scholarly journals Strategic Conflict Management? A Study of Workplace Dispute Resolution in Wales

ILR Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nash ◽  
Deborah Hann
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
High Road ◽  
Strategic Conflict

In this article, the authors examine the relationship between organizational strategy and the approach taken to conflict management using a large-scale survey of companies in Wales, a constituent part of the United Kingdom. They focus on conflicts among employees, an under-researched form of conflict, to examine which types of organizations adopt a more strategic approach to conflict management that aligns with broader HR objectives. They find that organizations with a unitarist, and often anti-union, orientation are more likely to make strategic choices about how they address conflict. Equally, the authors argue that some evidence suggests that organizations that take high-road approaches to HR are more likely to take an intentional approach to how they address conflict.

Different Sides of the Same Coin: Mixed Views of Public Relations Practitioners and Journalists for Strategic Conflict Management

2005 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Hwa Shin ◽  
Glen T. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Strategic Choice ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Web Survey ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Strategic Conflict

A Web survey of 641 public relations practitioners and journalists showed that the source-reporter relationship is conflictual, involving stratagems on both sides. Coorientational analysis simultaneously showed the “mixed views” of the two professions on two dimensions of “conflict” and “strategy.” Both professions disagreed and inaccurately predicted responses of the other. Their inaccurate projection about the views of the other profession was greater than their disagreement, resulting in false dissensus. Nevertheless, the perceived conflict between the two professions appeared to be a strategic choice. Practitioners have a tendency to be accommodative or cooperative, whereas journalists are oriented to conflict as part of their strategic approach to dealing with sources.

scholarly journals Knowledge and the News: An Investigation of the Relation Between News Use, News Avoidance, and the Presence of (Mis)beliefs

2021 ◽  
pp. 194016122110314
Author(s):  
Alyt Damstra ◽  
Rens Vliegenthart ◽  
Hajo Boomgaarden ◽  
Kathrin Glüer ◽  
Elina Lindgren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
News Use

While increasing scholarly attention has been devoted to news avoidance, there are only few studies taking the distinction between intentional and unintentional news avoidance into consideration, and none that has investigated the linkage between the two types of news avoidance and knowledge about politics and society. To fill this void, this study explores this relationship while distinguishing between knowledge related to uncontested issues and knowledge related to issues that have been subject to public controversies (climate change, vaccination, genetically modified organisms, crime, and immigration). Relying on a large-scale survey among Swedish citizens conducted in 2020 ( N = 2,160), we find that the relationship with patterns of news use is substantially different across these types of beliefs. Among other things, the results suggest that knowledge of uncontested issue domains is positively related to news use, but knowledge of contested issue domains is not. The intentional avoidance of news is only negatively related to knowledge of contested issues. Taken together, the results suggest that the mechanisms driving beliefs related to uncontested versus contested issues are substantially different.

scholarly journals Consumer Ethnocentrism as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Ostracism and Self-esteem

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sizhezhou
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Consumer Ethnocentrism ◽  
National Pride ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
The Relationship

When and why self-esteem drops down after an ostracism experience are worthy questions to answer in the field of ostracism. Considering the growing national pride in China, the current study investigates whether consumer ethnocentrism, a personality trait highly correlated with national pride in the consumer market, moderates the effects of ostracism on self-esteem through a large-scale survey (n = 1200). Confirmative factor analyses and moderation regression analyses are conducted to test the hypothesis. The results show that: 1. Consistent with previous studies, ostracism negatively correlates with self-esteem. 2. Consumer ethnocentrism positively moderates ostracism's effects on self-esteem, such that individuals with high consumer ethnocentrism have a significant drop in self-esteem after ostracism. Potential explanations of the moderating effect of consumer ethnocentrism, implications and limitations of the current study, and direction for further studies are discussed.

Implications of green HRM on the firm's green competitive advantage: the mediating role of enablers of green culture

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Muisyo ◽  
Qin Su ◽  
Thu Hau Ho ◽  
Mercy Muthoni Julius ◽  
Muhammad Shahjahan Usmani
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Peer Involvement ◽  
Manufacturing Firm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Green Human Resource Management ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe available literature demonstrates that green human resource management (GHRM) practices enhance the firm's green performance. However, the studies fail to show how GHRM practices give rise to green culture and how such green culture influences the green competitiveness of a firm. Anchored on the Ability Motivation Opportunity (AMO) theory, this study investigates how firms can build green competitive advantage from GHRM. The study focuses on four enablers of green culture (EGC): leadership emphasis, message credibility, peer involvement and employee empowerment. The study tests the mediating role of each EGC in the relationship between GHRM and green competitive advantage (GCA). The study findings provide managers with a deeper understanding of how GHRM supports the development of the EGC and how they explain the firm's GCA.Design/methodology/approachData was collected from a large-scale survey of Malaysia's manufacturing firm. We managed to collect 96 valid and useable questionnaires.FindingsWe find that GHRM practices give rise to EGC and the EGC mediate the relationship between GHRM and GCA.Originality/valueThe study presents the EGC in the green competitiveness context and goes further to test its mediating role in the GHRM–GCA relationship. We also develop a novel conceptual framework that manufacturing firms can deploy to attain green competitive advantage.

