Eğitim Yöneticilerinin Stresle Başa Çıkma Stratejileri

The fact that the people who are educational administrators are full of stress negatively af ect the teachers, school, job performance, teacher environment, parent motivation and the success levels of the students. Inhibiting the negative effects of stress and finding methods of coping with stress and directing it to the benefit of the organization are necessary in terms of efficiency. Therefore, the general purpose of the research is explained as to introduce the findings on how to find the personal and institutional causes of stress of the people who are educational administrators and how to develop their coping tactics. In this study, in which the causes of stress, the secondary issues related to the formation of its causes, and how the people who are educational administrators can apply to solve them, determinations have been made by emphasizing the expressions of management and education management. By focusing on the personal and institutional symptoms and consequences of the aforementioned issues, the tactics of coping with stress of the education administrators were examined. Key Words: Educational Management, Causes of Stress, Consequences of Stress, Tactics for Coping with Stress.

Managing expatriates in the United Arab Emirates: the role of host- and home-country mentors on expatriate career outcomes

Purpose This study aims to empirically explore how mentoring can help Western expatriates before, during and after the overseas assignment in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study is built on 20 in-depth interviews with Western expatriates currently working and living in the UAE. Findings This study demonstrates that expatriate mentoring is an important area largely unexplored in the literature. The results establish that host-country mentors are fundamentally responsible for helping expatriates to develop common problem-focused coping tactics, whereas home-country mentors predominantly address emotionally focused coping tactics during the pre-departure and repatriation phase of the expatriation process. Research limitations/implications Over 30 years’ worth of research literature was searched within the following major databases: ABI/INFORM, ERIC and PsycINFO. These databases contained articles, mainly in English, of limited scope, i.e. more academic than practical. This may have led to the omission of some expatriate mentoring approaches applied in practice by human resources managers, especially in countries where English is not the first language. Practical implications Mentors in both the host and home countries are crucial in assisting and supporting expatriates in developing constructive coping strategies that enhance the likelihood of a successful expatriation experience. Originality/value There is insufficient research in expatriate mentoring, which this study aims to address by focusing on Western expatriates in the UAE, a vibrant Arab, Muslim country whose local business environment is very different from that of China, Europe and the USA, which have been the main focus of prior research.

Researchers working from home: Benefits and challenges

The flexibility allowed by the mobilization of technology disintegrated the traditional work-life boundary for most professionals. Whether working from home is the key or impediment to academics’ efficiency and work-life balance became a daunting question for both scientists and their employers. The recent pandemic brought into focus the merits and challenges of working from home on a level of personal experience. Using a convenient sampling, we surveyed 704 academics while working from home and found that the pandemic lockdown decreased the work efficiency for almost half of the researchers but around a quarter of them were more efficient during this time compared to the time before. Based on the gathered personal experience, 70% of the researchers think that in the future they would be similarly or more efficient than before if they could spend more of their work-time at home. They indicated that in the office they are better at sharing thoughts with colleagues, keeping in touch with their team, and collecting data, whereas at home they are better at working on their manuscript, reading the literature, and analyzing their data. Taking well-being also into account, 66% of them would find it ideal to work more from home in the future than they did before the lockdown. These results draw attention to how working from home is becoming a major element of researchers’ life and that we have to learn more about its influencer factors and coping tactics in order to optimize its arrangements.

Trust, Disconnection, Minimizing risk and Apathy

This paper investigates how audiences are coping with digital platforms in theireveryday lives. Empirically grounded in focus groups carried out in Denmarkwith a total of 34 participants of different ages and educational backgrounds, wepresent the results of an analysis of audiences’ coping tactics in relation to trackingdata, collecting data and mining data. Based on the analysis, we find fouroverall tactics: coping by absence, coping by trust, coping by minimizing risk andcoping by apathy. We argue that these different coping tactics are employed differentlydepending on the context of the digital routines, the data collected (sensitivevs. non-sensitive data), and the dependence of the platform (private vs. public,national vs. international platforms and apps). These contextual factors are presentedin an analytical model—a coping compass—for studying individual users’coping tactics in their datafied everyday lives.

Researchers working from home: Benefits and challenges

The flexibility allowed by the mobilization of technology disintegrated the traditional work-life boundary for most professionals. Whether working from home is the key or impediment to academics’ efficiency and work-life balance became a daunting question for both scientists and their employers. The recent pandemic brought into focus the merits and challenges of working from home on a level of personal experience. In this study, we surveyed academics while working from home and found that the pandemic lockdown decreased the work efficiency for almost half of the researchers but around a quarter of them were more efficient during this time compared to the time before. Based on the gathered personal experience, 70% of the researchers think that in the future they would be similarly or more efficient than before if they could spend more of their work-time at home. They indicated that in the office they are better at sharing thoughts with colleagues, keeping in touch with their team, and collecting data, whereas at home they are better at working on their manuscript, reading the literature, and analysing their data. Taking well-being also into account, 66% of them would find it ideal to work more from home in the future than they did before the lockdown. These results draw attention to how working from home is becoming a major element of researchers’ life and that we have to learn more about its influencer factors and coping tactics in order to optimise its arrangements.

Elimination of Interpretation Obstacles under the Guidance of Gile Model

This study explores the major cognitive barriers encountered by interpreters when trying to smoothly and successfully fulfill an interpreting task and focuses on the Comprehension Equation and Effort Model proposed by Daniel Gile. The materials to be analyzed are selected from daily interpreting training courses. A descriptive approach is mainly adopted to analyze the interpreter's mistakes in processing the information in her mind and outputting it. The findings reveal that two main factors can be disruptive, which are misunderstanding of source language and limitation of cognition capacity, demonstrating that the cognitive factors do interfere with each other during interpreting. Based on the equations proposed by Gile, the paper analyzes what leads to weak comprehensive ability and unreasonable effort allocation. Accordingly, several coping tactics are put forward to facilitate interpreting skills and improve interpreting performance. Moreover, it is mentioned that further researches should be done to design the specific training courses to enlarge cognition capacity and better avoid information overload.

Role of brand attachment in customers’ evaluation of service failure

Purpose This paper aims to examine the role of brand attachment as a relevant construct in customers’ evaluation after they face a service failure which impacts future consumer behaviors. It mainly answers the research question: does brand attachment cushion or amplify the effect of service failure on customers’ negative emotions? Design/methodology/approach A 2 × 2 × 2 experimental design was conducted. Data analysis was performed with ANOVA and moderated mediation. Findings Customer’s feelings toward a brand (brand attachment) that existed before a service failure occurred can regulate customer’s negative emotions especially when consumer attribute service failure to a controllable cause. This process minimizes the effect of service failure in customer’s satisfaction and consequently increase customer behaviors like word of mouth and loyalty intentions. Research limitations/implications Adding perceived intentionality as a service failure’s attribution could provide another layer of explanation of customer behavior. Also, an expanded study using a sector characterized by higher cost of change and permanent consumption could provide result’s generalizability. Practical implications Brand attachment should be included in the customer service strategy. In a service failure situation, brand attachment becomes part of the “service customer policy” helping customers to regulate their negative emotions. Originality/value This study fills the knowledge gap regarding the role of customers’ positive emotions toward brands when a service failure occurs. The current study extends branding literature by differentiating brand attachment role from coping tactics.