Working Misunderstandings

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.14361/9783839458679 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Frauke Mörike

Keyword(s):

Multinational Corporation ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Everyday Work ◽

Key Factor ◽

Organisational Research

Misunderstandings are often perceived as something to be avoided yet delineate an integrative part of everyday work. This book addresses the role that misunderstandings play in collaborative work and, above all, their effects on the organisational result. As exemplified by project collaboration across three offices of a multinational corporation in India, Frauke Mörike explores how misunderstandings shape the organisational system and why they prove not only necessary but even productive for organisational functioning. In doing so, she offers new ways to think about collaboration and establishes `misunderstanding' as a key factor of insight for the field of organisational research.

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Multi Strategies-Based Resources Recommendation in Learning Team

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1006-1007.1187 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1006-1007 ◽

pp. 1187-1193

Author(s):

Lin Gong ◽

Zi Jian Zhang ◽

Jian Xie

Keyword(s):

Team Member ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Prototype System ◽

Learning Resources ◽

Team Members ◽

Task Knowledge ◽

Task Requirements ◽

Key Factor ◽

Learning Team ◽

Practical Validation

Learning team has become an important foundation for collaborative work. In a team, according to the knowledge of members and task requirements, how to recommend learning resources to the appropriate team member is a key factor of success. This paper firstly reviewed related methods and concepts in knowledge management and recommendation. Then, it constructed different models for task, knowledge, team member and learning resource. The two strategies of resources recommendation were proposed. One was based on similarity measurement and another is based on knowledge background and experience of team members. Based on the two strategies, learning resources were recommended to team members. Finally, the prototype system was built for practical validation.

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COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING AND ITS IMPLICATION IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

DYNA INGENIERIA E INDUSTRIA ◽

10.6036/10186 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol DYNA-ACELERADO (0) ◽

pp. [ 4 pp.]-[ 4 pp.]

Author(s):

IVAN GIL GIL ◽

MANUEL DOMINGUEZ SOMONTE ◽

MARIA DEL MAR ESPINOSA ESCUDERO

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Learning ◽

Employee Engagement ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Field Analysis ◽

Learning Collaborative ◽

Collaborative Engineering ◽

Social Competencies ◽

Key Factor ◽

Organization Leadership

As suggested by several previous studies, employee and managerial engagement is a key factor in an organization's productivity and performance. Positive leadership styles, social support and autonomy, among others, have been proposed as predictors of engagement. Collaborative learning has multiple advantages over learning in competitive and individual situations, including the development of high-skill social competencies, and collaboration and teamwork per se. This paper analyses the correlation between the level of engagement, employees' perception of collaboration and other common predictors of organizational commitment over a seven-year period of field analysis (2014-2020) in multinational companies in the industrial sector. The study shows that the perception of collaboration is significantly positively correlated with engagement and can be a good predictor of engagement. This suggests the suitability of both the adoption of collaborative learning methodologies to middle and higher degrees linked to industry, as well as the promotion by industrial organizations of the application of collaborative engineering and other methods and means for collaborative work. KEY WORDS: Work engagement; employee engagement; industrial organization; leadership; collaborative learning; cooperative learning; distance learning; collaborative engineering.

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Managing expatriates: analyzing the experience of an internationalized Brazilian Company

Revista de Ciências da Administração ◽

10.5007/2175-8077.2016v18n46p137 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 137-147

Author(s):

Bernardo Meyer ◽

Victor Meyer Jr ◽

Kamila Vieira da Silva ◽

Larissa Mallmann Fernandes Almeida Brandão

Keyword(s):

International Business ◽

Multinational Corporation ◽

Single Case ◽

Cultural Dimension ◽

Psychic Distance ◽

Single Case Study ◽

Key Factor ◽

Important Barrier ◽

Expatriate Employees

The management of expatriate employees is an important topic in the field of international business. Most of the studies on expatriation management are based on the experience of North American and Western European corporations. Few studies focus on corporations from developing countries. The purpose of this study was to examine, in the cultural dimension, how expatriates were managed by a Brazilian multinational corporation. This is a single case study based on qualitative research. The focus was a Brazilian telecommunications company operating in China. The research investigated the preparedness of expatriates prior to departure and the kinds of difficulties they faced in daily life abroad. The analysis revealed that the lack of preparation of expatriates before departure was an important barrier to overcome in order to achieve better performance. The findings indicated that psychic distance was the key factor responsible for major problems facing expatriate workers. The contribution of the study is that it shows how a Brazilian corporation addressed the challenges of managing its expatriates in China.

