scholarly journals CEOs And Managerialism, Success Trap, Blind Trust, And Global Mindset: Introducing The Individual Vigilance/Social Experimentation Framework

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Fendt
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Global Mindset ◽  
Ceo Leadership ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Conflicting Interests ◽  
Social Experimentation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Coping

This ten-year empirical study explores the nature of Chief Executive (CEO) leadership and coping in post-merger situations. Executives’ need to manage multiple organizational realities and various groups of internal and external stakeholders, often representing conflicting interests, whereby four separate albeit interrelated concepts come into play, namely managerialism (vs. leadership), the liabilities of success (success trap), excess of trust (blind trust) and global mindset. The paper purports that these concepts can be understood as functions of the degree of individual vigilance and social experimentation that a leader applies to the task at hand and introduces the individual vigilance/social experimentation framework.

Directive Guidance as a Cultural Practice for Learning by Chinese-Heritage Babies

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Su-hua Wang ◽  
Shinchieh Duh
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
European American ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Individual

We provide a framework of analysis for Chinese ways of learning that extends beyond the individual level. The theoretical framework focuses on Confucian principles of <i>xiào</i> (孝, filial piety), <i>guăn</i> (管, to govern), and <i>dào dé guān</i> (道德觀, virtues), which leads us to argue that directive guidance as a cultural practice nourishes Chinese-heritage children’s learning as early as in infancy. To illustrate how directive guidance occurs in action for infants, we present an empirical study that examined the interaction of mother-infant dyads in Taipei, Taiwan, when they played with a challenging toy. The dyads co-enacted directive guidance more frequently than their European-American counterparts in the USA – through hand holding, intervening, and collaboration – while infants actively participate in the practice. We discuss the early development of strengths for learning that is fostered through culturally meaningful practices recurrent in parent-infant interaction.

The Meaning of Mindfulness: A Second-Order Cybernetics of Stress, Metacognition, and Coping

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric L. Garland
Keyword(s):  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Coping Processes ◽  
Complementary And Integrative Medicine ◽  
Therapeutic Mechanisms ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Mechanisms Of Mindfulness

Stress-related illness presents an ever-increasing burden to society, and thus has become the target of numerous complementary and integrative medicine interventions. One such clinical intervention, mindfulness meditation, has gained eminence for its demonstrated efficacy in reducing stress and improving health outcomes. Despite its prominence, little is known about the mechanics through which it exerts its treatment effects. This article details the therapeutic mechanisms of mindfulness with a novel causal model of stress, metacognition, and coping. Mindfulness is hypothesized to bolster coping processes by augmenting positive reappraisal, mitigating catastrophizing, and engendering self-transcendence. Reviews of stress and mindfulness are then framed by the perspective of second-order cybernetics, a transdisciplinary conceptual framework which builds on extant theory by highlighting the recursion between the individual and their environment.

scholarly journals TO THE QUESTION OF STUDYING THE INDIVIDUAL-PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADOLESCENTS WITH TOBACCO SMOKING ADDICTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1(82)) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
М. Кулаченко
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Tobacco Smoking ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Smoking Addiction ◽  
The Individual

The article is concentrated on attention to concerning about individual−personality characteristics of the smoking-prone teenagers, while organizing the prophylaxis. Methods of studying the problem are shown, and the results of an empirical study are described.

scholarly journals PERSONAL SELF-REGULATION ROLE IN PREVENTION OF FRUSTRATION IN THE PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Makarchuk ◽  
A. Stus
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Professional Environment ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Psychological Mechanism ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
The Individual

The problem of the personal self-regulation and state of mind functioning are extremely relevant in the modern context. Ukraine’s reform contributions, which sometimes have a total and demonstrative nature, do not have enough constructive influence on the functioning of the individual, both in its internal dimensions of reality, and the implementation of its own professional work and stay in the professional environment. The article presents the results of research on the problem of frustration, describes the specifics of personal self-regulation and its types, based on the existing ability to understand the frustration, on the indicators of social and personal frustration. The frustration study was done in the context of its theoretical foundation and an empirical study of its state on a sample of adults. This gave grounds to establish multifunctional nature of frustration. It is about its specificity as a component of professional activity (activity context) and professional environment (interpersonal context). The necessity to prevent frustration in a professional team has been convincingly proved. It was determined that the object of the prevention should be reflection as a psychological mechanism of the awareness formation of the frustration by personality and the ability to establish its influence on professional activity and professional implementation in a professional environment. Along with this, the uncertainty, as a result of social frustration, and personal frustration, as the interdependence between the motivation of the individual, its relation to one’s own needs and desires and, as a consequence, the ability to search for one’s own social purpose.

