scholarly journals The DPOBE Model for Organizational Sustainability: An Exploratory Study about its Structure, Pillars and Components among a Group of Master Degree Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Aníbal Areia ◽  
Francisco Esteves ◽  
João Rocha Santos ◽  
Pedro Anunciação
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Organizational Sustainability ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Made In

AbstractResearch purpose. To get a validation of the structure, pillars and components that seem to be central, and under which, business management and managers need to develop abilities and competences to ensure the sustainability of their organizations according to the ‘DPOBE Model for Organizational Sustainability’ structure.Design/Methodology/Approach. For the validation of the structure, pillars and components and it’s practical application to measure the organization’s sustainability level with the referred model, despite the focus group exercise made in an early stage, it’s also important to get a solid opinion about it among managers and also in academia, specifically among teachers and investigators on management, business administration and economics as well near master and doctorate students in this field. In this paper, we analyse the results obtained in an exploratory study, based on a survey made among students from four different master’s degree in several specific areas of business management from the School of Business Administration from the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (Portugal).Findings. Main results obtained with this exploratory study let the authors be granted with the developments made so far in the model and its structure, pillars and components. However, only with a major collection of opinions (answer to the survey) from the referred groups, it’s possible to define and adjust the final structure and components of the DPOBE Model.Originality/Value/Practical implications. Being an investigation with several years of development, with several articles, chapters of books, master’s degree thesis, congress presentations and papers made so far, only with a solid and validated structure, pillars and components of the DPOBE Model for Organizational Sustainability, it’s possible to go to its aim, the use of it as a quantitative tool to measure the effective organizations sustainability in a way different from other existing sustainability tools and indexes.

On compliance with the requirements of Federal Law No. 384-FL «Technical Regulations on the safety of buildings and structures» in the design of foundations and foundations of bridges

Innotrans ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Alexey N. Alekhin ◽  
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Andrey A. Alekhin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Nonlinear Model ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Geometrically Nonlinear ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Effective Training ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Technical Regulations

The article discusses the issue of complying with the requirements of Article 16 of Federal Law No. 384-FL «Technical Regulations on the safety of buildings and structures» on the use of a physically and geometrically nonlinear model adequate to the soil when developing the bases and foundations of bridge supports and other transport structures, which will significantly increase the reliability and cost-effectiveness of design solutions. At the same time, it is necessary to adjust the methodological and instrument support of transport universities for the effective training of bachelor’s and master’s degree students in the methodology of practical application of the geotechnical requirements of Law No. 384-FL.

scholarly journals Postgraduate education among family and community physicians in Brazil: the Trajetórias MFC project

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. e000321
Author(s):  
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle ◽  
Stephani Vogt Rossi ◽  
Miguel Henrique Moraes de Oliveira ◽  
Diego José Brandão ◽  
Thiago Dias Sarti
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Medical Residency ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Uncertainty Interval ◽  
Knowledge Area ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
National Information ◽  
De Medicina

ObjectiveOur objective was to describe the postgraduate education trajectories of family and community physicians in Brazil, where neither primary healthcare nor family and community medicine is recognised as a knowledge area for the purpose of research and postgraduate education (master’s and PhD degrees).DesignAn observational, exploratory study, using administrative data. A nationwide list of family and community physicians as of late November 2018 was compiled from multiple sources. Data on the mode of specialisation was obtained from the same sources and were correlated with data on master’s and PhD degrees, obtained from the curricula vitae on the Lattes Platform.SettingThis study was set in Brazil.Participants6238 family and community physicians (58.3% female), of whom 2795 had earned a specialist certificate (identified from the list of physicians certified by Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade) and 3957 had completed medical residency (identified from SisCNRM, the national information system for medical residency).ResultsA master’s degree was held by 747 (12.0%) family and community physicians, and a PhD by 170 (2.7%); most degrees were in collective health (47.0% and 42%, respectively). Men were more likely than women to hold a master’s degree (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 1.24, 95% uncertainty interval (UI) 1.07–1.45) and even more likely to a hold PhD (aOR 1.86, 95% UI 1.35–2.59). Family and community physicians were also less likely to hold a PhD degree if their master’s degree was professional (oriented towards jobs outside academia) instead of academic (aOR 0.15, 95% UI 0.05–0.39) or in some area other than collective health or medicine (aOR 0.41, 95% UI 0.21–0.78, compared with a master’s degree in collective health). The postgraduate degree was more likely to precede specialisation for family and community physicians specialising through certification (master’s degree 39.9%, PhD 33%) than through medical residency (master’s degree 9.1%, PhD 6%).ConclusionFamily and community physicians in Brazil increasingly earn academic and professional master’s and PhD degrees, with an emphasis on collective health, even though women seemingly face barriers to advance their education. The consequences of different postgraduate trajectories should be critically examined.

