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They who Have a “Why” to Live for: Purpose Facilitates Positive Employment Experience

Author(s): Guangrong Dai,Eva Susanne Blazek,Signe M. Spencer / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: purpose; mission; values; work engagement;

How people find meaning is fundamental to how they approach and experience their work and their personal lives. Purpose is an important construct implied, but often not explicitly discussed, in research on employee experience at work. We conducted a two-phase of research to advance the scientific understanding of individual purpose and the impact of intensity of purpose and types of purpose on work-related outcomes. We developed and validated a purposefulness survey and taxonomies of purpose and values in two samples totaling 1,212 adults from a wide range of educational and employment backgrounds. Popular writing suggests that millennials have the strongest sense of purpose, but this conviction was not validated in this research. Future research will need to elucidate the difference between presence of purpose and searching for purpose, the latter perhaps being stronger for younger than older generations. In our samples, purposefulness predicts work engagement, organizational commitment, perceived fit, planned tenure, and willingness to recommend one’s organization. All purposes do not work equally. Self-transcendent purposes correlate more strongly with purposefulness than do self-focused purposes. Similar pattern has been observed on values. Prosocial values (e.g., Altruism, Community) correlate more strongly with purposefulness than do self-oriented values (e.g., Pleasant Experiences, Open-mindedness). Employee well-being and engagement are important elements of employment experience. If purpose has a significant impact on employment experience, can purpose be manipulated to produce such a positive outcome? For whom is purpose intervention most effective? The current research has considerable practical implications.

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Climate Change and Human Choice: Measuring the Nudging

Author(s): Byambasuren Lkhagvadorj,Javzandolgor Purevsuren,Amgalan Bazargarid / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Nudge theory; CO2 emission; world warming;

The purpose of this study was to define how climate change is changing in response to positive and negative human behavior. Climate change, in general, refers to changes that take place over a period of tens of thousands of years, involving a particular region or part of the world without human intervention. Climate change takes many forms, depending on the region and the industry in which it operates. The effects of global warming, drinking water shortages, endangered species, and extinction have begun to affect the world's attention and daily lives. And the Nudge effect has become widespread as people's tendency to change their choices has spread. In the last decade, however, climate change has accelerated due to human activities. Since 2008, the effects of the Nudge have had a profound effect on the lives of powerful people. The word nudge means to push lightly or gently stab into the ribs, especially with an elbow. The biggest example is people making smart and healthy choices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Choosing the right food can reduce food waste. Greenhouse gas emissions vary from the food we eat and the way we process it. We estimated multiple regression model for CO2 emissions, GDP growth, energy consumption and factors of human behavior about climate changing data from 1959 to 2018. We found that compared to previous years, greenhouse gas emissions were 4.2 billion square meters less than in previous years. This is a very important result of our research, and shows that the global response to climate change since 1992 has been effective. The use of electric magnes, becoming a vegetarian, riding a bicycle, and becoming a minimalist are the result of Nudge effect. By choosing to be a vegetarian, the level of CO2 emissions from food is greatly reduced. The fact that greenhouse gas emissions from food waste are equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from electric vehicles, so the Nudge effect suggests that the results are positive.

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The Effect of Entitlement on the Calculation of the Rank of Imposition in University Students' Requests to their Instructors

Author(s): Tahani Alabdali / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Pragmatics; Politeness theory; Requests; Grice's maxims; entitlement

