Within the field of guilt and shame, two competing perspectives have been advanced. 7 The first, the social-adaptive perspective, proposes that guilt is an inherently adaptive emotion and 8 shame is an inherently maladaptive emotion; thus, those interested in moral character development 9 and psychopathology should work to increase an individual’s guilt-proneness and decrease an 10 individual’s...

The past decade has seen the emergence of an enduring interest in the study of organizational communication from an interpretive perspective. In a comprehensive critique, Putnam (1983) notes that past functionalist research treated “social phenomena as concrete, materialistic, entities-types of social facts” (p. 34) and “organizational charts as fixed, concrete structures that determine authori...

Research on judgment and choice has been dominated by functionalist assumptions that depict people as either intuitive scientists animated by epistemic goals or intuitive economists animated by utilitarian ones. This article identifies 3 alternative social functionalist starting points for inquiry: people as pragmatic politicians trying to cope with accountability demands from key constituencie...

Information Security (IS) practitioners face increasingly unanticipated challenges in IS risk management, often pushing them to act extemporaneously. Few studies have been dedicated to examining the role these extemporaneous actions play in mitigating IS risk. Studies have focused on clear guidelines and policies as sound approaches to ISRM (functionalist approaches). When IS risk incidents occ...

Within the field of guilt and shame, two competing perspectives have been advanced. The first, the inherent adaptivity perspective, has been primarily advanced by Tangney and colleagues. This position advocates that guilt is an inherently adaptive emotion and shame is an inherently maladaptive emotion; thus, those interested in moral character development and psychopathology should work to incr...

Within the field of guilt and shame two competing perspectives have been advanced. The first, the social-adaptive perspective, proposes that guilt is an inherently adaptive emotion and shame is an inherently maladaptive emotion. Thus, those interested in moral character development and psychopathology should work to increase an individual's guilt-proneness and decrease an individual's shame-pro...