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Generational Changes in Workforce Priorities and The 30 Day Manager Guide to Engaging Millennials
Get PDFThe New Food Safety
Get PDFA safe food supply is essential for a healthy society. Our food system is replete with different types of risk, yet food safety is often narrowly understood as encompassing only foodborne illness and other risks related directly to food ingestion. This Article argues for a more comprehensive definition of food safety, one that includes not just acute, ingestion-related risks, but also whole-diet cumulative ingestion risks, and cradle-to-grave risks of food production and disposal. This broader definition, which we call “Food System Safety,” draws under the header of food safety a variety of historically siloed, and under-regulated, food system issues including nutrition, environmental protection, and workplace safety. The current narrow approach to food safety is inadequate. First, it contributes to irrational resource allocation among food system risks. Second, it has collateral consequences for other food system risks, and, third, its limited focus can undermine efforts to achieve narrow food safety. A comprehensive understanding of food safety illuminates the complex interactions between narrow food safety and other areas of food system health risks. We argue that such an understanding could facilitate improved allocation of resources and assessment of tradeoffs, and ultimately support better health and safety outcomes for more people. We offer a variety of structural and institutional mechanisms for embedding this approach into federal agency action
Understanding the Antecedents and Outcomes of Brand Evangelism in the Digital Environment
No full textThe purpose of this study was to obtain a comprehensive understanding of brand evangelism that is lacking in extant research. Prior brand evangelism research established the importance of brand evangelism in the digital environment but has an incohesive view of the construct, including various definitions and contexts in which it was studied. This study integrated a unified definition of brand evangelism that focused on three distinct areas of brand evangelism research: passion, word-of-mouth and the intention to recruit. The study also developed and tested a model that includes antecedent, outcome, and moderating variables that provide a holistic understanding of the brand-related and psychological influences in a brand evangelism framework. In order to obtain a full understanding of brand evangelism it is necessary to examine brand evangelism’s impact on consumer behavior in the online environment. Brand evangelism’s influence on building loyalty and consumer recruitment can directly affect the brand’s sales, which makes it a crucial topic of consideration for both researchers and practitioners. The results favor a model in which brand evangelism has a central role, mediating the relationship between the antecedent variable of brand affect and the outcome variables. Additionally, it is found that there is a significant relationship between brand evangelism and consumer recruitment. It is also found that the motivating variable the need for self-enhancement satisfaction moderates the positive relationship between brand affect and brand evangelism. Lastly, the study found that brand evangelism positively influences positive self-esteem. These results, which augment existing brand evangelism literature, are discussed in terms of their theoretical and strategic managerial implications
Exploring Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Consequences for Young Women of Exposure to Sexual Content Online
No full textResearch suggests that in romantic heterosexual partnerships, male partners’ pornography use is associated with stronger beliefs that women are sex objects, greater female sexual objectification, lower relationship satisfaction, and lower sexual satisfaction for women. However, there is a lack of research on women’s own use of pornography, and its associated psychological consequences. Research also suggests that women’s social media use is associated with lower self-esteem, greater self-objectification, more negative social comparisons, and lower relationship satisfaction. To date, no research has directly explored the psychological consequences of exposure to sexual content on social media specifically, despite the prevalence of sexual content on social media. This study addressed these gaps by exploring women’s exposure to sexual content online via social media and pornography, as well as the associations of this exposure with both intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes. Specifically, this online survey study tested associations of amount of exposure to sexual content online with self-objectification, social comparisons, self-esteem, relationship satisfaction, and sexual satisfaction, among a sample of 130 young women living in the U.S. with a mean age of 25.46 (SD = 2.70). Further, this study tested whether self-objectification, social comparisons, and self-esteem mediate associations of exposure to sexual content with relationship satisfaction and sexual satisfaction. Exposure to pornography was associated with less relationship satisfaction, less sexual satisfaction, higher self-esteem, and more negative social comparisons. Exposure to sexual content on social media was associated with greater sexual satisfaction. Neither exposure to pornography nor exposure to sexual content on social media was associated with self-objectification. Self-esteem, social comparisons. and self-objectification did not mediate associations of exposure to sexual media content with relationship or sexual satisfaction. Future research should explore the unexpected findings that exposure to sexual media content in this study was associated with positive outcomes for sexual satisfaction and self-esteem. Specifically, focusing on how women perceive these images may help explain these patterns. Clinicians should explore their clients’ use of pornography when addressing topics related to sexuality and satisfaction, as there may be some negative consequences for women of using pornography. On the other hand, clinicians should also explore the ways their female clients are internalizing and perceiving sexual content online to explore how viewing these images may serve to enhance sexual experiences and self-esteem
Assessing the Applicability of Christian Just War Theory to the U.S. Use of Drones in North Waziristan, Pakistan
Get PDFJust War Theory offers a three-tiered framework of criterion to determine whether or not conduct in various stages of war is rightly observed by state and non-state actors. These criterion are defined under Jus ad Bellum (pre-war), Jus in Bello (during war) and Jus Post Bellum (after the war). Various cultural and religious traditions have outlined its own views on just war theory, and have applied it to the use and development and of advanced war technologies. Using the Christian lens of Just War Theory, this paper seeks to find out whether or not it is a sin to use an armed drone. To answer the question, this paper analyzes the principles, ideas and doctrines that define Christian Just War Theory, pointing out key points and arguments as it applies to the use of armed drones. A case study follows the literature review, looking at the U.S. use of armed drones in the North Waziristan agency of Pakistan. It analyzes the methods in which they are used, as well as the overall impact it has had on the Waziri population. The analysis is put into conversation with the principles, ideas and doctrines that define Christian Just War Theory, determining whether or not are they observe its ideals. In the end, this paper finds the use of armed drones to be a sin on two charges: actual mode of operation, and methods of use by government operatives. The conclusion seeks additional conversation on the thesis question not just in the Christian community, but in other religious communities as well
