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A Community-Based Information Technology Services Determination Of Gis User Information Needs, Barrett S. Caldwell

Journal of Terrestrial Observation

No abstract provided.

Positioning Libraries To Support The Goals Of Higher Education Institutions: The Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute, Sharon A. Weiner, Patricia Senn Breivik, Timothy Caboni, Dennis Clark

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

This article describes the genesis of Vanderbilt University's Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute as an outcome of a particular philosophy. That philosophy is based on the concept that to fulfill their potential contributions, academic libraries need to direct their planning, resources, and services to support the priorities of their parent institutions. This article addresses the need for campus-focused leadership training; higher education leadership training for academic librarians; and the higher education context for libraries. It describes why Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education and Human Development initiated a professional development institute for librarians. It describes the institute's history, curriculum, and assessment …

Book Review: Management Of Change: Implementation Of Problem-Based And Project-Based Learning In Engineering, Johannes Strobel

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

No abstract provided.

And They Were There: Reports Of Meetings -- 27th Annual Charleston Conference, Ramune K. Kubilius

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Indot Planning Organizational Changes: The New Integrated Planning Division, David Holtz

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Final Program, Purdue Road School

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

On The Convergence Of Innis's International Political Economy And Sebald's Novels, Joseph S. Pinter

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper "On the Convergence of Innis's International Political Economy and Sebald's Novels" Joseph S. Pinter contributes to the development of an area of scholarship on Harold A. Innis and Canadian political economy which deals with issues of representation, landscape, and memory. Pinter draws attention to a specific aspect of Innis's approach to political economy and focuses on ways in which Innis was able to represent fundamental aspects of the settlement process in Canada. Pinter argues that Innis focussed on landscape as a basic element in the European experience of North America (US and Canada) that, in turn, enabled …

Applying Systems Engineering Principles In Inproving Health Care Delivery, Renata Kopach-Konrad Msc, Mark Lawley Phd, Mike Criswell Msn,Rn,Ccns, Imran Hasan Msc, Santanu Chakraborty Msc, Joe Pekney Phd, Bradley Doebbeling Md,Msc

RCHE Publications

BACKGROUND: In a highly publicized joint report, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine recently recommended the systematic application of systems engineering approaches for reforming our health care delivery system. For this to happen,‎ medical professionals and managers need to understand and appreciate the power that systems engineering concepts and tools can bring to redesigning and improving health care environments and practices.‎ OBJECTIVE: To present and discuss fundamental concepts and tools of systems engineering and important parallels between systems engineering, health services, and implementation research as it pertains to the care of complex patients.‎ DESIGN: An exploratory, …

Organizational Imprinting: Informing Firm Behavior In Domestic And International Contexts, Aldas Kriauciunas, George Shinkle

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

We argue that organizational imprinting theory provides an important causal mechanism and originating source for numerous behaviors which are applicable to several research literatures. We briefly explain the imprinting process, how the imprinting process can be informed by other theories, and how imprinting may be better utilized than some frameworks such as inertia or social embeddedness to understand the initiation of firm behavior. We follow with examples from organizational behavior, organizational change and learning, entrepreneurship, and mergers & acquisitions where imprinting theory could be used to explain observed behaviors along with potential avenues and ideas for future research in these …

Determinants Of Export Growth In Transition Economy Firms: Instituions, Aspirations, Incentives, And Inertia, George Shinkle, Aldas Kriauciunas

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

Exports are an important source of revenue, especially in transitional economies. To better understand export growth, we examine the influence of institutional development, managerial aspirations, private ownership, firm size, and age with a sample of Central and East European firms. We find that institutions affect export growth through their interaction with firm size and age, though in opposite ways. Also, while the impact of private ownership is conditional on the level of institutional development, managerial aspirations support export growth across all institutional environments examined. These results indicate the importance of institutions and their limits when behavioral factors are considered.

Impeding And Facilitating Factors In The Implementation Of Lean Enterprise Methodology, Brian S. Leonard

Purdue Polytechnic Masters Theses

The field of lean enterprise has continued to grow since being introduced by the Toyota Corporation after World War II. In academia lean strategies are being introduced in order to prepare students for this new era in operating procedures. Currently, the majority of research in business and academia is focused on processes and methodology, but leadership strategies are yet to be fully examined.

