Heikki Meriläinen ja keskusteluja kansanperinteestä

Lectio praecursoria Joensuun yliopistossa 15.6.2002

Singing and dancing the rhythm of life : oral poetry in the Abanyole community of Kenya

A statement presented at the oral defence of a Dr. Phil. dissertation on Saturday 26th October 2002, University of Helsinki

Stuorra-Jovnnan jäljillä

Lectio praecursoria Turun yliopistossa maailman ympäristöpäivänä 5.6.2004

Kansanomaisuus, kirjallisuus ja merkityskytkennät Neuvosto-Karjalassa

Abstract: Vernacularism, literature and competing articulations of meaning in Soviet Karelia

The Impact of Supervisor's Advice, Codes of Conduct, Accountability and Moral Attentiveness of Individuals on Discriminatory Behaviour Against Immigrants.

Past studies on the personnel selection demonstrated that a supervisor's advice to discriminate can lead to compliant behaviours. This study had the aim to extend past findings by examining what can overcome the powerful influence of the hierarchy. 50 Swiss managers participated to an in-basket exercise. The main task was to evaluate Swiss candidates (in-group) and foreigners (out-groups: Spanish and Kosovo Albanians) and to select two applicants for a job interview. Main results were the effect of codes of conduct to prevent discrimination against out-group applicants in the presence of a supervisor's advice to prefer in-group members. But, when participants were accountable to an audience, this beneficial effect disappears because participants followed the supervisor's advice. The second aim was to assess if the difference in responses between participants was related to their difference in moral attentiveness. Results showed some significant relationships but not always in the direction expected.