• dispels any misconceptions about the staff’s degree of response to the error. • helps to alleviate their feelings of isolation, helplessness, and confusion about how and why the error occurred. • reduces self-blaming and blaming of individual staff members as the system-based causes of errors are revealed and described. • minimizes their frustration and anger.1–3 • demonstrates the organizati...

OBJECTIVES This study describes the perceptions of racism, passive and active responses to this psychosocial stressor, and it examines socioeconomic correlates of perceived racism in an economically diverse population of Black women. METHODS The Telephone-Administered Perceived Racism Scale was administered to 476 Black women, aged 36 to 53 years, who were randomly selected from a large healt...

This case study explores the process of change in the instructional beliefs and practices of a science teacher participating in a university-elementary school collaborative science learning project in Taiwan. Multiple research methods were employed. Results show five stages of teacher change: (1) awareness of shortcomings of old strategy; (2) conviction of need for change and search for help; (...

It’s all too easy to feel helpless about the ongoing plight of the refugees crossing Europe during 2015. In the most recent development thousands of men, women, and children are stranded near the town of Idomeni, on the border of Greece and Macedonia. The charity Doctors of the World aims to meet the serious medical and emotional health needs of all excluded people and is working in almost ever...

Helpless children attribute their failures to lack of ability and view them as insurmountable. Mastery-oriented children, in contrast, tend to emphasize motivational factors and to view failure as surmountable. Although the performance of the two groups is usually identical during success of prior to failure, past research suggests that these groups may well differ in the degree to which they p...

The theme of this research is burnout at work in modern times. The main objective is to analyze aspects of mental health worker. The specific objectives are to evaluate the issue of health and mental illness in the workplace, to understand the field of psychodynamics of work, and to analyze the work and the mental strain. The methodology used is the literature review. We conclude that is not th...

This essay contributes a new perspective to debates about journal ranking lists and their effects on the practice of scholarship. Our argument is grounded in theory draws Bourdieu’s concept field. We examine effect metrics, targets rankings Human Resource Development (HRD), conjunctive field associated with Management Learning Education (MLE) ways which boundaries MLE are shaped by how, irrespe...

Abstract Waiting is a way of experiencing the effects power. This article finds those waiting for fixed broadband connection are powerless to end and increasingly frustrated with powerful—the governmental officials, policy makers, providers—who control their waiting. article, built on 19 interviews residents rural county in United States, details lived experiences shines critical light unequal ...