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Ford, Jade, Amber Bytheway, and Emma Alleyne. "Man’s Best Friend and Sometimes Target: Negative Interpersonal Relations Are Related to Animal Abuse Proclivity." Society & Animals 28, no. 2 (February 21, 2020): 113–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341596.
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Abstract Emerging research regarding the psychological correlates of nonhuman animal abuse is warranted by the high prevalence of abuse. The few studies to examine factors related to animal abuse have found that those who commit such offenses commonly experience dysfunctional childhoods and high anxiety levels. Yet, no study has examined how attachment styles (by-products of maladaptive childhoods), social-anxiety, and animal abuse proclivity are inter-related. Therefore, this study assessed the association between attachment styles and social anxiety as indicators of animal abuse proclivity within an adult sample. It was found that an anxious attachment significantly correlated with direct proclivity (i.e., animal as the perceived provocateur) while the relationship between social anxiety and indirect animal abuse proclivity (i.e., animal as the outlet for aggression) was mediated by avoidant attachment. These findings emphasize the importance of exploring how interpersonal relationships influence our relationship with animals, to advance treatment and assessment of animal abusers.
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Lee, Charlotte Tsz-Sum, and Diane Marie Doran. "The Role of Interpersonal Relations in Healthcare Team Communication and Patient Safety." Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 49, no. 2 (March 28, 2017): 75–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0844562117699349.
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Patient safety is compromised by medical errors and adverse events related to miscommunications among healthcare providers. Communication among healthcare providers is affected by human factors, such as interpersonal relations. Yet, discussions of interpersonal relations and communication are lacking in healthcare team literature. This paper proposes a theoretical framework that explains how interpersonal relations among healthcare team members affect communication and team performance, such as patient safety. We synthesized studies from health and social science disciplines to construct a theoretical framework that explicates the links among these constructs. From our synthesis, we identified two relevant theories: framework on interpersonal processes based on social relation model and the theory of relational coordination. The former involves three steps: perception, evaluation, and feedback; and the latter captures relational communicative behavior. We propose that manifestations of provider relations are embedded in the third step of the framework on interpersonal processes: feedback. Thus, varying team-member relationships lead to varying collaborative behavior, which affects patient-safety outcomes via a change in team communication. The proposed framework offers new perspectives for understanding how workplace relations affect healthcare team performance. The framework can be used by nurses, administrators, and educators to improve patient safety, team communication, or to resolve conflicts.
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Harper, Vernon B. "Maintaining Interpersonal and Organizational Relations through Electronic Mail by Men and Women." Psychological Reports 97, no. 3 (December 2005): 903–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.97.3.903-906.
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E-mail is used to maintain two primary human relationships, interaction between individuals and preserving relationships with organizations. 278 participants from a medium-size university in the southwest completed two measures developed to assess the quantity of e-mail used to maintain interpersonal and organizational relationships. Analysis indicated that men ( M = 5.8, SD = 2.7) and women ( M = 6.6, SD = 2.5) significantly differed in frequency of e-mail used to maintain interpersonal relationships, but not in reference to organizational maintenance.
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Ramaditya, Muhammad, Lisa Rosa Liana, and Ridwan Maronrong. "Does Interpersonal Relations and Work Incentives Affect Work Motivation and Organizational Commitments?" Jurnal Analisis Bisnis Ekonomi 18, no. 2 (November 27, 2020): 70–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.31603/bisnisekonomi.v18i2.3741.
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This study aims to determine the effect of interpersonal relationships and work incentives on work motivation and organizational commitment of PT. Technology Karya Mandiri. The research sample was total all employees of 70 respondents. The method of collecting data through a questionnaire and used path analysis method using SmartPLS 3.0. Based on the results of the study, work motivation and organizational commitment has a positive and significant effect on interpersonal relationships. Work motivation and organizational commitment has a positive and significant effect on work incentives. Moreover, Organizational commitment has a positive and significant effect on work motivation. Work motivation has a negative and not significant effect on interpersonal relationships through organizational commitment. Work motivation has a negative and not significant effect on work incentives through organizational commitment. This study gives implications to provide a knowledge and optimization of human resource management strategies. The enhancement of motivation and commitment can be well received by his subordinates and other continuous efforts are made to improve both operational improvement and continuous improvement to create a highly dedicated human resources management.
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Bailey, Kent G. "Recognizing, Assessing, and Classifying Others: Cognitive Bases of Evolutionary Kinship Therapy." Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy 16, no. 3 (September 2002): 367–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/jcop.16.3.367.52516.
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The practice of psychotherapy revolves around human relationships, especially between client and therapist. At base, psychotherapy is “a species of human interaction that establishes the therapist as a protective figure or secure base in a way that facilitates client growth and change” (Bailey, 1997). This secure interpersonal base enables the client to confront inner conflict, interpersonal conflict/deficiencies, and negative thoughts about the self and others (see Gilbert this volume). Evolutionary kinship therapy views the client-therapist relationship, and client relations with others, through an evolutionary lens that focuses on the role that ancestral human relationships played in shaping current social behavior (Bailey, 2000; Bailey & Wood, 1998). This article outlines psychological kinship theory and then applies the logic of the model to selected aspects of the client-therapist relationship.
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Gulin, Wojciech. "Empathy in Social Relations of the Modern World." 21st Century Pedagogy 4, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ped21-2020-0001.
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AbstractThe present day is characterized by many new technical and scientific solutions. The goal is probably to improve human existence. A computer and any related issues or a mobile phone; they are supposed to make life easier, but they also generate many negative phenomena. One of the most important is communication, increasingly poor in content (sms), “virtual world” at the expense of the real. Negative phenomena have also occurred from the social side. The sense of social exclusion is intensifying, which is a good example of older people. Empathy is the solution and also a way to address the negative tendency. It results in prosocial processes, through which people will look for direct relationships in interpersonal contacts, so there will be a renewal of interpersonal relationships that have characterized humanity for centuries.
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Qu, Feng. "Rice Ecology and Ecological Relations: An Ontological Analysis of the Jiangjunya Masks and Crop Images from China's East Coast." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 29, no. 4 (June 10, 2019): 571–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000210.
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Depictions of human faces and rice-crop images found at the Jiangjunya rock-art site in Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, China, reveal entangling relationships between spiritual and economic aspects. Drawing on the relational ecology model and animist ontology theory, the author provides an analysis of the Jiangjunya rock art in its economic, social, spiritual and historical contexts, proposing that prehistoric farmers along China's east coast perceived rice plants as relating to persons. Rice was conceptualized not in utilitarian terms as a means of subsistence (used and consumed by humans) but rather as subjects capable of action. The human masks of Jiangjunya hence suggest a personhood for rice, rather than representing humans or anthropomorphic gods. Furthermore, the history of the Jiangjunya rock-art site corresponds with the history of local economics. The relational ontologies might have transformed gradually from human–animal interactions in the Late Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic periods to human–plant interactions in Late Neolithic societies. The author concludes that the art site was possibly treated as a mnemonic maintaining interpersonal and intersubjective relationships across thousands of years.
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Biggs, Simon, and Irja Haapala. "Elder mistreatment, ageism, and human rights." International Psychogeriatrics 25, no. 8 (February 8, 2013): 1299–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1041610212002372.
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ABSTRACTBackground: Elder mistreatment, social ageism, and human rights are increasingly powerful discourses in positioning older people in society, yet the relationship between them has rarely been subjected to critical investigation. This perceived relationship will have implications for how mistreatment is understood and responded to.Method: Critical gerontological approach based on narrative and textual analysis.Results: Reports of public attitudes toward mistreatment suggest that it is thought to be more common than scientific evidence would suggest; however, reporting is much lower than prevalence. While the discourse over mistreatment has tended to focus on interpersonal relationships, ageism has emphasized social attitudes, and human rights have concentrated on relations between the state and the individual.Conclusions: In this paper, a series of models have been examined which mark a tendency to restrict and then attempt to reintegrate individual, interpersonal, and social levels of analysis. It is concluded that a focus on the processes of transaction across boundaries rather than contents would facilitate both integrative modeling and deeper understanding of the qualities of abusive situations.
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Mburugu, Beatrice M., Micah C. Chepchieng, and Teresa C. Kattam. "ORPHANHOOD EFFECT ON PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS’ INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN KENYA." Problems of Education in the 21st Century 49, no. 1 (December 10, 2012): 40–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pec/12.49.40.