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship Between Impairment and Disability in Great Britain: Evidence From the Life Opportunities Survey

2021 ◽  
pp. 104420732110215
Author(s):  
Melanie Jones ◽  
Eirini-Christina Saloniki
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Multivariate Regression ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Multivariate Regression Analysis ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
The Relationship

Academic and government policy evidence that quantifies the disadvantage experienced by disabled people in the United Kingdom relies on “global” self-reported measures of disability available in large-scale national surveys. Understanding who is captured by such measures and the “process of disablement” is therefore vital. This article applies multivariate regression analysis to nationally representative and uniquely rich data for Great Britain from the Life Opportunities Survey (2009–2011) to investigate the relationship between a well-established measure of activity-limiting disability and the type and severity of impairment. Conditional on personal characteristics, the risk of disability is found to increase with the presence and severity of impairment. It also varies dramatically by impairment type, being highest for those with impairments relating to mobility and mental ill-health, and lowest for impairments relating to vision and hearing.

scholarly journals Sticker and Emoji Use in Facebook Messenger: Implications for Graphicon Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artie Konrad ◽  
Susan C Herring ◽  
David Choi
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Emotional Intensity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Evolutionary Trajectory ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This study posits that graphicon use follows an evolutionary trajectory characterized by stages. Drawing on evidence that the uses and functions of emoticons have changed over time and that the introduction of emoji affected the popularity and usage of emoticons, we examine the uses of the newer types, emoji and stickers, and consider the relationship of stickers to emoji. Adapting the apparent-time method from the sociolinguistic study of language change, we compare sticker and emoji use by English-speaking Facebook Messenger users, exploring how they are used and under what conditions using semi-structured interviews and a large-scale survey. Stickers are argued to be more pragmatically marked for emotional intensity, positivity, and intimacy, characteristic of a more recent stage of evolution, while emoji use exhibits signs of conventionalization and pragmatic unmarking. The identification of patterns that characterize evolutionary stages has implications for future graphicon use.

The relationship between the levels of free fatty acids, lipoprotein lipase, carboxylesterase, N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase, somatic cell count and other mastitis indices in bovine milk

1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn H. Fitz-Gerald ◽  
Hilton C. Deeth ◽  
Barry J. Kitchen
Keyword(s):  
Somatic Cell ◽  
Cell Count ◽  
Lipoprotein Lipase ◽  
Lipase Activity ◽  
Somatic Cell Count ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Bovine Milk ◽  
High Positive Correlation ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Relationship

SummaryA large-scale survey of milks from healthy and mastitic bovine quarters was undertaken to establish the influence of mastitic infection on milk lipase activity and free fatty acid (FFA) level. Mastitic milks tended to have higher FFA levels, but lower lipoprotein lipase activities compared with milk from healthy quarters. These effects became significant at relatively severe levels of infection. The elevated FFA was attributable to higher FFA levels on secretion and to greater lipolysis during storage. Levels of carboxylesterase activity increased with severity of mastitis and showed high positive correlation with mastitis indices.Marked increases in carboxylesterase, N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase and phospholipase occurred following the induction of mastitis by intramammary infusion of Escherichia, coli endotoxin, in parallel with changes in somatic cell count and other mastitis indices. Relatively little change in lipoprotein lipase activity was observed.

scholarly journals Pilot Study Using AI for Large-scale Survey on Psychology: Blood Type and Personality in Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayuki Kanazawa
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Blood Type ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Personality Tests ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Abo Blood Type ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linear Interactions

The influence of genetic factors on personality has been actively studied for several decades. This pilot study analyzed data from a <b>large-scale survey</b> (N = 3,750) using a combination of traditional statistical techniques and <b>artificial intelligence (AI)</b> to examine the relationship between ABO blood type and personality. The results showed that respondents exhibited the personality traits corresponding to their own blood type more strongly than respondents who had different blood types did. This finding was consistent across all 8 traits, and all differences were statistically significant. In our survey, the same differences in scores were found in the groups who were less interested in the relationship between blood type and personality, although the values were smaller. A group of 1,067 participants with better knowledge of blood type personality, AI predicted blood type in 43.6% of the participants. In the case of entire 3,750 participants, it did 40.4%. If gender, age, and marital status were excluded, these rates decreased to 42.3% and 39.3% respectively; all these values were more than by chance. We observed a <b>clear and significant relationship</b> between blood type and personality in a large-scale survey. Meanwhile, the effect of the blood type is not always coherent, therefore consistent results cannot be obtained unless <b>non-linear interactions</b> with other factors and <b>individual differences in personality sensitivity</b> are considered. The results of conventional personality tests were also discussed.

scholarly journals Generation rent” in the wake of the pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Vidal ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Us Census

What fate awaits millions of tenants with rent arrears and piling debt as emergency rent relief measures and eviction moratoria that were rolled out in response to the Covid-19 crisis are phased out? A US Census Bureau survey in August showed that 8 million Americans were behind on rent, with 3.5 million of them stating that they were at risk of eviction. In the United Kingdom (UK), a large-scale survey carried out in May warned that 400,000 renting households (5% of all renters) had either been served an eviction notice or had been told they may be evicted. More than double that number expressed fear of eviction in the following months. In Spain, the Platform of People Affected by Mortgages (PAH, in Spanish) estimated in July that there were 80,000 households facing the risk of eviction, a figure that surpasses the evictions registered during the harshest year of the fallout from the previous financial crisis.

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