Understanding Agency Culture and External and Internal Mitigating Factors in the Development of Compliance Plans

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimmy Rowe ◽  
Michele Long
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Mitigating Factors ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Insight Into

This article addresses the issues of organizational culture and the mitigating forces that affect and drive the development of compliance plans. It also offers insight into the potential benefits of developing a healthy compliance culture in an organization. The article discusses the major topics of understanding the culture that exists in an agency, core values for compliance, external mitigating factors, internal mitigating factors, and the benefits an agency can accrue by creating a healthy compliance culture.

scholarly journals The European Green Capital Award—Is It a Dream or Reality for Belgrade (Serbia)?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6182
Author(s):  
Marijana Pantić ◽  
Saša Milijić
Keyword(s):  
Urban Transformation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Transitional Countries ◽  
Great Hope ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

An agreement of cooperation and transmission of knowledge regarding the nomination for the European Green Capital Award (EGCA) was signed between the mayors of Belgrade and Ljubljana (EGCA 2016 winner) in September 2018. The candidacy of Belgrade was finally realized in October 2019. Great hope was placed in this endeavour because internationally recognized awards, such as the EGCA, represent enormous capital for both the city and the state. The EGCA requires serious preparation and significant fulfilment of preconditions. Many economically strong and environmentally responsible cities competed for the award, but did not win. On the other hand, the capital of Serbia does not appear to be an obvious winning candidate, especially as it is differentiated from the previous winners by being a non-EU city and by the fact that it is still undergoing an intense urban transformation, characteristic of transitional countries. Therefore, the main aim of this article is to present a review of the current state of Belgrade’s environmental qualities and its comparison with the EGCA criteria and with Grenoble as one of the winning competitors. The article gives a full overview of the EGCA requirements with certain details on required indicators, gives relevant insight into the procedure, which could be of use for any future candidacy, and discusses potential benefits for winners, losers and repeat candidacies.

The demise of #NSFW: Contested platform governance and Tumblr’s 2018 adult content ban

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482199671
Author(s):  
Jeanna Sybert
Keyword(s):  
Core Values ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Long Term Survival ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Platform Governance ◽  
Sexually Explicit ◽  
Explicit Content ◽  
Insight Into

On December 3, 2018, Tumblr announced that it would ban sexually explicit content from the platform, drawing immediate backlash from users. The ensuing discord on the site is conceptualized here as contested platform governance, or a conflict between users and ownership, in which not only are a platform’s policies and features challenged, but also its core values, identity, and/or purposes are put into question. By examining 238 Tumblr posts, this analysis identifies the unique ways users combatted the ban and (re)inscribed community values, while also contesting the owners’ legitimacy to govern the platform. Holding implications for the site’s long-term survival, such conflicts capture a critical moment in which the boundaries of power between users and ownership are challenged and, possibly, transformed. By examining Tumblr’s Not Safe For Work (NSFW) ban through the lens of platform governance, this study offers insight into how power and its limits are negotiated online.

scholarly journals Social Nurses’ Descriptions of Nursing: A Qualitative Study of What Social Nursing is and Does?

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 228-236
Author(s):  
Tine Louise Dideriksen ◽  
Marianne Lisby ◽  
Nina Brünés ◽  
Pia Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Holistic Nursing ◽  
Encounter Complex ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Female Nurses ◽  
Insight Into