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In Kenya, orphanhood has risen and affected many children among them primary school pupils. A parent’s death may affect children’s psychological well being. There is a close coherence between children’s psychological well-beings and their interpersonal relationships. Children who have poor psychological well-being are likely to be withdrawn, experience low self-esteem and have poor adaptations to human functioning and life experiences. These conditions affect their relations with others hence become deviants. A literature gap exists in Kenya on orphanhood’s effect children’s relations with other pupils thus motivating the authors to come up with such a study. Thus, the objective of the study was to establish the influence of orphanhood on pupils’ interpersonal relationships in public primary schools by comparing the mean scores in pupils’ interpersonal relationships between the orphaned and the non-orphaned pupils. Also, establish whether gender differences exist in interpersonal relationships between the orphaned pupils. Causal-Comparative research design was considered appropriate for the study because of the comparison of groups. A sample of 110 pupils (55 orphaned and 55 non-orphaned) drawn from 10 primary schools was involved in the study. The pupils were drawn from primary classes 6 and 7. The sample was selected by using purposive and stratified random sampling procedures. A questionnaire was used to collect data which was analyzed by use of independent sample t-test. The study established that orphanhood has a significant effect on interpersonal relationships among pupils in primary schools in Kenya. It was also established that significant gender differences exist in the effect that orphanhood exert on pupils; with boys being more affected than the girls. From the findings, it is evident that absence of parents negatively affect the interpersonal skills of children particularly the boy-child. Such children need counseling interventions to counter these effects. It is therefore recommended that school counselors, teachers and school administrators in Kenya should assist orphaned pupils cope with the loss of their parents by offering psychological and social support to them. This is because the poor interpersonal relationships of orphaned pupils may affect various aspects of their lives that include academics and discipline among others. Key words: effect, interpersonal, relationships, orphanhood, primary school pupil.
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Michnovets, Nina Nikolaevna. "Study of the Nature of Relationships in the Military Team as a Factor of Success in Performing Official Tasks." Общество: социология, психология, педагогика, no. 10 (October 30, 2020): 76–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.24158/spp.2020.10.13.
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At the current level of development of the Armed Forces, the human factor is of particular importance, since interpersonal relations are formed between people, namely military personnel, in any case. It should be noted that the military team has a number of characteristic features, which are primarily asso-ciated with extreme conditions of professional activ-ity, manifested in a state of constant combat readi-ness of military personnel. Having the full range of knowledge in the field of specifics of establishing favorable or negative relationships within the pro-duction team allows you to prevent threats of con-flict interaction in a timely manner, to level out the socio-psychological factors that hinder the growth and success of employees of the organization. We have attempted to study the characters of individual military personnel in the context of their relation-ships with other military personnel of subordinate and managerial structures. The analysis of the spe-cifics of relations between servicemen was carried out using the projective sociometric method “Jun-gle”. In different divisions, the leading role was played by military personnel with different types of characters. Practical recommendations aimed at improving the interpersonal relations of the military team and the success of performing official tasks were developed.
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Komander, Mateusz. "Randki w sieci, czyli flirt w objęciach konsumpcjonizmu." Dziennikarstwo i Media 9 (April 17, 2019): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/2082-8322.9.4.
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Online dating or flirt in the embrace of consumerismThe article is about interpersonal relations established by dating sites users. The analysis is about the rules of using these types of websites, as well as the rules of developing virtual relations. It is mainly an attempt to decide whether consumerism is already present in such intimate spheres of human life as feelings, intimate relations or sexual life. In the era of capitalism, each of the spheres of modern human life has been changed. It is noticeable in the most private, intimate areas. The question is whether interpersonal relationships on dating websites are based on emotions, feelings or the transactional principle of multiplying goods. There is also a significant paradox of dating sites — on the one hand internet users are people who are looking for love, emotions, on the other, they are consumers.
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Et al., Phrakrusoponpattaravet (Ittipol Padhaniko). "Development of Human Relations for the Happiness in New Normal Era." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (January 15, 2021): 3795–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.1395.
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Human Relations for happiness in New Normal era will lead to a smooth relationship and have a good understanding of each other. It creates satisfaction, pleasure, strengthening, solidarity in work. Human relations build trust and love. Reconcile each other contributes to the success of businesses with a common purpose in order to be effective in the administration of educational institutes as much as possible that must consist of Buddhist principles, namely the four principle of service (Sangahavatthu IV) which can benefit the person to live in society with happiness as an anchor for kindness and friendship between each other. It is a tool to promote interpersonal relationships to have respect for each other as appropriate as a tool to coordinate various organizations of society in every sector to remain and operate well. It is also promoted morality and to prevent the detrimental conduct of the people in society in accordance with the 4 principles of human relations that consisted of Sending, Speaking, Servicing and Supporting. Therefore, human relations for happiness integrating between Buddhist principle and the 4 principles of human relations are very importance for encouraging people in the society in New Normal era.
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Тарасюк, Лариса Сергіївна. "ФЕНОМЕН АНДРОГІННОЇ КУЛЬТУРИ." Humanities journal, no. 4 (December 19, 2018): 26–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.32620/gch.2018.4.03.
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This article investigates the theme of human being to human being relations and the display of constructive or destructive forms of man and woman relations. The investigated problem is examined in the plane of androgyny culture and its modi. Modern society needs a quite different level of relations, the one that makes us human. Development of modern society puts imperatives to us that pseudo-culture, which is quite often offered to us, cannot provide. The degree of spiritual culture development is determined by people’s spiritual values development, by many-sidedness and multiplicity of spiritual potential forms realization. Main sense of such a culture is disclosed in self-expression and reflection. Development of culture is impossible without confirmation of its values on the personal level, which gives the ability to put into effect potential of uniqueness, unrepeatedness of one’s individuality, creation of qualitatively new relationships, new models of cooperation and partnership. In today’s world, human being’s self-knowledge is deepening, it includes new and new spheres of investigation, therefore relations between people, relations between genders become a new, little studied plane. Inwardly and personally rethinking manifestations of male and female energies, their interaction, aware of their work in themselves, a person can rise to a more qualitative level of being in the space of the relation to human being, gender, world, to God. Interpersonal relations are our culture of relationships, which must be human. Today, there is a plurality of pathological forms of interpersonal relationships that destroy not only communication but also the internal world of personality. Culture provides an opportunity to show all the best in a person, which is revealed through the partnership of men and women in various forms. Modern society is striving for a completely different culture of relations that could satisfy all soul and spiritual needs through humanity. Thus, people do not need to be satisfied and choose among various simulacrum that pseudo-culture offers today. Consequently, spiritual culture, which functions as a holistic entity and forms the socio-spiritual phenomenon, is an important element of society’s spiritual life. First-hand, a human being, a personality is the subject of the spiritual life of society. The whole system of purposeful activity should be aimed at creating diverse conditions for self-realization of human being’s spiritual potential, creative self-regulation, disclosure of human’s qualities and creation of new spiritual guidance.
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Liemgiani, Liemgiani. "PENGARUH KOMPENSASI, HUBUNGAN INTERPERSONAL, KESEMPATAN BERPRESTASI DAN KONDISI KERJA TERHADAP KEPUASAN KERJA KARYAWAN RUMAH SAKIT UMUM DAERAH BANGIL." Manajemen & Bisnis Jurnal 4, no. 2 (September 11, 2018): 46–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.37303/embeji.v4i2.105.
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In fact, the effectiveness and productivity of an organization is greatly affected by job satisfaction. Conversely, job dissatisfaction will cause a decrease in enthusiasm and enthusiasm for work. The number of cases of work strikes lately, irrespective of the motives of each individual, implies employee dissatisfaction with the organization. This is certainly very disturbing the effectiveness of the company as a form of organization. One program that needs to be considered in the context of optimizing human resources is to meet job satisfaction. With the fulfillment of job satisfaction, individual employees will try to improve their abilities. The success or failure of an organization depends on the ability of the organization to provide job satisfaction to its employees. The purpose of this study (1) To determine the simultaneous influence of compensation variables, interpersonal relationships, opportunities for achievement, and work conditions affect employee job satisfaction at the Bangil District General Hospital. (2) To determine the partial effect of compensation variables, interpersonal relations, opportunities for achievement, and work conditions affect employee job satisfaction at the Bangil District General Hospital. The results showed that simultaneous compensation variables, interpersonal relationships, achievement opportunities and working conditions have a significant influence on employee job satisfaction in Bangil District General Hospital, while partially the compensation variables, interpersonal relationships and working conditions have an influence on employee job satisfaction at General Hospitals Bangil area.
Keywords: Compensation, Interpersonal Relationships, opportunities for achievement, working conditions and job satisfaction
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Liemgiani, Liemgiani. "PENGARUH KOMPENSASI, HUBUNGAN INTERPERSONAL, KESEMPATAN BERPRESTASI DAN KONDISI KERJA TERHADAP KEPUASAN KERJA KARYAWAN RUMAH SAKIT UMUM DAERAH BANGIL." Manajemen & Bisnis Jurnal 4, no. 2 (September 5, 2018): 54–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.37303/embeji.v4i2.77.
