Follow the Unwritten Rules?

Sex, Power and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules

Unwritten rules: virtual bargaining underpins social interaction, culture, and society

Many social interactions require humans to coordinate their behavior across a range of scales. However, aspects of intentional coordination remain puzzling from within several approaches in cognitive science. Sketching a new perspective, we propose that the complex behavioral patterns - or 'unwritten rules' - governing such coordination emerge from an ongoing process of 'virtual bargaining'. So...

The Grounded Theory Review (2012), Volume 11, Issue 2 Deciphering Unwritten Rules

The aim of this study was to develop a classic grounded theory of patients, relatives and nurses in palliative cancer care. Data from three earlier studies conducted in palliative care were analyzed. “Deciphering unwritten rules” emerged as the pattern of behavior through which patients, relatives and nurses are dealing with the uncertainty of how to act and behave in palliative cancer care. De...

The Unwritten Rules of Mentorship: Facilitators of and Barriers to Effective Mentorship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine.

OBJECTIVES Benefits of effective mentorship include career satisfaction and academic productivity. Given the youth of pediatric hospital medicine (PHM), effective mentorship is a widely acknowledged challenge. This study aimed to characterize successful pediatric hospitalists' past and current mentorship experiences and identify facilitators of and barriers to effective mentorship in PHM. MET...

Why don’t people just follow the rules?

Since the industrial revolution the world has seen an ever increasing proliferation of production facilities and with it a steady increase in workplace accidents and fatalities. The field of safety management was borne out of the need to curtail the extremely high human and commercial costs of these incidents. Not surprisingly in the dawn of the industrial age, the initial port of call was engi...