...Descriptive Research Report Table of Contents Table of Contents ii List of Tables iii List of Figures iv Executive Summary v 1. Introduction and Background 1 1.1. Importance of the research 1 1.2. Scope of the report 1 1.3. Research problems/question 2 1.4. Aims and Objectives 2 2. Method 3 2.1. Methodological considerations and assumptions 3 2.2. Sample considerations 3 2.3. Data collection and framework, and analytical considerations 4 3. Ethical considerations 5 4. Analysis 5 4.1. Descriptives 5 4.2. Regression 7 4.3. T-Test 17 4.4. ANOVA 19 4.5. Correlation 19 5. Findings and Recommendations 21 5.1. Objective 1 21 5.2. Objective 2 & 3 22 5.3. Objective 4 22 5.4. Objective 5 23 6. Limitations 24 Reference List Appendix List of Tables Table 1 Descriptive table 6 Table 2 Significant correlations self concept with purchase behaviour 20 Table 3 Correlations social desirability bias with purchase behaviour 21 List of Figures Figure 1 Fashion purchasing model of all respondents 7 Figure 2 Fashion purchasing model of men 8 Figure 3 Fashion purchasing model of women 9 Figure 4 Fashion purchasing model of people in full time work 10 Figure 5 Fashion purchasing model of people in part time work 11 Figure 6 Fashion purchasing model of people not work 11 Figure 7 Fashion purchasing model of single people 12 Figure 8 Fashion purchasing model of people in a relationship...
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...A success story? Happiness in the new post-communist EU member states Sergiu Bălțătescu University of Oradea, Romania www.sergiubaltatescu.info Abstract: Ten of the post-communist countries managed to integrate into EU. Which are the subjective outcomes of socio-economic transformations in these countries? Did they manage to increase their citizens’ happiness in this process? To give an answer to these questions I used data from Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (2001-2004), Standard Eurobarometers (2005-2007), and World Bank Development Indicators. Developments in average national happiness have been compared with the economic (GDP, optimism concerning the level of living) and political (satisfaction with democracy) trends on the same time span. In all the studied societies, trends were positive after 2001. Eastern European countries showed higher increases in GNI per capita and also life satisfaction than in the rest of European Union. Those who started with lower levels increased more, strongly suggesting a possibility of convergence. A non-economic factor, satisfaction with democracy, mediates the influence of GNI on life satisfaction. Overall, access of Eastern European countries in European Union seems to be a success story, from both economic and non-economic points of view. However, the economic crisis may change the prognosis, raising the issue of sustainability of growth in happiness levels. Keywords: subjective well-being; economic...
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...sustainable workplace practices focus on employees’ endurance and overall wellbeing and the impact of production on the environment. For the purpose of this report, a sustainable workplace is defined as the commitment by the Hecht Group to balance financial performance with investment to the quality of workplace and life of its employees, the society at large and the environment. Executive Summary The Hecht Group’s HR department developed a Sustainable Workplace Survey aimed at assessing and collecting employees’ information regarding their workplace safety, health and the quality of the internal environment. This information was processed, analyzed and evaluated to identify specific issues in the workplace, and create sustainable solutions for a better work environment. In addition, the specific issues found in the survey served to help the Hecht Group’s management define workplace practice standards, and implement...
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...The Value of Responsibility Every individual should have some degree of personal responsibility. The definition of responsibility is “We all have the ability to personally respond – ‘response-ability’ (Sklare, 2005, para. 1). The ability to make decisions serving the interests of others as well as your own is also known as responsibility. First, you should be responsible for yourself before you can be responsible for others. Responsibility and Success Each individual has a certain level of responsibility ensuring good behavior and character regardless of his or her upbringing and certain life experiences. “Individual responsibility also includes being accountable for the degree and level of your health, wealth, success and happiness” (Personal Growth, 2005, para. 1). Brian Tracy (2006) explains: Because you have freedom of choice and because you have chosen each and every circumstance of your life, you are completely responsible for all of your success and failure, your happiness and, your present and future. (para. 5). Motivation, success, happiness, and achievement can be received when an individual is responsible. Responsibilities, roles, and functions are some of the roles adults hold whether as a spouse, employee, student, or parent. Issues will always arise while challenging an individual’s character, emotions, and strengths. Proctor suggests a responsible person “should be able to determine what right or wrong, what's good or bad and what's within your control”...
