Human Behavior Issues Research Articles

Analytical Study of the Educational Thought of Imam Al-Qabesi in his Thesis Called (The Detailed Message on the Conditions of Learners and the Judgments of Teachers and Learners)

DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/12-12-0 6 Publication date:June 30th 2022 Introduction Psychology - in this sense - was not known before the twentieth century, but this does not mean that it was absent from human thought like many of the sciences that were independent and took their names in successive periods of ages. The issue of human behavior has occupied human nature with philosophers, thinkers and theorists since ancient times. When Islam came, you find that many Quranic verses and honorable prophetic hadiths deal with this issue clearly and realistically. The jinn and men were only created to be worshipped [1] Muslim scholars have discussed human nature since the early Islamic times. They have created for us an enormous wealth of intellectual heritage that can dispense with relying on the global theories that discussed this subject. He was one of the most famous scholars who had a great contribution to this Al-Majal Al-Imam Al-Qabisi, one of the scholars of the Islamic Maghreb in the third century AH, through his jurisprudential views related to the education and upbringing of boys, based on an authentic Islamic creedal framework, negating away from impurities, opinions and extraneous ideas, relying on the text of the Holy Companions and the Prophet’s sayings. This research represents an attempt to reveal whether this venerable scientist was He tackled the issue of "human development" and its related material and educational applications, based on his famous message that was included in the opinions and encyclopedia with the "Detailed Message on the Conditions of Learners and the Rulings of Teachers and Learners" and may God grant success in what I sought. [1] Surat Al-Dhariyat verse 56.

Current Usage of Standard Method of Measurement (SMM): Human behaviour issues

In response to the issues of generating an effective BQ that is correctly measured, estimated, and quantified, there is a need for the industry's key players to be underpinned by a single standard method of measurement. Studies reported on the daunting issues of SMM usage, which affected generating an effective BQ. Through a survey and supported with expert interviews, this study will attempt to disclose behaviour usage of Malaysian SMMs in measuring Civil Engineering works. The results indicate that various SMMs still being used in developing BQs on the threshold of 2021. Keywords: Bill of Quantity (BQ); Standard Method of Measurement (SMM); Human Behaviour; Usage of SMMs eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i17.2873

Perception value of product-service systems: Neural effects of service experience and customer knowledge

Digital trends in product-service system (PSS) development focus on developing win-win solutions for both companies and customers, particularly when considering human behavior issues. It is useful for the PSS provider to know the PSS value creation mechanism when customers are buying and utilizing a PSS, particularly in the service-dominant logic (SDL) and cognitive neuroscience perspective. This study solved the PSS implementation that satisfied the demands of both customers and manufacturers and the value cocreation mechanism during product and service configuration with the impacts of consumer learning and the service experience. The proposed neuroscience methodology is based on an ERP (event-related potential) experiment using PSS stimuli, representing the perception value creation process during customer decision making and the PSS configuration process. The effectiveness of the service experience is more important than customer knowledge during PSS value perception due to positive emotions with pleasant memories for the service experience and the conflicting cognition process of customer learning. The combination of service science and neurology may measure and observe human behavior and psychology through the brain science method and effectively solve the human factors in service science. The findings suggest a more objective and personalized understanding of PSS value perception, particularly the practical requirements of a resulted-oriented PSS and an application-oriented PSS.

A Topic-Based Bibliometric Review of Computers in Human Behavior: Contributors, Collaborations, and Research Topics

Computers in Human Behavior (CHB) is a well-established source with a wide range of audiences in the field of human interactions with computers and has been one of the most widely acknowledged and leading venues with significant scientific impact for more than 35 years. This review provides an overview of the status, trends, and particularly the thematic structure of the CHB by adopting bibliometrics and structural topic modeling on 5957 studies. Specifically, we analyzed the trend of publications, identified major institutions and countries/regions, detected scientific collaboration patterns, and uncovered important topics. Significant findings were presented. For example, the contribution of the USA and Open University of Netherlands was highlighted. Important research topics such as e-commerce, social interactions and behaviors, public opinion and social media, cyberbullying, online sexual issues, and game andgamification were identified. This review contributes to the CHB community by justifying the interest in human behavior issues concerning computer use and identifying future research lines on this topic.

