background many organisations have realised the importance of human resource for their competitive advantage. empowering employees is therefore essential for organisational effectiveness. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between employee participation with outcome variables such as organisational commitment, job satisfaction, perception of justice in an organisation and readines...

The managers very often don’t take into consideration cultural determinants which can influence their employees’ attitude and preferences. This can result in the transfer of practices which are not suitable in specific cultural environment. The aim of this paper is to present the direction of the influence of one of the national culture dimensions – power distance on the internal relations betw...

Understanding of the effectiveness of work-teams is a major issue in the business world, where they are expected to facilitate developing individual skills and increasing organizations’ efficiency. Eighty-three engineers working in teams have responded to a questionnaire devised to measure perceptual power distances, the sense of relatedness, cohesion measured by integration around the task, an...

This paper is concerned with finite groups G(◦) and G(∗) of order n that are not isomorphic, and where the size of {(u, v) ∈ G×G; u◦v 6= u∗v} is the least possible (with respect to the given n). It surveys the case of 2-groups, discusses the possible generalization of the known results to p-groups, p an odd prime, and establishes the least possible distance in the case when G(∗) is an elementar...

Agent-based computational economics studies the nature of economic processes by means of artificial agents that simulate human behavior. Human behavior is known to be scripted by cultural background. The processes of trade partner selection and negotiation work out differently in different communities. Different communities have different norms regarding trust and opportunism. These differences...

This paper describes a method for automatically improving the parameters of the edit distance used in a given nearest-neighbor pattern classiication task. The method uses a simple self-consistent procedure which assigns costs to the basic editing operations according to their discriminative power. The discriminative powers of operations are deened based on the statistics of their use when a pro...

This review places intergroup encounters in a broad framework which considers the context in which such encounters take place, and in particular, the power dynamics at play. We address different forms of encounters, spanning from interpersonal interactions (not focused on intergroup aspects) to political negotiations between the groups’ representatives, and argue for a deeper consideration of p...

We discuss the scalar propagator on generic AdSd+1 × S ′+1 backgrounds. For the conformally flat situations and masses corresponding to Weyl invariant actions the propagator is powerlike in the sum of the chordal distances with respect to AdSd+1 and S d′+1. In all other cases the propagator depends on both chordal distances separately. There an explicit formula is found for certain special mass...