Through telling the story of Xiangzi‚ Lao She’s "Rickshaw" moulds a woman in Hu Niu that is the antithesis of everything that a woman should be in the traditional society of that period. In the time-honoured Chinese culture‚ there has long been a strong prejudice against women of power. Every unfavourable image has been linked with particularly those who have proved especially formidable. Throughout the histories that have been written by mostly men where views as traditional as Xiangzi’s have been
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SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY‚ 2013‚ 41(4)‚ 613-624 © Society for Personality Research http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2013.41.4.613 THE EFFECT OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEE TRUST AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT DAN-SHANG WANG AND CHIA-CHUN HSIEH National Changhua University of Education In this study we examined the effect of authentic leadership on employee engagement through employee trust. We collected data from 386 employees in the top 1‚000 manufacturing companies and the top 500 service
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The Question of Human Nature in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas … an’ tho’ a cloud’s shape nor hue don’t stay the same it’s still a cloud an’ so is a soul.1 This is how author David Mitchell introduces his central metaphor for the human: complex arrangements of atoms‚ at once endlessly malleable and yet at the same time defined by an essential essence. It is this tension between conceptions of an inherent human nature and the manifest diversity of human cultural expression that drives and
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International Business Research; Vol. 5‚ No. 7; 2012 ISSN 1913-9004 E-ISSN 1913-9012 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education CSR within SMEs: Literature Review Amina Kechiche1 & Richard Soparnot2 1 Department of Law‚ Economics and Social Science‚ Institute of Business Administration‚ University of Tours‚ Tours‚ France 2 Loire Valley University/CRESCEM/ESCEM‚ Groupe ESCEM‚ Tours‚ France Correspondence: Richard Soparnot‚ Professor of Strategy and Management‚ Loire
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A Meta-Analysis of the Relationships between Individual Job Satisfaction and Individual Performance Author(s): M. M. Petty‚ Gail W. McGee‚ Jerry W. Cavender Source: The Academy of Management Review‚ Vol. 9‚ No. 4 (Oct.‚ 1984)‚ pp. 712-721 Published by: Academy of Management Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/258493 Accessed: 20/10/2010 04:45 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784)‚ often referred to as Dr Johnson‚ was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet‚ essayist‚ moralist‚ literary critic‚ biographer‚ editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory‚ and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history."[1] He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole
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12/17/2010 MSc OR/BAC | Courier Services | Managing Business Operations | SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT - group 5 | Contents Service Definition 2 Intangibility 2 Heterogeneity 2 Inseparability 2 Perishability 2 Service Classification 3 The Volume Measure (Silvestro) 3 Other Service Classification Models 4 Service Design 5 What is the philosophy behind the service design? 5 What to deliver to courier service customers? 6 How to deliver? 7 The blueprint diagram 7 Customer actions
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The English word "love" can refer to a variety of different feelings‚ states‚ and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment.[1] It can also be a virtue representing human kindness‚ compassion‚ and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".[2] It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans‚
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Lecture 1 Peter Principal: you will rise to your level of incompetence‚ and stay there. On-Track vs. Derailed – problems with interpersonal relationships‚ dependency on a skill‚ limited human capital‚ failure to follow through or persuade others‚ dependency on a single mentor‚ limited social capital‚ difficulty making transitions 5 Elements of Leadership: 1) Setting the Shared Purpose-optimistic vision of the future‚ make it personal but not ecocentric‚ share info and provide updates‚ transparency
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Should You Ask for Help? – A Multilevel Framework for Modeling Technostress in Employees Zaheer A. Shaik ESSEC Business School‚ Paris Should You Ask for Help? – A Multilevel Framework for Modeling Technostress in Employees Abstract This conceptual paper proposes a multilevel framework to model the impact of individual and group level constructs on technostress in employees. We use the transactional model of stress‚ and the coping process theory‚ to predict the interactions between technostress and
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