Coaching for learning agility: The importance of leader behavior, learning goal orientation, and psychological safety

The present research explored associations between potential antecedents of subordinate learning agility and subordinate performance (perceived manager coaching behavior, subordinate learning goal orientation, and perceived manager-subordinate psychological safety). Two studies were conducted: one in a healthcare organization and another using crowd-sourced data. Findings demonstrated significant associations between study constructs. Specifically, structural equation modeling and regression results demonstrated that perceived manager coaching behavior was associated with perceived manager-subordinate psychological safety and with subordinate learning agility. Analyses also established that subordinate learning goal orientation was associated with subordinate learning agility. Additionally, results demonstrated that perceived manager-subordinate psychological safety was associated with subordinate learning agility. Finally, results did not verify an association between subordinate learning agility and subordinate performance, although this may have been due to methodological issues rather than empirical ones. Future research should assess causal mechanisms, other antecedents, and contextual elements such as the level of change in an organization. A fuller study of these constructs may provide more understanding of the importance of learning agility in the workplace. Implications for organizations are discussed

Exploring and Evaluating E-Business Models: A Preliminary Study of a Community-Based Website

Social media is the use of the Internet and mobile technologies to share user-generated content. At a broader level, social media has been providing an increasing amount of the information that is presented to very wide audiences. However, hyper-local media is a form of such social media that tries to target a comparably narrow but focused group of audience with timely and related content. OpenAnchorage presents our vision of a hyper-local information site. It was developed to collect community information created by the local providers and present this information on a local area map where interested users can select the data relevant to their hyper-local geographic area. OpenAnchorage website simultaneously requires a process of providing both new technology and new content. The research design is an iterative analysis-adjustment and adaption-data collection with an integrated process of using Business Model Canvas and Customer Development Stack. The goal of this project is to determine the potential business model or models that will serve our site best by using this innovative, iterative, experiment approach. The desire is that, eventually, the site will be able to get a critical mass of participation, to generate socio-economic values to serve our community, and to support its own long-term sustainability

A Project-Centric Curriculum Design

Student success was the motivation for evolving an individual project-based course into a project-centric curriculum. A one semester project was first extended across a sequence of three interrelated courses tied together through their focus on the success of small team projects that spanned those courses. This sequence was then targeted as the core of a redesign of the entire program curriculum focused on project and student success. Currently, the department is in the process of introducing the measurement of project success as a tool for assessment and control of the department’s learning objectives. An overview of the design of this curriculum, lessons learned from developing it, and benefits of this type of curriculum in quality of student learning, community engagement, and reputation of the university, will be discussed

Controlling Curriculum Redesign with a Process Improvement Model

A portion of the curriculum for a Management Information Systems degree was redesigned to enhance the experiential learning of students by focusing it on a three-semester community-based system development project. The entire curriculum was then redesigned to have a project-centric focus with each course in the curriculum contributing to the success of students’ learning experiences. Implementation of this new design involved an evolutional enhancement from an existing traditional curriculum with modifications proceeding in stages over a four-year period. Early on, it was recognized that the curriculum redesign was progressing through a series of stages similar to that encountered in software engineering processes. As a result, the general guidelines and framework developed for continuous improvement in software engineering: the Capability Maturity Model were adopted and modified for guiding the curriculum redesign. This paper presents a description of the authors’ experiences in implementing a curriculum redesign from one based on a traditional course-based design to a project-centric design using the Capability Maturity Model as a process improvement tool. Our successful experience with using this tool suggests a need for the development of a specialized process improvement tool for future use on similar curriculum redesign

Role of veterinarians in recognition and prevention of animal abuse

Since the Criminal law of the Republic of Serbia in 2005 as well as the Law on veterinary medicine, there has been an increasing number of cases that deal with raising criminal charges due to animal killing or torturing. There is also a significant number of forensic cases that are aimed at discovering criminal acts. Animal abuse is a social issue, which includes a range of behaviors of humans that are harmful to animals, starting from unintentional neglect to intentional cruelty. Types of animal abuse are different and they can include physical, sexual, emotional abuse, or neglect. Abuse and neglect of animals have a variety of forms and manifestations, but the end result is always the same - animal suffering. The connection between animal abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse indicates that there is a significant role of veterinarians in social contexts and in terms of stopping this vicious cycle by preventing, discovering and turning in suspects involved in these crimes. The help that veterinarians provide to public prosecutors is of great importance. This study shows the role of veterinarians in cases of possible animal abuse, as well as their role in processing that type of cases