Perspective: US Documentation and Regulation of Human Nutrition Randomized Controlled Trials

ABSTRACTTraining to ensure good documentation practices and adherence to regulatory requirements in human nutrition randomized controlled trials has not been given sufficient attention. Furthermore, it is difficult to find this information conveniently organized or in a form relevant to nutrition protocols. Current gaps in training and research surveillance exist in clinical nutrition research because training modules emphasize drugs and devices, promote reliance on monitoring boards, and lack nutrition expertise on human nutrition research teams. Additionally, because eating is essential, ongoing, and highly individualized, it is difficult to distinguish risks associated with interventions from eating under free-living conditions. Controlled-feeding trials provide an option to gain more experimental control over food consumed, but at a price of less external validity, and may pose human behavior issues that are unrelated to the intervention. This paper covers many of the expected practices for documentation and regulation that may be encountered in planning and conducting nutrition intervention trials with examples and references that should be useful to clinical nutrition researchers, funders of research, and research institutions. Included are definitions and guidance on clinical nutrition research oversight (institutional review boards, data safety and monitoring boards, US FDA); participant safety; standard operating procedures; training of investigators, staff, and students; and local culture and reporting requirements relevant to diet-related clinical research conduct and documentation.

Human Behavior Impacts On Health Care

It is critical to understand human behavior in order to implement effective health-care policies for both developing and industrialized countries. Human behavior issues were studied in Ghana, with a developing economy, and South Korea, with a developed economy. From the survey research in Ghana in 2014, we learned that rural residents are heavily dependent on traditional health care. However, local community residents preferred to talk to medical doctors about their health care when accessible. We also looked into human behavior issues and the unique hospital culture in South Korea that contributed to the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in 2015, incorporating human behavior into the SIR (susceptible-infected-recovered) model of infectious disease transmission. Moreover, we closely examined the impacts of human behavior and offered suggestions for the integration of human behavior in health-care policy.

Impacts of Consumer Market Search Behavior on Retailers’ Decision-Making With Risk Considerations

In recent years, the impact of human behavioral issues on the supply chain decision making is to arouse higher attention, such as risk attitude and so on. Behavioral factors, such as risk aversion, can directly influence a manager’s procurement decisions. In this paper, we focus on the impact of a retailer’s risk aversion on its decision making considering the consumer market search behavior. We select a single product supply chain system, which consists of one manufacturer and two retailers. By the theoretical analysis, we find that the customer market search behavior can promote the retailers’ order quantity, for there is probability that retailers are in short supply. At the same time, the risk-averse attitude will make the retailer tend to conservative. For example, a risk-averse retailer tends to order more products comparing to a risk-neutral one. So the retailer with risk aversion should make a trade-off and we explore the bilateral influence of risk attitude and shortage penalty.

Occupant behavior lifestyles in a residential nearly zero energy building: Effect on energy use and thermal comfort

Occupant behavior is one of the most significant driving factors of uncertainty in the prediction of building energy use. Large performance gaps have been individuated between residential buildings with the same properties and similar climate conditions. Comfort criteria settings by the occupants and their interaction with the envelope and the systems directly affect the operation of buildings and related energy uses. This study employs building simulations to demonstrate the potential impact of occupant behavior lifestyles and different household compositions on energy use and thermal comfort conditions in a residential nearly zero energy building under-construction. In detail, occupant behavior was classified into three lifestyles: low consumer, standard consumer, and high consumer. The analysis considered energy-related behavioral patterns (regulation of heating and cooling set-points, energy use for equipment, lighting and domestic hot water, ventilation rates, regulation of window blinds) and highlighted key variables, which need to be addressed by decision-makers of behavioral change programs for conscious use of nearly zero energy buildings. While predictive studies concerning energy performance investigated mainly nearly zero energy building models that addressed the optimization of the building features themselves, this research reveals the urgent need of reference models related to human behavioral issues.

