While information structure has traditionally been viewed as a single partition of information within an utterance, there are opposing views that identify multiple such partitions in an utterance. The existence of alternative proposals raises questions about the notion of information structure and also its relation to discourse structure. Exploring various linguistic aspects, this paper support...

The degree of association between supervisor and subordinate perceptions of the supervisor's leadership style, use of power by the supervisor, and the supervisor's conflict-management style was studied in 87 organizational units representing five service-oriented organizations. The ability of the supervisors' and subordinates' perceptions, individually and jointly, and the discrepancy between t...

Introduction: The current investigations on Health Equity, primarily point to the harmful health consequences of being in a stressful social hierarchy. The repetitive nature of social conflicts seems to favor the induction of hyperalgesia or hypoalgesia both in rodents and humans, and it can also affect the immune system. In this study, the effects of changes in social status on pain percept...

The goal of this study was to re-examine McCroskey, Valencic, and Richmond’s findings about the impact of a teacher’s temperament on her or his students by examining the findings in a different context, the supervisor-subordinate relationship in organizational settings. This study measured a supervisor’s temperament to see if it affected a subordinate’s job satisfaction, motivation, and percept...

Laissez-faire leadership has received much less attention than have the 3 transactional leadership dimensions of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ). However, laissez-faire leadership has shown strong negative relationships with various leadership criteria, and the absence of leadership (laissez-faire leadership) may be just as important as is the presence of other types of leadershi...