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State repression covers several and many aspects such as wrongful detention, harassment, intimidation, torture, beating, and killings, etc. within state boundaries. This study adopted a desk survey qualitative research design to document state repression acts during five presidential elections. Secondary and primary data were gathered from Uganda Electoral Commission presidential elections results, African Elections Database, and Inter-Parliamentary Parline database. This was augmented by interviews carried out with purposively selected political activists from different political shades and members of civil society organisations. The data collected from documentary review and interviews were thematically analyzed using the content analysis method. The findings were that successive presidential elections won by National Resistance Movement (NRM) were characterised by state repression acts amounting to human rights abuse such as torture, denial of political gatherings, wrongful arrest and detention, intimidation and killings etc. drawing from the study finding, the conclusion is that NRM’s effort to shield its regime and to lure mass support to remain in power through democratic dispensation, is inseparable from state political repression. The data used in this paper is majorly qualitative.

Experiment to demonstrate change in attitudes to the use of drug enhanced therapy in the treatment of mental illness, using the induction of empathy in the social infliuence process. The data showed tPohe enhancement of empathic concern, willingness to aid a client and heighten the client's responsibility for change

Since the adoption of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) in 1990, there was an ongoing debate between Western and Muslim states regarding the compatibility of its provisions with human rights standards. The cultural divide reached its zenith when the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC, since 2008, Organization of Islamic Cooperation) sponsored a series of resolutions on the prohibition of defamation of religions in Human Rights Council. However, there appeared to be a paradigm shift in the OIC human rights discourse when it adopted a Ten-Year Program of Action (TYPoA-2005). Accordingly, the statute of organization was amended in 2008, and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms were incorporated into its objectives. The OIC, consequently, compromised with Western states on the notion of defamation of religions in the Human Rights Council. Moreover, the establishment of the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) in 2011 paved the way for the revision of the CDHRI which materialized as the Cairo Declaration of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Human Rights (CDOHR) in 2020. This article shall review the background and the internal and external factors of paradigm shift in OIC human rights politics with a descriptive and analytical method. The paper finally concludes that the paradigm change may seemingly bring OIC human rights rhetoric in alignment with UN human rights language, but it is less likely to improve human rights situation in member states.

Background Authors aim to publish the results of their studies in peer-reviewed targeted international journals with a high impact factor as possible, but they are also exposing to ‘predatory’ publishers. Offering some tips to publish papers, identifying relevant journals, and avoiding problems within submitting. Results During submitting authors should find suitable journals, assume a risk to encounter ‘predatory’ or ‘hijacked’ journals, know the advantages/ disadvantages of using intermediary publishing services, understand expectations of editor(s), and make a payment. Conclusions The tips help many researchers to publish their papers in relevant journals with cited indexes, and avoid problems within submitting.

China’s rapid economic growth has lead foreigners would to increasingly become interested learning Chinese as a foreign language. Hence, not only in Taiwan but also in other countries, various business Chinese courses are being offered by universities, and international companies. Due to this increase in the need to provide to provide exceptional instruction, designing suitable business Chinese materials has become significance. To meet this need, this study aims to construct assessment indicators of digital Chinese materials toward non-native Chinese speaking businessmen and women (NNCSB). The preliminary “PC2U” assessment indicators are constructed on the basis of cognitive load theory, characteristics of adult learners learning Chinese, review on digital business Chinese materials, and previous empirical findings. The “PC2U” assessment indicators, which include 4 dimensions, 11 criteria, and 63 indicators, followed by the analysis hierarchy process (AHP) are used to construct the weight system for the “PC2U” assessment indicators. This study found that priorities, with respect to 4 dimensions (production, content, usage, and usefulness), to access digital business Chinese, that “content”, which consists of credibility, data update, and learning needs, is foremost. Moreover, it will be proven here that of 3 criteria in the “content” dimension to assess digital business Chinese, that “learning needs” is equally as important as “credibility”, and both are the former two are more crucial than “data update”. The constructed assessment indicators weight system of digital business Chinese materials is not only beneficial to fill the knowledge gap on business Chinese research, but also help publishers and teachers compile and select high quality digital business Chinese.

Despite the magnitude of urban housing problem the attention given to this issue is very neglectful. Rapid urbanization stimulates dynamics in urban centers that escalate urban housing dynamics. Several personal and structural constraints become hurdles for urban poor or low income group to access affordable and adequate housing. Thus, to secure their livelihood and to meet housing need different coping mechanisms are being operated. So, prior to see housing empirical scenario it is better to identify systematized knowledge of housing or epistemology of housing.