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In fact, the effectiveness and productivity of an organization is greatly affected by job satisfaction. Conversely, job dissatisfaction will cause a decrease in enthusiasm and enthusiasm for work. The number of cases of work strikes lately, irrespective of the motives of each individual, implies employee dissatisfaction with the organization. This is certainly very disturbing the effectiveness of the company as a form of organization. One program that needs to be considered in the context of optimizing human resources is to meet job satisfaction. With the fulfillment of job satisfaction, individual employees will try to improve their abilities. The success or failure of an organization depends on the ability of the organization to provide job satisfaction to its employees. The purpose of this study (1) To determine the simultaneous influence of compensation variables, interpersonal relationships, opportunities for achievement, and work conditions affect employee job satisfaction at the Bangil District General Hospital. (2) To determine the partial effect of compensation variables, interpersonal relations, opportunities for achievement, and work conditions affect employee job satisfaction at the Bangil District General Hospital. The results showed that simultaneous compensation variables, interpersonal relationships, achievement opportunities and working conditions have a significant influence on employee job satisfaction in Bangil District General Hospital, while partially the compensation variables, interpersonal relationships and working conditions have an influence on employee job satisfaction at General Hospitals Bangil area.
Keywords: Compensation, Interpersonal Relationships, opportunities for achievement, working conditions and job satisfaction
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Shekarbeygi, Narges. "Principles Governing Personal and Social Relationships Affecting Spiritual Health in the Holy Quran." International Journal of Social Science Research and Review 3, no. 3 (September 12, 2020): 9–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.47814/ijssrr.v3i3.42.
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How people can influence others by the way they interact and communicate and be present. It has long been considered by sociologists and scientists such as Gabriel Tard, Jean Mason, etc .; Most of the interpersonal and social relationships of people in society with each other through verbal and non-verbal communication with each other, each of which has a special place in improving individual-social relationships. On the other hand, research shows that spiritual health and its related components have a direct role in improving the health process and people who have paid more attention to this dimension; They have had a healthier life. Familiarity with the effects of these relationships on interpersonal communication processes in issues such as counseling and psychology and often in the diagnosis of mental states, psychologists, and psychiatrists and behavioral disorders is of great importance. Since the Holy Qur'an attaches great importance to human beings and their place in society and interpersonal relations; Referring to the attributes and characteristics that are related to verbal communication, such as situationism, the art of good listening, prioritization, audience knowledge, and the practice of speech, encourages the speaker to engage in this type of behavior so that personal and social relationships are based on the Qur'an. Be healthy and productive.
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Busacca, Gesualdo. "Places of Encounter: Relational Ontologies, Animal Depiction and Ritual Performance at Göbekli Tepe." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27, no. 2 (January 10, 2017): 313–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095977431600072x.
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Archaeologists have long debated the potential role of iconographic repertoires in reconstructing prehistoric ontologies and symbolic systems. The rich and complex imagery unearthed at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe (Turkey) has offered a promising ground to address this issue further. Previous interpretations have focused on the symbolic meaning of the depictions, often highlighting their male-centred and violent connotations, while overlooking the spatial and performative contexts of the depictions. This paper engages with this scholarly work in order to propose a new interpretation based on the anthropological framework of relational ontologies and on the analysis of some stylistic and contextual aspects of the iconography. Based on these premises, the curvilinear enclosures of Göbekli Tepe are interpreted as places of encounter devoted to interpersonal relationships among human and non-human agents, enabled by the intermediary role of images. The use of particular techniques of visual representation—including cues of motion and an emphasis on three-dimensionality—along with the centripetal orientation of the animal figures contributed to the animation of the depicted animals and to a sense of convergence of human and non-human beings in the social space of the enclosures.
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Varma, Arup, Ivana Zilic, Anastasia Katou, Branimir Blajic, and Nenad Jukic. "Supervisor-subordinate relationships and employee performance appraisals: a multi-source investigation in Croatia." Employee Relations: The International Journal 43, no. 1 (September 21, 2020): 45–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/er-06-2019-0248.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to empirically examine supervisor-subordinate relationships and their impact on performance appraisal in Croatia. Specifically, we were interested in examining how supervisor-subordinate relationships impact subordinate perceptions of performance evaluation and the subordinate's reactions to the performance evaluation.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses matched data from a sample of supervisors and subordinates (n = 53) in a leading organization in the hospitality industry in Croatia, as well as objective performance appraisal data to examine the impact of supervisor-subordinate relationships on subordinate reactions to performance appraisal.FindingsThe key findings of this study include (1) supervisor trustworthiness determines the quality of their relationship with subordinates and leads to interpersonal liking, and (2) supervisor-subordinate relationship quality has a significant impact on subordinate reactions to performance appraisal process and outcomes.Research limitations/implicationsThe overall sample size (n = 53) of this study is small, and limits our ability to make generalizations beyond a point. Also, since the sample included only Croatian individuals, the findings maybe an artifact of the fact that they all hold similar values. Future studies should examine these relationships in supervisor-subordinate dyads comprised of individuals of different cultural backgrounds.Practical implicationsSupervisors should attempt to have high quality relationships with most, if not all, subordinates, as this would lead to higher acceptance of the performance appraisal process, which can impact future performance. Also, trustworthiness is closely related to the subordinate's perception of the quality of relationship he/she shares with the supervisor.Originality/valueThis is the first known paper to empirically study performance appraisal processes and relationships in Croatia, which also included both supervisor and subordinate perspectives.
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Lu, Xintong. "Differences in Interpersonal Communication Efficacy among Chinese and International Students." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 6, no. 2 (May 1, 2019): 64–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v6i2.350.
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Within Chinese societies, as in western ones, interpersonal relationships, which can also be called social relations, are one of the most important needs for human beings. Within universities, Interpersonal Communication Efficacy (ICE) has been regarded as having a direct influence on the psychological health of undergraduate students. Based upon the theory of Bandura’s self-efficacy and Xie Jing’s ICE, this article compares the extent of ICE between domestic and international students in a Chinese university. The aim is to identify the similarities and differences between the two research groups, and the implications for the stakeholders (students, teachers, policy-makers, and researchers). A case study was conducted using a questionnaire survey. By employing the methods of quantitative analysis, the questionnaires of 390 respondents were analysed by using variance analysis of SPSS software. The findings of the study reveal that Chinese students are more likely to pay attention to interpersonal communication, and are more interdependent than other international students. This implies the importance of teaching communication skills, improving interpersonal communication efficacy, and understanding teaching and learning across cultures within the ongoing internationalisation of education.
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Golomski, Casey. "Greying mutuality: race and joking relations in a South African nursing home." Africa 90, no. 2 (February 2020): 273–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972019001049.
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AbstractThis article describes how residents and staff of an eldercare and Alzheimer's home in a small South African town joke with each other. Residents are mostly white and staff mostly black, but there are exceptions, and both groups are multilingual. Jokes between the two groups in the home are racialized, if not sometimes racist, in light of historical and contemporary post-apartheid socio-political and economic circumstances. Yet the relations between these two groups are forged mostly in joking about residents’ diminished cognitive and bodily abilities, staff work, multilingualism and interpersonal ties. In describing joking encounters in three ethnographic scenes, the article traces the ways in which age and race combine in institutionalized relationships of dependency to innovate social theory about human mutuality from the vantage point of multiracial, multicultural, postcolonial Africa.
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Gabb, Jacqui. "Family Lives and Relational Living: Taking Account of Otherness." Sociological Research Online 16, no. 4 (December 2011): 141–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2443.
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Contemporary research has shown that families are constituted through everyday practices of intimacy with affinities being fashioned around the structuring principles of openness and reciprocity alongside or superseding traditional ties of obligation and responsibility. Paradoxically in many instances powerful differences and inequalities among intimates remain intransigent, undermining claims on the democratisation of intimacy. In this article I want to examine how people make sense of difference and significant otherness in family lives, focusing attention on embedded practices that span across interpersonal, human-object, natural-cultural boundaries. I focus on three examples; these are relations between humans and animals, parents and children, people and objects. These relations are structured through species, gendered, generational and subject-object differences, but these categorical distinctions do not set apart the self and other. Instead they demonstrate how otherness is part of everyday relational living. Thus, to put personal relationships and families in context, I contend that we need to reframe the analytical lens around an ethics of otherness.
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Fousiani, Kyriaki, Panayiota Dimitropoulou, and Michalis Michaelides. "Controlled Motivational Orientation and Prejudice." Swiss Journal of Psychology 75, no. 2 (March 2016): 97–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/1421-0185/a000171.
