Opportunities For Self-fulfillment Research Articles

Challenges and Opportunities Faced by Women Entrepreneurs– A Study with Special Reference to Hyderabad City at Pyro Networks Pvt. Ltd

Women-entrepreneurs have been making a considerable impact in all most all the segments of the economy. “Women Entrepreneur” is a person who denies the role of their personal needs to participate and be accepted economically independent. Strong desire to do something positive is a high-quality women entrepreneur who contributes to the position values of family and social life. In India though women played an important role in the society but their entrepreneurial ability has not been tapped due to lower status of women in the society. There is need for changing the mindset towards women so as to give equal rights as explained in the constitution. In recent years, a record number of women have been breaking out of corporate life and embracing entrepreneurial careers as an alternative to inflexible work practices and outdated systems. Today women entrepreneurship becomes significant tool for women empowerment. Women entrepreneurs need to enhance their living standard into a comfortable level along with their family which in turn helps in development of the country. In the process of empowerment, women need to realize their strength, weakness, opportunities and threats and move forward to come out their own potential in order to achieve their goals through self-development. Moreover, they want new challenges and opportunities for self-ful fillment. Women entrepreneurs must have an intention to fulfill their dreams and it must be transferred into an idea enterprise. This paper focus towards the problems .and opportunities of women entrepreneurs in India.

DEVELOPING METHODOLOGY FOR IDENTIFYING GIFTEDNESS IN VISUAL ART EXPRESSION DOMAIN IN PRESCHOOL AGE

Among professionals dealing with giftedness, one of the commonly accepted purposes for identifying giftedness is providing gifted with adequate pedagogical support, optimal nurturance, cognitive growth, development and opportunities for self-fulfillment. It is also recommended for researchers to choose one position in which giftedness would be understood and setting precise criteria for defining giftedness. In this article, we are interested in identifying giftedness in the domain of visual art expression among preschool children. Some of the general criterions for identifying gifted children include creativity, precocity, high intrinsic motivation, individual speed and approach to learning. The excellence criterion, the rarity criterion, demonstrability criterion, the productivity criterion and the value criterion are given as factors within the Pentagonal theory for identifying the gifted. When it comes to the visual art giftedness as domain-specific giftedness, realm of production is most readily apparent distinction between gifted and non-gifted children. It is presented in children’s artworks. This considers on the one side a child reaching the level of relatively realistic representation in early childhood, and on the other side it is child’s advance in experimentation with form, color, line, composition and other aesthetic properties of a drawing/painting. While having these sets of characteristics of artistically gifted children, we faced the problem in lack of standardized or generally accepted or recommended instruments for this process. Being in this position, we approached developing methodology - procedures, research techniques and instruments, relying on the recommendations given by professionals dealing with artistic development and art giftedness theoretically and through practical research. This methodology, as well as the results achieved through implemented research are presented in the article. With the sample of close to 350 preschool children in our local community, we were able to identify visual art giftedness in around dozen preschoolers, proving our instruments and procedures efficient enough. On the basis of these results, we can further work on improving and refining this methodology reaching as many artistically gifted children as possible, striving to support their giftedness.

Unlocking Teacher Job Satisfaction During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Multi-criteria Satisfaction Analysis

Research has so far made a rather limited advancement in identifying the contribution of the aspects of the working environment that matter to teachers’ overall job satisfaction (TJS), as well as in providing evidence-based guidelines for improving their working experience. Addressing these deficiencies, the current work uses data related to school working environment facets, i.e., opportunities for self-fulfillment, work intensity/load, salary/income, leadership and collegial relations, and overall TJS, from a sample of 438 public primary school teachers in Greece and applies a multi-criteria decision analysis method (the multi-criteria satisfaction analysis (MUSA)) to identify the contribution of these facets to overall TJS, underline the strong and weak points of TJS based on their importance for teachers and the school’s performance on them, and provide direct action implications for improving primary TJS. The results reveal that all the examined facets are crucial for TJS. Yet, self-fulfillment is the most important contributor to overall TJS and work intensity/load the least significant one. Also, self-fulfillment is the strongest point of TJS that school leaders and policymakers should continue investing on, whilst salary/income is a risk factor that could easily turn into a threat for TJS into the future.

Developing a Sustainable Work Environment for Substitute Teachers: A Multi-Criteria Job Satisfaction Approach

Retention of provisional substitute teachers (PSTs) in the teaching profession is an important and timely topic that relates to the sustainability of the schools’ work environment and teaching profession. The present study re-examines these issues using teacher job satisfaction (TJS) as a surrogate variable. More precisely, MUlti-criteria Satisfaction Analysis (MUSA) -a method that combines Multi-Criteria Decision and Importance-Performance Analysis- is applied to a data set of primary school substitute teachers from Greece to assess the contribution of schools’ performance on 5 important aspects of the school environment i.e., opportunities for self-fulfillment, work intensity/load, salary/income, leadership and collegial relations, to overall PSTs JS. The findings indicate that self-fulfillment and collegial relationships contribute the most to PST overall JS, whilst salary/income the least. The results further suggest that self-fulfillment is not only the facet of the work environment that PSTs value the most but also the strong point of the schools’ work environment. The study provides a new strategic perspective on TJS research, as well as evidence-based strategies for improving the quality of work life and attrition rate levels of substitute teachers. Moreover, the theoretical and practical implications of this study are presented and avenues for future research are highlighted.

