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From an associate to a manager: Making a promotion decision
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In mid-July 2020, Pietr had to make a difficult decision regarding who to promote to lead the marketing department at EnglishLab, a private company that provides tutoring services in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He had two capable but very different candidates in mind: Ana and Elena. The two women had different skills, experiences, and personalities. Neither of them had ever held a managerial position. He was under time constraints to make a decision because the second half of August was typically the best time to recruit new clients and renew contracts with existing clients, who were finishing their summer vacations. A new manager had to get the marketing department up to speed for the upcoming season. This case invites students to discuss both candidates in terms of their potential to become a first-time manager and help Pietr to make a decision.
Shepelenko A., Kosonogov V., Shestakova A., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1713462
Introduction:
Affective computing (AC) is increasingly used to study emotional processes underlying decision-making, yet its methodological validity in capturing spontaneous emotional responses and their behavioral relevance remains debated. In particular, it is unclear how facial obstructions and baseline correction affect the accuracy of AC-based facial emotion measures in capturing emotion–behavior relationships.
Methods:
The predictive validity of AC-based facial ...
Added: February 12, 2026
Aleskerov F. T., Delakhova A., Derendyaev A. et al., , in: Proceedings of The Fifth France's International Conference on Complex Systems (FRCCS 2025).: Springer, 2025. P. 258–267.
Added: December 8, 2025
Andrey Timashkov, Sarah Anderson, Oksana Zinchenko, Frontiers in Neuroscience 2025 Vol. 19 Article 1662272
The analysis revealed nine distinct activation clusters, revealing a comprehensive neural network involved in uncertainty processing. Key findings demonstrated predominant activations in the anterior insula (up to 63.7% representation), inferior frontal gyrus (up to 40.7%), and inferior parietal lobule (up to 78.1%). We found a functional specialization between emotional-motivational processes (clusters 1–5) and cognitive processes ...
Added: November 26, 2025
Kurakin D., Theory and Society 2025 Vol. 54 P. 579–608
Cultural structures can organize experience either independently of time—‘transversely’ to its flow—or temporally—‘longitudinally’ along it. Most existing concepts—binaries, codes, norms—represent the former. Temporal structuring is much less theorized. While sociologists frequently invoke ‘narratives,’ they often use the term loosely, as a more evocative synonym for beliefs or values (e.g., ‘ecological narrative’). Recent work in pragmatism ...
Added: June 10, 2025
Konstantinova A., Filyushkina A., Maximova O. et al., Blue-Green Systems 2024 Vol. 6 No. 2 P. 327–344
In the scientific community, ecosystem services (ESs) are well-recognized as a promising concept to more actively consider and plan for the multitude of benefits provided by the green environment and thus promote sustainable urban development. Yet, to have an impact on decision-making, the concept must spread from academia to practice. To understand to what extent ...
Added: February 1, 2025
Grebnev L., Высшее образование в России 2024 Т. 33 № 12 С. 155–168
Using examples of the introduction of the Unified State Exam and participation
in the Bologna process, the article analyzes changes in the regulatory framework for budgetary
financing of education as a reaction to external circumstances. The role of the family and
educational institutions in fostering a sense of responsibility for decisions and the results of their
implementation is also ...
Added: January 22, 2025
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Added: October 7, 2024
Shipkova O., Korshunova N., Nikolay Kulyasov et al., , in: 7th SWS International Scientific Conference on Social Sciences ISCSS 2020Vol. 7. Book 1.: SGEM, 2020. P. 453–460.
The paper analyzes the challenges of the external environment for economic actors, which are transformed into special requirements of employers for employees. The main purpose of this stage of the study is to identify the components of a comprehensive behavioral model that determines the competitiveness of an economic actor in the new conditions of the ...
Added: September 27, 2024
Anlló H., Bavard S., Benmarrakchi F. et al., Nature Human Behaviour 2024 Vol. 6 No. 8 P. 1554–1567
Recent evidence indicates that reward value encoding in humans is highly context dependent, leading to suboptimal decisions in some cases, but whether this computational constraint on valuation is a shared feature of human cognition remains unknown. Here we studied the behaviour of n = 561 individuals from 11 countries of markedly different socioeconomic and cultural makeup. Our findings ...
Added: July 17, 2024
Gudkova T., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2024 № 3 С. 283–290
The review contains basic ideas and findings expressed in the book Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions by Jaclyn Wong. The book follows the lives of twenty-one young dual-professional couples over a six-year period. As result, the author describes three work-family pathways — the consistent compromiser pathway, the autonomous actor pathway, and ...
Added: July 10, 2024
Grebnev L., М.: ИНФРА-М, 2023.
The author's reflections on Adam from Eden began at the turn of the 2000s-2010s, first with students of the Kutafin Moscow State University, and then the Higher School of Economics. The result of these reflections is addressed primarily to those who, regardless of age, want to become a truly adult person, that is, to make ...