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Abstract. This research investigates the effect of controlled versus autonomous motivation on intergroup relations. Two studies were conducted: Study 1 (N = 152 Greek Cypriot undergraduate students) showed that controlled motivational orientation, measured as a personality variable, was related to more prejudicial beliefs toward outgroups, lower intrinsic motives for contact, less desire for contact, and less actual contact with outgroups. Study 2 (N = 93 Greek Cypriot undergraduate students) experimentally replicated the findings of Study 1, revealing that controlled motivation, manipulated as a social/situational variable, was related to a higher level of prejudice toward outgroups, less intrinsic motives for contact with outgroups, and less desire for contact with outgroups. Most importantly, these relationships were mediated by dehumanization (i.e., denial of uniquely human traits) of the outgroup. The findings highlight the role of interpersonal control as an important factor determining the quality of intergroup relations.
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PRATT, NICOLA. "The Queen Boat case in Egypt: sexuality, national security and state sovereignty." Review of International Studies 33, no. 1 (January 2007): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210507007346.
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The government’s targeting of homosexuality in May 2001, following years of ‘turning a blind eye’ to Cairo’s gay scene, is studied here in terms of the links between the sphere of interpersonal relations and notions of national security within international relations. The persecution of men for alleged same-sex relations not only filled newspaper columns and created a spectacle to divert people’s attention away from the government’s failings. More importantly, the event represented an opportunity for government officials, the media and other civil society activists – both within Egypt and abroad – to ‘perform’ a discourse of national security through which national sovereignty was (re)produced and political order was maintained. However, this national security threat was not only posed by the external threat of Western governments, international NGOs and other transnational actors concerned with respect for human rights within Egypt. More importantly, this threat was constructed as originating with those people failing to conform to the ‘norm’ of heterosexual relationships.
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Anani-Bossman, Albert, and Takalani Eric Mudzanani. "Towards a framework for public relations practice in the financial services sector of Ghana." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 25, no. 3 (July 3, 2020): 533–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-01-2020-0021.
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PurposeThe goal of the study is to develop an integrated, non-sequential framework for excellent public relations management for the financial services sector in Ghana. The study empirically analyzes how PR is conceptualized and practiced in relation to the purpose (models) and roles (activities).Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted the qualitative in-depth interview approach to gauge the views of 22 PR practitioners.FindingsPractitioners of most communication departments have no PR background, and this influenced their conceptualization of PR. Essentially, PR in Ghana is shaped, to a large extent, by a western ideology. PR is however influenced greatly by strong interpersonal relationships, which is premised largely on the culture of the country. What is obvious is that PR in the financial services sector is not fully strategic. Although practitioners occupy managerial roles, they are limited in their ability to make impact due a lack of understanding by management about the purpose of PR and budgetary constraints.Research limitations/implicationsThe use of a qualitative approach means the result cannot be generalized. As the study focussed on one sector, it will be essential to look at other sectors using a generalized sample.Originality/valueThe study developed an integrative non-sequential PR framework based on literature and empirical findings. The framework differs in certain aspects from some of the recommendations made by literature for an excellent PR practice.
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Koczanowicz, Leszek. "The Dialogical concept of consciousness in L.S. Vygotsky and G.H. Mead and its relevance for contemporary discussions on consciousness." Polish Psychological Bulletin 42, no. 2 (January 1, 2011): 65–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10059-011-0010-1.
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The Dialogical concept of consciousness in L.S. Vygotsky and G.H. Mead and its relevance for contemporary discussions on consciousness In my paper I show the relevance of cultural-activity theory for solving the puzzles of the concept of consciousness which encounter contemporary philosophy. I reconstruct the main categories of cultural-activity theory as developed by M.M. Bakhtin, L.S. Vygotsky, G.H. Mead, and J. Dewey. For the concept of consciousness the most important thing is that the phenomenon of human consciousness is consider to be an effect of intersection of language, social relations, and activity. Therefore consciousness cannot be reduced to merely sensual experience but it has to be treated as a complex process in which experience is converted into language expressions which in turn are used for establishing interpersonal relationships. Consciousness thus can be accounted for by its reference to objectivity of social relationships rather than to the world of physical or biological phenomena.
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Balabanova, Evgeniya, Azer Efendiev, Mats Ehrnrooth, and Alexei Koveshnikov. "Job satisfaction, blat and intentions to leave among blue-collar employees in contemporary Russia." Baltic Journal of Management 11, no. 1 (January 4, 2016): 21–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bjm-03-2015-0079.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine antecedents of intentions to leave among blue-collar employees in domestic Russian organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a sample of 1,210 blue-collar employees in 80 domestic organizations across 14 industries and eight regions in Russia. Findings – The analysis shows that wage satisfaction is the strongest negative predictor of Russian employees’ intentions to leave compared to core job-related and interpersonal relations satisfaction. For non-blat employees, the relationships with intentions to leave are negative and significant for all three types of satisfactions, whereas for employees with blat only the relationship between core job-related satisfaction and intentions to leave is significant. Originality/value – The present study, first, reveals that wage satisfaction is the most important but not the only way to retain blue-collar employees in Russia and, second, points toward the complex nature of blat’s influence on employees’ organizational behavior in contemporary Russian organizations. By so doing, the analysis provides a still rare empirical illustration of how relationships and variables explaining turnover intentions and its antecedents are contingent on economic, cultural and institutional contexts.
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Susomrith, Pattanee, and Alan Coetzer. "Effects of informal learning on work engagement." Personnel Review 48, no. 7 (November 4, 2019): 1886–902. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pr-10-2018-0430.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between task-based and interactional informal learning practices in small professional services firms and the moderating role of proactivity in the relationship. Design/methodology/approach Job demand-resources theory was used to develop theoretical arguments for a link between informal learning and work engagement. Data were collected from 203 employees in professional services firms and analysed using structural equation modelling. Findings Analysis of the data showed that opportunities to learn through task-based learning processes and through interactions with supervisors and colleagues were positively related to employees’ levels of work engagement. Furthermore, the strength of relationships between these informal learning practices and work engagement was influenced by employees’ proactivity. Research limitations/implications The limitations pertain to the non-random sampling procedure, cross-sectional nature of the study and the use of self-report measures. These limitations were mitigated by employing rigorous analytical procedures. Practical implications The results suggest that managers are able to influence the quantity and quality of informal workplace learning through strategies such as selecting employees who have a propensity for proactive behaviour, encouraging proactive behaviour, enabling experimentation and reflection and fostering positive interpersonal relations. Originality/value The study links two streams of research that have seemingly not been connected previously. The results suggest that small firms are sites with abundant potential for development of employees’ knowledge and skills and the associated experiences of work engagement.
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Mello, Débora Falleiros de, Monika Wernet, Maria de La Ó. Ramallo Veríssimo, and Vera Lúcia Pamplona Tonete. "Nursing care in early childhood: contributions from intersubjective recognition." Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 70, no. 2 (April 2017): 446–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0319.
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ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the elements composing intersubjective recognition that are relevant for nursing care in early childhood in favor of comprehensive child development. Method: reflexive study based on the Honnethian concept of intersubjective recognition in the dimensions of affection, defense of rights, and social esteem. Results: nursing knowledge and practices, permeated by the intersubjective recognition in the mentioned dimensions, contribute to the dynamism of interpersonal relations, the production of co-responsibility, and shared construction of health care in early childhood, with benefits to comprehensive development. Conclusion: a successful coordination of the three intersubjective dimensions enables the expansion of the understanding on childhood and nursing care in child health in the field of human development promotion, covering affection, defense of rights, and social esteem in the established relationships with future positive individual and social possibilities.
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Deren, Jennifer. "Revolting Sympathies in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man." Nineteenth-Century Literature 72, no. 2 (September 1, 2017): 135–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2017.72.2.135.
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Jennifer Deren, “Revolting Sympathies in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man” (pp. 135–160) Building on recent scholarship that explores Mary Shelley’s advocacy for sympathy in The Last Man (1826), this essay traces the complexity of interpersonal and reader-text relations as they play out in the novel and in the experience of reading it. I argue that moments of intimacy explicitly called “sympathy” in the novel are often idealizations that turn “revolting” as sympathy becomes something other than the beneficial exchange that participants expect of it. These scenes delineate a politics of sympathy that challenges the dominant model with a portrayal of human intimacy as uncontrollable, amoral, and infectious. Shelley encodes in the novel’s infamous plague her concern that the experience of sympathy that underlies nineteenth-century politics of community- and nation-formation can and sometimes does generate violence, discord, and inequality alongside mutually beneficial relationships. Exploring readers’ uncertain responses to the novel alongside the novel’s representation of sympathy as revolting, I suggest that the novel’s framing “Introduction” reveals an aesthetics of sympathy in which reader-text relations are constitutively unstable. Readers’ resistance to Lionel’s effusive narration is a revolting response written into the novel’s sympathetic design. By making sympathetic reading a revolting experience, Shelley advances a revision of sympathy that forces us to rethink the possibilities and the consequences of human relationships and invites us to reimagine a communal future that makes room for those realities.
