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Item Leadership 5.0 in industry 4.0: Leadership in perspective of organizational agility(IGI Global, 2019) Akkaya B.In today's competitive environment, agile firms tend to be more successful. If today's technology companies, which are leaders in their sector, may fail in that competitive environment, it would be possible that they might lose their market leadership in the future. Some companies which were in the top in market in their own sector in the past are likely to be stand back from their competitors for not adapting to market change conditions. Fast process of technology and digital world are taking place in all organizational authoritative in all area and in all kind of sectors because the business world is transformed by the postmodern revolution-Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this dynamic environment, leaders should learn new management behaviors, with which they can communicate both internal and external environment of their enterprises by the strategies of being agile and innovative organizations. This can be by being aware of changes in environment and having the ability to manage these changes for the company's favor. © 2019, IGI Global.Item The Effect of Industry 4.0 on Accounting in Terms of Business Management(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2020) Özcan E.Ç.; Akkaya B.While the studies on the use of smart robots in the production, which is known as the Industry 4.0 revolution, continue rapidly, the competition race is in the right proportion with this and businesses that do not want to fall behind the age have to follow the developments in Industry 4.0 and adapt. This chapter examines the Industry 4.0 revolution and its effect on accounting. Incorrect information from one of the business departments affects the entire system. Especially in the accounting department, which records the financial movements of the business and reports the results of them, and which is effective in making decisions that affect the whole business based on these results, the use of smart systems helps to reduce human-made mistakes and the system to act faster while also the systems used in traditional accounting are abandoned. However, brain power is still required, which must analyze the results. While the revolution is still developing, there are a lot of theories about the future. The expected outcome of these is that with the revolution, the need for brain power to analyze system outputs will increase, even if the need for human labour in the industry decreases. In this context, especially those who perform the accounting profession must constantly renew themselves. © 2020 by Emerald Publishing Limited.Item Agile Business Leadership Methods for Industry 4.0(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2020) Akkaya B.Agile Business Leadership Methods for Industry 4.0 is a collection of innovative research on new leadership styles that will develop agile managers and business leaders who can improve company success in the fast-paced environments created by Industry 4.0. © 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited.Item Leadership Styles and Female Managers in Perspective of Agile Leadership(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2020) Akkaya B.; Üstgörül S.Female leader is a major topic in the male of today that’s hardly getting attention. World today needs women in more positions of leadership. Today’s organizations need effective and agile leaders who understand the complexities of the rapidly changing global environment. This situation requires urgent attention as the world needs female as well as male characteristics to address global issues. Women represent half of the modern world’s abilities and population. They are important for economic and social prosperity for the world. Women carry a viewpoint that respects not only competitiveness but also organizational and team cooperation. Their female ideals are a functioning structure of new, cooperative and open economy. Eventually, the leadership of women will not only boost business, family and culture, but also the environment that will become more prosperous and peaceful as a result. In today’s modern world many researches are conducted on global, social and cultural forces, such as globalization, e-commerce, changing markets, the spread of technology and the need for teamwork, alliances and partnerships, show a high need for women leaders. But what is the role and leadership style of female leaders here? In this context, the purpose of this study is to discuss the leadership styles and what kind of leadership style female managers exhibit in line with the literature. The research showed that female managers have more agile leadership qualities and the authors suggested that female leaders should be brought forward for the opportunity to lead others toward a better future. © 2020 by Emerald Publishing Limited.Item Linking Organizational Commitment and Organizational Trust in Health Care Organizations(Sciendo, 2020) Akkaya B.Background and purpose: Health care organizations should apply new methods to motivate their employees be more effective and successful. This can be achieved by commitment to the organization and trusting their managers. Therefore, health care organizations must take care of the commitment and trust aspects in order to have a full knowledge of employees and to increase organizational performance and effectiveness. The present study aims to link sub-dimensions of organizational trust and sub-dimensions of organizational commitment of administrative personnel of health care organizations. Methodology: The survey was conducted among 156 administrative personnel in health organizations in Turkey. Sub-dimensions of organizational trust and sub-dimensions of organisational commitment were linked and correlated. Nyhan and Marlowe's OTI survey was used for the assessment of organizational trust and Meyer's and Allen's OCQ for the assessment of organizational commitment. Correlation, Path analysis and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) were used to analyse the data with the help of SPSS and SmartPLS programs. Results: Results suggest that trust in organization has a positive impact on effective organizational commitment and continuance organizational commitment, however, has not impact on normative organizational commitment. Additionally, trust in supervisors has a positive impact on affective