The present paper examines the relationship between requester's feeling of entitlement and the types of politeness strategies they use. According to Brown and Levinson's model of politeness (1987), speakers choose their preferred super-strategy as well as the complication level of the act based on calculations they perform on the act. These calculations are influenced by three factors, namely, Power(P), Distance(D), and Rank of imposition(R). The first two factors relate to the assumed relationship between the interlocutors during the interaction, and they are easily measured based on the social and contextual factors governing the situation. However, the weight of R can not be accurately measured, and although it is done spontaneously by language users, it cannot be left to the instinctive evaluation of the researcher. Therefore, one factor that is assumed to affect the weight of the imposition, entitlement, is placed under consideration in this research. Using the sociopragamtic approach, the researcher analysed a two-question questionnaire that ask university students to freely discuss what they want from their course instructor (the researcher). The only difference between the two questions is related to the sample's evaluation of their entitlement in the requested acts. In the first question, they were asked to write their rights, while in the second they were asked to write their wishes. The results detected a preference of the NP super-strategy in the respondents' answers regarding what they believed to be entitled to. Moreover, flouting the quantity maxim was an observed pattern in the responses to the question related to their assumed rights. Both findings suggest that entitlement can be manipulated by the speaker to trick the requestee into believing in the requester's right to the requested act, hence, reducing the rank of imposition.

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Key Performance Indicators as Determinants of Managerial Compensation

Author(s): Ivana Marinović Matović,Miloš Pavlović / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: performance measurement; executive compensation; motivation;

Performance management has gained in importance, especially in recent times, as managers are under constant pressure to improve organizational performances. Performance management, as a process of efficient management of executive compensation, is a relatively new concept. This paper analyzes the concept of business performances, as well as the concept of performance management. It shows the evolution of business performances over time. Finally, the paper elaborates the purpose, goals, principles, characteristics and significance of the organizational performances for the operationalization of policy and strategy of managerial compensation.

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Synthisophy - Integrating the Wisdoms of History into Present Culture

Author(s): Andre Houle / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: synthisophy; history; science; politics;

This paper is an introduction to synthisophy: roots, mission, description and conclusion;

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Teens and Vaping: What’s the Latest Trend

Author(s): Lydia Park / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: vaping; Juul; e-cigarettes; EVALI; pods; Juul marketing to minors;

Vape detectors are installed at many US schools due to the increase in vaping amongst teenagers. The US Centers for Disease Control stated that E-cigarettes are not safe for teens as they may cause severe lung damage. In 2019, there was a national outbreak of e-cigarette product use-associated lung injury (EVALI), which led to the hospitalization of 2807 patients, 15% of which were 18 or younger. One teenage vaper needed dual lung transplants. Roughly 3.6 million middle school and high school students use E-cigarettes - are they unaware of the harmful health, disciplinary, and emotional repercussions from vaping? Do parents feel disappointment if they are notified from schools that their children have been caught vaping? Are vaping companies like Juul, who sells 75% of vaping products, marketing their E-cigarettes by concealing the health risks? JUUL is being sued by many states and school districts for misleading advertising. States have already banned JUUL’s sales of vaping products with fruity names. The recent COVID-19 pandemic prompted numerous teenagers to quit vaping as the coronavirus spreads by droplets, including saliva. Due to the higher risk of severe lung damage with the coronavirus and vaping, are more teenagers seeking cessation treatment? Although the Affordable Care Act provides coverage for temporary addiction treatment medication and family counseling, teenagers should be aware that it is not a magic solution for everything. Some teenagers hide vaping pens as medical treatment may cause a significant surcharge on annual insurance premiums.

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On the Collective Moods of Booms and Busts: Socio-Psychological Foundations in External Shock Communication and Social Volatility in the COVID-19 Economic Fallout

Author(s): Julia M. Puaschunder / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Collective moods; Communication; Coronavirus; COVID-19; Digitalization;

The currently ongoing novel Coronavirus-crisis is an external shock coming down on society with direct impact on societal moods and subsequently connected economic changes. With growing digitalization and quickening of transfer speed, information exchange in the individual involvement to break trends online on a global scale may impose unknown systemic risks in causing social volatility in international economics. Research may explore how human beings’ communication and interaction results in socially constructed volatility that echoes in economic correlates. This paper proposes to explore the role of communication and temporal foci in pandemic communication to create social volatility underlying economic downturns with attention to international differences. Comparing the economic consequence of the endogenous crunch of the 2008 World Financial Recession with the external economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic could aid to retrieve crisis-specific recovery recommendations. Understanding how the social compound forms economic outcomes promises to explain how market outcomes are developed in society and can be shaped by strategic communication with special attention to new media technologies.

