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2015-03-19, Morehead State Board Of Regents

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

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Leadership Traits And Principles Of The U. S. Marine Corps, Dennis Mccarthy Lt. General

Leadership Hour at Otterbein University

In this session, participants will be introduced to the Marine Corps traits and principles of emphasizing bottom-up execution, top-down support, commander’s intent and end state.

2015-03-12 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Faculty Senate. Morehead State University.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for March 12, 2015.

Adolescent Leadership Development: Redirecting Self Assessment To Enhance Leadership Development In Youth Organizations, Franklin T. Kudo

Student Scholarship

Adolescence is a very significant period in a young persons' life. It is a time when youth are growing and establishing individual identities. It is also a critical time for learning essential life skills. However, we often don't recognize the importance of teaching leadership to our children. We simply rely on someone else to teach these skills. Parents become preoccupied and concerned about how their children are doing in school or in a sports program, and developing leadership skills fades from our list of "things to do" for our children. Parents make the erroneous assumption that the educational system will …

The Foul, Or What's Up (Wassup) On The Court?: A Study Of African-American Male Social Interactions On The Outdoor Basketball Court, Craig E. Soaries

Student Scholarship

There is a vicious cycle of drug addiction and displacement for many undereducated, and low skilled African-American men, that leads to a life of frustration, defeat and despair. These groups of African-American males for various reasons, culturally as well as sociologically, have not participated in what is considered mainstream American society but rather have created a social order of their own. Evidences of this alternative order are demonstrated in street gangs, prison life and other socially unacceptable lifestyles. An alternative order is genuine, unrecognized and coexists with the dominant American social order. This study examines offensive, foul, behavior on a …

Clash And Rapprochement Of Practice And Science In Executive Education: A Social Structure To Collaborate, Olivier L. Bouclier

Student Scholarship

Corporate funding for executive education (EE) programs perceived as too academic and not sufficiently relevant has waned in recent years. Previous investigations conducted at the macro level point to a disconnect between science and practice in business schools\, but no micro level studies have explored how faculty and managers of EE programs experience and cope with conflicting orientations that might influence the design and delivery of EE programs. Irrespective of EE program ranking\, our findings reveal enduring tensions resulting from structural and social differences between the two. Both EE faculty and EE managers feel constrained by these tensions and exercise …

"Chambeando": Risk And Success Among Street Corner Vendors In Mexico City, Efrain Rivera

Student Scholarship

Kristina recently inherited the business of her late father. In his 18 years of business experience at this location he was never able to grow the business past the subsistence stage. How she will eventually fare is dependent on the same factors faced by her late father. They include her ability to overcome the opposition of local residents, raise capital to build a larger stand and move the current location of her newspaper stand. Since her father was unable to do this in more than 18 years of business in this location, the odds do not seem promising. And yet, …

Communication And Identity -- How They Affect An Employee's Attitude And Behaviors Within A Merger Or Acquisition Environment, R. Todd Creasy

Student Scholarship

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research study of the extent to which horizontal and vertical communication affect the three levels of employee identity – personal\, group or organizational – and its affect on employee attitudes engaged in merger or acquisition integration. A conceptual framework was proposed and conjectures tested via 19\, 60-90 minute interviews with professional level employees about their experiences in a positive and/or negative merger or acquisition business consolidation. The professionals were from a portfolio of industries and including banking\, telecommunications\, health care\, insurance\, manufacturing and information systems. The transcription analysis has led to an …

A Humanitarian Logistics Framework For The Philippines: The Case Of Typhoon Haiyan, Kirshna Loquinte, Isabella Militante, Fatima Rakim, Brian Gozun

Center for Business Research and Development

Logistics being used for humanitarian operations is known as humanitarian logistics. It is defined by Thomas (2003) as the process of planning, implementing and controlling the efficient, cost-effective flow and storage of goods and materials, as well as related information, from the point of origin to the point of consumption for the purpose of alleviating the suffering of vulnerable people. Logistics in the humanitarian aspect is vital; it plays a critical role during disaster relief operations. It bridges the gaps between the different stages of the operations. It is also crucial because the success and the time duration of the …

Assessing The Emphasis On Information Security In The Systems Analysis And Design Course, William David Salisbury, Thomas W. Ferratt, Donald E. Wynn