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Attachment of oral bacteria to titanium surfaces: An SEM study

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100170074 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 468-469

Author(s):

J. E. Laffoon ◽

R. L. Anderson ◽

J. C. Keller ◽

C. D. Wu-Yuan

Keyword(s):

Technical Problem ◽

Titanium Implant ◽

Oral Bacteria ◽

Bacterial Cells ◽

Thin Sections ◽

Surface Ultrastructure ◽

Sem Study ◽

Key Factor ◽

Titanium Surfaces

Titanium (Ti) dental implants have been used widely for many years. Long term implant failures are related, in part, to the development of peri-implantitis frequently associated with bacteria. Bacterial adherence and colonization have been considered a key factor in the pathogenesis of many biomaterial based infections. Without the initial attachment of oral bacteria to Ti-implant surfaces, subsequent polymicrobial accumulation and colonization leading to peri-implant disease cannot occur. The overall goal of this study is to examine the implant-oral bacterial interfaces and gain a greater understanding of their attachment characteristics and mechanisms. Since the detailed cell surface ultrastructure involved in attachment is only discernible at the electron microscopy level, the study is complicated by the technical problem of obtaining titanium implant and attached bacterial cells in the same ultra-thin sections. In this study, a technique was developed to facilitate the study of Ti implant-bacteria interface.Discs of polymerized Spurr’s resin (12 mm x 5 mm) were formed to a thickness of approximately 3 mm using an EM block holder (Fig. 1). Titanium was then deposited by vacuum deposition to a film thickness of 300Å (Fig. 2).

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Forum: Morphological Awareness as a Key Factor in Language-Literacy Success for Academic Achievement

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/2020_lshss-20-00064 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 51 (3) ◽

pp. 509-513

Author(s):

Ashley Bourque Meaux ◽

Julie A. Wolter ◽

Ginger G. Collins

Keyword(s):

Academic Achievement ◽

Academic Success ◽

Literacy Development ◽

Morphological Awareness ◽

Language And Literacy ◽

Speech Language Pathologists ◽

School Based ◽

Literacy Success ◽

Key Factor ◽

Language And Literacy Development

Purpose This article introduces the Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools Forum: Morphological Awareness as a Key Factor in Language-Literacy Success for Academic Achievement. The goal of this forum is to relate the influence morphological awareness (MA) has on overall language and literacy development with morphology acting as the “binding agent” between orthography, phonology, and semantics ( Perfetti, 2007 ) in assessment and intervention for school-aged children. Method This introduction provides a foundation for MA development and explores the influence MA has over the course of school-aged language and literacy development. Through summaries of the 11 articles in this forum, school-based speech-language pathologists will be able to convey the importance of MA to promote successful educational outcomes for kindergarten to adolescent students. The forum explores researcher-developed assessments used to help identify MA skill level in first- through eighth-grade students at risk for literacy failure to support instructional needs. The forum also provides school-based speech-language pathologists with details to design and implement MA interventions to support academic success for school-aged students with varying speech-language needs (e.g., dual language emersion, vocabulary development, reading comprehension) using various service delivery models (e.g., small group, classroom-based, intensive summer camps). Conclusion MA is effective in facilitating language and literacy development and as such can be an ideally focused on using multilinguistic approaches for assessment and intervention. The articles in this issue highlight the importance in assessment measures and intervention approaches that focus on students' MA to improve overall academic success in children of all ages and abilities.

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