Resiliency training in Indian children: A pilot investigation of the Penn Resiliency Program

© 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).This paper examines the effectiveness of the Penn Resiliency Program (PRP) in an urban Indian setting. The PRP is a program to prevent depression in early adolescence and has proved successful in changing children’s attributional style of life events. While the program has been successful in preventing symptoms of depression in Western populations, the current study explored whether this program could be effective with an Indian sample. The aim of the current study was twofold; first, to study the attributional style of early adolescents in India and identify negative effects (if any) and second, to gain insights in using the PRP as a tool to change explanatory styles in Indian children. A total of 58 children participated in the study (Intervention group n = 29 and Control group n = 29). An Analysis of Covariance comparing post-test scores on Children’s Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) while controlling for baseline scores indicated that children in the intervention group exhibited a significant reduction in pessimistic explanatory style and an increase in optimistic orientation compared to children in the control group. This indicates that the program was effective in changing negative attribution styles among upper-class Indian school children. Future work may look into the longer impact of the program as well as further considerations into adapting the program for a middle class population

The Effect of Organization Restructuring on Organization Performance Viewed From Employee Performance and Leadership Effectiveness at Maluku Provincial Education Office

The focus of this research is to comprehensively analyze the effect of organization restructuring on the performance of the organization, directly or indirectly, involving 276 employees in the education office and the Ministry of Education and Culture offices and collected by survey method. Data analysis was done using causal correlation technique to see the effect of organization restructuring on organization performance. The results of the research indicate that there is a direct influence of organization restructuring on organization performance. Another result is that there is an indirect effect of restructuring through employee performance and leadership effectiveness on organization performance. The influence of organization performance improvement is due to, organization restructuring implemented in Maluku Province education office has lead to behavior change, where the employees of education office were able to improve individual performance and can work together with the leadership as an efficient and effective structure. This has an impact on improving organization performance

CBR: A Strategy for Rehabilitation, Equalization of Opportunities, Poverty Reduction and, Social Inclusion of People With Disabilities

[From Introduction] Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) promotes collaboration among community leaders, people with disabilities, their families,and other concerned citizens to provide equal opportunities for all people with disabilities in the community. The CBR strategy, initiated two and a half decades ago, continues to promote the rights and participation of people with disabilities and to strengthen the role of their organizations (DPOs) in countries around the world

Ergonomic Intervention in Organization and Work Station Increases Student's Work Performance and Efficiency of Electrical Energy Consumption

Woodworking workshop could be hazardous to workers' health, particularly when itis done improperly. Workers could be exposed to the following risks such as overexertion,repetitive motion, noise, dust, and chemicals that may threaten workers' health; decreaseswork inefficiency and excessive strains due to inappropriate working condition or posture.This study was conducted to examine the effect of ergonomics intervention in the students'work performance and the efficiency of the electrical energy consumption at thewoodworking workshop of Bali State Polytechnic.This is an experimental study with pre and post test control group design. Subjectswere divided into 4 groups of students, each consisting of 10 students, all performing thesame task with different working condition: (1) the original working condition for controlgroup (CG); (2) a new organization for treatment group 1 (TG1); (3) a new work station fortreatment group 2 (TG2); and (4) both new organization and work station for treatmentgroup 3 (TG3). Normally distributed and equal data were analyzed by using the One WayAnova test and followed by the Post Hoc–LSD test, and the remaining data were analyzedby using the Kruskal Wallis test and followed by the Mann-Whitney test at the level ofsignificance ? = 0.05.Result showed that students' work performance in TG1 increased in moderately,while those in TG2 and TG3 increased very considerably. Moreover, there was nosignificant increased of the efficiency of electrical energy consumption in TG1 (p > 0.05),but there were significant increased of electrical energy consumption of about 44.74% and107.89% respectively in TG2 and TG3 (p < 0.05). This gain were accompanied by savingcost of the electrical energy consumption of about 38.64% and 58.68% respectively. It alsoappeared that the increased students' work performance and the efficiency of electricalenergy consumption were highest in TG3.In conclussion, it may be stated that comprehensive ergonomic intervention in boththe organization and work station in an effort to apply total ergonomic approach hasproduced the best effect in terms of increased students' work performance and efficiency ofelectrical energy consumption at the woodworking workshop Bali State Polytechnic

Impact of organization of organization development interventions on human capital: a case study of Thailand Appreciative Inquiry Network

Thailand Appreciative Inquiry Network (AI Thailand) has been established on 2007. AI Thailand aims to spread Appreciative Inquiry throughout Thailand. At the beginning, AI Thailand had 32 founding members. These 32 founding mem- bers were from diverse background, education and ages. One of the most challenging problems AI Thailand faced at that time was: AI Thailand members lacked of Human Capital in Appreciative Inquiry. If this problem was not properly addressed in a timely manner, AI Thailand would vanish. To address this challenge, the Researcher employed Action Research for eight cycles during eight months in order to develop AI Thailand members’ Human Capital. Organization Development Interventions implemented included: Appreciative Inquiry, Appreciative Coaching and Knowledge Management. For impacts of Organization Development, Participants’ Human Capital was developed. Human Capital consisted of 17 AI Champions, 12 AI Masters and 3 Apprentices. Participants were able to create impacts upon their organizations at diverse degree.Action Research; Organization Development; Appreciative Inquiry; Appreciative Coaching and Human Capital

FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI KECENDRUNGAN KECURANGAN AKUNTANSI (Studi pada Organisasi Perangkat Daerah Kota Pekanbaru)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh keefektifan pengendalian internal, moralitas individu, penegakan hukum, ketaatan aturan akuntansi dan kepuasan kerja berpengaruh terhadap kecendrungan kecurangan akuntansi pada pemerintah kota pekanbaru. Populasi dan sampel penelitian ini adalah organisasi perangkat daerah (opd) di kota pekanbaru yang berjumlah 32 opd, sampel dari masing-masing opd terdiri dari kepala opd, sekretaris opd, bendahara pengeluaran opd, pejabat pembuat komitmen opd, dan pembuat laporan keuangan opd dengan total jumlah keseluruhan yaitu 160 responden. Metode sampling dalam penelitian ini adalah purposive sampling. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah data primer, yaitu dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode survei dengan kuisioner. Metode pengolahan data menggunakan analisis regresi linear berganda. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, maka dapat di tarik kesimpulan bahwa keefektifan pengendalian internal, moralitas individu, penegakan hukum, ketaatan aturan akuntansi dan kepuasan kerja berpengaruh negatif terhadap kecendrungan kecurangan akuntansi

Child Labour Stories

Three stories of child labor presented by the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Child Labour in Latin America

Fact sheet on child labor in Latin America, compiled by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2005

Learning Organization

Managing innovation on-line is a powerful factor of competitivity; we show how an adequate organization allows firms to reach such a target by combining knowledge management and collective learning ability