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...Introduction Engagement at work was conceptualized by Kahn, (1990) as the µharnessing of organizational members¶ selves to their work roles. In engagement, people employ andexpress themselves physically, cognitively, and emotionally during role performances.The second related construct to engagement in organizational behavior is the notion of flow advanced by Csikszentmihalyi (1975, 1990). Csikzentmihalyi (1975) defines flow asthe µholistic sensation¶ that, people feel when they act with total involvement. Flow isthe state in which there is little distinction between the self and environment. Whenindividuals are in Flow State little conscious control is necessary for their actions.Employee engagement is the thus the level of commitment and involvement an employeehas towards their organization and its values. An engaged employee is aware of businesscontext, and works with colleagues to improve performance within the job for the benefitof the organization. The organization must work to develop and nurture engagement,which requires a two-way relationship between employer and employee.¶ Thus Employeeengagement is a barometer that determines the association of a person with theorganizationEngagement is most closely associated with the existing construction of job involvement(Brown 1996) and flow (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). Job involvement is defined as µthedegree to which the job situation is central to the person and his or her identity (Lawler &Hall, 1970). Kanungo (1982) maintained...
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...The American Dream 1. Give an outline of how the American Dream is interpreted. Arnold Schwarzenegger writes that with hard work and determination he managed to make his dream come through in America. He says, that he understands the immigrants yearning for freedom and opportunity, but that to get those and to get success you have to work hard and give something back to America. He thinks, that one of the most important things to do to be able to fit in and blend in to the American culture is to learn the language. Not out of duty, but to be able to be a part of the everyday life in America and get the best out the cultural life of America. The second thing, he thinks, is important to get a good life in America is to participate in the democracy and to be involved in how America ended out to be, as it is today. The last thing, that he considers important, is to give something back to the America who has been welcoming you. It doesn’t have to be much; just something that helps people or something that makes a difference, small or big, in other people’s lives. Arnold Schwarzenegger believes, that your dreams can come true in America and that everything can be achieved, but not without hard work. Anya Kamenetz claims that the “old” American Dream is wounded. She is of the belief that the young Americans need a new and edited American dream, where the assumption of the dreams aren’t money and material things but a dream based on a social safety net, more time for the Americans...
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...Wealth and happiness The two texts The Sandra Bullock Trade and But will it make you happy is are both about the relation between wealth and happiness. In the first text The Sandra Bullock Trade the author David Brooks considers that marital happiness is an influencing factor in personal well-being. He is writing about how economic and professional success only exists on the surface of life and that interpersonal relationships are much more important. He uses the successful actress Sandra Bullock as an illustration on his hypothesis regarding why a successful marriage matters. David Brooks also thinks that the relationship between happiness and income is complicated, but he does not consider that a high income makes you happier. In the other text But Will It Make You Happy? Stephanie Rosenbloom is writing about how consumers are saving more and spending less and how it this affects the consumers. She is writing about how new research suggest that this new behaviour make the consumers happier and how buying luxury goods is an endless cycle of one-upmanship. She considers that spending money on an event makes you happier than luxury goods. David Brooks begins the text by talking about Sandra Bullocks personal life, with this intro he directs the text to a large segment of people because almost everybody enjoys some gossip and at the same time he gets the readers sympathy, in the light of the adulterous jerk and thereby has he used Pathos. aaaaalt for lang sætning – Skriv...
