A burgeoning problem facing organizations is the loss of workgroup productivity due to cyberloafing. The current paper examines how changes in the decision-making rights about what workgroup members can do on the job affect cyberloafing and subsequent work productivity. We compare two different types of decision-making regimes: autocratic decision-making and group voting. Using a laboratory exp...

The current status of the theoretical and observational cosmology is reviewed.

Entrepreneurial profit arises from differences in expectations between a buyer and a seller concerning the future value of a resource. The current paper investigates whether differences in expectations can be manipulated, molded, or manufactured by an entrepreneur to produce greater profits. It is concluded that a range of techniques are exist to manage expectations and that the use of these te...

Learning for both individuals and organisations, operating within the nuclear sector, is fundamental during the current climate of change. The organisations operating within the current environment must make certain they participate in the process of learning in order to ensure safety and efficiency is maintained. The current paper will consider the facilitators and barriers to organisational l...

Teaching English has become a major necessity for developing areas in Asian countries due to globalization. The general purpose of this paper is to discuss the problems related with the novel tendency of teaching English for Asian educational system. This paper discusses the requirements of educational system in Asia for teaching English as well as on the mode of training English applicable ski...

Introduction In the Current Population Survey, a household survey from which labor force estimates are produced, selected housing units remain in sample during a 16-month period. The households are interviewed during the first 4 and last 4 months of this period. These interview months are referred to as “month-in-sample” (MIS) 1 to 8. Matching households between months allows an analysis of the...

The influence of emotion on (the early stages of) speech production processes, notably content selection has received little scholarly attention. Goudbeek & Krahmer (2012) found evidence for alignment at the conceptual level: speakers may start using a dispreferred attribute over a preferred attribute in their referring expressions when they are primed by a prerecorded female voice in a precedi...

This analysis of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study tests the ability of women’s economic independence to explain the propensity to remarry. More broadly, it examines the effects of men’s and women’s socioeconomic prospects on remarriage following divorce. Theories emphasizing women’s economic independence predict that women with the greatest alternatives to marriage will be least likely to remar...

Previous research has provided evidence that second language (L2) learners use gesture to enhance spoken communication with interlocutors, and that gesture facilitates L2 word learning. The current study investigates how L2 learners use gesture to communicate in conversational settings, and whether their gesturing in these settings facilitates L2 acquisition beyond the immediate context. The re...