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High performance work systems, integrating human resource practices and organizational strategy with an innovative perspective, emerge as a tool that needs to be emphasized in today's business environment. Especially it is predicted that organizational performance will increase with the increase of employee performance in organizations implementing high performance work systems. Within this context the main purpose of this research is to measure the mediating role of work engagement on the effect of high performance work systems on employee performance. The main contribution of this study into the field is to fill the gap about the lack of studies related to sub variables explaining the causality of the effect of high performance work systems on individual outcomes. The research was conducted on 314 employees who are working in service businesses having operations in Istanbul via questionnaire technique. Four different scales consisted of High Performance Work Systems Scale, Work Engagement Scale, Contextual Performance and Creative Performance Scales were used in the study. The scale for the study consists 47 statements. In order to analyze the gathered data via SPSS and AMOS statistical programs, factor analysis, reliability analysis and the structural equation modelling were used. As a result of the study, all proposed hypotheses were supported. Within the context of the study's main porpose, findings revealed that work engagement determined as a partial mediator on the effect of high performance work systems on employee performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study is to identify the strategic factors affecting the accounting manipulation risk. In order to determine these factors, firstly the accounting manipulation risk of the company listed in Istanbul Stock Exchange has been determined. After determining accounting manipulation risk in the study, in order to determine the strategic factors that are thought to be effective on the accounting manipulation risk, fraud triangle theory and organizational business strategies were utilized. As a result of the study, it has been concluded that 10 variables out of 44 financial and non-financial variables increase the accounting manipulation risk and 7 variables reduce the accounting manipulation risk and increase the quality of financial reporting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aims to reveal how employers learn the strategies of an organization and whether there are differences in ways of learning according to sectors. In this respect, a questionnaire was administered to the employers working in the private organizations located in Afyonkarahisar. In light of the findings, it can be claimed that while learning the strategies of the organization, employers usually prefer these strategies "meeting with the supervisor who is directly responsible for the issue", "individual meeting with the supervisor who is directly responsible for the issue", "meetings with the top managers for the purpose of information sharing", "materials such as slogans and t-shirts", "bulletins issues by the organization", or "the announcements in bulletin boards". Moreover, the strategies used by the employers vary from one sector to another (industry/service). Finally, suggestions were made for the future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]