Digitising fashion archives: methodologies, labour and interfaces through the case of promemoria group
Ilaria Trame, Marco Pecorari
This paper explores the systematisation behind the creation of digital fashion archives, focusing on the complex relationship between archival methods and matters, labour, and technological interfaces. By initially distinguishing between digitised and born-digital archives, the study highlights the heterogeneous nature of contemporary fashion archiving practices and the challenges they pose in terms of materiality, preservation and curation in the digital age. Drawing on the unexplored case study of Promemoria Group, an Italian company specialising in the digitisation of fashion archives and their management, the research investigates the invisible labour involved in digital content production. Through a semi-structured interview with Cecilia Botta and Nicoletta Esposito from Promemoria, the paper presents the premises and practices of digitising fashion archives today, exploring the specific techniques of curation, mediation and storytelling developed by this agency. The findings reveal how technological infrastructures and human labour together shape the construction, accessibility, and perception of fashion heritage in the digital age.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
How Does Environmental Information Disclosure Affect Corporate Environmental Performance? Evidence from Chinese A-Share Listed Companies
Zehao Lin
Global climate warming and air pollution pose severe threats to economic development and public safety, presenting significant challenges to sustainable development worldwide. Corporations, as key players in resource utilization and emissions, have drawn increasing attention from policymakers, researchers, and the public regarding their environmental strategies and practices. This study employs a two-way fixed effects panel model to examine the impact of environmental information disclosure on corporate environmental performance, its regional heterogeneity, and the underlying mechanisms. The results demonstrate that environmental information disclosure significantly improves corporate environmental performance, with the effect being more pronounced in areas of high population density and limited green space. These findings provide empirical evidence supporting the role of environmental information disclosure as a critical tool for improving corporate environmental practices. The study highlights the importance of targeted, region-specific policies to maximize the effectiveness of disclosure, offering valuable insights for promoting sustainable development through enhanced corporate transparency.
Toward Organizational Decoupling in Microservices Through Key Developer Allocation
Xiaozhou Li, Noman Ahmad, Tomas Cerny
et al.
With microservices continuously being popular in the software architecture domain, more practitioners and researchers have begun to pay attention to the degradation issue that diminishes its sustainability. One of the key factors that causes the degradation of the architecture is that of the software architectural structure according to Conway's law. However, the best practice of "One microservice per Team", advocated widely by the industry, is not commonly adopted, especially when many developers contribute heavily across multiple microservices and create organizational coupling. Therein, many key developers, who are responsible for the majority of the project work and irreplaceable to the team, can also create the most coupling and be the primary cause of microservice degradation. Hence, to properly maintain microservice architecture in terms of its organizational structure, we shall identify these key developers and understand their connections to the organizational coupling within the project. We propose an approach to identify the key developers in microservice projects and investigate their connection to organizational coupling. The approach shall facilitate the maintenance and optimization of microservice projects against degradation by detecting and mitigating organizational coupling.
A Large Language Model for Corporate Credit Scoring
Chitro Majumdar, Sergio Scandizzo, Ratanlal Mahanta
et al.
We introduce Omega^2, a Large Language Model-driven framework for corporate credit scoring that combines structured financial data with advanced machine learning to improve predictive reliability and interpretability. Our study evaluates Omega^2 on a multi-agency dataset of 7,800 corporate credit ratings drawn from Moody's, Standard & Poor's, Fitch, and Egan-Jones, each containing detailed firm-level financial indicators such as leverage, profitability, and liquidity ratios. The system integrates CatBoost, LightGBM, and XGBoost models optimized through Bayesian search under temporal validation to ensure forward-looking and reproducible results. Omega^2 achieved a mean test AUC above 0.93 across agencies, confirming its ability to generalize across rating systems and maintain temporal consistency. These results show that combining language-based reasoning with quantitative learning creates a transparent and institution-grade foundation for reliable corporate credit-risk assessment.
