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The Moderating Role of Board Monitoring Power in the Relationship between Environmental Conditions and Corporate Social Responsibility

Is the relationship between environmental munificence, dynamism, and corporate social responsibility contingent on board monitoring power? This is the research question examined in this study of an international sample of 956 listed firms from 2006 to 2014. After applying several regression models for panel data based on Tobit and generalized method of moments' (GMM) estimation, this paper supports the assertion that in munificent and dynamic environments, managers show a lower commitment to social and environmental issues. Proactive promotion of social and environmental concerns only occurs in firms with efficient internal corporate governance mechanisms, resulting in a moderating effect of board monitoring power&#8212;board independence and non&#8208;duality of CEO&#8212;on the association between environmental conditions and corporate social responsibility. Theoretically, this moderating effect triggers managers to increase their socially responsible performance in munificent and dynamic environments because: (a) these boards reinforce the orientation of a firm towards the meeting of stakeholders' expectations; and (b) managers aim to protect themselves from the greater supervision and control exerted by the board in order to maintain their decision&#8208;making freedom in environments of superior growth, resources, market uncertainty, and instability.
Entrepreneurship Education's Impact on Entrepreneurial Intention Using the Theory of Planned Behavior: Evidence From Chinese Vocational College Students

This study is the first to examine the impact of entrepreneurship education (EE) on entrepreneurial intention (EI) among vocational college students in China. Using the Theory of Planned Behavior and the EI Questionnaire the study investigates the relationships between EI, its antecedents and EE. The data were collected by surveying 383 vocational college students in Wuxi, Jiangsu, in the People's Republic of China. The researcher used Least-Squares Regression modeling to find significant positive relationships between personal attitude, perceived behavioral control, and EE with EI. Mediation analysis found personal attitude to partially mediate the EE–EI relationship. The results suggest EE is effective in stimulating EI in China. This study provides implications to policy-makers, vocational institutions, and scholars given the current state of China's economy, recent government policies, and the ongoing debate surrounding the EE–EI relationship.
THE EFFECT OF JOB SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATION COMMITMENT TO JOB PERFORMANCE THROUGH ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR (OCB) AS MEDITATION VARIABLE (EMPIRIS STUDY ON PT. BANK MANDIRI AT JAKARTA)

Global competition requires organization to adapt to the ever-rapidly changing ways to do business in the global environment in order to keep survive. The success of the organization does not only depend on facility and infrastructure that is available but also on their employes performance. Therefore, an organization needs to realize how important the role of their employes for the triumph of the organization. The objective of this research is to find out the effect of job satisfaction and organization commitment to job performance through Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) as meditation variable. There were 131 respondents of employee participating Respondents in this study were only limited to level of the Staff (clerk) until the Department Head only.The additional information gathered through focus group discussion with Human Resources Managers. The summary of this research is there is effect of job satisfaction to job performance but not significant, there is effect of organization commitment to job performance but not significant, there is effect Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) to job performance, there is significant effect of job satisfaction to job performance through OCB as meditation variable and there is significant organization commitment to job performance through OCB as meditation variable.
Participation in voluntary associations: How membership in a formal organization changes the rewards of participation

Author(s): Pearce, Jone | Editor(s): Smith, David Horton; Van Til, Jon | Abstract: wnen an individual decides to volunteer he or she does so for some reason, or reasons; the reasons are personal and, no doubt, vary from the altruistic to the venal. When voluntary associations recruit volunteers they appeal to what they assume to be their members' reasons for volunteering. Yet, it is argued here that participation in formal organizations, itself, changes the reasons why volunteers participate. The rewards individuals expected from volunteering are often not the rewards most salient to them once they have become volunteers. Further, this shift in the rewards of volunteering, if not anticipated and managed, can result in the rapid departure of many new volunteers.
Level of Understanding and Attitudes Towards Poverty, Confidence Working With Individuals Experiencing Poverty, and Active Learning of Health Coaches Participating in a Poverty Simulation

