Digital health, including the use of mobile health apps, telemedicine, and data analytics to improve systems, has surged during COVID-19 pandemic. The social economic fallout from further exacerbated gender inequities, through increased domestic violence against women, soaring unemployment rates in unpaid familial care taken up by women—all factors that can worsen women's health. bolster equity...

Currently it is generally accepted that existing theories and approaches to psychotherapy, developed in Western cultures, are not applicable to other cultures. A model is proposed that, while based on certain theoretical and research foundations in Western culture, also recognizes and derives from universal drives, motivations and goals of all human beings, indeed of all living organisms. It is...

The symbol grounding problem, described recently by Harnad, states that the symbols which a traditional AI system manipulates are meaningless to the system, the system thus being dependent on a human operator to interpret the results of its computations. The solution Harnad suggests is to ground the symbols in the system's ability to identify and manipulate the objects the symbols stand for. To...

The present two-study investigation framed performance as one potential form of influence that interacts with political skill to affect power assessments. It was hypothesized that favorable performance is more likely to be leveraged into higher levels of interpersonal power when individuals possess high levels of political skill, but not for individuals low in political skill. Study 1 (N = 97) ...

Criticisms of futures studies ought to be evaluated in comparison with those of other fields. For example, compared to the established disciplines, futures studies is less fragmented and has many positive features. Also, controversies among futurists do not mean that futures studies is not a field. Rather, one hallmark of any field of inquiry is that its members constitute a disputatious commun...

This study explores one of the contributors to group composition – the basis on which people choose others with whom they want to work. We use a combined model to explore individual attributes, relational attributes, and previous structural ties as determinants of work partner choice. Four years of data from participants in 33 small project groups were collected, some of which reflects individu...

The resource-based view (RBV) has been welcomed by researchers as a sound basis upon which to develop theory in the field of HRM. However, we argue that the RBV is overly rationalistic, unitarist and internally focused compared with what we know about organizations from sociological and institutionalist perspectives. The more recent complex adaptive systems perspective constitutes a more promis...

This study develops a framework to categorize international and intercultural human . resource (IHR) control at" the subsidiary level across cultures. The effects of interorganizational interdependencies, competitive strategies, and cultural differences on the three different dimensions ofIHR control (input, behavior, and output) were studied using a sample of 100 Taiwanese subsidiaries operati...

Diversity is widely celebrated and pursued in parts of American society, particularly within academe. Diversity is clearly associated with moral goods, such as justice, and with practical goods, such as the variety and quality of ideas. But from a social psychological point of view, diversity ought to cause a number of problems, such as divisiveness and conflict. A resolution of this paradox is...