scholarly journals Effectively Working With Military Linguists

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remi M. Hajjar
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Military Culture ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Subject Matter Expert ◽  
Team Members ◽  
The Military ◽  
Cultural Tools ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between advisors and linguists in the contemporary military advising mission and applies an emergent postmodern military culture theoretical framework. This project’s multimethod collected data from Iraq, documents, and interviews. The study reveals an intriguing and nuanced story about the deployment of advisors and linguists in the advising mission. This article defines the military advising mission including the major actors. The article then introduces the postmodern military culture theoretical framework and method. The findings report many themes including linguist selection and hiring processes, the importance of advisor–linguist relationships, the relevance of linguists’ backgrounds, linguists as full advisory team members, and the building blocks of successful advising sessions. Effective advisors work with linguists to deploy a Swiss Army knife of cultural tools including peacekeeper diplomat, warrior, subject matter expert, innovator, and others to accomplish the mission, which divulge broader changes indicative of an emergent postmodern military and culture.

The Subject Matter of Intellectual Property

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Pila
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Trade Mark ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Essential Properties ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The Relationship

This book offers a study of the subject matter protected by each of the main intellectual property (IP) regimes. With a focus on European and UK law particularly, it considers the meaning of the terms used to denote the objects to which IP rights attach, such as ‘invention’, ‘authorial work’, ‘trade mark’, and ‘design’, with reference to the practice of legal officials and the nature of those objects specifically. To that end it proceeds in three stages. At the first stage, in Chapter 2, the nature, aims, and values of IP rights and systems are considered. As historically and currently conceived, IP rights are limited (and generally transferable) exclusionary rights that attach to certain intellectual creations, broadly conceived, and that serve a range of instrumentalist and deontological ends. At the second stage, in Chapter 3, a theoretical framework for thinking about IP subject matter is proposed with the assistance of certain devices from philosophy. That framework supports a paradigmatic conception of the objects protected by IP rights as artifact types distinguished by their properties and categorized accordingly. From this framework, four questions are derived concerning: the nature of the (categories of) subject matter denoted by the terms ‘invention’, ‘authorial work’, ‘trade mark’, ‘design’ etc, including their essential properties; the means by which each subject matter is individuated within the relevant IP regime; the relationship between each subject matter and its concrete instances; and the manner in which the existence of a subject matter and its concrete instances is known. That leaves the book’s final stage, in Chapters 3 to 7. Here legal officials’ use of the terms above, and understanding of the objects that they denote, are studied, and the results presented as answers to the four questions identified previously.

Documentary at Play

2012 ◽  
pp. 353-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Ejbye Sørensen ◽  
Anne Mette Thorhauge
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Games Theory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Historical Periods

Docu-games designate a versatile group of games that have in common an attempt to depict and reflect on aspects of reality such as military conflicts, historical periods, or contemporary political and socio-cultural issues. As such, docu-games have become a new communication tool for individuals or organizations. This chapter explores different perspectives on games as documentaries, going beyond the mere subject matter and visualization of docu-games to approach questions about simulations as statements about reality and gameplay as a tool for communicating statements about reality. Combining cognitive documentary and games theory with content analysis, the chapter offers a theoretical framework for understanding how docu-games reference the relationship between reality and game, as well as how they establish credibility in relation to these representations.

GROWING SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS – NATURE VS NURTURE

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 762-781
Author(s):  
Dave Rouse ◽  
Dean Wasche ◽  
Andrew Couch
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Subject Matter Expert ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Nature Vs Nurture ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Time And Energy

ABSTRACT Think of someone you know in the field of spill response who has deep technical expertise in a particular area. Now think about how they got to where they are. Chances are, they have a background in a related field, and stumbled into spill response opportunistically. They found it interesting, and set about investing time and energy in a particular area until they became recognised across the industry as a subject matter expert. If you look at your own career path, you may recognise similarities. In the ‘nature vs nurture’ argument, this is ‘nature’ - the organic development of an oil spill expert over a long period, reliant on being in the right place, at the right time, many times over. So can an oil spill subject matter expert be nurtured and developed under a form of stewardship programme? There are no shortcuts to developing deep expertise, but there are efficiencies to be realised. This is especially pertinent in today’s industry backdrop of cost-control and ‘doing more with less’ in the context of succession planning for future expertise. We need a structured, efficient and deliberate framework to build the next generation. This paper will describe an approach to growing subject matter experts in spill response, which starts with OSRL’s 30-plus years of training oil spill experts, mixes in the best from industry’s graduate and SME development programmes and blends in techniques drawn from the UK’s Royal Military Academy Sandhurst’s officer training programmes and the world of sport psychology. The approach is underpinned by the principles of andragogy – the method and practice of teaching adult learners – and designed around the distinct capabilities defined in the Tiered Preparedness and Response framework. In practice, the approach combines structured competence-based training, values based leadership, and focussed coaching and mentoring. It accelerates the development of someone with no spill response experience and provides the building blocks which allow them to become a solid oil spill expert. For those who wish to specialise, it gives pathways and opportunities to achieving deep expertise in niche aspects of our discipline. We can’t strip out the need to be in the right place, at the right time, time after time… but this approach reduces the role that luck plays in an individual’s journey to become an industry-recognised authority.