Time is not invariant in the entrepreneurial journey. Timing is everything in entrepreneurial venturing. This paper shifts the inquiry of entrepreneurship from micro (traits, characteristics and behaviour) and macro (environmental context) perspective and the multi-level approaches from discovery, creation to co-creation (Garud et al., 2014) to a study of the relevance of time in the entrepreneurial pathway development. The context of luck or exogenous change or external or internal perturbation that may lead to the propitious time to act will be examined with reference to research conducted by Peter R. Darke (Darke & Freedman, 1997). It needs contextualization to fit the entrepreneurial paradigm on the propitious time to enact (Weick & Karl E, 1995) which is the main conceptualization in this paper. The concept of convergence, in a particular spatial-temporal (space-time), between the opportunity and the entrepreneur, is the core of this study and this paper will focus specifically on the extent and nature of this convergence in relation to time. Propitious time to trigger actions when opportunities surface or avoidance when the scale of risks are too large to bear- this study of when to act is therefore central to the theory of entrepreneurship.

This study examines employees’ reactions to organizational change in Ethiopia, specifically in the Meklle Revenue and Customs Authority (MRCA). The study’s main aim is to evaluate the influence of the following variables: Employees’ fear of the Effect of the Change (EFEC), Employees’ Self-trust in Learning and Development (ESLD), Employees’ understanding upon the Process of organizational Changes (EPC), Employees’ Trust in Management (ETM), Employees’ understanding upon Organizational change Planning (EOP) and the Time Employees’ need to understand Change (TEC) towards achieving organizational change. In the introductory part, the study explains basic aspects of change management and problems of organizational changes. The main part of the study focused with the investigation of the selected factors influencing employee’s reaction to organizational changes. By using the survey process, researchers used quantitative data, and standardized survey questionnaires were distributed to 359 employees. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS. The researcher used the Pearson’s correlation matrix to explain how the dependent and independent variables are related, and multiple regression tools to investigate the effect of independent variables on the dependent variable. The result of the research indicates all selected variables except the employees’ level of understanding upon the process of changes (EPC) have a direct influence on employees’ reaction to organizational change.

The study is based on a longitudinal online survey of public opinion.

This paper examines two key questions to put the COVID-19 pandemic into a broader perspective: What does our past tell us about pandemics? What can it teach us for the future? Moreover, the paper considers three independents but interconnected analytical perspectives. The first one is about advancing our species on the planet and examining the great technological transformations from a historical viewpoint. The second perspective consists of a reflection on food taboos and their relationship to biodiversity issues and zoonotic processes. The third perspective involves a thoughtful exploration of big men, multilateralism, and the society of risk. In addition to overcoming the pandemic’s economic impact, the main challenges of the post-COVID-19 world will be overcome by its ideological implications and the need to strengthen both multilateralism and scientific and technological cooperation solidarity among people.

In order to maintain their dominant socio-economic and political positions, Brazilian elites developed and employed a range of strategies in order to maintain the basic inequality regime established during the colonial period. Still among the most unequal countries in the world by Gini Coefficient, this paper seeks to show how Brazilian elites maintained their position of relative dominance through superstructural and material transformations in Brazilian society in terms of their collectively finding solutions to four problems: the Ideology of Creole Revolution, Unmanaged Elite Competition, Race Relations, and Democracy. As the latter three remain serious problems for Brazilian elites, the way previous elites navigated these threats to their position and maintained the basic nature of the inequality regime through transformations in the material base and superstructure provide insights into how Bolsonaro and contemporary conservative elites may attempt to manage the social democratic forces of the PT.

The enormous scale of suffering, breadth of societal impact, and ongoing uncertainty wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic introduced dynamics seldom examined in the crisis entrepreneurship literature. Previous research indicates that when a crisis causes a failure of public goods, spontaneous citizen ventures often emerge to leverage unique local knowledge to rapidly customize abundant external resources to meet immediate needs. However, as outsiders, emergent citizen groups responding to the dire shortage of personal protective equipment at the onset of COVID-19 lacked local knowledge and legitimacy. In this study, we examine how entrepreneurial citizens mobilized collective resources in attempts to gain acceptance and meet local needs amid the urgency of the pandemic. Through longitudinal case studies of citizen groups connected to makerspaces in four U.S. cities, we study how they adapted to address the resource and legitimacy limitations they encountered. We identify three mechanisms—augmenting, circumventing, and attenuating—that helped transient citizen groups calibrate their resource mobilization based on what they learned over time. We highlight how extreme temporality imposes limits on resourcefulness and legitimation, making it critical for collective entrepreneurs to learn when to work within their limitations rather than try to overcome them.