The American Ghost in the Machine: How language models align culturally and the effects of cultural prompting
James Luther, Donald Brown
Culture is the bedrock of human interaction; it dictates how we perceive and respond to everyday interactions. As the field of human-computer interaction grows via the rise of generative Large Language Models (LLMs), the cultural alignment of these models become an important field of study. This work, using the VSM13 International Survey and Hofstede's cultural dimensions, identifies the cultural alignment of popular LLMs (DeepSeek-V3, V3.1, GPT-5, GPT-4.1, GPT-4, Claude Opus 4, Llama 3.1, and Mistral Large). We then use cultural prompting, or using system prompts to shift the cultural alignment of a model to a desired country, to test the adaptability of these models to other cultures, namely China, France, India, Iran, Japan, and the United States. We find that the majority of the eight LLMs tested favor the United States when the culture is not specified, with varying results when prompted for other cultures. When using cultural prompting, seven of the eight models shifted closer to the expected culture. We find that models had trouble aligning with Japan and China, despite two of the models tested originating with the Chinese company DeepSeek.
Operationalising Extended Cognition: Formal Metrics for Corporate Knowledge and Legal Accountability
Elija Perrier
Corporate responsibility turns on notions of corporate \textit{mens rea}, traditionally imputed from human agents. Yet these assumptions are under challenge as generative AI increasingly mediates enterprise decision-making. Building on the theory of extended cognition, we argue that in response corporate knowledge may be redefined as a dynamic capability, measurable by the efficiency of its information-access procedures and the validated reliability of their outputs. We develop a formal model that captures epistemic states of corporations deploying sophisticated AI or information systems, introducing a continuous organisational knowledge metric $S_S(\varphi)$ which integrates a pipeline's computational cost and its statistically validated error rate. We derive a thresholded knowledge predicate $\mathsf{K}_S$ to impute knowledge and a firm-wide epistemic capacity index $\mathcal{K}_{S,t}$ to measure overall capability. We then operationally map these quantitative metrics onto the legal standards of actual knowledge, constructive knowledge, wilful blindness, and recklessness. Our work provides a pathway towards creating measurable and justiciable audit artefacts, that render the corporate mind tractable and accountable in the algorithmic age.
Call for Papers: IJPS volume 12, issue 1
Stephanie Gingerich, Stephanie Doscher
The importance of interdisciplinary partnerships to address interconnected local and global challenges has never been more pressing. The Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS) invites scholars, practitioners, and thought leaders from all disciplines to submit original articles for our first issue in 2025.
We welcome submissions in a variety of categories including community voices, works of art, editorials, media reviews, case studies, reports of research and quality improvement projects, and practical frameworks. We encourage authors to engage with diverse perspectives and consider collaborative works that involve scholars from multiple disciplines or global regions. We especially seek articles that explore innovative interdisciplinary approaches to challenges locally and/or globally. These stories can be exemplars to others around the world tackling similar problems, enhancing global learning and the sharing of knowledge across borders.
The deadline for submissions for IJPS Vol. 12 Issue 1 is March 15th, 2025. All submissions in all categories undergo peer review. Please refer to our submission guidelines at pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ijps/about/submissions. Questions about submissions for this issue may be directed to article should be addressed to Stephanie Gingerich at ginge018@umn.edu or Stephanie Doscher at sdoscher@umn.edu.
Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology, Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
تأثیر فرهنگ سازمانی بر پیشگیری از تخلفات انضباطی کارکنان: مطالعۀ موردی فرماندهی انتظامی
مراد عباسی, مسعود یاراحمدی, اسماعیل کریمی
این پژوهش با هدف بررسی تأثیر فرهنگ سازمانی بر پیشگیری از تخلفات انضباطی کارکنان انتظامی انجام شده است. پژوهش حاضر از نظر هدف، کاربردی، از نظر رویکرد، از نوع کمی و از نظر روش اجرا، از نوع توصیفی-پیمایشی است. در این راستا، جامعۀ آماری را در این پژوهش کارکنان انتظامی استان کردستان به تعداد 4150 نفر تشکیل دادند که حجم نمونه براساس جدول مورگان تعداد 351 نفر تعیین شد و دادهها با استفاده از پرسشنامه، بهروش میدانی جمعآوری شدند؛ روایی ابزار بهصورت صوری و محتوایی و پایایی آن از طریق آلفای کرونباخ بهمیزان 0/805 مورد تأیید قرار گرفت. بهمنظور تحلیل دادهها، از آزمون t تک نمونهای در نرمافزار SPSS23 بهره برده شد. یافتهها نشان داد که ابعاد مختلف فرهنگ سازمانی، شامل فرهنگ درگیرشدن در کار، فرهنگ ثبات، فرهنگ انطباقپذیری و فرهنگ مأموریتی، بر پیشگیری از تخلفات انضباطی فردی و سازمانی کارکنان تأثیر بهسزایی دارد؛ ضمن اینکه تأثیر میانگین فرهنگ مشارکت از بقیۀ متغیرها میانگین بالاتری را نشان میدهد. بنابراین، هرچه سطح فرهنگ سازمانی در سازمان ارتقاء یابد، کارکنان منضبطتر و متعهدتر خواهند بود.
Social sciences (General), Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change
Sarah Griebel, Becca Cohen, Lucian Li
et al.
Measures of textual similarity and divergence are increasingly used to study cultural change. But which measures align, in practice, with social evidence about change? We apply three different representations of text (topic models, document embeddings, and word-level perplexity) to three different corpora (literary studies, economics, and fiction). In every case, works by highly-cited authors and younger authors are textually ahead of the curve. We don't find clear evidence that one representation of text is to be preferred over the others. But alignment with social evidence is strongest when texts are represented through the top quartile of passages, suggesting that a text's impact may depend more on its most forward-looking moments than on sustaining a high level of innovation throughout.
When Abusive Supervision Increases Workplace Deviance: The Moderating Role of Psychological Safety and Organizational Identification
Mamoona Arshad
This study offers new insights into the moderators between abusive supervision and workplace deviance. Building on the conservation-of-resources theory, the study introduces coping resources as moderators between abusive supervision and the two dimensions of workplace deviance, that is, interpersonal and organizational deviance. The study identifies psychological safety, an intrapsychic state, as a moderator between abusive supervision and interpersonal deviance. Similarly, the research tests organizational identification as a moderator between abusive supervision and organizational deviance. The study tests the hypotheses by collecting two-source of data from various Pakistani organizations. The two source data from 122 supervisor-subordinate dyads provide support for the results. The study finds that low psychological safety strengthens the positive link between abusive supervision and interpersonal deviance. Besides, a low level of identification with an organization strengthens the positive association between abusive supervision and organizational deviance. Thus, the study extends the literature by highlighting the importance of several personal and coping resources for employees at work.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture, Marketing. Distribution of products
Friere yrkesvalg i det yrkesfaglige feltet
Nina Amble, Ellen Møller, Inger Vagle
I Norge velger halvparten av både gutter og jenter som 15-åringer et yrkesfaglig studieprogram i videregående skole, men etter kjønnstradisjonelle mønstre (Teigen & Skjeie, 2019). Bedre kjønnsbalanse i dette feltet er en langvarig og uttalt nasjonal målsetting (Departementene, 2021). Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i en tidligere utviklet tiltakskjedemodell for jenter i tekniske yrker (Møller & Vagle, 2003; Vagle & Møller, 2015). En ny studie i form av en dialogkonferanse i 2018 ga innsikt i elevers, lærlingers og fagarbeideres arbeids- og læringsmiljø i skole og bedrift/virksomhet i en kontekst av å være kjønnsminoritet. Det gjelder både gutter og jenter som minoritet. I artikkelen undersøkes hvorvidt modellens firepartssamarbeid i en tiltakskjede fortsatt er aktuell, og om den er overførbar når gutter er minoritet. Hvordan kan eventuelt organisasjonene bruke den nye kunnskapen som bidrag til friere yrkesvalg og vellykket gjennomføring? Søkelyset på kjønn som minoritet og minoritetsbegrepet er sentralt og forankret i Rosabeth Moss Kanters omfattende forskning fra 1977. Artikkelen undersøker gutters og jenters erfaringer som kjønnsminoritet i fag- og yrkesopplæringen i nyere tid. Erfaringene sammenstilles med samfunnsmessige hindringer og muligheter med tanke på videre bruk i dette feltet.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
From Compliance to Impact: Tracing the Transformation of an Organizational Security Awareness Program
Julie M. Haney, Wayne Lutters
There is a growing recognition of the need for a transformation from organizational security awareness programs focused on compliance -- measured by training completion rates -- to those resulting in behavior change. However, few prior studies have begun to unpack the organizational practices of the security awareness teams tasked with executing program transformation. We conducted a year-long case study of a security awareness program in a United States (U.S.) government agency, collecting data via field observations, interviews, and documents. Our findings reveal the challenges and practices involved in the progression of a security awareness program from being compliance-focused to emphasizing impact on workforce attitudes and behaviors. We uniquely capture transformational organizational security awareness practices in action via a longitudinal study involving multiple workforce perspectives. Our study insights can serve as a resource for other security awareness programs and workforce development initiatives aimed at better defining the security awareness work role.
Machine Culture
Levin Brinkmann, Fabian Baumann, Jean-François Bonnefon
et al.
The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of machine culture, culture mediated or generated by machines. We argue that intelligent machines simultaneously transform the cultural evolutionary processes of variation, transmission, and selection. Recommender algorithms are altering social learning dynamics. Chatbots are forming a new mode of cultural transmission, serving as cultural models. Furthermore, intelligent machines are evolving as contributors in generating cultural traits--from game strategies and visual art to scientific results. We provide a conceptual framework for studying the present and anticipated future impact of machines on cultural evolution, and present a research agenda for the study of machine culture.
Sexual identity management of working lesbian women
Kristine Khachatryan, Regine Graml, Tobias Hagen
et al.
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to provide a closer look at being out in the work environment. What are the characteristics that distinguish lesbian women who are out at work from those who are not? What role do companies play with their diversity-related measures? Design/methodology/approach – This paper investigates characteristics that distinguish lesbian women who were out at work and analyzes the use of various sexual identity management strategies in relation to specific reference groups within a company. Furthermore, the method of multiple correspondence analysis is used to visually map the associations between company-specific characteristics and being out. Findings – Results show that being out in the work environment is subject to a complex interplay of several factors, from personal resources to the diversity-friendliness of the company. A company’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersexual (LGBTI)-related measures, such as in-house LGBTI networks or diversity workshops, can not only promote the coming out of lesbian employees, and thereby help to increase their overall satisfaction with life, but can also reduce their experiences of discrimination. Originality/value – In this paper, the method of multiple correspondence analysis is used to examine the relationships between several diversity-related measures of the company and being out at the workplace. A visualization of these relationships in a two-dimensional space allows a more comprehensive view of these features and their possible effect on being out at the workplace.
