STRESS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL, GROUP AND ORGANISATIONAL POINTS OF VIEW. Work stress is recognised world-wide as a major challenge to workers health and the healthiness of their organization. Workers who are stressed are also more likely to be unhealthy, poor motivated, less productive and less safe at work. Their organisations are less likely to be successful in a competitive market. Stress can be brought about by pressures at home and at work. Employers cannot usually protect workers from stress
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information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . The University of Chicago Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to American Journal of Sociology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 158.143.192.135 on Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:39:24 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness' Mark Granovetter State University of New York at Stony Brook How behavior and institutions
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Dean: Arthur Lee Smith, Ph.D. Date ABSTRACT Evidence from numerous studies suggests that Organizational Commitment (OC) among employees diminishes because of downsizing. A high level of OC is shown to produce a positive effect on job performance, absenteeism, and turnover. The problem addressed in this study is the decline in organizational commitment among American workers and what, if anything, management can do to address this issue. Emotional Intelligence (El) among workers and managers has
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It is intellectually interesting, and evocative. It provides us with a perspective on organizational issues that is typically glossed. It opens an arena for organizational analysis that is missed in r most theoretical frameworks. Tempered radicals, Meyerson and Scully argue, are individuals who identify with and are committed to their organizations and also to a cause, community or ideology that is fundamentally different from, and possibly at odds with, the dominant culture of their organization
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Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act – CAPTA) “Child abuse is a very complex and dangerous set of problems that include child neglect and the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of children.” (MedicineNet.com) “Child abuse is the physical and/or psychological/emotional mistreatment of children”. (Wikipedia) “Institutional Abuse or Neglect is that which occurs in any facility for children, including, but not limited to, group homes, residential or public or private schools,
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and lifestyle and the way these types of features affect the actual efficiency from the organisation in the business industry. This particular research will target those activities connected with Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Apple regarding their design and lifestyle and also the variables affecting individual behaviour at work. It will likewise decrease the character connected with organizations and social behaviour from the enterprises and will measured the elements that may support or restrain the
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1 CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND TO AND OVERVIEW OF THE RESEARCH 1.1 INTRODUCTION This study focuses on the influence of job satisfaction on burnout among pharmaceutical sales representatives. Chapter 1 deals with the background to the research, the problem statement and the research questions, the aims of the study, the paradigm perspectives of the research, the research design, the research methodology and the layout of the chapters. 1.2 BACKGROUND TO THE RESEARCH People are a vital component
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Psychological Review 2005, Vol. 112, No. 3, 629 – 649 Copyright 2005 by the American Psychological Association 0033-295X/05/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.112.3.629 Toward a More Pragmatic Approach to Morality: A Critical Evaluation of Kohlberg’s Model Dennis L. Krebs and Kathy Denton Simon Fraser University In this article, the authors evaluate L. Kohlberg’s (1984) cognitive– developmental approach to morality, find it wanting, and introduce a more pragmatic approach. They review research
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of information. This transition of technology leads and abducts the user to a simulated world created by the advent of internet known as “cyberspace”. The mass audience seems to have separating meter or real from virtual world. It is not surprising that even socialization was also a big issue to the internet journey. According to most social scientists,Socialization essentially represents the whole process of learning throughout the life course and is a central influence on the behavior, beliefs
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Iranian Journal of Management Studies (IJMS) Vol 3. No.3 January 2010 pp: 91- 111 Survey of leadership styles in different cultures Gholamreza Taleghani1* , Davood Salmani2 , Ali Taatian3 1. Faculty of managemenet, Uniersity of Tehran 2. Faculty of managemenet, Uniersity of Tehran 3. Master of Arts Abstract: Leadership is in fact a process of influencing followers. Characteristics of leadership are functions of time and situation and differ in different cultures and countries. Managers
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