Sentences with phrase «on cultural attributes»

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This paper surveys behavioral science findings on how cultural attributes and management practices can either promote or undermine voluntary adherence to ethical standards, workplace rules and legal requirements, with special attention to the communicative aspect of management practices.

Some intended parents choose donors based primarily on physical attributes or one who shares their ethnic, religious, or cultural backgrounds.

Starting on May 3rd, Bronx Week is dedicated to showcasing the fantastic attributes of Bronxites through cultural, culinary, and artistic events.

Scholars had noticed a drop in male births during the 1960s, but they attributed it to data error «because they focused exclusively on the search for social explanations, and there were none,» says Song, like a cultural son preference.

29] The manifestation of mass opinions, obsessions, and objectives takes various forms depending on certain inherent attributes, imbibed cultural attitudes or instructed methods of operation.

The core of their existence Teachers» packs are a common attribute of most, if not all, school visits to attractions and other cultural institutions, and there are dedicated departments that deal with school groups on a daily basis.

Emphasis will be given on how plans define an effective educator, the attributes of cultural responsive pedagogy at the instructional level, and the importance of accessing student knowledge through instruction in an effort to ensure every student receives a quality education.

As experiential travel — a form of tourism that immerses vacationers in a destination's cultural and natural attributes — grows in popularity, it's no wonder that Mexico's travel industry is touting the many ways that visitors can get out of their lounge chairs and have unique, authentic and hands - on experiences instead.

It is a place to recharge and enjoy the healthy attributes of a tropical lifestyle on the captivating island of Bali.Located within the charming village of Petitenget, Villa Erick is surrounded by elements of Bali's cultural way of life, but it is also minutes away from the vibrant pulse of Seminyak — where the island's shopping, dining and nightlife is at its finest.

Satirical, critical, yet matter of fact and at times poignant, his work draws both on Japanese tradition and Western Modernism, fusing the two in ways which are a model for the cultural transformations now attributed to younger artists in an age of globalization.

Butt speculates that this surge of government surveillance on Sàn Art's programs could be attributed to a change in staff within the Cultural Police: «Our last seven years of operation has been relatively smooth, because we have had a working relationship with this bureau, but with staff change comes attitude differences.

To recognize the effects of family culture on the style and direction of a family foundation, Chapter 1 will look at four particular cultural attributes: values, norms, traditions and conformity.

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.

This contextual emphasis further reinforces the findings on cultural differences in cognitive styles (for instance, Nisbett, 2003; Choi, Nisbett, & Norenzayan, 1999) that East Asians tend to attribute cause of events to external or contextual variables rather than internal variables as compared to the western counterparts.

We selected the PCL - C score of 50 and above as the standard cut - off due to the influence of traditional Chinese culture on the frequency of healthcare workers» encounters with traumatic events and the DSM - IV - TR criteria for PTSD.2 Previous studies have provided valuable information regarding the prevalence of PTSD among doctors and nurses.28 — 31The prevalence of PTSD among the healthcare workers exposed physical violence in our study was similar to that reported in Atlanta.54 However, the prevalence rates of PTSD in these studies were different from the present study, 55 56 which might be attributed to differences in the studies» sample characteristics, designs, definitions and diagnostic criteria for PTSD, due to their varied cultural backgrounds.

On the other hand, Triandis (2002) posited how cultural differences would overcome large cultural differences and also that different meaning had to be attributed to the measures of these differences.