scholarly journals Mindful Engagement in Emerging IT Innovations

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn Steven Häckel ◽  
Andreas Lindermeir ◽  
Florian Moser ◽  
Stefan Pfosser
Keyword(s):  
Mindful Engagement ◽  
It Innovations

scholarly journals Enhancing Nature Connection and Positive Affect in Children through Mindful Engagement with Natural Environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4785
Author(s):  
Alexia Barrable ◽  
David Booth ◽  
Dylan Adams ◽  
Gary Beauchamp
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Medium Effect ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Nature Connection ◽  
Mindful Engagement

Nature connection, which describes a positive relationship between humans and the rest of nature, has been recognised as a worthwhile goal of all education. Given its association with wellbeing, as well as the fact that it can predict ecological behaviours in children, there have been several calls for it to become central to environmental education, and an important tool in tackling climate change. Previous research has reported the success of short-term interventions in increasing nature connection in children, but to date no empirical studies have looked at how mindful engagement with nature can promote both nature connection and positive affect. This study took place in a nature reserve in Wales and included n = 74 children, aged 9–10, who took part in three mindful activities. Pre- and post- measures included nature connection and positive/negative affect. Analysis showed a significant small to medium effect of the activity on nature connection. Moreover, positive affect significantly increased post-activity, while negative affect showed a small decrease.

Mindful Engagement Mediates the Relationship Between Motivational Climate Perceptions and Coachability for Male High School Athletes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Susumu Iwasaki ◽  
Mary D. Fry ◽  
Candace M. Hogue
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
High School Athletes ◽  
Male High School ◽  
Climate Perceptions ◽  
Mindful Engagement ◽  
Perceived Motivational Climate ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating role of mindful engagement in the relationship between male high school athletes’ motivational climate perceptions on their teams (i.e., caring, task-, and ego-involving climate) to athlete coachability. Athletes (N = 164, Mage = 15.58 years) from multiple sports completed measures assessing mindful engagement in sport (Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale—Revised), Caring Climate Scale, task- and ego-involving climate perceptions (Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire), and coachability (Athletic Coping Skills Inventory). Initial bivariate correlations linked mindful engagement and coachability positively with perceptions of a caring and task-involving climate and negatively with ego-involving climate perceptions. Structural equation modeling analyses then revealed mindful engagement mediated the relationship between climate and coachability. Encouraging coaches and players to foster a caring/task-involving climate might assist in enhancing athletes’ mindful engagement in sport, which may positively influence the degree to which they are coachable.

An Innovation Adoption Study of Online E-Payment in Chinese Companies

2008 ◽  
pp. 1236-1254
Author(s):  
Qile He ◽  
Yanqing Duan ◽  
Zetian Fu ◽  
Daoliang Li
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Diffusion ◽  
Diffusion Theory ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
It Adoption ◽  
Adoption Study ◽  
Innovation Diffusion Theory ◽  
Chinese Companies ◽  
Innovation Attributes ◽  
It Innovations

Adoption of IT innovations is attracting increasing attention. Researchers are particularly interested in factors that affect the adoption of IS and IT innovations. Innovation diffusion theory is used frequently to evaluate the effect of perceived innovation attributes and the adoption of innovations. Nevertheless, explanatory power of perceived innovation attributes varies across different innovations. Given the importance of online e-payment to the further development of e-commerce and its importance as a payment innovation, this research examines the adoption of online e-payment by business enterprises using Rogers’ relational model of perceived innovation attributes and rate of adoption. The findings indicate that only perceived compatibility has significant influence on online e-payment adoption of Chinese companies. It is hoped that this research can help other researchers with related statistical procedures and analytical steps in their study of IS/IT adoption using innovation diffusion theory.

Performing Virtual Pilgrimage: Somaesthetics and Holy Land Devotion at San Vivaldo

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allie Terry-Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Performative Space ◽  
Mindful Engagement ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The City

Chapter Four examines the somaesthetic experience of the Nuova Gerusalemme di San Vivaldo, a virtual holy land that was constructed by Franciscan friars from Florence in a Tuscan forest in the first decade of the sixteenth century. Designed to emulate key aspects of the Renaissance experience of Jerusalem, San Vivaldo offered a performative space for pilgrims to construct personalized memories of the Holy Land without ever touching its soil. The chapter investigates the affective enhancement of devotion through somaesthetic conditioning and questions the Franciscan founders’ political motivations for building such an interactive and full-bodied experience of the Holy Land, particularly in the period after the Medici were exiled from the city and Fra Girolamo Savonarola burned at the stake. As the chapter reveals, the mindful engagement with the artistic program was an effective strategy to legitimate both the place and the whose practiced it.

Prescriptions for IT in Government

2011 ◽  
pp. 100-127
Author(s):  
Bruce Rocheleau
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
It Managers ◽  
Rational Choices ◽  
It Innovations

Information systems have become an important concern of generalist managers ingovernmental organizations and public managers need to learn how to manage IT. Forgeneralist and IT managers, the current situation creates both difficulties and possibili-ties. It is the best of times because IT has become recognized as the major vehicle forachieving innovation in public organizations. At the same time, the number and speedof new technologies in the IT area can make it difficult for even the most highly-skilledIT professional staff to keep up with innovations in the field. What is a generalist managerto do who needs to attempt to not only comprehend, but manage these IT innovations?The situation facing these administrators (and IT staff themselves) is the sense of beingon a “moving staircase” (Farbey, Land & Targett, 1999). The problem is that thesemanagers must find a method for making rational choices in a field that changes soquickly.

Relationship Between New Information Technologies and Flexible Organizational Forms

2006 ◽  
pp. 68-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Perez-Valls ◽  
José Manuel Ortega-Egea ◽  
José Antonio Plaza-Úbeda
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Theoretical Investigation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Environmental Dynamism ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
New Information ◽  
It Innovations

This chapter offers a theoretical investigation of the relationships between new IT and the implementation of emerging organizational designs. It argues that IT innovations can be regarded both as cause and consequence of the emergence of more flexible and virtual organizational forms. First, the authors offer a review of relevant previous literature, dealing with new IT, flexible organizational models and the relationships between IT and modular organizational structures. Next, a conceptual model is introduced that clarifies the relationships between IT development, the implementation of flexible organizational designs and environmental dynamism. Finally, conclusions and implications for researchers and practicing managers are presented.

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