scholarly journals An Integrative Definition of Coaching Effectiveness and Expertise

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Côté ◽  
Wade Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Development Literature ◽  
Coaching Effectiveness ◽  
Three Components

The purpose of the current paper is to present an integrative definition of coaching effectiveness and expertise that is both specific and conceptually grounded in the coaching, teaching, positive psychology, and athletes' development literature. The article is organized into six sections. The first section is used to situate the proposed definition in the predominant conceptual models of coaching. The second, third, and fourth sections provide detailed discussion about each of the three components of the proposed definition of coaching effectiveness: (a) coaches' knowledge, (b) athletes' outcomes, and (c) coaching contexts. The proposed definition is presented in the fifth section along with a clarification of common terminology and guiding postulates. The final section includes implications for practice and research.

scholarly journals Observing Materiality in Organizations

M n gement ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
Isabelle Royer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Three Components

Research on materiality has grown rapidly over the past 10 years, highlighting the influence of physical artifacts and spaces in organizations, which had been overshadowed by discursive approaches. This body of research enriches our understanding of organizations in many areas including technology, decision-making, routines, learning, identity, culture, power, and institutions. However, researchers sometimes struggle to select methods suited to study materiality, as previous works have not been explicit in that respect. This article calls organizational researchers interested in physical environments – that is, artifacts and spaces – to integrate observation into their data collection. The first section presents a tripartite definition of the physical environment including activities, conceptions, and lived experiences. Ontological debates are introduced, and observation is proposed as a relevant method for studying materiality in organizational research. The second section presents observation techniques based on three approaches: observing materiality in actions, observing beyond seeing, and making participants observe. Each approach is mainly associated with one of the three components of materiality. The final section discusses the scope of observation techniques, suggests how to combine approaches, and flags difficulties associated with visual techniques.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Calculative Trust

This Introduction to the book does three things. First, it introduces the concept of trust and develops a definition of trust as the ‘expectation of no harm in contexts where betrayal is always a possibility’. Next, it identities two conceptions of trust that guide the book, ‘calculative trust’ and ‘trust as suspension’, which provide very different explanations for how actors form expectations that another will be trustworthy. It then shows how trust as suspension opens up a new theory of accurate signal interpretation and demonstrates how this theory is superior to costly signalling-based theories of accurate signal interpretation. The final section of the Introduction sets out the rationale for the case studies and the key assumptions.

Removing the Nationality Paradigm from Herodotus’ Histories

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-323
Author(s):  
Salvatore Tufano
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Test Cases ◽  
Persian Wars ◽  
Classical Definition ◽  
Mixed Language ◽  
Archaic Greece ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract The present paper suggests that the recurring appeal to kinship diplomacy undermines a fixed idea of ‘nation’ in Archaic Greece, especially in the first two decades of the fifth century BC. It aims to present a series of test cases in Herodotus that explain why contemporary patterns and theories on ancient ethnicity can hardly explain the totality of the historical spectrum. Blood ties could sometimes fortify ethnic relationships, as in the case of Aristagoras’ mission to Sparta (Hdt. 5.49.3), since the common Greekness could elicit the Spartan to help to the Ionians. In other times, the same blood ties were applied to divine genealogies, and they could also be used to show the feeble devotion of cities like Argos to the Greek cause (7.150.2: Xerxes expects the Argives to join the Persian cause, since they descend from Perses). Habits and traditions, often taken as indicia of national feeling, could be thought of as clues of ancient migrations (so the Trojans became Maxyes in Lybia: 4.191). Even language might not help in justifying ethnic relationships: for instance, the Greeks living in the Scythian Gelonus spoke a mixed language (4.108). These few case studies may shed a different light on the classical definition of Greekness (to hellenikon) in terms of blood, language, cults, and habits, all given by Herodotus (8.144). Far from being a valid label for all the Greeks of the fifth century, this statement owes much to a specific variety of the language of kinship diplomacy. The final section argues for the opportunity to avoid the later and misleading idea of nation when studying Herodotus and the age of the Persian Wars, which are instead characterized by various and contrasting strategies. Greek groups and ethne can be better described as networks of lightly defined communities.

"What God hath joined ...": Religious perspectives on marriage and divorce in late Victorian Canada

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Marguerite Van Die
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Folk Tradition

Prompted by recent debate and legislation in Canada about the definition of "marriage," this article explores the impact of socio-economic change and stress upon marriage as an institution among the middle class in Victorian Canada. It does this through the lens of "lived religion" as defined by Robert Orsi and others, taking the form of a case study of a marital scandal involving a respected Presbyterian minister in Brantford, Ontario in 1883. This is placed within the wider context of competing definitions of marriage as found in folk tradition and community networks, in various ecclesiastical marriage liturgies, and in marriage, divorce and property law. In its final section it examines the contradictions, tensions and anxieties that surrounded these definitions in late Victorian Canada as a result of changes in people's experience of space and time. It concludes by briefly drawing attention to the nature of "lived religion" and its implications in redefining marriage within a society that today has become highly urbanized, secular and pluralistic.

