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The Relationship between Organizational Culture and Innovative Work Behavior for Sports Services in Tourism Enterprises

Abstract The innovative behavior of individuals in the workplace is the foundation of any high-performance organization, and thus a study on the factors that motivate or enable individuals’ innovative behavior is critical (Scott, & Bruce, 1994). Therefore, the aim of this research was to find the relationship between organizational culture and innovative work behavior (IWB) in tourism enterprises that market sports services. Considering the fact that IWB is crucial for tourism enterprises, exploring the factors that influence IWB could be beneficial. Correlation analysis revealed that IWB was found to be significantly correlating with cooperativeness (r=0.442, p<0.05), innovativeness (r=0.510, p<0.05), consistency (r=0.522, p<0.05), and effectiveness (r=0.554, p<0.05). Additionally, stepwise regression analysis, which was conducted to discover whether organizational culture predicts IWB, showed a significant model: F(2-131)=33.775, p<0.05. The model explained 33% of the variance in IWB (Adjusted R2=0.33). In general, our findings suggest that there is a relationship between organizational culture and IWB and that organizational culture significantly predicts IWB. As IWB is crucial for the enhanced performance and success of any organization, organizational culture should be organized in order to encourage employees in terms of IWB.

An Investigation of Imagery, Intrinsic Motivation, Self-efficacy and Performance in Athletes

Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between imagery with intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy and performance, and to determine the effect of imagery on these variables. Determining whether these variables change according to gender and winning a medal is another purpose of the study. 133 kick boxers voluntarily participated in the study. The Sport Imagery Questionnaire, Self-efficacy Scale and Sport Motivation Scale were used as data collection tools. As a result of the findings, significant differences were not obtained for any variables according to gender and winning a medal. Some significant positive relationships were found between imagery, intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy. In addition, it has been found that motivational general mastery imagery explained twelve percent of variance in self-efficacy. Also, motivational general mastery imagery and cognitive imagery explained 31.2 percent of variance in intrinsic motivation. In conclusion, it can be said that imagery is related with intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy, and affects these two variables.

The Effect of Psycho-social Oriented Recreative Activities on the Symptoms Experienced After Trauma (7-13 Age)

Abstract The aim of this study is to determine the effect of psycho-social oriented re-creative activities to decrease the symptoms which maketrauma repeated after the trauma is experienced escape and avoidance reactions from stimulus which remind the trauma and increased arousal after the trauma. A mixed design in which pre-test, post-test and control groups were used was applied. A total of 14 children (7 children for control and 7 children for experiment group) participated to the study. Children were contacted by Social Help and cooperation foundation. Families’, the foundation’s and the children’s’ permissions were taken and “psycho-social oriented re-creative activities program” was applied to the group. No activity was applied to the control group. The data was obtained by behavioural observation, interview and The Scale for Browsing Symptoms of Stress Disorder after Trauma (TSSBBTF). The results and conclusion: results showed that psycho-social oriented re-creative activities are effective to decrease the symptoms which make trauma repeated after the trauma, escape and avoidance reactions from stimulus which remind the trauma and increased arousal.