Critical Incidents in the Lives of Gifted Female Finnish Scientists

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 151-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsi Tirri ◽  
Mirka Koro-Ljungberg
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Academic Woman ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Female Scientists

This study investigated the critical incidents in the professional and personal lives of gifted female scientists in Finnish society. Finland represents a European country where gender equity has been widely acknowledged. The data include 11 life stories of female Finnish scientists from diverse fields of science. All participants have been able to actualize their academic talents and build their careers successfully. This qualitative, multiple-case study utilizes the critical incident method in the data analysis process. The results show that all these women have made important life choices that have promoted their talent and career development. These choices include important decisions concerning work, family, and beliefs and values. The majority of the women have also made some compromises related to their scientific interests and careers, as well as personal compromises. The results of the analyses demonstrate some common themes in critical incidents among female scientists. However, no picture of a uniform academic woman was found. All of the gifted female scientists were different in their multiple roles and identities. Our study also reveals some issues related to country and society that need to be acknowledged in tracing how women actualize their talent.

Cosmopolitanism in a World of Teachers

2017 ◽  
pp. 232-248
Author(s):  
John K. Lee ◽  
Ivonne Chirino-Klevans
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
International Student ◽  
Critical Incidents ◽  
School Context ◽  
Intercultural Competency ◽  
Intercultural Competencies ◽  
Chinese School ◽  
International Student Teaching

Cosmopolitanism, an emerging educational context in the last decade, has come to mean many things. Three constructs—cosmopolitanism as experience; cosmopolitanism as multiculturalism; and cosmopolitanism as intercultural competency—provide ways to conceptualize American student teachers in a Chinese school context. In this chapter, a collection of critical incidents is presented to illuminate these constructs in the ways they support and extend the researchers' efforts to use technology to support an international student teaching program in China. Critical incidents describe an event or experience, something planned, if successful or not, or events that are coincidental in nature. Each critical incident is situational and serves as a snapshot to enable discussion and consideration of related issues leading to action. The critical incidents in this chapter show the ways that teachers used technology to deepen their intercultural competencies through the lens of cosmopolitanism while taking into account similarities and differences in the partners' approaches to effective education.

Critical Incident Analysis in An Accident and Emergency Department

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
Joanna Connor
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Normal Field ◽  
Accident And Emergency ◽  
Accident And Emergency Department ◽  
Incident Analysis

The analysis of critical incidents is crucial to the provision of safe, high quality healthcare services to patients. It is essential to analyse the incident and make decisions about how future similar incidents should be dealt with. This article is a reflection on a critical incident involving a theatre practitioner working outside her normal field of responsibility which was used to change practice.

scholarly journals Operational dilemmas in safety-critical industries: The tension between organizational reputational concerns and the effective communication of risk

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ambisisi Ambituuni ◽  
Chibuzo Ejiogu ◽  
Amanze Ejiogu ◽  
Maktoba Omar
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Image Repair ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Image Repair Theory ◽  
The Face ◽  
Information Manipulation

AbstractOrganizations involved in safety-critical operations often deal with operational tensions, especially when involved in safety-critical incidents that is likely to violate safety. In this paper, we set out to understand how the disclosures of safety-critical incidents take place in the face of reputational tension. Based on the case of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), we draw on image repair theory and information manipulation theory and adopt discourse analysis as a method of analyzing safety-critical incident press releases and reports from the NNPC. We found NNPC deploying image repair as part of incident disclosures to deflect attention, evade blame and avoid issuing apologies. This is supported by the violation of the conversational maxims. The paper provides a theoretical model for discursively assessing the practices of incident information disclosure by an organization in the face of reputational tension, and further assesses the risk communication implications of such practices.

