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The Relationship Between Culture And Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis, Olusore Anita Taylor

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In the last few decades, there has been a growing interest in counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) – behaviors that are deemed harmful to organizations and their employees (Bennett & Robinson, 2000). Unfortunately, little knowledge exists on the universality of well-established theories on CWBs across different cultures. Most theories have been developed using studies conducted in the United States and Canada, limiting our ability to confidently extrapolate these theories to other cultures.

In this study, I examine the relationship between culture and CWBs. Specifically, two questions are addressed. First, does culture have a direct relationship with CWBs? Using GLOBE’s cultural dimensions, …

Exploring Sri Lankan Youth Culture: Promoting An Understanding Of Coping Strategies And Their Implications For Counselling Practice, Nisha Mehta

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This study explored the interpersonal challenges and ways of coping utilized by Sri Lankan youth. Participants included 1.5 generation youth aged 14-20 residing in a large Canadian city. All of the participants identified as Tamil, and either their parents or they themselves were bom in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has been in a state of civil unrest with ethnic conflict for several years and some participants had been exposed to large scale community violence before coming to Canada. A total of 12 semi-structured interviews organized around interpersonal challenges faced and ways of coping in the contexts of home, peers and …

Sound, Rhetoric, And The Fallacy Of Fidelity In Recorded Popular Music: Toward A Critical Approach To Timbrat Analysis, Kara-Lis Coverdale

Digitized Theses

This thesis explores rhetorical and sonic manifestations of realism in recorded popular music from the acoustic era onwards. With reference to timbre, I investigate the commercial origins of fidelity, and describe, through various examples in history where arguments over what is “real” or is not “real” arise most articulately, how those records were made. By addressing the sounds themselves, I address how fidelity∕realism is a fluid standard that guides and shapes modes of aesthetic record production and consumption. I demonstrate how rhetorical analysis is useful for identifying ideologically maintained understandings of recorded sounds, but maintain that if musicologists are to …

Ecosimulacra: Ecocriticism And The Constructed Landscape, Jennifer Wanner

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This thesis applies the literary theory ecocriticism, in particular ecofeminism - a distinct eco-philosophy within the larger discourse of ecocriticism - to the art historical genre of Canadian landscape painting, with a specific investigation into the impact paintings by women artists from the 1930s have had on Canadian society’s relationship with nature. Particular attention is placed on the works of Pegi Nicol MacLeod (1904 - 1949) and Prudence Heward (1896 - 1947). This ecocritical framework is then employed to examine the contemporary landscape paintings of Canadian artists Eleanor Bond and Monica Tap, as well as my own art practice. In …

Cultural Differences In Prosocial And Self-Expressive Behaviour With Friends And Unfamiliar Peers, Rachel Lechcier-Kimel

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The purpose of the present study was to examine, in Chinese and Canadian

children, how the context (friend, non-friends vs. mixed playmates) interacts with culture to shape the exhibition of prosocial and self-expressive behaviour in children’s peer interactions. Specifically, the three main objectives of this study were to examine (1) whether there were cultural differences in the levels of prosocial and self-expressive behaviour during free play peer interactions, (2) whether the context of peers affected the specific behaviours displayed and (3) whether gender differences existed in prosocial and self-expressive behaviour demonstrated to friends, non-friends and mixed playmates in Chinese and …

A Critical Analysis Of The Relationship Among Organizational Culture, Teachers’ Values And Attitudes About Teaching And Learning, And Pedagogical Approaches At An Overseas American School In Egypt, Carissa Maclennan

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It is the intent of this thesis to highlight the role of culture on the phenomenon of educational borrowing. This study provides a critical analysis through the lenses of globalization theory and comparative education to determine the relationship among organizational culture, teachers’ values and attitudes about teaching and learning, and pedagogical approaches at a private American school in Egypt. This urban school instructs Egyptian students, employs both North American and Egyptian teachers, and implements an American curriculum. This ethnography included six participants employed at the school where the study was based; two Egyptian teachers, two NorthAmerican teachers, and two administrators. …