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With organizations serving as mini worlds formed by different individuals coming and staying together and performing collectively, conflict becomes most evident. Leadership style plays an important role how these conflicts are handled especially in a team situation. Leadership style also determines the effectiveness of a team. The present study was conducted to map these interrelationships between leadership style of team leader, conflict resolution styles of team members and team effectiveness. A total of 15 teams consisting of 138 team members were taken for the study.

The Indian Federation is a federation of its own type. It does not fall into either of the two conventional categories. The British provinces though largely autonomous after the attainment of independence in 1947 did not possess the attributes of sovereignty. The independent states voluntarily form a federation. In case of India, some of the states were persuaded whereas some were coaxed and then coerced to join the Indian Union.

The article analyzes the socioeconomic and environmental characteristics of urban backyards in the Marituba municipality, Belém Metropolitan Region, Pará State, Brazilian Amazon. Data were collected between December 2018 and January 2019 using semi-structured questionnaires. The sampling was “snowball” type, comprising 22 productive backyards located in four neighborhoods: Uriboca, São Francisco, Almir Gabriel, and Bela Vista. Of the respondents, more than half (54%) were women and 45% were men. Ages ranged from 38 to 74 years, with an average of 52.64 and standard deviation of 9.42 years.

Introdução: A relevância do aleitamento materno tem sido internacionalmente tratada em diversos países, documentos de Organizações nacionais e internacionais de Saúde, que recomendam o aleitamento exclusivo durante os seis primeiros meses de vida da criança Objetivo: averiguar de que forma as mães vivenciam o processo de amamentação.Método: pesquisa exploratória, qualitativa, realizada com 15 mães com filhos cadastrados no Serviço de Atenção à Saúde da Criança de uma Unidade de Saúde de uma cidade na Bahia.

This article aimed to analyze the condition of the sustainable development of 78 municipalities of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), with aggregated variables in three dimensions: environmental, social and economic. The objective was to develop the index of municipal sustainable development in the three census years (1991, 2000 and 2010) and, with that, to analyze whether the localities grew in a sustainable way or not. Using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, a DEA BCC model was initially calculated for each dimension and each year and, after that, the overall indicator.

The purpose of this study was to assess challenges in teaching and learning Vocabulary using Communicative Language Teaching Method in Saint Michael International Youth Academy. To collect the necessary data for the study, semi-structured interview, questionnaire and observation were used. The interview was used for three teachers and ten students while the questionnaire was utilized for eighty students and classroom observation were employed three times.

Objective: To promote the health and quality of life of elderly residents in a long-term care facility in a city in northern Minas Gerais. Methods: This is a field research, with a quantitative-descriptive approach, having as its starting point the bibliographic research. The research was conducted at the long-stay institution São Vicente de Paulo, located in the city of Janaúba / MG. Ten elderly people participated in this research. For data collection, questionnaires and tables developed and validated were used.

The study seeks to analyze the strategic relationship marketing tools used by the banking sector. The study documented and reviewed the public bank (SBI, Canara and Bank of Baroda. The research design used was a descriptive research approach which essentially presents and describes quantitatively analyze these private banks. Questionnaires were designed and administered to customers of these three banks. The target population of study was the customers in these banks. Purposive and random sampling method was used in selecting the sample size of 50 customers.

The reform of education in China is not only a series of changes in the content of the curriculum, but also a renewal of the concept of education, a reform of the of talent training mode and even involves the change of teachers’ role. Different from its traditional definition, this paper aims to discuss how to become a teacher as a researcher.

As a result of neglect occurred in consumer relations, consumers have been manifested in social networks to express their dissatisfactions are products (and) (or) services to businesses. With this new consumer empowerment in social media the new mental model that impacts on marketing relationships has significantly modified the current scenario in organizations and reputation of brands.