Estimating rail transport costs for grain and fertilizer

Agricultural Experiment Stations of Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating.Includes bibliographical references (page 24)

Impact of remittances on poverty reduction

Дознаке из иностранства представљају део дохотка који емигранти шаљу породици, рођацима, пријатељима у матичној земљи. Њихова величина непосредно је повезана са облицима и структуром миграционих кретања. Раст заступљености привремених и циркуларних миграција радника насупрот трајним миграцијама доприноси повећању прилива дознака. Упоредо са повећањем обима дознака расте и њихов макроекономски и микроекономски значај. За већину земаља у развоју са обимним емиграционим токовима, дознаке из иностранства представљају значајан и релативно стабилан извор спољног финансирања привреде који обезбеђује одржавање платнобилансне равнотеже. У односу на токове страних директних инвестиција и портфолио инвестиција дознаке показују нижу волатилност, односно знатно мање реагују на макроекономске шокове. Цикличан карактер дознака у односу на кретање БДП-а земље пријема одређен је мотивима слања дознака. У земљама ниског дохотка, у којима преовлађују алтруистички мотиви слања, дознаке показују контрациклични карактер, док се процикличност дознака у односу на БДП земље пријема везује за изражено присуство инвестиционих мотива. За домаћинства примаоце, дознаке представљају значајан извор додатног дохотка који омогућава већу потрошњу, виши животни стандард, обезбеђење образовања и здравствених услуга за чланове, што је резултат присуства алтруистичких мотива емиграната. Склоност слању дознака одређена је бројним социо-демографским карактеристикама емиграната, као и степеном њихове друштвене и емотивне повезаности са емиграционом земљом. Већа вероватноћа слања дознака присутна је код емиграната чији супружник, деца или родитељи живе у матичној земљи, као и код оних који планирају повратак, инвестирање и/или имају интензивне друштвене контакте са особама у матичној земљи. Подстицање привремених и циркуларних миграција доприноси расту прилива дознака, док програми сједињавања породица имиграната и ii добијања држављанства, као и дужи период рада у иностранству воде асимилацији и већој интегрисаности у друштвени живот имиграционе земље, те слабе мотиве слања дознака.Remittances represent a part of an income the emigrants send to their families, relatives, friends living in the home country. Their size is directly connected with forms and structure of migrations. The growth of temporary and circular labour migration flows, as opposed to the permanent migration, contributes to the remittance inflows increasing. Along with the remittances volume increasing, their macroeconomic and microeconomic importance grows too. For the most developing countries with large emigration flows, remittances represent a substantial and relatively stable source of external financing of economy, providing in this way the balance of payments maintenance. Comparing with the foreign direct investments and portfolio investments, remittances show lower volatility i.e. they react significantly less to macroeconomic shocks. Remittance cyclical properties, in relation to the GDP of the receiving country, have been determined with the motives of sending remittances. In the low income countries where prevail altruistic motives of sending, remittances are countercyclical, while procyclicality of remittances, in relation to the GDP of receiving countries, has been connected with prevailing presence of investment motives. For the remittance receiving households, remittances represent a substantial source of additional income providing a higher consumption, higher standard of living, education and health care services for the members – showing the emigrants altruistic motives. Their tendency to send remittances has been determined with a number of socio-demographic characteristics of the emigrants, as well as with a degree of their social and emotional connection with emigration country. The emigrants whose spouse, children or parents live in the home country as well as those who plan to return, to invest and/or have more intensive social contacts with the persons in their home country, have a higher likelihood for sending the remittances. The incitement of temporary and circular migrations contributes to the remittance inflows growth while programs of family reunification and acquisition of legal permanent resident status as v well as a longer period of working abroad lead to assimilation and higher integration in the society of immigration country and weak motives for sending remittances

Economics of alternative coal transportation and distribution systems in Iowa

Iowa coal users consumed approximately 7.9 million tons of coal in 1976. Consumption of coal in Iowa is expected to climb to about 16.1 million tons by 1980. Only 540,000 tons of Iowa coal were mined in 1976. Iowa coal production continues to decline in a period of increasing demand.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/specialreports/1077/thumbnail.jp