Parental engagement is a common theme of education policy in most countries. In Aotearoa New Zealand, policies frame parental broad terms giving schools flexibility enacting them. However, the generality assumes complex and differentiated activities associated with are well understood, leaving little guidance for this work. This article examines enactment one Zealand primary school to understan...

a varity of policy making models have been put forward in different era. although in real world each one of these models have a color and crystallized and an effect of each one could be traced in policy making . it is endeavored with the consideration of complexity of business environment and its various performers & players involved to present a conceptual model of policy making in order to im...

Research on humor in organizations has rarely considered the social context in which humor occurs. One such social setting that most of us experience on a daily basis concerns the team context. Building on recent theorizing about the humor-performance link in teams, this study seeks to increase our understanding of the function and effects of humor in team interaction settings. We examined beha...

BACKGROUND Cognitive mapping is a participatory research methodology that documents, in visual form, a construct of the local environment in which people live and work. We adapted this method to provide detailed data about study locales to inform recruitment and retention strategies for HIV prevention community based clinical trials. METHODS Four cognitive mapping studies were undertaken betw...

We investigated how positive affectivity influences people's perception of the pat terns of social relationships around them. Positive affectivity was measured as trait positive affect. The outcome variable was accuracy in the perception of informal patterns of social interaction in a group (i.e., the group's network structure). Data on the perception of the relationships of friendship and work...

Cooper (1986) examined the equilibrium of the retroactive most-favored-customer pricing policy by using a two-period duopoly model. He showed that the most-favoredcustomer policy enables both firms to offer higher prices and to enjoy higher profits. Neilson and Winter (1992) showed that even if one firm in a price-setting duopoly adopts the most-favored-customer policy, the equilibrium does not...