How authentic leadership promotes individual creativity: The mediating role of affective commitment

This study sought to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how authentic leadership can affect employees’ individual creativity through affective commitment’s mediating role. The sample included 177 leader-follower dyads from 26 private, small and medium-sized enterprises. Followers reported their levels of affective commitment and perceptions of authentic leadership, and leaders assessed each follower’s level of creativity. The results show that authentic leadership has a positive impact on affective commitment and creativity. Moreover, affective commitment fully mediates the relationship between perceived authentic leadership and individual creativity. Organizations can thus increase employees’ affective commitment and creativity by encouraging their managers to adopt more authentic leadership styles. Additional studies with larger samples are needed to determine more clearly not only authentic leadership’s influence on individual creativity but also other psychosocial and personal variables’ effects on that relationship.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Wellbeing as emergent from the leveraging of polarities: harnessing component interdependencies

The starting premise of this article is that within existing approaches the nature of the interrelationship between components of wellbeing is both under-conceptualized and under-measured. This paper contrasts three perspectives of wellbeing component interrelationship. The first and most common is a hierarchical approach, which prioritizes economic wellbeing and uses this to fund attainment of other components of wellbeing, such as social and environmental. A second perspective, which we call aggregation approaches, list dashboards of wellbeing components and average them. Both of these approaches emphasize the dependence and independence of the underlying components respectively. In this paper we develop a conceptualization of wellbeing based on the interdependence of eight components: economic, environmental, social, cultural, psychological, physical, spiritual and cultural. Our theory of interdependence is a multarity-based view of wellbeing which sees the latter as emerging from the integrated leveraging of at least four fundamental polarities: economic and environmental, physical and psychological, material and spiritual and social and cultural. Wellbeing costs increase and value creation opportunities lost when interdependence between components is ignored

Manual but not instrument-assisted cervical manipulation reduces pain and disability in subjects with nonspecific neck pain: double-blinded, randomized clinical trial

There is limited evidence comparing the effects of manual and instrumented-assisted manipulations among adults with neck pain. Our purpose was to determine the effects of a multisession regime of manual and instrument-assisted cervical manipulation on pain, disability, perception of change, and muscle properties in subjects with nonspecific neck pain. We conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study in 32 subjects with nonspecific neck pain. Two groups received three sessions of cervical (C3/C4) manipulation, one group manual and the other instrument-assisted, a third group received three sessions of sham manipulation, and a fourth group served as a control. Self-reported pain, pressure pain thresholds, neck disability, patient perception of change, and properties (tonus, stiffness, and elasticity) of the upper trapezius and biceps brachii were assessed at baseline, immediately after the first session and 15 days after the end of the intervention. After the end of the intervention, the percentage of changes in the visual analogue scale score, Neck Disability Index, and Patient Global Perception of Change score were significantly higher in the manual group in comparison with the other groups (p < 0.05). No between-group differences were observed in the percentage of changes in tonus, stiffness, and elasticity of the four muscles at the end of the intervention. We concluded that three sessions of C3/C4 manual manipulation improved pain and disability in subjects with nonspecific neck pain.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

QUAL O GRAU DE ENGAJAMENTO DOS DOCENTES E DAS INSTITUIÇÕES DE ENSINO SUPERIOR (IES) NA PRÁTICA DO PROJETO PEDAGÓGICO DO CURSO (PPC)?

Estabelecendo uma analogia entre engajamento mútuo, enquanto aspecto marcante da Comunidade de Prática (CoP), e o engajamento dos docentes e das IES para a prática do PPC, o objetivo deste artigo é identificar o grau de engajamento de ambos na prática do PPC. A pesquisa é quantitativa e tem caráter descritivo. Para levantamento de dados utilizou-se pesquisa bibliográfica e pesquisa de campo com docentes de todo o país, adotando o método survey, com o apoio da ferramenta survey monkey. Foram respondidos 548 questionários entre os dias 09 de junho a 21 de julho de 2015. Para o tratamento dos dados foi utilizada estatística descritiva e análise de clusteres, pelo método two steps (duas etapas). Para fins de análise foram considerados três aspectos do engajamento mútuo: o tratamento da diversidade e parcialidade, a complexidade das relações mútuas e a promoção do engajamento. Como conclusão tem-se que, no caso do PPC, o engajamento mútuo entre docentes e IES para sua prática não acontece, nem mesmo de forma voluntária e espontânea, o que prejudica a utilização deste como um instrumento estratégico

Protection against nitric oxide genotoxicity by Ginkgo biloba extract

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Public Service Media, Pluralism and Cultural Diversity

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Exploring microfoundations and multilevel mechanisms of absorptive capacity in an emerging economy: Empirical evidence from a leading car manufacturer Exploring microfoundations and multilevel mechanisms of absorptive capacity in an emerging economy: Empirical evidence from a leading car manufacturer

Purpose: Despite the importance of knowledge processes in building absorptive capacity, we are less clear about the micro-processes of absorptive capacity development and particularly about the role of individuals’ knowledge processes. Design/methodology/approach: This study empirically examined, via an in-depth case study, the microfoundations of absorptive capacity and their influence on building absorptive capacity in an automaker across the course of four product innovation projects. Findings: Findings suggested that dynamics in a knowledge environment informed individual-level tacit and explicit knowledge processes. In return, knowledge processes at the individual level informed organizational learning processes and the emergence of knowledge processes at organization level for acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and exploitation of new knowledge. Originality: This study contributes to the literature by revealing individuals’ knowledge processes from which absorptive capacity emerges. Practically, managers can use the findings of this study to promote certain knowledge processes to develop intended aspects of absorptive capacity at an individual level

Monitoring Risks for Media Pluralism in the EU and Beyond. Country report: Portugal

UID/CCI/04667/2016 Projeto Europeu MPM 2016 - Media Pluralism MonitorThis report presents the results and the methodology of the 2016 implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) in EU-28 countries and in Montenegro and Turkey (MPM2016), carried out by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, EUI. The Media Pluralism Monitor is a comprehensive and balanced tool for assessing risks for media pluralism, composed of 200 variables organized within 20 main indicators and, finally, structured in four thematic areas, encompassing pertinent legal, economic, political and socio-cultural considerations. The results of the MPM2016 implementation confirm again, as a general trend and in line with MPM2015 and MPM2014, that no EU country is immune from risks that are related to media freedom and pluralism.publishersversionpublishe

Os media e o pluralismo em Portugal

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DNA protective effect of Ginkgo biloba extract persists after simulation of the human digestion in vitro

This work is supported by: European Investment Funds by FEDER/COMPETE/POCI– Operational Competitiveness and Internationalization Programme, under Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006958 and National Funds by FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under the project UID/AGR/04033/2013.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio