Member engagement in multi-sector health care alliances

Many communities are developing innovative forms of collaborative organizations such as multi-sector health care alliances (MHCAs) to address problems of misaligned incentives among providers, payers, and community stakeholders and improve health and health care. Member engagement is essential to the success of these organizations due to their dependence on volunteer members to develop and implement strategy and provide material and in-kind support for alliance efforts, yet relatively little research has examined how alliances can foster engagement. This study examined behavioral indicators of member engagement (e.g., recruitment and retention of organizational and individual members) and how they are related to two foundational dimensions of alliance functioning – alliance leadership and community centrality. Using three rounds of an internet-based survey of alliance members from 14 alliances, the study found that organizational recruitment and retention increased over time, from 26.6% to 41.5% and 56.0% to 65.2%, respectively. Recruitment of individuals increased over the study period (38.3% to 47.2%, while retention of individual members declined over the study period (61.0% to 53.2%). Alliance leadership was associated with lower levels of recruitment (both organizational and individual members) but higher levels of organizational retention (both organizational and individual members). Collectively, our findings suggest that behavioral aspects of alliances are more effective at retaining members than relatively stable characteristics such as size and positioning in the community. Contrasting relationships between recruitment and retention, however, suggest that different forms of leadership may be required to simultaneously attract new members while retaining existing ones.

The Implementation of Teacher Strategies in Maintaining Sundanese Culture in the Senior High School Region I West Java

This research aims to analyze the implementation of teacher strategies in maintaining Sundanese Culture in West Java, at Senior High Schools in Region I West Java. The research method used was descriptive-qualitative with literature study. Data collection techniques were done through interviews, documentation, and examining secondary data as complementary data. The results showed that territory that were further away from the Priangan/Bandung area such as Depok City, and parts of Bogor Regency which bordered by Banten and Depok, has cultural acculturation and it was difficult to maintain Sundanese language, so that this region places great emphasis on Sundanese arts and traditional clothes. To instill a love “nyaah” or love of Sundanese culture, namely by implementing Sundanese art activity program strategies and competitions on Sundanese culture in schools by adjusting the language used in the area, namely Indonesian with the Betawinese dialect. Meanwhile for territory of closer Priangan/Bandung like the Sukabumi City, Bogor City, Cianjur Regency, Sukabumi Regency, and parts of Bogor Regency which border Cianjur-Sukabumi, there is no difficulty that the maintenance of Sundanese culture, because the majority of students in this region is the original Sundanese people. Yet these areas implement strategy in the use of language in accordance undak-usuk or origin of Sundanese language through a lesson and outside of a lesson, and focused on aspects art and Sundanese traditional clothes, with an implement strategy through activity program pasanggirikasundaan (competition on Sundanese) and art Sundanese at school.

Increasing saving intentions through leaderboards: A gamification approach

Saving money is important but challenging. To spur financial saving intentions, we propose a new strategy—gamification. Specifically, we investigate the effectiveness of competitive leaderboards in increasing individuals’ saving intentions. The results of two studies (total N = 618) show consistently that people’s saving intentions are higher when presented with a leaderboard than when not. Further, as leaderboards elicit social comparison, we explore whether the height of the comparison standard and individuals’ social comparison orientation moderate the effect. We find that the effect of leaderboards on saving intentions is more pronounced when people compare with a higher (as compared to a lower) standard (Study 1), but that the effect is not influenced by individuals’ social comparison orientation (Study 2). Taken together, this research provides a new and simple-to-implement strategy to facilitate saving intentions in order to help improve people’s financial well-being.

Balanced Scorecard

The purpose of the balanced scorecard is to provide a holistic perspective to setting firm goals and monitoring performance. The balanced scorecard provides a financial, marketing, operations, and human resources perspective of a firm’s performance. When used to implement strategy, the balanced scorecard approach prompts managers to think about what needs to happen in different elements of the business for the strategy to take hold. It encourages managers to think about how the strategy will impact the customer, operational, and people processes to ultimately affect financial results. This chapter discusses the underlying theory, core idea, depiction, process, insight or value created, and risks and limitations of the balanced scorecard. The chapter also continues the illustration of the Chocolate Moose and applies the steps of the balanced scorecard to this case.

Improving Reading Comprehension Skill of Civil Engineering Students through Collaborative Strategy

This paper centers around the application of the collaborative strategy on first semester student of the Civil Engineering Department of ITN Malang who have problems in English. The use of collaborative strategic reading (CSR) was to help the students to improve their reading comprehension skill. This research was conducted (1) to know the response of the first semester student of civil engineering ITN Malang after using CSR method to improve their reading skill, and (2) to know the effect of CSR method towards their reading. CSR is a research-based instructional practice in teaching reading comprehension to enhance content area learning. It is the best way to teach reading comprehension with four strategies of CSR because students can learn in groups. Model of classroom action research developed by Kemmis &Mc Taggart (1999) was applied. Preceed with intial recoinnaisance step held before four steps of teaching (planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting) this research was conducted in two cycles, the first cycle to implement strategy add by reading comprehension test and second cycle to implement strategy. The data research obtained through observation and field notes during teaching-learning processes ended with reading tests. The finding showed that collaborative strategic reading improved students` reading comprehension skill.

Rapid identification of quarantine invasiveSolanum elaeagnifoliumby real-time, isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification assay

An easy-to-implement strategy to identifySolanum elaeagnifoliumby utilizing recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) technology was developed.

Get the Goof!

Try introducing this easy-to-implement strategy that engages student detectives in error analysis and mathematical discourse.