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Culture and Work in Kuwait: An Anthropological Viewpoint

2011· article· en· W2732502539 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Ali Z. Alzuabi

Bibliographic record

VenueArab world geographer · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocioeconomic Development in MENA
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNepotismWork (physics)SociologyLanguage changeField (mathematics)Business ethicsWork ethicAnthropologySocial scienceEnvironmental ethicsEpistemologyEngineering ethicsPolitical sciencePublic relationsLawPhilosophy

Abstract

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This article examines the influence of culture on management and work, using the Kuwaiti society as a model. The concepts of work, work-related values, business ethics, corruption, nepotism, and wasta are discussed through an extensive examination and review of several recent studies. The conclusion arrived at in this study indicates the importance of culture in shaping and reshaping work values and ethics. The study therefore encourages the establishment of an independent field of specialization focusing on work values, ethics, and manners in anthropology, or Anthropology of Work. For only through proper understanding of the cultural background of a society can behavioral patterns of work and management be understood, realized, and analyzed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.214
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.305
Teacher spread0.266 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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