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Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration, the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) aspires to be America’s...

Career researchers and counselors emphasize the value of accurate information in the career planning process, and the Occupational Outlook Handbook...

Occupational stereotypes are a reflection of our tendency to use heuristics in our thinking about the world in the place...

On-the-job training, often referred to as OJT, occurs whenever more experienced employees teach less experienced employees how to do one...

This comprehensive view of organizational career management systems discusses the portfolio of career planning and management practices available to organizations...

Organizational psychologists—researchers and practitioners alike—have long been interested in understanding how people react, psychologically, to the various aspects of their...

Organizational entry is a multistage process whereby a new employee is brought into an organization. This process, which can be...

Organizational image (OI) can be defined as a construction of the public impressions of an organization created to appeal to...

Organizational justice refers to judgments of the moral rightness or social appropriateness of events in the work environment. As studied...

The mention of organizational politics is frequently met with harsh words and disparaging glances. Society, as a whole, has grown...

Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn was an early American anthropologist who made significant contributions to all four of anthropology’s subdisciplines. One...

Koba, located in the northeastern Yucatan peninsula in the modern Mexican state of Quintana Roo, functioned as a Classic Maya...

Wolfgang Köhler was born on January 21, 1887, in Rivel, Estonia. He was educated at the Universities of Tübingen and...

Koko is a 180-pound, lowland gorilla who has been taught American Sign Language by developmental psychologist Francine “Penny” Patterson since...

Russian biologist Aleksandr Kovalevskii (Kowalevsky) is notable for his foundational contributions to modern comparative embryology. Raised in a secular society...

The term Kula Ring refers to the circulation of shell valuables between island communities in the Milne Bay Province of...

Alfred Lewis Kroeber was an early American anthropologist who made significant contributions to all four of anthropology’s subdisciplines. Kroeber is...

Russian paleontologist Vladimir O. Kovalevskii was noted for his contribution to the development of phylogenic sequences or stages of evolution...

Peter (Pytor) Alekeyevich Kropotkin was a revolutionary and a philosopher; he was known for his works in other fields such...

The English anthropologist Louis Leakey was known primarily for his discovery of Proconsul africanus, his interpretation of Zinjanthropus, his announcing...

Domestic violence courts (DVCs) are specialized court settings that deal predominantly with cases involving domestic violence. They have emerged in...

The Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI and DVSI-R versions) was designed to assess the risk of repeated domestic violence in...

A double-blind lineup refers to a lineup procedure in which both the witness and the lineup administrator are unaware of...

Drug courts are therapeutically oriented courts that attempt to reduce drug-related crime through a mixture of treatment and judicial oversight....

In a majority of U.S. courts, particularly criminal courts, jury verdicts are required to be unanimous. Occasionally, however, juries are...

Although elder abuse is a pervasive and growing problem, much about this topic remains unknown, and inconsistency in definitions has...

As the average life span increases, the population of elders involved in the court system grows. Thus, there has been...

As the potential pool of elder witnesses continues to expand with the aging U.S. population, the age group referred to...

As the range of options for extending life and for hastening death continues to expand, so the range of issues...

A distinction between estimator and system variables is made in the eyewitness research literature between two categories or types of...

Shortly  after  World  War  II,  Ralph  Stogdill  published a highly influential review paper in which he concluded  that  effective  leadership ...

An  athlete  leader  in  sport  is  defined  as  an  individual who holds a formal or informal leadership role  within  a ...

The aim of attachment theory has largely been to explain  how  relationships  with  parents  in  childhood  have  such  a  persistent ...

Motivation is one of the foundations of successful sport performance, and coaches play a critical role in developing or undermining...

Self-efficacy judgments are domain-specific beliefs held  by  individuals  about  their  ability  to  successfully execute differing levels of performance given certain ...

A critical component of coaching is decision making,  which  is  the  process  of  selecting  an  alternative from among many choices...

In sport, and sport coaching more specifically, the connection  between  coach  and  athlete  is  instrumental  for  optimal  functioning,  be  it ...

An  established  model  of  leadership  in  sports  is Packianathan  Chelladurai’s multidimensional model  of  leadership  (MML).  This  model  was  the substance...

The  core  tenets  of  social  cognitive  theory  (SCT) focus  on  the  interrelationship  among  three  sets of  factors—namely  personal,  environmental,  and...

An enduring question within the field of sport and performance psychology concerns the origins of effective leadership (as displayed by...

Commonly, “francophonie” carries three meanings: linguistic (those who have French in common); geographical (the peoples whose mother tongue, fluency, or...

The free flow of information has been a key policy as well as a political aspect in the US government’s...

The first phase of a truly global media network ran from the 1860s through the 1920s. Two major interpretations of...

An interconnected set of terms – globalization, global, globality – dominated analytic discourse toward the end of the twentieth century....

Theories of hybridity entered international communication research at a time when the cultural imperialism thesis was ceding ground to the...

The global network of Independent Media Centers (IMCs), or “Indymedia,” is a groundbreaking example of the power of an online,...

Several emerging and existing international communication agencies spearhead the governance of the global media and communications environment. International communication agencies...

International news reporting evolved with the advent of the telegraph in the mid-1800s. The explosion of foreign news that followed...

Since radio broadcasting was launched shortly after World War I, it has served two culturally different, almost paradoxical, functions in...

The first 25 years of Internet governance began with technicians at the helm. The 1990s saw an emerging struggle over...