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An Exploration of Barriers Female Engineers Face in the Workplace

Author(s): Tyene Houston / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Female engineer; career barriers; gender bias; a global economy; oil and gas company;

The global focus to attract more females to the engineering profession and oil and gas companies are of paramount importance. There is a dire need to train and cultivate female engineers to increase economic advancement and innovation. Worldwide, the demand for those equipped with engineering expertise exceeds the talent pool pipeline. Despite laws enacted to mitigate gender discrimination, implicit gender bias persists in the workplace. Correspondingly, these challenges permeate against a backdrop of a crippling shortage of qualified engineers, and the high number of those who will retire within the next decade. To power future engineering and energy projects, it will require educators, policymakers, industry leaders, and philanthropists alike working collaboratively to infuse effective strategies that are drivers for pipelining talented female engineers. While the body of knowledge is extant around the shortage of women pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, the management literature has gaps regarding strategies successful female engineers employ to lead rewarding careers. The purpose of this research informed by Bandura’s (1986) Self-Efficacy Theory is to understand the beliefs, attitudes, and outcome expectations of successful female engineers who experience barriers in the workplace.

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Dancing into Dual Leadership

Author(s): Susan Figeac,Kruti Lehenbauer / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: dual leadership; non-profit dance; sustainability; regression analysis;

The source of revenue for nonprofit performing arts organizations has shifted over time with the continuous reduction of government support. Nonprofit performing arts organizations are faced with the dilemma of financial and organizational sustainability while continuing to pursue artistic freedom. Companies in the performing arts industry are typically structured with a “dual leadership” and a dual mission: artistic and operational. This study addresses the influence of leadership structure and board member involvement on the financial performance of nonprofit dance organizations. This study expands on previous research and analyses the impact of leadership structure on unearned and earned revenue sources in the dance sector. The first portion of this study comprises of a literature review that explores existing research on leadership structure, board member influence, and revenue composition in nonprofit organizations and identifies if the dance sector performs as expected, in general. In the second portion, we perform a regression analysis exploring the relationship between revenues and leadership structure for a sample of 135 dance organizations based in Texas. We find that while the literature supports a dual leadership model for maximizing revenues, the simple linear base model estimates do not conform to this expectation for dance organizations in Texas. However, the estimates obtained from a log-linear model, suggest that dual leadership and board member participation contribute positively and significantly to the financial performance of those organizations.

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Criminological and Philosophical Explanations for the Formation of Homicidal Ideation and the Role of Serotonin (5-HT) in Controlling Aggressive Behavior

Author(s): Gabriel Tănăsescu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: homicidal ideation; serotonin (5-HT); amygdala; aggressive behavior;

From a criminological point of view, the passage to the act represents the concrete materialization of the volitional act of crime, but also the manifestation of the homicidal ideation (hidden in the darkness of the unconscious) as an active shadow of the darkness of criminal preparation (before thiking), which opens its death drive, in the intangible world of the symbolic and penetrates the reality of criminal causality. From a philosophical point of view, it must be explained how the unconditionality of the crime becomes an essential condition for the commission of the criminal act. This article also analyzes the effect of serotonin (5-HT) in the neural control of the manifestation of aggressive behavior. Impulsive aggression, depression, personality disorders, drug abuse, are associated with a dysfunction in the serotonin system (5-HT). The neurobiology of violence examines the serotonergic system and proposes in some cases therapeutic action. The role of the amygdala in the process of emotional, affective and motivational representations is essential. Imaging studies that reported significant correlations between amygdala activity and emotional memory are also analyzed.

