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The effect of Personal playfulness, Job involvenment and Organization playfulness climate on the Employee's innovative behavior

, 2009
How to encourage employees to produce the innovative behavior in the business organization in this century are very important. This study hopes to discuss the relationship among the personal playfulness, Job involvenment, organization playfulness climate
Chen, Tsui-min
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha, Anna Edwards, Alison Young, Michele Acuto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Playfulness-based design in educational games: A perspective on an evolutionary contest game

, 2013
[[abstract]]Playfulness steering is an emerging approach in educational game design and play. The integration of arithmetic computation, game strategy, and teamwork into one game allows players to interactively “steer” the playfulness and enhance ...
Hong, J. C.;Hwang, M. Y.;Lu, C. H.;Cheng, C. L.;Lee, Y. C.;Lin, C. L.
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

Childhood Playfulness as a Predictor of Adult Playfulness and Creativity: A Longitudinal Study

, 2003
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the strength of the relationship between childhood playfulness and adult playfulness. The relationship between adult playfulness and adult creativity was also examined along with the relationship between ...
Casas, Aleysha Kirsten
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PLAYING WITH PREFIGURATION: Ludic Spaces and Prefigurative Organizing for Children's Right to the Mobile City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited.
JONNE SILONSAARI
wiley   +1 more source

Early childhood in-service teachers' playfulness traits and views on playfulness

, 2018
The purpose of the current study is to investigate in-service teachers’ playfulness traits and their views about playfulness. In this frame, some variables which have a possible effect on teacher’s playfulness were examined in the study.
BEGÜM CANASLAN
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Personal Playfulness, Sense of Humor, and Organizational Playfulness Climate on Staff Innovative Behavior

, 2009
This study aimed to investigate relationship between individual and organizational variables on staff innovative behavior. Individual variables were personal playfulness and sense of humor, and organizational variable was organizational playfulness ...
Wu, Ching-ling
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Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source