Being an outlier: a company non-prosperity sign?

Being a researcher, being an editor, being an author.

With me, it happened in the beginning of the last decade (1990). When the post of editor of the unit's periodical became vacant, the Director, like most Directors, looked around him in search of his best friend or his worst enemy. He picked me for one of those two reasons, which one of them I have not found out. But it really does not make that much of a difference given the size of the problem...

Being a non-drinking student: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Recent research suggests that safer student alcohol consumption might be assisted by understanding how social occasions are managed by non-drinkers. In-depth, semi-structured interviews with five 19-22 year old non-drinking English undergraduates were subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis. We present five inter-linked themes: 'living with challenges to non-drinking'; 'seeing wha...

Designing a model of organizational well-being in the National Iranian Gas Company

Due to the fact that organizational well-being seeks to improve happiness and performance in the workplace by adopting a positive approach, this study aimed at designing organizational well-being model in the National Iranian Gas Company. This research is developmental and applied in terms of purpose and qualitative-exploratory research in terms of nature. Data were collected through snowball s...

Prosperity Indicators - A Landscape Analysis

Prosperity indicators (also met as welfare indexes) constitute an important metric towards assessing the level of prosperity in modern communities and/or countries. The document at hand aims at a thorough search, study and recording of various prosperity indicators (e.g. Gross Domestic Product GDP) used in European and global scale, as well as of the underlying data. The document examines and a...

The New Prosperity Strategies for Improving Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa