Organizational Identification, Corporate Ethical Values, and Intention to Report Peers' Unethical Behavior

Employees' misconducts and unethical behaviors are prevalent and growing. Extant research indicate that most employees engage in some form of organizational misbehavior. These misconducts result in billions of lost dollars in revenue annually. Unfortunately research results indicate that employees misbehaviors are largely went unnoticed.  Therefore, since employees are in a position that enables them to be more aware and knowledgeable of their colleagues' misconducts, a better way to deal with unethical behaviors is to encourage peer reporting. Yet research showed that employees are not inclined to report their colleagues' misconducts. Thus exploring reasons that inhibit or enhance peer reporting is worthwhile. This study investigated the impact of organizational identification and corporate ethical values on employees' intention to report peers unethical behaviors. The results supported our hypothesis as they revealed that organizational identification and corporate ethical values are positively associated with intention to report unethical behaviors committed by peers. Implications, limitation and recommendations for future studies have been presented. Keywords: Unethical Behavior, Peer Reporting, Whistleblowing, Organizational Identification, Corporate Ethical Values, Jordan, Nurse, Healthcar

Effect of crossflow on Goertler instability in incompressible boundary layers

Linear stability theory is used to study the effect of crossflow on Goertler instability in incompressible boundary layers. The results cover a wide range of sweep angle, pressure gradient, and wall curvature parameters. It is shown that the crossflow stabilizes Goertler disturbances by reducing the maximum growth rate and shrinking the unstable band of spanwise wave numbers. On the other hand, the effect of concave wall curvature on crossflow instability is destabilizing. Calculations show that the changeover from Goertler to crossflow instabilities is a function of Goertler number, pressure gradient, and sweep angle. The results demonstrate that Goertler instability may still be relevant in the transition process on swept wings even at large angles of sweep if the pressure gradient is sufficiently small. The influence of pressure gradient and sweep can be combined by defining a crossflow Reynolds number. Thus, the changeover from Goertler to crossflow instability takes place at some critical crossflow Reynolds number whose value increases with Goertler number

Application of the multi-step differential transform method to solve a fractional human T-cell lymphotropic virus I (HTLV-I) infection of CD4+ T-cells

Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus I (HTLV-I) infection of $CD4^{+}$ T-Cells is one of the causes of health problems and continues to be one of the significant health challenges. In this article, a multi-step differential transform method is implemented to give approximate solutions of fractional modle of HTLV-I infection of $CD4^{+}$ T-cells. Numerical results are compared to those obtained by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method in the case of intger-order derivatives. The suggested method is efficient as the Runge-Kutta method. Some plots are presented to show the reliability and simplicity of the method

The multi-step homotopy analysis method: A powerful scheme for handling non-linear oscillators

Abstract This paper presents approximate analytical solutions for nonlinear oscillators using the multi-step homotopy analysis method (MSHAM). The proposed scheme is only a simple modification of the homotopy analysis method, in which it is treated as an algorithm in a sequence of small intervals (i.e. time step) for finding accurate approximate solutions to the corresponding problems. Several illustrative examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the present method. Figurative comparisons between the MSHAM and the classical fourth-order Runge-Kutta method (RK4) reveal that this modified method is very effective and convenient

Stratified thermal storage tank inlet mixing characterization

Predictions of thermocline development in thermocline thermal storage tanks can be made by accounting for turbulent mixing at the inlet region. A practical measure for quantifying this mixing is obtained by introducing an effective diffusivity factor in a one-dimensional flow model. Thus, a tool for characterization of turbulent mixing caused by different inlet configurations is now available. This should facilitate the selection of diffusers for achieving a high degree of stratification in thermocline thermal storage tanks.