Supply chain relationships between first and second tier suppliers in South African automotive supply chains: A focus on trust

Background: The automotive industry is characterised by a network of long term collaborative agreements between component suppliers and assemblers. For collaboration to be successful trust between the supply chain partners is vital. Although many variables influence the efficiency of collaborative relationships, the human behaviour issues related to culture and trust are often much more difficult to solve. Trust is singled out in this article as a contributor to value in the supply chain relationships. Increased trust leads to more confidence resulting in better collaboration.Objectives: The purpose of the study was to explore collaborative relationships between first and second tier suppliers (component manufacturers) in automotive supply chains in South Africa and the role of trust in the relationship value.Method: This quantitative study had been conducted amongst members of the National Association for Automobile Component and Allied Manufacturers of South Africa (NAACAM), who are suppliers to the large automotive assemblers. The research utilised closed ended questions to obtain the perceptions of managers in automotive component manufacture regarding trust and relationship value with their best suppliers.Results: With a linear regression model it was found that there is a high degree of trust in the collaborative relationships between first and second tier suppliers of components in the automotive industry in South Africa.Conclusion: The automotive industry is one of the most successful industries in South Africa. They compete globally and apply best practices, particularly those in supply chain management. The industry is characterised by networks of collaborative relationships on different levels. These relationships seem to be successful as they are based on trust.

Quality Management Maintenance and Practices-Technical and Non-Technical Approaches

There are few major types of quality management maintenance and practices theories, but not much studies show the connections between those theories. This paper determines the new research area of technical and non-technical approaches in quality management, and also shows the connection of technical and non-technical approaches with the other major theories of quality management maintenance and practices. A thorough review is employed to sort out the literature and develop the framework of paper. The review is concentrated on all the major theories which have contributed to technical and non technical approaches. There are lack of researches to define and study the application of technical and non-technical approaches. Moreover, non-technical approach is partially related with human behavioral issues and the it can influence overall management system to balance up with technical approach so that continuous improvement in quality management system can be achieved. Hence, this paper provides useful implications into the similarities between human behavioral issues and non-technical approach researches. Therefore, this paper should be exceedingly valuable to researchers who intended to enhance the study of technical and nontechnical approaches.

Do portfolio managers in South Africa consider human behaviour issues when making investment decisions or advising clients?

The efficient market hypothesis is based on the assumption that individuals act rationally, processing all available information in their decision-making process. Prices therefore reflect the appropriate risk and return. However, research conducted regarding the ways that investors arrive at decisions when faced with uncertainty, has revealed that this is in fact not always the case. People often make systematic errors, the so-called cognitive biases, which lead them to less rational behavior than the traditional economic paradigm predicts. These cognitive biases have been found to be responsible for various irregular phenomena often observed in financial markets as (turbulence or, volatility, seasonable cycles, "bubbles", etc. Behavioral finance attempts to explain some of the changes in the financial markets that cannot be explained by the efficient market hypothesis. This research reviews some results from the behavioral finance and other related literature. A survey was also done to determine whether the most prominent portfolio managers in South Africa are aware of behavioral finance issues/models and consider the influence of cognitive issues when making investment decisions or giving advice to clients.

The Climate for Service

SUMMARY We develop a framework in which internal employees' diagnoses of their firm's service climate determine their role behavior towards customers and, ultimately, customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention and shareholder value. Elements of the framework include: (1) foun dation issues (fundamental human behavior issues like the presence of necessary resources and the quality of leadership), (2) internal service (the quality of service employees report they receive internally from others), (3) service climate (the degree to which management emphasizes service quality in all of its activities), and (4) customer-focused service behavior. How this research is done is reviewed and research supporting elements of the framework is described. How the approach can be adapted for promoting CLV goals is explicated and answers to some frequently asked questions about change to an organization with a service quality and CLV focus are described.

