Employment equality and diversity management in a Russian context

This chapter provides a brief background to Russia before considering employment equality legislation and recent diversity issues and initiatives. The chapter also introduces findings from a study of HRM managers working in large indigenous Russian companies and foreign MNCs (Colgan, Layden and McKearney, 2012). It will explore their perceptions of the legislative context and the diffusion and application of Diversity management in Russian organisations

Employment equality and diversity management in a Russian context

This chapter provides a brief background to Russia before considering employment equality legislation and recent diversity issues and initiatives. The chapter also introduces findings from a study of HRM managers working in large indigenous Russian companies and foreign MNCs (Colgan, Layden and McKearney, 2012). It will explore their perceptions of the legislative context and the diffusion and application of Diversity management in Russian organisations

A qualitative investigation into the cultural master narrative for overcoming trauma and adversity in the United Kingdom.

esearch in the field of narrative psychology has found that redemption—a narrative sequence in which people recount emotionally negative experiences as having positive endings—is a useful mechanism for coping with adversity. Redemption has been viewed as a cultural master narrative in North America, providing individuals with a socially valued script for narrating challenging life experiences. Presently little research has examined the presence and function of the redemption narrative outside of North American contexts. The aim of this qualitative study, therefore, was to identify themes in U.K. individuals’ narratives of trauma and adversity to gain insight into the content of the master narrative for meaning-making in the U.K. Sixty-five participants (57 females, Mage = 21.97, SD = 7.24) with little to no experience of lifetime adversity were recruited into an online survey. Participants answered open-ended questions adopting the perspective of a survivor from a selected U.K. national tragedy, focusing on how they felt survivors could recover from trauma. We identified 2 themes in our thematic analysis that were relevant to recovery: recuperation and redemption. Recuperation was most commonly reported, it was described as a gradual lessening of symptoms over time and the ability to cope with the lasting emotional and physical scars. Our findings suggest that redemption is not necessarily the dominant cultural script in the U.K. for guiding recovery in the aftermath of trauma. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved

Validation of Nike Fuel Band Step Counter in Children with Visual Impairments

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Development of Feeding Cues During Infancy and Toddlerhood

To enhance responsive feeding, this study aimed to characterize the development of feeding cues during infancy and toddlerhood

Optogalvanic Signals From Argon Metastables In A Rf Glow-Discharge

Laser optogalvanic (LOG) signals at 667.7, 751.5, and 696.5 nm from the 3 P 1 and 3 P 2 levels of Ar were studied at a pressure of 250 mTorr in a rf glow discharge. Signals with unexpected signs and time dependences were found. The results are interpreted as being due to radiative trapping effects and collisional mixing between resonance and metastable levels. An average electron energy of 2.1 eV is derived from modeling the data

Motivational Effects of Physical Activity Monitoring Bands and Talking Pedometers on Children with Visual Impairments

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