This study explores the effects of employee perception of the management's safety priority, safety rules, and safety training on safety participation and safety behaviour decided by management, as ...

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to examine the relationships between safety behaviours (safety compliance and safety participation), their determinants (safety motivation and knowledge of safety), and their antecedent (safety training) affecting employee safety productivity, an economic benefit of OHS. Methods: The study was carried out with the employees participating in the basic OHS training, which is mandatory every two years for all the personnel due to the related legal obligation. The data required for the research purpose was collected by surveying 453 employees. The collected data were then tested using the methods of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Results: The findings of the analyses showed that safety training, safety knowledge, safety motivation and safety compliance affect the improvement of employee safety productivity, one of the economic benefits of OHS. The study also suggested that safety participation does not influence the improvement of employee productivity. Furthermore, it has brought about a new scale concerning employee safety productivity to the safety literature. Conclusion: It is suggested for organisational managers wishing to increase employee safety productivity to focus particularly on training regarding the safety knowledge, skills, motivation, and compliance of employees.

The objective of the study is to investigate the relationships between safety training and competence, employee participation and involvement, employee satisfaction, and safety performance. Data were collected from 128 manufacturing firms implementing the Occupational Health and Safety Management System in Turkey. The data were analysed through respectively exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The findings indicated that safety training and competence has a significant positive effect on employee participation and involvement; while employee participation and involvement has a significant positive effect on employee satisfaction; and safety performance has a significant positive effect on employee satisfaction. Furthermore, it was also found that employee satisfaction is indirectly affected by safety training and competence through employee participation and involvement.

Hizmet kalitesi literatüründe; hizmet kalitesi, marka sadakati, marka imajı ve müşteri memnuniyeti arasındaki ilişkileri bir arada inceleyen sınırlı ampirik çalışma bulunmaktadır. Diğer taraftan gelişen refah düzeyine bağlı olarak yiyecek hizmet sektöründe yaşanan hızlı büyüme sektörde çok yoğun bir rekabeti de beraberinde getirmiştir. Sektöre yönelik yapılan literatür araştırması bu dört yapı arasındaki ilişkide müşteri memnuniyetinin köprü rolü oynadığını göstermektedir. Bu çalışmada yiyecek içecek hizmet kalitesi ile marka sadakati ve marka imajı arasındaki ilişkide müşteri memnuniyetinin rolü araştırılmaktadır. Araştırma yiyecek içecek hizmeti sunan bir uluslararası franchise firmanın müşterileri üzerinde yapılmıştır. Veriler kolayda örnekleme yöntemiyle anket tekniği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Bu amaçla literatürle uyumlu bir yapısal eşitlik modeli (YEM) kurulmuştur. Veriler Kısmi En Küçük Kareler-Yapısal Eşitlik Modeli (KEKK-YEM) yöntemiyle analiz edilmiştir. Bulgular yiyecek içecek sektöründe hizmet kalitesi ile marka sadakati ve marka imajı arasındaki ilişkide müşteri memnuniyetinin dolaylı ve anlamlı güçlü bir etkisi olduğunu göstermektedir. Sonuç olarak rekabetin çok yoğun yaşandığı hizmet sektöründe varlığını ve kârlılığını devam ettirmek isteyen işletmelerin müşteri memnuniyeti üzerine odaklanmaları gerektiği görülmüştür.

Accounting is a profession which requires those want to perform it in accordance with the principles and standards required by it to acquire knowledge and skills in many areas of specialty in academic terms and to renew their professional knowledge and skills in parallel with the changes and developments occurring after they start working as a member of this profession, thereby improving their professional competencies continuously. This quick and continuous change in accounting makes it obligatory to be a member of this profession who is capable of thinking on a global scale and fulfilling its requirements. The members of accounting profession in Turkey perform their jobs as an independent or dependent Public Accountant (PA) and Public Accountant and Financial Consultant (PAFC) with their registration at a chamber of certified public accountants. Given the fact that the members of this profession performing their professional activities as “independent” ones engage in a lot of (as many as the number of books they keep) practices related to many areas of subspecialty of the profession, it is essential for them to improve their knowledge and skills more compared to “dependent” members of this profession engaged in a single limited area of specialty of this profession.The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of working conditions of “independent” members of accounting profession who perform their job in their own accounting offices and of those of “dependent” ones who perform their job in a workplace possessed by an employer on the improvement of their professional competencies. To this end, an empirical study was conducted on the members of this profession, and an insight was provided into the effects of working conditions on factors such as professional knowledge, professional skills, and professional ethics, which all influence the improvement of the professional competencies of the members of this profession.

Bu araştırma, tedarik zinciri yönetimi süreçlerinden tedarik esnekliği, teslimat esnekliği, planlama süreci ve tedarik süreci arasındaki ilişkileri analiz ederek aralarındaki doğrudan ve dolaylı etkileri incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. İstanbul Sanayi Odası'na kayıtlı ISO 1000 firmaları üzerinde gerçekleştirilen çalışmada, 203 firmadan elde edilen veriler yapısal eşitlik modeli yöntemiyle analiz edilmiştir. Bulgular, tedarik esnekliğinin teslimat esnekliği ve planlama sürecini etkilediğini ortaya koymaktadır. Teslimat esnekliği de tedarik sürecini olumlu yönde etkileyebilmektedir. Çalışma, tedarik zinciri yönetimi ve lojistik stratejileri için önemli içgörüler sağlamaktadır. Tedarik zincirindeki esneklik ve ilişkilerin anlaşılması, işletmelerin operasyonel performanslarını artırma ve rekabet avantajı elde etme konusunda değerli bilgiler sunmaktadır. Gelecekteki çalışmalarda, Kobi tarzı işletmelerde benzer analizlerin yapılması ve sonuçların karşılaştırılmasıyla daha kapsamlı bir anlayış elde edilebilir.