The quality of institutions: Problems of definition and evaluation

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
V. L. Tambovtsev
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Quality Of Institutions ◽  
Definition Of

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern ideas about the quality of institutions concept, and the development on this basis of its generalized and operational understanding. The interpretation of the quality of the institution as its legitimacy from the point of view of stakeholders of the institution’s performance is grounded. Starting from the understanding of the object or process legitimacy as a recognition of its right to exist, an approximate question is proposed for conducting sociological surveys to assess the quality of institutions. In the final section of the article, the evolutionary definition of the concept of quality is proposed, and it is shown that the identification of the institutions quality with their legitimacy is fully consistent with this definition.

On the issue of the adversarial process in modern civil proceedings

2021 ◽  
pp. 537-549
Author(s):  
Lyudmila A. Volchikhina
Keyword(s):  
Trial Procedure ◽  
Civil Proceedings ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Court Of First Instance ◽  
Three Components

The study attempts to expand the content of the definition of the adversarial process in civil proceedings. Conclusion: the adversarial process in civil proceedings includes three components, which include the pre-trial activities of the parties to resolve the material legal conflict that has arisen, the direct judicial consideration of the material legal conflict that has arisen, and the activities of the parties after the judicial resolution of the conflict. Examining the content of the adversarial process when considering and resolving the material legal conflict that has arisen by the court, it is concluded that, by managing the process, the court is the organizer of the adversarial process at all stages of the consideration of the case in the court of first instance. The role of the parties in the adversarial process is limited to their participation in the proving process. Examining the adversarial process of the parties to resolve a substantive conflict before going to court, it is proposed to the legislator to expand the list of categories of cases in which the use of the pre-trial procedure for resolving a dispute is mandatory. Investigating changes in the procedural form of civil proceedings concerning the obligation of the plaintiff to refer other persons involved in the case, copies of the statement of claim and the actions of the parties to disclose evidence, we consider it expedient to secure by the legislator the application of these rules in the adversarial process of the parties before they apply judicial forms of pro-tection.

Quintilian on Effective Language

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
Jeanne Fahnestock
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Word Choice ◽  
Rhetorical Style ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Passage Level ◽  
The Third ◽  
Prose Rhythm ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Major Division

Books 8 and 9 of the Institutio take up the third major division of rhetoric, elocutio or effective rhetorical style. Here Quintilian offers an encyclopaedic review of choices and devices at the word, sentence, and passage level, providing examples of their functions and potential abuses. Book 8 covers three of the four virtues of style: correctness, clarity, and ornatus or force. Quintilian favours everyday usage in word choice and warns against the faults of monotony, excess, and offensiveness. He praises visualizing language (enargeia), demurs on sententiae or pithy expressions, and reviews amplifying tactics, such as placing an item in, at the top, or even beyond a rising series, leading to speechlessness. The final section reviews twelve tropes, with special attention to how metaphors are invented. Book 9 opens with a definition of figures of speech as departures from normal usage, and discusses how the form of an expression contributes to its function. It then covers the ‘figures of thought’ such as prosopopoeia and irony, and the syntactic figures or schemes including figures of repetition. The last part treats compositio, involving word order, sound, and rhythm. Using the metrical vocabulary of poetry, Quintilian analyses prosody in terms of the proportion of long to short syllables, creating the pace of a passage, and then discusses prose rhythm in terms of the comma, colon, and period. Overall, Quintilian’s rich and complex treatment of rhetorical style should fuel continuing investigations.

Flourishing consumers from brands: brand well-being's conception, dimensions and scale

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-432
Author(s):  
Lifang Shu ◽  
Haiying Wei ◽  
Yaxuan Ran
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Brand Value ◽  
Brand Strategy ◽  
Sample Surveys ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Psychology Theory ◽  
Definition Of

PurposeThe present research aims to construct the brand well-being concept and develop the brand well-being scale.Design/methodology/approachBy interviewing 21 consumers and coding interview text, the authors propose and construct the definition of brand well-being. Using two large sample surveys, the authors develop 11 items for the brand well-being scale.FindingsBy interviewing 21 consumers and coding interview text, the authors propose and construct the definition of brand well-being. Using two large sample surveys, the authors develop 11 items for the brand well-being scale.Originality/valueThis research combines the branding theory and positive psychology theory, expands the extant understanding of brand value and provides new insights into optimizing a brand strategy.

Community physiotherapy in India: short review on research

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavithra Rajan
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Three Components

AbstractCommunity physiotherapy in India is an important but under researched field. There are three components of community physiotherapy that are associated with each other, namely, education, research, and service delivery. There have been previous attempts to study the components of education and service delivery in the field of community physiotherapy in India. However, there is little published research. The aim of the current paper is to understand the contribution of Indian physiotherapists to the field of community research in an Indian and a global context. A research journal called

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