organizational commitment, continuance organizational commitment and normative organizational commitment. Conclusion: Awareness of organizational trust and commitment can be beneficial to leaders and managers, as they can handle, develop and empower their workers better with this information. Moreover, the key point is that all leaders and managers should focus on creating an atmosphere that will make workers very more committed and trusting, hence, to enable them perform beyond their formal duty requirements. © 2020 Bulent Akkaya, published by Sciendo 2020.Item THE DIRECTION OF THE INTERACTIVE RELATION BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL FLEXIBILITY AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS(Allied Business Academies, 2020) Akkaya B.; Kocyigit Y.Leadership and organizational flexibility are closely related. Each component of the organizational flexibility and transformational leadership affects the adapting of organization to environmental changes. But, which of them is antecedent of the other is still a question in literature. To answer this question, in this research two models were tested and goodness of fit of models was compared by using SEM (Structural Equation Modelling). The data were collected form 217 participants who work as bottom/middle level managers in SMEs in Turkey. The results showed that organizational flexibility is the antecedent of the transformational leadership. © 2020. All rights reserved.Item Organizational climate and strategic leadership in industry 4.0(IGI Global, 2020) Tetik S.; Akkaya B.Strategic leadership and organizational climate have been made more important by the Industry 4.0 revolution. Strategic leadership and organizational climate enable businesses to adapt easily to rapidly changing environmental conditions and innovations for sustainability. Therefore, the role of strategic leaders is important in creating an organizational climate to manage and implement strategic changes and also in the preparation and implementation of roadmap to design the future of the business in Industry 4. 0. This study aims to discuss the strategic leadership skills in creating the organizational climate in Industry 4.0. The authors found that there is a relationship between organizational climate and strategic leaders' skills in Industry 4.0. Understanding the relationship between the skills of strategic leaders and organizational climate is essential to uncovering the critical links to firm performance to get competitive advantage in Industry 4.0. Strategic leadership is a key interpreter of how climate of the organization links to the wider systems and requires leadership systems. © 2021, IGI Global.Item Sustainability of SMEs and health sector in a dynamic capabilities perspective(IGI Global, 2020) Akkaya B.; Üstgörül S.In Industry 4.0, enterprises have economic, social, and environmentally sustainable policies, and the implementation of these policies may lead to raising the national economy and society welfare. It can be achieved by firms' dynamic capabilities. Therefore, structuring of the activities of enterprises, especially SMEs and health sector organizations within the framework of sustainability and establishing standards by establishing control mechanisms, plays an important role in the development of the country. One of the most important responsibilities of managers in these sectors in implementing sustainable policies is to utilize the dynamic capabilities of the organization. In this context, it is necessary to have knowledge about what dynamic capabilities are and their relationship with sustainability. This study discusses the relationship between dynamic capabilities and sustainability of SMEs and the firms in health sector. © 2020 IGI Global. All rights reserved.Item The link between organizational agility and leadership: A research in science parks(Allied Business Academies, 2020) Akkaya B.; Tabak A.This research aims at exploring the relationship between organizational agility and leadership. Data was collected by two surveys and interviews from randomly selected managers in science parks in the West of Turkey. The Sequential Explanatory, a kind of Mixed Method was used to analyse the data. Structural Equation Modeling-SEM and Content analysis were carried out. According to quantitative and qualitative analysis results, transactional and transformational affect organizational agility, but laissez-faire leadership has not any relation with organizational agility. © 2020, Allied Business Academies.Item Agile leadership and organization performance in the perspective of VUCA(IGI Global, 2022) Akkaya B.; Sever E.Agile leaders have the ability to think flexibly in changing environmental conditions to adapt an organization perfectly to these changes. These leaders can uncover the strengths of their employees, use their insights to transition the organization 's intended change, and take advantage of the opportunities in change while trying to minimize their negative impact on the organization. Organizations that incorporate agile into their processes through agile leaders are better able to respond quickly to change and deliver superior business value to their stakeholders. With agile leadership, organizations will be in a better position to quickly detect developments in the business environment and achieve agility with few resources. As the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) of today's business world continues to pose great challenges for many organizations, this research examines the impact of agile leadership style on organizational performance from the perspective of VUCA world. © 2022, IGI Global. All rights reserved.Item Comparative Research on Educational Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Eastern vs. Western Perspectives(IGI Global, 2022) Malik M.A.; Akkaya B.; Harper D.S.The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented ripples throughout society, bringing many sectors and fields, including education, to a virtual halt or forcing them to change their working style abruptly. Based on technological advancements, e-learning preparedness, and human and financial resources, higher education systems and universities in Eastern and Western countries have responded differently to this crisis. Comparative Research on Educational Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Eastern vs. Western Perspectives presents global research on the response of higher education to the COVID-19 pandemic