There are numerous reports on the rates of attrition among volunteers as a persistent challenge for organizations. In explaining volunteer attrition, researchers have predominantly: 1) provided an individualistic account volunteering; 2) overlooked interactional dimension work and crucial role interpretation in its development; 3) assumed commitment function satisfaction with volunteering exper...

The success of any analogical reasoner depends upon its ability to select a relevant source. We can improve source selection by more completely integrating the process of source retrieval with analogical inference, and by using experience in solving target problems to find properties that effectively predict a source’s relevance to future targets. This paper describes the design and evaluation ...

Drawing upon the extended symbolic interactionist tradition, this paper examines management activities in context of office holders and teams. As researchers, if we wish to fully appreciate everyday life, then must pay particular attention teams, team creation teamwork, for it is through people doing things together that organizational life realized. Specifically, I examine relevance performanc...

Self-efficacy is the belief that someone can do work successfully. The study purposes to explore whether collaborative task-based instruction (TBI) empower EFL self-efficacy? uses a critical review, content analysis, and interpretation regarding five perspectives namely in terms (1) cognitive-interactionist, (2) psycholinguistics, (3) sociocultural, (4) psychological, (5) educational. results n...

This article situates the experiences of having penile implant surgery between medical interventions and privately understood meanings practices. Using my own experiences, supplemented with information from online sources, I document changes that occur in practices enables. My analysis derives concepts habitus looking glass body, it begins a diagnosis impotence moves through various considerati...

Implementing a socio-rhetorical approach in the writing of a commentary can be a challenging endeavour. Such a multidimensional approach should take seriously some of the questions that are not always dealt with explicitly in the writing of commentaries. Interactionist hermeneutics should be acknowledged, as well as the ideology of the interpreter, together with taking into account the creativi...

This paper contrasts two views about the relationship between the processes of access and mapping in analogymaking. According to the modular view, analog access and mapping are two separate ‘phases’ that run sequentially and relatively independently. The interactionist view assumes that they are interdependent subprocesses that run in parallel. The paper argues in favor of the second view and p...

The paper presents a qualitative, interview-based study that seeks to describe participants’ perceptions and experiences with information and communication technology. The participants in the study were active people, aged 67 and over, who live alone in an urban setting. Interactionist theory of loneliness was used to guide the inquiry, in particular regarding the perception of the relation bet...