Substitute vs permanent teacher job satisfaction: applying MUSA to delineate differences and highlight evidence-based guidelines for decision makers

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is threefold. First, to explore the importance of specific work environment facets for the overall job satisfaction (JS) of primary full-time permanent teachers (PTs) and substitute/temporary teachers (STs). Second, to highlight the similarity or difference in JS patterns among PTs and STs. Third, to provide guidelines for effective evidence-based human resource management (HRM) interventions targeting to boost PTs and STs JS levels by considering: (1) the perceived importance of individual work facets for them and (2) the school's performance in providing a satisfactory work environment.Design/methodology/approachData on overall and important JS facets (i.e. satisfaction with opportunities for self-fulfillment, work intensity/load, salary/income, leadership and collegial relations) were collected from a sample of 438 PTs and STs in Greece. Moreover, MUSA, a method that combines Multi-Criteria Decision (MCDA) and Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA), was applied to uncover the critical work environment facets of PTs and STs overall JS that call for interventions.FindingsThe findings suggest that PTs seem to value, more than STs, the transactional and economic aspects of the school environment. More precisely, on the part of PTs, self-fulfillment and salary/income are the main contributors to their JS, whilst leadership is the least important facet of JS. For STs self-fulfillment and collegial relationships are the aspects of work that contribute the most to their overall JS, whilst salary/income is the least important contributor. The study results further indicate that self-fulfillment is the strong attribute of Greek schools' work environment in boosting TJS regardless teachers' status, whilst salary/income and workload are potential threats.Originality/valueIt is one of the few studies that provide insights into the differing JS patterns of STs and PTs through the application of a MCDA/IPA method. Therefore, it offers evidence-based guidelines that take into consideration both the school's performance (overall and facet JS) and importance of core aspects of the work experience for STs and PTs.

Reexamining the Role of Gifted Education and Talent Development for the 21st Century

Why and how should a society devote special resources to the development of giftedness in young people for the twenty-first century? If we agree that the goals of gifted education and talent development are to maximize young people’s opportunities for self-fulfillment and increase society’s reservoir of creative problem solvers and producers of knowledge, then it would seem wise that programming and services enhance students’ capacity for creative productivity, not just content acquisition. This general theory for the development of human potential is discussed through an exploration of four research-based subtheories: the Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness, the Enrichment Triad Model, Operation Houndstooth, and Executive Functions. In this article, a reexamination of current gifted and talented programming is intended to generate future research, extend dialogue among scholars, and inspire continued support for programming based on theory and related research.

Turismo e informalidade: uma análise de manifestações individuais no litoral norte do Rio Grande do Sul

This article comes from the reflection on texts by Ignacy Sachs, an expert of development, that addresses important contemporary issues to society, in a combination of the themes: economic growth, social equity and environmental preservation. Among the themes, there is the question of eradicating poverty and social exclusion, through decent job. The author argues that the inclusion by the job combines economic and social objectives, and that exercising the right of working, promotes self-esteem, opportunities for self-fulfillment and advancement in the social scale. On the other hand, he denounces the poor distribution of workload socially necessary and a worldwide epidemic of jobless growth, and he argues that in Brazil, especially, most of the work is in small enterprises, many of those where people work in conditions of precariousness and informality. In this sense, the author points to a striking reality in the country and he asks: Who can say how it works in Brazil, the so-called informal economy, how many workers do participate in it and how does it happen? Because of those questions, this article was written, a brief attempt to demonstrate some of the ways the informal economy operates in Brazil, in a context marked by seasonality: tourism, in a which huge number of people move to different places searching for home, leisure, employment opportunities and income, formalized or not. It is perceived in this article, informal economic activity as a survival practice. The study was conducted in the ethnography method, in a medium-size city of the North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul during the summer season of 2009 and 2010. The article starts with a contextual approach, which it comes to tourism, essentially. Following, it is presented a section on informality and practical entrepreneurial survival and searching for better living conditions. The third section relates to the methodological design, followed by ‘findings’ of the research and, finally, the final thoughts.

Social Determinants of (Un)Healthy Behaviors

Medical education has historically relied on the rational choice model as a vehicle for promoting health behavior change, and has largely overlooked the powerful relationships between social class and health behaviors. The rational choice model, which assumes that people can choose to pursue behaviors that are needed for their health, has some clinical utility, especially in some circumstances, but it runs the risk of missing key sources of influence and of blaming the victim. The biopsychosocial model provides an alternative basis for teaching about health behavior change. Health behavior needs to be understood in a broad social context, in which social class is recognized as playing a large part in shaping many people's health behaviors through multiple pathways, including limited opportunities for self-fulfillment, financial constraints, health beliefs, self-efficacy, stress, and social support. In addition to highlighting the limitations of the rational choice model, we illustrate how to integrate the socio-cultural context into teaching about behavior change. Specific curricular suggestions include exercises for: (1) increasing students' awareness of their own biases regarding unhealthy behaviors and individual responsibility for change; (2) enhancing knowledge of social factors that impact health; (3) building advocacy skills; (4) learning from patients; and (5) practicing counseling skills through role-plays.

