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Personal identity and multicultural issues have relevance for social work researchers as well as practicioners. Written specifically for Advances in Social Work, this self-revelatory and inspirational article by Dr. Michael Spencer is based, in part, on an address he delivered at the January 2001 Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research. Michael Spencer encourages social work educators, researchers, and practitioners to join with him in the conversations needed to address identity and multicultural issues as they pertain to service-related research. In particular, he challenges social workers to recognize and manage their identity-based personal biases and preferences, and use both quantitative and qualitative research perspectives in ways that acknowledge the uniqueness of diverse peoples. He recommends that the processes of collaboration ans self-reflection characterize the conduct of multicultural social work research, and urges researchers to translate their findings into practitioner-friendly forms to facilitate application in service delivery.

Mientras el negocio global se vuelve más multidisciplinario en su naturaleza, los colegios y las escuelas de negocio parecen quedarse rezagados aferrándose a su orientación funcional. El resultado puede tener un efecto sumamente negativo en los egresados. Cuando se comparan tres componentes básicos del currículo de gerencia de operaciones con un componente básico del currículo de mercadeo surgen conflictos. El resultado de estos conflictos puede causar daño substancial a la competitividad global de las organizaciones. Los estudiantes tienen que descubrir estos conflictos y elaborar las resoluciones solos. Esto podría requerir un cambio estructural, para alinear las escuelas de negocio con las prácticas empresariales que mejoren la comprensión de los estudiantes de la naturaleza multidisciplinaria del negocio global.

Successful manufacturing applications of the Just‐in‐time
(JIT) management philosophy have been
well documented in the literature. Utilisation of
JIT techniques within manufacturing offers the
potential for significant operational improvements
beyond inventory reduction. JIT‐related
improvements include increases in quality,
improved employee productivity, decreases in
stockouts, and reductions in customer response
time. Relatively little research has focused on the
transferability of JIT concepts to other functional
areas. The article explores the application of JIT
concepts to a specific logistics function – transportation.
Although review of the literature
suggests that JIT systems significantly impact on
the transportation function, no methodology was
identified for incorporating the just‐in‐time
philosophy within a transportation firm in a totally
integrated manner. Therefore, two models are
proposed illustrating the authors′ conceptualisation
of the phased development and
implementation of JIT.

"Racism is imbued within the structures of our society and has been nesting comfortably within the social work profession since its inception (see Chapter 1). The 13th Grand Challenge is boldly calling social workers to extract this systemic stronghold from its profession and breathe new life into a field that has the capacity to transform our society. To facilitate this necessary disruption, social workers must be willing to critically engage in an exploration of the meaning of racism and its impact on social work in order to work towards its elimination from society and the profession. The chapters in this opening section provide a robust examination of race and racism, its role in social work, and the profession's movement towards a posture of anti-racism. In chapter 1, Understanding Race & Racism, Martell Teasley lays important groundwork required for this deep exploration of race, racism, and the social work profession. The author examines ways in which institutional norms produce racial common sense thinking as part of normative consciousness, discourse and social practice. Beginning with the fundamentals, he then provides the scaffolding necessary for understanding the function of race and racism at the micro, mezzo and macro levels"--

A research–practice partnership (RPP) is a collaborative, long-term partnership between researchers and practitioners. Autoethnography is a form of qualitative research where researchers recount stories of their personal experience to reflect on and better understand the wider cultural, social, and political world around them. In this paper, we demonstrate a collaborative approach to autoethnography that can serve as a useful tool for studying and transforming school culture with teachers and administrators in a middle school. We identify the key components of our approach and provide a detailed summary of how each element was applied and highlight the ways the inquiry process contributed to self and school-level transformation. We also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using autoethnography for RPPs in schools and discuss future directions for methodological development