Why do managers employ certain tactics when they try to influence others? This study proposes and tests theoretical linkages between the five-factor model of personality and managers’ upward influence tactic strategies. Longitudinal data from 189 managers at 140 different organizations confirmed that managers scoring high on extraversion were more likely to use inspirational appeal and ingratia...

GODWIN JESCHAL, Politik und Wissenschaft deutscher Aerzte im Ersten Weltkrieg, (Wutrzburger Medizinhistorische Forschungen, Band 13), Pattensen/ Han., Horst Wellm Verlag, 1980, 8vo, pp. 169, DM. 26.00 (paperback). This doctoral thesis from Berlin tells the old and unedifying story of how the leaders of the German medical profession followed their imperialist government in supporting the 1914-18...

Understanding the ways in which information achieves widespread public awareness is a research question of significant interest. We consider whether, and how, the way in which the information is phrased — the choice of words and sentence structure — can affect this process. To this end, we develop an analysis framework and build a corpus of movie quotes, annotated with memorability information,...

In the past few years, there has been a growing interest in detecting quotation families and in automatically analyzing transformation patterns. However, no work has provided a complete qualitative analysis of these variations. Through a comprehensive linguistic analysis, the goal of this paper is to study and categorize the way quotes from newspapers tend to evolve and deform over time. In ord...

This paper describes how to extract historic stock quote data and display it. We show how to chart stock prices, using the web as a data source. The methodology for converting the web data source into internal data structures is based on using HTML as input. This type of screen scraping has become a popular means of recording data into programs. Simple string manipulation techniques are shown t...

Literature, grammar and text of all the three were related to each other. It will not function without support When we look back at Tamil Literary History, tenth eleventh centuries considered as age texts. This period demonstrated that writers more important than authors. Vaithiyanatha Desikar had written a explain Grammar said: he composed his implicit give clarification over subject which quo...

Leadership comes in many forms (such as transactional, transformational, and distributed) and its effectiveness can inspire others to achieve organisational goals and visions. Inspiration as an emotional event requires receptiveness and an awareness of social interdependence. When mentees are inspired by mentor role models they can extend personal attributes and practices. Similar to other lead...

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