Who are Gen Y\u27ers and What do They Want From Their Employers?

Question: Who really are Gen Y\u27ers and what do these people want from their employers? What are new and innovative ways of employee recognitions for them? Elaborate on two or three best practices in the market

How Do Multinational Corporations Creatively Address D&I Initiatives Through Corporate Social Responsibility?

Question: What are the indicators of a world class Diversity &Inclusion (D&I) program? How do these correlate to business results? Revised Question: How do multinational corporations (MNCs) creatively address D&I initiatives through cultural competence and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Tracing the Transformation of Early Childhood Music Education in Young Children from 1985 to 2010

The purpose of this study was to examine the trends of early childhood music education as they presented themselves from 1985 to 2010 in a major early childhood education journal, Young Children (YC). I reviewed all articles related to music and music education by analyzing the number of articles written per year, article content, and author background. I investigated the quantity and quality of the articles related to music and explored how early childhood professionals’ views on music in education had changed over time. My findings show that scholarship devoted growing attention to music’s role in early childhood education during this period, but that YC featured few music-related articles, tended to treat music as a support for the overall curriculum rather than as a subject in its own right, presented limited information on music education, and published few contributions by music educators

A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF STRUGGLING READERS IN SECONDARY LITERACY TEACHERS: A COLLECTIVE CASE STUDY

The Social Constructionism and New Literacies Studies supported the idea that the concept of (struggling) reader is not a given but is constructed in social interactions. With the literature review, I found that the frequently used term, struggling reader, was ill-defined and felt the need to see how the concept is used in reading classrooms. In this dissertation study using collective case study method, I explored how secondary teachers working with a group of students considered as struggling in reading construct the concept of struggling readers in their discourses and practices with the two guiding questions: (1) How do teachers identify and define the struggling reader in classrooms? and (2) How does this perception assist and inhibit teacher practices? With the analysis, three constructs and four contexts in the social construction of struggling readers in teachers were revealed. The three constructs include (a) reading assessments, (b) students’ schooling level, and (c) the diverse cultures of students are brought to the classroom were implicated in how teachers thought of struggling readers. Four contexts that affected the social construction of struggling readers in these teachers were (a) a deficit view of student culture, (b) high-stakes standardized testing, (c) everyday communications in school, and (d) absence of teacher education. Inequity from the larger context impacted on the construction of struggling readers in teachers deeply and viciously, by distorting the students' care as patronizing and institutionalizing.Doctor of Philosoph

Protecting the environment: the effects of green menu design on restaurant customers' willingness to pay

The present study conducted experiments to reveal the relationship between various message appeals and customers' menu selection processes. There is a dearth of studies that explore the consumer green menu selection behaviors, particularly in full-service restaurants in the United States. By utilizing the Value- Belief-Norm (VBN) theory and integrating the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) into the Dual Coding Theory (DCT), the present study is intended to investigate the effects of green menu designs that may influence willingness to pay more at full-service restaurants. A total of 521 samples were collected through MTurk. Various statistical analyses revealed meaningful results that can be utilized by restaurant marketers with insights for developing effective green marketing strategies to attract and retain customers.Includes bibliographical references

Practitioners' Judgment and Deferred Tax Disclosure: A Case for Materiality

Against the background of increasing tension between the need for additional disclosure and an information overload in financial statements, this study investigates the relevance of specific tax accounting information in an experimental setting. Participants make judgments on the financial performance, investment attractiveness and tax position of the firm, in absence or in presence of detailed tax information in the other comprehensive income statement. Our results do not support the notion that such deferred tax information has an effect on the judgment of experts, as long as the amounts of deferred tax are normal. However, when the detailed amounts of deferred tax are abnormally high, judgment differs significantly. Our result is important for standard setters, as they may consider further developing guidance in standards (such as IAS 1 and IAS 12) and in the Practice Statement for how to judge materiality of information, in accordance with the materiality principle set forth in IAS 1.31. By doing so, the risk of information overload can be reduced. Our study thus contributes to the current debate on the extent of disclosure. Our results are novel and the method used allows for the isolation of effects and the identification of causal relationships.Series: WU International Taxation Research Paper Serie

Permutation module decomposition of the second cohomology of a regular semisimple Hessenberg variety

Regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties admit actions of associated Weyl groups on their cohomology space of each degree. In this paper, we consider the module structure of the cohomology spaces of regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties of type $A$. We define a subset of the Bialynicki-Birula basis of the cohomology space so that they become a module generator set of the cohomology module of each degree. We then use those generators to construct permutation submodules of the degree two cohomology module and show that they form a permutation module decomposition. Our construction is consistent with a known combinatorial result by Chow on chromatic quasisymmetric functions

Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Decomposition in Heath Disparity Research

In the field of disparities research, there has been growing interest in developing a counterfactual-based decomposition analysis to identify underlying mediating mechanisms that help reduce disparities in populations. Despite rapid development in the area, most prior studies have been limited to regression-based methods, undermining the possibility of addressing complex models with multiple mediators and/or heterogeneous effects. We propose an estimation method that effectively addresses complex models. Moreover, we develop a novel sensitivity analysis for possible violations of identification assumptions. The proposed method and sensitivity analysis are demonstrated with data from the Midlife Development in the US study to investigate the degree to which disparities in cardiovascular health at the intersection of race and gender would be reduced if the distributions of education and perceived discrimination were the same across intersectional groups

Bases of the equivariant cohomologies of regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties

We consider bases for the cohomology space of regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties, consisting of the classes that naturally arise from the Bialynicki-Birula decomposition of the Hessenberg varieties. We give an explicit combinatorial description of the support of each class, which enables us to compute the symmetric group actions on the classes in our bases. We then successfully apply the results to the permutohedral varieties to explicitly write down each class and to construct permutation submodules that constitute summands of a decomposition of cohomology space of each degree. This resolves the problem posed by Stembridge on the geometric construction of permutation module decomposition and also the conjecture posed by Chow on the construction of bases for the equivariant cohomology spaces of permutohedral varieties