This study compares the effectiveness of two approaches, punitive consequence and logical consequence, to change employees’ non-work related computing (NWRC) behaviors in the workplace. Employees’ affective commitment to change (change by desire), normative commitment to change (change by obligation), and continuance commitment to change (change by cost-benefit comparison) were compared. A betw...

In this paper, we focus on childbearing after the dissolution of the first marital union. The discussion of what drives fertility decisions after dissolution has been largely dominated by the arguments that: (a) people want to have a child as a way to achieve the adult status of parenthood (the "parenthood hypothesis"), and that (b) a shared child can signal the partners' commitment to each oth...

Family medicine educators today face vast challenges. Clinical demands and the lack of specific revenue streams for our educational mission are among the many threats to the commitment of our faculty to keep education in its rightful place of honor and value within our academic institutions. To preserve our historic and critical mission, it is imperative that we find ways to rekindle the passio...

In line with other professions, nursing should offer a range of career paths to suit the differing needs of its members. There should be opportunities for nurses who have both the ability and the commitment to make rapid career progress. This article describes a fast-track, staff nurse D-E grade development programme for junior nurses. The programme has been introduced in an acute teaching trus...

This paper describes our experiences from creating a two year software engineering education program at Karlskrona/Ronneby University College where we have included professionalism as a major educational element. As the basis for teaching professionalism we use the concept of commitment culture, a working atmosphere built on voluntarily taking responsibility. A large proportion of the curriculu...

Introduction. Medical schools around the world are rushing to include network-based electronic learing resources in their asnal of teaching aids. One reason frequently cited for this move is increased access to materials through decentalization. Yet little is known about whether such increased access is in fact realized. Since the movement to new technology almost invariably involves great expe...

It’s time to focus on teaching the teachers for healthcare improvement. The ability to improve healthcare is now an essential part of the training for all health professionals, and patients increasingly expect a commitment to improvement as a part of our professional work. Not only will accelerating the systematic development of such an academic cadre serve to expand the abilities of new health...

[Roman Catholic teaching on marriage focuses on interpersonal love of spouses, of which sacramentality and procreation are dimensions. Post Vatican II disputes about sexual morality, divorce, and birth control have taken place in this general context. A new generation of scholars—married, with children—argues for a more social view of marriage, with special concern about socioeconomic pressures...

Along with growing technology, the flipped learning model has emerged as an alternative to conventional teaching methods. The present study attempted to investigate the students' perceptions of a flipped learning classroom experience contrasted with those of a non-flipped or conventional classroom. To this end, 23 Iranian EFL learners were assigned to two groups. During the first ten weeks, non...