To capture and represent conflicts in organizations, this research presents a conceptual model of conflict, conceptualized as vignette. We define a vignette as similar to, yet distinct in important ways from a case in that it is analytical, theory-laden, and of multiple perspectives. It represents key information pertaining to a conflict, such as cause, claims, transitions, actions, and strateg...

Manual handling injuries represented both the highest costs and largest proportion of workers compensation claims for the South Australian Department of Human Services from 1995 to 1999 (Risk Management Services 2000). There is evidence to suggest the manutention method of manual handling training can reduce workplace injuries. A retrospective audit of injuries was conducted at Metropolitan Dom...

Understanding the spatial patterns of organisms and the underlying mechanisms shaping biotic communities is a central goal in community ecology. One of the most well documented spatial patterns in plant and animal communities is the positive-power law relationship between species (or taxa) richness and area. Such taxa-area relationships (TARs) are one of the principal generalizations in ecology...

Since Plato correlated virtues in the state with those in the soul, the idea of a reciprocity between politics and psychology is as old as philosophy. For the possibility of the state as an ethically founded community rests on a concept of the individual as actually free, not some hybrid being who is in some sense free, in another not so. Correspondingly, any psychology which does not know pers...

The psychological sense of community is one of the most commonly investigated constructs in community psychology. Sense of community may be particularly important for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) because they often face societal barriers to participation in community living, including stigma and discrimination. To date, no published studies have investigated the psychometric qu...

Geoffrey L. Brown, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Brent A. McBride, Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nana Shin, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University; Kelly K. Bost, Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This resear...

Two mechanisms employed by organizations to motivate the reuse of knowledge from knowledge repositories is using experts to control or edit users’ contributions (such as in a refereed repository), or using a community of users to review, rate, or edit existing contributions (such as in a community-driven wiki). The goal of this paper is to explore these two mechanisms and study their impact on ...