and workforce in India are becoming more diverse every day. In fact, workplace diversity is considered a major challenge and opportunity for human resource management. It makes integration both difficult and easy depending on how diversity is viewed and used. The sources of diversity and its uses make a difference to what it means and how it impinges on organizational purpose and human behaviour at the workplace and beyond. Workplace diversity in India may have been partly inherited from centuries of
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Introduction This thesis explores Social Networking sites as a medium of expression for sexual identity construction; more specifically the research question aimed to explore how gay and lesbian individuals use social networking websites as a means to construct and explore their sexual identities through self presentation on conventional social networking sites (SNS) available and used by everybody versus LGB SNS which are primarily used by Lesbian/Gay and Bisexual individuals and groups. Through
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woman managerial approach, such as transformational leadership style, can be effective for organization to reach their goals. It is so obvious that leadership is normally dominated by men. While women have some advantages and disadvantages, also prejudice and differ style of leadership. It is very
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Gender-Based Analyses of Stress Among Professional Managers: An Exploratory Qualitative Study Yoshi Iwasaki, Kelly J. MacKay, and Janice Ristock University of Manitoba The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of stress among both female and male managers, using a series of single-sex and mixed focus groups. In addition to substantial similarities between female and male participants’ descriptions about their experiences of stress (e.g., negative and positive aspects of stress
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Exposing police officers to a specific leadership style may influence the dynamics in the use-of-force behavior during arrests or other police actions. Evaluating a non-experimental ex post facto field scenario and comparing these results with perceived leadership styles of the supervisors was a primary function of this study. Results from using the Multifactor Leadership questionnaire; both Rater and Leader forms were used to gather additional information. Fifteen officers participated in the role
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0959-0552.htm The Body Shop and the role of design in retail branding Tony Kent and Dominic Stone The School of Creative Enterprise, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London, UK Abstract Purpose – To demonstrate how a company’s retail store design relates to its brand and is influenced by, and contributes to, its corporate values. Design/methodology/approach – The case
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Loyalty Enhancing Communication for Telecom Customer Relationships | A Qualitative Study of Telecom Customers | Salman Ahmad Awan & Muzafar Said | Abstract The telecommunication business has been transformed in Sweden through the past few years. Previously telecom industry was under monopoly which has now been converted into more competitive market in which more competitors have entered and offering various alternatives of different kinds of services. TeliaSonera has been one
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ANRV296-PS58-19 ARI 17 November 2006 1:33 Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2007.58:479-514. Downloaded from arjournals.annualreviews.org by University Of Maryland on 12/11/06. For personal use only. Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavior Michele J. Gelfand,1 Miriam Erez,2 and Zeynep Aycan3 1 Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742; email: mgelfand@psyc.umd.edu 2 Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel 32000; email:
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Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation Chelyabinsk State University Faculty of Linguistics and Translation Department of Theory and Practice of the English Language Intercultural Communication Project Stereotypes of gender roles in Egypt and Russia Written by: Elena Yakusheva Group: LIE – 503 Chelyabinsk, 2014 Table of contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………...3 Part one GENDER STEREOTYPES THEORY. …………………………….........6 1.1 Stereotypes: definition and functions…………………………………………
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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT REVIEW March 2004 Chris Maxwell © State of Victoria Printed by State of Victoria, March 2004 ISBN 1920921044 This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from State of Victoria. Disclaimer: The content in this report is provided for information purposes only. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not purport to represent
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