scholarly journals Leadership Development Return on Investment: The Influence of Followership

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mark Harris
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Leader Role

<p>In this research paper the role of followers in a leader's development is explored. The research findings show that leadership development remains a “slippery” subject and in spite of all the commitment made by organisations to develop leadership, the return on this investment, as viewed by followers is poor. Even though followers are the indirect recipients of leadership development and without them the role of leader does not exist, they are largely excluded from the process. Leaders see the important contribution they could have if provided the opportunity. Moreover, the development of followership is not evident even though both followers and leaders alike see the critical role of followership in a leader's success. The focus of leadership and followership is dominated by the leader's views. While not researching sensemaking in depth, this research presents evidence that the sensemaking of followers is accurate, insightful and meaningful. The research begins to explore the reasons for the low return on leadership development and highlights harmful aspects that can arise where care is not taken to consider a leader's maturity and situational context. The research shows how organisations are not actively encouraging authenticity and inner development of followers. Where this occurs it is largely a passive process and takes place through mimicry. Given the imbalance of resource allocation to be almost totally to the benefit of leadership, authenticity awareness and development is seen to be reserved for those that desire the title of leader. Finally, the research suggests that implementing followership development in a similar way to that which occurs in leadership would be positive although limiting. The current commoditisation of leadership results from the way mainstream thinking considers the leader's role and encourages a relational and dualistic view between the leader and follower. This view does not align to the everyday experience of people who share conversation, who create meaning together and who together help construct the leader role.</p>

scholarly journals Leadership Development Return on Investment: The Influence of Followership

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mark Harris
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Leader Role

<p>In this research paper the role of followers in a leader's development is explored. The research findings show that leadership development remains a “slippery” subject and in spite of all the commitment made by organisations to develop leadership, the return on this investment, as viewed by followers is poor. Even though followers are the indirect recipients of leadership development and without them the role of leader does not exist, they are largely excluded from the process. Leaders see the important contribution they could have if provided the opportunity. Moreover, the development of followership is not evident even though both followers and leaders alike see the critical role of followership in a leader's success. The focus of leadership and followership is dominated by the leader's views. While not researching sensemaking in depth, this research presents evidence that the sensemaking of followers is accurate, insightful and meaningful. The research begins to explore the reasons for the low return on leadership development and highlights harmful aspects that can arise where care is not taken to consider a leader's maturity and situational context. The research shows how organisations are not actively encouraging authenticity and inner development of followers. Where this occurs it is largely a passive process and takes place through mimicry. Given the imbalance of resource allocation to be almost totally to the benefit of leadership, authenticity awareness and development is seen to be reserved for those that desire the title of leader. Finally, the research suggests that implementing followership development in a similar way to that which occurs in leadership would be positive although limiting. The current commoditisation of leadership results from the way mainstream thinking considers the leader's role and encourages a relational and dualistic view between the leader and follower. This view does not align to the everyday experience of people who share conversation, who create meaning together and who together help construct the leader role.</p>

scholarly journals Too Little, Too Late?

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Lilian Milanés ◽  
Joanna Mishtal
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Low Expectations ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Reproductive Healthcare

AbstractScholarship and advocacy work regarding reproductive health have often focused on women’s experiences. Concerns about men’s sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) have historically been on the margins in this context. In the United States, young men are at the greatest risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), yet are the least likely to seek SRH. Based on research with 18 healthcare providers in a large public Florida university clinic, we examined providers’ perspectives about expanding men’s SRH provision and utilisation. Research findings demonstrate inconsistent provider strategies in treating men’s SRH needs and a clinical environment that has low expectations of men receiving preventive care, further perpetuating the placement of SRH responsibility upon women. This article contributes to applied and medical anthropology scholarship on health inequalities through its discussion of the challenges and barriers that contribute to poor SRH for young men and the critical role of providers in this context.