Focusing on dilemmas challenging reputation management in higher education

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kati Suomi ◽  
Päivikki Kuoppakangas ◽  
Ulla Hytti ◽  
Charles Hampden-Turner ◽  
Jukka Kangaslahti
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Reputation Management ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Degree Programme ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the dilemmas that challenge reputation management in the context of higher education (HE). Design/methodology/approach – The paper introduces one Finnish multidisciplinary master's degree programme as a case in point. The empirical data comprises a student survey and semi-structured interviews with internal and external stakeholders whose work relates to the master's degree programme in question. Findings – The findings identify different types of dilemmas arising from collaboration between stakeholders of HE. Practical implications – The paper demonstrates how the dilemma-reconciliation method can be used to enhance reputation management in HE. Originality/value – The novelty of the paper is in applying dilemma theory (Hampden-Turner and Trompenaars, 2000) in parallel with reputation theories. Dilemma theory attributes reputation risks to conflicting aims.

Medical Professionalism and Reflexivity. Examples of training to the sense of "duty" in medicine

2012 ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Patrizia de Mennato
Keyword(s):  
Master's Degree ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Medical Professionalism ◽  
Educational Strategy ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
The University

This paper contains our reflection on the experience held at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Florence (Italy) in many courses in Pedagogical Disciplines for the Bachelor's and Master's degree that have involved more than 1000 students. I think that if the reflective habits are presented in an early stage of students' training they can contribute to form a habit of mind that will accompany their professional biography. Therefore, we have chosen to focus on reflexivity as a primary educational strategy to enter into relationship with one's professional task. This has prompted us to build compelling educational opportunities that ‘expose' the students' minds to issues/problems/contradictions that are present in their everyday experiences of practitioners and students. The reflective laboratories and their public discussion introduce to a ‘familiarity with the exercise of reflection' through which students can learn to take themselves as subjects/objects of their knowledge and to recognize the contradictions and automatisms that appear in their professional action. These reflective modes start to training to a new idea of Medical Professionalism. This does not reduce professional action to linear sequences of activities, but have to recover also specific human qualities from professional epistemologies and responsibility

Implications of the learning environment in a professional Master’s degree in business administration in Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Mary Dayane Souza Silva ◽  
Anielson Barbosa da Silva ◽  
Ana Lúcia de Araújo Lima Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Master’S Degree

Grief and Loss: Issues for Abortion

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Idell Kesselman
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Unresolved Grief ◽  
Grief Therapy ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
Abortion Counseling ◽  
Made In

I had my first abortion just after my seventeenth birthday; in 1966 abortions were legal only to save the mother's life. My parents took me to Mexico, under the guidance of their psychoanalyst. But we never talked about it. While we were gone our dog had puppies. It seemed a powerful irony-but we never talked about it. I had two more abortions years later, each linked to the ending of a marriage. I began to notice a pattern-but no one helped me talk about it. And so I wrote-vignettes, journals, poems, dreams, parts of short stories-never realizing that I was struggling with the unacknowledged, unresolved grief of three abortions, three deaths. Then in 1987 I took the class, “Death, Society, and Human Experience,” as part of my preparation for a master's degree in counseling. All of my fragmented, aborted efforts at writing came together: each vignette had been a part of my grieving. These writings finally helped me resolve my grief-over twenty years of it. I can't help but wonder what differences specific grief therapy might have made in my life-in 1966, in 1972, or in 1976. Whatever your position on the issue of abortion, we must acknowledge that at least one death occurs. In addition to the fetus, there is often the death of youth, of innocence, of dreams, of illusions. Grief therapy must be a part of any abortion counseling. Without a healthy resolution, the guilt and pain continue. For some, it becomes a numbness, a heaviness carried deep inside. For others, relationships, pregnancies, and self concept are affected.

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