Untouched Protection from Discrimination: Private Action in Montana\u27s Individual Dignity Clause

Untouched Protection From Discrimination: Private Action in Montana\u27s Individual Dignity Claus

Untouched Protection from Discrimination: Private Action in Montana\u27s Individual Dignity Clause

Untouched Protection From Discrimination: Private Action in Montana\u27s Individual Dignity Claus

Effects of Organizational Climate and Managerial Justice on Job Satisfaction

Zadovoljstvo poslom jedan je od najvažnijih stavova koji imaju efekt na ponašanja ljudi u radnoj okolini. Da bi se razumijeli stavovi zaposlenika potrebno je naći faktore koji bi mogli utjecati na njihov nastanak. Upitnik organizacijske klime (eng. Organizational climate survey, OCS) (AT Adria, 2013) nastaje sa svrhom mjerenja percepcije zaposlenika o sustavima vođenja i klime u organizaciji, koji se smatraju faktorima koji utječu na njihovo zadovoljstvo poslom. Cilj ovoga istraživanja bio je provjeriti strukturu OCS upitnika unutar jedne organizacije, te utvrditi povezanost empirijski deriviranih faktora organizacijske klime s percepcijom pravednosti rukovoditelja i zadovoljstva poslom. U ispitivanju je korišten uzorak od 1858 zaposlenika organizacije koja se bavi pružanjem telekomunikacijskih usluga. Kako bi se odredila struktura doživljaja zaposlenika o njihovoj organizaciji, provedena je faktorska analiza OCS upitnika i upitnika percepcije pravednosti rukovoditelja. Derivirani faktori kasnije su korišteni u regresijskoj analizi kao prediktori zadovoljstva poslom. Analiza je pokazala kako je svim prediktorima zajedno objašnjeno 73% varijance zadovoljstva poslom, pri čemu je organizacijska klima objasnila najviše varijance, nakon čega po količini objašnjene varijance slijede sustavi vođenja, percepcija proceduralne i distributivne pravednosti rukovoditelja.Job satisfaction is one of the most important attitudes wich have an effect on a way people behave in the workplace. In order to understand employee attitudes, it is important to find their antecedents. We used Organizational climate survey (OCS) (AT Adria, 2013), made for measuring employee perception of leadership systems and organizational climate, which are thought to be the factors that influence employee job satisfaction. The aim of this paper was evaluating the structure of OCS survey in an organization and testing the connections between empirically derived factors of organizational climate, perceptions of managerial justice and job satisfaction. For this reason a sample of 1858 employees, from an organization that provides telecomunication services, was used. To assess the structure of the way the employees look at the organization, a factor analysis of OCS and perceptions of managerial justice survey was conducted. The derived factors were used in a regression analysis as predictors of job satisfaction. Analysis showed that all of predictors accounted for 73% variance of job satisfaction. Organizational climate explained most of the variance, next are leadership systems, followed by perceptions of procedural and distributive manager justice

Peculiarities of attributing success and failure in representatives of different religious confessions (based on Muslims and Orthodox Christians case)

Background. The successful socialization and personal development of the individual are directly related to the processes of creating an adequate social picture of the world, which is promoted by attributive processes. The Objective of the research was an empirical test of the religious impact on the choice of attribution in the representatives of the Muslims and Orthodox Christians. The tasks of identifying the peculiarities of attributive processes in Orthodox Christians and Muslims in solving problems with a different level of complexity in a group are discussed. Progress Report. Two groups of Orthodox Christians and Muslims were invited to participate in the research. The main empirical part was preceded by the pilot research, whose aim was to obtain an array of possible options of attribution in the groups of Muslims and Orthodox Christians. Based on the results of the pilot research a questionnaire was created, it reflects the opinions of the group members and is supplemented by the author’s versions. After the approbation stage, the main stage of the research was carried out that is aimed at revealing the peculiarities of attributive processes in Orthodox Christians and Muslims in solving problems with a different level of complexity in a group discussion. Research Results. The results showed that the representatives of the confessions under consideration are similar in using dispositional interpretations of the keys to success and reasons for failure, i.e. the internal attribution processes do not differ between Orthodox Christians and Muslims. In addition, differences in the attribution of both group success and failure, and also individual success and failure in the representatives of the two confessions in solving problems of varying degrees of complexity were revealed. Conclusion. Religious macrofactor performed by traditional patterns of behaviour is less significant in comparison with the classical attributive processes being the results of group dynamic processes

