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The term quality of work life (QWL) refers to the degree of satisfaction and contentedness an employee experiences with respect...

Forty years have passed since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal to engage in racial employment discrimination...

The primary method in realistic recruitment is the realistic job preview (RJP). The RJP is the presentation of realistic—often quite...

Recruitment is typically defined as activities engaged in by an organization with the purpose of attracting potential employees. Internal recruitment...

Redeployment is a strategic course of action taken by an organization to redirect or reallocate its current human resources: its...

Although much more is written about effective resumes and interviewing, written or oral statements about an individual’s suitability for a...

Reinforcement theory is the basis for the prediction and control of human behavior through the use of contingent rewards that...

Religious Discrimination Religious discrimination and diversity are realities of the modern workplace. In a recent survey of people in the...

Every job search is inherently discouraging. Whether someone has 2 years of work experience or 20, the search for a...

Broadly conceptualized, retirement is the departure from a job or a career path, usually occurring sometime after the age of...

Attempts by linguists and anthropologists to understand humankind have always focused on two areas: culture and society and language and...

Many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities systematically study language, each having its own theoretical foundations, goals, and research...

Lazaret Cave (Grotte du Lazaret) is a pre-Neandertal cave occupation site located on the French Mediterranean coast in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes)...

Work in animal behavior, and in particular cognitive ethology, has shown that most of the differences in kind once thought...

To classify the languages of the world, it is of foremost importance to first decide what constitutes a “language.” Most...

Language represents a fundamental character of modern humans, Homo sapiens. All animals engage in some form of communication. For example,...

Language types and language typology refer to characterizing languages of the world by similarities and differences in their structural forms...

The Lapps, or Sämi as they prefer to be called, reside in a vast area of land that is nearly...

On September 12,1940, in an oak forest just outside the small town of Montignac in southwestern France, four schoolboys crawled...

Law and anthropology (or legal anthropology) examines the relationship among society, culture, and law in societies at various levels of...

Police investigators will frequently request that witnesses to a crime provide verbal descriptions of the alleged perpetrator. Such descriptions provide...

People who wear a disguise are attempting to conceal their appearance or change how they look. Culprits may wear any...

A substantial base of laboratory research is now available to aid our understanding of eyewitness identification processes and to support...

This research paper focuses on the degree to which experts and others are persuaded that each of a number of...

Lay beliefs about factors that influence the reliability of eyewitness testimony have been assessed with a variety of survey and...

When a crime has been committed and the identity of the perpetrator is unknown, eyewitnesses are often asked to attempt...

A false confession is a narrative admission to a crime that is made, orally or in writing, by an innocent...

We do not necessarily remember our experiences the way they really happened—and what is more, remembering an experience does not...

Financial capacity (FC) is a medical-legal construct that represents the ability to independently manage one’s financial affairs in a manner...

The Financial Capacity Instrument (FCI) is a conceptually based, standardized psychometric instrument designed to directly assess everyday financial activities and...

Competence  motivation  theory  is  a  conceptual framework designed to explain individuals’ motivation  to  participate,  persist,  and  work  hard  in any ...

Concepts  from  control  theory  date  back  to  the early  1900s;  however,  the  origination  of  control  theory  is  usually  ascribed  to ...

Although dual-process theories have become popular  over  the  last  few  decades,  ideas  about  mental  division  have  existed  for  centuries.  Significant...

Why  do  some  individuals  participate  intensely  in sport activities over many years while others never get  actively  involved  in  sport ...

Repetition can make a simple behavior very powerful.  Improving  your  physical  health  by  exercising,  increasing  body  strength  by  working  out, ...

The theory of planned behavior, developed by Icek Ajzen, is a social cognitive theory that has guided a large majority...

Theories  of  health  behavior  change  are  needed to   explain,   predict,   and   improve   self-regulation  of  physical  activity.  Such  theories  are  being...

The   health   belief   model,   grounded   in   John Atkinson’s  expectancy–value  theory  of  achievement  motivation,  proposes  that  people  are  rational decision makers...

Implicit or self-theories of ability refer to individuals’  views  on  the  stability  and  changeability  of personal  attributes.  Two  lay  theories ...

The  hierarchical  model  of  intrinsic  and  extrinsic motivation  (HMIEM)  is  a  comprehensive  theory that  seeks  to  describe  human  motivation  and ...

Cable News Network (CNN) has become an icon of the globalized news world. CNN’s rise as one of the most...

Sony is a leading global producer of consumer electronic equipment. Principal products include, among many others, home and portable audio,...

Transnational social movements engage in communication processes as well as the creation of media products in their strategic work toward...

Since the end of the Cold War’s bipolar confrontation in 1991, the security arena has significantly changed from a once...

The possibility of communicating over thousands of miles using a transmitter in space was proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in...

Samsung Corporation of South Korea has emerged as a new global economic player, currently employing over 66,000 people in some...

Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were among the half dozen major broadcast information sources for the Soviet bloc from...

Radio France Internationale began in 1929 with the creation of the French national office of radio broadcasting. Two years later,...

After World War II, a spurt in the growth of multinational companies and worldwide trade led to the concomitant growth...

News Corporation (or “News Corp”) is an international media company with annual revenues of more than $28 billion, making it...