Milam Aiken, Mahesh Vanjani, Baishali Ray and Jeanette Martin
Many surveys of World Wide Web and Internet use have been conducted, but few have focused on students at colleges and universities. Here, a case study of 214 undergraduate and…
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Many surveys of World Wide Web and Internet use have been conducted, but few have focused on students at colleges and universities. Here, a case study of 214 undergraduate and graduate students at two universities in the USA, provides a glimpse of how students use a campus information system for e‐mail, downloading movies and music, and other purposes.
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Alison Berry and Jeanette Martin
The purpose of this paper is to explore how large, public companies in the health industry communicatively engage in employer branding on career homepages.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how large, public companies in the health industry communicatively engage in employer branding on career homepages.
Design/methodology/approach
An exploratory content analysis of the career homepages (N = 42; 8,500) was conducted to analyze the communication of successful organizations in four realms of the public health-care industry to include Biotech (n =10), Managed Health Care (n = 8), Medical and Equipment Supplies (n = 12) and Pharmaceuticals (n = 12).
Findings
The analysis revealed the following ten major themes of content: Worldview, Stakeholders, Environment, Excellence, Dedication, Aid, Unity, Advancement, Distinctiveness and Industry/Organization. Additionally, the results revealed that health-care employer branding often communicated about Stakeholders, Industry/Organization and Advancement.
Research limitations/implications
The results of this study aid researchers in understanding the foundational content of employee branding efforts in the health industry.
Practical implications
The results assist practitioners in understanding how different health-care industries and organizations engage in employer branding on career homepages.
Originality/value
The results of this study function to both confirm previous findings related to employer branding and extend research on employer branding into the career homepages of organizations in the health-care industry.
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Milorad M. Novicevic, Jelena Zikic, Jeanette Martin, John H. Humphreys and Foster Roberts
– The purpose of this article is to develop a moral identity perspective on Barnard's conceptualization of executive responsibility.
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Purpose
The purpose of this article is to develop a moral identity perspective on Barnard's conceptualization of executive responsibility.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses a prospective study design, as an alternative to a transitional grounded approach, to develop a theory-based framework to compare textual patterns in Barnard's writings. By using Barnard's conceptualization of executive responsibility within the identity control theoretical framework, the paper analyzes the challenges of executive moral identification.
Findings
The paper develops a theory-based, yet practical, typology of moral identification of responsible executive leaders.
Research limitations/implications
Although this proposed typology appears rather parsimonious, it is recognized that issues of moral behavior are certainly complex, and therefore should be addressed in a requisite manner in future model developments.
Originality/value
The paper posits that Barnard's conceptualization provides a useful channel to address the critical domain at the intersection of responsible executive leadership, identity, and ethics relative to the issues of CSR, diversity management, gender equity, and community involvement. The paper considers the typology of moral identification to be an operative conduit for subsequent empirical research and practical guidance for executive leadership development.
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Analyses various characteristics of the Venezuelan culture and describes some obstacles that foreign companies face when doing business in Venezuela.
Analysis of Philippine society has largely turned on the collectivist/individualist binary. Taking off from this dualism and from the notion and practice of siblingship (Aguilar…
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Analysis of Philippine society has largely turned on the collectivist/individualist binary. Taking off from this dualism and from the notion and practice of siblingship (Aguilar, 2013). This chapter looks at two contemporary Filipino family films – Kung Ayaw Mo, Huwag Mo! (If You Don’t Want, So Be It) and Four Sisters and a Wedding. These films articulate and resolve the tensions, ambivalences, and conflicts between self and family, autonomy and dependence, and individualism and collectivism. This chapter also shows how the collectivism–individualism binary has broader political resonance, touches on the relationship between family and democracy, and proposes the family as a complementary point from which to theorize democracy in the Philippines.
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This chapter describes how Astronaut and Aerospace Engineer, Jeanette Epps, dealt with the ambiguity of being pulled from a space flight by the National Aeronautics and Space…
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This chapter describes how Astronaut and Aerospace Engineer, Jeanette Epps, dealt with the ambiguity of being pulled from a space flight by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), leveraged emotional intelligence to adapt to the challenge, solidified valuable leadership lessons on resilience, courage, and vulnerability, and provides advice for female leaders on navigating the leadership labyrinth. Fundamentally, the hardship Epps experienced deepened her sense of purpose and leadership identity, making her an exceptional role model for female leaders everywhere.
Ancient and universal, fantasy was most likely the first mainstream literature rather than the naturalism later recognized as mainstream. Every generation of every culture tells…
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Ancient and universal, fantasy was most likely the first mainstream literature rather than the naturalism later recognized as mainstream. Every generation of every culture tells and retells tales based on psychological archetypes, the elements of fantasy. For instance, the Celtic tale “Leir and His Daughters” has been reworked and updated by authors ranging from Shakespeare to Diana Paxson (The Serpent's Tooth, Morrow, 1991). One of the old English/Scottish ballads collected by Francis James Child in the late 19th century (Child ballad No. 37) has recently reappeared as the novel Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner (Morrow, 1991). Similarly, retellings of the Arthurian legend are legion, from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Malory to Tennyson to such modern writers as T.H. White, Mary Stewart, Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon, Knopf, 1982), and Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road, Collins, 1986).