Corporate Leadership and Sustainability

2017 ◽  
pp. 160-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Leadership Competencies ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Corporate Leadership ◽  
The Core ◽  
Sustainability Leadership ◽  
Great Scrutiny

Due to pressures of globalization and competition, the quality of corporate leadership has come under great scrutiny as questions are being raised worldwide regarding the ability of leaders to deliver long term growth on a sustainable basis. This can be referred to as the “sustainability leadership cavity.” The chapter attempts to explore: what are the evolving challenges companies faces, what are the implications on demands placed on leaders and what new leadership competencies are required to ensure sustainability goals are achieved. It also intends to provide cases of successful sustainability leadership. Through grounded theory, in-depth literature review and contextual analysis the core of this chapter is to understand the organizational elements, structure, challenges and competencies crucial and critical for sustainability leadership.

scholarly journals Artikel Manajemen Mutu Terpadu

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Afni Syaputri ◽  
Rusdinal ◽  
Hade Afriansyah
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Customer Education ◽  
The World

The aim of quality management is to ensure that all parts of the organization work together to improve the processes, products, services and corporate culture to achieve long-term success that comes from customer satisfaction. This article was prepared by the author using the system referring to the literature review. The implementation of integrated quality management in education goes through several processes from the preparation, planning, and implementation of the quality of educational services that are expected by education customers. Meeting the expectations of customer education is a quality management paradigm that must be fulfilled, so that those who drop out of school and unemployment can be minimized in the world of our education.

Chrononutrition and Breast Milk: A Review of Circadian Variation in Breast Milk Nutrient Composition

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
Gugulethu Moyo ◽  
Shera Jackson ◽  
Allison Childress ◽  
John Dawson ◽  
Leslie Thompson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Breast Milk ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Circadian Variation ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Small Sample Sizes

ObjectiveThe objective of this literature review was to identify and summarize the current knowledge on the circadian variation of breast milk nutrients and the implications of these findings.MethodA review of literature was conducted, including all relevant studies regardless of location and year of publication.ResultsThe amino acids tyrosine, histidine, aspartic acid and phenylalanine and energy were observed to be higher during the day. Fat and the vitamins B-1, B-2, B-3, B-6, and B-12 were higher at night. Other studies have shown conflicting results or no circadian variation for certain nutrients. Poor reproducibility and small sample sizes affect the quality of existing research.ConclusionMore research is needed, and longitudinal studies would help assess the effect of breast milk chrononutrition on the long-term health outcomes of infants.

A literature review of the role of brachytherapy in the management of early-stage breast cancer

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-290
Author(s):  
Rebecca Thorpe ◽  
Heather Drury-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Overall Survival ◽  
Local Recurrence ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
External Beam Radiation ◽  
Recurrence Rates ◽  
Overall Survival Rates

AbstractBackground:This review evaluates whether brachytherapy can be considered as an alternative to whole breast irradiation (WBI) using criteria such as local recurrence rates, overall survival rates and quality of life (QoL) factors. This is an important issue because of a decline in local recurrence rates, suggesting that some women at very low risk of recurrence may be incurring the negative long-term side effects of WBI without benefitting from a reduction in local recurrence and greater overall survival. As such, the purpose of this literature review is to evaluate whether brachytherapy is a credible alternative to external beam radiation with a particular focus on the impact it has on patient QoL.Methods:The search terms used were devised by using the Population Intervention Comparison Outcome framework, and a literature search was carried out using Boolean connectors and Medical Subject Headings in the PubMed database. The resultant articles were manually assessed for relevance and appraised using the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network tool. Additional papers were sourced from the citations of articles found using the search strategy. Government guidelines and regulations were also used following a manual search on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence website. This process resulted in a total of 30 sources being included as part of the review.Results:Three types of brachytherapy were the foundation for the majority of the papers found: interstitial multi-catheter brachytherapy, intra-cavity brachytherapy and permanent seed implantation. The key themes that arose from the literature were that brachytherapy is equivalent to WBI both in terms of 5-year local recurrence rates and overall survival rates at 10–12 years. The findings showed that brachytherapy was superior to WBI for some QoL factors such as being less time-consuming and equal in terms of others such as breast cosmesis. The results did also show that brachytherapy does come with its own local toxicities that could impact upon QoL such as the poor breast cosmesis associated with some brachytherapy techniques.Conclusion:In conclusion, brachytherapy was deemed a safe or acceptable alternative to WBI, but there is a need for further research on the long-term local recurrence rates, survival rates and quality of life issues as the volume of evidence is still significantly smaller for brachytherapy than for WBI. Specifically, there needs to be further investigation as to which patients will benefit from being offered brachytherapy and the influence that factors such as co-morbidities, performance status and patient choice play in these decisions.