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Cheshev, Vladislav. "Moral Principles in the Life of Society, or “Metaphysics of History”." Ideas and Ideals 12, no. 4-2 (December 23, 2020): 311–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.17212/2075-0862-2020-12.4.2-311-329.
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The article investigates the influence of moral principles on historically developing social relations. The appeal to this problem is based on a conceptual approach to the origin of human morality, which arises in the course of sociogenesis as a set of behavioral principles that provide the intraspecific cultural (non-genetic) solidarity necessary for human societies. It is noted that the moral consciousness of individuals, which regulates interpersonal relationships, is a necessary but insufficient means for transmitting moral principles. Morality is expressed in the relationship between society and an individual. Society solves the problem of reproduction of moral regulators, it brings them into the nature of social relations by necessity. In this regard, attention is drawn to the role of elite groups in solving the aforementioned problem, in particular, it points out the peculiarities of the formation of an elite layer in Russian history. The elite is the bearer of moral images of social behavior, which expresses the attitude to public goals, interests, historical meanings of social life. The task of the elite is the implementation of these principles in the nature of social relations. The egoism of individuals and social groups can impede the solution of such a problem. Overcoming difficulties of this kind can be achieved by an awareness of history, which provides the basis for public consensus. The article focuses on the ethos of the “spirit of capitalism”, which enters into the social environment through the principles of the organization of economic activity. The paper shows the relevance of the problem of interaction of economic ethics and moral foundations of society as a systemic whole.
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Manterys, Alexander. "Cultural capital and public relations." VESTNIK INSTITUTA SOTZIOLOGII 30, no. 3 (2019): 33–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/vis.2019.30.3.586.
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This article focuses on problems with correlating a value system to human activity. The author approaches analyzing this issue in terms of cultural capital. Subject to examination is the key component of social order, which can be described as “developing relations of the highest and lowest order”, as orientation towards oneself of one’s community in a social group or network. This work attempts to define what social capital consists of in terms of privileged and legitimized cultural practices. Presumably a culture of common values bears self-worth if it can be materialized within the boundaries of various types of relations. This allows for predicting trends of change in interpersonal relationships, by means of generalizing the results and conducting comparative analysis. Highlighted is the fact that such analysis makes sense if it were to be conducted in terms of cultural capital. As such, a special role is assigned to cultural competence. The ability and/or skills in practically using cultural achievements under certain conditions, with the goal of converting them into other types of capital later down the line, are especially valuable. Also noted is the fact that an understanding of cultural capital, as well as its transformations, is vital for analyzing actual practices which reflect the processes of the “achievements, approval or rejection, reproduction or transformation” dynamic. The author confirms the conclusion which had already been drawn by foreign scientists who are well-known in this field of knowledge, namely that there exists a certain pattern: either society brings forth specific channels for the flow of class cultures with their impenetrable boundaries, their peculiar and somewhat autonomous standards of purpose (of taste), or a dilution of class distinctions occurs. This inevitably has an effect on the decline of the role of cultural capital, and therefore on belonging to the elite. A hypothesis is brought forth about the need to define a person’s place within social networks, their affiliation with those who are typically considered to be members of “exclusive cultures”. Otherwise a connection to such networks implies the “lowest level of cultural competence” and an unfavorable place in the social hierarchy.
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Osmanoğlu, Devrim Erginsoy. "Expansion of the Open Area (Johari Window) and Group Work Directed to Enhancing the Level of Subjective Well-being." Journal of Education and Training Studies 7, no. 5 (April 22, 2019): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/jets.v7i5.4128.
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Open and healthy communication plays an important role in the determination of human relations. While people are interpreting the bodily feedbacks given by the people they are communicating with to understand their intentions, they rely on the information they give about themselves; that is, their explanations about themselves. The Johari Window technique is the technique that supports the creation of trust in interpersonal relations, as well as the elimination of problems arising in the communication used in counseling processes. According to this technique, the area including an individual's behaviors, attitudes, feelings, experiences, skills or clear information about how he/she looks is called the open area. This area’s being broad plays an important role in the individual’s developing close relationships with other members of society, in his/her happiness or in his/her living positive emotions. In many studies, it was determined that both the physical health and psychological health of the people who shared their knowledge about themselves were positively affected. The purpose of the current study is to expand the open area of the group members participating in nine-session group work by using Johari window so that their understanding and awareness of themselves can be improved and their understanding of others can be enhanced and they can be enabled to see interpersonal differences. The study group of the current research is comprised of 12 students; 5 females and 7 males, from the Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance who participated in the study on a volunteer basis. In the current study, in order to collect data, the Psychological Well-being Scale, which was developed on the basis of Ryff's (1989) psychological well-being model and the Johari Window Evaluation Form developed according to the model proposed by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham were used. According to the posttest results obtained at the end of the study, it was observed that the open areas of the university students participating in the group work were expanded and their scores taken from the sub-dimension “positive relationships with others” of the subjective well-being increased.
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Norkina, I. "PSYCHOLOGICAL DISADAPTATION AS A CAUSE OF DISSATISFACTION WITH SEXUAL LIFE." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Series “Psychology”, no. 2 (9) (2018): 52–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/bsp.2018.2(9).13.
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The article presents the view on the problem of psychological maladaptation as a factor of dissatisfaction with sexual life, which is manifested in the disclosure of the data of the concepts, descriptions and characteristic features that are manifested in these concepts. The psychological aspects of the manifestation of psychological maladaptation and sexual dissatisfaction are revealed, and an empirical study of the relationship between psychological maladaptation and sexual dissatisfaction was conducted. Sexual and psychological relationships are caused by a determinant relationship (have their internal causes and external effects), this in turn indicates that sex life has an impact on interpersonal, intimate relationships among partners, and can also serve as a cause of the psychological defining of the individual. An important aspect was the sexual satisfaction with its physiological and psychological components, and the special role of various manifestations of feelings (mood, anxiety, emotions, stresses) on the sexual function of the individual was proved. The result of the study is the significance of the statistical relationship between psychological maladaptation and sexual dissatisfaction. This means that the psychological state of a person has a great influence on sexual life and vice versa, the sexual sphere of human life provides a certain amount of filling and general mental background state of personality in any life situations. With the help of theoretical and empirical analysis we received the following results: high indicators of sexual satisfaction and realized evidence of the ability of a person to feel pleasure during sexual intercourse, to control their own sexual behavior In accordance with the norms of social and personal ethics. Such a person is free of fear, a sense of shame and guilt, false representations and other psychological factors that inhibit sexual response and violate sexual relations.
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Kozak, Alla. "TRAINING AS AN EFFECTIVE METHOD OF PREPARING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY STUDENTS FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION." Міжнародні відносини, суспільні комунікації та регіональні студії, no. 1 (9) (February 9, 2021): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/2524-2679-2021-01-73-82.
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The article deals with the functional orientation of the training on the formation of the readiness of students, the future professionals in the field of international relations to intercultural communication. As practice has shown, training is an effective method (technology) of forming students' readiness to intercultural communication and helps to immerse deeply into the active controlled communication.
Training is usually associated with a set of exercises according to a special methodology developed on a scientific basis, carried out by a qualified specialist. As a didactic technology, training is a planned program of various exercises for the formation and improvement of skills and abilities in a particular area of human activity.
In the field of intercultural relations by using the training, the acquaintance with intercultural differences in interpersonal relations through emotionally colored activities, re-playing situations and their analysis, which allows you to transfer the acquired knowledge to new situations takes plays.
Emphasis is placed on the fact that the training actualizes communicative needs, intercultural potential of students as a method of teaching an effective communication, that allows communication partners to acquire the necessary skills and experience of communication and interaction, develop self-confidence, ability to flexible relationships. The typology of trainings is considered, which purposefully prepare for communication within a certain specific culture.
The use of different exercises at different stages of training and some rules of training are described. It is obvious that the training of intercultural communication is a real in nature and content attempt to find an adequate, correct and appropriate way to interact with representatives of another culture, which is based on equality, self-esteem, recognition and respect for the human rights. It combines informational and activity aspects, which allows to "deploy" communicative problems in dynamics, as in the process of training the participants mastered strategies to achieve cultural competence aimed at replenishing knowledge about the cultural identity of the partner, developed empathy and tolerance, mastered sociocultural knowledge. formed the skills of effective intercultural communication, confirming its effectiveness in shaping students' readiness for intercultural communication.
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Adamova, Elena. "TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE CRISIS OF RELATIONSHIPS OF THE MODERN BUSINESSMAN." Social Legal Studios 10, no. 4 (December 25, 2020): 130–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.32518/2617-4162-2020-4-130-134.
