Working Together to Lead the College to Bigger and Better Things: Exploring the Relationship Between Academic Deans and Senior Administrative Teams

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (189) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Nathan F. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Academic Deans ◽  
Administrative Teams ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Relationship

The language of prison re-education between agency and responsibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (62) (1) ◽  
pp. 135-166
Author(s):  
Marco BRANCUCCI
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Capability Approach

"Learning about freedom as freedom to make right choices responsibly is the pivotal task of educational intervention (Chionna 2001). As a practitioner of juvenile penitentiary re-education I experiment it, trying to re-educate young offenders in a prison, where the “capability approach” should be invoked (Sen 2011) and, according to the relational ethics paradigm (Muschitiello, 2012), we teach the young the capacity/ability of choice between alternative life experiences, which should be inspired and embodied by the educational authority of the adults. As agency is a constitutive element of a capability, I wonder: who is the agent? The one who re-educates an inmate? Or the inmate himself? Who should be more efficient and responsible to act in prison? Is it all about specific required competencies that are influenced by the context where penitentiary personnel and inmates act/react reciprocally? Penitentiary educators should adjust their approach, improving their language-as-dialogue tools first, just because the relationship with inmates is based on a dialogic axis. No exception can be made for cultural and linguistic mediators, who are involved in the treatment of foreign inmates (Brancucci 2018). So, I investigate the agency level of penitentiary educators and cultural/linguistic mediators, working together synergistically and/or autonomously. They try to respond to different scenarios, recognizing there is no one-size -fits-all approach to managing cases of re-educational emergencies, and assuming that educational interventions recall a daily presence in the context (Bertolini 1993), especially in prison where people ‘live’ in close proximity (WHO, 2020). But, how to achieve agency when this proximity fades away, or is temporarily interrupted, even turning into a virtual telematic educational approach? The challenge is to transform the consolidated educational-linguistic-dialogic practices into a new bidirectional way to think, act/react (from prison personnel towards inmates and vice-versa), because of the social distance required by the COVID-19 breakthrough."

scholarly journals The Underestimated Value of Internal Marketing: Impact on Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction through Organisational Restructure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Monica Nicole Micek
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Internal Marketing ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Internal Procedures ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Internal Marketing, a long-debated concept amongst academics and practitioners, is suggested to be a competitive advantage to organisations that utilise its practices. Often dismissed as merely selling the marketing of a product or service to employees within an organisation, Internal Marketing encompasses a combination of the key elements of communication, training, and feedback in order to create motivated, customer-orientated employees. Through employees and managers working together towards a well communicated organisational cause of Internal Marketing, internal procedures can evolve to better service and satisfy customers.  Organisational restructures are an ongoing concern as technological advances, value-adding business process, and globalisation change the way that businesses run and operate. In order to save on costs of operations, employment, and office rental space, downsizing an organisation may initially present itself as a cost-saving practice. Often unconsidered are the front-line customer-facing employees and customers of an organisation. Employees may feel distraught and concerned about losing their job, or having to find a new job, which may affect customer service, and subsequently customers may face the brunt of the domino effect, either intentionally or unintentionally, due to employees’ emotional disconnection from the organisation.  This research is an exploratory study into Internal Marketing, specifically around an organisational restructure, to better understand its impact on employees and customers through different stages of a restructure. Through the use of online surveys, participants were asked to recall an organisational restructure they were involved in within the last five years. They were asked to report their perceptions of Internal Marketing, their own satisfaction with their job at the time, and their perceptions of Customer Satisfaction throughout different stages of the organisational restructure.  The analysis found that Internal Marketing does have a significant positive relationship with Employee Satisfaction both during and after an organisational restructure. Although no significant relationship was found between Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction at any stage of the restructure, there is a trend within the data suggesting that the relationship may be stronger before and after an organisational restructure.  Benefits and contribution of this research for academics include development of a conceptual model, as well as the benefits and effects of Internal Marketing, and extending the existing literature. For practitioners, benefits include insights into better understanding of the role of Internal Marketing. Specifically, the differences in perception of the practice between employees and managers, and why it is important to understand and address Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction during an organisational restructure.</p>

scholarly journals It's time to talk: rekindling the relationship with primary care

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Banks ◽  
Linda Gask
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Strategy Training ◽  
Specialist Care ◽  
Healthcare Provision ◽  
Policy And Strategy ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Strategic Policy ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

Healthcare provision in the UK is in a process of continual change. The structures and processes by which people with mental health problems and people with learning disabilities receive support from statutory services have been, and continue to be, subject to many and varied strategic, policy and professional influences. Integrated and collaborative ways of working between generalist (‘primary’) and specialist (‘secondary’) care have become eroded over time and yet they may be needed more than ever. In this editorial we encourage a collaborative approach between practitioners in generalist and specialist care in studying and developing three strands of work: policy and strategy; training; and professional behaviour. Above all, we advocate strongly for a renewed and dynamic dialogue between psychiatrists and general practitioners in working together to provide high-quality mental healthcare.

