scholarly journals ISO9000, consultants and paradoxes: a sociological analysis of quality assurance and human resource techniques

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Freitas Gouveia de Vasconcelos ◽  
Flávio Carvalho de Vasconcelos
Keyword(s):  
Resistance To Change ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
New Institutional Theory ◽  
Organizational Power ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
Engineering Consultation ◽  
Social Defenses ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

This article analyses ISO9000 normalization processes as sources of organizational isomorphism according to the new institutional theory. We present two in-depth case studies in the French computer industry showing that there are two manners to implement ISO9000 standards: an in-depth procedure (concerned with organizational effectiveness and with external legitimacy) and an instrumental one (only concerned with external legitimacy). Our findings show that resistance to change is a common phenomenon in ISO9000 implementation programs having high impact on organizational power games and informal structures. In order to face these issues we suggest that consultants must go beyond engineering consultation methods that are only concerned with the structural fit between the organizational standards and the ISO9000 requirements. The paradox HRM model shows that information that threatens an organization's collective self-concept is often ignored, rejected, reinterpreted or hidden. The manifestation of social defenses - the ways of groups of people deal with non-contained forms of anxiety and fear, can be seen as sources of behaviors blocking organizational change.

Relation of Self-Concept to Impact and Obviousness of Disability among Male and Female Adolescents

1967 ◽  
Vol 24 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1099-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann L. Meissner ◽  
Richard W. Thoreson ◽  
Alfred J. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Physical Disability ◽  
Medical Problem ◽  
Adolescent Females ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Triple Interaction ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
High School Juniors

This study investigated adolescents' self-concept and the relation of self concept to sex, impact of physical disability, and the obviousness of the disability. It was hypothesized that the three variables would significantly interact. To form criterion groups according to self-perceived physical problems, a scale, Major Medical Problem, was constructed and administered to 382 male and female high school juniors. Significant interaction effects were demonstrated between sex and impact on the three self-concept dimensions (real, acceptance, and ideal) and a significant triple interaction among sex, obviousness, and impact on the three measures and on social desirability. Results suggested greatest impact on self concept occurred for adolescent females with physical problems of high impact and visibility. Implications of the findings were discussed within the context of Friedenberg's concept of sex-differentiated, adolescent needs for competence.

Developmental Trajectories of Personal and Collective Self-Concept Among American Indian Adolescents

2006 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
pp. 1487-1503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell ◽  
Christina M. Mitchell ◽  
Carol E. Kaufman ◽  
Paul Spicer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Indian Adolescents ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
American Indian Adolescents

Resistance to Change in the Self-Concept as a Function of Consensus Among Significant Others

Sociometry ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl W. Backman ◽  
Paul F. Secord ◽  
Jerry R. Peirce
Keyword(s):  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept

Understanding the Relational Self

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Pouliasi ◽  
Maykel Verkuyten
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Relational Self ◽  
Cognitive Representation ◽  
Social Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines spontaneous social self-representations in two different cultures (the Netherlands and Greece) and among adults and early adolescents. A distinction between three levels of the social self is made: the relational self, the communal self, and the collective self. Supporting the notion of the general primacy of the relational self the findings show that the relational self is the most prominent and important one in both cultures and among both age groups. Yet, there is a cultural difference in the cognitive representation of the relational self. In the Dutch context, participants tended to understand their relational self in terms of a personalized or dyadic mode of connection (pair-wise mode). In contrast, in Greece participants understood their relational self in terms of units of significant others (group-wise mode). Implications for the relationship between culture and the self-concept are discussed.