Supportive Organizational Context for Teams: A Study of Construct Validity

2020 ◽  
pp. 002188632091718
Author(s):  
Camille Francoeur-Marquis ◽  
Caroline Aubé
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Order Model ◽  
First Order ◽  
Multidimensional Representation

Despite a call within scientific literature to better account for contextual factors in team studies, very little research has systematically analyzed the potentially critical role of such factors, thus limiting organizations’ ability to provide contextual conditions that would foster team effectiveness. The Supportive Organizational Context for Teams (SOCT) construct effectively captures some of these factors (rewards, information, education, and resource allocation). However, while the internal consistency of the SOCT has been analyzed, its multidimensional representation has never been tested. In this study, we address these limitations by assessing the factor structure of a measure proposed by Wageman et al. (2005) and of its distinctive nature in relation to Perceived Organizational Support. Using a sample of 235 participants and the newly developed bifactor-ESEM framework, this study supports the notion that a high-order model is superior to a first-order model, and SOCT and Perceived Organizational Support are distinct from one another.

scholarly journals Blinded by the load: attention, awareness and the role of perceptual load

2014 ◽  
Vol 369 (1641) ◽  
pp. 20130205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilli Lavie ◽  
Diane M. Beck ◽  
Nikos Konstantinou
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Load ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Explicit Recognition ◽  
Irrelevant Distractors ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Sensory Responses ◽  
The Relationship

What is the relationship between attention and conscious awareness? Awareness sometimes appears to be restricted to the contents of focused attention, yet at other times irrelevant distractors will dominate awareness. This contradictory relationship has also been reflected in an abundance of discrepant research findings leading to an enduring controversy in cognitive psychology. Lavie's load theory of attention suggests that the puzzle can be solved by considering the role of perceptual load. Although distractors will intrude upon awareness in conditions of low load, awareness will be restricted to the content of focused attention when the attended information involves high perceptual load. Here, we review recent evidence for this proposal with an emphasis on the various subjective blindness phenomena, and their neural correlates, induced by conditions of high perceptual load. We also present novel findings that clarify the role of attention in the response to stimulus contrast. Overall, this article demonstrates a critical role for perceptual load across the spectrum of perceptual processes leading to awareness, from the very early sensory responses related to contrast detection to explicit recognition of semantic content.

Role of Landlords in Creating Healthy Homes: Section 8 Landlord Perspectives on Healthy Housing Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 511-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie L. Polletta ◽  
Margaret Reid ◽  
Eugene Barros ◽  
Catherine Duarte ◽  
Kevin Donaher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Policy Enforcement ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Section 8 ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Healthy Housing

Purpose: This article presents qualitative research findings of Section 8 landlord perceptions regarding healthy housing practices to inform landlord-focused initiatives. Approach or Design: Five focus groups were conducted with landlords. Setting: Boston, Massachusetts. Participants: Section 8 landlords participated in focus groups (n = 39). Method: Focus group transcripts were coded for key themes using a grounded theory approach. Results: Landlords’ primary challenges to creating a healthy housing environment included tenant behavior, financial burden, and policy enforcement; tenant safety and cost savings were seen as primary benefits. Conclusion: Landlords play a critical role in implementing healthy housing practices. Several opportunities exist to reduce barriers and capitalize on perceived benefits of implementing these practices, including increasing access to educational and financial resources.

scholarly journals Ceramide Transfer Protein (CERT): An Overlooked Molecular Player in Cancer

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (24) ◽  
pp. 13184
Author(s):  
Long Hoa Chung ◽  
Da Liu ◽  
Xin Tracy Liu ◽  
Yanfei Qi
Keyword(s):  
Lipid Transfer Protein ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Lipid Transfer ◽  
Cellular Functions ◽  
Transfer Protein ◽  
Cancer Cell Survival ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Druggable Targets ◽  
Apoptotic Signal

Sphingolipids are a class of essential lipids implicated in constructing cellular membranes and regulating nearly all cellular functions. Sphingolipid metabolic network is centered with the ceramide–sphingomyelin axis. Ceramide is well-recognized as a pro-apoptotic signal; while sphingomyelin, as the most abundant type of sphingolipids, is required for cell growth. Therefore, the balance between these two sphingolipids can be critical for cancer cell survival and functioning. Ceramide transfer protein (CERT) dictates the ratio of ceramide to sphingomyelin within the cell. It is the only lipid transfer protein that specifically delivers ceramide from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus, where ceramide serves as the substrate for sphingomyelin synthesis. In the past two decades, an increasing body of evidence has suggested a critical role of CERT in cancer, but much more intensive efforts are required to draw a definite conclusion. Herein, we review all research findings of CERT, focusing on its molecular structure, cellular functions and implications in cancer. This comprehensive review of CERT will help to better understand the molecular mechanism of cancer and inspire to identify novel druggable targets.

