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Social Change and Religious Faith
Author(s): Cynthia A Hawkinson, Alden L Weight
Social Change and Religious Faith is a thorough discussion of religious faith as a motivator (the “why”: trigger, driver or force) of social change within the hearts and minds of the change agents (the “who”: individuals, groups of people, or organizations). Why do people such as Dr. Martin Luthe...
The Effectiveness of Upward Dissent: Protection Motivation Theory as an Explanation of One's Persuasive Strategies During Superior-Subordinate Communication
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Sample Disagreement between managers and employees is very common within organizations (see, for example, Near & Miceli, 1985). Such disagreement, or what Kassing (1997) calls dissent, occurs for a myriad of different reasons and has a plethora of different consequences. For example, employees ma...
Statistics: An Animated Journey
Author(s): Rick Martinez, Gene Seelbach, Geoffre A. Seelbach
Statistics: An Animated Journey is a turn-key online course package that uses videos with animation to help students develop a basic understanding of statistical concepts and methods that are used in other disciplines. Statistics is a process that involves understanding types of data, representing d...
Food Values, Diet Design & Health
Author(s): Jennifer Turley
Food Values, Diet Design & Health provides a refreshing nutrition educational perspective for students and instructors. The content is delivered in the format of literature review articles with review question and study sheet features included for each article. The 14 topic articles are relevant for...
Chaos, Informational Voids, and Emergent Organizations: The Case of West Virginia's Water and Freedom Industries
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Sample Crises are, by their nature, shocking, disruptive, and often dangerous events. Three characteristics—threat, surprise, and short response time—are indicative of crisis events (Hermann, 1963). Those who are threatened by crises feel a sudden danger that they did not anticipate and they must...
The Breast Cancer and Environment Research Centers: A Transdisciplinary Model
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Abstract Breast cancer, a potentially devastating disease that affects hundreds of thousands of women each year, requires comprehensive research approaches to lessen its prevalence and severity. Transdisciplinary research models, such as the Breast Cancer and Environment Research Program (BCERP),...
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Create Health Change: The Case of University Sleep-Positive Campaigns
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Abstract The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is designed to identify factors that influence human behavior (Alas, Anshari, Sabtu, & Yunus, 2016). TPB was developed by Icek Ajzen in 1985 as an extension of Fishbein and Ajzen’s (1975)1 Theory of Reasoned Action (Ajzen, 1985, 1988). While initially...
Current World Problems
Author(s): James D. Fielder
Current World Problems is an online, interactive course package that blends history and political science theory with the author’s professional experiences to help students learn to analyze current issues across the globe. Unique to the market, this online course package is intended to be flexible, ...