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The Importance of Negotiation in the Public Procurement Process

Author(s): Janetta Sirbu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: negotiation; communication; negotiating partners; public procurement; contracts;

Negotiation has been and is one of the key elements when it comes to business success. The largest companies in the world were founded as a result of the abilities of their leaders to manage to find the optimal balance between personal goals and objectives, and at the same time, the respect and the knowledge to know when and how to relate to the negotiating partner. Negotiation is present in all areas of our lives, and trade negotiation is just an extended aspect of negotiation that already takes place at every moment, in different everyday situations. Negotiation is first and foremost a form of communication: negotiating means communicating in the hope of reaching an agreement. International trade negotiation is an organized process of communication between companies, which aim to gradually adapt their interests related to the object of negotiation in order to achieve a mutually acceptable business agreement, materialized in the international contract. In the process of applying the procedures for awarding public procurement contracts, the contracting authority, through the internal department specialized in awarding public procurement contracts, has a number of tasks, such as: elaboration of an annual public procurement program, elaboration of award documentation or the tender documentation, the fulfillment of the obligations regarding publicity, the application and completion of the award procedures, the constitution and keeping of the public procurement file.

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A Portrait of the Orient through the Occidental Gaze: Resuming the Journey of ‘Dark India’ with Gregory David Roberts

Author(s): Dipanwita PAL / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Orient; Occidental gaze; Shantaram; Bombay; Slave market;

Shantaram is a book about a man who breaks out of a gaol in Australia and ends up in Bambay (now Mumbai). Eventually, he becomes engaged with Mumbai underworld. He falls in love with Karla, a beautiful and mysterious woman. The novel uses lots of Marathi and Hindi words that add up to the local essence of the novel. The novel is set up in Bambay in the 80s. It becomes all the more interesting as the narrator gets involved into a gun-running mission in Afghanistan and gives a vivid picture of the whole trade. Significantly, the novel has Bombay as a very important character; rather Bombay becomes an integral part of the novel. It has beautifully projected India and her people seen through the eyes of an Australian. Hence, this paper will try to bring out what are the facts that have gained more attention from the narrator and which aspects have been ignored. And while doing so, this paper would further try to analyze the factors behind such inclusions and exclusions and the politics, if any, involved in it.

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Exploring Cross-Generational Traits and Management Across Generations in the Workforce: A Theoretical Literature Review

Author(s): Christopher Ardueser,Diana Garza / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Generations; Traditionalist; Baby Boomers; Generation X; Millennials

Understanding and identifying the traits of different generations and their effects on management is essential for creating a strategic business operational management structure. This literature review aims to identify traits associated with each generation and determine if any cross-generational traits exist to capitalize on each group's characteristics and find solutions in managing multiple generations. This research will examine the literature on each generation consisting of the Traditionalist, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z; and attempt to identify traits that affect each generation's ability to be managed in the workforce and work with other employees of different generations. The goal is to test the assumption that some, if not all of these traits, are unique to or are shared across generations. This review will explore each generation's set of traits and management characteristics to develop the groundwork to form successful teams and further explore the best way to collaborate across different generations by exploiting and acknowledging work values displayed by each generation. This review will also provide a platform for further studies and can be used as a standard to build stronger, more cohesive, and productive teams made of multi-generations.

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A Study of Generation Y Thai Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Related to Plastic Pollution

Author(s): Patricia Arttachariya / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Plastic pollution; Generation Y; Environmental Concern

The use of plastic, in many forms, is ubiquitous. Plastic is found in many of our day-to-day products and even though plastic has several useful applications, plastic waste has a detrimental impact on the environment and is life-threatening to humans, animals, and many marine species. The main aim of this exploratory study is to investigate the influence of internal (environmental knowledge and concern), and external factors (interpersonal influence and media) on Gen Y Thai consumers’ environmental attitude and behavior relating to plastic pollution. Gen Y consumers are the focus of this study because they account for nearly a third of Thailand's population with high income and spending potential. A total of 550 questionnaires were distributed to Gen Y consumers in 7 areas in the Central Business District of Bangkok, of which 396 were considered valid and used for the analysis. Three hypotheses posited in the study were tested using Simple Regression analysis. The findings showed that both external factors (environmental knowledge and environmental concern) as well as internal factors (interpersonal influence and media) influenced environmental attitude. Environment attitude, in turn, was found to have a significant influence on behavior related to plastic pollution. The findings provide several useful suggestions for policymakers, marketers, and the general public toward inculcating better waste management practices in the Thai context.

