scholarly journals Accomplishment of goal levels in multi team systems: Role of leadership skills and multicultural teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1791-1796
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nawaz ◽  
Asma Tahir ◽  
Rana Mumtaz Khan ◽  
Ghulam Abbas Bhatti ◽  
Alina Namatullah
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Model ◽  
Lower Order ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Goal Achievement ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Multicultural Teams ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Functional Process

Teams are increasingly engaged in networked interaction across teams and organizational boundaries in order to achieve complex, lower order and higher order goals. Considering the fact that the goals accomplishment is the basic necessity of organizations, this study aims at exploring the accomplishment of goal levels in multi team systems (MTSs). There exists an absence of theoretical models focused on systems composed of such teams. This study therefore, proposes a predictive model to improve understanding in this regard. It has been suggested that the higher order goals are more effective to accomplish under sequential and reciprocal functional process inter dependencies. Conversely, the lower order goals are more effective to accomplish under intensive functional process inter dependency. However, this goal achievement requires facilitators to make it more effective because of which moderators such as leadership skills and multicultural teams are proposed within the suggested framework.

scholarly journals Tubulin Acetylation Promotes Penetrative Capacity of Cells Undergoing Radial Intercalation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Collins ◽  
Sun K. Kim ◽  
Rosa Ventrella ◽  
Jen W. Mitchell ◽  
Brian Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Lower Order ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Epithelial Barrier ◽  
Post Translational Modification ◽  
Tissue Penetration ◽  
Tubulin Acetylation ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Microtubule Networks ◽  
Differential Timing

AbstractThe post-translational modification of tubulin provides a wide diversity of differential functions to microtubule networks. Here we address the role of tubulin acetylation on the penetrative capacity of cells undergoing radial intercalation in the skin of Xenopus embryos. Radial intercalation is the process by which cells move apically and penetrate the epithelial barrier via inserting into the outer epithelium. As such there are two opposing forces that regulate the ability of cells to intercalate: the restrictive forces of the epithelial barrier versus the penetrative forces of the intercalating cell. By positively and negatively modulating tubulin acetylation specifically in the intercalating cells, the timing of intercalation can be altered such that cells with more acetylated microtubules penetrate the epithelium faster. Moreover, the Xenopus epithelium is a complex array of variable types of vertices and we find that intercalating cells preferentially penetrate at higher order “rosette” vertices as opposed to the more prevalent tricellular vertices. We observed differential timing in the ability of cells to penetrate different types of vertices, indicating lower order vertices represent more restrictive sites of insertion. Interestingly, we are able to shift the accessibility of early intercalating cells towards the more restrictive tricellular junctions by modulating the level of tubulin acetylation and the subsequent penetrative capacity of intercalating cells. Overall our data implicate tubulin acetylation in driving tissue penetration of intercalating cells.

scholarly journals Predicting early academic achievement: The role of higher-versus lower-order personality traits

Psihologija ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Zupancic ◽  
Tina Kavcic
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Lower Order ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
First Year ◽  
Early Academic Achievement

The study explored the role of children?s (N = 193) individual differences and parental characteristics at the beginning of the first year of schooling in predicting students? attainment of academic standards at the end of the year. Special attention was paid to children?s personality as perceived by the teachers? assistants. Along with parents? education, parenting practices and first-graders? cognitive ability, the incremental predictive power of children?s higher-order (robust) personality traits was compared to the contribution of lower-order (specific) traits in explaining academic achievement. The specific traits provided a somewhat more accurate prediction than the robust traits. Unique contributions of maternal authoritative parenting, children?s cognitive ability, and personality to academic achievement were established. The ratings of first-graders? conscientiousness (a higher-order trait) improved the prediction of academic achievement based on parenting and cognitive ability by 12%, whereas assistant teacher?s perceived children?s intelligence and low antagonism (lower-order traits) improved the prediction by 17%.

scholarly journals Accomplishment of goal levels in multi team systems: Role of leadership skills and multicultural teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1791
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nawaz ◽  
Asma Tahir ◽  
Rana Mumtaz Khan ◽  
Ghulam Abbas Bhatti ◽  
Alina Namatullah
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Multicultural Teams

A multilevel model of multiteam motivation and performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramón Rico ◽  
Verlin B. Hinsz ◽  
Shawn Burke ◽  
Eduardo Salas
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Goal Striving ◽  
Multiteam Systems ◽  
Goal Level ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Functional Process

Teams are increasingly engaged in networked interaction across both team and organizational boundaries in order to achieve complex, higher order goals. In contrast to theoretical work on goal pursuit within isolated teams, there is an absence of theoretical models focused on systems composed of such teams. In response, we propose a predictive model to improve understanding of the nature of motivational processes leading to performance in interdependent systems of teams. This model is grounded on goal hierarchy characteristics (goal level, priority, and degree of compatibility) and functional process interdependence (sequential, reciprocal, intensive) that differentially affect both goal setting and goal striving processes across component team and multiteam levels. The model also illustrates how goal choice and goal striving in multiteam systems (MTSs) can be viewed from multilevel and multiphasic perspectives. We discuss the implications of the model for understanding, researching, and effectively managing the motivational mechanisms underlying MTSs performance.

Looking Back

2019 ◽  
pp. 172-200
Author(s):  
Larry M. Jorgensen
Keyword(s):  
Lower Order ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Order Theory ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Memory Theory ◽  
Clear Advantage ◽  
Higher Order Theory ◽  
Looking Back

This chapter considers the role of memory in Leibniz’s philosophy of mind and, in particular, in his theory of consciousness. It is argued that a simple memory theory of consciousness will fall prey to similar systematic worries as the occurrent higher-order theory. Some refinements to the memory theory are suggested. The result is a more robust memory interpretation that cannot be easily dismissed. However, in the end, even this memory-based higher-order account does not have a clear advantage. The modifications needed in order to strengthen the memory theory open the door again to the competing interpretation that relies only on lower-order features of perceptions. Finally, it is argued that Leibniz’s claims about memory and consciousness are not intended to identify a constitutive relation between memory and consciousness. Rather, they identify a conceptual relation between memory and consciousness.

