Work Creativity as a Dimension of Job Performance

To stay competitive, many employers are looking for creative and innovative employees to add value to their organization. However, current models of job performance overlook creative performance as an important criterion to measure in the workplace. The purpose of this dissertation is to conduct two separate but related studies on creative performance that aim to provide support that creative performance should be included in models of job performance, and ultimately included in performance evaluations in organizations. Study 1 is a meta-analysis on the relationship between creative performance and task performance, and the relationship between creative performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Overall, I found support for a medium to large corrected correlation for both the creative performance-task performance (ρ = .51) and creative performance-OCB (ρ = .49) relationships. Further, I also found that both rating-source and study location were significant moderators. Study 2 is a process model that includes creative performance alongside task performance and OCB as the outcome variables. I test a model in which both individual differences (specifically: conscientiousness, extraversion, proactive personality, and self-efficacy) and job characteristics (autonomy, feedback, and supervisor support) predict creative performance, task performance, and OCB through engagement as a mediator. In a sample of 299 employed individuals, I found that all the individual differences and job characteristics were positively correlated with all three performance criteria. I also looked at these relationships in a multiple regression framework and most of the individual differences and job characteristics still predicted the performance criteria. In the mediation analyses, I found support for engagement as a significant mediator of the individual differences-performance and job characteristics-performance relationships. Taken together, Study 1 and Study 2 support the notion that creative performance should be included in models of job performance. Implications for both researchers and practitioners alike are discussed.

Covering Dimension of C*-Algebras and 2-Coloured Classification

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Généralisation d'algorithmes de réduction de dimension

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

La dimension religieuse de Regards et jeux dans l'espace d'Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Généralisation d'algorithmes de réduction de dimension

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

La dimension religieuse de Regards et jeux dans l'espace d'Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

The Communicative Dimension and Security in Asia-Pacific: A communicative-viewing proposal for reform of the Japanese Intelligence Services

The postwar development of the Intelligence Services in Japan has been based on two contrasting models: the centralized model of the USA and the collegiality of UK, neither of which has been fully developed. This has led to clashes of institutional competencies and poor anticipation of threats towards national security. This problem of opposing models has been partially overcome through two dimensions: externally through the cooperation with the US Intelligence Service under the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security; and internally though the pre-eminence in the national sphere of the Department of Public Safety. However, the emergence of a new global communicative dimension requires that a communicative-viewing remodeling of this dual model is necessary due to the increasing capacity of the individual actors to determine the dynamics of international events. This article examines these challenges for the Intelligence Services of Japan and proposes a reform based on this new global communicative dimension.

Designing networked learning for innovation: A dimension perspective

In her presentation, Emmy discusses a case study where a teacher group is followed in its innovative attempt to start up a new curriculum. Searching for guidelines to facilitate knowledge-creating teacher groups, the ‘Dimensions of Social Learning (DSL) Framework’ is applied as a starting point to assess the group's social configuration. To supplement the DSL Framework towards knowledge creation, social capital and value creation theories were studied. This has resulted in an extended framework that can bring the knowledge creation of teacher groups into view.

The Labour Party in Scotland: Religion, The Union and the Irish Dimension

This is a study of the Labour Party in Scotland and the loss of its traditional electoral support base. This theme is related to religion and its relevance to Scotland's identity politics. The book also assesses the significance of the Irish dimension in Scotland's political development, in particular the impact of the conflict in nearby Northern Ireland.

The vertical dimension of social relations and accurate interpersonal perception: A meta-analysis

There is little consensus regarding how verticality (social power, dominance, and status) is related to accurate interpersonal perception. The relation could be either positive or negative, and there could be many causal processes at play. The present article discusses the theoretical possibilities and presents a meta-analysis of this question. In studies using a standard test of interpersonal accuracy, higher socioeconomic status (SES) predicted higher accuracy defined as accurate inference about the meanings of cues; also, higher experimentally manipulated vertical position predicted higher accuracy defined as accurate recall of others’ words. In addition, although personality dominance did not predict accurate inference overall, the type of personality dominance did, such that empathic/responsible dominance had a positive relation and egoistic/aggressive dominance had a negative relation to accuracy. In studies involving live interaction, higher experimentally manipulated vertical position produced lower accuracy defined as accurate inference about cues; however, methodological problems place this result in doubt.

La dimension apocalyptique de l'écologisme- Al Gore et la crise de l'environnement

Dans un article publié en 1982, Danièle Hervieu-Léger établissait un rapprochement signi-ficatif entre l’idéologie apocalyptique née dans l’Antiquité avec l’apparition de la pensée juive et l’idéologie écologiste née dans les années 1970 en réaction à la crise environne-mentale. Selon cette auteure, il existerait une affinité élective entre l’idéologie apocalyp-tique religieuse, judéo-chrétienne, et l’idéologie apocalyptique sécularisée incorporée à l’idéologie écologiste. Bien plus qu’à un simple « catastrophisme » ambiant, l’idéologie écologiste obéirait donc à des schémas eschatologiques issus de l’imaginaire religieux occidental. Nous avons voulu vérifier si cette piste d’analyse était encore féconde. Pour ce faire, nous avons d’abord construit un idéal-type de l’idéologie apocalyptique nous permettant d’identifier les similitudes, mais aussi les différences fondamentales distinguant l’idéologie apocalyptique religieuse de l’idéologie apocalyptique sécularisée. En nous ba-sant sur la littérature spécialisée, nous avons découvert que les quatre caractéristiques centrales de cet idéal-type peuvent être : (1) l’idée de la fin du monde imminente, (2) la croyance en la détermination suprahumaine de l’histoire, (3) la conviction de l’urgence d’agir et (4) la division du monde en deux camps opposés (les bons et les mauvais). Ensuite, pour vérifier la présence cette hypothétique « apocalypse verte » dans l’imaginaire collectif, nous avons choisi un échantillon de la pensée écologiste nous per-mettant de noter l’influence de l’idéologie apocalyptique. Nous avons enfin procédé à une analyse de contenu de la dernière version du bestseller écologiste Earth in the Balance d’Al Gore, initialement paru en 1993 et réédité en français en 2007 sous le titre d’Urgence Planète Terre. Mots-clés : écologisme, apocalypse, idéologie, religion séculière, environnement.

Strategic Management Simulation as a Blended Learning Dimension: Campus Based Students’ Perspectives

Although business simulations are widely used in management education, there is no consensus about how to optimise their application. Our research explores the use of business simulations as a dimension of a blended learning pedagogic approach for undergraduate business education. Accepting that few best-practice prescriptive models for the design and implementation of simulations in this context have been presented, and that there is little empirical evidence for the claims made by proponents of such models, we address the lacuna by considering business student perspectives on the use of simulations. We then intersect available data with espoused positive outcomes made by the authors of a prescriptive model. We find the model to be essentially robust and offer evidence to support this position. In so doing we provide one of the few empirically based studies to support claims made by proponents of simulations in business education. The research should prove valuable for those with an academic interest in the use of simulations, either as a blended learning dimension or as a stand-alone business education activity. Further, the findings contribute to the academic debate surrounding the use and efficacy of simulation-based training [SBT] within business and management education.