Harry considers his most important work was achieved in the last 2 years of his life as 'Harry the Hospice Cat'. Situated in his sun spot in St Angela's garden and then his window sill in the marketing office Harry ruminates over the micro-level marketing being undertaken by a hospice. Inspired by the death of a real-life hospice cat together with an ethnographic study of a hospice marketing team 'Harry's most important work' is not a 'tall tale' but gives real insight into the challenges and battles involved in marketing work. Harry observes the demands made on St Angela's to embrace digital advances and the struggles of nonprofit organisations to keep pace with new marketing practice. Observing the 'goings on' as well as the different 'languages' in a hospice, Harry highlights the very real tensions that arise from the difficult work being undertaken and analyses the organisational tensions which emerge when a marketing team strive to negotiate their legitimacy. From under the table in the chilly, white meeting room Harry tells the unique and important story about the 'doing' of very difficult marketing in the unusual context of a hospice. Harry's story has implications for marketing education, practice and research as well as other animals who may feel a sense of responsibility to help humankind.
Abstract The Zhuangzi is a book that opens to a virtual wilderness of interpretive possibilities begging for exploration by scholars and laypersons alike. What follows here is an adventuresome foray by one of the latter. As such, it is essentially an exercise in creative writing. Since it is our interpretive conclusion that this was precisely what Zhuangzi himself was about, we believe he would smile broadly upon this endeavor however far-afield its proclamations might be. This point is central within this essay. However we engage with Zhuangzi, whether as a dilettante or an academic, it is the engagement that matters most. Conclusions are secondary at best. This having been said, conclusions will be found herein. Ambiguity is the signature characteristic of Zhuangzi's writing. Awareness of ambiguity as a defining characteristic of the human experience invites us to consider the importance of not-knowing, the thing-left-out, the usefulness of the useless, the prioritization of Yin over Yang, and, most importantly, the experience of inherent emptiness. For Zhuangzi, such an awareness invites a radical paradigm shift away from the cognitive to the visceral. It invites an embrace of emptiness that renders one free of all dependence on being a self in need of itself.
It seems that there will be a general election before Christmas. This, it is believed, could break the impasse that has been created in Parliament by Brexit. However, as in all things associated with the 'B' word, it's likely that the outcome might result in unintended consequences.Psychologists looking for historical precedent, always a dangerous pursuit, might look to 1974 for indicators of how things may turn out. In 1974 there were two elections, in February and October, neither of which resulted in majorities. The first election, on 28thFebruary, had been called by incumbent Prime Minister Conservative Edward Heath who was beset by economic of inflation running at 20%, a trade (current account) deficit for the previous month of £383 million, the largest in history to that point and ongoing industrial relations problems including another miners' strike.
This ISTeC Distinguished Lecture was held on March 24, 2014 in Fort Collins, Colorado. ; Dr. Randy Schekman is currently an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2013, together with Thomas C. Sudhof and James Rothman, "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells." ; ISTeC (Information Science and Technology Center) is a university-wide organization for promoting, facilitating, and enhancing CSU's research, education, and outreach activities pertaining to the design and innovative application of computer, communication, and information systems. ; Includes recorded lecture and PowerPoint presentation. ; The assessment of scholarly achievement depends critically on the proper evaluation and publication of research work in scholarly journals. Investigators face a dizzying array of journal styles that include commercial, not-for-profit and academic society journals that are supported by a mix of subscription and page charges. The Open Access (OA) movement, launched in Britain but greatly expanded by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), seeks to eliminate the firewall that separates published work from public access. OA journals are funded by a mix of page charges and philanthropic or foundation support. Most OA journals embrace a more liberal licensing agreement on the use and reuse of published work, favoring the creative commons license rather than a copyright held by the publisher. Some publishers, particularly commercial firms, view the OA movement as a threat to the viability of their business plan. Major commercial publishers, particularly Elsevier, have fought against government mandates for OA publication of publicly funded research. The most selective and successful journals, Science, Nature and Cell (a life science journal owned by Elsevier), maintain a firm hold on the high end of the scientific literature by appealing to investigators to submit only their most important work. Typically, these journals publish only a small fraction of the papers they receive and for the most part they rely on professional editors rather than active scholars to make key editorial decisions. These publishers, particularly Nature and Cell, reinforce their high standing by relying on a metric, the impact factor (IF) that computes the average number of citations of papers published in the journal during the preceding two-year period. As a consequence, many investigators, who quite naturally seek career advancement, strive to publish in these journals even at the expense of repeated cycles of review, wasteful additional experimental work and ultimately lost time. I will argue that it is time for scholars to reassume authority for the publication of their research work and to eschew the use of IF in the evaluation of scholarly achievement and favor OA publications over what I have called the "luxury" journals.
"The principles of sound human resource management are generally undiferstood, but too often practitioners believe the same policies and programs will work in all contexts. The effectiveness of any system is highly dependent on the context within which it must function. And due to globalization and increased workforce diversity, the contexts across and even within organizations have become more varied. The Most Important Asset is a story about new graduates entering the human resources field, encountering and dealing with workforce management challenges and issues and developing their own professional competence through experience. Principles are presented and alternative solutions to problems are explored, providing the readifer with a roadmap for analyzing situations and making decisions as to how to act. Placing the characters in different types of organizations provides insights into how different contexts call for different strategies. Alternative strategies for staffing an organization, developing its people, defining, measuring and rewarding performance are used to illustrate how what is done should be compatible with the mission, culture, organizational strategy, and internal and external realities."--Provided by publisher
The 2005 reform is, in my opinion, the one with the greatest legal significance of the seventeen changes made to the 1980 Fundamental Charter. I think so because that amendment finds, in the new Chapter VIII dedicated to the Constitutional Court, the most far-reaching modification that has been introduced into the Chilean regulatory system, at least since the Political Code of 1980 came into effect. ; La reforma de 2005 es, en mi concepto, la de mayor trascendencia jurídica de los diecisiete cambios hechos a la Carta Fundamental de 1980. Pienso así porque esa enmienda halla, en el nuevo Capítulo VIII dedicado al Tribunal Constitucional, la modificación de mayor envergadura que ha sido introducida en el sistema normativo chileno, al menos desde la vigencia del Código Político de 1980.
