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The Anatomy of Workplace Advice Network in Relationship With Employees Personal Characteristrics, Psychological Profile and the Perceived Leadership Styles

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Zaman, Nadeem-Uz-

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PhD

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University of Balochistan

City

Quetta

Province

Balochistan

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2018

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Management Sciences

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English

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http://prr.hec.gov.pk/jspui/bitstream/123456789/12308/1/Nadeem%20uz%20zaman%20management%20sci%202017%20thesis%20year%20uni%20of%20balochistan%20prr.pdf

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2021-02-17 19:49:13

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2024-03-24 20:25:49

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1676725074992

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Advice networks are integral part of an organization as they channel a highly valuable resource, advice, across the workplace in the form of information, ideas, knowledge, guidance and instructions among employees in an informal social network augmenting the formal communication channels. This thesis attempted to explore some commonly observed morphological structures of workplace advice networks including tie forming tendency, reciprocity, gender-based homophily, popularity and activity spreads and transitivity in the real-world context of personal (gender, education, experience and expertise), psychological (personality, emotional intelligence and positive psychological capital) attributes of employees and the perceived leadership styles- thus the term anatomy. Using purposive sampling, 20 service-sector organizations were surveyed as WANs and 100% response rate was achieved. Network data were collected using a sociometric matrix employing the roster method. On the other hand, the conventional data for the personal characteristics were collected using a section for the demographic variables. The questionnaire for personality, emotional intelligence and positive psychological capital were borrowed from Donnellan, Oswald, Braid and Lucas (2006), Wong and Law (2002) and Luthans Avolio, Avey and Norman (2007) respectively. The scales were tested for their validity and reliability employing exploratory and then confirmatory factor analyses for validity and Cronbach’s alphas for reliability of the scales. Finally, to map the real-world effects of actors personal characteristics, psychological profiles, and perceived leadership styles upon the selected structural paradigms of the workplace advice networks, this thesis resorted to Exponential Random Graph (or p*) Models. The results showed that actors in the advice networks followed a meticulous approach in seeking advice from given colleagues in the networks. The advice seekers also tended to form reciprocal ties besides the general tendency to form advice seeking ties with a common advice giver. As far as the nodal attributes were concerned, employees with higher scores on the personality scales tended to seek advice rather than give; whereas employees with higher scores on emotional intelligence were more inclined towards advice giving. Nonetheless, employees with higher positive psychological capitals were less inclined towards advice giving. All other structural elements and attributes were insignificant. Anatomy of workplace advice network xi The study mainly focused on the total effects of the psychological constructs including personality, emotional intelligence and positive psychological capital, there still is a need to measure the effects of the individual components of each of these constructs separately. Similarly, the effect to different types of leadership styles perception can also be independently studied with reference to the anatomy of workplace advice networks. Finally, structures like transitivity can be studied independently in a study for its various triangular forms.
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Both the soils were impregnated with Cd @ 20 mg kg-1 soil by spraying and mixing CdCl2 in solution equal to 75% of saturation percentage. The results showed that Ca and P based inorganic amendments significantly insolubilized the Cd in soils, as Cd 17 uptake by plants decreased statistically. Increasing application rates of both Ca- and Pamendments performed better compared to their lower rates. The S-based amendments solubilized Cd and increased AB-DTPA extractable Cd significantly. Maximum yields of wheat straw and grain were harvested with ammonium sulfate while values of these yields of rice were the highest with DAP and rock phosphate. Elemental sulfur remained promising regarding the yield of both the crops in both the soils. Minimum wheat grain, rice paddy and straw yields were obtained with the H2SO4 treatment. It solubilized Cd in soils to result in maximum Cd concentration in grain/paddy and straw of both the wheat and rice crops. 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