Taking the leadership role:Understanding leadership across team and organizational boundaries in view of the changing employment relationship

Contemporary knowledge workers cooperate more and more in multiple, temporary, and often virtual teams with peers within and across organizational boundaries. The growing involvement of multiple actors inside and outside organizations has severe implications for how the employment relationship is managed. In the current article it is argued that leadership is becoming not only increasingly distributed but also diffuse. Leadership is no longer "what those in leadership positions do," but refers to a process by which one or more actors stimulate themselves and each other in order to pursue values, goals, and objectives. Whoever takes on a leadership role, needs to understand the way actors can be motivated and energized to address future needs and requirements in organizations. Building on insights from human resource management, leadership, and organizational behavior literature, how multiple actors are stimulated to take on their leadership roles in order to foster salient outcomes for multiple parties is explored in the current article

Nulmeting: digitalisering van het onderwijsmateriaal bij de Open Universiteit Nederland

Een eerste doelstelling binnen het project Werkprocessen is te komen tot een inventarisatie en beschrijving van bestaande werkprocessen en procedures voor het ontwikkelen van digitale materialen bij de verschillende faculteiten en afdelingen van de OUNL

Elektronisch werkboek

Het project "Het ontwikkelen en flexibel uitleverbare digitale onderwijsmaterialen (werkprocessen genoemd)" heeft als doel de werkprocessen te ondersteunen voor het ontwerpen en ontwikkelen van onderwijs met leidende trefwoorden als webgebaseerde aansturing, multimediale inzet, interactiviteit, en activerend onderwijs

Estudios de impactos sociales en el Mercosur : Procesos relocalizatorios, nuevos espacios urbanos y reconstrucción de redes de relaciones sociales

En el presente trabajo se analizan y comparan las experiencias de las poblaciones de las ciudades de Nueva Federación (provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina) y de Itá (Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil) que fueran relocalizadas por la construcción de la represa binacional argentino-uruguaya de Salto Grande y la represa de Itá (Estados de Santa Catarina y Río Grande del Sur, Brasil). El estudio se focaliza en la percepción que tuvieron diferentes actores locales respecto de los nuevos espacios urbanos planificados, y en la manera que reconstruyeron sus lugares sociales y privados. Asimismo, se analizan las pérdidas y las transformaciones producidas en sus redes sociales y en su cotidiano, dada la nueva concepción de los espacios urbanos que suponían, un “nuevo estilo de vida” para estas poblaciones relocalizadas.In this paper we analyze and compare the experiences of the inhabitants of the Nueva Federación city (province of Entre Ríos, Argentina) and the Itá city (Santa Catarina State, Brazil), who were resettled as result of the building of the Argentinian-Uruguayan Salto Grande and the Brazilian Itá hidroelectric dams (Santa Catarina and Rio Grande del Sur States). Our study focuses on the perception that different local actors involved had concerning the newly planned urban spaces, and how they rebuilt their social and private environments. Besides, we analize the loss and the transformations in their social networks and daily lives, result of the new conception of those urban spaces which were intended to create “a new lifestyle” for them.Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Muse

Automated quantitative gait analysis in animal models of movement disorders

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Accurate and reproducible behavioral tests in animal models are of major importance in the development and evaluation of new therapies for central nervous system disease. In this study we investigated for the first time gait parameters of rat models for Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD) and stroke using the Catwalk method, a novel automated gait analysis test. Static and dynamic gait parameters were measured in all animal models, and these data were compared to readouts of established behavioral tests, such as the cylinder test in the PD and stroke rats and the rotarod tests for the HD group.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Hemiparkinsonian rats were generated by unilateral injection of the neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine in the striatum or in the medial forebrain bundle. For Huntington's disease, a transgenic rat model expressing a truncated huntingtin fragment with multiple CAG repeats was used. Thirdly, a stroke model was generated by a photothrombotic induced infarct in the right sensorimotor cortex. We found that multiple gait parameters were significantly altered in all three disease models compared to their respective controls. Behavioural deficits could be efficiently measured using the cylinder test in the PD and stroke animals, and in the case of the PD model, the deficits in gait essentially confirmed results obtained by the cylinder test. However, in the HD model and the stroke model the Catwalk analysis proved more sensitive than the rotarod test and also added new and more detailed information on specific gait parameters.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The automated quantitative gait analysis test may be a useful tool to study both motor impairment and recovery associated with various neurological motor disorders.</p