scholarly journals Continual Career Change

2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (07) ◽  
pp. 30-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Kerno
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Individual Motivation ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Job Title ◽  
Contemporary Reality ◽  
The One ◽  
Engineering Career ◽  
Future Project

This article explains the need of being versatile, flexible, adaptable, or capable of assuming forms for career demands that confront modern day engineers. The protean career, with the growing need for individual motivation and continuous, career-related learning and development, is indeed a contemporary reality for many engineers. The article also highlights that present and future engineering jobs will involve more challenge, more skilled expertise, and the ability to ‘network’ with others who possess similarly valuable knowledge, skills, and abilities. An engineer must be able to define and clearly articulate the nature and scope of current and future project assignments, as opposed to individual jobs. As work becomes more project-oriented, engineering career success will increasingly depend on the ability to move from project to project, and to absorb the learning and ‘best practices’ from each assignment, as opposed to retaining a relatively static job title and work environment. The successful engineer will more and more frequently be the one capable of using the tools at his or her disposal to effectively orient or map their knowledge and abilities to the current and future needs of their current organization, remaining flexible, adaptable, and versatile.

Managing the Era of Multi-Cultural Leadership

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Rahul ◽  
R. Ganesan
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Cross Culture ◽  
Cultural Leadership ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
Global Arena

Leaders in the global arena are the one who face the challenges never seen before, while coordinating work and managing relationship between team members coming from varied ethnic groups. Globalization has undoubtedly opened up endless growth opportunities for both, businesses and individuals, by collaborating with each other, but with certain inherent challenges. These challenges are the difference in the cultural background of the team members, which gets predominantly reflected in their behavior at workplace too. The cultural differences exist primarily due to differences in shared values, which form the basis for difference in perception and practices of decision making by an individual (Hofstede, 1980). Juana Bordas has rightly described that any business that fails to adapt their leadership style aligning with multi-cultural approach will find it difficult to thrive in a more colorful world. Leadership style has witnessed various facets of changing work environment that has demanded from leaders to modify their approach to adapt along and be effective and survive in the ever-changing environment of business (Bordas,2007).A cross-culture leader plays a significant role in knitting the diverse workforce into an efficient team; which requires a leader to very well understand the various dimensions of culture. This understanding of the leader enables him to learn about blending of leadership styles to address the challenges of such work environment. This paper is an extended work on 'Leadership in Cross-Cultural Environment – A Comparison of Asian and Non-Asian Managers' (Rahul and Ganesan, 2015). The extended research study has identified that enhanced work experience of cross-culture leaders enables them in effective team management, than the rise in designation, as it results in creation of hierarchical distance between the leaders and subordinates.

From the boundaries of management to the management of boundaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Caputo ◽  
Raffaele Fiorentino ◽  
Stefano Garzella
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Firm Boundaries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multiple Partners ◽  
The One ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine some of the new capabilities that are required for the facilitation of business processes management (BPM) in the current political and technological landscape. Specifically, the goal is to investigate the role of firm boundaries, from a business processes perspective, in new contexts in which the affirmation of digitalization requires more integration across a complex network of partners.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a review of relevant literature on BPM, firm boundaries and negotiation. By critically integrating this literature, a framework is developed with the objective of supporting the management of boundaries.FindingsBPM, new competitive contexts, and the technological landscape require the development and management of boundary capabilities. Among these capabilities, “boundary management” – how managers coordinate resources, activities and business processes on the boundaries of the firm – should play a key role. Moreover, as managers must continuously interact with multiple partners in digital supply chains, the organizational model of negotiation serves as a means of effectively managing firm boundaries.Practical implicationsThe framework offers insights and guidelines that can help practitioners manage the boundaries of business processes. The authors encourage a focus on business processes occurring at firm boundaries. Furthermore, the authors encourage the development of new capabilities in response to the needs of practitioners to ensure best practices of negotiation.Originality/valueThis study shifts the emphasis of BPM from the boundaries of management to the management of boundaries. By shedding light on new capabilities required, this paper enriches the BPM literature and can assist, on the one hand, in reconfiguring business processes in the new political and technological landscape and, on the other hand, in facilitating effective negotiation.

scholarly journals Exploring the Quality of Work Environment at Saudi Aerospace Engineering Industries (SAEI)

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Ayman Abdulaziz Alghamdi ◽  
Nasser Akeil Kadasah
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Aerospace Engineering ◽  
Safety Hazard ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Job Title ◽  
Engineering Industries

