Psychological Safety in High-Performance Teams within the Music Industry What are the barriers to psychological safety in high-performing teams at the creative core of the music industry, and what strategies can be implemented to overcome them?

While music producers, songwriters and musicians are struggling to make their artistic voices heard in an increasingly saturated attention economy, research on how creative teams are able to gain and maintain high performance is picking up steam. This paper aims to explore the cultural and organizational structures that impact psychological safety in high performance teams within the music industry, and identify potential barriers preventing a safe and supportive work environment. It also seeks to evaluate strategies on how to overcome such obstacles for better team performance and sustainability

SSRI-use, depression, and socioeconomic status among Norwegian adult women – A cross-sectional study with data from the NOWAC-study

Introduction - Depressive disorders affect a significant part of the population, and its effects can be debilitating. Such disorders have a higher prevalence among women and previous studies have shown that there is a consistent association between SES and depression, and between SES and SSRI-use. The primary aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the association between SES and the use of SSRIs among adult Norwegian women recruited to the NOWAC-study. The association between SES and depression was also explored. SES refers specifically to education and gross household income. Methods - Data was provided from the second and third wave of the NOWAC-study with 62 388 participants after exclusion. Descriptive statistics were used to present the prevalence of SSRI-use and depression according to education, income and other health and lifestyle factors. Logistic regression analysis was used to calculate the odds ratios for SSRI-use and depression according to education and income. Results - Regarding descriptive statistics, 4.7% reported current use of SSRIs, while the prevalence of current and former depression was 15.5%. In the age-adjusted models the odds of using SSRIs were almost twice as large for the lowest education group (OR 1.95, 95% CI 1.72-2.21) compared to the highest education group (OR 1.15, 95% CI 1.02-1.29), while the odds of using SSRIs were 4.59 times higher for the lowest income group (95% CI 3.87-5.45) compared to the second highest income group (OR 1.15, 95% CI 1.02-1.29). The association between education and depression was considerably less apparent in both models compared to the association between education and SSRI-use. For income, the odds of having depression increased threefold for those in the lowest income group (OR 3.24, 95% CI 2.92-3.61) compared to those in the second highest income group (OR 1.16, CI 95% 1.06-1.27). Conclusion - There was a clear inverse social gradient in all outcomes. The association between income and SSRI-use and income and depression was prominent, while the association between education and SSRI-use and education and depression was less apparent

Understanding drivers of consumption practices : a study of motivations among young consumers in Norway

Mass-consumption of clothing is an important contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. This study aims to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the complexities of consumption by looking at two main factors. Firstly, what different motivations are at play for consumption of clothing, and how these motivations intersect and interact. Secondly, how elements of consumer behaviour links to group and individual identity, and the role of clothes in the creation and negotiation of these identities. Lastly the research seeks to better understand linkages between clothes consumption and barriers to behaviour change towards lessening the impact of consumption on the environment. The data is collected through focus group interviews with young consumers in Norway aged 16-18. This provides in-depth qualitative data from consumers in the process of creating their consumer patterns and practices. The findings demonstrate a variety of overlapping and complex motivations for consumption, some of which are hidden from the consumer. The motivations are a mix of internal and external influences. The internal influences include norms and habits, while the sources of external influence include advertising, media and celebrities, as well as parents and peer groups. The relationship between internal and external motivations, or individual agency and structural influence, is complex and filled with tension. There is a clear pattern of contradiction between the consumers wanting to display individuality through consumption of clothing, and wanting to display group belonging. In the mind of the consumer this contradiction is either not apparent or not problematic. The findings suggest that the relationship between consumption of clothing and identity creation is a tenuous one. Clothes are important for identity creation as a form of communication, but only up to a certain degree, and it is not always a successful tool for creating and maintaining identities. The complexity of consumer motivations apparent in this study has implications for policy measures directed towards reduction of consumption. The research shows that there is potential for behaviour change based on the false satisfaction of certain social functions through consumer goods.M-IE

The Union at war: South African society, 1914-1953

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Book Review: Afrikaner odyssey: the life and times of the Reitz family

Book Title: Afrikaner odyssey: the life and times of the Reitz familyBook Author: Martin MeredithJohannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. 2017, 215 pages.ISBN 978-1-86842-773-

A Model for Humane Economic Development: Hernando de Soto, Property Rights, and the Preferential Option for the Poor

A Model for Humane Economic Development: Hernando de Soto, Property Rights, and the Preferential Option for the Poor provides a constructive dialogue between the works of the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, and Catholic social teaching in order to assist people in less developed nations (LDCs) to escape the cycle of poverty. The dissertation argues that Hernando de Soto\u27s insights to protect property rights, in conjunction with the Catholic Church\u27s theological commitment to promote human dignity and human rights, through a preferential option for the poor, offers practical resources for sound economic development to help those trapped in poverty to become more active participants in the well ordering of society. It provides a dialogue between de Soto\u27s work and Catholic social teaching to benefit both parties so that each participant can work toward the goal of transforming society into place where the dignity of all becomes manifest

Recording the Great War: military archives and the South African official history programme, 1914-1939

The First World War marked a revolt against the traditional mode of official history as conceived and written by the General Staffs and taught at the Staff Colleges. After 1918, the publics in various countries, having experienced massed mobilisation and the impact of total warfare, demanded an explanation for the sacrifices so many had been called on to make. This more inclusive approach rejected the nineteenth-century, Staff College predilection for campaign narratives focussing narrowly on “lessons learned”. The South African tradition of official history dates from this period. This article outlines the creation of the first military archival organisation in Pretoria and analyses the South African First World War official history programme. It explores the apparent motives behind the programme and reveals the often-difficult relationships between the historians and their principals at Defence Headquarters and the tensions between the two modes of official history.Keywords: First World War, historiography, war memory, military archives, official historians, Leo Fouché, Hugh Wyndham, Johann Leipoldt, John Buchan, John Collye

Enemies in the Empire: Civilian internment in the British Empire during the First World War

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