Mediation: The Influence of Style and Gender on Disputants' Perceptions of Justice

This study examines the effect of mediator style and mediator gender on perceptions of justice held about the mediation process by disputants. Undergraduate students participated in a simulated mediation, assuming the roles of either employees or employers in a personal grievance involving dismissal. The employees alleged that the dismissal was unjustified on the grounds of personal conflict with their supervisor. The employers countered that the dismissal was justifiable on the grounds of insubordination. The third parties involved in the mediated negotiation were trained, postgraduate students taking an advanced industrial relations course. Post-simulation the disputants were invited to complete a questionnaire. Evidence was found to suggest that there is more than one li'GY to successfully mediate disputes. Mediator gender was found not to effect disputant perceptions of justice. The principle finding of this research is that mediator style affects disputant perceptions ofjustice, with disputants being more likely to feel that they have been dealt with justly when the mediator exhibited an orchestrating style. No moder,ating interactions were found between perceptions of justice, physical gender, stereotype and mediator use of a particular style

Tracking Mediator Behaviour: An Initial Investigation

Mediation is perhaps the most often used and least easily understood dispute resolution procedure in the field of industrial relations. It has played a particularly prominent role in industrial relations in New Zealand, having a long history at the centfe of both wage negotiation or interest disputes, and personal and contractual rights disputes. It retains a central role in the resolution of personal grievances, contract interpretation disputes, wage arrears and other disputes of rights in the Employment Tribunal under the Employment Contracts Act 1991

A study of solar power implementation business model options for Grand Junction, Colorado

This dissertation analyzed three solar power implementation business models that would transfer the burden of capital, operational, and maintenance costs from an individual to an entity with available funding. Solar power has long been touted as an emissions free and environmentally friendly alternative to more conventional forms of energy, such as coal. Most of Colorado’s electricity is generated from coal-fired power plants. To combat climate change and reduce health risks, Colorado has implemented a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requiring that 30% of electricity produced in 2020 come from a renewable resource, such as solar. Of this, three percent must derive from distributed generation (DG). Grand Junction is a large town located on the western slope of Colorado that receives over 300 days of sunshine per annum. In the ongoing effort to satisfy Colorado’s RPS, this dissertation identifies and examines: Grand Junction’s solar resource potential; various solar technologies; their attributes, environmental impacts, and advantages/disadvantages of a solar power plant, rooftop solar leasing program, and a third party solar power purchase agreement (SPPA). It then compares each solar power implementation business model options’ attributes and analyzes how each will contribute to Colorado’s RPS, the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs), to satisfying a portion of Grand Junction’s electricity demand in 2020

Hindi to and relevance

The morpheme to occurs in the Hindi language frequently, but is difficult to define and difficult for speakers of Hindi as a second language to use correctly. The purpose of this study is to provide insight into how to contributes to the understanding of the utterance that contains it. Relevance Theory, developed by Sperber and Wilson in 1986, is the framework for this study. Relevance Theory makes a distinction between the implicit and explicit content of utterances and between words that encode conceptual representations and words that encode processing instructions. I will consider whether to contributes to implicit or explicit content and whether it is conceptual or procedural. The data I have used for this thesis are published Hindi narrative texts, portions of the Bible, and examples used in the writings of scholars and grammarians. I also collected oral data through informal observations and interviews with Hindi speakers. I have come to the conclusion that there are two homophonous morphemes pronounced [ t̪ ] in Hindi. Both are procedural morphemes. Conjunction-to affects the implicatures of the following proposition by limiting the relevant implicated premises. It instructs the hearer to interpret the following proposition as an implicated conclusion. Contrast-to instructs the hearer to compare the constituent preceding to with a corresponding constituent in the context. As such it also affects the implicatures

Mediation: The Influence of Style and Gender on Disputants' Perceptions of Justice

This study examines the effect of mediator style and mediator gender on perceptions of justice held about the mediation process by disputants. Undergraduate students participated in a simulated mediation, assuming the roles of either employees or employers in a personal grievance involving dismissal. The employees alleged that the dismissal was unjustified on the grounds of personal conflict with their supervisor. The employers countered that the dismissal was justifiable on the grounds of insubordination. The third parties involved in the mediated negotiation were trained, postgraduate students taking an advanced industrial relations course. Post-simulation the disputants were invited to complete a questionnaire. Evidence was found to suggest that there is more than one li'GY to successfully mediate disputes. Mediator gender was found not to effect disputant perceptions of justice. The principle finding of this research is that mediator style affects disputant perceptions ofjustice, with disputants being more likely to feel that they have been dealt with justly when the mediator exhibited an orchestrating style. No moder,ating interactions were found between perceptions of justice, physical gender, stereotype and mediator use of a particular style