Added: April 2, 2024
Kitzmann H., Strimovskaya A., Serova E., , in: Transfer, Diffusion and Adoption of Next-Generation Digital Technologies. IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2023 Nagpur, India, December 15–16, 2023 Proceedings, Part IIVol. 698.: Springer, 2024. P. 132–143.
Highly evolving economic environment requires from logistics companies
fast response and agile solutions. Recently development of digital technologies
gives significant advantages to logistics business. Hence many optimized
processes belong to operational management level. At the same time the importance
of digital technologies adoption to strategic management level should not be
underestimated, as it allows gaining competitive advantages alongside the supply
chain. ...
Added: January 12, 2024
Aksiotis V., Voskoboynikov A., Ossadtchi A. et al., , in: 2023 Fifth International Conference Neurotechnologies and Neurointerfaces (CNN) 18-20 Sept. 2023.: IEEE, 2023. P. 4–7.
Decision-making is a complex and prolonged process. In this study, we present an adaptive algorithm designed to explicitly estimate the duration of perceptual decision-making in the Random Dot Motion Task. The algorithm effectively disentangles the duration of the preparation period for the subject's decision on the direction of movement of the dots from the period ...
Added: November 9, 2023
Dobryakova M. S., Froumin I., Moss G. et al., , in: Key Competences and New Literacies: From Slogans to School Reality.: Springer, 2023. P. 27–56.
This chapter presents the authors’ attempt to develop a conceptual framework of key competences and new literacies. We aspire to identify theoretical roots underpinning most of the other frameworks of the twenty-first century skills and, thus, offer a clue to their diversity. We analyzed over 180 national and international frameworks of key competences, trying to ...
Added: August 23, 2023
Davydova A., Julia Sheronova, Kosonogov V. et al., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2023 Vol. 17 Article 1222068
According to cognitive dissonance theory, a discrepancy between preferences and actions may lead to the revaluation of preferences, increasing preference for the chosen options and decreasing for the rejected options. This phenomenon is known as the spreading of alternatives (SoA), which results in a choice-induced preference change (CIPC). Previous neuroimaging studies have identified several brain ...
Added: June 19, 2023
Alexander Petrov, Andrei Akhremenko, Sergey Zheglov, Social Science Computer Review 2023 Vol. 41 No. 6 P. 2249–2273
Protest campaign movements are often carried out by coalitions rather than by homogeneous groups. Accordingly, an opposition member has both a narrow partisan identity and a broad allopposition identity. Seeking to prevent mass political participation, autocracies can repress protesters regardless of their group membership or apply the “divide and conquer” principle, targeting specific groups. Any ...
Added: May 13, 2023
Tatiana Kravchenko, Shevgunov T., Inventions 2023 Vol. 8 No. 1 Article 12
The paper is focused on searching for novel methods aimed at improving the performance and usability of a common decision-making process where a panel of experts are assisted by specialized software systems. An equivalent exchange method (EEM) is considered in the paper as a potential candidate for a versatile method applicable in expert decision-making process ...
Added: February 6, 2023
Davydova A., Sheronova J., Kosonogov V. et al., , in: 2022 Fourth International Conference Neurotechnologies and Neurointerfaces (CNN) Kaliningrad, 14-16 Sept. 2022.: IEEE, 2022.
The theory of cognitive dissonance suggested by Leon Festinger (1957) relies on the psychological observations of the inconsistency between people’s choice and actions and proposes that the conflict between choice and actions causes the internal conflict named cognitive dissonance, which leads to the potential modification of the behavior or attitudes to reduce or eliminate this ...
Added: November 10, 2022
IEEE, 2022.
The theory of cognitive dissonance suggested by Leon Festinger (1957) relies on the psychological observations of the inconsistency between people’s choice and actions and proposes that the conflict between choice and actions causes the internal conflict named cognitive dissonance, which leads to the potential modification of the behavior or attitudes to reduce or eliminate this ...
Added: October 24, 2022
Khilji G. K., Jogezai N., Bibi N. et al., International Journal of Educational Management 2022 Vol. 36 No. 7 P. 1206–1220
Purpose
The study was designed to investigate the effects of the decentralization of education through the perceptions of education managers.
Design/methodology/approach
This was a qualitative case study research. The decentralization notification of 2014, issued by the secondary education department, Government of Balochistan, Pakistan was taken as a case. Some administrative and financial powers were devolved at cluster and ...
Added: October 21, 2022
Ntoumanis I., Panidi K., Yaroslava Grebenschikova et al., FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION 2022 Vol. 9 Article 926875
Recent studies have revealed types of eating nudges that can steer consumers
towards choosing healthier options. However, most of the previously studied
interventions target individual decisions and are not directed to changing consumers’
underlying perception of unhealthy food. Here, we investigate how a healthy eating
call - first-person narrative by a health expert - affects individuals’ willingness to pay
(WTP) ...
Added: July 22, 2022