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Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of theoretical aspects of understanding the category of �relationship crisis�, the definition of their types and features. It is determined that the crisis is an integral part of human existence, and the experience gained during the crisis, significantly affects the formation of the individual, his life path. At the level of everyday consciousness, the crisis is identified with difficulties, problems that do not find their solution. Purpose research is an analysis of the category �relationship crisis�, identifying their types and features. Purpose research is an analysis of the category �relationship crisis�, identifying their types and features. Methods research: theoretical methods of scientific knowledge (analysis, synthesis, generalization, induction, deduction, etc.); methods of collecting empirical information (psychosemantic analysis; T. Leary�s method of �Interpersonal Relations�; E. V. Zmanovska�s method of assessing significant personal relationships); statistical methods of processing results. Results. The crisis is identified with the undesirable phenomena that bring suffering. It is the ambiguity and complexity of the real processes behind the concept of �crisis� that causes the contradiction of this very concept. The crisis can be understood as the most complex mechanism of personal adaptation, which allows you to solve a particularly complex class of problems, sometimes called life challenges. Its main characteristics are the following provisions: the crisis is associated with the problems of meeting the most important, fundamental human needs; the crisis poses to the individual not every day, but especially complex problems; these problems cannot be solved in the usual ways, this is their special complexity, so they are often perceived as deadlocks; the crisis is often a strong demand for change. Conclusion. As a result, the study concluded that the crisis is a clear signal of the need for personal and behavioural change. Experiencing a crisis is more acute, the more a person resists the changes that occur in his life. If we consider the crisis not only as a situation of maladaptation but as a particularly complex mechanism of adaptation, it opens up additional opportunities for its understanding and study. In general, there are usually three groups of crises: the crisis in large groups (society, social systems); the crisis in small social groups (family crises, crises in teams); personality crisis: internal crises, or transformational, life crises (i.e. crises caused by the natural development of the personality) and external crises (in which external traumatic events act as stressors).
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Wadham, Ben, Ross Boyd, Eileen Willis, and Meryl Pierce. "Reconstituting Water? Climate Change, Water Policy Reform and Community Relations in South Australian Remote Towns." Human Geography 6, no. 3 (November 2013): 89–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861300600308.
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Water is a principal medium of exchange within communities facing changing climate patterns and the ‘new dry’. For some parts of the globe water has been taken-for-granted, uncontested, yet for others highly variable, scarce and a measure of global and national inequalities. Australia as a large and diverse landmass is emblematic of those varied water contexts, yet as a whole, and after the recent ‘100-year drought’, water has become heavily regulated and marketised, and its material and symbolic meanings transformed. This has led us to ask: “What happens when water becomes marked or recognised as a scarce resource for all, indeed a site of contest and potential human conflict? How do the attempts to control water, through its market currency and environmental value, change the character of communities, the identities and interpersonal relationships that constitute the regional context?” After all, water is about far more than a material resource, it is also a cultural medium that is implicated the most fundamental aspects of life. In this study we explore the ways in which South Australian's living in the arid north of the state, above the Goyder Line, live and identify through the changing relations of water. Those changing relations are the changing availability and governance of water, nested within an ever-present public concern about climate change. We draw upon interviews with settler community members from a 200 square kilometre region across 7 towns or stations. Alongside the growing dry has been the developing commodification of water, having the effect of reducing local autonomy in the management and decision making about water conservation, supply and use. This paper considers the ways that these changes have transformative effects upon the differences and solidarities within local community relations.
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Agadullina, E. R. "Dehumanization: Approaches to Indirect Prejudice." Social Psychology and Society 12, no. 2 (2021): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/sps.2021120201.
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Objective. The presented review aims to describe and critically analyze the two most popular approaches to understanding and operationalizing the concepts of “humanity” and “dehumanization” (Infrahumanization theory and Two-dimensional model of humanness). Background. The studies of prejudice has identified two key problems. The first problem is associated with the limitations of existing theories in understanding the nature of prejudices, and the second — with a low efficiency of assessing blatant prejudice since an increasing spread of egalitarian attitudes in the world changes the intergroup relations and contributes to a transformation of explicit prejudices into indirect forms. The theories and models of dehumanization has become the response to these problems since they offer a new conceptual framework for the analysis of intergroup and interpersonal relationships, and new methods for assessing indirect prejudice that are independent of a social desirability. Conclusions. The results of a theoretical analysis showed that in psychological studies, “humanity” is operationalized either through the unique human emotions and traits, the negation of which leads to the association between certain individuals or groups with animals and the emergence of animalistic dehumanization, or through a description of the “human” prototype, the discrepancy to which is associated with mechanistic dehumanization. Animalistic dehumanization is more common in the context of intergroup relations, and mechanistic dehumanization is more related to the processes of self-perception. Despite the contradictions between different approaches to understanding humanity and dehumanization, as well as some methodological problems within each of them, dehumanization is recognized as an important phenomenon which significantly enriches psychological knowledge and understanding of a process of social cognition and interaction.
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Bauer, Amy, and Lucinda Woodward. "People and Their Pets: A Relational Perspective on Interpersonal Complementarity and Attachment in Companion Animal Owners." Society & Animals 15, no. 2 (2007): 169–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853007x187117.
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AbstractThe current study evaluated the interpersonal circumplex as a theoretical model of companion animal personality and companion animal attachment. To this end, the study surveyed 266 companion animal guardians (owners)—89 reporting their most recent pet a cat and 177 reporting their most recent pet a dog—to assess the relationships between interpersonal complementarity and companion animal attachment. The study used MANOVA to evaluate differences in interpersonal traits for cats, dogs, and people who self-identified that cats or dogs were their ideal pets. Results indicated that cats—and people who identified cats as their ideal pet—were more hostile in their orientation than were dogs or people who preferred dogs. In hierarchical regression-analysis, the study also confirmed the positive relationship between interpersonal complementarity and companion-animal attachment.
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Kowalski, Aleksy. "Zagadnienie personalizmu w "Protreptyku" Klemensa Aleksandryjskiego." Vox Patrum 64 (December 15, 2015): 299–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vp.3717.
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The article presents the outline of the pagan and Christian ancient anthropology that is interested in its relations to the cosmology. The antique philosophers describe a man as the microcosmos which belongs to the macrocosmos. According to Aristotle’s metaphysics and the henological metaphysics, the human being occupies the lower place in the hierarchy of the universe. The Christian thinkers, based on the Bible and the Tradition, show the human being as God’s creature made according to the image and similitude of his Creator. The Church Fathers know the Jewish and gnostic anthropologies and they make a polemic on their doctrinal issues. Investigating the patristic anthropology is possible to apply the prosopography exegesis that underlines the interpersonal dialogue. That method indicates three levels of mutual relationships: the analogical and iconic one, the dyadic and dialogical level and the triadic one. The Church Fathers creating the metaphysics of person change their research from the cosmology to the theology and the anthropology. Justin investigates the personalist logos-anthropology. Irenaeus of Lyon and Tertullian of Carthage show the personalist soma-anthropology. Clement of Alexandria elaborates the very interesting concept of the personalist eikon-anthropology that describes the human person as the divine Logos’ image, the living statue, in which dwells the divine Logos and the beautiful instrument fulfilled by God with the spirit. Origen of Alexandria, the Cappadocian Fathers and other Christian thinkers who examine that issue, will use Clément’s personalist eikon-anthropology in their future investigations. That concept helps to define the solemn Christological doctrine of Council of Chalcedon.
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Idris, Aida, and Saiful Nizam Che Soh. "Determinants of HADR mission success: exploring the experience of the Malaysian army." Disaster Prevention and Management 23, no. 4 (July 29, 2014): 455–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-01-2013-0003.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore issues in humanitarian aid and disaster relief (HADR) missions and examine the effects of selected factors on mission success. The paper focusses on organisational perspectives of the Malaysian army due to their extensive experience in HADR operations. Design/methodology/approach – Interactions among three broad factors namely human resource, logistics and coordination, as well as their effects on mission performance, were examined. A qualitative approach was chosen because it allowed for an exploratory yet a more in-depth analysis of the issues. Findings – Results suggest that while the effects of logistics and coordination on mission success appear to be direct, human resource influences it in a more indirect manner. Additionally, from a military viewpoint, HADR teams are also challenged by factors which are less controllable such as public support and local infrastructure. Research limitations/implications – The study has contributed to knowledge by proposing a more refined model of HADR operations performance which highlights relationships not adequately studied before. Based on the model, a quantitative study can be undertaken in the future to determine the relative effect of each factor. Practical implications – Among the areas of HADR operations that will benefit from the study are human resource and cross-cultural management, communication and interpersonal relations and information technology. Originality/value – Military perspectives of HADR missions are shared in the paper, which enrich current understanding of issues faced in such operations. The paper should also serve as an impetus for greater empirical research among scholars concerned with organisational perspectives in HADR operations performance.