Production Parameters Optimization of Polyacrylonitrile Precursor Fiber

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 100-103
Author(s):  
Yi Wang ◽  
Yong Sheng Ding ◽  
Kuang Rong Hao
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Fiber ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Parameters Optimization ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Precursor Fiber ◽  
Fiber Production ◽  
Production Parameters ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Polyacrylonitrile Precursor

Polyacrylonitrile precursor fiber as the as-spun fiber of carbon fiber plays a vital role in carbon fiber performances. In order to optimize the production process and the fiber performances of polyacrylonitrile precursor fiber, a production parameters optimization approach is proposed to find the relationship between the initial input and the final output of this fiber production and help to determine the production parameters according to the fiber performances required. Because fiber production is a complex industry process with a lot of parameters working together and them all have effect on the final performances, so this optimization is a multi-objective optimization which is based on particle swarm optimization formulas and production data. This approach can maintain the diversity of solutions, improve the accuracy of production parameters determining and provide a optimization of polyacrylonitrile precursor fiber.

Effects of Media Compensation on Team Performance: The Role of Demographic Faultlines

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 684-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Straube ◽  
Annika L. Meinecke ◽  
Kurt Schneider ◽  
Simone Kauffeld
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Behavior ◽  
Engineering Teams ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Performance Research

Modern-day communication in teams is characterized by a frequent and flexible use of various communication technologies. To understand the relationship between this new way of communication and team performance, research suggests incorporating contextual factors. In this study, we explore the role of demographic faultlines and subsequent subgroup formation using data from 164 students nested in 34 software engineering teams working together over the course of 14 weeks. Multilevel modeling revealed a three-way interaction between media richness, communication intensity, and demographic faultlines on team performance. Weak faultline teams evaluated their performance more positively when they compensated for low communication intensity by using richer communication channels and vice versa. In contrast, strong faultline teams were less able to adapt their communication behavior to increase performance. We discuss theoretical implications for team communication and diversity research and provide guidelines for improving communication in diverse teams.

scholarly journals FRIENDS OF ENGINEERING - A POSITIVE CONNECTION WITH INDUSTRY

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Britton ◽  
Amber Skrabek ◽  
Doug Ruth
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Process ◽  
Outcomes Assessment ◽  
Design Engineering ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Working Together ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The Relationship

Links between schools of Engineering andlocal industry are increasingly important as we movetoward outcomes assessment in the CEAB accreditationprocess. Typically these links have relied on personalrelationships between individuals and their breadth ofimpact has been limited.When the first University of Manitoba NSERC Chairin Design Engineering was launched in 2001, supportwas strong, but relationships tended to be projectfocussed. In 2005, the Manitoba Aerospace EngineeringLiaison Group (MAELG) was established as a means ofelevating the relationship with the Design Chair and toan industry level.Based on the values realized by both the Faculty andthe MAELG members, representatives from all employersof engineering graduates were invited to a series ofmeetings to discuss means of working together. By 2008,an industry owed and financed body known as theFriends of Engineering had been formed with theobjective of providing support to the Faculty. This paperwill define the developmental process, the range ofactivities and future directions of the organization.

scholarly journals Economic Implications of Digital Transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Rita Mura ◽  
Armando Sternieri
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Productivity Paradox ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Controversial Concept

In a firm perspective the simply availability of digital systems does not necessarily lead to success. On the contrary, it requires that firms accompany digital resources with the development of best organizational practices which implicates a transformation in term of e.g. organizational changes and innovation. Digital technologies allow companies to improve productivity in two ways: by making hard improvements that dramatically increase the efficiency of intelligent machine and processes, and by making soft improvements that increase the efficiency of people working together. The paper highlights various discussions on the relationship between ICT investment and productivity. However, this framework has outlined a relatively more cohesive body of thought which, by seeking to overcome the controversial concept of the productivity paradox, highlights the existence of a significant relationship, not just between ICT and productivity, but also between certain multiplying variables which represent ICT and other complementary factors.

scholarly journals Multi-View Interactive Visual Exploration of Individual Association for Public Transportation Passengers

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 628
Author(s):  
Di Lv ◽  
Yong Zhang ◽  
Jiongbin Lin ◽  
Peiyuan Wan ◽  
Yongli Hu
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Visual Exploration ◽  
Passenger Travel ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Transport Safety ◽  
Abnormal Behaviors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pixel Matrix

More and more people in mega cities are choosing to travel by public transportation due to its convenience and punctuality. It is widely acknowledged that there may be some potential associations between passengers. Their travel behavior may be working together, shopping together, or even some abnormal behaviors, such as stealing or begging. Thus, analyzing association between passengers is very important for management departments. It is very helpful to make operational plans, provide better services to passengers and ensure public transport safety. In order to quickly explore the association between passengers, we propose a multi-view interactive exploration method that provides five interactive views: passenger 3D travel trajectory view, passenger travel time pixel matrix view, passenger origin-destination chord view, passenger travel vehicle bubble chart view and passenger 2D travel trajectory view. It can explore the associated passengers from multiple aspects such as travel trajectory, travel area, travel time, and vehicles used for travel. Using Beijing public transportation data, the experimental results verified that our method can effectively explore the association between passengers and deduce the relationship.

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