Background: In the meeting between socially marginalised patients and somatic hospitals, healthcare systems often encounter complex challenges related to health inequalities that are difficult to resolve. To help reduce these challenges, a nursing approach employing a nurse (RN) with in-depth knowledge of socially marginalised patients and competences in rehabilitation (“social nurse”) has contributed to diminish health inequalities. However, further insight into the potential benefits of social nursing is required. Aim: To examine how social nurses describe and experience the social nursing approach situated at somatic hospitals. Methods: A qualitative study of social nurses’ descriptions and experiences with a social nurse approach included eight Danish hospitals. One male and 12 female nurses (n=13) employed as social nurses at somatic hospitals participated. Thirteen semi structured interviews were conducted using the methodological frameworks of phenomenology and hermeneutics. The interviews were analysed employing a method inspired by the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur’s theory of interpretation. Results: Four themes emerged from the analysis: 1) A unique expertise encompassing experience and evidence-based knowledge 2) coordination towards a common goal to reduce patients’ vulnerability, 3) to see and understand patients as whole persons, thereby assuring successful treatment and 4) working with the system to avoid losing the patients. The themes describe a unique expertise emerging from focusing healthcare efforts on the socially marginalised patients and the system in charge. Conclusion: The study indicated that the social nurse approach is a holistic nursing approach. Applying this approach allows for optimised treatment that fosters a more equal outcome across the spectrum of socially marginalised patients. The social nurse approach may contribute to diminishing health inequalities.

scholarly journals The Performativity of Organizational Culture in a No Excuses Charter School

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Radford
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Multiple Time Scales ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Successful Performance ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Clear Insight ◽  
Cyclical Process ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Successes And Failures

Theories developed by academics influence those they study, in some cases fundamentally shaping the world we study. This influential relationship, often called performativity, has gone largely unnoticed and uncommented on in organizational theory and research. The few studies investigating performativity in organizations or other fields typically focus on cases in which the ultimate success of theory's implementation is known. In this paper, I examine how one high-performing charter school sought to turn a prescribed organizational culture into reality. I find that path to successful performance is very narrow and ambiguous. The school succeeded and failed in many steps of the process, making it difficult to assess whether the initiative was successful and to attribute their successes and failures to the theory or their implementation. I conclude that performativity is a cyclical process occurring at multiple time scales. During these cycles, organizations iteratively test new implementations of the theory, seeking to gain clear insight into the success of their strategy and correctly attribute their successes and failures to decide whether the theory actually works or not.

Infoculture

2020 ◽  
pp. 178-227
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Occupational Group ◽  
Insight Into

The chapter examines stable beliefs, behaviors, and artifacts that revolve around organizational informing agents—culture of informing (infoculture). This concept deepens the insight into some well-known artifacts of organizational culture. The argument deconstructs the literature on organizational culture to expose such infocultural aspects. It is argued that different infocultures can exist in the same company, based on the occupational group, profession, department, and other grounds. Six types of infoculture are described, including newly introduced the team and knowledge infocultures. Case evidence on infocultures in three companies studied is used to illustrate these categories. Both a method of categorizing infocultures grounded on the idea of metaphor and the associated research inquiry are explained. The discussion also addresses the impacts of big data on infoculture. The chapter ends by presenting a case of colliding infocultures contributing to deadly air accidents.

scholarly journals Assessing the sociability of former pet and entertainment chimpanzees by using multiplex networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietmar Crailsheim ◽  
Toni Romani ◽  
Miquel Llorente ◽  
Elfriede Kalcher-Sommersguter
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Information Gain ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Multiplex Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Interaction Types ◽  
High Level ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractAdvances in the field of social network analysis facilitate the creation of multiplex networks where several interaction types can be analysed simultaneously. In order to test the potential benefits of this approach, we investigated the sociability of atypically raised chimpanzees by constructing and analysing 4-layered multiplex networks of two groups of former pet and entertainment chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). These networks are based on four social interaction types (stationary vicinity, affiliative behaviour, allogrooming, passive close proximity) representing low- to high-level interaction types in terms of sociability. Using the tools provided by the MuxViz software, we could assess and compare the similarity and information gain of each these social interaction types. We found some social interaction types to be more similar than other ones. However, each social interaction type imparted different information. We also tested for a possible impact of the chimpanzees’ biographical background on the social interaction types and found affiliative behaviour as well as allogrooming to be affected by adverse early life experiences. We conclude that this multiplex approach provides a more realistic framework giving detailed insight into the sociability of these chimpanzees and can function as a tool to support captive care management decisions.

