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The ways an organisation goes about getting things done are
commonly quite different from the command, control and communications
relationships defined by formal organisation charts, written policies,
procedure manuals, and job descriptions. Managerial reliance upon the
definitive/coercive model inherent in these typical documents leads to
erroneous identification of issues and inappropriate remedies. Until
recently there has been no paradigm for description of how organisations
actually work, but a computer‐based methodology of elegant simplicity,
based upon the concept of the organisation as a reciprocal,
interdependent, negotiated network of relationships, is now available.
It offers a CAT‐scan‐like, many‐angled look at the physiology of an
organisation under any number of operating or prospective operating
circumstances to show cultural alignments, communications flows,
utilisation of knowledge workers, disparities in procedures and
department charters between actual and formally defined, the impact of
reward systems and the characteristics in integrative links.
Consequences of contemplated organisational changes, interventions or
strategies can be dynamically simulated. Certain data conventions and
illustrative applications of the new procedures are presented.

How can a third‐party logistics (3PL) provider decide whether or not there is a viable opportunity to serve the needs and desires of potential clients? To answer this question, a tool is needed that can help determine if there are problems, inefficiencies, or needed improvements in a client's, or a potential client's, supply chain that the 3PL can effectively address. Most diagnostic tools currently in use in supply chain analysis are large, quantitative, and time‐consuming. This paper describes a qualitative diagnostic tool designed for more rapid analysis. The research and managerial implications of this tool are also discussed.

The paper aims at stimulating reflection and debate on the issue of uncertainty as a key component of contingency planning and crisis management in environmental matters. It identifies and discusses different types of uncertainty, besides the scientific one which is already widely appreciated. A diagnostic tool is presented in the form of a checklist, designed for detecting and ranking the different types of uncertainty and for assessing levels of severity in a given contingency or crisis. The checklist is subsequently applied to the analysis of a classical disaster (the Seveso accident) to evaluate its usefulness and effectiveness. The author calls for further testing of the checklist by researchers, planners, regulators and practitioners and welcomes advice for its refinement.

<p class="Standard">This paper presents a methodology for assessing a child's capacity to identify primary affective states, affect regulation, and affective experiences in a non-threatening manner. The methodology can be used with children from ages three years thru age nineteen years.</p><p class="Standard">Background</p><p class="Standard">A thorough assessment includes an evaluation of a person's capacity to identify and regulate emotions. Affect regulation requires the capacity to identify internal experiences of emotions. The Heart Drawing was developed as a non-threatening method for assessing a child's capacity to identify emotions. Most children enjoy drawing and the Heart Drawing is usually experienced by the child as non-threatening and enjoyable.</p><p class="Standard">The Heart Drawing is a new, easy to use, and efficient tool that allows the clinician to assess a child's affect regulation functioning, affective range, and experience in a non-threatening manner. It can also be used to assess a child's insightfulness and capacity to identify internal affective experiences.</p><p class="Standard">Method</p><p class="Standard">The child is asked to select colors for the feelings expressive of mad, sad, glad, and scared from a group of nine primary colors. The child is then asked to draw a heart and to fill in the heart with the amount of each feeling that the child usually feels.</p><p class="Standard">Results</p><p class="Standard">Administration and discussion usually takes ten to fifteen minutes.</p><p class="Standard">Conclusion</p><p class="Standard">The article presents examples of drawings by children with various diagnoses and conditions along with a normative drawing for comparison. The methodology has been found to be very helpful in assessing a child's emotional status and capacity to regulate emotions.</p><p>Key Practitioner Message</p><p>1) Emotional regulation and the capacity to identify emotions is important for evaluation and treatment.</p><p>2) Projective drawing methods can be useful in assessing a person's ability to identify and regulate emotions.</p><p>3) The Heart Drawing is an efficient and effective method for assessing a person's capacity to identify and regulate emotions.</p>

Before deciding on a new variable compensation program, compensation managers should find out which program will be most compatible with the company environment.

