A Longitudinal Study of Superior-Subordinate Communication During Job Transfers

Based on an assimilation perspective and leader-member exchange model, this study explores superior-subordinate communication during job transfers. Using a longitudinal research design of questionnaires and brief interviews, the study examines the impact of supervisor communication on transferees during their first year at new locations. Results suggest that supervisor relationships have a significant impact on the feedback and social support transferees report experiencing, on their physical, psychological, and cognitive adjustment to their new roles, and on the type of peer relationships they develop. In particular, middle-group supervisor relationships appear to have the most positive impact on transferees.     

CONCEPT ART, CLONES, AND CO-CREATORS: THE THEOLOGY OF MAKING

In this essay the author compares postmodern art and the cloning of mammals and argues that they both rely upon a narrative of human creativity which sets humanity in the place of God as the only source of meaning and truth in the cosmos. The Christian tradition by contrast owns limits to human making—both artistic and scientific—which are provided by the natural order of creation and by the story of humanity as fallen, and then as redeemed by the unique reordering of reality which the original creator God makes possible in Jesus Christ. Human creativity in the Christian perspective is circumscribed by human creatureliness and this implies that Christian communities will subject aesthetic and technological invention to more careful scrutiny than does a science‐informed and industrially sustained liberal social order.     

Cross-Cultural Awareness: A Framework for Interaction

In order to facilitate cross-cultural understanding, a framework for interaction is provided by focusing on personal experience and on attrition theory and the W-curve,