The Degree of Uncertainty Avoidance Present in Croatian and American Undergraduate Students; a Comparative Analysis

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Matic
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance

scholarly journals Honesty as a value in the interpersonal relationships in organizations

2022 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Maria Czajkowska-Białkowska
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Ethical Attitudes ◽  
A Value ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference

The crisis caused by COVID-19 has increased interest to the subject of integrity in organizations. The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the opinions on the value of honesty, broken down by the group of supervisors and subordinates during the crisis caused by COVID-19. The analysis was carried out in Poland among undergraduate students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in fields representing disciplines other than management. The paper used a survey method; 102 respondents took part in the survey. 9.52% of men and 5.00% of women in the group of subordinates did not have opinions on this subject. In the group of supervisors, the situation was completely opposite: 6.25% of women and 4.76% of men showed such a result. Significant discrepancies were noticed in the assessment of the importance of honesty depending on the education field of the respondents. The difference between the highest assessments of the importance of this value was 33.70 percentage points in the supervisors’ group, and 38.64 percentage points in the subordinates group. Drawing attention to this problem, which affects all participants of an organization to a different extent, may help to shape the ethical attitudes of future managers and, in consequence, manage their organizations better.

How Chinese and Caucasian Canadians Conceptualize Creativity: The Mediating Role of Uncertainty Avoidance

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendi L. Adair ◽  
Tracy X. Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Relative Weight ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Identity Integration ◽  
Bicultural Identity Integration ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

The current study examines cultural value mediators of the relationship between culture and the relative weight placed on novelty versus usefulness when conceptualizing creativity. With a sample of Chinese and Caucasian Canadian undergraduate students, we found that uncertainty avoidance, but not power distance or individualism/collectivism, mediated the relationship between culture and preferences toward the novel versus useful dimensions of creativity. We replicated the effect of uncertainty avoidance in a second study with Chinese Canadians’ bicultural identity integration predicting focus on novelty versus usefulness in the predicted direction. We advance prior research by isolating a cultural value mechanism driving cultural variation in the conceptualization of creativity when considering novelty versus usefulness. We discuss theoretical contributions and implications for future research addressing additional creativity domains, situated cognition, and norm salience.

scholarly journals Plagiarism Instruction Online: Assessing Undergraduate Students’ Ability to Avoid Plagiarism

2006 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 418-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela A. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Instructional Design Process ◽  
Quiz Scores

This study assesses undergraduate students’ understanding of plagiarism through the use of an interactive, Web-based tutorial, Plagiarism: The Crime of Intellectual Kidnapping. The author details the instructional design process used to create this information literacy resource and integrate it into the curriculum. Data from 2,829 student quiz scores are analyzed to assess student learning. The results of this study indicate that students have difficulty grasping concepts related to paraphrasing. A comparative analysis of pre- and posttest results shows that student scores improved an average of 6 percent.

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