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Building Strength Through Collaboration: What Faith Community Nurses Need To Know, Marcia A. Potter

International Journal of Faith Community Nursing

This article is a practical guide and viewpoint narrative that offers definitions, justifications for, process steps, and a how-to checklist for Faith Community Nurses considering collaboration between multiple agencies outside of their own. The author offers simple guidelines and how-to advice on securing success, avoiding risks, and preventing costly misunderstandings between cooperating agencies when combining resources.

Preliminary Evaluation For Lean Implementation In A Small Manufacturing Company, Ronald Lynch

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Lean management and tools have many positive effects on a company including increased profitability, and efficiency. Lean tools can be implemented in any type of company with a proper evaluation through the creation of Value Stream Map. This paper will demonstrate how a Value Stream Map (VSM) will provide an easier transition to a lean environment. A local company of about 100 employees will be analyzed to create a current and a future VSM. The areas of opportunity for improvement in a lean environment includes recommended lean implementations and the future VSM. Functions of the company that will be analyzed …

Chinese-U.S. Leadership: A Case Study Of A U.S. Manufacturing Company In China, Mengting Gong

Dissertations

The purpose of this case study is to gain a better understanding of the way in which some Chinese managers describe their leadership approaches and why they accept and use U.S. leadership approaches in a U.S. manufacturing company in China. Within the single-case (embedded) research design, in-depth interviews and existing data are two main methods of the researcher’s data collection. A purposeful sample (N = 8) of managers from the corporation served as participants. After collecting relevant qualitative data, two rounds of coding occurred. In the first round, initial coding was comprised of identifying codes from the transcripts. For the …

Team Creation Methods In Practice: Understanding The Potential Effects Of Nonverbal Communication In The Leadership Of Team Formation, Troy Allen Robertson

Dissertations

Teams require leadership, even if they are self-managed. The group of individuals who make up a team must be gathered in some form or another. For self managed teams to function successfully, the first step is the process of creating the team. Many aspects may factor into the creation process. Often time is of the essence and methods to quickly assess and form teams show merit. First impressions in general are based largely on nonverbal communication. The focus of this mixed-methods concurrent embedded study is to analyze the potential effects of nonverbal communication on influencing team creation. A group of …

Nice Food: A Nonprofit Food Truck, Nathan Brooks

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This document is a snapshot of Nice Food, a nonprofit food truck. The truck uses a pay-what-you-can model so that anyone may eat there, regardless of their ability to pay. The chief goal of Nice Food is to lower food insecurity in its community, which will initially be Louisville, KY. The company will be an addition to the strong effort against hunger in Louisville, bringing the additional strength of mobility to the fight.

This document exists to map out the path of a startup for a student, as well as to provide a clear picture of what Nice Food is …

Factors That Affect The Relationship Between Employer And Employees Within Organizations, Harry Adam Nuse

Dissertations

This research is on the relationship between employees and employers and seeks to determine the relationship between the values held by employees and the extent business leaders adapt their business practices to each of these values. By understanding this relationship, business leaders can gain insight into the improvement of both employee and supervisor success for the vitality of the organization.

Participants from AAA Minor League Baseball teams agreed to allow the survey to be distributed to their employees and employers via email. The nine values were developed from a panel of experts within Minor League Baseball management and human resources …

Vlogging In Korea: From Film Student To Youtuber, Kalyn Edwards

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Video blogging, or vlogging, has become its own genre on YouTube in almost a “reality show” type atmosphere. This project aims to examine that world of video blogging from a personal level, not only as a film student, but also from the perspective of an aspiring businesswoman. The goals of this project are to take on the role of a vlogger, along with all its struggles, while exposing myself to a new culture in hopes of appealing to a certain demographic. It appears as though we have gone from a world relying on telegrams and postcards to becoming a society …

Thinking Entrepreneurially About E&A – Integrating E&A Across The Entrepreneurship Curriculum And Beyond, Whitney Peake

Social and Behavioral Sciences

W. Edwards Deming said, “It’s not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.” This is critically true of entrepreneurship, and to best prepare our students, we must integrate activities and assignments that encourage them to know what to do and then do their best. Gathering evidence through research, sense-making through divergent and convergent thinking, and building solid arguments via “the pitch” or “the sale” are key to both knowing what’s best and subsequently doing what’s best. As part of this project, I integrated, developed, and disseminated E&A concepts and assessments …

Ua1b1/9 Free Enterprise Fair, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

These records were created by and about the Free Enterprise Fair sponsored by WKU and southern Kentucky businesses.

Ua62/3 Gordon Ford College Of Business Small Business Development Center, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by Small Business Development Center.

Ua62/3 October Newsletter, Kentucky Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center at WKU.

Ua62/3 June Newsletter, Kentucky Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the Kentucky Small Businesss Development Center at WKU.

Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Federal Reserve Board - Ben Bernanke On The State Of The Economy, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Email sent to members of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board of Ben Bernanke's testimony before the House Budget Committee regarding the state of the economy.

Wku Sife Team Places Second At Nationals, Sife, Wku, J. Krist Schell, Director, Center For Entrepreneurship & Innovation

SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise)

No abstract provided.

Ua62/3 May Newsletter, Kentucky Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center at WKU.

Ua62/3 May Newsletter, Kentucky Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center at WKU.

Ua62/3 April Newsletter, Kentucky Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center at WKU.

Ua62/3 April Newsletter, Kentucky Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center at WKU.

Ua62/3 March Newsletter, Kentucky Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center at WKU.

Ua62/3 March Newsletter, Kentucky Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center at WKU.

Ua62/3 March Newsletter, Kentucky Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

March newsletter created by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center at WKU.

Ua62/3 January Newsletter, Wku Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Small Business Development Center.

Western Kentucky University Annual Report 2010: Bridging The Gap, Sife, Wku

SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise)

No abstract provided.

Ua62/3 December Newsletter, Kentucky Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center at WKU.

Ua62/3 December Newsletter, Wku Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Small Business Development Center.

Ua62/3 November Newsletter, Wku Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Small Business Development Center.

Ua62/3 October Newsletter, Wku Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Small Business Development Center.

Ua62/3 September Newsletter, Wku Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Small Business Development Center.

Ua62/3 August Newsletter, Wku Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Small Business Development Center.

Ua62/3 July Newsletter, Wku Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Small Business Development Center.