An Uphill Battle: Academic Librarians and the Barriers to Scholarship

Some academic librarians within Pennsylvania and across the United States have been granted faculty status by their institutions. With this status comes the expectation that librarians will contribute scholarship to their discipline. However, with many librarians holding only a master’s degree, there is the likelihood that they lack the requisite skills to engage in research. On top of this, multiple studies have shown that librarians feel they lack the time to pursue scholarship on top of their typical job duties. This commentary discusses how these barriers create stress for librarians, hurts their scholarly pursuits, and how the current culture in academia may play a role in it.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT: METHODOLOGY OF INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS

Economic growth unambiguously presupposes the development of enterprises based on the introduction of new technologies that require changes in the forms of organization of labor, its content. This inevitably entails staff resistance to the implementation of changes. Known techniques solve this problem, but they cannot be called effective and efficient. The reason is that when influencing personnel, they are guided mainly by the labor behavior of employees. Resistance of personnel, expressed in the opportunistic behavior of employees in the performance of new job duties, new labor procedures, solving old tasks with new methods and means. But the reason for the resistance goes deeper. It lies in the content and structure of social and labor relations. In the article, this the problem is considered through the prism of the institutional structure of social and labor relations, which are the essential basis of labor. A method of transforming them before introducing changes in order to reduce the potential of workers’ resistance is also proposed.

Longevity of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody in Health Care Workers: 6-Months Follow Up

The prevalence and longevity of acquired immunity to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in health care workers (HCWs) is of great interest, especially with the roll-out of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2. Determining such immunity may enhance knowledge about susceptibility of HCWs to COVID-19, frequency of vaccine administration, and degree of workplace risk, and may also support enactment of better workplace policies and procedures. The present study reports on 6-months follow-up serosurveillance to determine the longevity of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in HCWs. Sub-sample (n=35) of the original serosurveillance in HCWs (n = 3,458) with baseline, 8-week, and 6-month blood sampling were analyzed. Information on job duties, location, COVID-19 symptoms, polymerase chain reaction test history, travel since January 2020, and household contacts with COVID-19 was collected. Of 35 subjects, 13 were seropositive at baseline and maintained positivity at 8-week follow-up, with 3 losing positivity at 6-month follow-up. Among 22 subjects who were seronegative at baseline and seropositive at 8-week follow-up, all but one maintained positivity at 6-month follow-up. There was no significant effect of all factors (e.g., age, gender, job duties) examined at the .05 level on seropositivity at 6-month follow-up. The observed antibody longevity was 7.0+/-0.6 months for seropositive subjects (n=13), and 4.5+/-0.8 months for those seronegative subjects (n=22), at baseline. The longest duration of seropositivity observed in this cohort was 7.9 months (236 days). With reported COVID-19-related symptoms up to 4.7 months prior to baseline blood sampling, possibly longer antibody presence is suggested. Similarly, seropositivity at 6-month follow-up further suggests greater antibody longevity than observed in this study.

The Journey of the Purple Butterfly: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Introduction: Dying in the hospital is not always a good experience for patients and their families. To be more in line with evidence-based practices for healthcare workers to effectively support high quality end of life care, the project team implemented a standardized communication tool to alert interdisciplinary team members of patients on comfort care measures. Methods: Purple Butterfly was a quality improvement project that was implemented at a diverse community hospital in the urban setting. Clinical and non-clinical interdisciplinary team members participated in a pre- and post- implementation survey to assess the need for a standardized communication tool that would alert them of patients who transitioned to comfort care. Results: Pre-implementation, 37% of survey respondents (n = 60) reported they were always aware of the presence of a patient on comfort care measures prior to entering the room. After implementation of a standardized communication tool, 100% (n = 43) of respondents at 9 months, reported that they were always aware of the presence of a patient on comfort care measures prior to entering the room. Additionally, 9 months post-intervention 100% of respondents reported that knowing this contextual information supported them in performing their job duties in a compassionate, patient-centered fashion. Conclusion: Implementation of a standardized communication tool increased awareness for team members, about the presence of patients on comfort care measures prior to entering the room and supported team members to perform their job duties in a compassionate, patient-centered fashion supportive of this patient population.

