Tea Time: Summer goals

Weekly Tea Time program featuring the topic "Summer goals"Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Groun

Response to Dr. Y. Bushyhead of LPTC

A response to a April 3, 1997 letter to Chancellor Weber from Dr. Y. Bushyhead of Little Priest Tribal College (LPTC) dated 4/22/1997

Partnerships for Sustainable Development Goals 2016

This present document is the fourth edition of a report that has been prepared by the Division for Sustainable Development of UN-DESA as a follow up the Rio+20 Conference in 2012, as an effort to provide status of progress multi-stakeholder partnerships and voluntary commitments have in realizing sustainable development. This current 2016 edition reviews a number of action networks and multi-stakeholder partnerships, with a particular focus on how they support the theme of the 2016 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) - "Ensuring that no one is left behind". Information in the report is largely based on submissions from the Partnerships for SDGs online platform, which was originally developed following the Rio+20 Conference in 201. The platform was recently redesigned ahead of the adoption of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015

PR goals in the public sphere

The ability to improve a competitive position involves the need to promote and create entrepreneurship in public organisations as well as implement modern management concepts. The strategic orientation in the management of public organisations is related to the search for identity, the vision of development and the implementation of a particular management strategy. The key issue is the incorporation of public relations into an institution’s development strategy and its close connection with the existing promotional activities. All public organisations are constantly assessed by the general public, and their functioning is seriously hindered without an appropriate level of social trust. Trust is a prerequisite for their development, necessary for implementing new ideas or operation methods. In order to win trust it is crucial to achieve probity social participation in the activities of a public organisation. The reliability and a positive image of a public organisation are necessary for the performance of its public tasks. A favourable reputation supports the link, maintaining and strengthening it, with the social environment

Sensor technology workshop: Structure and goals

The Astrotech 21 charter for the second of three workshops is described. The purpose was to identify technology needs in the areas of electromagnetic radiation sensors, and to recommend a plan to develop the required capabilities that are not currently available. The panels chosen for this workshop focused specifically on those technologies needed for the Astrotech 21 Program including: gamma ray and x ray sensors, ultraviolet and visible sensors, direct infrared sensors, and heterodyne submillimeter wave sensors

The Dynamic Effects of Subconscious Goal Pursuit on Resource Allocation, Task Performance, and Goal Abandonment

We test two potential boundary conditions for the effects of subconscious goals—the nature of the goal that is activated (achievement vs. underachievement) and conscious goal striving. Subconscious achievement goals increase the amount of time devoted to skill acquisition, and this increase in resource allocation leads to higher performance when conscious goals are neutral. However, specific conscious goals undermine the performance benefits of subconscious achievement goals. Subconscious underachievement goals cause individuals to abandon goal pursuit and this effect is mediated by task performance. Difficult conscious goals neutralize the detrimental effects of subconscious underachievement goals but only if implemented before performance is undermined. Overall, these results suggest that subconscious achievement goals facilitate task performance, subconscious underachievement goals trigger goal abandonment, and difficult conscious goals moderate these effects depending on the level of resource allocation and timing of goal implementation