Between the Individual and the Community: Residential Patterns of the Haredi Population in Jerusalem

This article examines how different levels of internal organization are reflected in the residential patterns of different population groups. In this case, the Haredi community comprises sects and sub‐sects, whose communal identity plays a central role in everyday life and spatial organization. The residential preferences of Haredi individuals are strongly influenced by the need to live among ‘friends’ — that is, other members of the same sub‐sect. This article explores the dynamics of residential patterns in two of Jerusalem's Haredi neighbourhoods: Ramat Shlomo, a new neighbourhood on the urban periphery, and Sanhedria, an old yet attractive inner‐city neighbourhood. We reveal two segregation mechanisms: the first is top‐down determination of residence, found in relatively new neighbourhoods that are planned, built and populated with the intense involvement of community leaders; the second is the bottom‐up emergence of residential patterns typical of inner‐city neighbourhoods that have gradually developed over time.     

HR-related facets and their relationship to organizational effectiveness: a faceted definition

Human resource (HR) professionals and employers perceive different practices as affecting organizational effectiveness. Consequently, the question is what are the components of these practices and why do they relate to organizational effectiveness. To achieve this goal, we employed the facet analytic approach and developed a faceted definition of organizational effectiveness comprising HR-related facets. Thus various facets were reviewed and incorporated into an overall faceted definition of the universe of organizational effectiveness. Future empirical research based on this faceted definition should be conducted with the objective of examining the extent to which it is tenable or alternatively, deciding upon the changes that should be introduced in order to make this definitional framework more accurate.     

A Typology of Partial-Order: The Case of Drug Use in Israel

A frequent variety of typology is that which results when a given population is classified simultaneously by several criteria, the categories of each criterion being ordered in a sense common to all the criteria. Such simultaneous orderings automatically define a partial order typology.The empirical problem is to ascertain the dimensionality and the substantive meaning of the partial order. This is illustrated here by characterization of the Jewish population of Israel by the frequencies of use of a variety of drugs. The data analysis approach adopted is that of Partial Order Structuple (Scalogram) Analysis (POSA). The particular computer program used is POSAC (POSA with Base Coordinates).The analysis revealed that it is possible to portray the distinct profiles (structuples) of the respondents according to drug use in a two-dimensional space, with a substantive regularity relating both to legal (pain relievers) and illegal drugs (marijuana, methadon). This space also serves as a basis for discriminant analysis for age as an external background variable.