More than 39 million (12.3%) people in the U.S. live in poverty. Health plans have an invested interest in the impact of the social determinants of health and poverty on health outcomes because of the effect on healthcare and spending. The Community Action Poverty Simulation© (CAPS) is a learning tool created to help people understand the realities of living in poverty. During the simulation, participants role-play the lives of low-income families for one month over a several-hour training period. The purpose of this study was (1) to evaluate health coaches’ pre/post levels of understanding of and attitudes towards poverty, and confidence working with individuals experiencing poverty, and whether these differ by demographics; and (2) to evaluate the health coaches’ level of active learning after attending the CAPS. The study design was a needs assessment with a single group, pre /post design including 24 health coaches in a health plan setting. Overall, health coaches demonstrated significant improvements in their understanding, attitudes, and confidence after participating in the CAPS training. Further, a majority of coaches reported high levels of active learning. The results of this study have implications for potential positive social change on the individual, organizational, and community levels. Specifically, this study provides initial evidence of how participating in a poverty simulation has the potential to increase coaches’ understanding of poverty, improve attitudes towards those living in poverty, and inspire action in the own community to help those living in poverty.
Students’ Attitude and Behavioural Intention on Adoption of Internet for Learning among Al-Hikmah University Students in Nigeria: A Test of Technology Acceptance Model

This study was conducted to understand students’ attitudes and behavioural intention toward the adoption of the Internet for learning. To gather data for the study, 200 questionnaires were administered to undergraduate students of Al-Hikmah University in Ilorin, Nigeria. Of these questionnaires, 164 were included in the study. The study was theory-driven. Structural equation model (SEM) was used as a statistical tool for analysing the hypotheses of the study. The study’s findings revealed that perceived usefulness was the strongest determinant for the adoption of the Internet for learning. Further, the students’ attitudes were found to significantly influence their adoption of the Internet for learning. However, the facilitating condition was found to be statistically insignificant in influencing the student adoption of the Internet for learning. These findings have implications for Internet users and the providers for educational activities.
Two decades of Bedouin resistance and survival under Israeli military rule, 1948–1967

Abstract Using archival data and newspaper collections from Britain and Israel, and extensive fieldwork interviews in the Naqab, this article breaks new ground through a critical examination of the Bedouin and their way of surviving and resisting Israeli military rule, 1948–1967. I argue that creative nonviolent resistance, everyday resistance and sumud (steadfastness and resilience), succeeded in modifying and mitigating the military rule strategies deployed by the state to control the Arab Bedouin, opening up the possibility of further political action and communal protection. By employing sumud as everyday resistance, the Bedouin improved their livelihood, strengthened one another and helped consolidate sumud, to the point where sumud became part of their culture and way of life during the military rule. Everyday sumud strategies were through border economy and contact with their relatives across the border, which utilized the strong relationships between tribes. Smuggling goods was a central form of economic survival and sumud. Everyday resistance and nonviolent actions succeeded in marginalizing military rules, restrictions, and power, allowing the Bedouin to gain immediate benefits including many of their daily needs. The Bedouin maintained their cross-border relations and continued to resist cooperation with the Israeli military rule. Hosting their fellow refugees was a daily act of sumud by the Bedouin despite the imposition of new state borders. The Bedouin also found different avenues to claim their dispossessed properties, and continued to resist Israeli confiscation of their land. They lodged land claims through every level of military rule, responding to different Israeli forms of power and the effect of domination.
Managing psychological safety in debriefings: a dynamic balancing act

Debriefings should promote reflection and help learners make sense of events. Threats to psychological safety can undermine reflective learning conversations and may inhibit transfer of key lessons from simulated cases to the general patient care context. Therefore, effective debriefings require high degrees of psychological safety—the perception that it is safe to take interpersonal risks and that one will not be embarrassed, rejected or otherwise punished for speaking their mind, not knowing or asking questions. The role of introductions, learning contracts and prebriefing in establishing psychological safety is well described in the literature. How to maintain psychological safety, while also being able to identify and restore psychological safety during debriefings, is less well understood. This review has several aims. First, we provide a detailed definition of psychological safety and justify its importance for debriefings. Second, we recommend specific strategies debriefers can use throughout the debriefing to build and maintain psychological safety. We base these recommendations on a literature review and on our own experiences as simulation educators. Third, we examine how debriefers might actively address perceived breaches to restore psychological safety. Re-establishing psychological safety after temporary threats or breaches can seem particularly daunting. To demystify this process, we invoke the metaphor of a ‘safe container’ for learning; a space where learners can feel secure enough to work at the edge of expertise without threat of humiliation. We conclude with a discussion of limitations and implications, particularly with respect to faculty development.
The Ambiguity of E-Cigarettes: E-Cigarettes as Boundary Objects

