Search Results: 781 - 790 of 809
display

Don't Mention the Office: Workplace Bullying Spillover at Home

Author(s):

Abstract Nearly half (47%) of surveyed American employees report experiencing at least one negative act weekly in their work career (Lutgen-Sandvik, Tracy, & Alberts, 2007). Ongoing negative communication exchanges can target a particular employee over time and result in workplace bullying. Unfor...

Confronting the Master Narrative of Starting a Family: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Social Support

Author(s):

Abstract Lucy and Jason just got married and are eager to start their family. Lucy has always dreamed of settling down, getting married, and having a baby right away. Plus, her parents, Maria and Dennis, are constantly asking about when they will have a grandchild. After a few months of trying to...

[We are Concerned that She] Wears Her Feminism on Her Sleeve: Challenges in Becoming a Deacon's Wife

Author(s):

Sample When Lily met Peter, he was studying to be a Roman Catholic priest. And by all accounts, Peter would have made an excellent priest. But Lily and Peter fell in love, and as a rule, the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t allow married men (or women of any kind) to be ordained priests. Dozens of d...

F*ckPhyllis: Attacking a Chancellor's Race and Gender for Not Calling a Snow Day

Author(s):

Sample Jimmy had desperately been missing the warm Arizona sun of his hometown. As a junior, he was finally (sort of) getting used to the Midwest snowy winters at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), but this winter was horrible. If the low temperatures weren’t enough to keep pe...

Parenting Styles Across Generations and Physical Punishment

Author(s):

Abstract In this case study, grandparents are watching their grandsons while their parents are on vacation. The children do not react well to their grandparents’ style of disciplining and misbehave. The grandparents respond with physical punishment, a reaction that upsets the children’s parents a...

Before Ethics

Author(s): Eric Severson

Beneath the manicured landscape of modern philosophy lie deeply rooted problems that continue to produce toxic fruit. The steady presence of racism, colonialism, sexism, ableism, and much more, are repeated reminders that we cannot make ethical decisions without rigorous deconstruction of the roots—...

Teambuilding from the Toy Aisle

Author(s): Michelle Cummings, Michelle Cummings, MATTHEW BRODA, TREVOR DUNLAP

Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself standing in the toy aisle and reimagining a game or item on the shelf for your trainer ‘bag of tricks.’ Did you raise your hand? Then this book is for you! It’s time to open grandma’s game closet and re-see some of the many toy and game classics (and new...

Humor as a Verbal Trigger Event

Author(s):

Sample This chapter focuses on two primary questions and one secondary question. First, when does use of humor trigger verbal aggression by another person? Second, why does humor act as a verbal trigger event? To answer these two primary questions, the following topics are examined: (a) the natur...