background: theoretically, a vital factor in development has been the resilience and strength of socio-economic system to confront instabilities and crises. the precaution, however, is that an error might be committed, where, instead of finding the root causes of diseases we are mobilizing the forces to confront the signs of illness, leaving the diseases to grow and damage the lesser developed ...

because of a crime crisis in societies through 80’s, stabilization incriminality noticed by criminologists. a dynamic fact and stable processwhich in it, in lack of management in criminal justice, juveniles andimmature earlier criminals, might be in danger and as a result, today’spotential stabilizer criminals are tomorrow’s chronic stabilized ones.beside other ecological, mental and social cri...

Educational institutions are considered a keystone for the establishment of a meritocratic society. They supposedly serve two functions: an educational function that promotes learning for all, and a selection function that sorts individuals into different programs, and ultimately social positions, based on individual merit. We study how the function of selection relates to support for assessmen...

work engagement literature has been dominated by quantitative research methods. this article aims to study work engagement antecedents using mixed-method sequential explanatory design. this design starts with the collection and analysis of quantitative data followed by the subsequent collection and analysis of qualitative data. the qualitative phase of the study was designed to incorporate the ...

like humans, organizations may be healthy or sick. among the psychological disorders in organizations, organizational paranoia may arise from employees’ negative attitudes. employees’ sense of justice or injustice and also their perception of organizational support can motivate formation of positive or negative attitude that in turn affects the level of organization’s cynicism and sickness. the...

I t is exciting to see nurses in cancer care increasing their attention to health equity and social justice. Such concerns have not dominated research and practice in relation to cancer; perhaps, in part, because cancer carries less social stigma than health issues where equity concerns are foregrounded such as mental health problems, violence or HIV (with exceptions such as lung cancer in peop...