This paper explores the perceptions of e-cigarettes held by e-cigarette users and stop smoking advisors in South East England in the United Kingdom (UK). This qualitative study draws on two thematically analyzed datasets: semi-structured interviews with 15 e-cigarette users and 13 stop smoking advisors between 2014 and 2015. The paper applies the Boundary Objects Theory and discusses how e-cigarettes as boundary objects function as both translational and facilitative objects. The data exhibited an ambiguity regarding e-cigarettes’ status, efficacy and potential risks and varied goals of using e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes’ flexibility allowed for divergent interpretations to co-exist. It is due to the disagreement and different social meanings allocated to e-cigarettes that the boundary objects have formed. As translational boundary objects, e-cigarettes enabled people from multiple social worlds and different conceptions, of nicotine, smoking and e-cigarettes, to agree on similar meanings without consensus. As facilitative boundary objects, e-cigarettes facilitated the acceptance of harm reduction practices. The data showed a potential for social change towards a socially acceptable recreational use of nicotine that mimics smoking. E-cigarettes allowed for the emergence of a new social phenomenon where the boundaries between medicinal and recreational nicotine are reformed.
The Teacher’s Role in Telecollaborative Language Learning: The Case of Institutional Integrated Teletandem

ABSTRACT Teletandeem is a model of telecollaboration in which pairs of speakers of different languages meet virtually and regularly in order to learn each other’s language. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the pedagogical implications of integrating teletandem into the foreign language syllabus, focusing on the professor’s dual role: teaching English in regular face-to-face lessons and mediating virtual autonomous and collaborative learning in teletandem. Learning diaries, produced by EFL students from a Language Teacher Education course, were collected during eight weeks of an institutional integrated teletandem project between a Brazilian and a British university. Our analysis focused on the teacher’s role in mediating foreign language learning both in the classroom and through the learning diaries. We present evidence on what the professor does so that teletandem practice can contribute to language learning in the classroom and, by the same token, how EFL lessons can aid in autonomous telecollaborative learning.
The Effect of Simulation-Based Training on Nursing Students’ Communication Skill, Self-Efficacy and Clinical Competence for Nursing Practice

Background: Simulation-based training is a new strategy in teaching that gives the students good opportunities to learn and apply what they learn in nursing care safely. Aim: This study conducted to evaluate the effects of simulation-based training on nursing students’ communication skill, self-efficacy and clinical competence in practice. Subjects and Methods: Quiz-experimental design was used in this study (pre-posttest intervention), it was carried out on 100 nursing students first semester in 2019 using low and high-fidelity simulators. This study was carried out at College of Applied Medical Sciences-Bshia University. Data Collection: demographic data, communication skill, self-efficacy and clinical competence questionnaires. Analysis is done by SPSS version 20 software. Results: Participants who received the simulation-based training, showed statistical significant improvement in communication skill, self-efficacy, and clinical competence scores after participation in the simulation program (t = −32.64, p = 0.001; t = −19.9, p = 0.001; 16.4, p = 0.001). Also, there are significant relation between gender and clinical competency (t = 2.768, p < 0.05). Conclusion: Simulation-based training in medical courses is effective in enhancing communication skill, self-efficacy and clinical competence. Multiple-patient simulations as a teaching-learning strategy in the nursing curriculum are highly recommended.
Proceedings of the Sixth Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank Modulation of Brain Networks and Application of Advanced Neuroimaging, Neurophysiology, and Optogenetics

The annual deep brain stimulation (DBS) Think Tank aims to create an opportunity for a multidisciplinary discussion in the field of neuromodulation to examine developments, opportunities and challenges in the field. The proceedings of the Sixth Annual Think Tank recapitulate progress in applications of neurotechnology, neurophysiology, and emerging techniques for the treatment of a range of psychiatric and neurological conditions including Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, Tourette syndrome, epilepsy, cognitive disorders, and addiction. Each section of this overview provides insight about the understanding of neuromodulation for specific disease and discusses current challenges and future directions. This year’s report addresses key issues in implementing advanced neurophysiological techniques, evolving use of novel modulation techniques to deliver DBS, ans improved neuroimaging techniques. The proceedings also offer insights into the new era of brain network neuromodulation and connectomic DBS to define and target dysfunctional brain networks. The proceedings also focused on innovations in applications and understanding of adaptive DBS (closed-loop systems), the use and applications of optogenetics in the field of neurostimulation and the need to develop databases for DBS indications. Finally, updates on neuroethical, legal, social, and policy issues relevant to DBS research are discussed.
An Evaluation of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program

