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Workplace Civility: A Confucian Approach

Running head: CIVILITY NORMS QUESTIONNAIRE-BRIEF 1 Assessing Workgroup Norms for Civility: The Development of the Civility Norms Questionnaire – Brief

Purpose – This research describes the development and validation of the Civility Norms Questionnaire-Brief (CNQ-B), a 4-item measure designed to assess workgroup climate for civility. Climate for civility is defined as employee perceptions of norms supporting respectful treatment among workgroup members. Design/methodology/approach – Five samples (N = 2,711) of adult employees, including two fr...

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Chapter 8 Selective interventions 8.1 The approaches to improving the investment climate discussed in chapters 4-7 could apply to all firms and activities in the economy. Given the breadth of that agenda, some firms or activities often benefit from improvements earlier than others—as with infrastructure in a particular region, or regulatory reforms affecting a particular activity. But beyond th...

Civility/Incivility in the College Classroom

Incivility is any kind of disruptive classroom behavior that shows disrespect or disregard for the instructor and fellowstudents. It can dramatically diminish the effectiveness of a course and cause great stress for the instructor. This section starts with several sites that describe forms of incivility, suggestions for handling it, and current research on incivility. The remaining links provid...

Computer, Tell Me a Joke ... but Please Make it Funny: Computational Humor with Ontological Semantics

Computational humor is a subdiscipline of computational linguistics with applications in human computer interfaces, edutainment, affective computing, intelligent agents, and other areas. Based on ontological semantics, we develop the resources and algorithms the computer needs to understand and produce humor, in principle and on a detailed example. Our ultimate output will not be that of a toy ...