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Costa, Ana Cristina. "Theoretical considerations over trust: relevant aspects for organizational behaviour." PSICOLOGIA 13, no. 1/2 (June 4, 2014): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v13i1/2.561.
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The concept of trust has been studied by a large number of scholars from various scientific backgrounds. Trust has showed to play a major role in social relations, organizations, political systems, economic transactions and even in human-computer interaction. Many scholars appear united with respect to the importance of trust as a “public good”, necessary for the success of many economic transactions. Lewis and Weigert (1985, p.968) suggest that “trust is indispensable in social relationships”. Zucker (1986, p.56) followed with the statement that trust is “vital for the maintenance of cooperation in society and necessary as grounds for even the most routine, everyday interaction.” Luhmann (1980, p.4) goes further by arguing that trust is necessary to reduce complexity in the social systems, “absence of trust would prevent him (individual) from getting up in the morning”. Although the importance of trust has been acknowledged, its study remains problematic for several reasons. Since trust is a basic factor for the understanding of human conduct, its study is not restricted to a particular level of analysis. In the literature we find trust related to individuals, interpersonal relations, organizational structures, economic transactions and societies as a whole. In these contexts, several definitions have been proposed causing considerable confusion among researchers. However the earlier work has not been wasted. Each definition proposed, even with the limitations of its own approach, provides new information, adds insight and understanding to the meaning of trust. The fact that trust can be studied at different levels (individuals, groups and societies) and in different contexts, points out the relevancy of a multilevel analysis as well a simultaneous consideration of the context, in order to develop a meaningful framework for the study of trust (Rousseau, Stikin, Burt and Carmer, 1998).DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v13i1/2.561
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Hsing, You-tien. "Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi. Edited by Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie, and David Wank. [New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. 276 pp. £16.95. ISBN 0521-53031-8.]." China Quarterly 176 (December 2003): 1093–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030574100326063x.
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This collection about guanxi in China is timely. It is timely because, as studies of social networks have reached maturity, it is important to reconsider the relevance of guanxi to social organization and change in China, especially since China has experienced such radical social and economic transformations in the last three decades. It is timely also because there is now increasing discussion about the possibilities of understanding non-Western societies with non-Western analytical categories, and about the strategies of resolving the tension between the particular and the universal. So guanxi, as the Chinese expression of the universal practice of building interpersonal relationships, may serve as a good example of understanding a social feature in specific cultural-institutional contexts and at a more universal level. The authors of this book have dealt with these issues in three broad ways.The first is to see if the instrumental and emotional dimensions of guanxi offer a more satisfying analysis than one based on extreme rationalism. The authors who took on this issue made useful distinctions between the perception, practice, and real effects of guanxi. For these authors, guanxi is a good way to understand the ambivalence of, and shifts between, the rational and the emotional in social relations, and between behaviour and discourse in social analysis. It remains a great challenge, however, to use the concept of guanxi as an analytical category to resolve the tension between the deep ambivalence of human relations and the methodological clarity demanded by many social scientists.
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Jung, Yuhee, and Norihiko Takeuchi. "Gender differences in career planning and success." Journal of Managerial Psychology 31, no. 2 (March 14, 2016): 603–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmp-09-2014-0281.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it attempts to examine how employees’ career planning (CP) interacts with the quality of leader-member exchange (LMX) to explain subjective career success. Second, the authors investigate how the pattern of such interactions differs between male and female employees. Design/methodology/approach – To increase the generalizability, the study tested hypotheses in two studies whose data were collected in different national settings. Study 1 was designed to analyze 144 Korean employees and Study 2 investigated 140 Japanese employees. Both groups of employees worked for privately owned firms. Findings – The authors found a three-way interaction effect between gender, CP, and LMX quality in predicting subjective career success. As hypothesized, the positive relationship between quality of LMX and subjective career success was stronger for males with high CP, whereas for females such a stronger relationship was found for women with low CP. Research limitations/implications – This study contributes to the literature in two ways. First, it extends career research by considering the interactive effects of individual and interpersonal factors on employees’ subjective career success. Second, it combines the research streams of social exchange theory (LMX), career theory (the boundaryless career), and gender theory (agentic and communal personality traits). This suggests that the ideas of the three theories could serve together as a useful framework for explaining gender differences in subjective career success through setting career goals and building relationships with supervisors. Practical implications – The findings have important practical implications for managers and leaders, who generally seek to motivate their employees toward career achievement. Originality/value – This study is one of the first to provide a new perspective for understanding the process by which men and women perceive their subjective career success differently with regard to social exchange relations with their supervisors and CP.
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Bashuk, Natalia. "PHRASEOLOGISMS WITH A ZOONYMIC COMPONENT IN GERMAN AND UKRAINIAN LINGUISTIC WORLD IMAGES." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ «Fìlologìâ» 1, no. 9(77) (January 30, 2020): 200–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2519-2558-2020-9(77)-200-203.
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The article provides a comparable analysis of phraseologisms with the zoonymic component in German and Ukrainian linguistic images of the world, which are closely related to national cultures, traditions, customs and religions. Representatives of the animal world become symbols of prototype imagery of strength, bravery, courage, loyalty, stubbornness, humility, guile, speed of movement, wisdom. It has been identified that zoonymic component in a phraseological unit has a pronounced national-cultural specificity, which determines its associative relations and allows to use these phraseologisms to characterize appearance, social status, interpersonal relationships, behavior, physical and emotional state, intelligence, attitude to work and character traits of a person. In this case, the negative characteristics in zoonyms outweigh the positive ones, which is explained by the fact that any language tends to more likely adopt negative deviation in meaning. Mythology, folklore, biblical and literary sources, historical events and facts have significant bearing on the choice of zoonyms in phraseological units of the languages compared. Names of animals in different languages can be related to not the same images and symbols, and the same animals can be a standard for ascribing different qualities and characteristics. Thus, phraseological units with zoonyms can cause difficulties in translation, since zoonimic image plays a crucial role in the formation of the individual meaning of the phraseological unit, performing both informative and imaginative-expressive function. Phraseological units with a zoonymic component can be translated using full equivalents, partial lexical and grammatical equivalents, selection of analogues, description, literal and overtonal translations.
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Martin, Daniel, and Stephen Bok. "Social dominance orientation and mentorship." Personnel Review 44, no. 4 (June 1, 2015): 592–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pr-08-2013-0141.
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Purpose – In all, 218 business/psychology working students contributed to the validation of the 20-item Mentor Expectations Measure (MEM). Mentors expected outcomes of mentoring protégés based on protégé race and mentors’ level of social dominance orientation (SDO) were established. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Study 1: to better understand the structure of the newly created MEM, (and to take the first step toward establishing a model) the authors conducted an exploratory factor analysis, using principle axis factoring procedure for extraction with direct oblimin rotation. The factor analysis yielded four viable factors. Study 2: participants were the same 218 working undergraduate students from a mid-sized university located on the west coast of the USA. SDO and social desirability were collected and survey participants were presented a stimulus story written so that the reader would take on the perspective of a mentor within a formal organizational mentorship program. Participants were randomly assigned stories in which they, as the mentor, receive a new protégé (the manipulated variable – perceived ethnicity). Other than the names of the protégés, the stimulus stories and questionnaires were exactly the same. The survey consisted of 63 questions in total. Findings – Given evidence of discriminatory behavior toward those that threaten hierarchical norms, the authors anticipated worse expectations for the mentorship to be found in the African American protégé manipulation. Based on the literature, the authors also anticipated stronger interactions between SDO and the mentorship expectations based on the discipline of the mentor. Participant-mentors estimated expected mentor outcome rewards from mentoring a Black or White protégé. No interactions were established, but SDO was a significant predictor of lessened expectations across several elements of the mentorship. This suggests that high levels of SDO in workplace hierarchies manifest poor expectations toward mentorship outcomes no matter the race/ethnicity or disciplinary back ground of the mentor. Research limitations/implications – While the subjects in the study represent realistic entry level managers and the sample size is acceptable, the authors would like to replicate using larger sample sizes in the future. Practical implications – The development of the MEM reflects a step forward in the psychometric matching of mentors with protégé. The authors recommend utilizing the MEM to evaluate mentors before establishing a relationship and making sure that the relationship is based on clear expectations, knowledge and balanced interpersonal relationships. Importantly, understanding the impact of individual differences like SDO will facilitate more productive relationships than matching on just ethnic and gender-based commonality. Social implications – As significant negative correlations (at the 0.01 level) were found between SDO and mentor commitment, mentor tangible rewards, as well as mentor intrinsic rewards. The negative relationships suggests that as SDO levels increase, participants level of commitment to the protégé lessens, their expectation of tangible rewards based on the mentor ship lessen, and their own levels of intrinsic rewards will diminish. This paints a picture of low expectations for the protégé based on one’s level of SDO, which surprisingly does not seem to interact with race of protégé. Originality/value – First, the MEM can facilitate the matching of mentors and protégés’. Second, researchers (Klauss, 1981; Kram, 1985) have pointed out that formal mentorship relationships may suffer due to the lack of initiative and commitment which the MEM clarifies. Third, the MEM can be used to examine and existing mentorship relations. Fourth, established use of the MEM or mentorship assessment would signal a “culture of mentoring, with organizations broadcasting the seriousness with which they take mentorship. Finally, the authors establish the impact of SDO on mixed race mentorships.
