THE PROCESS APPROACH TO EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN AN ORGANIZATION

It is proposed the view on engagement in an organization as engagement in the processes taking place in an organization. The authors describe Engagement in an organization Questionnaire development and results of validation and reliability control. The sample is consists of 84 employees.Предлагается взгляд на вовлеченность в организацию как вовлеченность сотрудника в процессы, протекающие в организации. Описывается путь разработки методики «Вовлеченность в организацию », а также результаты ее проверки на валидность и надежность на выборке из 84 человек

Making the Anscombe-Aumann approach to ambiguity suitable for descriptive applications

The Anscombe-Aumann (AA) model, originally introduced to give a normative basis to expected utility, is nowadays mostly used for another purpose: to analyze deviations from expected utility due to ambiguity (unknown probabilities). The AA model makes two ancillary assumptions that do not refer to ambiguity: expected utility for risk and backward induction. These assumptions, even if normatively appropriate, fail descriptively. This paper relaxes these ancillary assumptions to avoid the descriptive violations, while maintaining AA\xe2\x80\x99s convenient mixture operation. Thus, it becomes possible to test and apply all AA-based ambiguity theories descriptively while avoiding confounds due to violated ancillary assumptions. The resulting tests use only simple stimuli, avoiding noise due to complexity. We demonstrate the latter in a simple experiment where we find that three assumptions about ambiguity, commonly made in AA theories, are violated: reference independence, universal ambiguity aversion, and weak certainty independence. The second, theoretical, part of the paper accommodates the violations found for the first ambiguity theory in the AA model\xe2\x80\x94Schmeidler\xe2\x80\x99s CEU theory\xe2\x80\x94by introducing and axiomatizing a reference dependent generalization. That is, we extend the AA ambiguity model to prospect theory

Toward Smart Implant Synthesis: Bonding Bioceramics of Different Resorbability to Match Bone Growth Rates

This work was partially funded by the European Union (Project MARMED - 2011-1/164), the Spanish Government and FEDER (CICYT MAT2006-10481) by Xunta de Galicia (CN2012/292)

Refinement of the NH4 3H SO4 2 crystal structure X ray and neutron single crystal diffraction from phase II at room temperature

The crystal of NH 4 3 H SO 4 2 is of special interest due to the possible influence of ammonium ion on the series of phase transitions I lt; gt; II lt; gt; III lt; gt; IV lt; gt; V lt; gt; VII. Earlier, the x ray single crystal diffraction study of phase II of the NH 4 3 H SO 4 2 crystal showed that the crystal structure of this compound had two crystallographically independent groups of the ammonium ions NH 4 1 and NH 4 2 but orientational positions of these ammonium ions were not determined exactly. The refinement of the NH 4 1 and NH 4 2 orientational positions in phase II was carried out by the x ray and neutron single crystal diffraction study. The analysis of difference Fourier maps of electron charge density and nuclear density suggested the possibility of disordering of NH 4 2 ammonium ions