A Gameful Organizational Assimilation Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (CSCW3) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Amon Rapp
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5993
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Riforgiate ◽  
Michael W. Kramer

Nonprofit organizations are a context where workers’ passion and commitment to their work may make it more difficult to negotiate between professional work and private life demands. Challenges in navigating work and life are important issues for individual sustainability and influence organizational sustainability in terms of retention and organizational commitment. As new employees join an organization, they are socialized into the rhythm and norms of the workplace; therefore, early employment provides an important juncture to study how new employees come to understand work-life expectations. This qualitative study considers 55 interviews with new employees (employed six months or less) at a nonprofit social welfare organization which was concerned with high employee turnover. Participants described how they came to the organization, how they learned the expected behaviors for their positions and messages received from organizational members (e.g., supervisors and coworkers) and social groups outside of the organization (e.g., family and friends) pertaining to managing work and life responsibilities. Findings highlight the importance of communication, extend organizational assimilation concepts, and offer practical implications to enhance sustainability for organizations and employees.


Author(s):  
Tat’yana V. Borisenko ◽  

This paper aimed to study the content of the concept of wife in Russian and English-speaking linguocultures. The research will broaden the understanding of linguistic consciousness of Russian and English native speakers as well as identify some peculiarities of their world image. It is important to study the national world image today, as it can help to improve mutual understanding between cultures and simplify the assimilation process for those who decide to immigrate for some reason or other. The author utilized the methods of linguocultural and comparative analysis, as well as of associative-verbal nets study suggested by Yu.N. Karaulov. They include comparing associative-verbal nets by respondents’ first two reactions, identifying the most frequent types of answers, and grouping the responses into semantic zones. Further, the article analyses the synonymic chains of the word wife and explains the significance of this concept in Russian and English-speaking linguocultures, as well as identifies common semantic groups for the concept (wedding, household) and determines a common response to the stimulus in the two linguocultures. In addition, the paper traces differences in the perception of the concept of wife and singles out various semantic zones and their key elements. The research found that for many Russian native speakers, this concept contains such features as faith and belonging to someone, while in English linguistic consciousness it includes gender and partnership.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-85
Author(s):  
Anna Boch ◽  
Tomás Jiménez ◽  
Katharina Roesler

Assimilation theories posit that cultural change is part and parcel of the assimilation process. That change can register in the symbols and practices that individuals invoke as part of an ethnic experience. But cultural change also includes the degree to which the mainstream takes up those symbols and practices as part of its composite culture. We develop a way to examine whether cuisine, an important component of ethnic culture, is part of the mainstream’s composite culture and the contextual factors associated with the presence of ethnic cuisine in the composite culture. We begin with a comparison of 761,444 reviews of Mexican, Italian, Chinese, and American restaurants across the United States from Yelp!, an online customer review platform. We find that reviews of Mexican restaurants mention ethnicity and authenticity much more than reviews of Italian and American restaurants, but less than reviews of Chinese restaurants, suggesting intermediate mainstreaming of Mexican cuisine. We then examine Mexican restaurant reviews in the 82 largest U.S. core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) to uncover the contextual factors associated with Mexican cuisine’s local mainstream presence. We find that Mexican food is less defined in ethnic terms in CBSAs with larger and more culturally distinct Mexican populations and at less-expensive restaurants. We argue that regional versions of the composite culture change as ethnic groups come to define a region demographically and culturally.


MIS Quarterly ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debabroto Chatterjee ◽  
Rajdeep Grewal ◽  
V. Sambamurthy

Author(s):  
Beatriz Viana ◽  
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Ricardo Machado ◽  
William B. Stiles ◽  
João Salgado ◽  
...  

"Over the years, research has demonstrated that psychotherapy is an effective treatment in different psychopathological conditions. However, which are the mechanisms or processes involved in therapeutic change that could explain its efficacy are not yet clear. The Assimilation of Problematic Experiences Model describes change in therapy as a process that occurs through the gradual assimilation of problematic experiences in the self – higher levels of assimilation seem to be associated with a better outcome at the end of therapy. However, little is known about the contribution of this process to the maintenance of therapeutic gains after the end of therapy. In the current study we aimed to explore how the level of assimilation achieved throughout therapy is associated with relapse prevention after treatment. We analyzed two good outcome cases of Emotion-Focused Therapy, previously diagnosed with depression: one case that remained asymptomatic and another that relapsed one year and a half after the end of therapy. The Assimilation of Problematic Experiences (APES) was used to assess the assimilation levels achieved and the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) was used to assess the intensity of depressive symptoms. Five therapeutic sessions and three follow-up sessions were rated using the APES. The results showed that higher APES levels were associated with lower intensity of symptoms at the end and after therapy termination, being associated with relapse prevention in depression. These results suggest that a complete assimilation of the problematic experiences may help clients to maintain therapeutic gains reducing the probability of relapsing in depression."


