...Helicopter Parenting Dawa Zangmu Paljor Sherpa Professor Vicki Villone English 102 29 January, 2015 Paljor Sherpa 1 Helicopter parents are so named because, like helicopters, they hover overhead, children will become dependent in life if their parents are always hovering over this.They pay extremely close attention to their kids lives, which includes their academic and personal lives. I choose this topic since I was quite in a shock to see different style of raising kids here and in my country. I migrated here to the States a year ago from my country Nepal with my family and planned to stay at my uncle's place for a few months who had been residing here for last 30 years. As the days passed by we all started beginning our day to day lives. Me and my younger brother attended school and parents went to work. First a few weeks, I was like a breathing statue who could not go to places on my own and would feel different talking to people. I did not feel that confident talking in English and interacting with people. I also got quite depressed with having no friends here. This seemed like a small issue to my parents and when I shared about it they always told me it will get better. But I started thinking and comparing myself to the other students here who were so confident in all the task they did. I am from an Asian background and have a totally different style of raising their children . Yes, every parent is worried about their kids future. Even my parents were, so they adopted...
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...| | | Direct and indirect effects of transformational leadership on innovative behavior | | | | | | Table of Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Theoretical framework 8 Leadership and innovative behavior 8 Transformational leadership and innovative behavior 9 The mediating role of affective commitment between transformational leadership and innovative behavior 11 The mediating role of innovative climate between transformational leadership and innovative behavior 15 The moderating role of affective commitment between transformational leadership and employees’ innovative behavior 18 The moderating role of innovative climate between transformational leadership and employees’ innovative behavior 19 Methods 20 Participants and Procedure 20 Measures 22 Data analysis 24 Results 25 Descriptive statistics and scales 25 Correlation analysis 26 Testing hypothesis 27 Discussion 29 Limitations and recommendations 33 Directions for future research 35 Practical implications 36 References 37 Appendix 42 Tables……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………42 Figures. 45 Company report 46 Abstract This study aims at investigating how transformational leaders directly and indirectly (via affective commitment to the organization, the career, the leader, and the team and innovative climate) affect employees’ innovative behavior. The hypotheses are tested by applying quantitative analyses to data collected from 39 employees of a...
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