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Disaggregating Job Satisfaction: Effects of Perceived Demands, Control, and Support
No full textOur purpose was to inductively examine how employees\u27 perceptions of stressor and resource work characteristics relate to nine distinct facets of job satisfaction, in accordance with the demand-control (-support) [JDC(S)] theory. Job satisfaction is a multidimensional construct composed of various facets that differ greatly from one other. However, most stress studies have examined job satisfaction at the global level. This may be problematic for managers looking to redesign the workplace to increase employee job satisfaction based on established recommendations from previous research. Data were obtained from employees of a public sector human services organization that provides services to protect children from neglect and other forms of abuse (n = 343). A series of t tests for dependent correlations determined facet-level differences in satisfaction with demand and resource work characteristics. We found different patterns of correlations across facets for all seven demand, control, and support workplace characteristics. Those re-balancing types of demands, control, and support for workplace redesign should not presume consistent effects on all aspects of satisfaction with work. By doing so, expected positive outcomes may fail to materialize, perhaps to the detriment of workplace redesign as a whole in the minds of management. A more detailed approach to workplace redesign is recommended. This is the first study which adopts the JDC(S) framework to examine job satisfaction at the facet level. Our findings shed new light on how workplace characteristics relate to different aspects of satisfaction
Living at the Friendship House: Findings from theTransition Planning Inventory
Get PDFA residential initiative, named the Friendship House, was created through advocates focused on helping people with intellectual disabilities live independently in affordable and safe housing on a university campus. The Friendship House is a small residence hall where individuals with intellectual disabilities live side-by-side with similarly aged and same gendered university students. Qualitative finding as in resident reports and observational data provides support that the Friendship House experience has been successful. However, to better equip these residents with intellectual disabilities, it is important to assess the program in terms of post school transition acquisition skills. This study focuses on whether the residents with intellectual disabilities are mastering the skills necessary to live successful lives after high school. Hence, the purpose of this quantitative study is to determine the effect of living in the Friendship House on the acquired transition skills (as measured by the nine Transition Planning Inventory skill sets) on individuals with intellectual disabilities
Gus-The Great!
No full textArtist Statement: While creating the cape, I found myself measuring the book, measuring the material, measuring the wire, and so on. I found myself holding the book with gentle hands, as if it actually was a child. From an artist and her creation, to a mother and her child. The excitement of creating his first Halloween costume, and how proud he would look in his new red cape were just a few of the emotions that lent themselves to the experience. I picture Gus as a child, waiting around the comer for his mother to announce: Introducing, the one and only, never before seen, Gus-The Great!https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/altered_book/1093/thumbnail.jp
Liminal Librarianship: Transgressing the Threshold
Get PDFLibrarians have lately become enamored of threshold concepts. This enchantment is so compelling that the inchoate update of the ACRL information literacy competency standards--in which standards have apparently been replaced with a more flexible, concept-oriented framework--depends on them heavily. The appropriateness and feasibility of the ideas behind these terms, however, have been only weakly addressed. Certainly, it makes sense to take information literacy instruction beyond a focus on skill acquisition and into the realm of the conceptual, at least if teaching librarians want their work with students to be meaningful beyond the limited confines of producing academic artifacts of little lasting value. If we are to do this, though, we must consider why (whether?) librarians are the appropriate guides to the greater world of information outside traditional library resources. Additionally, we must address the tension between necessary skills-based instruction and our more sophisticated goal of encouraging emergent literacies in an information universe in flux, particularly when our time in the classroom is brief and our freedom is frequently constrained by the desires of our non-librarian instructor colleagues, who often have something more instrumental in mind. This paper considers these challenges
Discovery and Optimization of Nickel-Mediated and Rhodium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions
No full textContinued exploration of a nickel-catalyzed decarbonylative cross-coupling of N-substituted phthalimides and in-situ prepared diorganozinc nucleophiles has prompted the study of intramolecular, decarbonylative cross-coupling reactions. The previously studied diorganozinc coupling reaction proceeds through an intermediate capable of intercepting both nucleophiles and p systems. With this insight, a variety of pendant substituents were screened in pursuit of synthesizing a range of cyclic amide compounds. In a second system, a variety of alkyl and aryl boronic acids were coupled to quinolinyl ketones through an intermediate generated through rhodium-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond activation. Current work is being done to optimize reaction conditions and to incorporate a variety of boron reagents, including boronic acids, esters, and borates
It\u27s a Girl-Could Be a Death Sentence
Get PDFFemale feticide is the termination of a fetus based on gender. Even though this practice may be associated with China and India, it is a global concern. Cultural practices and traditions that value men over women, combined with technological advances allowing for pre-natal identification of gender, may mean more pressure on families to make this choice. The negative implications within society are great. Studies show that men who are unable to find brides, due to gender imbalance, experience higher levels of depression and suicide. Women in these cultures are at an increased risk for sexual victimization such as rape and forced prostitution, or being kidnapped in order to be sold into marriage. Although sex detection tests have been banned in many Asian countries, the problem persists. There are many grass root organizations, as well as IGOs, working to solve problems related to this gender based practice. But for now, female feticide is a problem that occurs everywhere around the world. With new technological advances, underground abortions systems, and cultural preferences for males, millions of females will never be born due solely to their sex
The Hidden Satire in Eva Ibbotson’s Novels
No full textHow young is too young? With the release of such young adult novels as The Hunger Games and Divergent, both of which contained very adult situations, parents (and Disney producers) have been struggling to redefine what adolescent children can handle in their literature and media. Violence and relationships, in particular, have come under scrutiny, but what about satire? Are satirical elements too far over the heads of young readers? Can such elements serve any purpose in young adult literature? This project deals with two specific examples of young adult satire by British author Eva Ibbotson: Which Witch? and The Secret of Platform 13. Among the topics addressed are how satire is scaled down to become more accessible to the younger audience and what the use of satire in the books intends to teach readers. For example, what purpose does the gender satire of Which Witch? serve? What does the political satire of The Secret of Platform 13 say about the real-life competition of various lifestyles within a single nation?
Eva Ibbotson, who died in 2010, was shortlisted for multiple children’s book awards, including the Smarties Prize (which she won in 2001), the Guardian Prize, and the Carnegie and Whitbread prizes. The Secret of Platform 13 was said to be the inspiration for part of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, yet very little has been written about her. Database searches have turned up nothing on her as a satirist or an influential children’s author. This paper hopes to correct the oversight. In addition, a creative component to the project hopes to reflect the various methods of satire used in Ibbotson’s work
Hoobla-Hoobla-Hoobla-How : Sound and Meaning in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
Get PDFWhat role does sound play in the meaning of a poem? This project served as an investigation into the patterns of sound in the poetry of Wallace Stevens. I selected four of Stevens’ poems: “Infanta Marina,” “Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself,” “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour,” and “The Idea of Order at Key West.” I then studied these poems for patterns of rhyme, alliteration, consonance, assonance, etc. and recorded a number of readings of the poems performed by various students, professors, and writers. Comparing these readings offered valuable insight into the ways volume, emphasis, pause, and duration interact with the existent sound patterns to reinforce or alter our understanding of the poems. The project was also informed by the physical nature of sound—how humans biologically experience and interpret sound—as well as poetry’s ties to music