In this paper we describe an effort to construct a catalogue of syntactic data, exemplifying the major syntactic patterns of German. The purpose of the corpus is to support the diagnosis of errors in the syntactic components of natural language processing (NLP) systems. Two secondary aims are the evaluation of NLP systems components and the support of theoretical and empirical work on German syntax. The data consist of artificially and systematically constructed expressions, including also negative (ungrammatical) examples. The data are organized into a relational data base and annotated with some basic information about the phenomena illustrated and the internal structure of the sample sentences. The organization of the data supports selected systematic testing of specific areas of syntax, but also serves the purpose of a linguistic data base. The paper first gives some general motivation for the necessity of syntactic precision in some areas of NLP and discusses the potential contribution of a syntactic data base to the field of component evaluation. The second part of the paper describes the set up and control methods applied in the construction of the sentence suite and annotations to the examples. We illustrate the approach with the example of verbal government. The section also contains a description of the abstract data model, the design of the data base and the query language used to access the data. The final sections compare our work to existing approaches and sketch some future extensions. We invite other research groups to participate in our effort, so that the diagnostics tool can eventually become public domain.

Instituto Tecnológico de Informática has a non-economic Activities Plan (PROMECE) ; whose general objective is to strengthen the research lines in which the Institute works, within the scope of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Within the Software Testing R&D Line, we present en this document the tool that will allow to capture the results of the diagnosis and present the data in a unified form, as well as to allow the evaluator to select the recommendations of a knowledge base. It must be a web tool divided into two functionalities according to the user profile that access: the evaluator or the diagnosed company. In addition, there must be an administrator user profile (which could match the evaluator) for the configuration and management of the tool. ; PROMECE 2015. Project funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the public grant program adressed to Technological Institutes of IVACE network. File number: IMAMCN/2015/1

We consider the issue of performing residual and local influence analyses in beta regression models with varying dispersion, which are useful for modelling random variables that assume values in the standard unit interval. In such models, both the mean and the dispersion depend upon independent variables. We derive the appropriate matrices for assessing local influence on the parameter estimates under different perturbation schemes. An application using real data is presented and discussed.

We evaluate two diagnostic tools used to determine if counterfactual analysis requires extrapolation. Counterfactuals based on extrapolation are model dependent and might not support empirically valid inferences. The diagnostics help researchers identify those counterfactual "what if" questions that are empirically plausible. We show, through simple Monte Carlo experiments, that these diagnostics will often detect extrapolation, suggesting that there is a risk of biased counterfactual inference when there is no such risk of extrapolation bias in the data. This is because the diagnostics are affected by what we call the n/k problem: as the number of data points relative to the number of explanatory variables decreases, the diagnostics are more likely to detect the risk of extrapolation bias even when such risk does not exist. We conclude that the diagnostics provide too severe a test for many data sets used in political science.

The Rorschach test appears to be decidedly useful as a diagnostic tool. The test interpretations supply a concise picture of the individuals' outstanding personality characteristics and the underlying dynamics of behavior. Adoption studies are completed with far greater understanding and certainty on the part of the caseworker than when subjective evaluation alone is relied upon. The most important factor to be looked for in adoption applicants is the ability to relate to other people. Not only does the inability to relate to others indicate a poor adoption risk, but it would also raise serious question as to the accessibility of the person to treatment or modification of personality trends during a period of supervision. Another area in which the Rorschach gives specific evidence difficult to obtain in the interview is that related to the individuals' feelings of security and adequacy. In studying interview and test material there appears to be a dearth of evidence in the former and a wealth of findings in the latter as to the way in which individuals use their inner resources to maintain themselves. The Rorschach test is a valuable tool in pointing up defenses and in revealing the ego strengths of the individual who must deal with these problems. The projective test is also of great value in indicating marked deviations and emotional disturbances, particularly in the psychosexual sphere, which might have a destructive influence on the child. The test findings can help define the extent to which the individual accepts his own femininity or masculinity. The use of Rorschach tests is not a substitute for skilled casework, and, in fact, should only be used where such workers are available. The test itself is of value only when it is conducted by a highly trained and experienced Rorschach expert and when a psychiatrist is available for consultation. The trend in adoption practice is toward placement of babies soon after birth when this plan appears sound so far as the natural mother is concerned. This implies additional risk as well as additional satisfaction for adoptive parents. It insures more security for a child. In view of this trend agencies are faced with the need to select couples with maximum surety as to their potentialities as parents. This use of Rorschach tests as a diagnostic tool is a step in that direction. Its results so far point to many other areas for research. Perhaps the findings of such additional research projects are the only means of proving the soundness of the study process used in this experiment.