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...and the Economy 1. Explain how an increased federal budget deficit resulting from a recession can actually help stabilize an economy. 2. Describe how adjustments in wages and prices take the economy from the short-run equilibrium to the long-run equilibrium. 3. Explain why a system of marketable pollution permits leads to less costly pollution abatement and a higher concentration of polluted areas than a command-and-control system. 4. Although GDP per capita is the most commonly used measure of a country’s success, many economists believes it does not give an accurate measure of a nation’s economic well-being. Some studies have concluded that that GDP is not the best measure of well-being, and although it may be the best available on a timely basis, other factors need to be considered in addition to GDP to give a more accurate picture of economic well-being and the disparity of well-being between nations. Clearly identify at least three such factors that in your view should be included in the GDP calculations. Explain and illustrate how they will help to improve the GDP as a tool for measuring the well-being of a nation. Describe the impact of public goods and externalities on the functioning of an economy. • Use the dynamics of the labor market to anticipate wage rate and labor supply changes. • Analysis of the key macroeconomic phenomena: GDP, unemployment, inflation. • Use technology and information resources to research issues in economics Solution: 1) Explain how an...
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...effective, it can also make an organization successful and also help as an aide to its country through bad times. If leadership is not effective amongst organizations, then conflict is possible to occur and companies can eventually lose direction of their goals. Companies without proper leadership may not be able to last long ultimately. Leadership in the 21st century has presented many new opportunities and challenges for those who are in leadership positions and employees as well. Leaders need to be up to date with information almost daily, need to be flexible, be tolerant, and also be able to think quickly. It is also important that leaders are able establish long-term relationships, take risks, motivate, and be willing to address global issues that are occurring. Zappos Chief Executive Officer, Tony Hsieh demonstrates amazing leadership qualities that may leaders and upcoming entrepreneurs admire and look up. Hsieh was born on December 12th, 1973, in the state of Illinois and was then raised in the state of California growing up. In 1995, Hsieh received his Bachelors degree from Harvard University, majoring in Computer Science. During his collegiate career at Harvard, Hsieh began his time into focusing on his studies, while also having his own pizzeria, in which he ran out of his dorm room. When he...
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...ethics, there are three branches: metaethics , concerned with methods, language, logical structure, and the reasoning used in the interpretation of ethical terms, for example, what exactly the term “good” means; normative ethics , concerned with ways of behaving and standards of conduct; and applied ethics , concerned with solving practical moral problems as they arise, particularly in the professions, such as medicine and law. Ethics provides us with a way to make moral choices when we are uncertain about what to do in a situation involving moral issues. In the process of everyday life, moral rules are desirable, not because they express absolute truth but because they are generally reliable guides for normal circumstances. Normative Ethics Normative ethics is fundamental to ethical decision making in the criminal justice system. A central notion in normative ethics is that one’s conduct must take into account moral issues; that is, one should act morally, using reason to decide the proper way of conducting oneself. Essentially, ethics, in prescribing certain standards of conduct, gives us a way of making choices in situations where we are unsure how to act. What are these standards of conduct and how do we decide what is right and wrong? Some argue that because standards of conduct and ways of doing things differ from society to society, there can never be one single standard for all people everywhere,...
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...Unit 5 Assignment 1: Genre Essay- Proposal Lawrence M. Alvarez ITT Technical Institute College of Drafting & Design EN 1320 Composition I The love we have among each other in our family goes above and beyond. What is the problem with that? In an ideal world, love conquers all. However, we do not live in an ideal world. If we lived in an ideal world, there would be no war, poverty, or hunger. All of our favorite sports team should have won all the championships in every sport. None of these have been accomplished yet, so this cannot possibly be an ideal world. This is unfortunate, but there are always solutions to life’s problems. No, the solutions do not lie with what money can buy. Some things seem too good to be true. Let’s picture this. A man has just met the woman of her dreams. She is everything he has ever dreamed about in a woman. He began dating her, and later on, he proposes to the woman of his dream. But there is one problem: She has a different religion and upbringing. What can he do? He love her so much, but there are obvious problems. People of different faiths getting married is so common these days that most do not even see it as a problem. A common issues from these type of marriages come upon is how to raise children in regards to religion. Sometimes the differences are simply too large, and the couple ended getting separation or divorced. When children are involved, religious differences can be a sensitive subject. The disagreements can...
