Working It Out
The Impact of Authentic Leadership on Workplace Well-Being with Organizational Belonging as a Mediator: A Study of Generation Z Employees in Indonesia View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Rahmayanti Sayahdi
Generation Z (Gen Z), born between 1995 and 2009, is projected to comprise 30% of the global workforce by 2030. With distinct values, aspirations, and preferences, Gen Z requires focused organizational attention, particularly regarding workplace well-being. Research highlights their strong preference for authentic leadership and supportive work environments. However, this generation also exhibits heightened vulnerability to stress and diminished well-being, which can negatively affect productivity and organizational outcomes. Workplace well-being has become a critical determinant of organizational success, reflecting the increasing demand for environments that prioritize employee welfare. Leadership plays a pivotal role in shaping workplace dynamics. Toxic leadership is associated with detrimental effects on employees' mental and physical health, while authentic leadership, characterized by relational transparency, self-awareness, balanced processing, and internalized moral perspective, has been shown to enhance well-being. This study investigates the impact of authentic leadership on workplace well-being, with organizational belonging as a mediating variable. Using a quantitative methodology, data were collected from Gen Z employees across various sectors in Indonesia through surveys measuring authentic leadership, organizational belonging, and workplace well-being. The data were analyzed using multiple mediation analysis with SmartPLS 4. The findings contribute to the academic discourse on leadership, organizational belonging, and workplace well-being, with a particular focus on Generation Z. Additionally, this research provides practical recommendations for organizations seeking to enhance workplace well-being by fostering authentic leadership practices and cultivating organizational belonging among employees.
Cultural Identity and Social Advocacy Rhetoric: The Black Lives Matter Movement and the Palestinian Cause through a Socio-Cognitive Lens View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Rima Jamil Malkawi
The study investigates the dynamic interplay between the cultural identity of advocates and the advocacy rhetoric of social movements, particularly the Black Lives Matter movement and the Palestinian Cause. It explores the impact of the cultural identity of advocates on shaping their linguistic and rhetorical techniques to contest power structures and address dominant social norms and ideologies. This study employs Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of Critical Discourse Analysis to conduct a cross-cultural qualitative analysis of 20 speeches delivered by four influential advocates: Khaled Beydoun and Richard Barrett (the Palestinian cause) and Time Wise and Shaun King (Black Lives Matter Movement). The analysis encompasses two steps: a microstructure and a macrostructure analysis. The findings of the microstructure analysis showcase marked and discursive choices of syntactic structure (e.g., passive and active voice, pronouns, and nominalization), the fusion of both culture-generic and culture-specific terms, and the use of distinguished rhetorical strategies (e.g., storytelling, parallelism, historical analogy, rhetorical questions, and enumeration). The findings of the macrostructure reveal how cultural identity influences the advocates’ mental representation of their cause, consequently shaping the audience’s perceptions and interpretation of the cause. Consequently, the study underscores the vital role of cultural identity in shaping advocacy rhetoric, effectively engaging not only the advocates’ immediate communities but also the mass audiences with access to these messages worldwide. It provides a tailored, novel framework deduced and driven from research analysis and findings. This framework can enable linguists, analysts, and researchers to systematically examine linguistic markers and cultural nuances in advocacy rhetoric.
Protecting the Image of the Employee in the Age of Digital Technologies: The Legal Position View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Aneta Giedrewicz Niewińska
With the development of digital technologies used in workplaces to process personal data and control employees, the threat of unwarranted intrusion into the sphere of privacy of a person performing subordinate work is constantly increasing, not only by the employer but also by third parties. Not insignificant to this phenomenon is the popularity of remote work and contact via video conferencing. Protecting the right of publicity is an issue of great social importance. The purpose of this study is to analyse the legal issues that arise from processing personal data related to an employee's image by an employer. The analysis of these problems will define the boundaries within which the employer's actions should fall. In addition, processing one-, two- and three-dimensional images of an employee's face, including biometric techniques, is becoming increasingly popular. Topics to be analysed include: video surveillance in the workplace, the obligation to use badges with a facial image, and sharing the employee's facial image in connection with the employer's information and promotional activities, e.g. in promotional leaflets, offers presented at trade fairs, promotional films. Answering the posed questions and achieving the set objectives will necessitate the application of the dogmatic-legal methods.
