The paper deals with the personality traits of Gallo-Roman author Sidonius Apollinaris (~430–489) who was a representative of Late Roman nobility and clergyman as well. It wasn’t unusual situation for 4th-6th century’s Mediterranean world, when intellectual elite was a fueler for religious leaders. Nonetheless some of them underwent the crisis of identity, others continued to hold old values an...

One common aspect of all human beings, regardless of education level, income level, location and so on, is that they are all consumers. The key of success in marketing strategy both in terms of local and global aspects is understanding consumer behavior. So aim of this study was to investigate the role of socio-cultural factors on sports consumer behavior. This research was survey- descriptive....

BACKGROUND Opinion leaders represent one way to disseminate new knowledge and influence the practice behaviors of physicians. This study explored the stability of opinion leaders over time, whether opinion leaders were polymorphic (i.e., influencing multiple practice areas) or monomorphic (i.e., influencing one practice area), and reach of opinion leaders in their local network. METHODS We su...

Model-driven engineering (MDE) has proven to be a useful approach to cope with todays ever growing complexity in the development of software systems, yet it is not widely applied in industry. As suggested by multiple studies, tool support is a major factor for this lack of adoption. Existing tools for MDE, in particular model transformation approaches, are often developed by small teams and can...

Workplace mobbing is a highly severe occurrence that costs businesses lot of money and harms the health those who are targeted. The study discusses mobbing, one contemporary issues prevent organizations, particularly educational institutions, from developing sustainably. Mobbing conduct group members could endanger groups their leaders' ability to maintain an atmosphere peace conflicts crises a...

AIM To compare nursing leaders' and employees' perception of leaders' leadership style, personality characteristics, and managerial competencies and to determine the associations between these factors. METHODS The study included 4 out of 5 Slovenian major hospitals selected from the hospital list; 1 hospital refused to participate. The employees of these hospitals represent 30% of all employe...

The institutional response to the social outbreak of 18/O in Chile was National Referendum for a new Constitution, which had an overwhelming result favor approving constitutional change. However, within minority group that voted against change, there is part large Chilean business community. This article seeks show foundations main leaders two employers' organizations Chile: Society Agriculture...

Abstract A consensus in the literature has converged on idea that one's perceptions of being treated better by a leader (compared with coworkers' treatment same leader) motivate prosocial behaviour. Drawing current theory hubristic pride and its evolutionary role status maintenance, we challenge this proposing favourable, downward social comparisons leader‐member exchange (i.e., comparisons; LM...

Neoliberal logic and institutional lethargy may well explain part of the reason why governments pay little attention to how their economic and development policies negatively affect health outcomes associated with the global diffusion of unhealthy commodities. In calling attention to this the authors encourage health advocates to consider strategies other than just regu...