Author(s):  
رائد جميل عكاشة ◽  
خالد عبد الرؤوف الجبر

يعالج البحث إشكالية المثاقفة بين الفكر الغربي والفكر العربي، وتجسّد ذلك في التماهي مع التجربة الغربية في مسألة الحداثة بشكل عام والأدب بشكل خاص. لقد اعترى عملية المثاقفة خلل في عدم الوعي بالاختلافات البنيوية والمعرفية بين النظام المعرفي الغربي والنظام المعرفي العربي الإسلامي، مما أدّى إلى إسقاط تجربة الحداثة الغربية على الواقع العربي، دون الوعي بمفهوم الخصوصية. وكَشَف البحث عن العلاقة المَرَضية بين الحداثيين والتراث، مما أسهم في القطيعة شبه التامّة مع تراث الأمة، فضلاً عن انحياز الحداثيين إلى مفهوم التجاوز دون المرور بمرحلة الاستيعاب، مما أنتج لغة منبتة عن ذاتها. This paper addresses the problem of acculturation between Western thought and Arab thought, as manifested in the attempt to identify with the Western experience of modernity in general and literature in particular. This process of acculturation has experienced a defect caused by the lack of awareness of structural and epistemological differences between the Western and Arab-Islamic epistemologies. The experience of Western modernity has been projected on Arab reality without awareness of the uniqueness of both. This study reveals the pathological relationship between Arab modernists and Arab heritage, which resulted in almost total break with that heritage, especially in the modernists’ attempt to hastily move forward, bypassing the necessary assimilation process, which resulted in producing language uprooted from itself and its civilizational context.


F1000Research ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Daniel McCarthy ◽  
Colin Kupitz ◽  
Gideon P Caplovitz

Our perception of an object’s size arises from the integration of multiple sources of visual information including retinal size, perceived distance and its size relative to other objects in the visual field. This constructive process is revealed through a number of classic size illusions such as the Delboeuf Illusion, the Ebbinghaus Illusion and others illustrating size constancy. Here we present a novel variant of the Delbouef and Ebbinghaus size illusions that we have named the Binding Ring Illusion. The illusion is such that the perceived size of a circular array of elements is underestimated when superimposed by a circular contour – a binding ring – and overestimated when the binding ring slightly exceeds the overall size of the array. Here we characterize the stimulus conditions that lead to the illusion, and the perceptual principles that underlie it. Our findings indicate that the perceived size of an array is susceptible to the assimilation of an explicitly defined superimposed contour. Our results also indicate that the assimilation process takes place at a relatively high level in the visual processing stream, after different spatial frequencies have been integrated and global shape has been constructed. We hypothesize that the Binding Ring Illusion arises due to the fact that the size of an array of elements is not explicitly defined and therefore can be influenced (through a process of assimilation) by the presence of a superimposed object that does have an explicit size.


Author(s):  
Jecklyn A Lekal ◽  
Theopilus Watuguly

Background: Benalu is one of the plant species that lives attached to other plants. The parasite is hemiparasit or half parasitic because it has a green leaf substance (chlorophyll) used for the assimilation process and only sucks water and organic matter from its host plant. Flavonoids are phenol compounds commonly found in vascular plants including parasites. Flavonoids are useful for protecting cell structures, increasing the effectiveness of vitamin C, anti-inflammation, preventing bone loss and as an antibiotic. Method: Total flavonoid content in clove parasite tea using UV-Vis Spectrophotometer method. Results: Total flavonoid in tea clove parasite was 0.2819%. Flavonoids found in tea parasite cloves are low with the presence of heating and temperature factors. Conclusion: Based on the quantitative test, leaf parasite is the highest flavonoid level of 13.702% and after being made tea, flavonoid levels changed to 0.281%.


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