Feeling like a caiman: Bodily experiences of corruption

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Gomez-Temesio
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Water Access ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Moral World ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
The Everyday

When I started exploring water access in Senegal, the goal of my research was to test the legal-rational Weberian paradigm through an ethnography of the everyday experience of the State. In the central region of the country, a team of servants attached to the Water Supervisory Ministry were charged with the maintenance of water access. Citizens mostly depicted these agents as “caimans”: Greedy predators who were always asking for money. Witnessing illegal transactions on the field, yet they did not seem to all belong to the same moral world. Asking the protagonists to explain themselves always led to a dead end. Another type of ethnographic engagement was required. To access the inner life of the corporation, I came to work as an apprentice. Or, more accurately, to make sense of my presence I was offered the role of the apprentice by my informants. When it all began as a way of witnessing illegal transactions, my apprenticeship led me to build trust and feelings. As an apprentice, I became part of the moral economy of a particular group of street-level bureaucrats. Being an apprentice gave me a position where I could not only become a good observer or listener but a decent feeler. Accordingly, this article addresses ethnography not only as a method but as a positionality.

Translating Learning Trajectories Into Useable Tools for Teachers

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyndi Edgington ◽  
P. Holt Wilson ◽  
Paola Sztajn ◽  
Jared Webb
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Learning Trajectories ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Mathematics Teacher Educators ◽  
Research Findings

Mathematics teacher educators play a critical role in translating research findings into frameworks that are useful for mathematics teachers in their daily practice. In this article, we describe the development of a representation that brings together four research-based learning trajectories on number and operations. We detail our design process, present the ways in which we shared this representation with teachers during a professional development project, and provide evidence of the ways teachers used this translation of research into a pedagogical tool to make sense of students' mathematics. We conclude with revisions to the representation based on our analysis and discuss the role of mathematics teacher educators in translating research findings into useful tools for teachers.

scholarly journals Organizational Climate

Management ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Ehrhart ◽  
Maribeth Kuenzi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Service Climate ◽  
Initial Rise ◽  
Multilevel Theory ◽  
Research Findings

The study of organizational climate has had a long history that in many ways mirrors the development of the fields of organizational psychology and organizational behavior, and demonstrates the critical role of the environment in individual and organizational effectiveness. High levels of interest in organizational climate, largely coming from researchers in psychology, contributed to the initial rise and early progress in our understanding of the construct in the late 1960s through the 1970s. A variety of concerns related to the definition and measurement of climate, along with the rise in interest in climate’s sibling construct of organizational culture, resulted in waning interest through the 1980s and much of the 1990s. However, with increasing sophistication in and understanding of multilevel theory and measurement in the late 1990s through the 2000s came a rebirth of interest in climate, with a particular emphasis on focused climates (e.g., safety climate or service climate) that continues to this day. This bibliography provides an overview of research on organizational climate, including climate measurement, the most common types of climate that are found in the research literature, and the major research findings on organizational climate.

The Role of the SLP in Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening and Assessment

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Philofsky
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Prevalence Estimates ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
Screening Assessment ◽  
Critical Components

AbstractRecent prevalence estimates for autism have been alarming as a function of the notable increase. Speech-language pathologists play a critical role in screening, assessment and intervention for children with autism. This article reviews signs that may be indicative of autism at different stages of language development, and discusses the importance of several psychometric properties—sensitivity and specificity—in utilizing screening measures for children with autism. Critical components of assessment for children with autism are reviewed. This article concludes with examples of intervention targets for children with ASD at various levels of language development.

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