The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

Review of: Stage and Screen under the Spotlight, hosted by The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, 17 February 2024

Healthy, stress-free workplaces encourage employee innovation and creativity, which benefits the company. However, this creates difficulty as the dispositions and behaviors of employees are influenced by factors such as stretch goals. Employees tend to be under pressure, which causes them to act unethically and eventually affects the companys overall performance. This study investigates the effects of stretch goals on unethical behavior while considering the mediating effect of ambivalent identification and the moderating effect of competitive psychological climate, based on the conceptual framework proposed by Chen and Zhang (2021). The hypotheses of the study were tested using regression analysis and hierarchical multiple linear regression. Lastly, the study utilized PROCESS macro developed by Hayes in 2013. The study used a quantitative and descriptive causal design. Using purposive random sampling, the researcher surveyed 140 employees from real estate companies in Lipa City, Batangas. The researcher found that stretch goals have a significant effect on ambivalent identification. On the other hand, the effect of stretch goals on competitive psychological climate was not significant, suggesting that the effect of stretch goals on ambivalent identification does not depend on competitive psychological climate. Thereupon, the researcher recommends a program to help the real estate industry avoid such conflicts that arise due to the unethical behavior of its employees. The implementation of such measures would not only enhance intra-organizational collaboration and coordination but also foster a healthy working environment, thereby conferring a competitive edge on the company.

This article considers Liverpool Hope University’s Master of Arts degree in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society — which was the world’s first academic degree specifically related to the study of the Beatles — through reflective investigation into its structure, pedagogy and foundation in popular music studies. Using the writer’s own experiences as a both a graduate of and lecturer for the programme, the article considers the validity of academic study of the Beatles, the appropriateness of the MA’s approaches to this study and the usefulness of these for current and future Beatles scholarship. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0.

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Familial combined hyperlipidaemia is the most common inherited hyperlipidaemia and is found in up to 10% of patients with premature myocardial infarction. The genetic and metabolic bases of the disorder have not yet been defined. This review discusses the important advances in the past year in our understanding of the different metabolic pathways contributing to the pathogenesis of familial combined hyperlipidaemia.