In this study, we explore the complex interplay of respectful leadership and perceived leader weakness through detailed investigations of the causal mechanisms and contextual factors in the observed relationships. In particular, it looks at perceived leniency and indecisiveness and how they mediate follower perceptions of leadership strength and authority. Moreover, the study investigates the moderating effects of team dynamics, feedback mechanisms, and followers’ decision-making autonomy, thus ...

Human Resource Management 

Firestone Liberia, a subsidiary of the American multinational company firestone tire and Rubber Company, is one of Liberia’s largest employers and a major contributor to the country’s economy. Established in 1926, the company operates one of the world’s largest rubber plantations, producing natural rubber for global tire manufacturers. In the context of Liberia, Firestone’s consumer base includes local populations who are directly or indirectly involved with the company (e.g., employees, supplie...

Marketing 

As an important position of higher education, it is of great practical significance to promote party building and ideological and political education as a whole. With the increasing influence of online education on all levels, ideological work is becoming more and more important. The party building and ideological and political education in higher vocational colleges are facing more and more complicated tests. Based on the new situation, it is very important to think rationally about how to gras...

Politics 

This paper explores the application of augmented reality (AR) technology combined with comics in the inheritance and innovative teaching of martial arts culture. By analyzing the characteristics, advantages, and challenges faced by AR comics, the study expounds on the role of comics in stimulating learning interest and enhancing teaching effectiveness, and proposes several application strategies and methods. The research finds that AR comics offer new opportunities and methods for inheritance an...

Culture  Educational Technology 

“Family-nation isomorphism”, as a fundamental governance paradigm in traditional Chinese society, profoundly influences spatial narrative strategies in literary creation [1]. Taking the metaphorical system in Lu Xun’s My Old Home as the research object, this paper discovers through close textual reading that the novel constructs a “town-countryside-exile” tripartite spatial structure, projecting the decline of individual families onto the modern predicament of the nationstate. The study...

Archaeology 

As society evolves, the need for teaching evaluation systems that meet developmental demands has emerged as a critical focus of contemporary educational reform. This study investigates the current landscape of English language teaching evaluation in primary and secondary education through the lens of core competencies. By integrating the essence of core competencies with digital innovation, we analyze the guiding principles of a digitalized English teaching evaluation system. We propose a novel ...

Language Education  Educational Technology 

This article aims to explore the reasons and impacts of differences in traditional life and death concepts between China and the West. All living beings have their own lives in the world but they will inevitably perish. This is an eternal truth. Life and death, as a lifelong reality have a great impact on the construction of the human spiritual world. Faced with the birth of life and the threat to death China and Western societies have developed different perspectives on life and death. There ar...

Culture  Literature 

This study discusses how empowerment becomes critical success factor in hotel operation. This research employed qualitative, in-depth interviews with 27 hotel owners and managers, and the results indicated that in a service system where speed and efficiency are critical, empowerment is absolutely necessary. Therefore, hotel managers should allow employees to use their own judgment in solving problems and transfer responsibilities, provide opportunities for personal initiatives, and demonstrate t...

Business Management 

This paper investigates the application of interpersonal function theory from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) in English-Chinese film subtitle translation, with a focus on the film Good Will Hunting. By examining how mood, modality, and polarity function in film dialogue, the study demonstrates how these elements help convey interpersonal meanings and emotional dynamics between characters. The paper illustrates, through a detailed analysis of 15 examples, that translating interper...

Culture  Literature 

Globally, there has been a growing interest in corporate governance as a result of economic and financial mishaps and the after-effect of COVID-19 pandemic that affected all economic sectors including corporate sector. From 2005, Lesotho undertook a journey of introducing corporate governance as a national policy framework and the final document, Mohlomi Corporate Governance Code, was completed in 2021. This paper analysed documents, mainly secondary, to draw up lessons learned from the processe...

Economics