In a sample of 99 sexually abused adolescent girls in the foster care system (64% in congregate living situations and 36% in family/foster care homes), nearly half were psychologically functioning well despite having experienced moderate-to-severe emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. It was hypothesized that these girls with resilient trajectories would differ from the currently symptomatic g...

... and justice for all The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination against its customers, employees, and applicants for employment on the bases of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, gender identity, religion, reprisal, and where applicable, political beliefs, marital status, familial or parental status, sexual orientation, or all or part of an individual...

This paper examines Internal Market Orientation (IMO) in the context of international businesses (Multinational Corporations, MNCs) that execute human resources management (IHRM) to manage their workforce overseas. Grounded conventional IMO theory, this study suggests a novel iIMO framework introduces utilisation ICTs and sets business performance metrics as an outcome implementation. The viabi...

From the early 1960s due to its apartheid policies, South Africa became increasingly isolated from the rest of the world. With the collapse of the Rand in 1989, repeal of the apartheid laws started, culminating in the free elections of 1994. The African National Congress (ANC) won a decisive victory and Nelson Mandela became the first President of the Republic of South Africa. Under the ANC, th...

In the current article, we explored whether manifesting or suppressing an identity (race/ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, or disability) at work is related to perceived discrimination, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions. Participants included 211 working adults who completed an online survey. The results showed that efforts to suppress a group identity were positivel...

Research on the differences in customer satisfaction between product and service organizations has focused on an output perspective, or how customers evaluate performance. This study takes this research inside organizations to analyze and investigate how key internal quality practices of product versus service organizations (employee management, process orientation, and customer orientation) in...

Considers the significance of corporate identity, internal brand/identity images, and brand identification for orientation. Three propositions based on above are formulated. By highlighting importance these concepts, scholars more fully able to comprehend connectedness between concepts. The same is true senior managers who have responsibility managing nurturing meaningful orientated organizatio...

From the perspective of cognitive informatics (CI), this paper proposes internal relations between distance and orientation knowledge of extended objects, and presents a formal representation of spatial knowledge. The connection relation is taken as primitive. Notions of near extension regions and the nearer predicate are developed. Distance relations between extended objects are understood as ...