Researchers acknowledge the significance of hotels' environmental performance, however they call for a further comprehensive examination of the aspects that serve as its drives. Moreover, despite the abundance of studies on environmental performance in the hospitality literature, employees' perceptions regarding hotels' green intellectual capital and its potential outcomes are scarcely investigated. With this realization, and building upon the job demand-resource theoretical framework and socially embedded theoretical framework of thriving, the current paper proposes a conceptual model where thriving at work mediated the impact of employees' perceptions regarding hotels' green intellectual capital on environmental performance moderated by work-related enterprise social media usage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aims to examine the impact of transactional leadership style on intellectual capital, and knowledge sharing as a mediator between transactional leadership and each of the intellectual capital components (human capital, structural capital, and relational capital) in the public sector, in Sulaymaniyah governorate in north of Iraq. The research model was settled based on the previous investigations on transactional leadership, knowledge sharing, and intellectual capital. To collect the data, convenience sampling was utilized, questionnaires were sent to employees in five customs directorates, and 355 responses were received.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe focus of this research is to investigate the factors that influence employee voice behaviour by examining the integration of high-performance work systems, stewardship climate, and trust in supervisor. Drawing on social exchange theory and leader-member exchange, this study investigates the positive relationship between trust in supervisor, high-performance work systems, stewardship climate and employee voice. Data were collected in three stages from 376 Nigerian telecommunications customer-contact employees.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur J Microbiol Immunol (Bp)
December 2015
Sporadic cases of gastroenteritis have been attributed to Arcobacter butzleri infection, but information about the underlying immunopathological mechanisms is scarce. We have recently shown that experimental A. butzleri infection induces intestinal, extraintestinal and systemic immune responses in gnotobiotic IL-10(-/-) mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArcobacter butzleri causes sporadic cases of gastroenteritis, but the underlying immunopathological mechanisms of infection are unknown. We have recently demonstrated that A. butzleri-infected gnotobiotic IL-10(-/-) mice were clinically unaffected but exhibited intestinal and systemic inflammatory immune responses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Arcobacter (A.) butzleri has been described as causative agent for sporadic cases of human gastroenteritis with abdominal pain and acute or prolonged watery diarrhea. In vitro studies revealed distinct adhesive, invasive and cytotoxic properties of A.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: The pathogenic potential of Arcobacter butzleri isolates on human (HT-29/B6) and porcine epithelial (IPEC-J2) cells was investigated by in vitro assays.
Methods And Results: Five of six A. butzleri isolates were able to adhere and invade HT-29/B6 cells while only four isolates adhered and two invaded IPEC-J2 cells.
Background: The immunopathological impact of human Arcobacter (A.) infections is under current debate. Episodes of gastroenteritis with abdominal pain and acute or prolonged watery diarrhea were reported for A.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Appl Microbiol
August 2013
Aims: The pathogenic potential of Arcobacter butzleri isolates was investigated by detecting the presence of putative virulence genes and analysing the adhesive and invasive capabilities in cell cultures of human cell lines.
Methods And Results: The presence of ten putative virulence genes in 52 A. butzleri isolates was determined by PCR.