A Country Overview of Interlibrary Loan Services of Special Format Material for the Visually Handicapped in India

This article gives an overview of interlibrary loan services provided by the National Library for the Print Handicapped of the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped, 12 selected public libraries, and 141 academic libraries in India. It focuses on how the National Library for the Print Handicapped coordinates this service at the international level and through readers clubs at the national level. This paper is an effort to produce sensitivity, awareness, and insight into their special needs and to discuss various ways by which the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped can better reach out to its visually handicapped clientele. Through its services, ideas and information penetrate the barriers of despair in which the visually handicapped find themselves in developing countries and provide opportunities for self fulfillment.

Private Materialism, Personal Self-Fulfillment, Family Life, and Public Interest: The Nature, Effects, and Causes of Recent Changes in the Values of American Youth

Private Materialism, Personal Self-Fulfillment, Family Life, and Public Interest: The Nature, Effects, and Causes of Recent Changes in the Values of American Youth

Job satisfaction of staff registered nurses in primary and team nursing delivery systems.

Job satisfaction for nurses in team and primary nursing delivery systems as measured by a human needs questionnaire was studied. Staff-level registered nurses from 27 units in a large research hospital completed a 22-item questionnaire. Each item measured present and desired job satisfaction and the importance of the item to the respondent. Data from 115 primary-system nurses and 65 team-system nurses were analyzed by Kruskal-Wallis tests of significance and chi-square contingency tables. Overall, primary-system nurses reported greater job satisfaction than team-system nurses. The primary system offered more opportunity for accountability and fulfilling higher level needs. Neither system provided sufficient opportunities for self fulfillment, decision-making, or independent judgment. The identified weakness of the primary system was the unmet need for supervision. Of all the nurses in this study, 75% were dissatisfied with the prestige accorded to them.

Similarity of Attitudes and Attraction to an Occupation

41 college students completed a 13-item Survey of Attitudes. During a later session, each received a Survey of Occupation Members' Attitudes which was represented as being the attitudes of most people engaged in a hypothetical occupation. These attitudes were either 15% or 85% similar to S's own views. S then made judgments of the occupation's social prestige, opportunities for advancement, opportunities for getting to know interesting people, opportunities for self-fulfillment, how much he would like the occupation, and how much he would enjoy entering the occupation. The results indicated that similarity of attitudes between the person and the occupation was associated with significantly more attraction to the occupation (liking and desire to enter) as well as more favorable evaluations of the occupation's social prestige, opportunities for getting to know interesting people, and opportunities for self-fulfillment.

Some Micro—Economic Reflections on Income and Wealth Inequalities

Concern about inequality involves naive anthro pomorphism and the Judaic-Christian tradition. Both lead to anachronistic images of modern society and to concern with sharing its presumably effortlessly-acquired surplus. Ob served inequality in contemporary society is largely the by product of the success of that society in providing opportuni ties for self-fulfillment. As examples, consumption needs and income-earning capacity are poorly synchronized over time, implying cross-sectional inequalities between people at differ ent ages; people's consumption preferences also differ early and late in life. People differ in their preferences for either risky or safe occupations. The policy problem of inequality reform is to correct inequalities of opportunity without taxing socially useful exercises of choice and subsidizing socially undesirable ones. One of the major sources of difficulty is the role of the family in the transmission of material property, genetic char acteristics—good or bad—and attitudes towards work and life. Few, indeed, would be prepared to alter sufficiently the insti tution of the family to eliminate these family-transmitted sources of inequality.

The Genetic Implications of Population Control

Each generation of mankind is faced with the awesome responsibility of having to make decisions concerning the quantity and quality (both genetic and cultural) of future generations. Because of its concern for its increasing population in relation to natural resources and quality of life, America appears to be on the verge of discarding its policy favoring continued population growth and adopting a policy aimed at achieving a zero rate of population growth by voluntary means. The policy that a society adopts with respect to population size will have genetic as well as environmental consequences. Human populations adapt to their environments genetically as well as culturally (Bajema 1971). These environments have been and are changing very rapidly, with most of the changes being brought about by man himself. Mankind has, by creating a highly technological society, produced a society in which a significant proportion of its citizens cannot contribute to its growth or maintenance because of the limitations (both genetic and environmental) of their intellect. The modem technological societies of democratic nations offer their citizens a wide variety of opportunities for self-fulfillment but find that many of their citizens are incapable of taking advantage of the opportunities open to them. American society, if it takes its responsibility to future generations