Organizational links and sensemaking in a medical work cooperative system

PurposeThe aim of this article was to analyze how the presence of the elements that constitute organizational links are related to sensemaking in a cooperative system of medical work.Design/methodology/approachA content analysis was conducted following interviews with the managers of the cooperative, which is a member of the Brazilian cooperative system and one of the largest in the world. This analysis enabled the systematization of the categories that were identified through the coding of responses, aided by Atlas.ti 8.0 software.FindingsAfter the analysis, it was possible to resize the constitutive elements identified in the specialized literature into three categories: identification, cooperation and recognition. The proposed resizing does not preclude the presence of the constitutive elements identified in the analysis, but it evidences the presence of these elements in a contextualized manner, suggesting a model of an organic organizational link that is dependent on the relationship between subject–object (organization), in which the different perceptions of meanings affect identification, and this can strengthen or weaken the link in a constant process of resignification.Originality/valueWith regard to its theoretical relevance, the work helps to bring concepts related to organizational links and sensemaking closer together as a process in the realm of intersubjectivity. This provides evidence of the presence of constituent elements of ties in a contextualized manner, demonstrating that the interpretation of managers aids sensemaking in a process of circularity and resignification.

Market of Stocks During Crisis Looks Like a Flock of Birds

According to its inner property, a crisis in the financial market can be considered as a collective behavior phenomenon. Through the prism of collective behavior, the crisis does not happen if the companies are independent of each other. In this work, cooperative movement processes in a stock market are investigated in a manner similar to that Vicsek first described collective behavior for self-propelled entities. To this end, a phase space is defined as the one in which the return of volume of transactions versus return of price is represented with each share in each day corresponding to a unique point in the space. The findings of the observation show that during times of crisis, the phase space is limited with the vector velocity of shares in the same direction. In contrast, on a regular day, the phase space is entirely accessible, with vector velocity aligned randomly. Moreover, in line with the Vicsek model, an order parameter is introduced, which evaluates the cooperative effects for the shares so that the higher the value of this parameter, the stronger the collective behavior of the shares.

Professor Waclaw Szyszkowski — a Lawyer, Anticommunist, One From the Generation of Independent Poland

The article presents the activity of Wacław Szyszkowski, a lawyer, an emigration independence activist and an outstanding scientist, who fought in the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1920 and, after Poland regained independence, was active in a secret Union of the Polish Youth “Zet” and a public Union of the Polish Democratic Youth. Until 1939 W. Szyszkowski was a defence lawyer in Warsaw, supporting the activities of the Central Union of the Rural Youth “Siew” and the Work Cooperative “Grupa Techniczna”. Published articles in political and legal journals, such as “Przełom”, “Naród i Państwo”, “Palestra”, “Głos Prawa”. During World War II — a conspirator of the Union for Defense of the Republic of Poland, soldier of the Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army, assigned to the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Home Army Headquarters. Fought in the Warsaw Uprising, after which he was deported by Germans to the Murnau oflag in Bavaria. For helping Jews during the occupation, the Yad Vashem Institute awarded him and his wife Irena the title of Righteous Among the Nations. After 1945, he remained in the West, engaging in the life of the Polish war exile in France, Great Britain and the United States. He received a doctorate in law at the Sorbonne. He belonged to the People’s Party “Wolność”, the Association of Polish Combatants. He was a member of the National Council of the Republic of Poland in Exile. As an anti-communist, he was invigilated by the communist intelligence of the People’s Republic of Poland. In the 1960s, after returning to Poland, as a lawyer and scientist, he was first affiliated with the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin, and then with Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toruń. W. Szyszkowski is the author of nearly two hundred scientific and journalistic publications printed in Poland and abroad.

Integrating Concept of Entrepreneurship Into Science Education

Science learning should become meaningful and useful experience for the students to answer problems in daily life, especially economical problems. Through the integration of science learning and entrepreneurship it is hoped that entrepreneur character develops in the children’s self. The main components of entrepreneurship consist of three aspects, namely creative force, sense, and intention. Creative force creates the characters of innovative, creative, careful, organized, broadening insight, problem solver, and reflective. Sense aspect creates the characters of confident, want to gain profit, able to serve, truthful, determined, optimistic, and sharp to chances. Intention creates the character of brave, risk taking, hard work, cooperative, responsible, listening to inputs, able to negotiate, discipline, and dynamic. Science learning integrated with entrepreneurship is required to develop learning activities yielding comprehensive meaning and benefit.

Outside the Family of Nations: First Thoughts on Writing a History of Public Health from the Perspective of Outlier Nations

Notwithstanding the current declarations by spokesmen for and proponents of global health, there remain “outlier” countries: countries unwilling to accede to monitoring or surveillance (e.g. China and avian flu; China and SARS); countries lacking the infrastructural and professional capacity to join cooperative global programs to fight epidemics; countries/regions that have populations with divergent approaches to health goals and practices. What, if any, are the historical precedents of the idea of “outliers”? The paper will argue that in the three decades between 1920 and 1950, internationally-minded statesmen, working in philanthropies with transnational “reach” or in international health agencies, operated with two additional categories of outliers. First, countries with political systems judged “inimical” to democracy (e.g. Soviet Russia, post-war Germany). International public health statesmen often engaged such countries by hiving off (at least notionally) the political system from public health. What was the cost to the understanding of public health of the hiving off of the political? At other times, international health spokesmen explicitly linked transnational cooperation/assistance they offered to a program of democratization. To what extent was that linkage accepted by leading health voices in the target countries? Second, there were countries whose health “civilizations” had not yet progressed fully beyond nineteenth century public hygiene. Including these countries in international health programs involved nothing less than pushing out the frontiers of civilization. In dealing with these countries, health statesmen operated with the initial assumption that capacity and orientation to social medicine could be shaped from the outside. Extended experience on the ground (site visits, field work, cooperative programs) convinced those statesmen of the value of local (and regional) approaches and of the possibility of combining those approaches with international ways of conceptualizing public health. What factors shaped the inclusion/exclusion of countries from the category of “civilized” nations?

Differentiating Cooperative Learning and Collaborative Learning: What Is Fit for Pakistani Higher Education?

This paper attempts to clarify the relationship between cooperative and collaborative learning and shows that cooperative learning could be more effective in the context of Pakistani higher education. It is argued that although both these approaches are forms of group work, cooperative learning is more structured and controlled. Collaborative learning, on the contrary, is not that structured and depends on students to work independently in groups without involving the instructor authority very much. Therefore, the researchers in this research paper tend to justify how the teaching of English as a second language (ESL) in Pakistani higher education is more or less teacher-cantered and exam-based and how a structured approach to group work like cooperative learning might be of a great assistance in teaching English language in Pakistani universities and colleges. Hence, the study, through the critical review of the studies on cooperative and collaborative learning, aims at providing the rationale that cooperative learning might be more effective in teaching ESL classes in the present context. Furthermore, with the help of the previous research, Pakistani teachers and educators are provided with useful methods and suggestions for how to use cooperative learning in their ESL classes effectively. Thus, the aim of the paper is to offer additional understanding on how instructors can efficiently adopt cooperative learning to ESL teaching-learning processes in their classrooms.

The Mediating Effect Of Work Cooperative Attitude On The Affecting Of Organizational Justice To Dysfunctional Behavior And Impacted To The Loan Controllers Performance

