This paper reports on the intra- and interbattery scaling of three morale and depression batteries comprised of self-reported items: PGC, G-H, and ZUNG. Responses to the three scales were sought from a sample of long-term residents of a state mental hospital. First, the batteries were factor analyzed separately to identify the intrabattery scales; then the resultant scales were compared using c...

Globalization presents organizational leaders with a series of challenges towards developing, building, and creating effective groups/teams within the modern work environment. While a culturally diverse work environment poses unique challenges to group formation within the 21st century, a review of Romans Chapter 1-3 suggests evidence of this organizational phenomenon existed millennials ago. T...

Free riders are individuals who decide not to participate in cooperative learning group activities and often lower the group’s morale, productivity, and effectiveness. This research paper presents a review of free riding and the results of a research study to examine the perspectives of faculty members about free riders and how they address them. Implications for human resource development and ...

In this paper we study the social norms to abstain from cheating on the state via benefit fraud and tax evasion. We interpret these norms (called benefit morale and tax morale) as moral goods, and derive testable hypotheses on whether their demand is determined by prices. Employing a large survey data set from OECD-member countries we provide robust evidence that the demand responds to price pr...

La questione del cristocentrismo dell’enciclica Veritatis splendor non riguarda appena la cornice teologica di un nucleo dottrinale che apparterrebbe solo all’etica razionale. Lo studio mostra come esso sia il perno dell’insegnamento etico, collegando così intimamente dottrina sugli assoluti morali con cuore cristiano della morale. Dopo aver tracciato una panoramica dei percorsi nella teologia ...

Software evolution is the most costly and time consuming software development activity. Yet software engineering research is predominantly concerned with initial development. MORALE is a development method specifically designed for evolving software. It features an inquiry-based approach to eliciting change requirements, a reverse engineering technique for extracting architectural information f...