The mediating role of discrete emotions in the relationship between injustice and counterproductive work behaviors:a study in Pakistan

Purpose: Our study explores the mediating role of discrete emotions in the relationships between employee perceptions of distributive and procedural injustice, regarding an annual salary raise, and counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). Design/Methodology/Approach: Survey data were provided by 508 individuals from telecom and IT companies in Pakistan. Confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and bootstrapping were used to test our hypothesized model. Findings: We found a good fit between the data and our tested model. As predicted, anger (and not sadness) was positively related to aggressive CWBs (abuse against others and production deviance) and fully mediated the relationship between perceived distributive injustice and these CWBs. Against predictions, however, neither sadness nor anger was significantly related to employee withdrawal. Implications: Our findings provide organizations with an insight into the emotional consequences of unfair HR policies, and the potential implications for CWBs. Such knowledge may help employers to develop training and counseling interventions that support the effective management of emotions at work. Our findings are particularly salient for national and multinational organizations in Pakistan. Originality/Value: This is one of the first studies to provide empirical support for the relationships between in/justice, discrete emotions and CWBs in a non-Western (Pakistani) context. Our study also provides new evidence for the differential effects of outward/inward emotions on aggressive/passive CWBs. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Post-revolutionary post-modernism: Central American detective fiction by the turn of the 21st century

Contemporary Central American fiction has become a vital project of revision of the tragic events and the social conditions in the recent history of the countries from which they emerge. The literary projects of Sergio Ramirez (Nicaragua), Dante Liano (Guatemala), Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), and Ramon Fonseca Mora (Panama), are representative of the latest trends in Central American narrative. These trends conform to a new literary paradigm that consists of an amalgam of styles and discourses, which combine the testimonial, the historical, and the political with the mystery and suspense of noir thrillers. Contemporary Central American noir narrative depicts the persistent war against social injustice, violence, criminal activities, as well as the new technological advances and economic challenges of the post-war neo-liberal order that still prevails throughout the region. ^ Drawing on postmodernism theory proposed by Ihab Hassan, Linda Hutcheon and Brian MacHale, I argued that the new Central American literary paradigm exemplified by Sergio Ramirez's El cielo llora por mí, Dante Liano's El hombre de Montserrat, Horacio Castellanos Moya's El arma en el hombre and La diabla en el espejo , and Ramon Fonseca Mora's El desenterrador, are highly structured novels that display the characteristic marks of postmodern cultural expression through their ambivalence, which results from the coexistence of multiple styles and conflicting ideologies and narrative trends. The novels analyzed in this dissertation make use of a noir sensitivity in which corruption, decay and disillusionment are at their core to portray the events that shaped the modern history of the countries from which they emerge. The revolutionary armed struggle, the state of terror imposed by military regimes and the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime, are among the major themes of these contemporary works of fiction, which I have categorized as perfect examples of the post-revolutionary post-modernism Central American detective fiction at the turn of the 21st century.^

Operation Pedro Pan Exodus: A Testimonial, lecture by Eloísa Echazábal

Lecture by Eloísa Echazábal, founding member of Operation Pedro Pan Group, Inc., in which she shares a brief film and shares personal testimony of the ordeals she and others endured as part of Operation Pedro Pan.

Is Testimonial Knowledge Second-Hand Knowledge?

Date of Acceptance: 21/09/2015

Is Testimonial Knowledge Second-Hand Knowledge?

Date of Acceptance: 21/09/2015

The Anxious Heart of Injustice: Negative Affective Responses to Disabilities

Essai / Essay

The Anxious Heart of Injustice: Negative Affective Responses to Disabilities

Essai / Essay

Injustice du système international actuel et quête d’un nouvel ordre mondial électif: le cosmopolitisme institutionnel en question

J’entends défendre une position qui s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet de démocratie globale. Cette position se distancie cependant de certaines thèses en philosophie politique contemporaine, notamment les thèses du cosmopolitisme institutionnel, qui présupposent que le système international actuel serait fondé sur un schème de coopération injuste conçu pour les intérêts des pays occidentaux et défavorable en général aux pays les plus pauvres. Le problème de ces thèses est qu’en présupposant cela, elles finissent généralement par en appeler à une profonde refonte démocratique des institutions internationales. Nous soutiendrons qu’un tel parti pris, qui ne nous semble d’ailleurs pas plausible, perd de vue les véritables lieux où il conviendrait de soutenir les réels processus démocratiques. Si nous concédons que les institutions internationales actuelles rencontrent quelquefois d’énormes difficultés face à certaines problématiques mondiales, une telle reconnaissance ne conduit pas en déduire qu’elles sont foncièrement injustes. Nous arguerons que le projet de démocratie globale devrait plus se préoccuper de réels processus démocratiques qui ont cours dans toutes les régions du monde, en accompagnant les peuples et les individus qui, à l’intérieur des États encore autocratiques ou despotiquement doux, ont soif de liberté. Dès lors, il n’est pas seulement question d’un simple transfert des vivres et de ressources monétaires vers les pays pauvres. Il faut bien plus s’intéresser aux divers facteurs (politiques, économiques et sociaux) de nature à susciter chez une population l’éveil de la conscience citoyenne, l’urgence de la participation, la passion du débat public raisonné, et la défense des libertés et de la qualité de vie, autant de paramètres qui sont nécessaires à l’éclosion de réels processus démocratiques. De fait, notre approche vise à renforcer l’esprit de colégislateur et l’empowerment des peuples et des individus, ouvrant ainsi à la démocratie d’infinies possibilités d’ancrage autant au niveau national qu’international.