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...SOC 315 Week 1 Quiz To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/soc-315-ash/soc-315-week-1-quiz 1. Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai’s main work was based on connections she saw in her country between: poverty, deforestation, and women’s issues. deforestation, political culture, and global warming. poverty, voting rights, and reading levels. women’s issues, voting rights, and institutional change. 2. English philosopher John Locke, who promoted the rights of people, is most closely associated with: conservatism. Marxism. liberalism. socialism. 3. Politics always includes: the passage of a law. a need to spend money. individual action by all affected parties. a controversial issue. 4. Bhutan measures its success as a society through its aggregate level of: economic output. agricultural output. happiness. health. 5. Which of the following is NOT one of the three main dimensions for identifying culture in society? Behavioral dimension Constructivist dimension Ethnographic dimension Religious dimension 6. Political leaders will likely play the greatest role in shaping the political agenda in a(n) _________ country. democratic undemocratic liberal economically advanced 7. The pocketbook voter model holds that voters ____________ during tough...
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...September 26, 2010 Response Paper #1 – Utilitarianism Poor children of all color are being looked upon as hopeless. Teachers refuse to teach them because they see it as worthless. Within their schools, there is so much poverty that the schools lack the funds to make necessary improvements. The broken down schooling environment and a likely poor home situation are stopping these kids from having a good learning environment. A good education could make kids more well off, bettering their future and the future of their community. However; in order to supply students with a good education a lot of things need to be addressed. In order to give these kids a better education; there are many issues with public schooling that need fixing. Changes need to be made in the leadership roles at many schools and in many school districts. Teachers with experience educating in an urban environment with poverty stricken students, need to be found for these struggling school districts. On top of more-experienced teachers additional staff is necessary. Students in these poorer neighborhoods need mentors. Students need someone to help them learn, someone who can be there for them, someone to make sure their on task and have a drive for success. Drive, also very important; students need to be motivated, a drive should be instilled in them with a reward that could promise higher achievement. In Kalamazoo MI, a “promise” was set up to provide each Kalamazoo Public Schools graduate with the opportunity...
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...Intellectual Property Kemal Cankaya Strayer University Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Prof. Augustine S Weekly December 15, 2013 1. Research three to five (3-5) ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety. With the globalization in world economy, business ethics became indispensable neces- sity for companies. Business to business ethics of appropriate behaviors in the long term success of businesses in a positive direction, otherwise it has been the power to adversely affect the behavior. As a result, the collapse of ethical scandals have emerged released in the United States of America and Europe. Business, which clearly indicates the necessity and importance of business ethics ethics have valuable lessons from the collapse. Ethical issues at Marketing Nowadays, marketing ethics, ethical issues comes up with sales-related studies and sensitivity in the community. This aspect of the business from a societal perspective should insist on the importance of ethical practices. As a result of marketing activities by the community due to the high impression, often come up with moral problems in the advertising, personal selling, market research and international marketing issues are seen to be available to unethical behavior. Especially in the 1970s and 1980s, various scandals in the international arena, large-scale corruption in the agenda for the international...
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...American Psychological Association's flag-ship journal, American Psychologist, dedicated an entire issue to the growing field of “positive psychology,” including both theory and practical applications. The special issue was highly relevant to physician well-being. The special millennial issue contains 15 empirically minded articles by eminent authors in the field of academic psychology. This field marks a deliberate steering away from the dominant “disease model” of human functioning. In the disease model, clinical psychology had become almost exclusively a science about healing damage or controlling maladaptive impulses. In contrast, the primary purpose of positive psychology is to measure, understand, and then build human strengths and civic virtues, including hope, wisdom, creativity, courage, spirituality, responsibility, perseverance, and satisfaction. The special issue is divided into 4 sections: evolutionary perspectives, positive personal traits, implications for mental and physical health, and fostering excellence. As the editors and several authors point out, positive psychology has significant implications for improving the quality of personal and professional life through applications on both individual and societal levels. The first of the 4 sections includes 2 ambitious articles that examine positive psychology within an evolutionary framework. In “The Evolution of Happiness” David Buss offers 3 hypotheses to explain why positive states of mind are so often elusive:...
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