«Онлайн поневоле»: вовлеченность и ответственность

The article discusses the theoretical and methodological bases of the prospects for interacting online and offline education. It analyzes the philosophical, psychological-pedagogical and socio-psychological foundations of the educational process effectiveness. The phenomena of involvement and responsibility are studied as the most important interdisciplinary categories. The paper mentions the role of these concepts in the methodological solu- tions proposed by the authors on the organization of the educational process in the context of the mandatory use of online technologies. EOSC (Educational online social contract) and META (Methodology for expert text analy- sis) are described as methodological solutions. The authors present the philosophical and socio-psychological basis of these methodological solutions; describe the reaction of experts to the practical application of META in the real educational process in details. They show that this methodology demonstrates the efficiency of analytical activities in various professional and academic areas, both online and offline. The article underlines the significance of using these principles within the foresight methodology frameworks in the context of turbulence in educational and other social processes caused by the pandemic conditions. The paper represents for the first time EOSC methodology in the public space, and demonstrates META capabilities in "online against desire" situation. The research is based on such methodological concepts as informal text analytics (NAT), discourse analysis, conceptual analysis.В статье обсуждаются теоретико-методологические основания перспектив взаимодействия между онлайн и офлайн образованием. Анализируются философские, психолого-педагогические и социально-психологические основания эффективности образовательного процесса. В качестве важнейших междисциплинарных категорий выдвигаются феномены вовлеченности и ответственности. Упоминается роль данных концептов в предлагаемых авторами методологических решениях, посвященных организации образовательного процесса в условиях обязательности применения онлайн технологий. Детально описываются данные методологические решения: ОООД (Образовательный онлайн общественный договор) и МЭАТ (Методология экспертного анализа текста). Приводятся философские и социально-психологические основания данных методологических решений, подробно рассказывается о реакции экспертов на практическое применение МЭАТ в реальном образовательном процессе. Впервые указывается на важность использования данных принципов в рамках форсайт-методологии в условиях турбулентности образовательных и прочих социальных процессов, вызванных условиями пандемии. Так же впервые представляется в публичном пространстве методология  ОООД, впервые показаны возможности МЭАТ в ситуации «онлайн поневоле». Статья опирается на такие методологические концепции, как неформальная аналитика текста (НАТ), дискурс-анализ, концептуальный анализ

Shielding efficiency and E(J) characteristics measured on large melt cast Bi-2212 hollow cylinders in axial magnetic fields

We show that tubes of melt cast Bi-2212 used as current leads for LTS magnets can also act as efficient magnetic shields. The magnetic screening properties under an axial DC magnetic field are characterized at several temperatures below the liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K). Two main shielding properties are studied and compared with those of Bi-2223, a material that has been considered in the past for bulk magnetic shields. The first property is related to the maximum magnetic flux density that can be screened, Blim; it is defined as the applied magnetic flux density below which the field attenuation measured at the centre of the shield exceeds 1000. For a cylinder of Bi-2212 with a wall thickness of 5 mm and a large ratio of length over radius, Blim is evaluated to 1 T at T = 10 K. This value largely exceeds the Blim value measured at the same temperature on similar tubes of Bi-2223. The second shielding property that is characterized is the dependence of Blim with respect to variations of the sweep rate of the applied field, dBapp/dt. This dependence is interpreted in terms of the power law E = Ec(J/Jc)^n and allows us to determine the exponent n of this E(J) characteristics for Bi-2212. The characterization of the magnetic field relaxation involves very small values of the electric field. This gives us the opportunity to experimentally determine the E(J) law in an unexplored region of small electric fields. Combining these results with transport and AC shielding measurements, we construct a piecewise E(J) law that spans over 8 orders of magnitude of the electric field.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure

Strongly linked current flow in polycrystalline forms of the new superconductor MgB2

The discovery of superconductivity at 39 K in MgB2[1] raises many issues. One of the central questions is whether this new superconductor resembles a high-temperature-cuprate superconductor or a low-temperature metallic superconductor in terms of its current carrying characteristics in applied magnetic fields. In spite of the very high transition temperatures of the cuprate superconductors, their performance in magnetic fields has several drawbacks[2]. Their large anisotropy restricts high bulk current densities to much less than the full magnetic field-temperature (H-T) space over which superconductivity is found. Further, weak coupling across grain boundaries makes transport current densities in untextured polycrystalline forms low and strongly magnetic field sensitive[3,4]. These studies of MgB2 address both issues. In spite of the multi-phase, untextured, nano-scale sub-divided nature of our samples, supercurrents flow throughout without the strong sensitivity to weak magnetic fields characteristic of Josephson-coupled grains[3]. Magnetization measurements over nearly all of the superconducting H-T plane show good temperature scaling of the flux pinning force, suggestive of a current density determined by flux pinning. At least two length scales are suggested by the magnetization and magneto optical (MO) analysis but the cause of this seems to be phase inhomogeneity, porosity, and minority insulating phase such as MgO rather than by weakly coupled grain boundaries. Our results suggest that polycrystalline ceramics of this new class of superconductor will not be compromised by the weak link problems of the high temperature superconductors, a conclusion with enormous significance for applications if higher temperature analogs of this compound can be discovered