<p>This study aims to evaluate the Quality of Work Environment (QWE) in Aircraft Maintenance Sector of Saudi Aerospace Engineering Industries (SAEI). It covers safety climate (safety, hazard, and injury), employee satisfaction about their jobs and employee satisfaction about management practices. For that purpose, 314 questionnaires were collected and analyzed. The study revealed that SAEI employees have neutral evaluations regarding safety climate in the organization and have neutral evaluations regarding their jobs at SAEI as well. On the other hand, the overall values statically indicate that SAEI employees are unsatisfied regarding SAEI management practices. In conclusion, SAEI employees are unsatisfied about the quality of work environment in general with overall median equal 2 and 95% of confidence. The majority of respondents (60.1%) were between unsatisfied and strongly unsatisfied regarding the QWE. Also, the study indicated that there were statistically significant differences in the employees’ evaluation regarding the QWE according to their job grades, job title, and their departments. These differences can be concluded as following; employees with higher grades were more satisfied with QWE at SAEI, managers, instructors, and auditors were more satisfied with QWE at SAEI and finally TQA employees were the most satisfied employees with QWE at SAEI while Hangar employees were the most unsatisfied. The study suggests some practical recommendations based on the outcomes of this study.</p>

scholarly journals Developing cybersecurity education and awareness programmes for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Bada ◽  
Jason R.C. Nurse
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Security Education ◽  
Education And Awareness ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Training ◽  
Insight Into

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to focus on organisation’s cybersecurity strategy and propose a high-level programme for cybersecurity education and awareness to be used when targeting small- and medium-sized enterprises/businesses (SMEs/SMBs) at a city-level. An essential component of an organisation’s cybersecurity strategy is building awareness and education of online threats and how to protect corporate data and services. This programme is based on existing research and provides a unique insight into an ongoing city-based project with similar aims.Design/methodology/approachTo structure this work, a scoping review was conducted of the literature in cybersecurity education and awareness, particularly for SMEs/SMBs. This theoretical analysis was complemented using a case study and reflecting on an ongoing, innovative programme that seeks to work with these businesses to significantly enhance their security posture. From these analyses, best practices and important lessons/recommendations to produce a high-level programme for cybersecurity education and awareness were recommended.FindingsWhile the literature can be informative at guiding education and awareness programmes, it may not always reach real-world programmes. However, existing programmes, such as the one explored in this study, have great potential, but there can be room for improvement. Knowledge from each of these areas can, and should, be combined to the benefit of the academic and practitioner communities.Originality/valueThe study contributes to current research through the outline of a high-level programme for cybersecurity education and awareness targeting SMEs/SMBs. Through this research, literature in this space was examined and insights into the advances and challenges faced by an on-going programme were presented. These analyses allow us to craft a proposal for a core programme that can assist in improving the security education, awareness and training that targets SMEs/SMBs.

scholarly journals Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Meets Bioconductor: Toward Reproducible and Agile Cancer Genomics at Cloud Scale

2020 ◽  
pp. 472-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent J. Carey ◽  
Marcel Ramos ◽  
Benjamin J. Stubbs ◽  
Shweta Gopaulakrishnan ◽  
Sehyun Oh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Cancer Genomics ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Unit Testing ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Global Alliance ◽  
Workflow Execution ◽  
The One ◽  
Experimental Use ◽  
Scale Data

PURPOSE Institutional efforts toward the democratization of cloud-scale data and analysis methods for cancer genomics are proceeding rapidly. As part of this effort, we bridge two major bioinformatic initiatives: the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and Bioconductor. METHODS We describe in detail a use case in pancancer transcriptomics conducted by blending implementations of the GA4GH Workflow Execution Services and Tool Registry Service concepts with the Bioconductor curatedTCGAData and BiocOncoTK packages. RESULTS We carried out the analysis with a formally archived workflow and container at dockstore.org and a workspace and notebook at app.terra.bio. The analysis identified relationships between microsatellite instability and biomarkers of immune dysregulation at a finer level of granularity than previously reported. Our use of standard approaches to containerization and workflow programming allows this analysis to be replicated and extended. CONCLUSION Experimental use of dockstore.org and app.terra.bio in concert with Bioconductor enabled novel statistical analysis of large genomic projects without the need for local supercomputing resources but involved challenges related to container design, script archiving, and unit testing. Best practices and cost/benefit metrics for the management and analysis of globally federated genomic data and annotation are evolving. The creation and execution of use cases like the one reported here will be helpful in the development and comparison of approaches to federated data/analysis systems in cancer genomics.

scholarly journals Insights into Student Engagement - Best Practices and Empirical Support

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Gentemann ◽  
Zhicheng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
Data Source

Student engagement in college impacts their learning and development. Currentresearch advocates a broad-based approach to promoting student engagementthrough high-impact practices on the part of faculty, students, and institutionalenvironment. During this session, presenters will share specific research-basedbest practices that faculty can adopt to promote student engagement andintroduce an empirical data source, including highlights from reports, availableto the Mason community based on the National Survey of Student Engagementto inform faculty and staff on Mason’s strengths and challenges in studentengagement, growth, and satisfaction within the context of a national landscape.

scholarly journals Clima laboral y su incidencia en la satisfacción de los trabajadores de una empresa de consumo masivo / Working environment and its impact on worker satisfaction of a mass consumer products company

Ciencia Unemi ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Mauricio Jimenez Bonilla ◽  
Edgar Jimenez Bonilla
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Leadership Motivation ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Worker Satisfaction ◽  
Para Determinar ◽  
The One

