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organizational values, personal values, value congruence, unethical practices, work behavior,

The study assessed the impact of the Orissa supercyclone on survivors' locus of control, anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress. The study was conducted in structured interview sessions 3 months after the supercyclone. The affected people (n = 65) who were close to the epicenter of supercyclone and lost their family members, relatives, and property, experienced more anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress than the unaffected (n = 65) who were away from the epicenter of supercyclone and had not experienced any loss. Effects of exposure remained significant with the effects of sex and neuroticism controlled. External support reduced anxiety and depression, and the amount of loss experienced by the survivors significantly increased external locus of control and anxiety.

This study examines whether ethical climate influences managers' unethical practices and work behaviour. The sample comprised of 340 middle-level executives from twa private and two public sector companies. Irrespective of the nature of the organization and the age of the managers, while a caring and professional climate reduced only the manipulative behaviour of managers, an individual-centred climate consistently fostered unethical practices of manipulation, cheating and violation of organizational norms. On work behaviour, a caring and professional climate was conducive for increasing managers' performance, involvement, affective commitment, predominant intrinsic job satisfaction, extrinsic job satisfaction and taking initiative; while an individual-centred climate was unfavourable for continuance commitment to the organization.

Examines (a) the determinants of posttraumatic stress, and (b) the impacts of caste status, educational level, and family size on stress disorders. Structured interview sessions were used to obtain data 3 months after the Orissa supercyclone. The sample comprised 130 cyclone exposed praple. Disaster victims experienced more intrusion and arousal symptoms, and less avoidance and numbing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. The avoidance and numbing symptoms were "decisive" symptoms to arrive at the diagnosis of such a stress disorder. Fifty % of the victims suffered from posttraumatic stress. Anxiety and externality of survivors intensified post-tranmatic stress but deprrssion failed to predict such stress. Survivors from low castes, being less educated, and from larger families were more vulnerable to stress and distress than those from high castes, being more educated, and from small families.