According to Hamilton (2006) there are insufficient resources and research that contribute to understanding successful implementation strategies. Hamilton (2006) expresses concern of the lack of focus on leadership strategies and employee development in lean enterprise.

This qualitative …

Regional Patient Safety Initiatives: The Missing Element Of Organizational Change, James G. Anderson

RCHE Publications

Data-sharing systems—where healthcare providers jointly implement a common ‎reporting system to promote voluntary reporting, information sharing, and learning—are ‎emerging as an important regional, state-level, and national strategy for improving ‎patient safety. The objective of this chapter is to review the evidence regarding the ‎effectiveness of these data-sharing systems and to report on the results of an analysis of ‎data from the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative (PRHI). PRHI consists of 42 ‎hospitals, purchasers and insurers in southwestern Pennsylvania that implemented ‎Medmarx, an on-line medication error reporting systems. Analysis of data from the PRHI ‎hospitals indicated that the number of errors and …

Integrating Patient Safety Into The Curriculum, Kathryn Gardner Rapala, Julie Novak

RCHE Presentations

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (2001) and To Err Is Human(2000) were tipping points in patient safety. The public reaction to these reports was significant. People paid attention. The report energized patient safety research and applications, prompting much needed research and evidence-based practice. It is difficult to find a patient safety article that does not reference at least one of these landmark reports. These early IOM reports were a catalyst for the development of the Doctor of Nurs- ing Practice degree at Purdue University. Subsequent healthcare summits …

Organizational Learning From Voluntary Medication Error Reporting Systems, James Anderson, Ramngaraj Ramanujam, Kathleen Abrahamson

RCHE Presentations

Project Goals and Objectives: To examine developmental trends in the effectivenes of data sharing regarding medication errors in hospitals. To use the results to assist hospitals to improve patient safety by reducing medication errors.

Adaptation Of Lean Methodologies For Healthcare Applications, Heather (Woodward) Hagg, Deanna Suskovich, Jamie Workman-Germann, Susan Scachitti, Brian Hudson, Joseph Swartz, Chris Vanni

RCHE Publications

Lean and Six Sigma quality concepts and terminology have been applied in the manufacturing arena since the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. It has only been in recent years that healthcare administrators have identified these methods as being adaptable to their organizations so that they may realize organizational improvements for continuing success and delighting customers. Unfortunately, this is not an application that is widely taught in typical Industrial Engineering curriculum and therefore there are few educated professionals coming right out of college that are able to apply these principles to healthcare. There are however, many experienced professionals knowledgeable in the …

Voluntary Reporting Of Medical Errors And Organizational Change: A Simulation Study, James Anderson, Rangaraj Ramanujam, Devon Hensel, Marilyn Anderson

RCHE Publications

In this study we describe a computer simulation model that can be used to explore organizational changes that are required to improve patient safety based on a medication error reporting system.

Transactional Economics: John Dewey's Ways Of Knowing And The Radical Subjectivism Of The Austrian School, Robert Mulligan

Education and Culture

The radical subjectivism of the Austrian school of economics is a special case of Dewey’s ways of knowing. Austrian economists adopted an Aristotelian deductive approach to economic issues such as social behavior and exchange. In Dewey’s contrasting view, the scientist commends new, alternative ways of knowing to the scientific community, offering more profound insight or more efficacious practical applications. Alternative ways of knowing which do not offer practical or intellectual benefits are to be rejected. Dewey’s transactional strategy, asserting knowledge as ways of knowing, suggests a broader and more fundamental critique of the socialist position in the calculation debate. The …

Disciplinarity And Transfer: Students' Perceptions Of Learning To Write, Linda S. Bergmann, Janet S. Zepernick

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Publications

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Known: Writing Centers And The Work Of Anti-Racism, Frankie Condon

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Regional Patient Safety Initiatives: The Missing Element Of Organizational Change, James G. Anderson

RCHE Publications

Data-sharing systems- where healthcare providers jointly implement a common reporting system to promote voluntary reporting, information sharing and learning are emerging as an important regional, state level and national strategy for improving patient safety[1].

The Need For Organizational Change In Patient Safety Initiatives, James G. Anderson

RCHE Publications

This study describes a computer model that has beed developed to explore organizational changes required to improve patient safety based on a medication error reporting system.