Este trabajo es un análisis descriptivo que pretende medir la caracterización del clima laboral, situación que influye en el comportamiento de los trabajadores, con la intención de potencializar las habilidades del psicólogo organizacional en el manejo favorable del talento humano de una empresa de consumo masivo. El objetivo es determinar de qué manera el clima laboral está afectando el grado de satisfacción de los empleados. Se pretende diagnosticar los niveles en que se presentan las dimensiones del clima laboral en los trabajadores de la empresa, mediante la utilización de los cuestionarios estandarizados OPS y S10/12, para determinar los niveles de Liderazgo, Motivación, Reciprocidad, Participación y Satisfacción Laboral; aplicados a 102 trabajadores de una empresa de consumo masivo, de los departamentos: administración, almacén, bodega y ventas. Los resultados indican que el clima laboral no es completamente satisfactorio. En el análisis se detecta que la mayoría de variables, en especial atención en el área de administración, se sitúa con más bajo promedio y en todas sus subvariables se presentan como no satisfactorias. AbstractThis work is a descriptive analysis that aims to measure the characterization of the work environment, a situation that influences the behavior of workers, with the intention of potentiating the skills of the organizational psychologist at the favorable management of human resources of a mass consumer products company. The objective is to determine the way in which the work environment is affecting the level of satisfaction of the workers. It is intended to diagnose the levels in which the dimensions of the work environment on workers of the company are presented, through the use of standardized questionnaires OPS and S10/12, in order to determine the levels of leadership, motivation, reciprocity, participation and job satisfaction; applied to 102 workers of a mass consumer products company who work in the following departments: administration area, storehouse, warehouse and sales. The results show that the working environment is not completely satisfactory. The analysis detected that most variables, specially the one of the administration area, stands with the lowest average and all its sub-variables are presented as unsatisfactory.

scholarly journals Game on TV as a form of effective communication

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Irina Ivanovna Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Game Situation ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Reality ◽  
The One

Postmodern television gravitates to the game programs. This process takes place not only in Russia but all over the world as a manifestation of a general trend. TV is a part of the system of mass communication which has moved onto the network stage inevitably linked with the game. A game helps to overcome the discreteness of contemporary reality. Due to objective reasons the present-day content of television broadcasting is packed in a game model of communication. This tendency is not introduced from the outside or imposed upon the subjective will; it reflects the specificity of television broadcasting of the postmodern. Both the telecast and game are the communication processes creating new structures. On the one hand, they coincide in algorithm: the result is not as important as the process itself. On the other hand, the very word game is multi-faceted and multi-layered in Russian language, and its alliance with TV is controversial. Maybe mainly due to linguistics. Game and Play are different in meaning but there is only one word игра (igra) in Russian, that unifies significance of two English words. In 2013 the sociological study "Game and Me" was held in Moscow under the supervision of the author. It demonstrated the fact of generational variations in understanding of the word. For grandparents cohort igra is fun; entertainment and a kind of work aimed at self-knowledge for generation of grandchildren. In both cases, the game reflects the philosophical category of "special attitude to the world". With the advent ofnew communication technologies, TV viewer gets an impulse of activity and the postmodern situation provokes reformist moods. Game and Play provide an escape from reality. Fans of play are suspicious of game and vice versa. This is the problem. Therefore, the pretence of two-sided criticism of television programs is considered hereafter. Screen pretence is often criticized. TV game may be constructive or destructive, in all circumstances being genuine without any conversion to quasi game. The dramatic collision of modern TV games is overcoming the theatricality and the quasi game situation. TV games obviously will be evolving along this trend.

scholarly journals A benchmarking study for reforming a Korean water department

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
S. Lee ◽  
H. Park ◽  
D. Choi
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
A Performance

This study is aimed at developing internal reform plans for a water department of Seoul City by benchmarking it with selected best practices of the world. At first a performance indicator system was developed to logically evaluate concerns, problems, and issues of the Seoul water department. Since it is typical of Korean water services providers, the Seoul water department was selected while Tokyo's in Japan and Denver's in America were selected since they were considered as best practices of public waterworks much similar in governing structure to the one in Seoul. The results of benchmarking concluded that Seoul has traditionally been emphasizing more on “being a good public servant” providing drinking water services, and should be reformed in directions emphasizing ‘entrepreneurship’ to overcome its current limitations. Based on the results, a road map to reform the Seoul water department was established. Since it is typical in Korea, the reform plans and road map established were further recommended for reforming other drinking water services providers in Korea.

scholarly journals Cui prodest Michel Foucault?

2006 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. C01
Author(s):  
Yuri Castelfranchi ◽  
Nico Pitrelli
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Holy Grail ◽  
The One

Do we have to drag in the thought of Michel Foucault to show the political (and not neutral), partial and local (and not universal and non-historic), active (and not merely transmissive) face of science communication? Do we need the work of the controversial French intellectual to dispute the anxious search – almost a quest like that for the Holy Grail – for the “best practices” in the dissemination of scientific culture? If we read over the pages that Foucault dedicated to words and things, to the archaeology and genealogy of knowledge, to biopolitics, we have few doubts. Two elements, on the one hand the central nature of discourse and “regimes of truth”, on the other the concept of biopower (a “power over bodies”), enable us to reflect both on the important specific features of modern science in comparison with other forms of production and organisation of knowledge, and on the central role of its communication.

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