Workplace spirituality is a growing concern for an increasing number of organizations, employees, and job seekers. In today’s tumultuous business landscape a growing number of people are looking to the workplace to fulfill their spiritual needs, while organizations are finding positive work outcomes associated with a workplace that augments workers spiritual fulfillment. There is to date, howev...

This paper explains the development of affiliative ethnic identity: an individual identity rooted in knowledge, regular consumption and deployment of an ethnic culture that is unconnected to an individual’s ethnic ancestry until that individual regards herself, and may be regarded by others, as an affiliate of a particular ethnic group. While ethnic culture remains identifiably linked to a part...

Recent theoretical discussion of the infl uence of betweenand within-culture factors on social behaviors suggests that both approaches may be useful. The present study was designed to investigate the joint infl uence of sociocultural (between-group) and individual (within-group) factors on resource allocation preferences. Brazilian (n = 166) and European-American (n = 99) children with ages ran...

compassion is a complex process that is innate, determined in part by individual traits, and modulated by a myriad of conscious and unconscious factors, immediate context, social structures and expectations, and organizational “culture.” compassion is an ethical foundation of healthcare and a widely shared value; it is not an optional luxury in the healing process. while the interrelations betw...

as a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. this article argues that such homogenization in relation to individuation is tedious to accept. it draws from theories of symbolic interactionism, social psychology, foucauldian, an...

For modern physical education of students is characterized by significant psychological stress. Teachers and psychologists need to prepare not only in condition, but also help confront many factors that arise during the learning process various situations cause inconsistencies functions body its nervous system. The accumulated evidence testifies close relationship between spiritual state man, a...

IMPORTANCE In 2010, national payers announced they would begin using patient satisfaction scores to adjust reimbursements for surgical care. OBJECTIVE To determine whether patient satisfaction is independent from surgical process measures and hospital safety. DESIGN We compared the performance of hospitals that participated in the Patient Satisfaction Survey, the Centers for Medicare & Medi...

Culture is the ongoing oroduct of the evolved osvches of individual humans living in . . . e groups. Progress in our understanding of culture as a phenomenon depends an progress in uncovering the nature of the evolved mechanisms that comprise the human psyche, including but not limited to those responsible for learning. Actual attempts to specify information processing mechanisms that could, in...