Proactive learning culture

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 477-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itzhak Gnizy ◽  
William E. Baker ◽  
Amir Grinstein
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Lower Order ◽  
Foreign Market ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Program Adaptation ◽  
Market Launch ◽  
Local Integration ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – Although small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) account for a significant portion of international trade, little is known about the role of strategic orientation culture in improving their foreign launch success. Three orientations – market, entrepreneurial, and learning are all related to organizational learning priorities and reflect a higher order dynamic capability (DC), proactive learning culture (PLC). The authors assert that PLC is particularly important to SMEs whose lack of market power and resources render them vulnerable in risky foreign market launch. Marketing program adaptation and local integration are examined as behavioral mediators of the impact of PLC on foreign market launch success. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The DC framework guides the study. The authors employ a model with a higher order PLC, two mediating behaviors, and firm foreign market launch success to report on an empirical study of US SMEs that operate in foreign markets. The authors used hierarchical regression analysis and extensive post hoc analyses/robustness checks. Findings – Consistent with the DC framework, SMEs’ foreign launch success is driven by higher and lower order behaviors. The impact of the higher order PLC construct was mediated by two lower order behaviors, marketing program adaptation and local integration. Notably, PLC's influence is stronger than the influence of any subset of its one/two/three first order components. Practical implications – SMEs need to pay attention to an array of organizational learning processes that combine to engender a PLC, which help optimize the deployment of more tangible, lower order behaviors required for foreign launch success. Originality/value – Introducing PLC as a DC that enables firms to proactively develop market-oriented, innovative capabilities using a knowledge-based approach. The elements of PLC reflect a more complete view of the role of learning in driving the assembly of lower order behaviors in foreign market launch, which requires both a market-oriented approach and the ability to innovate under conditions of uncertainty. While each element of PLC is valuable, the higher level impact of all three facilitates a more effective culture for those firms, which choose to enter new markets.

The Role of Distress Disclosure Tendencies in the Experience and Expression of Laboratory-Induced Sadness

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. Kahn ◽  
Daniel W. Cox ◽  
A. Myfanwy Bakker ◽  
Julia I. O’Loughlin ◽  
Agnieszka M. Kotlarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Distress Disclosure ◽  
Computerized Text Analysis

Abstract. The benefits of talking with others about unpleasant emotions have been thoroughly investigated, but individual differences in distress disclosure tendencies have not been adequately integrated within theoretical models of emotion. The purpose of this laboratory research was to determine whether distress disclosure tendencies stem from differences in emotional reactivity or differences in emotion regulation. After completing measures of distress disclosure tendencies, social desirability, and positive and negative affect, 84 participants (74% women) were video recorded while viewing a sadness-inducing film clip. Participants completed post-film measures of affect and were then interviewed about their reactions to the film; these interviews were audio recorded for later coding and computerized text analysis. Distress disclosure tendencies were not predictive of the subjective experience of emotion, but they were positively related to facial expressions of sadness and happiness. Distress disclosure tendencies also predicted judges’ ratings of the verbal disclosure of emotion during the interview, but self-reported disclosure and use of positive and negative emotion words were not associated with distress disclosure tendencies. The authors present implications of this research for integrating individual differences in distress disclosure with models of emotion.

READING EXERCISES FOR VIII GRADE STUDENTS BASED ON BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Intan Permata Sari And Indra Hartoyo
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Lower Order ◽  
Bloom's Taxonomy ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Thinking Skill ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Bloom’S Taxonomy

This study is aimed at (1) analyzing reading exercises based Bloom’s taxonomy for VIII grade in English on Sky textbook. (2) Found the distribution of the lower and higher order thinking skill in reading exercises. (3) To reason for level reading exercises. After analyzed the data, the result of the data analysis also infers that the six levels of Bloom’s taxonomy in reading exercises weren’t applied totally. The creating skill doesn’t have distribution in reading exercise, and the understanding – remembering level more dominant than another levels. The distribution of the higher order thinking level was lower than the lower order thinking level and the six levels are not appropriate with the proportion for each level of education based Bloom’s taxonomy, such as the distribution of the creating level in the reading exercise must be a concern because no question that belong to the creating level. It was concluded that reading exercises in English on Sky textbook cannot improve students' critical thinking skills for VIII grade.

Exploring the role of identity fusion and group identification in predicting parochialism amongst Indonesian Islamic groups

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Michael Kavanagh ◽  
Susilo Wibisono ◽  
Rohan Kapitány ◽  
Whinda Yustisia ◽  
Idhamsyah Eka Putra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Group Identification ◽  
Control Sample ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Beliefs And Practice ◽  
Fusion Theory

Indonesia is the most populous Islamic country and as such is host to a diverse range of Islamic beliefs and practices. Here we examine how the diversity of beliefs and practices among Indonesian Muslims relates to group bonding and parochialism. In particular, we examine the predictive power of two distinct types of group alignment, group identification and identity fusion, among individuals from three Sunni politico-religious groups - a fundamentalist group (PKS), a moderate group (NU), and a control sample of politically unaffiliated citizens. Fundamentalists were more fused to targets than moderates or citizens, but contrary to fusion theory, we found across all groups, that group identification (not fusion) better predicted parochialism, including willingness to carry out extreme pro-group actions. We discuss how religious beliefs and practice impact parochial attitudes, as well as the implications for theoretical models linking fusion to extreme behaviour.

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