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Participative management and its influence on organizational change
2012
PurposeThis paper aims to deal with the influence of a participatory management style along a change process, specifically in seeking to analyze the effect of participative management style on resistance to change and its effects on change performance.Design/methodology/approachAfter a revision of previous literature, an empirical research is presented to test the existence and signs of the relationships between participation and organizational change. To measure the main concepts, the authors have used scales and other measures already published and through a correlation analysis gain some insight into the relationships among variables.FindingsData suggest that participative management mig…
High-commitment work practices and the social responsibility issue: interaction and benefits
2021
Human Resource Management (HRM) has a potentially vital role to play in addressing the new challenges that companies have to face and in delivering initiatives in the framework of corporate sustainability. Our work attempts to shed light on the strategic role of High-Commitment Work Practices (HCWP) as a Corporate Sustainability (CS) partner and, more specifically, to analyze the implications of their integration on the competitiveness of the firm. With this purpose, we apply a qualitative methodology, using a single case study, to explore and explain why and how the interaction between HCWP and CS takes place. The results show how this interaction encourages the formulation and implementat…
Law of the Land: Shades of Nordic Noir in an Arctic Western
2020
Armoton maa (Law of the Land, Jussi Hiltunen, 2017) is a contemporary western set on a peripheral border region in western Lapland, Finland. Combining crime story and family drama, it is a complex case of genre hybridity. This chapter asks how Law of the Land adapts elements from Nordic noir and modifies the Lapland film, a mixture of films set in Lapland. The melancholy mood and the dark aesthetic links the film to Nordic noir, which has traveled to remote regions recently. However, Lapland can also be seen as a Finnish version of the Wild West. Law of the Land exemplifies both the mutation and vitality of Nordic noir as a style, demonstrating that it can be adapted by other genres, even b…
Organometallic complexes with biological molecules: XVI. Endocrine disruption effects of tributyltin(IV)chloride on metamorphosis of the ascidian lar…
2001
The effects of tributyltin(IV)chloride (TBT) on the metamorphosis of ascidian larvae of Ciona intestinalis, 2 h after hatching, were investigated. Ascidians are protochordates that lack thyroid follicles and possess thyroid hormones (THs) and their precursors, 3-monoiodo-tyrosine (MIT) and 3,5-diiodo-tyrosine (DIT), in their endostyle. According to recent findings, these hormones are also present at larval stages, localize in mesenchymal cells and their function seems to be mainly related to larval transformations. Here, we investigate the effects of TBT on thyroxine (T4) content and localization by exposing larvae of C. intestinalis for different times to TBT concentrations known to block …
The Indulgent Parenting Style and Developmental Outcomes in South European and Latin American Countries
2013
This chapter reviews recent literature analysing relationships between parenting styles and developmental outcomes. As opposed to traditional results obtained with Euro-American samples, evidence from emergent research in South European and Latin American countries indicates that adolescents from indulgent families scored equal or even better than those from authoritative families in many key indicators of psychosocial adjustment, and that the indulgent parenting appears as the optimum parenting style in these samples. This research suggests that authoritative parenting is not always necessarily associated with optimum developmental outcomes and that relationships between parenting styles a…
Adaptive use patterns of secondary school classroom environments
2006
Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate how secondary school teachers adaptively make use of the classroom learning environment. The approach illustrates the intimate relationship between teaching style, learning style and the adaptive use of space as well as the preferences for different learning environments.Design/methodology/approach – A multi method study approach was used to carry out the research. Two main methods were used in the study. In the first method, trainee teachers recorded spatial observations (mapping). Maps of the chemistry classrooms were produced. The observers marked all fixed, semi‐fixed and flexible elements in the classroom space. The second method…
PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE FOR SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION INTO THE LABOUR MARKET
2019
Good knowledge of a foreign language is an important factor contributing to the professional recognition and career prospects. In order to improve professional foreign language competence, the study of the situation in professional foreign language teaching and learning was carried out in three business sectors: logistics, transport, service industry. The survey was carried among three target groups: employers, foreign language teachers and students. Employers were asked to name language skills which employees need most to perform work, to express an opinion on the role of employers in the English language learning process as well as to identify topics, most common words, phrases, or specif…
Personalization of immediate feedback to learning styles
2007
Feedback provided to a user is an important part of learning and interaction in e-learning systems. In this paper we present the results of our pilot experiment aimed to study interrelation between several types of immediate feedback presentation and learning styles (LSs) of users. In the experiment we used the feedback supported by quiz module of moodle learning system. The obtained results demonstrate tendencies in interrelation between LS and immediate/summative feedback presentation and we suggest three hypotheses for future research.
Estilos de aprendizaje en estudiantes universitarios y enseñanza centrada en el aprendizaje
2017
El objetivo de este trabajo era valorar el impacto de los métodos centrados en el aprendizaje, implementados por cuatro profesores/as, en los estilos de aprendizaje de los alumnos de la asignatura de Procesos y Contextos Educativos en el Máster de Educación Secundaria de la Universidad de Valencia. También se pretendía analizar la valoración del alumnado sobre los métodos utilizados. La muestra fue de 117 estudiantes, que cursaban estos estudios durante el curso 2014-15, repartidos en cuatro grupos de cuatro especialidades diferentes. Se usó un diseño cuasiexperimental, con medidas de pretest/postest, mediante el cuestionario ILS (Learning Styles Inventory) de Vermunt (1994); además, el alu…
Technology’s aid to learning and learners with differerent learning styles : Pupils’ assessment
2009
Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli lähteä selvittämään erilaisten oppijoiden käsityksiä teknisten apuvälineiden käytön hyödyllisyydestä heidän oppimiselleen. Tutkimuksessa etsitään vastauksia muun muassa seuraavanlaisiin kysymyksiin: Mitkä ovat oppilaiden omat kokemukset siitä kuinka teknisten apuvälineiden käyttö opetuksessa hyödyttää heitä parhaiten? Mitkä apuvälineet ovat toimivimpia ja millä tavalla he kokevat hyötyvänsä niiden käytöstä? Lisäksi tutkimuksessa sivutaan kysymyksiä siitä, miten erilaisten teknisten apuvälineiden käyttö ottaa erilaiset oppimistyylit huomioon sekä miten se hyödyttää erilaisia oppijoita. Tutkimus pyrkii myös selvittämään, vastaako oppilaan oppimistyyli hänen omia…