Tripartite Self-concept Change: Shifts in the Individual, Relational, and Collective Self in Adolescence

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Tanti ◽  
Arthur A. Stukas ◽  
Michael J. Halloran ◽  
Margaret Foddy
Keyword(s):  
Self Concept ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
Concept Change ◽  
The Individual

Postmortem and in situ TEM methods to study the mechanism of failure in controlled-morphology high-impact polystrene resin

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 178-179
Author(s):  
R. C. Cieslinski ◽  
M. T. Dineen ◽  
J. L. Hahnfeld
Keyword(s):  
Poisson Ratio ◽  
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene ◽  
High Impact ◽  
In Situ Tem ◽  
Styrene Copolymers ◽  
Controlled Morphology ◽  
Point Bend ◽  
Mechanism Of Failure ◽  
Impact Energies

Advanced Styrenic resins are being developed throughout the industry to bridge the properties gap between traditional HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene) and ABS (Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene copolymers) resins. These new resins have an unprecedented balance of high gloss and high impact energies. Dow Chemical's contribution to this area is based on a unique combination of rubber morphologies including labyrinth, onion skin, and core-shell rubber particles. This new resin, referred as a controlled morphology resin (CMR), was investigated to determine the toughening mechanism of this unique rubber morphology. This poster will summarize the initial studies of these resins using the double-notch four-point bend test of Su and Yee, tensile stage electron microscopy, and Poisson Ratio analysis of the fracture mechanism.

The Collaborative Network Approach: a model for advancing patient-centric research for Castleman disease and other rare diseases

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Mary Zuccato ◽  
Dustin Shilling ◽  
David C. Fajgenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Rare Diseases ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Castleman Disease ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Collaborative Network ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Grant Applications ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Novel Strategy ◽  
Patient Centric

Abstract There are ∼7000 rare diseases affecting 30 000 000 individuals in the U.S.A. 95% of these rare diseases do not have a single Food and Drug Administration-approved therapy. Relatively, limited progress has been made to develop new or repurpose existing therapies for these disorders, in part because traditional funding models are not as effective when applied to rare diseases. Due to the suboptimal research infrastructure and treatment options for Castleman disease, the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN), founded in 2012, spearheaded a novel strategy for advancing biomedical research, the ‘Collaborative Network Approach’. At its heart, the Collaborative Network Approach leverages and integrates the entire community of stakeholders — patients, physicians and researchers — to identify and prioritize high-impact research questions. It then recruits the most qualified researchers to conduct these studies. In parallel, patients are empowered to fight back by supporting research through fundraising and providing their biospecimens and clinical data. This approach democratizes research, allowing the entire community to identify the most clinically relevant and pressing questions; any idea can be translated into a study rather than limiting research to the ideas proposed by researchers in grant applications. Preliminary results from the CDCN and other organizations that have followed its Collaborative Network Approach suggest that this model is generalizable across rare diseases.

Pelvic Impairments

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
James Talmage ◽  
Jay Blaisdell
Keyword(s):  
Pelvic Ring ◽  
Reproductive Organs ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Pelvic Fractures ◽  
Motor Dysfunction ◽  
Impact Event ◽  
Concomitant Injuries ◽  
Rating Process ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
A Minor

Abstract Pelvic fractures are relatively uncommon, and in workers’ compensation most pelvic fractures are the result of an acute, high-impact event such as a fall from a roof or an automobile collision. A person with osteoporosis may sustain a pelvic fracture from a lower-impact injury such as a minor fall. Further, major parts of the bladder, bowel, reproductive organs, nerves, and blood vessels pass through the pelvic ring, and traumatic pelvic fractures that result from a high-impact event often coincide with damaged organs, significant bleeding, and sensory and motor dysfunction. Following are the steps in the rating process: 1) assign the diagnosis and impairment class for the pelvis; 2) assign the functional history, physical examination, and clinical studies grade modifiers; and 3) apply the net adjustment formula. Because pelvic fractures are so uncommon, raters may be less familiar with the rating process for these types of injuries. The diagnosis-based methodology for rating pelvic fractures is consistent with the process used to rate other musculoskeletal impairments. Evaluators must base the rating on reliable data when the patient is at maximum medical impairment and must assess possible impairment from concomitant injuries.

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