Being Well and Leading Well

Leading Well: Transformational Leadership and Well-Being

Behavior and Well - Being : Behavior and Well - Being

The welfare of White Leghorn hens housed in conventional (CON) and modifi ed (MOD) battery cages was assessed by evaluating behaviour during the laying period. CON (30x45cm) (n=84) and MOD (60x45cm) (n=84) each provided 450cm2 of fl oor space for 3 hens. MOD included a perch (30x5cm) and a nest box (NB) (24x45cm), providing an additional 360cm2 of nest area per bird. Location of lay was assesse...

Survey the level of well-being and Psychometric characteristics of hospital nurses’ well-being at work

Background and Aims: mental health problems is common among nurses, because they must face to stressors of their workplace which include work-rest cycle problems, overload responsibility, financial problems, lack of vacation time, pressures of work, patient communication frameworks  and painful experiences of patients. Based on previous researches psychological resiliency can help them to appro...

Competition and Well-Being

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people’s actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that competition has a strong negative impact on social well-being, the disposition towards others, and in...

Behavior and Well-Being

The concept of an animal welfare (AW) judging contest was presented at the 2001 International Society of Applied Ethology by Heleski, Zanella, and Pajor. The purpose was (and is) to promote concepts of AW science and behavior to undergraduate students using the model of traditional livestock judging. The first AWJAC was held at MSU in 2002 (18 participants, 4 teams, 4 universities). The 2010 co...