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The Analysis of Palestine Conflict and UN Role

Author(s): Sabeen Azam / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Conflict; Palestine; Israel; UN; Resolution

The world is shifting the paradigm of resolving conflicts. The countries are actively participating in resolving the issue and conflict prevailing globally. The platform of UN is considered among the main medium to resolve conflicts internationally. This article is in depth overview of past, present and future perspective of one of the long-existing conflicts of the world. The Palestine conflict is a matter of serious concern for East and West. There is a critical point arises that the Palestine-Israel conflict is a “three-fold test” for the world peace. The conflict till present has gone through many shifts from war to UN resolutions. This conflict is a question mark on the conflict resolution ability of UN. This article argues the test capacity of UN to bring both Palestine and Israel to an accord. The UN’s handling of the matter would have consequences for the organizations standing in the world.

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Supply Chain Risks, Cybersecurity and C-TPAT, a Literature Review

Author(s): Stephen Sullivan,Diana Garza / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: cyber-security; C-TPAT; supply chain; risk;

The past year has seen critical fluctuations in business operations throughout the US and the world. Due to COVID-19, employees have been encouraged or forced to work from home instead of commuting to a regular work location. Remote work has disrupted and weakened security processes. Cyber criminals have seen an opportunity in this weakened infrastructure. Cybersecurity attacks have disrupted supply chains for businesses, schools, healthcare organizations and other entities. Organizations will need to reassess security strategies with the assumption that work-from-home will become permanent. The US Department of Homeland Security has stepped up its efforts to meet this risk head-on and has incorporated supply chain cybersecurity measures within the constructs of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program. This all-volunteer program was launched immediately after 9/11 to thwart potential supply chain risks that could open the door to major terrorist attacks on the US homeland. This research will explore the reasons why cybersecurity has become the nation’s number one commercial concern for supply chains and logistics management and how C-TPAT is enabling the proper change to the current business climate as a risk mitigating option.

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Theorizing the Initial Response of Countries in Bringing COVID-19 Pandemic under Control: The Effect of Change Readiness of Countries

Author(s): M. Mahdi Moeini Gharagozloo,Farinaz Sabz Ali Pour,Chen Chen,Mozhgan Moeini Gharagozloo / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Change readiness; Global Pandemic; Spread of COVID-19; Resiliency

Pandemic crises can bring the biggest and deepest shocks to countries around the world. In the first quarter of 2020, a global pandemic named “COVID-19” spread all over the world and not only took so many lives and created so much fear but also brought a tremendous financial pain as a result of shutting down economies to fight with this unknown contagious virus. This paper examines how countries’ change readiness enables them to bring the spread of an international crisis under control. We propose that higher levels of change readiness would help countries to cope with risks and uncertainties generated by the changes and shocks in the environment. Therefore, higher levels of change readiness help them bring a crisis under control. This characteristic of a country shows its influence, especially in facing pandemics. Overall, this study improves our knowledge about mechanisms through which change readiness of countries might impact their capability in facing international crises. This study contributes to the literature on risk mitigation in global crises. It is one of the first to look closely at the role of countries’ change readiness in helping them to respond to shocks generated by an international crisis.

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Chatbots, Future Undercover Investigators in the Criminal Process in the Artificial Intelligence Era?