Making Energy Management “Business as Usual”: Energy Information and Planning

ABSTRACT To be effective, energy management needs to be “business as usual.” Energy planning should be undertaken with that goal in mind. It should also focus on all of the dimensions of energy management—the technical, organizational, and human behavioral issues. Energy management planning is driven by information about how energy is used in the organization, and that same information—collected as an ongoing management function—flows through the business processes created for energy management. Indeed, the key outcomes of planning include those business processes needed to integrate energy management into the organizational structure. This article describes a strategic framework for energy planning and energy management based in large measure on the approaches and tools developed in the UK in the Best Practice Program of the Department of Environment. These same tools have evolved in the authors' experiences in working with industrial, commercial, and institutional organizations in Canada and abroad. A h...

To help helpdesk: a field study of online help systems in campus context

This paper reports on a field‐based study of online help systems at the University of Maryland. After collecting data by means of interview, observation and focus group, analysis is grounded on the contextual data, thus shedding light on particular organizational and human behavioral issues on online help systems. The objectives of this research are to offer insights, enhance understandings, and provide a meaningful guide to design online help systems for educational institutions. Based on the contextual information and data analyses, several constructive thoughts are brought forward, along with the prototype system, for campus‐wide online help systems design. These implications include developing more time‐critical and task‐sensitive online help, merging CMC approaches, and customizing online help in terms of different user groups, even towards specialized online help systems. The limitations of this research are enunciated and future research as well.

Brand image from the inside out: Linking internal organisation design to customer satisfaction

In this paper a framework is developed in which internal employees' experiences of their firm's service quality emphasis (service climate or service culture) determine their role behaviour towards customers and, ultimately, customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention. Elements of the framework include: (a) foundation issues (fundamental human behaviour issues like fairness and trust); (b) internal service (the quality of service employees believe they receive internally); (c) service climate (the degree to which management emphasises service quality in planning, goal setting, and so forth and the degree to which the training and technological resources required for service delivery are provided). The research supporting the framework is described. Finally, the role the framework plays in understanding brand image is explicated and some elements of change to an organisation with a service quality brand image are described.

Safety diagnosis in industrial work settings: The safety diagnosis questionnaire

While organizations are responsible for providing a safe work environment for their employees, it is oftentimes difficult to do so solely through safety engineering. Workers must also be aware of the hazards in their workplace and adjust their behavior to avoid risk. A “Safety Diagnosis Questionnaire” was developed to address the issue of human behavior in the work environment. It regards human behavior in hazardous situations as the most crucial point in the diagnostic activity. Characteristics of the survey instrument and results from the application of the questionnaire are reported.

Risk assessment for dynamic systems: An overview

Abstract An important characteristic of many engineering systems is that they behave dynamically, i.e. their response to an initial perturbation evolves over time as system components interact with each other and with the environment. Conventional event tree/fault tree methods for risk assessment are designed to illustrate static relationships between logical variables, and do not explicitly treat time, process variables, or human behavior (which affect the system dynamic response). This paper discusses the motivation for improved methods for dynamic system analysis, and provides an overview of a number of alternative methodologies. The alternative methodologies reviewed include extensions of the event tree/fault tree methodology (e.g. digraph-based methods), explicit state-transition methods (e.g. explicit Markov chain models), and implicit state-transition approaches (e.g. DYLAM, discrete event simulation). The ability of each methodology to deal with a simple example problem and with human behavior issues is discussed. It is shown that, while all of the methodologies are useful for different levels of dynamic analysis, implicit approaches have significant representational as well as computational advantages when treating large, highly complex systems.

Government Corporations and the Erosion of Accountability: The Case of the Proposed Energy Security Corporation

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