Aİ-Azərbaycan münasibətləri: Enerji və Ermənistan-Azərbaycan münaqişəsi

School: Graduate School of Science, Arts and Technology Department: Political Science and Philosophy Specialty: Area Studies (European Studies) Supervisor: Dr. Vasif Huseynov MaharramThis thesis examines the intricate relationship between EU-Azerbaijan energy cooperation and the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. The central aim is to understand how the EU's energy needs and strategic interests affect its involvement in the conflict and to what extent this relationship fosters regional stability or exacerbates tensions. The analysis is framed around the hypothesis that the EU's strategic importance of Azerbaijan's energy resources has intensified its involvement in the conflict, leading to a bias towards Azerbaijan, and that this interdependence has created a complex landscape of opportunities and challenges for the energy policies of the involved parties and the resolution of the conflict

The antecedents and outcomes of creative cognition

This chapter summarises the antecedents and outcomes that are associated with creative potential and creative achievement, as well as the outcomes of creative practice and engagement with the arts. It provides a concise overview of the relationships between creativity and individual or dispositional factors such as intelligence, personality and executive functions, while also exploring the effects of environmental or situational factors, such as reward and evaluation, on creativity and motivation with an especial focus on two important outcomes of creative cognition, academic achievement and wellbeing. The consequences associated with engagement in creative practice and arts-integrated teaching are also discussed

Organizational creativity and psychological well-being - contextual aspects on organizational creativity and psychological well-being from an open systems perspective

Organizational creativity and psychological well-being. Present day organizations in a globalized society are experiencing external challenges and changes more than ever before and in order to adapt and react to these changes creativity and innovation are seen as some of the most important means. The standpoint in this thesis is that all employees have creative potential, and how the creative potential is expressed may depend on variables in the organizational context. Accordingly, this thesis aims to investigate the relationship between organizational creativity and innovation and contextual aspects: organizational climate, team climate, leadership, work resources, workload, the organizational culture, and the individual. In this time of change, globalization, and technology improvements to mention some few factors, the well-being of the employees may be at risk. In this thesis it is suggested that increasing organizational creativity and innovation, for which the foundation is employee creativity, are means to achieve a psychological well-being. The results of study I showed that the joint contribution of the contextual variables was related to ratings of organizational creativity and innovation. The more one rated the organizational climate for creativity, team climate for innovation, change/employee-oriented leadership style, work resources, and less workload, the higher was the organization rated as creative and innovative. On the importance of the context, the results of study III also implied that, although creativity mainly was experienced to be an individual phenomenon, the context had an important if not a determining role for how organizational creativity and innovation were experienced. Contextual aspects such as structure dependency, organizational defences, collaboration difficulties, and political cannibalism, among other things, made it difficult for the engineers to be creative at their work. Regarding well-being, the results of study I suggested that organizational creativity and innovation might be means to increase psychological well-being. In study II, the results implied that the more creative the climate was rated, the less did employees experience stress. Furthermore, in study II, stress was predicted by a relation-oriented leadership, indicating the importance of the leader for the well-being of the employees. The results of study II suggested that educational level is a more relevant dimension than gender with regard to experiencing the organizational climate and leadership but not with regard to experiencing stress and workload. The results indicated that well educated people experienced the climate for creativity as more beneficial and the leadership as more change/employee-oriented than less educated, and women experienced stress and workload more than men. Taken together, the results pointed at the importance of the context for how creativity is experienced and to the importance of the relationship between organizational creativity and innovation and well-being. The assumptions made regarding organizational creativity and innovation leading to a better well-being and a creative organizational climate leading to less stress are limited and needs to be further developed, especially concerning the causality of the relationships, within the context of organizations

Organizational Creativity and Innovation in Relation to Psychological Well-Being and Organizational Factors

The two objectives of the research reported in this article were to investigate the relationship between organizational creativity and innovation and psychological well-being of employees, as well as the relationship between organizational factors and organizational creativity and innovation. Ninety-five employees working in a high-tech field of industry participated in the study. The relationships were tested in a LISREL model and the result showed a significant relationship between perceived organizational creativity and innovation and individual psychological well-being. Of the organizational factors included in the model, organizational climate and work resources were found to be significantly related to perceived creativity and innovation in the organization. Taken together, the results suggest that enhancing the conditions for creativity and innovation is beneficial for the individual in terms of better psychological well-being

Kreativitet - teori och praktik ur psykologiska perspektiv

Lärobok för grundutbildning kring kreativitetsteori som kan användas inom utbildningar av olika slag: psykologi, ekonomi, lärarutbildning, konstnärsutbildningar, journalistutbildningar och management- och organisationsutbildninga

Starka belägg för att proffsboxning leder till kroniska hjärnskador. Ju fler slag mot huvudet under en boxares karriär, desto större är risken

The clinical symptomatology and pathogenic mechanisms of chronic traumatic brain injury associated with boxing (CTBI-B) is reviewed. This syndrome is also known as punch drunk syndrome or dementia pugilistica. Since even milder forms of CTBI-B are rare among amateur boxers, we make a distinction between amateur and professional boxing throughout the review. Focus is also set on the interesting similarities in neurochemical changes and pathogenic mechanisms between CTBI-B, acute traumatic brain injury (e.g. road traffic accidents) and Alzheimer's disease