Author(s): Nadia Zlate / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: artificial intelligence; use of artificial intelligence in justice

Modern society is witnessing remarkable development in many areas due to the advancement of computer science and, in particular, Artificial Intelligence (AI). IA represents “the theory and development of computer systems capable of performing tasks that regularly require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and multilingual translation”. Justice is also an area in which AI brings its contribution in different forms, depending on the legal framework of each state. International bodies are preoccupied that law enforcement agencies adapt to new ways of committing crimes with technological and transnational components and use appropriate means of investigation. Chatbots are intelligent conversational computer systems designed to mimic human conversation to enable automated online guidance and assistance. The increased benefits of chatbots have led to their widespread adoption by many industries to provide virtual customer support. Chatbots use methods and algorithms in two areas of artificial intelligence: Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Researchers have shown that chatbots can be used as real undercover agents. Thus, they may enter into a conversation with criminals willing to commit certain serious crimes without the latter knowing that they are in fact talking to an intelligent computer system, recording the conversation, the IP of the device used by the suspect and other data that may be stored on a computer system. The chatbot can have a human avatar, but not necessarily, and conversations can take place in a variety of ways: written, spoken, and so on. There is currently widespread discussion about the technological and ethical limitations of the use of AI in criminal justice, and the process of integrating mechanisms involving the use of AI into national law is difficult.

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Job's Life: Moral Issues in the Discourses of the Book of Job

Author(s): Nicolae Creţu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Job; morality; friends; reasoning; normality; principle

This ethico-theological study analyzes aspects of moral issues from the accounts found in the book of Job. As described at the beginning of the book, the beautiful life that Job had is lost by him through a series of successive acts aimed at his mental destabilization. An apparent understanding between divinity, such as the one who blessed Job, and Satan, the one who wants to destroy Job, leads to the righteous Job losing everything he had in family and wealth, leaving only his wife, who seems to be he began to delirium mentally. This study is divided into seven essential parts for finalizing the aspects of moral issues. In the first part, we will deal with Job as a natural and historical person. Then we will focus on the moral issues that arise from the discourses found in the book of Job. In this part we will dwell on some ideas launched in the public space, such as Job as an experiment, the reasoning of Job's friends and their theological thinking, and then apply the filter of Kantian morality to this issue, ending with the suspension of normality in the book of Job and with the presentation of Job as a New Testament person.

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Intergenerational Justice and Democracy

Author(s): Julia M. Puaschunder / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Macroeconomics

Intergenerational Equity has become the basis for legal codification in different domains in the most recent decades. This article discusses intergenerational representations in the judiciary system and democracy. Age-balanced decision-making of juries that could transpire into the judiciary system, democratic rotation principles with age-sensitive quotas but also futuristic Artificial Intelligence-led governance that pays attention to the mean age of voting circles are prospective intergenerational justice and democracy advancements proposed.

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They who Have a “Why” to Live for: Purpose Facilitates Positive Employment Experience

Climate Change and Human Choice: Measuring the Nudging

The Effect of Entitlement on the Calculation of the Rank of Imposition in University Students' Requests to their Instructors

Key Performance Indicators as Determinants of Managerial Compensation

Synthisophy - Integrating the Wisdoms of History into Present Culture

Teens and Vaping: What’s the Latest Trend

On the Collective Moods of Booms and Busts: Socio-Psychological Foundations in External Shock Communication and Social Volatility in the COVID-19 Economic Fallout

An Exploration of Barriers Female Engineers Face in the Workplace

Dancing into Dual Leadership

Criminological and Philosophical Explanations for the Formation of Homicidal Ideation and the Role of Serotonin (5-HT) in Controlling Aggressive Behavior

The Importance of Negotiation in the Public Procurement Process

A Portrait of the Orient through the Occidental Gaze: Resuming the Journey of ‘Dark India’ with Gregory David Roberts

Exploring Cross-Generational Traits and Management Across Generations in the Workforce: A Theoretical Literature Review

A Study of Generation Y Thai Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Related to Plastic Pollution

The Analysis of Palestine Conflict and UN Role

Supply Chain Risks, Cybersecurity and C-TPAT, a Literature Review

Theorizing the Initial Response of Countries in Bringing COVID-19 Pandemic under Control: The Effect of Change Readiness of Countries

Chatbots, Future Undercover Investigators in the Criminal Process in the Artificial Intelligence Era?

Job's Life: Moral Issues in the Discourses of the Book of Job

Intergenerational Justice and Democracy