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Item Coping strategies employed by Irish firefighters, association with stress and anxiety, and the use of critical incident stress management (CISM) support(DBS Library Press, 2021)Emergency services personnel experience high levels of stress daily (Minnie et al., 2015). An individual’s ability to cope with stressful situations is determined by the individual’s perception of stress and coping mechanisms employed. The aim of this study was to investigate coping strategies employed by Irish firefighters and association with perceived stress and anxiety levels. Additionally, one further aim was to determine attitude towards CISM supports such as post-event Psychological Debriefing/ Defusing. A mixed method survey design (N-72) employing both CISS and DASS21 measures were completed by participants from a full time urban based station providing Emergency Medical Services, and five stations on ‘retained’ status. Participants were recruited through convenience sampling. Results suggested a moderate positive correlation between stress and avoidance and a weak positive correlation between stress and social diversion, avoidance distraction and emotion orientated coping. Respondents further indicated reliance on talking, colleague support, and recreational activity for stress management.Item An examination of social media use and the FA Women’s Super League: The challenges of going professional(Dublin Business School, 2021)This paper explores the use of social media, specifically Twitter, in two English football clubs during their first season under the professional structure of the WSL. The study uses data from the clubs’ Twitter accounts and interviews with key employees. A total of 1088 tweets were analysed. Four themes emerged: player availability; status; cooperation and social media strategy. The findings showed that while women’s football has made great strides, the increase use of social media by players has been not supported by proper media training. Furthermore, the increase in status has not been matched by better funding. It is important than the increase awareness surrounding women’s football is matched by an increase in player well-being as this will impact the standing of women’s football.Item A survey to explore the role of organizational justice on organizational citizenship behavior among Irish healthcare employees(DBS Library Press, 2021)ORIENTATION: Organizational Justice is very crucial for an organizations’ success and how it is perceived by employees. It develops great trust between the management and the employees, enhancing their job satisfaction, commitment, efficiency, and thus reduces turnover intention and improves the level of employees’ citizenship behaviour. AIM: This study is designed to determine the impact of organizational justice on job satisfaction, turnover intention, and organizational citizenship behaviour among healthcare professionals working in Ireland. MOTIVATION FOR THE STUDY: The selection of healthcare professionals was to add another perspective and research dimension to the currently limited research material on organizational justice and citizenship behaviour among Irish healthcare professionals. Work exhaustion and turnover intention among healthcare professionals are the major issues faced by healthcare employees and management respectively and different forms of organizational justice play a major role in attenuating these factors. METHOD: An online survey by using validated tools was employed to achieve the research objective. A total number of 53 healthcare personnel participated in the study who completed a questionnaire comprising of organizational justice, job satisfaction, turnover intention, and organizational citizenship behaviour scales and were evaluated for their organizational citizenship in terms of altruism, sportsmanship, and courtesy. RESULT: It has been identified from this survey that organizational justice, is positively related to job satisfaction and organisational citizenship behaviour whereas negatively related to turnover intention among Irish healthcare professionals. CONCLUSION: It is concluded that organisational justice is a strong indicator of organisational citizenship behaviour among healthcare professionals and also influences job satisfaction and turnover intention moderately.Item Cookies ‘n’ Consent: An empirical study on the factors influencing of website users’ attitude towards cookie consent in the EU.(Dublin Business School, 2021)Since GDPR came into enforcement in 2018, various firms have been found violating or circumventing the ePrivacy Directive known as the Cookie Law which lays out the cookie consent guidelines for websites. To improve the GDPR compliance rate, several conversations are going on between EU commission, Data protection agencies, business & websites owners and ad vendors regarding their cookie policy, obtaining user consent for data collection and its usage. One of the key stakeholders who are the website users, whose privacy is in question seems to be left out from the discussions. The study aimed to understand user perception towards website cookie banners, which are mandatory under GDPR, and the influence of factors like awareness of cookies, user experience, consent banner design, privacy risk, brand trust on user’s willingness for accepting all cookies, to develop recommendations to improve customer’s motivations to give consent. Using a quantitative approach, the primary data was collected from 132 internet users residing in the EU region through an online survey questionnaire shared in social media networks. The results showed that the (i) majority of respondents had more than moderate level of awareness about cookies (ii) they are more likely to accept cookies for quick access or task completion, (iii) acceptance of cookies was varied across different categories of online activity and (iv) given a choice they are more likely to opt-out of 3rd party cookies which are widely used for targeted advertising. Since 3rd party cookies will be phased out in the near future and are likely to be replaced with more advanced customer tracking technologies which are harder to opt-out of, this study proposes a framework for Consent for Advertising Directive (CAD) to go beyond the existing Cookie Law, which will improve user data protection regardless of the tracking technology used, and help brands to improve transparency about their data collection and avoid GDPR violations.Item Cross-sectional analyses of self-employed & directly employed workers’ job-specific well-being In creative and corporate workplaces.(DBS Library Press, 2021)The current mixed-methods study explored differences in Job Specific Well-being (JSWB) amongst self-employed and directly-employed workers in creative and corporate workplaces. A descriptive, cross-sectional design with open ended questions, employing purposive sampling, was used. A self-report, mixed method, digital questionnaire was used for data collection and respondents (N=230) were sourced globally. Analyses showed a significant difference in JSWB for overall self-employed compared with overall directly-employed workers. An effect of supervisory responsibility on JSWB was observed among groups of directly-employed workers. For self-employed workers, no significant effect of supervisory responsibility was seen for levels of JSWB. Additionally for self-employed workers, no significant difference in JSWB was seen based on “necessity” or “opportunity” self-employment. Generally, findings showed that both self-employed and directly employed workers in the current sample were dissatisfied with daily work. Findings were mixed, and results prompt important considerations for existing research.
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