The Need For Organizational Change In Patient Safety Initiatives, James G. Anderson

RCHE Publications

This study describes a computer simulation model that has been developed to explore organizational changes required to improve patient safety based on a medication error reporting system.

Creser: Sibi/Usp Staffing Training And Development Program., Adriana Cybele Ferrari, Márcia Elisa Garcia De Grandi,, Mairza Leal De Meirelles Do Coutta

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

It describes the institutionalization of continuous education process of library teams, with prominence for the creation of the Staff Training and Development Portal (Crescer) of University of Sao Paulo´s Integrated Libraries System (SIBi/USP). SIBi/USP understands that continuous qualification aims at promoting organizational changes and developing competencies in order to improve the quality of products and services offered. To achieve these goals, training sessions, events, courses (remote and in loco) are developed and provided on a yearly basis, among other activities that promote professional development. Since the beginning of the process in 2002, 6,467 qualification opportunities for library professionals have been …

Harboring Humor In The Wake Of Change, Branna Smith

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Regional Patient Safety Initiatives: The Missing Element Of Organizational Change , James G. Anderson

RCHE Publications

Data-sharing systems—where healthcare providers jointly implement a common reporting system to promote voluntary reporting, information sharing, and learning—are emerging as an important regional, statelevel,‎ and national strategy for improving patient safety[1]. Currently, over 24 states have mandated some form of incident reporting. Also, there has been a steady increase in the number of regional coalitions of providers, payers, and employers working to improve patient safety. More recently, the President signed into law the Healthcare Information Exchange Act, which envisages such data sharing at a national level. The objective of this presentation is to review the evidence regarding the effectiveness of …

Program Management: A Comprehensive Overview Of The Discipline, Mitchell L. Springer

Purdue University Press Books

Although many might argue that program management is magic or luck, and at times this might be the case, Springer instead describes program management as both an art and a science. The art of program management is addressed through the numerous qualitative aspects of dealing with people, working in teams, understanding what motivates people, and gaining an understanding how we manage. The quantitative side is composed of a process with multiple activities with clear-cut outcomes. The integration of the multiple activities and outcomes provides a powerful framework for successfully planning a program. Program Management: A Comprehensive Overview of the Discipline, …

An Empirical Test Of Stakeholder Influence Strategies Model: Evidence From Business Downsizing In Taiwan , Philip C.F. Tsai, C. Rosa Yeh, Shu-Ling Wu, Ing-Chung Huang

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

Frooman’s (1999) model of stakeholder influence strategy uses levels of resource dependence to determine the power of stakeholder influence. Our study provides initial empirical tests of his model applied in business downsizing. Data from 18 recently downsized firms in Taiwan, including 9 multi-national firms (MNC’s), were plotted against the Frooman model. We found that resource-dependence along as Frooman theorized could not explain the influence strategies stakeholders (in this case the employees) took in response to firms’ downsizing decisions. Further investigation revealed that the institutional factors had a significant effect on how firms structured their downsizing initiatives and hence changed the …

Greek Libraries And Team Working: The Survey And Results (Poster), Anthi Katsirikou

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Library Collaboration: What Makes It Work? (Keynote Paper), Murray Shepherd

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In previous papers delivered at IATUL Conferences, I described the TriUniversity Group (TUG) library collaboration. I spoke of the advantages and reported that three academic libraries, large (University of Waterloo) medium (University of Guelph) and small (Wilfrid Laurier University) were working together creatively to address a number of issues: • Remote storage of little used library materials, • Development of a web-based, unified and integrated online “catalogue”, • Joint purchases of online resources, and • Rationalization of information resources This pioneering collaborative undertaking, initiated in 1995, is now widely emulated, with some success. The TUG librarians found that collaboration is …

2004 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award For Excellence In Work-Family Research Publication, Shelley M. Macdermid

Center for Families Publications

Over the past few decades there has been an explosion of research on the relationships between work and non-work life. Researchers studying these issues come from many disciplines and professions, resulting in fragmented awareness of one another's work. In addition, exchanges of research information among scholars, consultants and corporate practitioners are limited. Many research studies are not well-grounded in theory, slowing the generation of new knowledge. As a result, it has been difficult to develop shared standards for research quality and to avoid redundance in the research literature. Some excellent studies have failed to have impact because of lack of …