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Komskienė, Diana, and Ernesta Urbonavičiūtė. "LOJALŲ KLIENTĄ FORMUOJANTI APLINKA FITNESO ORGANIZACIJOJE." Laisvalaikio tyrimai 2, no. 4 (2014): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.33607/elt.v2i4.210.
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Research background. It has been estimated that today's fitness organizations urgently need to have and maintain loyal customers. An approach to have a loyal/faithful customer is very important for every organization. The organization should strive not only to attract, but also to retain the client. For client attraction and retention such personal human characteristics as emotional stability, extraversion, openness to experience, and awareness are mentioned as factors most affecting human loyalty. Of course, there are more important factors that shape a loyal customer: the interior, which consists of psychological, demographic and social factors as well as external stakeholders including fitness organization environment which comprises the people, the social media and institutional influence. Taking into account loyal customers forming factors a fitness organization should develop interpersonal relationships with their customers by creating "friendships" because that improves a fitness club environment where customers can directly interact with each other and with the staff, and ensure the quality of the relationship as well as build trust. Organizational aim is to develop loyal employees in their environment who are able to promote exceptional friendliness and sincerity, comfort and pleasant environment, commitment to organization and work relationships. In addition, the fitness organization must ensure the cleanness and quality of the inventory, the supply of fitness programs in accordance with customers' needs, age and education, not just for "everyone", as the most important customer satisfaction components of service which generate value, and in this way forming an inner image of the organization, and through the media and customer reviews – loyal environment that allows achieving positive results, growth and profit by increasing revenue and developing competitiveness. Research aim was to establish conditions for a loyal customer forming environment in fitness organization. Objectives: 1) Describe the concept of loyalty and expression; 2) Reveal loyal customers and influencing factors on the environment of fitness organizations. Conclusions. Loyalty is a fragile phenomenon rather than erratic. However, this phenomenon often provides real benefits to the organization: fixed income, reduced marketing expenses, recommendations to potential and existing sports customers, attracting new customers, more competitive and less sensitive to price fluctuations. Formatting loyal sports customer a sports organization has a strong focus on friendly relations and fostering the creation of a pleasant environment, focusing its efforts to provide quality services and achieve customer satisfaction through wellness programs, selection and creation of client-personnel “friendship”. Factors determining formation of loyal customers affects fitness organizations managerial decisions of the environment in the development of trust, created through customer listening and interpersonal relationships, in the development of an effective movement of the internal process, the creation of internal factors according to demographic criteria and individualization of services providing for sports customers through customer satisfaction on the “friendship” meaning basis. Fitness organization environment must be focused on the individual client's regular studies and development of proposals on the basis of the internal psychological factors, such as personal traits, which are distinguished as follows: emotional stability, extraversion, openness to experience, consciousness. Internal factors in connection with the interpretation of the social externalities: people, social media, and the influence of institutional identity generates relatively comfortable environment to create satisfaction, transforming to the formation of a loyal customer. Keywords: loyal customer, satisfaction, services, fitness organization.
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Zhao, Yi, Weiquan Wang, and Yan Zhu. "Antecedents of the Closeness of Human-Avatar Relationships in a Virtual World." Journal of Database Management 21, no. 2 (April 2010): 41–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jdm.2010040103.
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Virtual worlds (e.g., Second Life), where users interact and form relationships with other users’ virtual identities represented by avatars (i.e., human-avatar relationships), are increasingly influential in today’s businesses and society. Nevertheless, the sustainability and impact of virtual worlds depend largely on the closeness of human-avatar relationships. This study investigates the antecedents of the closeness of such relationships. The authors conceptualize human-avatar relationship closeness as composed of interaction frequency, activity diversity, and relational influence. They identify its antecedents (perceived needs fulfillment, relationship irreplaceableness, and resource investment) by extending Rusbult’s investment model of interpersonal relationship commitment to the domain of human-computer interaction. The authors test the hypotheses through an online survey of Second Life users and find that (1) resource investment is positively associated with all three human-avatar relationship closeness dimensions; (2) needs fulfillment is positively associated with interaction frequency and relational influence; and (3) relationship irreplaceableness is positively associated with relational influence.
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Radovanović, Bojana. "Reality on the Screen: The Subject of the Dystopian Future/Present. Thoughts on episode “Fifteen Million Merits” of Black Mirror." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, no. 17 (October 16, 2018): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i17.275.
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Currently one of the most controversial and intriguing science fiction series on television, Black Mirror (Channel 4, Zeppotron, 2011–present) gained worldwide popularity through dealing with the issues of technologically-driven society of the near future. The levels of similarity and dissimilarity with contemporary Western society are carefully balanced in order to make a significant cognitive and psychological impact on viewers.This paper focuses on analyses of the second episode from the first season, titled “Fifteen Million Merits”. In it, people spend most of their days in an automated, high technology environment, surrounded by video screens. Their attention is focused mainly on performing one rather mundane task (cycling on stationary bicycles), and their sparse interpersonal relationships are also carried out through a particular kind of social network. The screens are also the source of fulfillment of individuals’ consumerist and diversionist leanings. Having in mind the theorization of the subject in cyber-space and screen as an interface, as well as questions that emerge from the field of contemporary media ecology, the primary objective of this article is to investigate the complex relations between human subjects and their virtual realities, the entertainment industry, and communication technologies. Article received: March 30, 2018; Article accepted: May 10, 2018; Published online: October 15, 2018; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Radovanović, Bojana. "Reality on the Screen: The Subject of the Dystopian Future/Present. Thoughts on episode “Fifteen Million Merits” of Black Mirror." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 17 (2018): 103−112. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i17.275
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Emmeche, Claus. "Robot Friendship." International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems 3, no. 2 (July 2014): 26–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsss.2014070103.
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Friendship is used here as a conceptual vehicle for framing questions about the distinctiveness of human cognition in relation to natural systems such as other animal species and to artificial systems such as robots. By exploring this very common form of a human interpersonal relationship, the author indicates that even though it is difficult to say something generally true about friendship among humans, distinct forms of friendship as practiced and distinct notions of friendship have been investigated in the social and human sciences and in biology. A more general conceptualization of friendship as a triadic relation analogous to the sign relation is suggested. Based on this the author asks how one may conceive of robot-robot and robot-human friendships; and how an interdisciplinary perspective upon that relation can contribute to analyse levels of embodied cognition in natural and artificial systems.
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Popova, S. B., and M. T. Shkapenko. "The functioning of a semantic calque токсичный in discursive practices of the modern russian language." Philology at MGIMO 6, no. 4 (December 28, 2020): 156–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2020-4-24-156-166.
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The paper focuses on the semantic derivation of the adjective «toxic» in English, which underlies the neosemantization of the adjective “токсичный” in the Russian language. Due to exposing the seme of negative impact, the word “toxic” is subjected to metaphorization. It is actively used in various spheres of Anglo-American discourse. The universal character of the metaphor, in which the target domain is a person, and the source domain – toxic substances, explains the high frequency of its usage. The conceptualization of a person and the whole system of interpersonal relations in terms of metaphor “Man is a toxic substance” is considered as a verbal indicator of the real psychological state of Anglo-American society. The high frequency of the word in political discourse is characterized as a means of language manipulation. Attention is drawn to the ethnic specificity of the American feminist socioconstruct “toxic masculinity”, as a particular manifestation of the tendency to eliminate binary gender opposition. While examining the functioning of neosemantism “toxic” in the Russian language, a conclusion is made about the process of semantic calque, which proceeds in the form of exact copying the ways of its metaphorical usage in the donor language. In the speech practices of native Russian speakers the adjective “toxic” changes its traditional syntagmatics, including in the field of reference nouns with the meaning of a person or various types of human relationships. There are changes in the use of the adjective, which is becoming a fashionable attribute of the speech of politicians, financiers, and psychologists. It is emphasized that the semantic shift in the adjective “токсичный”, which is carried out under the influence of the donor language, is alien to the traditional system of values of Russian native speakers.