make a preferable decision in uncertain conditions. Sample data from the online transaction process system of Iran agricultural insurance fund were preprocessed in SQL server. Multidimensional online analytical processing architecture was analyzed using Targit business intelligence tool. Our results identified financial risks tha...
The goal of this study was to examine the role of organizational causal attribution in understand... more The goal of this study was to examine the role of organizational causal attribution in understanding the relation of work stressors (workrole overload, excessive role responsibility, and unpleasant physical environment) and personal resources (social support and cognitive coping) to such organizational-attitudinal outcomes as work engagement, turnover intention, and organizational identification. In some analyses, cognitive coping was also treated as an organizational outcome. Causal attribution was conceptualized in terms of four dimensions: internalityexternality, attributing the cause of one's successes and failures to oneself, as opposed to external factors, stability (thinking that the cause of one's successes and failures is stable over time), globality (perceiving the cause to be operative on many areas of one's life), and controllability (believing that one can control the causes of one's successes and failures). Several hypotheses were derived from Karasek's (1989) Job Demands-Control (JD-C) model and from the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model (Demerouti, Bakker, Nachreiner & Schaufeli, 2001). Based on the JD-C model, a number of moderation effects were predicted, stating that the strength of the association of work stressors with the outcome variables (e.g. turnover intentions) varies as a function of the causal attribution; for example, unpleasant work environment is more strongly associated with turnover intention among those with an external locus of causality than among those with an internal locuse of causality. From the JD-R model, a number of hypotheses on the mediation model were derived. They were based on two processes posited by the model: an energy-draining process in which work stressors along with a mediating effect of causal attribution for failures deplete the nurses' energy, leading to turnover intention, and a motivational process in which personal resources along with a mediating effect of causal attribution for successes foster the nurses' engagement in their work, V mediation models partly supported the two simultaneous underlying processes proposed by the JD-R model. While in the energetic process the dimension of externality mediated the relationship between stressors and turnover partially, all the dimensions of causal attribution appeared to entail significant mediator effects in the motivational process. The general findings supported the moderation effect and the mediation effect of causal attribution in the work stress process. The study contributes to several research traditions, including the interaction approach, the JD-C, and the JD-R models. However, many potential functions of organizational causal attribution are yet to be evaluated by relevant academic and organizational research.
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2015
Cartographic Perspectives, 2014
ABSTRACT Maps should be legible at all scales, and the information density of a map should be ada... more ABSTRACT Maps should be legible at all scales, and the information density of a map should be adapted to fulfill this goal. However, there are situations in which overlapping symbols might not be easily avoided. These kinds of cluttered or over-plotted situations often occur today in geovisual analytics and in map mash-ups created using Web 2.0 technologies. In this research project, we examine via a user test the extent to which occluded symbols can still be identifiable. Specifically, we tested how different levels of occlusion affected the accuracy and response time of finding symbols that varied in either color hue, abstract shape, or pictogram. The results of the test show that the efficiency of the symbols decreases when the symbols become partially occluded. Still, even half-occluded complex shapes can be identified quite accurately. Symbols varying in color hue seem to tolerate occlusion the best.
International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
Participants were Ghanaian (N = 320) and Finnish (N = 520) industrial workers. Data was collected... more Participants were Ghanaian (N = 320) and Finnish (N = 520) industrial workers. Data was collected with Blader and Tyler's (2003) scale. The Ghanaian participants responded to the English version, and the Finnish participants, a Finnish version. The analyses investigated differences on the three justice components (distributive, procedural and interactional). Further analyses examined which of the three best predicts job satisfaction, the relationships between demographic variables and justice perceptions. T-test, correlations, and regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses. Contrary to our expectations, Ghanaian respondents evaluated higher distributive and procedural justice. As predicted, they indicated more sensitivity to interactional justice than their Finnish counterparts. Significant links between all three justice components and job satisfaction were recorded in both samples. Interactional justice indicated the strongest influence. Demographic variables showed ...
ABSTRACT The increased and sustained importance of religion in the workplace has made religiosity... more ABSTRACT The increased and sustained importance of religion in the workplace has made religiosity an important area of interest in organizational psychology. The current study examined the impact of religion on organizational behaviour among three Ghanaian religious groups: Christianity, Islam, and Traditional African Religion. Workers affiliated with these groups were assessed with standardized research instruments that measured their perceptions of workplace safety, compliance with safety management procedures (safety behaviour), perceived organizational support (POS), job satisfaction, and participation in organizational citizenship behaviours (OCB). Their accident involvement during the past 12 months was also examined. Preliminary analyses with ANOVA indicated that workers affiliated with the Christian faith had the best perspectives on the organizational variables under study. Chi-square and MANOVA revealed that the results were due more to education and socio-economic factors...
International Journal of Organizational Analysis
Purpose: From a practical perspective, understanding age and job satisfaction related participati... more Purpose: From a practical perspective, understanding age and job satisfaction related participation in organizational citizenship behaviours would benefit management's decisions regarding workers' adaptability, general work effectiveness, and the effective handling of demographic-dependant organizational characteristics. The study examined the extent to which age and job satisfaction levels were predictive of organizational citizenship behaviours. Members of the sample were 320 Ghanaian industrial workers. Design/Methodology/Approach Data was collected by cross-sectional self-reports. The internal consistency reliability was tested with Cronbach’s alpha. A one-way ANOVA and post-hoc analyses were used to compare the mean scores of the four age-cohorts. Hierarchical multiple regression was employed to test the main and interaction effects of age and job satisfaction on organizational citizenship behaviours. A two-way interaction effect of age and job satisfaction on organizat...