MIS/OM/DS Faculty Publications

Due to several recent highly publicized information breaches, information security has gained a higher profile. Hence, it is reasonable to expect that information security would receive an equally significant emphasis in the education of future systems professionals. A variety of security standards that various entities (e.g., NIST, COSO, ISACA-COBIT, ISO) have put forth emphasize the importance of information security from the very beginning of the system development lifecycle (SDLC) to avoid significant redesign in later phases. To determine the emphasis on security in typical systems analysis and design (SA&D) courses, we examine (1) to what extent security is emphasized in …

The Correlation Between Commerce And Management, Rochelle Dean

Other Graduate Scholarship

This paper proposes to explore the correlation between Commerce and Management as I give a better insight on the role of Management and the effects it has globally. Commerce should be properly managed as a commercial activity that enhances the standard of living within a nation that will increase its standing in the world. When commerce is allowed to run unregulated as it has, large businesses and major conglomerates can become immune to failure making them too powerful which levies negative externalities on citizens as well as globally to the benefit of business owners. Broadly speaking, nations should be concerned …

Assisted Living: Trends In Cost And Staffing, Amy Kisling, David P. Paul, Alberto Coustasse

Management Faculty Research

Assisted living communities (ALFs), which provide a community for residents who require assistance throughout their day, is an important part of the long-term care system in the US. Trained individuals assist residents with activities known as Activities of Daily Living (ADL). The costs of ALFs are paid either out of pocket, by Medicaid or by Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI). Medicare does not pay for ALFs. Monthly costs of ALFs have increased over the past five years on an average of 4.1%. The major reason for this cost increase is probably the increased healthcare needs of the baby boomers generation, but …

Assessment Under Resource Constraints, Steve Lovett, Mary Curtis

Management Faculty Publications

Assessment and the measurement of learning are receiving increasing emphasis in American higher education. This is a case study that demonstrates a simple, inexpensive method of measuring freshman to senior “gains” or learning using a cross-sectional methodology. Seniors and freshmen within a four-year business program were both given the same multi-part test. Not surprisingly, the seniors’ average score on all parts was higher than that of the freshmen. However, the seniors were older than the freshmen, indicating a possible maturity effect, and had higher average scores on their entrance examinations, indicating a possible selection effect. We used regression techniques to …

How Organizational Identity Influences Information Technology (It) Success, Stephan P. Miller

Student Scholarship

Corporate Information Technology (IT) functions are under increasing pressure to succeed in their IT outsourcing (ITO) arrangements. Studies of ITO success have in the past mainly explored its operational and financial aspects. At the same time there is a dearth of research on broader organizational antecedents and outcomes of ITO. This study examines the effect of organizational identity on outsourcing success. Specifically, we ask: does the strength of an organization’s identity- i.e. how unique it views its role in relation to other corporate functions- influence ITO success? We conduct an empirical study among 312 IT leaders engaged in outsourcing. We …

Public-Public And Public Private Partnerships In Transportation, Janet K. Tinoco

Publications

Graduate students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), Daytona Beach, FL partook in a research effort for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Kennedy Space Center (KSC), examining partnerships in real property. The students researched relevant public-private partnerships (PPPs) and public-public partnerships PuPs in space, air, rail/road, sea, and utilities -- nationally and globally.

2015-02-26 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Faculty Senate. Morehead State University.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for February 26, 2015.

Lessons I'Ve Learned Along The Way, Betty Montgomery

Leadership Hour at Otterbein University

In her distinguished career with many 'firsts', Betty has taken nuggets of knowledge from each experience. Find out how you can apply this to your leadership journey.

Dave Moravec, Dave Moravec '84, Francine Krieger 2015

All oral histories

In this interview, Mr. Moravec reflects on a dorm tradition that led him to his future wife Susan, changes to campus over the years, and his time as Tommy Titan.

Other topics include the campus jobs he had (Admission, Saga, and Dolan Hall), and the benefit he later found to the rigors of his English Composition class.

He briefly discusses his wife Susan’s activities on campus and the annual student-faculty basketball competition.

Mr. Moravec is a businessman in the Bloomington-Normal community and active in mentoring students through the Hart Career Center. In 2009, he and Susan took part in the …

2015 Q1 Private Capital Access Index Report, Craig R. Everett

Pepperdine Private Capital Access Report

The Pepperdine Private Capital Access Index (PCA) is a quarterly indicator produced by the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, and with the support of Dun & Bradstreet. The index is designed to measure the demand for, activity, and health of the private capital markets. The purpose of the PCA Index is to gauge the demand of small and mediumsized businesses for financing needs, the level of accessibility of private capital, and the transparency and efficiency of private financing markets.

2015-02-06 General Education Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., General Education Council.

Faculty Senate Records

General Education Council meeting minutes from February 6, 2015.