Remuneration and promotion of employees are essential elements in public and private organisational structures. However, there is very little information about how these elements can influence job satisfaction of employees in educational institutions, especially at the tertiary level in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana. This study was undertaken to examine the perspectives of lecturers about how pay and promotion influence job satisfaction in tertiary institutions in Ghana. The study used a mixed method approach for the data collection and analysis. Survey questionnaires and interview protocols were used for the data collection involving 270 participants selected from five tertiary institutions in the Northern Region of Ghana. A logistic regression was used to establish the relationship between academic staff pay and promotion and job satisfaction. The key findings from the study indicated that pay and promotion independently have significant positive influence on job satisfaction of academic staff in tertiary institutions in Ghana. Policy geared towards annual review of salaries and effective promotion system of academic staff of higher educational institutions are important strategies to help generate the desired job satisfaction.

A total of 180 social work students and nonsocial work students at Ho Chi Minh City Open University in Vietnam were surveyed. Among them, 86 were social work students, the other 94 students were from law (n=34), foreign language (n=30) and economics (n=30). The survey results showed that, when looking for causes of poverty, social work students and nonsocial work students put most emphasis on structural factors of poverty. However, social work students, compared with nonsocial work students, consider personal deficiency and stigma more important.

The commitment of lecturers as indicated in their loyalty and performance plays a very important role in achieving organizational goals. The researcher formulates the problem as follows;. What is the personality of the theological school lecturer in West Java? 2. How is the performance of theological school lecturers in West Java? 3. How is the commitment of theological school lecturers in West Java? 4. How much influence does the personality and performance of the lecturers have on the organizational commitment of theological school in West Java? The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of personality, lecturer performance on commitment to the theological school lecturer organization in West Java. 124 lecturers who were sampled were taken from 8 theological schools in region II Bogor. Data collection techniques obtained by conducting interviews. The data were analyzed using quantitative methods, descriptive statistics, linkert scale and path analysis. Then the results show that there is a positive direct effect of personality on organizational commitment by having a positive direct influence on the path coefficient ρ31 = 0.169, Lecturer performance on organizational commitment with a positive direct effect by having a positive direct influence on the coefficient ρ32 = 0.267, Dosendan performance and personality. performance together against organizational commitment ρ32 = 0.436. So the conclusion is that the personality and high performance of the lecturers greatly influence organizational commitment

Millennial is the category of generation who are born between 1980s to 2000. Hence, the present workplace across industries in the globe is dominated by millennials. It is also clear that they are the future leaders. Hence, it is imperative to comprehend the preferences they perceive in terms of work and leadership. When we are deliberating about work, it covers both the content and context of the work setting, whereas leadership is being acknowledged as the management or boss, who influence millennials to contribute for the revenue of the organization. So, major focus in the workplace has gone to millennials. No doubt, these millennials possess and demonstrate different attitudes, values, beliefs, and aspirations when compared to the previous generations and leaders should be alert every time, be flexible towards the requirement and become the role model for the generation. Therefore, an attempt has been made here by the researchers to develop a conceptual framework that explores Millennials’ perception of leadership in the workplace. By examining Millennials perception in the context of leadership, this article provides important theoretical and practical implications for organizations of present and future.

This study was conducted via the MTurk (online) platform. A total of 301 participants (72.4% between 18 and 40 years old, 151 female) completed self-report composite assessments of subjective well-being (SWB) and perceived inequality, and also measures of self-actualizing tendencies, and political orientation. Overall, participants who perceived higher levels of inequality had lower SWB, lower incomes, and were more politically liberal than their peers. Liberal participants also had lower incomes and lower SWB than their peers. Regression analyses revealed that higher incomes, perceiving lower inequality, and higher self-actualizing tendencies were all unique predictors of SWB, and that neither income nor political orientation moderated these findings. Finally, self-actualizing tendencies, unlike SWB, were not related to either participants’ political orientation or to their perceptions of inequality. Discussion addresses differences in the correlates of SWB and self-actualizing tendencies, and the importance of individuals’ subjective perceptions of inequality.