Recent studies indicate the influence of national cultural values on Organizational Citizenship B... more Recent studies indicate the influence of national cultural values on Organizational Citizenship Behaviours (OCBs). The current study investigated citizenship behaviours from a cross-national perspective: between Ghanaian industrial workers (N = 320) and their Finnish counterparts (N = 520). Data were collected with Van Dyne, Graham and Dinesch's (1994) OCB standardized scale. Because job satisfaction is regarded as one of the robust predictors of OCB, analyses were conducted to assess its impact on citizenship behaviours between the two nations. The relationships between employee demographic factors and OCB performances were also analysed. T-test and hierarchical regression analyses were used to test two hypotheses and a research question. Results revealed statistically significant differences between the two samples. Contrary to expectations, Finnish workers were more active in citizenship behaviours than their Ghanaian counterparts. Job satisfaction was once again confirmed as...
International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
The study tested a model of the antecedents and consequences of organizational justice among Ghan... more The study tested a model of the antecedents and consequences of organizational justice among Ghanaian industrial workers (N = 320). Justice perceptions were examined in terms of their socio-cultural properties and demographic variables. These variables were examined in terms of their impact as antecedents and consequences of justice evaluations. Antecedents comprised work-related and personal characteristics. Consequences comprised perceived organizational support, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational safety climate, safety behavior, and accident frequency. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to test the hypotheses. Mplus-7 indicated a partial mediation effect in a multimediation model. Work-related variables strongly and positively correlated with organizational justice, and were generally better predictors of organizational justice than were personal characteristics. The results have implications to organizational behavior.
The goal of this study was to examine the role of organizational causal attribution in understand... more The goal of this study was to examine the role of organizational causal attribution in understanding the relation of work stressors (work-role overload, excessive role responsibility, and unpleasant physical environment) and personal resources (social support and cognitive coping) to such organizational-attitudinal outcomes as work engagement, turnover intention, and organizational identification. In some analyses, cognitive coping was also treated as an organizational outcome. Causal attribution was conceptualized in terms of four dimensions: internality-externality, attributing the cause of one’s successes and failures to oneself, as opposed to external factors, stability (thinking that the cause of one’s successes and failures is stable over time), globality (perceiving the cause to be operative on many areas of one’s life), and controllability (believing that one can control the causes of one’s successes and failures). Several hypotheses were derived from Karasek’s (1989) Job De...
Australasian Journal of Organisational Psychology, 2015
ABSTRACT Perceived organisational support (POS) refers to an employee's perception concer... more ABSTRACT Perceived organisational support (POS) refers to an employee's perception concerning the degree to which organisational management values their contributions and cares about their wellbeing. Despite the influence of culture on organisational behaviour, there is still a paucity of culture-comparative studies. The study investigated POS from a cross-national perspective with Ghanaian and Finnish industrial workers. We hypothesised and tested a model predicting differences on POS using a cross-sectional data of Ghanaian ( N = 320) and Finnish ( N = 520) industrial workers. The data were collected with Eisenberger, Fasolo, and LaMastro's (1990) Survey of Perceived Organizational Support. Correlational analyses, t -test and hierarchical regression analyses were used to test four hypotheses. The relationships between employee demographic factors and POS were also analysed. The hierarchical regression analysis revealed worker demographic variables as impacting more significantly on POS among Ghanaian workers. Contrary to our expectations, Ghanaian workers perceived more managerial support than their Finnish counterparts. Structural equation modelling revealed job satisfaction as a mediator in these relationships. Path analysis performed to identify specific variables that were moderated by culture revealed organisational position and job satisfaction as potential variables. The theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.
International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 2015
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE, 2014
This study investigated the relationships between organizational justice, organizational safety c... more This study investigated the relationships between organizational justice, organizational safety climate, job satisfaction, safety compliance and accident frequency. Ghanaian industrial workers participated in the study (N = 320). Safety climate and justice perceptions were assessed with Hayes, Parender, Smecko, et al.'s (1998) and Blader and Tyler's (2003) scales respectively. A median split was performed to dichotomize participants into 2 categories: workers with positive and workers with negative justice perceptions. Confirmatory factors analysis confirmed the 5-factor structure of the safety scale. Regression analyses and t tests indicated that workers with positive fairness perceptions had constructive perspectives regarding workplace safety, expressed greater job satisfaction, were more compliant with safety policies and registered lower accident rates. These findings provide evidence that the perceived level of fairness in an organization is closely associated with wor...
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 2015
ABSTRACT In the current study we investigated the extent to which neighbourhood preferences could... more ABSTRACT In the current study we investigated the extent to which neighbourhood preferences could be used as a base to group people in order to explore their residential and travel choices. The basic idea of this study was that the preferences people would have for their residential and travel choices might be a robust predictor of their actual travel behaviour, and that the neighbourhood preferences might distinguish people in terms of the characteristics of their living environment. We used a moderation model to test whether the effect of built environment on travel behaviour varied in terms of resident’s type. A total of 3403 inhabitants of the city of Tampere in Finland participated in the study. A web-based public participation GIS survey combining the questionnaires with a map (SoftGIS technique) was used to collect the data. We identified two distinct groups of residents in terms of general neighbourhood preferences. The findings showed that clustering residents based on neighbourhood preferences moderated the association between some features of density measures and travel behaviour. We found significant differences between the two clusters in both the frequencies and the distance of pedestrian and bike travel. The findings revealed that inhabitants of neighbourhoods with a larger percentage of green surroundings had a greater perception of neighbourhood stability than did the residents of neighbourhoods with a smaller percentage of green surroundings.