The main objective of this study was to determine the relationship between power distance and compliance affirmative action policies among government state departments in Kenya . guided by Rawls’ Theory Justice. limited heads human resource management development forty (40) departments; aspects gender balance, regional balance persons with disability. Descriptive research design applied. target...

Norms have been extensively proposed as coordination mechanisms for both agent and human societies. Nevertheless, choosing the norms to regulate a society is by no means straightforward. The reasons are twofold. First, the norms to choose from may not be independent (i.e, they can be related to each other). Second, different preference criteria may be applied when choosing the norms to enact. T...

It is very encouraging that the authors of this special issue are giving renewed attention to the contribution of social norms to the creation and maintenance of culture. Such a focus has long been called for (Pepitone, 1976), but rarely achieved up to the present. Focusing on norms is one way of recontextualizing social psychology, and another is to make sure in our studies that we sample a fu...

Understanding cross-cultural aspects of emotional overinvolvement (EOI) on psychosis outcomes is important for ensuring cultural appropriateness of family interventions. This systematic review explores whether EOI has similar impact in different cultural groups and whether the same norms can be used to measure EOI across cultures. Thirty-four studies were found that have investigated the impact...

Human Behavior Models tend to " mirror " their American developers, not taking into account (among other things) the particular background/motivations of the person or groups we're modeling One big behavioral motivator in humans is culture • surface features (dress, architecture, language) • cognitive features (norms, values) • interactional features (organizational behavior, language use) Over...

Anthropology is a branch of science that studies human behavior, biology, cultures, communities, and linguistics in the present past, including past species. Cultural anthropology explores cultural meaning, norms values, while social patterns behavior. Linguistic study how language affects Biological or physical humans' biological development. Archaeological anthropology, also known as 'past an...

Within- and between-nations differences in norms for experiencing emotions were analyzed in a cross-cultural study with 1,846 respondents from 2 individualistic (United States, Australia) and 2 collectivistic (China, Taiwan) countries. A multigroup latent class analysis revealed that there were both universal and culture-specific types of norms for experiencing emotions. Moreover, strong intran...

Recent studies argue that cross-cultural variation in human cooperation supports cultural group selection models of the evolution of large-scale cooperation. However, these studies confound cultural and environmental differences between populations by predominantly sampling one population per society. Here, we test the hypothesis that behavioral variation between populations is driven by enviro...

We present an agent-based model designed to study the cultural evolution of age-at-marriage norms. We review theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on the existence of norms proscribing marriage outside of an acceptable age interval. Using a definition of norms as constraints built in agents, we model the transmission of norms, and of mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of norms....

Contour lines totally fix the structure of leftcontinuous t-norms. For each t-norm, these contour lines are determined by the corresponding residual implicator. Most properties involving residual implicators can now easily be translated into properties involving contour lines. As the portation law expresses associativity, we dispose of a powerful tool for constructing left-continuous t-norms. I...