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The human side of leadership: Inspirational leadership effects on follower characteristics and happiness at work (HAW)
Leadership has received significant attention over the past years. Now is the time to refine how leaders impact on followers and their attitudes. This study examines how inspirational leaders influence follower characteristics (FC), and in turn, their happiness at work. In this study, the mediating effect of follower characteristics in the relationship between inspirational leadership and happiness at work was specifically examined. Data was gathered from 389 frontline banking employees working in Italian and Spanish banks. A confirmatory factor analysis revealed a positive partial mediating role of follower characteristics in the relationship between inspirational leadership and happiness at work. Results showed that inspirational leadership exerts a more positive influence on followers' happiness at work when follower characteristics are more positive. Our discussion highlights the importance of understanding the role of the follower characteristics that are involved in the effectiveness of inspirational leadership
SME–University Collaboration in Non-metropolitan regions:A Multiple Case Study Analysis of How Collaborations Start and Unfold
Industry–university collaboration in rural and metropolitan regions:What is the role of graduate employment and external non-university knowledge?
Industry-university collaboration in different types of regions:The role played by non-metropolitan university actions, graduate employment and external knowledge sourcing in industry-university collaboration
Bridging the Gap between Firms and Universities:Firm Links with Research and Technology Organisations in Different Types of Regions
Spontaneous mass generation and the small dimensions of the Standard Model gauge groups U(1), SU(2) and SU(3)
The gauge symmetry of the Standard Model is SU(3)_c x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y for
unknown reasons. One aspect that can be addressed is the low dimensionality of
all its subgroups. Why not much larger groups like SU(7), or for that matter,
SP(38) or E7? We observe that fermions charged under large groups acquire much
bigger dynamical masses, all things being equal at a high e.g. GUT scale, than
ordinary quarks. Should such multicharged fermions exist, they are too heavy to
be observed today and have either decayed early on (if they couple to the rest
of the Standard Model) or become reliquial dark matter (if they don't). The
result follows from strong antiscreening of the running coupling for those
larger groups (with an appropriately small number of flavors) together with
scaling properties of the Dyson-Schwinger equation for the fermion mass.Comment: 15 pages, 17 plots. This version incorporates community as well as
referee comments. Accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics
Numerical test of the Cardy-Jacobsen conjecture in the site-diluted Potts model in three dimensions
We present a microcanonical Monte Carlo simulation of the site-diluted Potts
model in three dimensions with eight internal states, partly carried out in the
citizen supercomputer Ibercivis. Upon dilution, the pure model's first-order
transition becomes of the second-order at a tricritical point. We compute
accurately the critical exponents at the tricritical point. As expected from
the Cardy-Jacobsen conjecture, they are compatible with their Random Field
Ising Model counterpart. The conclusion is further reinforced by comparison
with older data for the Potts model with four states.Comment: Final version. 9 pages, 9 figure
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