Personnel management. Employment management, Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
شناسایی تعیینکنندههای فرهنگی-اجتماعی ارتکاب جرم در میان جرم اولیها
یوسف ایرانی, جواد پایدار
پژوهش حاضر با هدف شناسایی تعیینکنندههای فرهنگی-اجتماعی ارتکاب جرم در میان جرماولیها انجام شد. این پژوهش، ازنظر هدف، کاربردی و ازنظر ماهیت کیفی است. جامعۀ آماری پژوهش حاضر شامل کلیۀ افرادی است که برای نخستین بار در شهر قم مرتکب جرم شدهاند و منجربه محکومیت و زندانیشدن آنها در سال 1399 شده است. از بین آنها بهروش نمونهگیری هدفمند و اصل اشباع نظری،30 نفر بهعنوان نمونه انتخاب گردیدند. ابزار جمعآوری دادهها مصاحبۀ نیمهساختاریافته بود که برای تعیین پایایی و روایی آن از چهار ملاک اعتبارپذیری، انتقالپذیری، تأییدپذیری و قابلیت اطمینان استفاده شد. دادهها بهصورت تحلیل مضمون تحلیل گردید. نتایج پژوهش نشان داد که ارتکاب جرم در میان افراد، تحت تأثیر مجموعهای از عوامل در سطح خرد و کلان اتفاق میافتد. تعیینکنندههای ارتکاب جرم در4 مقولۀ عمده قرار دارند که عبارتند از: تعیینکنندههای روانی فردی، تعیینکنندههای خانوادگی، تعیینکنندههای اجتماعی و فرهنگی و تعیینکنندههای اقتصادی که هر کدام زیرمقولات و رمزهای مجزایی دارند.
Social sciences (General), Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
The Social Status of Musician Lulies and Minstrel Kowlies in Persian Proverbs
Hassan Zolfaghari
Abstract Introduction Mysterious story of Lulies and Kowlies (different types of Gypsies) is very exciting in history. In the literature of nations, they have always been under the focus of people and poets inspiring them in their works. These happy, singing, wandering people have always been a source of entertainment and joy for the people. Maybe that’s why some people consider gypsies as Kabulis. Gypsies are scattered all over Iran and are known by different names. This study investigates the social status of these musicians Luli in Persian proverbs. Methodology The research method is descriptive and analytical. To do this research, we used the book Encyclopedia of Persian Proverbs (Zolfaghari, 2009) and selected two hundred Persian proverbs from a total of one hundred thousand proverbs. Based on the extracted proverbs then, we examined the status of Lulies and Kowlies among the people. Apart from this, and where ever deemed necessary, we also referred to the poets’ written stories and literature and poems. DiscussionAccording to an ancient legend, Bahram-E-Gour ordered to bring one thousand Rameshgar (Minstrel) from India to Iran, according to Ferdowsi. But Tha’labi and Nizami mentioned the number as four thousand and six thousand respectively. Kowlies are considered the remnants of past Gousans (See Boyce and George Farmer, 1989: 243). It should be said that Gousan is a noun that means minstrel. The Gousans were traveling poets, musicians, narrators of national stories of Iran, kings’ entertainers, and were respected among the people of their community. The best, most famous, and most masterful Gousans used to enter the houses of the nobles and the court of kings. They have been in Iran since ancient times. The difference between the famous court Gousans and the wandering Gousans was that “in addition to better singing and playing, they also used to be a poet, or they had become masters in poetry and possibly had known calligraphy.” (Khaleghi Motlagh, 2007: 24). But as we will see, the Kowlies were among the people and were not very respected. Unlike Gousans, Kowlies were not narrators of ethnic stories; they entertained people with dancing and singing in celebrations. Kowlies used to live in different areas of Iran and were known as the following names:Pahlavan: Local musicians and players in BalouchestanToushmal: Music players in Bakhtiari tribe and Lori communities of Toushmal.Jat: The cameleers of Balouchestan who are also gypsies.Jouki: Living in Mazandaran and Gorgan. They were nomads and mostly engaged in smithy.Changi: Music players of Korna, Naghareh, Sorna in Ghashghayi tribe who were also gypsies.Kharat: Music players in Kermanshah, as Kharat was used to make Tonbak, Dohol, Sorna, Normeh Nay.Deli: Nomads in Lorestan who gather corn