from both the East and the West. It sheds light on the relevant challenges, strategies, and effectiveness of the policies set in place in response to the pandemic. Covering topics such as international student-related policies, pedagogical adaptation, and student motivation, this premier reference source is an essential resource for policymakers, government officials, faculty of higher education, students and educators of higher education, libraries, researchers, and academicians. © 2022 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.Item Combating COVID: Exploring Pakistani Universities' responses to COVID-19(IGI Global, 2022) Malik M.A.; Akkaya B.; Jumani N.B.This study investigates Pakistani universities' responses during COVID-19. Permanent faculty members from eight different universities were interviewed for data collection. The participants reported six different strategies that were employed to continue the teaching-learning process during COVID-19: from well-developed LMS to virtually no classes. They also pointed out five main issues and challenges during COVID-19 (i.e., infrastructure and internet-related issues, students' participation and engagement issues, teachers' training and attitudinal issues, quality assurance issues, and lack of uniform policy by HEC). They also feared increased educational disparities due to the digital divide. Although this pandemic has adversely affected the higher education sector in Pakistan, if the policymakers and institutions are willing to learn and innovate, this crisis can be turned into an opportunity. © 2022, IGI Global.Item Organizational Agility, Competitive Capabilities, and the Performance of Health Care Organizations during the Covid-19 Pandemic(Sciendo, 2022) Akkaya B.; Mert G.Purpose: Managers of healthcare organizations must be much more dynamic and agile to survive in a competitive environment. Administrators, managers, and leaders in healthcare organizations must meet both patients' and staff's needs, expectations, and requests at the maximum level in order to create organizational agility. What counts among these responsibilities is the use of operational competitive capabilities at the highest level and being organizationally agile? In this context, this study determines the relationship between the operational competitive capabilities of health-care organizations and organizational agility and examines the mediating role of organizational agility between operational competitive capabilities and organizational performance in healthcare organizations in Turkey. Methodology: The data was collected from the 220 managers of health organizations in Turkey through questionnaires, which were analyzed with the SPSS 26 and AMOS 26 programs. Results: The findings revealed a positive relationship between operational competitive capabilities of managers and between organizational agility and organizational agility, which have a full mediating role between operational competitive capabilities and organizational performance in healthcare organizations. Conclusion: Today's healthcare organizations' managers face such important problems and unexpected developments as adapting to a rapidly changing environment and struggles to avoid uncertainty. Therefore, the managers must use their operational competitive capabilities at the highest level and be organizationally agile to maximize their organizations' performance and survive in this highly competitive environment. © 2022 Bulent Akkaya et al., published by Sciendo.Item Item The Role of Agile Women Leadership in Achieving Team Effectiveness through Interpersonal Trust for Business Agility(MDPI, 2022) Akkaya B.; Bagieńska A.The need for organizations to adapt to constant change means the challenges of implementing an agile strategy. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to analyze the role of agile women leadership and team effectiveness by looking into the mediating effect of interpersonal trust based on a cross-sectional quantitative study with a sample of 269 employees from Poland and Turkey. Questionnaires were distributed to individuals in companies having women leaders or managers. The three questionnaires required the respondents to answer questions regarding the perception of agile leadership, trust and team effectiveness. By using SPSS, demographics, descriptive statistics and tests of normality were determined. Smart PLS version 3.0 was used for confirmatory factor analysis, internal accuracy and validity estimates, hypothesis checking and mediation testing. Results of PLS-SEM indicated interpersonal trust has a full mediation role between agile women leadership in shaping team effectiveness. The population of this study are working for organizations of just two countries; hence, the generalizability of the findings to other settings is unknown. Our findings contribute to the literature on women agile leadership and team effectiveness by demonstrating how the growth in trust to managers contributes to the emergence of team effectiveness and the agile leadership trend over time. This study will therefore contribute to the understanding of organized teams’ effectiveness in the perspective of agile women leadership and trust of supervisors. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Item Agile Leadership and Perceived Career Success: The Mediating Role of Job Embeddedness(MDPI, 2022) Akkaya B.; Panait M.; Apostu S.A.; Kaya Y.Agile leadership is an important managerial function in which responsiveness and innovation appear to be essential elements for the long-term development and success of any business. The world has become increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) during and post COVID-19. Managers are required to possess agile leadership to facilitate their employees’ successful careers. Therefore, this study aims to find out the relationship between agile leadership and career success by examining the mediation of job embeddedness in healthcare organizations. The descriptive research design and survey method were employed in this study. The data were collected by using three scales from healthcare employees in healthcare organizations in Turkey. