STUDY OBJECTIVE To discover if area level social cohesion, neighbourhood safety, and home safety are associated with current cigarette smoking among adults after adjustment for concentrations of poverty and low education. DESIGN Cross sectional survey of a random sample of adults, stratified by 19 geographical areas. SETTING SHAPE, Survey of the Health of Adults, the Population, and the Env...

The study aimed to evaluate the aspects of social responsibility organizational cohesion employees processing enterprises in Hau Giang province, Vietnam. Data is collected from 196 working employees. methods descriptive statistics, reliability testing, explore factor analysis and multivariable regression were used through SPSS software. Research results have identified 5 that affect employees' ...

While researchers have examined the role of individuals in crowdsourcing for open innovation purposes (wisdom in crowds) there is a gap in our understanding of the collective intelligence of communities for such purposes (wisdom of crowds). The objective of this exploratory study is therefore to explore the peer production of innovation; specifically the challenges in leveraging the collective ...

BACKGROUND We developed and validated an instrument to measure community-level social capital based on data derived from older community dwellers in Japan. METHODS We used cross-sectional data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a nationwide survey involving 123,760 functionally independent older people nested within 702 communities (i.e., school districts). We conducted explorato...

Purpose Literature evidences that altruism and conscientiousness are very important discretionary behaviours within the broader framework of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) among teaching community. The present study is intended to examine effect role clarity, perceived cohesion felt responsibility on college teachers in Kerala. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire-based surve...