The importance of cultural and behavioural factors in children's nutrition, particularly with regard to feeding, has been recognized only recently. The combination of evidence regarding the importance of caregiving behaviour for good nutrition, and improved strategies for measuring behaviour have led to a renewed interest in care. The UNICEF conceptual framework suggests that care, in addition ...

Due to the aging process, the provision of long-term care (LTC) to the dependent elderly has become a major challenge of our epoch. But our societies are also characterized, since the 1970s, by a postponement of births, which, by raising the intergenerational age gap, can affect the provision of LTC by children. In order to examine the impact of those demographic trends on the optimal policy, w...

The present research aimed to explore the association between HEXACO personality traits and perspective leadership styles of organizational leaders. layers their shapes seem have some connections with facets. sample was comprised N=98 leaders including (males=70, females= 28) having age range from 30 58 years (M= 42.76, SD = 6.28). data collected through purposive sampling technique. results st...

Relationships between leaders' motivation and their use of charismatic, transactional, and / or transformational leadership were examined in this study. One hundred eighty-six leaders and 759 direct reports from a variety of organizations were sampled. Leaders were administered the Motivation Sources Inventory (MSO while followers reported leaders' full range leadership behaviors using the Mult...

This paper’s aim is to study the leadership styles practiced in Catalan SMEs during COVID-19 pandemic. The research focuses on three (autocratic/transactional, democratic/transformational and laissez-faire/liberal) how these are influenced by Hofeste’s cultural dimension other variables such as SMEs’ maturity level respondents’ gender.

in the presence of uncertainty about what a country can be good at producing, there can be great social value to discovering costs of domestic activities, because such discoveries can be easily imitated. two failures of the laissez – faire outcome are being highlighted: there is too little investment and entrepreneurship ex ante, and too much production diversi-fication ex post. optimal policy ...

This article explores the failure of urban renewal in Bombay city during the ®rst quarter of the twentieth century. It shows how colonial rule structured a class-driven process of uneven urban `improvements' that actually exacerbated the problems of congestion, bad housing and environmental blight. In this process, the new forces of modernity were selectively appropriated to accentuate the diff...