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modelling (SEM). The data were analysed by using SPSS and AMOS programs. The findings of this study showed that agile leadership behaviours enhance career success. Moreover, the relationship between agile leadership and career success is mediated by job embeddedness. The role of agile leadership in promoting employees’ career success has rarely been studied in the literature. This is one of the first studies to examine the effect of agile leadership on career success along with the mediating role of job embeddedness. Healthcare managers have faced many critical challenges at their workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the lens of managing efficient healthcare organizations in many contexts, this research sheds some important light on the association between agile leadership, career success, and job em-beddedness. Managers with high agility levels used strategies such as group decision making, problem solving, effective internal and external communication, and adaptation to uncertain environment in order to increase their career success. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Item VUCA-RR toward industry 5.0(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2022) Akkaya B.; Ahmed J.The future will see a new revolution in both industry and society in Industry 5.0. Human-robot collaboration and robotic management will be critical components of Industry 5.0. In this revolution, humans and robots will collaborate to improve process efficiency by utilizing human intelligence and innovation. Industry 5.0 creates a powerful framework for modern digital smart factories and manufacturing technologies through complex systems, and it is constructed to interact with powerful computing power, to solve complex problems more efficiently and with less human intervention in this Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous, Radicality, and Rapidity (VUCA-RR) world. To overcome VUCA-RR world, Industry 5.0 involves a combination of human and robotic systems for sustainable development. Managers, practitioners, researchers, and educators are scrambling to understand and implement the method as well as to find best practices toward Industry 5.0. This chapter will draw attention to research and practice topics in the VUCA-RR and business agility development methodology in perspective of Industry 5.0. © 2022 by Bulent Akkaya and Junaid Ahmed. All rights reserved.Item Item Agile management and VUCA 2.0 (VUCA-RR) during industry 4.0(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2022) Ahmed J.; Mrugalska B.; Akkaya B.The world is changing fast and pace of changes that are being observed since start of the twenty-first century have never been observed before. Due to such changes and their impact, world is described in terms of Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA). The trend of industry 4.0 is also said to be an another contributing factor into the VUCA environment. The VUCA creates a lot of challenges for organization from the perspective of management and leadership. Both business and leadership agility are needed more than VUCA as the VUCA world is becoming old. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to review the literature and to summarize the understanding with regard to managing VUCA-RR world in an era of Industry 4.0. Since the advent of term VUCA, many researchers have provided theoretical model and framework to guide managers regarding to their action and strategies. But, current research postulates based upon the literature that agile management's tools and techniques are highly effective in managing the situation of VUCA-RR in the era of Industry 4.0. The research concludes that Industry 4.0 together with VUCA-RR and indecently possess to change management challenges to organizations. The organization can be in better position to manage change management challenges posed by Industry 4.0 by implementing the agile management. The Industry 4.0 will latter compliment to agile management tools and techniques which will make any organization to become a better equipped to face the VUCA-RR world. The research has also concluded that agile management powered by Industry 4.0 enabling technologies presents enormous opportunity in the form of VUCA 2.0 (Vision, Understanding, Courage, Adoptability, Rapidity and Radicality) that can be used to square off the effect of VUCA-RR world. © 2022 by Junaid Ahmed, Beata Mrugalska and Bulent Akkaya. All rights reserved.Item Entrepreneurial University Concept Review from the Perspective of Academicians: A Mixed Method Research Analysis(MDPI, 2022) Coşkun H.E.; Popescu C.; Şahin Samaraz D.; Tabak A.; Akkaya B.Understanding the role of the factors that contribute to the development and growth of entrepreneurial universities is important for both the university itself and the global economy as a whole. Therefore, this study aimed to gain a deep understanding of the entrepreneurial university. The study was designed with a mixed-method approach in which quantitative and qualitative methods were used together. In the quantitative part of the mixed-method research, a systematic literature review of the entrepreneurial university concept was done and based on the results of the literature search obtained by quantitative methods, general concepts and categories and their relations with the contexts were revealed. In the qualitative part of the mixed-method research, in order to explain the entrepreneurial university understanding, semi-structured interviews were conducted with academicians in universities. According to the findings, it was found that conceptualization was very important to understand the entrepreneurial university. The university was considered as an institution that serves students and companies via some channels, such as research reports, an academic publication, or a patent received at the end of a project. As the entrepreneurial university paradigm is being studied by various institutions in the world, this study contributes to the literature both as a theoretical study and as a study that reveal the concepts of the entrepreneurial university. By providing a conceptual framework, the research will contribute to the literature as a theoretical study by aiming to explain the service systems (universities, government, firms) based on the exchange of skills and the creation of common value in the knowledge-based society on the entrepreneurial university paradigm, which is extremely popular in the world. Fındings from the systematic literature review and interviews with academicians were analysed comparatively, and a conceptual framework that evaluates the concepts and variables of the entrepreneurial university with a holistic view is presented. © 2022 by the authors.