Inclusion of a Notary Public Protection Clause in the Deed of Parties, Legalization, Waarmerking, Adjustment and Matching of Copies with the Original and Kovernot

When a Notary violates this article while doing his or her job duties, it qualifies as an act without authority. As a consequence of such an act without authority, someone who is harmed by a Notary who has declared his position without authority can sue for civil damages and compensation to the Notary Public. In carrying out these responsibilities, the notary is protected by the Notary Position Law (UUJN) and the UUJN-P. However, other forms of protection can be carried out and developed by the notary himself, namely by including the Self-Protection Clause in the deed made before the Notary Public. or when at the request of the parties making Legalization, Waarmerking, Adjustment / Matching of the Copy with the Original and Kovernot. Such a Notary Self-protection is very important for the notary so that no one quickly questions the notary's deed of Legalization, Waarmerking, Adjustment / Matching of Copies with the Original and Kovernot. So the notary is obliged to protect himself.

INNOVATIVE PRACTICES FOR QUALITY ENHANCEMENT IN TEACHER EDUCATION

Education renders a significant contribution in leading to effective growth and development of the individuals and teachers. The major significance of teacher education is focused upon the impartment of training to the teachers, with the main purpose of achieving the desired academic outcomes. Therefore, to perform their job duties up to the required standard, they need to enhance their skills and abilities with innovations. The teachers have an important role to play in not only achieving the desired goals and objectives of the educational institutions but also in promoting the welfare of the community.The teacher is the key factor of all mental, social and spiritual development of children. Within the course of implementation of their job duties, they are required to cope with many challenges. They need to know the innovative practices to get desired outcomes.There exists a wide gap between theory and the knowledge and skills of teaching required in the actual classroom curriculum transaction. For this reason, a routine-bound teacher cannot act following the emerging needs unless he or she is trained and frequently oriented. The innovative practices will be useful to enhance teacher education.The main areas that have been taken into account in this research paper are, the scope of teacher education, changing context of teacher education with innovation in the Indian scenario, and challenges of teacher education

“Above and Beyond Any Other Teacher or Staff”: The Invisible Nourishment Work of Bilingual Support Staff

This article explores the work of four high school bilingual support staff and how they went above and beyond their official job duties to support Latinx students. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic research in three high schools in Wisconsin, author Julissa Ventura shows how bilingual support staff nourished Latinx students by creating borderlands spaces, enacting pedagogies of acompañamiento, and taking on bridging work between school and students’ families. The study also highlights how bilingual support staff were often marginalized and unsupported in their work. Ventura makes clear that as schools continue to hire bilingual support staff in demographically changing schools, it is important to understand the multifaceted nature of their role and to center their expertise and knowledge in moving toward the nourishment of all students.

“Seven Steps to Success” — a comprehensive mentoring system at Russian Railways

Considered an important complex mentoring system at Russian Railways. The system includes seven steps to success and allows you to build a mentoring system in the enterprise, regardless of the type of professional activity and level of position, by involving the mentor in the training process of the trainee to quickly acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for effective performance of job duties. The use of mentoring is possible in various sectors of the economy. It may be of interest to organizations aimed at accelerating the adaptation process of employees, forming their loyalty to the company, commitment to the profession, corporate values and culture. It is shown how the mentors should be awarded bonuses. Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of the implementation of an integrated mentoring system, an algorithm for introducing practice, data on the results have been determined. A comprehensive mentoring system has been implemented at all enterprises of the Russian railway network. Taking into account the positive experience of applying the practice, this system became the basis for the Regulation on the adaptation of employees of JSC Russian Railways.

Forecasting of Change in Level of Personnel Reliability As a Factor of Increase of Personnel Safety of the Enterprise

The article is devoted to one of the threats to the organization's personnel security-the reliability of personnel. The paper considers approaches to determining the essence of personnel reliability and factors that influence it. Methodological tools of the research: economic and mathematical modeling. According to the study, the efficiency and readiness of employees to perform their job duties efficiently have a significant impact not only on the total duration of working time losses and, but also on the economic efficiency of the enterprise as a whole. Based on the research, in order to ensure protection from personnel failures and reduce possible downtime, the article offers a model for predicting personnel reliability. With the help of which you can assess the degree of reliability of personnel and predict cases of loss of working condition of personnel. The proposed model will allow you to develop appropriate management decisions and avoid personnel risks of the organization.

When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

This paper uses a natural field experiment to connect corporate social responsibility (CSR) to an important but often neglected behavior: employee misconduct and shirking. Through employing more than 1,500 workers, we find that our use of CSR increases employee misbehavior—24% more employees act detrimentally toward our firm by shirking on their primary job duties when we introduce CSR. Observed data patterns across the treatments are consonant with a model of “moral licensing,” whereby the “doing good” nature of CSR induces workers to misbehave on another dimension that is harmful to the firm. This paper was accepted by Yan Chen, decision analysis.