The objective of this research is to build a theoretical and an empirical model of theWork Cooperative Attitude of Loan Controller on decreasing the Dysfunctional behavior at banking industries and its impact to Loan Controllers Performance. This study wanted to test empirically direct and indirect effects of ; The first, The Organizational Justice to Dysfunctional behavior, The second, The Organizational Justice dysfunctional behavior mediated by Work Cooperative Attitude, the third, The Work Cooperative Attitude to Loan Controllers Performance, The fourth, the Work Cooperative Attitude to Loan Controllers Performance mediated by Dysfunctional behavior at the biggest ten of bank listed in Indonesian stock exchange, Jakarta area in 2011.The Structural Equation Modeling and Analysis of Path by Amos Software 16.00 used to analysis data which result have a high goodness of fit , and the test of simultaneous and individual test proved significant with coefficient < 0.05 and the variation of the dependent variable could be explained or estimated by the independent variables with coefficient adjusted R Square > 0.60.The results of the analysis shows that ; The First, Organizational justice is positive but not significantly increasing the Dysfunctional behavior, The second, effort to decrease the dysfunctional behavior will significant and more strength throughout increasing the variable of Work Cooperative attitude. The Third, effort to increase The Loan Controllers Performance will significant by decrease the Dysfunctional behavior and increasing Work Cooperative Attitude simultaneously. This study recommend about the importance of building Work Cooperative Attitude of loan Controller with dimensions; cooperative work, openness, honesty, commitment, mutual respect.Those could be obtained if the company has a good procedural and distribution justice for loan Controller.

Encouraging initiative, cooperation and creativity in teaching Serbian language and literature

Instruction in Serbian language and literature serves to prepare and in a certain way enable the students to follow other school subjects, which points to its special relevance for total education. Unfortunately, research results indicate that students? knowledge in this field is not entirely satisfactory. One of the reasons maybe the fact that this knowledge is not sufficiently used in practice, which can have an unfavourable impact on students? response to more and more complex demands set by the education system of the 21st century. Additionally, the problem can also be related to the fact that dogmatic-reproductive and reproductive-explicative methodical approaches are still used in the classes of Serbian language and literature, while less attention is paid to creative work, cooperative learning and students? initiative, the competences that should be developed first and foremost during the initial education. This paper aims at pointing to the methods and procedures that contribute to the encouragement of initiative, cooperation and creativity in primary school students in the instruction in Serbian language and literature. Among other tings, we point out to the innovation of the drama method as an integral approach to teaching contents, which serves to adopt more quality knowledge via focused role-playing activities and drama techniques, primarily in the field of literature, and enables the durability and quality of the aesthetic perception and the reception of literature. It is also pointed to the fact that instruction that includes creative work, initiative and cooperative relations enhances student competences not only in knowledge and skills in Serbian language and literature, but also at the level of emotional and social relations between students.

Cooperative Work & Cooperative Efficiency Evaluation of Automotive Industry Chain Based on Collaborative Commerce Platform

A Cooperative Work mode was proposed based on an analysis on the collaborative characteristic of enterprises in automotive industry chain. And a description method of cooperative work model based on product order bills, maintenance bills and assembly order bills was constructed with the supporting of the collaborative commerce platform, the parts requirement info could be gained with the model. A cooperative efficiency evaluate model was constructed, on the base of history operation data, the value of deviation square was used to estimate the stability of the evaluation function in order to gain the weight of the factors, which provides a reference for the optimization of the industry chain.

A COOPERATIVE MOBILE ROBOT TASK ASSIGNMENT AND COVERAGE PLANNING BASED ON CHAOS SYNCHRONIZATION

In this paper, we propose a cooperative task assignment and coverage planning for mobile robots based on chaos synchronization. The chaotic mobile robot implies that the robot controller that drives a chaotic motion is characterized by topological transitivity and sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Due to the topological transitivity, the chaotic mobile robot is guaranteed to scan a workspace completely and the robot requires neither a map of the workspace nor a global motion plan. Chen and Lorenz systems are used to generate chaotic motion in this work. Cooperative multirobot systems can operate faster with higher efficiency and better reliability than a single robot system. By synchronizing the chaotic robot controllers, effective cooperation can be achieved. The performance of the cooperative chaotic mobile robots can be attributed to the use of deterministic dynamical systems and extended Kalman filter for chaos synchronization. Computer simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.