Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a framework for conceptualizing the role of emotional and social skills in effective leadership and management and provides preliminary suggestions for research and for the development of leader emotional and social skills. Design/methodology/approach – The paper generalizes a dyadic communications framework in order to describe the process of ...

By Thomas J . Woofter, Jr.* T H E CONCENTRATION OF children in families with low incomes was discussed in a previous article. Some of this analysis of the composition and income of nonfarm families receiving wages or salaries only is recapitulated in table 1. I t was pointed out that nearly half of the children (under 18 years of age) were in the one-seventh of the families which had three or m...

Virtual healthcare communities are receiving increasing attention as a promising platform to facilitate exchange of social support for their members. However, despite the large number of registered members of virtual healthcare communities, many members do not actively use their community. Some are reluctant to ask for help and others even do not visit the community frequently. Thus motivated, ...

Prosocial behaviors typically benefit those who perform them but can create mixed emotions in recipients. Yet, how does prosociality affect the well-being of those who merely observe it? The current study aimed to answer this question by experimentally prompting employees to perform prosocial acts at work (Givers), be the recipient of such acts (Receivers), or to do neither (Observers). Our foc...

A new construct, called social and emotional development (SED) which is defined as the desirable, sustainable enhancement of personal capacity to utilize emotional information, behaviors, and traits to facilitate desired social outcomes, is presented. The SED model, which includes self awareness, consideration of others, connection to others and impacting change, links the social emotional inte...

MEXICO'S COMPREHENSIVE Social I n surance Act was signed by President Avila Camacho on December 31, 1942, and promulgated on January 19, 1943. Contributions became effective i n the Federal. District on January 1, 1944; i n March 1945 the law was extended to the municipal ity of Puebla, State of Puebla, and i n August 1945 to the municipal ity of Monterrey, State of Nueva Leon. This year has se...

In spite of some cutbacks in entitlements, many welfare states' spending has continuously increased over the past decades, leading to larger tax burdens and often higher marginal tax rates. Proposals for reform often focus on reduced social insurance benefits and more actuarial insurance premia. In this paper it is shown that such reforms may have a smaller potential for reducing the marginal t...