exam periods, more and more students are looking for social environments to study alongside each other. Public places such as libraries, study landscapes, student restaurants are receiving large groups of students. Looking on the broad research literature related to this phenomenon we found two lines of theorizing and research that describe the same phenomenon, but could not offer us a satisfying explanation. On the one hand recent studies and projects have used thematic pedagogical concepts, such
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Behaviour & Information Technology Vol. 28, No. 4, July–August 2009, 323–334 The effect of online store atmosphere on consumer’s emotional responses – an experimental study of music and colour Fei-Fei Chenga, Chin-Shan Wub and David C. Yenc* a Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Yung-Kang, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China; bDepartment of Electronic Commerce, WuFeng Institute of Technology, Ming-Hsiung, Chia-yi, Taiwan, Republic of China; cDepartment
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Page 1 of 9 Original Research Transformational leadership in the South African public service after the April 2009 national elections Authors: Manasseh M. Mokgolo1 Patricia Mokgolo2 Mike Modiba3 Affiliations: 1 Department of Human Resources Management, University of South Africa, South Africa Learning and Development Unit, Tromso Management Consultants CC, Boyne, South Africa 2 Orientation: The implementation of transformational leadership in public services after national elections has
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he and his sons are of the most importance, and the mother and children are secondary. This type of hierarchy often leads to bullying that begins in the home, and leaks out into the community, sometimes even an entire culture. What evidence the literature available to date demonstrates ethnic groups, or culturally identified customs that promote bullying behaviors in men? When someone thinks of bullying, a typical image that comes to mind is a school hallway, a bigger kid throwing a smaller kid
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Equity Theory and Time: A Reformulation Author(s): Richard A. Cosier and Dan R. Dalton Source: The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Apr., 1983), pp. 311-319 Published by: Academy of Management Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/257759 . Accessed: 19/02/2014 05:31 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers
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Islamic University- Gaza Dean of Postgraduates Studies Faculty of Commerce Business Administration Department The Relationship between Leader-Member Exchange and Resistance to Change in Organizations: A case study on Mercy Corps (INGO) By Hazar Jaber Supervisor Dr. Sami Abou-Al-Ross A dissertation plan submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration Dec 2014 * Introduction Many research studies have shown that leaders
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1042-2587 © 2008 by Baylor University E T&P The Effect of Small Business Managers’ Growth Motivation on Firm Growth: A Longitudinal Study Frédéric Delmar1 Johan Wiklund This study addresses the role of small business managers’ growth motivation for business growth, taking into account the important effects of previous motives and feedback from earlier performance. We hypothesize that small business managers’ growth motivation has a unique influence on firm outcome measured as growth in sales
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PYC4802/101/0/2015 Tutorial letter 101/0/2015 Psychopathology PYC4802 Year module Department of Psychology IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. CONTENTS Page 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Turorial material ....................................................................................................... 4 2.
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variable of the hypothesized conceptual modal. However, in the literature review section, the author only reviewed the concept of “not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) conflict.” It confuses audiences that whether NIMBY is the only concept represented the anti-NPP attitude or there are any other attitudes were not mentioned. Thus, I suggest the authors should specify why NIMBY is the only attitude used to represent “anti-NPP attitude” in the literature review section or should just test the effect of “NIMBY”
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Human Resource Management Review 16 (2006) 155 – 180 www.socscinet.com/bam/humres The use of personality measures in personnel selection: What does current research support?☆ Mitchell G. Rothstein a,⁎, Richard D. Goffin b a Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7 b Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Canada Abstract With an eye toward research and practice, this article reviews and evaluates main trends that
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