Performance and development are based on hard work, experience and learning. Learning how to change different behaviors is crucial to successful talent management plans. Within the brain there are complex connected circuits that can identify threats. The brain reacts to change as a threat. There is also a collection of brain structures tied to a natural reward system that are involved in the re...

Complex systems experience dramatic changes in behavior and can undergo transitions from functional to dysfunctional states. An unstable system is prone to dysfunctional collective cascades that result from self-reinforcing behaviors within the system. Because many human and technological civilian and military systems today are complex systems, understanding their susceptibility to collective f...

INTRODUCTION Past studies have shown an association between low sexual functioning and engaging in sexually coercive behaviors among men. The mechanism of this relationship is not well understood. Moreover, most studies in this area have been done in incarcerated sex offenders. AIMS The aim of the current study was to investigate the role of potential distal predictors of sexual coercion, inc...

Drawing upon the resource-based view and transaction cost economics, this study aims to examine how various types of managerial resources (i.e., political networking and functional experience) can be beneficial to new ventures in a transition economy. Using survey data from a sample of new ventures in China’s high-technology industries, we demonstrate that managers’ political networking and fun...

Background & Aims: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of Stress Inoculation Training [SIT] on patients with dysfunctional attitudes and primary hypertension. Methods: The study sample included 60 subjects with primary hypertension (32 females & 28 males) referred to special clinics in Ahwaz. Those who had primary hypertension and dysfunctional attitudes based on Bec...

PURPOSE To experimentally test whether chronic sleep restriction, which is common among adolescents, is causally related to poor learning, inattentive behaviors, and diminished arousal in a classroom-like situation. METHODS Sixteen healthy adolescents underwent a sleep manipulation that included, in counterbalanced order, five consecutive nights of sleep deprivation (6½ hours in bed) versus f...

in present competitive business environment, learning organization is an important competitive advantage. along the time with its changes, cause the organization has to pay more attention to learning for improving their quality process more than the past. these changes has affected on different organizations, such as conservation environment organization (ceo). according to the monitoring role ...