Coping With Tragedy via Reflected Glory: How the Houston Astros’ World Series Win Contributed to Locals’ Process of Overcoming Hurricane Harvey

2019 ◽  
pp. 216747951989467
Author(s):  
Sara R. Erlichman ◽  
Virginia S. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Organizational Identification ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
World Series ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First World

This study investigates the effects of the Houston Astros’ first World Series win on locals who were affected by the natural disaster, Hurricane Harvey. Approaching the topic to understand whether organizational identification has similar positive outcomes to basking in reflected glory, this study specifically measures whether Houston residents were able to cope better and whether their meaning in life increased. After distributing surveys to Houston residents who reported being impacted by the hurricane, the findings indicated stronger organizational identification with the Houston Astros led to stronger reflected glory. Additionally, fans who felt reflected glory were more able to cope with tragedy, and self-efficacy toward overcoming the disaster partially contributed to this relationship. Lastly, fans who coped with the disaster felt a greater meaning in life. Theoretically, our study makes new connections between organizational identity and reflected glory, while tying reflected glory to coping outcomes. The relationship between coping and meaning in life is also explored. Our findings demonstrate how a city hit by tragedy could potentially see positive outcomes when their local professional team achieves major successes, such as winning the World Series.

Organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangning Zhang ◽  
Yingmei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Organizational Identification ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Innovative Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Purpose This study aims to investigate the effect of organizational identification to employees’ innovative behavior, the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy in the relationship between organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted questionnaires to gather data. The sample of 289 employees working in diverse organizations in China was applied to examine the hypotheses. Findings The results indicates that organizational identification is positively related to employees’ innovative behavior and work engagement mediates the relationship between organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior. In addition, creative self-efficacy enhances the relationship of work engagement and employees’ innovative behavior. Originality/value This study builds a system from psychological aspect to behavior, which includes the effect of individual cognition to explain the mechanism of organizational identification on employees’ innovative behavior.

The influence of the positive affective trait on the willingness to act entrepreneurially: The mediating effect of opportunity evaluation

2022 ◽  
pp. 026624262110479
Author(s):  
Celia Díaz-Portugal ◽  
Juan Bautista Delgado-García ◽  
Virginia Blanco-Mazagatos
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurs ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Opportunity Evaluation ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Relationship

This article extends previous literature on opportunity evaluation by analysing how positive affect influences opportunity evaluation and the subsequent willingness to act entrepreneurially. We draw on two mediational channels (i.e., the affect-to-affect-to-outcome and affect-to-cognition routes) regarding the influence of affect on positive outcomes upon arguments that opportunity evaluation comprises of the cognitive representations of the focal opportunity and of oneself. Specifically, we analyse the mediating effects of the image of the opportunity and self-efficacy in the relationship between positive affect and the willingness to act entrepreneurially. We test our hypotheses on a sample of nascent entrepreneurs participating in training programmes in six Spanish incubators whom were asked to evaluate their own opportunities. Our findings show that positive affect exerts a positive indirect effect through the image of the opportunity, but do not indicate any mediating effect of self-efficacy. These findings may help entrepreneurs understand the affective subjectivity of their opportunity assessments.

scholarly journals VIRGINIA WOOLF'S NOVEL “MRS. DALLOWAY”

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-90
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First World ◽  
The Way

Following work is dedicated to the novel “Mrs.Dalloway”. The main characters are emotionally endowed Dreamer Clarissa Dalloway and humble servant Septimus Warren-Smith, who was a contusion in the first World War described only one day in June, 1923 year. In fact, the novel “Mrs.Dalloway” is the "flow of consciousness" of the protagonists Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren – Smith, their Big Ben clock is divided into certain peace with a bang. Virginia Woolf believes that "life" is manifested in the form of consciousness, death and time, she focuses her essays on such issues as the role of a woman in family and society, the role of a woman in the upbringing of children, the way a woman feels about the world, the relationship between a modern man and a woman.

Hope and Work

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela R. Mouton ◽  
Monica N. Montijo
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Hope Theory ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
The World ◽  
Empirical Perspective ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Detrimental Impact

The world has an employee engagement crisis. Low employee engagement has a detrimental impact not only on employee performance and well-being but also on organizational outcomes, including revenue and profitability. This chapter sets out the argument that a key predictor of employee engagement (and therefore performance and well-being) is hope. The relationship between these variables is unpacked from a theoretical and empirical perspective. While the literature has tended to focus on the agency and pathways components of hope theory, this chapter argues that much more attention should given to the fact that hope rests on the pursuit of positively valenced, personally valued, meaningful goals. The chapter offers suggestions on how organizations and employees might amplify hope, engagement, and positive outcomes in the workplace by focusing on goals that matter not only to the organization but to employees also.

INDIA, THE BHAGAVAD GITA AND THE WORLD

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. BAYLY
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Bhagavad Gita ◽  
The Public ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Bhagavad Gītā ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First World

This essay considers the relationship between the Bhagavad Gita as a transnational text and its changing role in Indian political thought. Indian liberals used it to mark out the boundaries between the public sphere they desired and a reformed Hinduism. Indian intellectuals also used the image of Krishna to construct an all-wise founder figure for the new India. Meanwhile, in the transnational sphere of debate, the Gita came to represent India itself in the works of theosophists, spiritual relativists and a variety of intellectual radicals, who approved of the text's ambivalent view of the relationship between political action and the World Spirit. After the First World War, Indian liberals, notably Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and later India's second president, used Krishna's words to urge a new and humane international politics infused with the ideal of “detached action”.

scholarly journals Aweと意味生成

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masataka Nakayama
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Human Adaptation ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Meaning System ◽  
The Relationship

Creating a meaning system is fundamental to human adaptation. This article reviews how the emotion of awe, characterized with perceived vastness and the need for accommodation, plays a crucial role in meaning making. Empirical evidence suggests that the experience of awe alters how people construe the world, the self, and the relationship between them, in finding meaning in life. Directions for future research are discussed by focusing on how the dynamic process of meaning making through awe would be constrained by cultural meaning systems and how sharing awe experiences with others, in turn, would contribute to collective meaning making processes.

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