The Effect of a Soccer Unit on the Agility and Cardiovascular Fitness of Ninth Grade Boys

Physical Fitness today s receiving increasing attention throughout the United States and even the whole world. This was pointed out when President Eisenhower expressed concern over the results of the Kraus-Weber Tests and called a conference on health and physical-fitness. Health literature generally is giving increased emphasis to activity and the results of activity at the various age and size levels. This study is an attempt to evaluate the worth whileness of soccer as an activity in physical education programs especially as it affects cardiovascular-fitness and agility. The purpose of this paper may therefore be listed as follows: (1) to determine the effect of a 3 ½ weeks soccer unit on the agility and cardiovascular-fitness of ninth grade boys, (2) to compare boys who are large for their age with those who are small with respect to cardiovascular-fitness and agility, and (3) to compare boys who have a long trunk and short legs with who have long legs and a short trunk with respect to cardiovascular-fitness and agility

Managing Information Systems and Technologies for Agility: Case Studies in Supply Chain Management.

This research examines how information systems and technologies enable supply chain agility. The research was performed through the field study method involving 18 organizations representing the OEMs, suppliers, and IT vendors within the aerospace, automotive, electronics, healthcare, and fast moving consumer goods industries. Interviews were undertaken with managers from the IT and supply chain departments. The interviewees conceptualize supply chain agility with respect to the level of agility (internal or external) and the directions of agility (upstream or downstream). While supply chain agility is essentially regarded as the capability to rapidly match demand requirements and supply constraints by sensing and responding to change in the environment, form IT perspective, it means offering products and services that could increase transparency and improve relationships between trading partners. These are exemplified through the use of emergent IS/IT services, such as Supplier Portal, Vendor-Managed Inventory, E-Marketplace, and Web-based EDI, as well as industry-wide standards and solutions

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND HOSPITALS AGILITY OF SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Introduction: Regarding the changing environment of hospitals and necessity of providing services in the shortest possible time and with acceptable quality and cost for patients, attention to innovative and smart approaches and using maximum mental abilities of the organization for increasing hospitals agility seems necessary. In fact, this study aims to answer this question that is there a significant relation between organizational intelligence (and its components according to Albrecht model) and hospitals agility?Method: The present study is applied in respect of aim and descriptive in regard of nature and method and for this purpose, a 368 persons sample was selected by stratifies sampling method among all 8247 personnel working in 15 active hospitals. For data collection in the field of organizational intelligence Albrecht organizational intelligence standard questionnaire and for organization agility, agility standard questionnaire which has been designed based on Goldman agility model were used. Results: Findings showed that there is a positive and significant relation between organizational intelligence and its seven components (strategic perspective, shared fate, desire to change, spirit, knowledge application, union and agreement and performance pressure) with hospitals agility and except intervening variable of educations other intervening variables like age, gender, marital status and working background have no impact on organizational intelligence and hospitals agility. Conclusion: Regarding the results of this study, choosing some solutions for codifying dynamic strategic programs in hospitals and holding training courses of organizational intelligence for informing personnel and managers could lead to increasing of hospitals agility level and providing effective service for patients

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND HOSPITALS AGILITY OF SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Introduction: Regarding the changing environment of hospitals and necessity of providing services in the shortest possible time and with acceptable quality and cost for patients, attention to innovative and smart approaches and using maximum mental abilities of the organization for increasing hospitals agility seems necessary. In fact, this study aims to answer this question that is there a significant relation between organizational intelligence (and its components according to Albrecht model) and hospitals agility?Method: The present study is applied in respect of aim and descriptive in regard of nature and method and for this purpose, a 368 persons sample was selected by stratifies sampling method among all 8247 personnel working in 15 active hospitals. For data collection in the field of organizational intelligence Albrecht organizational intelligence standard questionnaire and for organization agility, agility standard questionnaire which has been designed based on Goldman agility model were used. Results: Findings showed that there is a positive and significant relation between organizational intelligence and its seven components (strategic perspective, shared fate, desire to change, spirit, knowledge application, union and agreement and performance pressure) with hospitals agility and except intervening variable of educations other intervening variables like age, gender, marital status and working background have no impact on organizational intelligence and hospitals agility. Conclusion: Regarding the results of this study, choosing some solutions for codifying dynamic strategic programs in hospitals and holding training courses of organizational intelligence for informing personnel and managers could lead to increasing of hospitals agility level and providing effective service for patients

Its time to act:understanding and assessing agility in information systems development

This paper focuses on addressing the question of how agile are agile methods. To do this I synthesize seven general features of agility, drawing on management and sociology disciplines, into a framework, to act as a ‘gold standard’ by which to compare agile methods. I found that agile methods did not entirely measure up to this framework and that they were lacking in terms of (i) survival, (ii) prospering or thriving on change, and (iii) being able to regulate and leverage emotions in action responses to change. This paper offers: (i) a framework for assessing agility in software development, (ii) the elucidation of a knowledge gap in agile methods with respect to emotion, and, (iii) a conceptualization that reveals the need to incorporate emotional regulation and leverage into assessments of agility

Changes Observed on Speed and Agility of Male Handball Players during a Handball Match

The study was proposed to investigate the changes observed on speed and agility of male handball players during a handball match and it also intend to assess the difference among different playing position. We selected twelve (12) university represented male handball players from Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu. The selected subjects were classified into three groups with respect to playing position (back court players – 6, wing players – 4 and pivot players – 2). However, in the present study goalkeepers were excluded from the study. The result of the study showed that speed and agility showed no significant difference between first and second half (p > 0.05) during a handball match. However, the ANOVA showed significant difference on speed and agility on first and second half. The Scheffé S post hoc test showed that a significant difference noted between back – pivot (p = 0.006) and wing – pivot (p = 0.010) on speed. Similarly, on agility back – pivot (p = 0.012) and wing – pivot (p = 0.029) but other comparisons displayed no significant difference. It is concluded that 60 minutes of handball match displayed no changes in speed and agility. However, the position wise comparison showed pivot players slow and less agile than other players