and harvest while singing in Lori.Domi: Gypsies of India who immigrated to the west of Iran and live in Lorestan.Zargar: Also known as Romanlo or Romano, who are gypsies of Ghazvin.Sazeneh, Sazandeh or Hindi: Music players of Lori-Bakhtiari language.Sozmani: Gypsy dancers who used to live in Sanandaj and Kermanshah. Ladies were dancers, and men used to play music and sing.Ghorbati: A title for gypsies from India in Khorasan. They were foreigners for the people. In Kerman, gypsies are also known as Ghorbati.Fioj: A common Arab group in south Khorasan near Birjand, Ghaen, Gonabad, Torbat Heidarieh, Kashmar, and Khavaf.Gharachi: A term for dark-skinned people which was used for Turks.Ghorshomar: Gypsies of Khoarasn who were also known as Ghorshomal, Ghorbati, Ghorbat, Nafar, Fioj who used to sell iron and screening devices.Kaseb: In northern Khorasan, the lady partners were called Kaseb or Jat. they were Shia. They were mostly working in the industry.Goodar/Godar: Originally Indian and dark-skinned living in Mazandaran and playing music.Goorooni: In Lorestan, the gypsies are categorized into Louti and Goorooni.Louti: In Lorestan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, Ilam, Mazandaran, and Khorasan, they were music players.Louri: Nomad music players in Sistan who learned playing from their ancestors.Mehtar: Music players of Kohkeluye who were gypsies.Mirshekal: Music players of Bakhtiari tribe. Lulies and Kowlies are an integral part of Iranian culture. And in all societies they are engaged in dancing, acting, singing, divination, blacksmithing and carpentry. The behavior of these Lulies has been reflected in Persian proverbs and poems of poets. Kowlies can not be considered the survivors of Gousans. Gousans were well-respected poets, musicians, narrators of Iranian national stories, entertaining kings and the people of their community. But the Kowlies were among the people and were not highly respected. People do not like Lulies because of their hatred behavior. This hatred is reflected in two hundred Persian poems and dozens of poems by poets. In Persian proverbs, more attention has been paid to the bad behaviors and negative aspects of Lulies and Kowlies. Still, in classical poems, their positive aspects of charm and happiness are emphasized. Although Lulies and Kowlies are synonymous, Luli has a subtle and feminine use, but not Kowli. Conclusion Lulies have entered Persian literature with their musical instruments and socio-cultural characteristics. Kowlies are omnipotent. They work as bath workers, singers, blacksmithing, and coppersmithing and are skilled in many jobs. The main occupations of Kowlies, which are reflected in Persian proverbs and poems, are:Singing, playing, and dancing: This group, as the custodians of traditional music, used to participate in celebrations such as weddings and circumcisions, Nowruz celebrations, mourning ceremonies and used to earn money by playing songs.Mareke-Giri (Street Performance): One of Mareke-Giri types was swaying, as in the parable of “Swaying in front of a Kowli is a mistake.”Theft and robbery: They are known for theft and robbery. The term “loti-khor” refers to the same behavior of the Kowlies, equivalent to lifting. Rumi mentions the attribute of their theft a lot: (Rumi: 1378: 883)Fortune-telling: Fortune-telling was mainly the work of gypsy women. In the poetry of contemporary poets, the beauty, fortune-telling, and travels of gypsy girls are reflected.Prostitution: Some Luli women are sometimes known as prostitutes. The owner of Anandraj considered Lolikhaneh (Place of Lulies) to be synonymous with Whorehouse.Sieve Maker: It is in the parable: “He stopped the sieve in front of the gypsy and said, ‘How do you see me?’ “As you see me,” he said.Sale of medicinal plants: They cast spells or sell magic spells to make girls'' fortune brilliant and happy.
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture, Fine Arts
Describing and Localizing Multiple Changes with Transformers
Yue Qiu, Shintaro Yamamoto, Kodai Nakashima
et al.
