This study, which is based on a PhD thesis; examines, with an integrative perspective, the effects of employees’ perceptions about the empowering behavior of their immediate supervisor on employees’ psychological empowerment, and the effects of employees’ psychological empowerment on their job satisfaction, extrinsic reward satisfaction, affective commitment towards their organizations, turnover intentions; and task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. In addition, this study makes comparisons between the strength of some of the hypothesized relationships.

The primary finding of the study is that there is a strong relationship between enhancing meaningfulness- providing autonomy dimension of empowering behavior of supervisors and employees’ psychological empowerment. Another important finding is that there are positive relationships between empowering behavior of supervisors and employees’ job satisfaction, extrinsic reward satisfaction, and affective commitment.

The results also indicate that the impact of empowerment on job satisfaction is stronger than that on extrinsic reward satisfaction, and the impact of job satisfaction on turnover intention is stronger than that of extrinsic reward satisfaction. Finally, there are negative influences of empowerment on employees’ task performance and organizational citizenship behavior.

Understanding the behavior of asset prices is essential in evaluating investment decisions so that practitioners and academics have been investigating what assets are worth and whether asset prices are predictable. The degree of stock return predictability is a statistical concept and totally an empirical issue. In this study, we conduct an empirical application on the equity premium forecastability concept. We consider both macroeconomic and technical indicators in order to predict the equity risk premiums of selected thirteen stock markets including Belgium, Greece, Malaysia, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Brazil, Hong-Kong, India, Russia, and South Africa. Incorporating information from all indicators including domestic and foreign macroeconomic indicators, oil price changes, and technical indicators provides in-sample fitting gains. Out-of-sample forecasting results show that the strategy of combining forecasts provides out-of-sample gains. Portfolio performance analyses suggests following the forecasts generated by the proposed models to obtain positive returns over the buy-and-hold strategy.

Bu kitap, parlamentolarda diasporaların temsilinin karşılaştırmalı olarak ele alındığı önemli bir çalışma olarak ciddi bir boşluk dolduracaktır. Türkiye’nin yurt dışında yaşayan seçmenlere oy kullanma hakkını yaygın olarak kullandırmaya başladığı  2014 yılından beri giderek artan katılımla beraber parlamento temsil hakkının da tartışılmaya açıldığı dönemde gelecek için ışık tutacak bir çalışma olacaktır.

Mehmet KÖSE

Yurtdışı Türkler ve Akraba Topluluklar Başkanlığı’nın (YTB) eski Başkanı

Sağlıklı bir diaspora politikası olmayan devletler genelde sağlıklı bir göçmen politikası da üretemezler. Göç olgusunun her geçen gün arttığı bir dönemde diasporanın temsili meselesi Türkiye için kilit konulardan birisidir. Bu kitap karşılaştırmalı bir açıdan Türkiye için örnekler sunmakta ve diasporanın mecliste temsilinin sistemsel, hukuksal ve siyasi olarak nasıl mümkün olabileceğine dair kapsamlı bir yaklaşım geliştirmektedir. Türkiye’de alanında ilklerden olan bu kitabı siyaset bilimi ve uluslararası ilişkilerle hem teorik hem de pratik olarak ilgilenenlere özellikle tavsiye ederim.

Doç. Dr. Mehmet ÖZKAN

Center for Global Policy, Washington DC, ABD