A Survey on Various Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Selected Fields of Healthcare

2011 ◽  
pp. 20-59
Author(s):  
Wolfgang I. Schollhorn ◽  
Jörg M. Jager
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Neuromuscular Control ◽  
Neural Nets ◽  
Biomedical Signals ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Profound Insight

This chapter gives an overview of artificial neural networks as instruments for processing miscellaneous biomedical signals. A variety of applications are illustrated in several areas of healthcare. The structure of this chapter is rather oriented on medical fields like cardiology, gynecology, or neuromuscular control than on types of neural nets. Many examples demonstrate how neural nets can support the diagnosis and prediction of diseases. However, their content does not claim completeness due to the enormous amount and exponentially increasing number of publications in this field. Besides the potential benefits for healthcare, some remarks on underlying assumptions are also included as well as problems which may occur while applying artificial neural nets. It is hoped that this review gives profound insight into strengths as well as weaknesses of artificial neural networks as tools for processing biomedical signals.

The Personal and Professional Experiences of Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program Graduates: A Pilot Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay M. Frey ◽  
Judy L. Ratliff
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Certificate Program ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Professional Experiences ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Insight Into

Integrative Nurse Coaching is a new practice in professional nursing. The purpose of this pilot study is to describe Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program graduates’ personal and professional experiences. This is a qualitative, pilot study with a convenience sample of Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program graduates ( n = 13). Researchers conducted semistructured interviews and identified common themes. The pilot study found four common themes from the participants’ experiences as follows: (1) development of self, (2) enriched self-care, (3) a call to action for facilitating the health care paradigm shift, and (4) incorporating Integrative Nurse Coaching into practice. The pilot study’s findings and conclusions provide insight into the potential benefits of Integrative Nurse Coaching and the importance of nurse self-care.

Digitalisierung und Teilhabe

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Special Volume ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Insight Into

More social participation is regarded as one of the potential benefits of digitalisation. What are the opportunities offered by digitalisation and what are the risks of social groups being marginalised? What responsibilities do welfare organisations, social services, politics and administrative bodies have in this respect? In this book, the authors address political, technical and ethical questions. They reveal which structures lead to increased social participation and examine how these structures are organised for, among others, families, young people, people with disabilities, people with immigrant backgrounds and the unemployed. This special volume provides a comprehensive insight into the subject of social participation as a key aspect of the digital revolution. In order to promote increased participation, it presents how the effects of digitalisation on social participation have developed and suggests concrete courses of action. With contributions by Daniel Dettling, Eva M. Welskop-Deffaa, Sabine Skutta / Joß Steinke, Hannes Jähnert / Mike Weber, Johannes Feldmann, Niklas Kossow, Ulrike Wagner, Rainer Sprengel, Daniel Kämpfe-Fehrle, Hannah Kappes, Welf Schröter, Antje Draheim, Rose Volz-Schmidt, Dietrich Engels, Stefan Göthling / Kerstin Uelze, Tanja Zagel / Sebastian Seitz, Anne-Marie Kortas, Gabriele Groß / Nadja Saborowski, Christine Weiß / Julian Stubbe, Christian Hener / Karolina Molter, Björn Stahlhut / Benjamin Fehrecke-Harpke.

Exploring Organizational Culture Through Artifacts in a Community Figure Skating Club

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 482-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Mills ◽  
Larena Hoeber
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Outer Layer ◽  
Figure Skating ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Community Sport ◽  
Insight Into

Although some elements of community sport organizations (CSOs) are welcoming and shared across all members, others may be contested. Organizational culture provides a conceptual lens through which to understand the meaning and experiences associated with CSOs. As the outer layer of organizational culture (Schein, 1985), artifacts can give further insight into participant experiences. The purpose of this study is to examine members’ perceptions of artifacts in a local figure skating club. We used Martin’s (1992, 2002) three perspectives to illuminate integrated, differentiated, and fragmented perspectives of The Club’s organizational culture. Eight skaters and seven adults from a midsize figure skating club in Canada participated in photo-elicited interviews. We found integration in participants’ discussion of the unique figure skating facility, differentiated perspectives of achievement-oriented artifacts, and fragmented perspectives of the skaters’ dressing rooms. Our research demonstrates the importance of examining the meanings associated with artifacts in sport organizations.

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