Military culture and sexual issues: The sex-stress phenomenon

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S590-S590
Author(s):  
L. French
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Military Culture ◽  
Military Population ◽  
Sex Abuse ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Military Cultures ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

IntroductionSex abuse within the military has long been an open-secret afflicting both male and female veterans whose etiology is often attributed to character deficits (personality disorders or paraphilic disorders). Few studies look at the sex-stress phenomenon as a feature of military life itself and the role this plays in sex abuse within the military milieu. While much attention is focused on US forces, this problem in endemic within military cultures per se. The recent sex abuse scandal involving the French military in the Central African Republic illustrates the pervasiveness of the problem.Objectives/aimsTo explore the psycho-cultural mechanisms of stress and its sexual expression and how certain scenarios within the military milieu exacerbates this impulse-control reaction. To address the relationship of the availability of sex-release options – without and/or without the military population (and how increased enlistment of women has changed the nature of the target population in today's military).MethodsLook at the problem historically (from WWII – present) with particular illustrations. Evaluate common (often failed) approaches to addressing the problem, including the fallacy that superior officer know best how to handle these cases. Explain the psycho/physiology of the sex-stress phenomenon – mechanism of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-gonad axis. Look at the relationship between sex-trauma and suicides among veterans.Results/conclusionsOffer a viable assessment/diagnostic of sexual problems within the military culture along with a treatment model that offers both psychotherapeutic (cognitive-behavioral protocols…) as well as identifying acute clinical symptoms that may respond to psychotropic medications.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals An Investigation on the Influence of Organizational Culture and Justice towards Employees’ Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Dr. Irfan Ullah Khan ◽  
Muhammad Saqib Khan ◽  
Dr. Rooh Ul Amin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Statistical Procedure ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Higher Institutions ◽  
The Relationship

Performance management is a phenomenon of greater importance for all organizations including the institutions of higher education (HEIs) to attain their desired ranking in competitive situations. The performance is considered as building blocks for organizations to survive and to more towards development. Numerous factors are responsible to influence the performance in institutions among which the organizational culture and justice are phenomenal. This study is an effort to observe the influence of both variables (culture & justice) in influencing the performance of employees in HEIs. The data was collected from teaching faulty (population) over questionnaire hailing from higher institutions of the southern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan and was examined by applying diverse statistical procedure about relationships among the research variables which were extracted from the theoretical framework. The study offers valuable information about the relationship among research variables under study by offering some commendations to the policymakers and future researchers.

The Relationship Between Leader–Member Exchange and Employees’ Proactive Behaviors

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-111
Author(s):  
Fong-Yi Lai ◽  
Szu-Chi Lu ◽  
Cheng-Chen Lin ◽  
Yu-Chin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Leader Member Exchange ◽  
Voice Behavior ◽  
Linear Modeling ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Member Exchange ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

Abstract. The present study proposed that, unlike prior leader–member exchange (LMX) research which often implicitly assumed that each leader develops equal-quality relationships with their supervisors (leader’s LMX; LLX), every leader develops different relationships with their supervisors and, in turn, receive different amounts of resources. Moreover, these differentiated relationships with superiors will influence how leader–member relationship quality affects team members’ voice and creativity. We adopted a multi-temporal (three wave) and multi-source (leaders and employees) research design. Hypotheses were tested on a sample of 227 bank employees working in 52 departments. Results of the hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analysis showed that LLX moderates the relationship between LMX and team members’ voice behavior and creative performance. Strengths, limitations, practical implications, and directions for future research are discussed.

Influence of subject matter expert personality on job analysis ratings

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shonna D. Waters ◽  
Richard N. Landers ◽  
Nicholas Brenckman
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Job Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter Expert

Obligation in Exile

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilan Zvi Baron
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

Questions arose about what it meant to support a country whose political future the author has no say in as a Diaspora Jew. The questions became all the more pronounced the more I learned about Israel’s history. Many Jews feel the same way, and often are uncomfortable with what such an obligation can mean, in no small part because of concerns over being identified with Israel because of one’s Jewish heritage or because of the overwhelming significance that Israel has come to have for Jewish identity. Israel’s significance is matched by how much is published about Israel. Increasingly, this literature is not only about trying to explain Israel’s wars, the military occupation or other parts of its history, but about the relationship between Diaspora1 Jewry and Israel.

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