scholarly journals Automatic Curve Extraction for Digitizing Rainfall Strip Charts

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 891-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. E. van Piggelen ◽  
T. Brandsma ◽  
H. Manders ◽  
J. F. Lichtenauer
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Batch Process ◽  
Rainfall Time Series ◽  
Graphical Interface ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cumulative Rainfall ◽  
Color Detection ◽  
Meta Information

Abstract A method has been developed that largely automates the labor-intensive extraction work for large amounts of rainfall strip charts and paper rolls. The method consists of the following five basic steps: 1) scanning the charts and rolls to high-resolution digital images, 2) manually and visually registering relevant meta information from charts and rolls and preprocessing rolls to locate day transitions, 3) applying automatic curve extraction software in a batch process to determine the coordinates of cumulative rainfall lines on the images, 4) postprocessing the curves that were not correctly determined in step 3, and 5) aggregating the cumulative rainfall in pixel coordinates to the desired time resolution. The core of the method is in step 3. Here a color detection procedure is introduced that automatically separates the background of the charts and rolls from the grid and subsequently the rainfall curve. The rainfall curve is detected by minimization of a cost function. In total, 321 station years of locations in the Netherlands have successfully been digitized and transformed to long-term rainfall time series with 5-min resolution. In about 30% of the cases, semiautomatic postprocessing of the results was needed using a purpose-built graphical interface application. This percentage, however, strongly depends on the quality of the recorded curves and the charts and rolls. Although developed for rainfall, the method can be applied to other elements as well.

Hope Inspiration among People Living with HIV/AIDS: Theory and Implications for Counselors

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk Zinck ◽  
John Cutcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Stage Theory ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
The Core ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Core Variable ◽  
Hiv Aids

Despite the dramatic reversal in prognosis for people living long-term with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), the literature indicates, counter-intuitively, that PLWHA often do not have much hope for the future. The authors undertook a grounded theory study (Cutcliff & Zinck, 2011) that resulted in a four-stage theory of hope inspiration for PLWHA. Both the core variable, "Turning from death to life, " and the four stages of the theory have significant practice, education, and policy implications for counselors working with PLWHA, which this article explores in detail. It draws attention to specific counselor qualities (i.e., awareness, possessing a working knowledge of HIV/AIDS) and a sense of hope that the authors argue is needed to underpin effective work with PLWHA. It describes hope-inspiring interventions—witnessing hopelessness, punctuating resources, networking, and re-storying—that counselors might consider, linking each to the theory and stages of hope inspiration

LOGISTICS COMPETENCES AS THE CORE COMPETENCES OF A FIRM AFFECTING BUSINESS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE CREATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (0) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Rafał Matwiejczuk
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Economic Outcomes ◽  
Business Success ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Competences ◽  
Firm Success

Firms are constantly looking for ways leading to competitive advantage creation. Such advantage may be embedded on business success potentials including resources, capabilities and competences. From business competitive advantage perspective, the most significant potentials are competences. The effective and efficient exploitation of the competences may contribute to the achievement of the expected market and economic outcomes by the firm. Such outcomes are the symptoms of business success and the basis for business competitive advantage creation. In recent years one may notice an increasing significance of logistics seen as the crucial factor (or set of factors) of a firm success as well as business competitive advantage creation. The purpose of the article is to express the most important characteristics of logistics competences as the core competences of a firm in the context of the sustained, long-term business competitive advantage creation. The article is based on the literature review concerning the growing significance of a firm’s core competences as well as the possibilities of logistics competences exploitation in business competitive advantage creation.

Training Soft Skills to Project Managers An Experience Report

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Time Budget ◽  
Leadership Competencies ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Software Projects

The success of software projects is driven by the magical triangle between time, budget, and quality. While short term thinking focuses on time and budget, it is quality that has the most important impact on long term customer satisfaction. Thus, providing good quality software is crucial for success. Quality is influenced by several factors. It depends on the entire software development process and related activities (e.g., requirements management, configuration management, design controls, etc.). However, quality cannot be forced from outside. It is well known, but often forgotten, that it is the team and its relation to the project manager that decides on success or failure of a project. Improving the skills of the project managers improves the quality of the products. The limiting factor usually is not related to technical skills that can be trained quite easily. In fact, project management is all about communication and leadership competencies which are far more difficult (but not impossible) to train. In this paper, the author reports on experiences with this kind of training from an industrial point of view. In particular, the author describes what was most helpful and where the major difficulties lay.

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