Change captioning tasks aim to detect changes in image pairs observed before and after a scene change and generate a natural language description of the changes. Existing change captioning studies have mainly focused on a single change.However, detecting and describing multiple changed parts in image pairs is essential for enhancing adaptability to complex scenarios. We solve the above issues from three aspects: (i) We propose a simulation-based multi-change captioning dataset; (ii) We benchmark existing state-of-the-art methods of single change captioning on multi-change captioning; (iii) We further propose Multi-Change Captioning transformers (MCCFormers) that identify change regions by densely correlating different regions in image pairs and dynamically determines the related change regions with words in sentences. The proposed method obtained the highest scores on four conventional change captioning evaluation metrics for multi-change captioning. Additionally, our proposed method can separate attention maps for each change and performs well with respect to change localization. Moreover, the proposed framework outperformed the previous state-of-the-art methods on an existing change captioning benchmark, CLEVR-Change, by a large margin (+6.1 on BLEU-4 and +9.7 on CIDEr scores), indicating its general ability in change captioning tasks.
Impact of Culture on the Adoption of Diabetes Self-Management Applications: Cape Flats, South Africa
Fazlyn Petersen
Diabetes is a global health problem with a high mortality rate. The research indicates low levels of technology use amongst diabetic patients in low socioeconomic environments and minority groups. We posit that the culture of patients is a potential reason for the low adoption and use of technology. However, research on the proliferation of culture at an individual level is limited. Therefore, this paper assessed the influence of culture on mobile application adoption and use amongst diabetic patients in the Cape Flats, South Africa. This study used key constructs from the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and Hofstede's cultural dimensions. It was analysed using survey data from 439 respondents using purposive sampling. It was found that the dimensions of Hofstede and the Theory of Planned Behaviour can identify how culture influences mobile application adoption of diabetic patients in the geographical Cape Flats area. However, this research indicates a stronger relationship between culture and diabetes self-management activities than culture and the adoption of mobile applications.
Analyzing the Role of key Behavioral Dimensions in Implementation of Employee Performance Management
Seyyed Ali Akbar Afjahi, Zeinab Hassanzadeh, Abolhasan Faghihi
et al.
Performance management is one of the most recent developments in human resources management. One of the most important aspects of successful implementation of employee performance management is organizational behavior. However, comprehensive analysis of key behavioral dimensions in successful implementation of employee performance management has not been done in literature of this field. In this research, first of all five key dimensions of organizational behavior were identified by studying the literature of research. Then in the qualitative part of the research, by implementation of interviews with 16 experts, data were extracted in conceptual model through a thematic analysis. In quantitive section, by distributing questionnaire among 200 managers and staff, the data were gathered and It analyzed by factor analysis in Amos software. The results of goodness of fit indices, has been confirmed the validity of the model. At the end of study, the current status of the under study organization was analyzed in each dimension of the model by using the SPSS software
Organizational behaviour, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture, Industrial engineering. Management engineering
Zonally opposing shifts of the intertropical convergence zone in response to climate change
Antonios Mamalakis, James T. Randerson, Jin-Yi Yu
et al.
Future changes in the location of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) due to climate change are of high interest since they could substantially alter precipitation patterns in the tropics and subtropics. Although models predict a future narrowing of the ITCZ during the 21st century in response to climate warming, uncertainties remain large regarding its future position, with most past work focusing on the zonal-mean ITCZ shifts. Here we use projections from 27 state-of-the-art climate models (CMIP6) to investigate future changes in ITCZ location as a function of longitude and season, in response to climate warming. We document a robust zonally opposing response of the ITCZ, with a northward shift over eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean, and a southward shift in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic Ocean by 2100, for the SSP3-7.0 scenario. Using a two-dimensional energetics framework, we find that the revealed ITCZ response is consistent with future changes in the divergent atmospheric energy transport over the tropics, and sector-mean shifts of the energy flux equator (EFE). The changes in the EFE appear to be the result of zonally opposing imbalances in the hemispheric atmospheric heating over the two sectors, consisting of increases in atmospheric heating over Eurasia and cooling over the Southern Ocean, which contrast with atmospheric cooling over the North Atlantic Ocean due to a model-projected weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
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physics.ao-ph, physics.geo-ph