Sentences with phrase «what cultural changes»

What cultural changes or initiatives can employers make to better retain their female workforce?

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«It's an interesting demonstration of the ways in which apps and social media platforms both reflect and are sensitive to cultural change and serve as a cultural barometer but can also codify what is acceptable behavior,» she said.

I and others invested an enormous amount of time and resources trying to change him, but no matter what we did we just couldn't get the cultural shoe to fit.

What you might not know about the intangible cultural force that forever changed the way we live, work, play and communicate.

But what the average Tims consumer might not know is the myriad of business, psychological and cultural issues that have gone into this 19 - cent change.

A knowledge of what's happening in the world can help a marketing manager direct the voice and brand of a company, keeping it afloat amid changing cultural currents.

Engaging online in «slacktivism» is a waste, making what cultural commentator Malcolm Gladwell has called «small change.»

Every new hire will change your company culture, so if you aren't thinking about the cultural fit when you interview a candidate, you could end up with a culture growing apart from what you had envisioned.

«While we see CEOs and the heads of diversity talking about it, what really matters is what those frontline workers and everyday people think and feel about diversity because that's where the real cultural change is going to happen,» said Aubrey Blanche, global head of diversity and inclusion at Atlassian.

What are the cultural and legal changes we should all push for in the fight against the unacceptable status quo in many workplaces?

What we do know today is that traditional methods of structured customer, buyer, and market research that are quantitative based can not address the social and cultural changes taking place in our business society.

In comparison with the breadth and depth of the intellectual, economic, cultural, social changes of today and tomorrow in the secular sphere, however, which also contribute to determine the task of the Church, it must even be said that the Church in its aggiornamento proceeds very slowly and cautiously, so that there is more reason to ask whether it is reacting sufficiently quickly, courageously and confidently to the future which has already begun, than to fear that it is sacrificing too quickly and in too «modernistic» a way what is old and well - tried and has stood the test.

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.

Only the countries of what westerners called the Far East — such as China, Tibet, Japan and Korea — were still bound by tradition and hardly touched by the waves of cultural change from the west.

So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

This is what the CES website has to say: «Our Faith Story: its telling and its sharing which was written in 1985 explored how this «story» would be passed to the next generation at a time of significant cultural change.

Viktor von Strauss, the first to notice the ancient cultural change that was later named the Axial Period, described what he observed as «a strange movement of the spirit [which] passed through all civilized peoples».3 Such «movements of the spirit» may be the key to our understanding of the next phase.

Indeed this is what we do whenever we seek to transform ourselves in times of social and cultural change.

What I propose in the present analysis is to emphasize three major sets of forces to which the leadership of emerging universities and their constituencies were responding: first, those having to do with the demands of technological society; second, those having to do with ideological conflicts; and third, those having to do with pluralism and related cultural change.

What is most unlikely to change is the underlying structure of these cultural interactions: the ideologies and agendas of the churches all originate outside them; the churches play a basically passive role in the cultural drama, as receptors and disseminators rather than as initiators; they «read the signs of the times.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

What social and cultural changes will be needed to adjust to a changing energy situation?

What Christ was preaching was a cultural nonviolent revolution through conversion to Truth to combat it and change it.

It requires what might best be called «theology of culture,» theological reflection on critical implications of cultural change for congregations» practices, and it calls for envisioning possible constructive reshaping of a congregation's practices insofar as they are ways in which the congregation tells its story in and to its host culture.

What are the cultural, social, religious, and theological factors which contributed to these changes?

Sociologists also deal with such topics as the components of culture, i.e., beliefs, values, language, and norms; cultural dynamics; cultural integration; cultural change; ideal culture, what people profess to follow, and real culture, how people actually behave in relation to these claims; ethnocentrism, the proclivity to see one's culture as the best and consequently all others as inferior; and cultural relativity.

I try to save my most pure levels of outrage for important, world - changing, cultural moments like when Dunkaroos were discontinued in the United States... but what the actual f ***, Marlins?

April is Child Abuse Prevention month and I've been reflecting on what it will take to change the cultural norm of silence that allows child sexual abuse to thrive in our communities.

Passionate Journey: My Unexpected Life, by Marian Tompson, Just Released by Hale Publishing What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

Professor McKenna advises «from an evolutionary and biological perspective, proximity to parental sounds, smells, gases, heat and movement during the night is precisely what the human infant «expects», and in our push for infant independence, we are forgetting that an infant's biology can not change quite as quickly as cultural child - care patterns.»

A change in cultural assumptions is indeed precisely what the contemporary left needs to engage with - I wouldn't confine it merely to the subject of older people, though.

Professor Kath Woodward is a researcher at the Open University and the ESRC's Centre for Research into Socio - Cultural Change and is organising the event, she said: «This event will provide important answers on what is social about sport and how it fits into the wider society.»

And what political and cultural changes might happen?

«What we're seeing is that... some of the easier things to change have changed and improved, some of the more difficult things, which maybe you need a bigger cultural change,... are taking more time,» Vitae's Research and Intelligence Director Robin Mellors - Bourne tells Science Careers in an interview.

Although the audit suggested that the space agency use commercial software that is already available to companies like SpaceX, it noted a «reluctance» to change course within NASA, which, it added «reflects a cultural legacy at NASA of over-optimism and over-promising what the Agency can achieve in a specific timeframe.»

Susan Hassol addressed how scientists can improve communication of climate change by what they say and how they say it, dealing with framing, psychological and cultural issues, and questions involving language.

Unfortunately, our cultural understanding of what «beauty» means is limited by the media's representations of women, which often pressure us into changing our appearance to what we think beauty should look like.

In the film's stronger moments, the artist in her definitely seems to be saying that the impulse to retreat into cultural fundamentalism carries dire risks, that much of what is old and traditional needs changing and there are some things about the detested process of globalization that are wonderfully liberating.

As their personal lives changed, their interest in and conversations about what initially connected them — cultural awareness, cultural empathy, and academic intelligence — did not.

This has been a huge cultural shift for colleges — a change in the nature of what we deliver.

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

We'll look at what the 70:20:10 L&D model is, its benefits and the types of cultural and role changes it requires...

What does this quotation mean to you in terms of making school and / or district cultural changes?

Complaints to Special Needs Jungle include reports of LAs not understanding what was expected of them, some staff not receiving any training, and a feeling that most SEND practitioners are being offered training in paperwork changes rather than in the cultural change fundamental to the «person - centered approach».

What are the first few steps in bringing about an organization - wide cultural change for adopting eLearning?

Students engaged in three cultural and leadership development sessions allowing them to explore their Latino identity, develop understanding around the issues that face the Latino community, and develop an action plan around what they can do to create change in their own communities.

And what if the political or cultural winds start to change?

What brings about change in dominant cultural tones — the class in power?

I am not under the delusion that I might change our short - term cultural focus in a blog post, but I can equip you with some of the tools and techniques I've used to better understand what I want in my financial future.