Sevy Majers, Joan. D.N. P. College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Wright State University, 2014. An Evaluation of the Chronic Disease SelfManagement Program The prevalence and costs of chronic disease continue to escalate with the aging of the population and continued advancements in medical care. Self-management of chronic disease may be an alternative approach to care that could assist in moving away from a disease-oriented model to health-oriented one. Outcomes from chronic disease selfmanagement programs are promising but inconsistent across disease entities and populations. Among the Veteran population, chronic disease self-management programs have been implemented in a number of Veteran Affairs facilities. The purpose of this project was to evaluate specific outcomes from the chronic disease self-management program conducted in the five medical centers that comprise the Veterans Integrated Services Network 10. Selected outcome variables included perceived self-efficacy, utilization and cost of healthcare services. Findings were consistent with some of the evidence noted in the literature review. Although there was not a means of determining significance in perceived self-efficacy measurements by participants after the intervention, as seen consistently in the evidence, there were obvious differences in scores, indicating that for some of the participants the intervention made an impact. No significant reductions in service volumes or costs occurred six months after completion of the workshops. A small decrease was seen in the numbers and costs of outpatient visits. Mean hospital days emergency department visits
Stories from people living with frailty

Abstract We describe the findings of a qualitative longitudinal interview study of a group of initially community-dwelling frail older people, and their informal and formal carers. We used a narrative approach to explore the role that narrative may have for people living with frailty. This has been less explored comparative to the experiences of those living with chronic illness. The frail older people told stories of their experiences that revealed three distinct shapes or typologies. These were either stable, unbalancing or overwhelmed, and related to how the person managed to adapt to increasing challenges and losses, and to reintegrate their sense of self into a cohesive narrative. Each is illustrated by an individual case story. Frailty is described as both biographically anticipated yet potentially biographically disruptive as older people may struggle to make sense of their circumstances without a clear single causative factor. Findings are discussed in relation to biographical disruption and reconstruction in chronic illness and the rhetoric around ‘successful ageing’. We conclude by drawing attention to the complex individual and social factors that contribute to the experience of living with frailty in later life.
Humorous Communication and Comprehension: Manipulation and Epistemic Vigilance

This paper takes an integrative approach to the communication and comprehension of humor from the perspectives of the humorist’s manipulation and the recipient’s vigilance informed by relevance theory. It is proposed that, in order to communicate humor, the humorist manipulates the recipient’s expectation of relevance in the setup and in the punchline in two different but related ways: misleading and guiding. It is also proposed that, in order to comprehend and appreciate humor, the recipient exercises vigilance against his/her own shallow processing in the setup and exercises vigilance for special cognitive effects in the punchline. On this approach, humorous communication and comprehension is viewed as an interaction between manipulation and epistemic vigilance. Strategies of manipulation and vigilance are described, and some essential issues arising from the relevance-theoretic approach to humor are reconsidered with some implications drawn. This paper contributes to enhancing the explanatory power of relevance theory for the communication and comprehension of humor.
Fear of crime and related factors in relatives of individuals with mental disorders

This study was conducted to investigate the fear of crime among relatives of individuals with mental disorders. The study was a cross-sectional epidemiological study. The sample consisted of 545 people. A questionnaire to collect data was developed by the researchers using the literature. 11.0% of the women and 19.4% of the men stated that their exposure to crime had decreased. Patients’ relatives felt that the most disturbing behavior of other people towards their relatives was stigmatization (47.3%), while what made patients’ relatives happiest was when other people talked and chatted to the patient (80.3%). The fear of crime in family members of individuals with mental disorders was found to be greater in women. The family members who participated in the study were found to fear their relatives being victims of crime due to stigmatization and social exclusion.