Women leading change: re-shaping gender in Ghanaian mines

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rufai Haruna Kilu ◽  
Adesuwa Omorede ◽  
Maria Uden ◽  
Mohammed-Aminu Sanda
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Leading Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Multiple Case

Purpose There is growing attention towards inclusive mining to make an economic case for gender equality and diversity in the industry. Available literature lacks sufficient empirical evidence on the subject matter in Ghana. Therefore, this paper aims to understudy women miners in Ghana and document their role in recent change regimes in mine works gender profiles. An observed change that is stimulating a shift in background dispositions leads to increasing number of women taking up mine jobs. Design/methodology/approach In working towards achieving the aim of the study, both qualitative design and a multiple case study approaches are deployed. Four multinational Ghanaian mines and a mining and technology university were used to understudy the women miners and their role towards a change in mine work gender perspectives. Findings The results showed a regime of “ore-solidarity movement” (women in mining – Ghana). A kind of solidarity identified conventionally as a social movement in active resource and self-mobilization, engaged in a symbolic contestation for change of the status quo (dominant masculinity cultures) in furtherance of gender equity and inclusion in milieu of mine works reforms in Ghana. Originality/value The study is of high scientific, political and public interest to better understand women’s movements in the mining industries in Ghana and to frame them theoretically. It offers solid empirical evidence on roles women miners play to ensure gender shape-shifting and liberalizing the mining space for women’s participation. This move towards inclusive mining implies poverty eradication among women, work towards achieving sustainable mining, competitiveness and assurance for gender-driven social innovative mining.

Understanding the "Mommy Tracks"

2011 ◽  
pp. 164-181
Author(s):  
Jeria L. Quesenberry ◽  
Eileen M. Trauth ◽  
Allison J. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Career Decisions ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
It Workforce ◽  
Family Issues ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Gender And It

Despite the recent growth in the number of women in the American labor force, women are still underrepresented in the IT workforce. Key among the factors that account for this under-representation is balancing work-family issues. This article presents a framework for analyzing work-family balance from a field study of women employed in the American IT workforce. The findings are examined through the lens of the individual differences theory of gender and IT to show the range of ways in which work-family considerations influence women’s IT career decisions. The framework is used to support the theoretical argument that women exhibit a range of decisions regarding career and parenthood: the non-parent, the working parent, the back-on-track parent, and the off-the-track parent. These findings illustrate an identifiable theme that crosses geographical regions and timeframes; societal messages are complex and difficult to digest and are processed in different ways by different women, yet they contribute to the decisions women make about their professional and personal lives.

Classroom Critical Incidents

2011 ◽  
pp. 275-281
Author(s):  
John M. Carroll ◽  
Dennis C. Neale ◽  
Philip L. Isenhour
Keyword(s):  
Critical Incident ◽  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Incident Report ◽  
Web Forum ◽  
Web Forums ◽  
Human Participants

Evaluating the quality and effectiveness of user interaction in networked collaborative systems is difficult. There is more than one user, and often the users are not physically proximal. The “session” to be evaluated cannot be comprehensively observed or monitored at any single display, keyboard, or processor. It is typical that none of the human participants has an overall view of the interaction (a common source of problems for such interactions). The users are not easily accessible either to evaluators or to one another. In this article we describe an evaluation method that recruits the already-pervasive medium of Web forums to support collection and discussion of user critical incidents. We describe a Web forum tool created to support this discussion, the Collaborative Critical Incident Tool (CCIT). The notion of “critical incident” is adapted from Flanagan (1956), who debriefed test pilots in order to gather and analyze episodes in which something went surprisingly good or bad. Flanagan’s method has become a mainstay of human factors evaluation (Meister, 1985). In our method, users can post a critical incident report to the forum at any time. Subsequently, other users, as well as evaluators and system developers, can post threaded replies. This improves the critical incident method by permitting follow-up questions and other conversational elaboration and refinement of original reports.

scholarly journals Effects of Women’s Work-Family Multiple Role and Role Combination on Depressive Symptoms in Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1249
Author(s):  
Ji-won Kang ◽  
Soong-nang Jang
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Missing Values ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Multiple Role ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Caregiver Role

This study set out to investigate the effects of multiple roles on depressive symptoms in women. The role of women was divided into worker, household worker, spouse, parent, and caregiver roles to identify the differences in depressive symptoms according to the number of roles, role-fulfillment, and role-combination. Using the sixth raw data of the 2016 Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families for analysis, the data had 6198 respondents who did not have missing values in the major variables. There are three main findings of this study: (1) as the number of roles increased, depressive symptoms of women was decreased. In addition, role-combination was a more meaningful element; (2) women who did not have any roles tended to be more depressed; (3) the caregiver role showed a negative effect on depressive symptoms of women. This study was to include the various aspects of women’s roles and to determine the effects of multi-roles on depressive symptoms in women.

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