Empirical Study on the Correlations of Environmental Pollution, Human Capital, and Economic Growth

2013 ◽  
pp. 128-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Guangming ◽  
An Zhaofeng
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Pollutant Emission ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Protection Authority

Based on 1990-2007 data in Guangdong China, this chapter studies the correlation of environmental pollution, human capital, and economic growth. The results show that Guangdong’s economic growth deteriorates the environmental quality. Highly skilled human capital is one of the main engines of the economic growth and the growth promotes the human capital’s accumulation. Upgrading the human capital helps controlling pollutant emission and environmental pollution depresses the human capital accumulation. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding the individual relationships between environmental pollution and human capital or economic growth will help the environmental protection authority or governments in China to make more effective and efficient regulations or policies to coordinate the country’s sustainable development.

Literary Knowledge

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-43
Author(s):  
Tita Chico
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
Robert Boyle ◽  
Fundamental Component ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Tool

Natural philosophy in the long eighteenth century connoted a sense of modernity and enlightenment, attributes that bound science to meanings in excess of its practice and consumption. The pliancy of science as a trope finds support in reflections on language as a scientific tool by Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, and other natural philosophers. The two dominant technologies of the experimental imagination are the observed particular and the modest witness. Observed particulars of empirical study are those nuggets of data that disclose themselves and, in their revelation, produce knowledge. The modest witness is the individual who is objective by virtue of erasing himself through his privilege. Tropes are literary tools that not only enable practitioners to describe scientific findings, but also enable an even more fundamental component of experimentalism: literariness makes possible the conceptualization of scientific findings and the individual who produces them.

Employees as ambassadors: embracing new role expectations and coping with identity-tensions

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 702-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rickard Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Internal Communication ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Communication Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Employee Perspective ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
And Coping

Purpose To provide an employee perspective on ambassadorship in the context of corporate communication, the purpose of this paper is to explore how employees relate to and experience ambassadorship. Design/methodology/approach The study has a qualitative approach, and the empirical material consists of semi-structured interviews with, and focus groups of, employees of seven organizations in both the public and private sectors. The paper draws on a contemporary understanding of identity where identity is perceived as an ongoing reflexive process in which employees negotiate and construct of their selves through relating to role expectations and interacting with others. Therefore, ambassadorship is understood as a social-identity, or persona, that is referenced by employees in their identity work. Findings The findings indicate that employees embrace this persona as they imagine that external stakeholders, colleagues and managers expect it of them. However, the ambassador persona also gives rise to identity-tensions both during work and off work. Research limitations/implications The paper contributes a novel way to understand ambassadorship as well as highlighting some of the more problematic aspects of it and furthering the understanding of the concept. Practical implications The findings highlight that ambassadorship can have problematic consequences that needs to be addressed. They suggest that the employee perspective should be taken into consideration in internal communication education and training. Originality/value The paper contributes a novel employee perspective on ambassadorship.

scholarly journals Coping strategies of nurses in the care of patients with head and neck neoplasms

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-578
Author(s):  
Naira Agostini Rodrigues dos Santos ◽  
Antonio Tadeu Cheriff dos Santos ◽  
Rildo Pereira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Head And Neck ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Facial Image ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Reference Hospital ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Coping

Abstract OBJECTIVE To understand and describe the experience of the development of coping strategies during the professional life of nurses providing care to patients with facial image alteration. METHOD Descriptive qualitative study with a hermeneutic-dialectic framework conducted in the head and neck ward of a reference hospital in Rio de Janeiro, with the participation of eight nurses and data produced through semi-structured interviews conducted between June and August 2013. RESULTS Three major impressions were found: initial estrangement and complexity, consisting in the care given to patients with facial image alteration; a threshold between estrangement and coping, corresponding to the emergence of coping strategies during care; and image-likeness as a (re)cognition of the individual with facial image alteration in the development and consolidation of coping strategies during care. CONCLUSION Among other contributions, the identification and understanding of coping strategies may contribute to better qualify nursing education and care.

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