Creating Shared Value Through Service-Learning in Management Education

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Service-learning has gained strong interest among educators as a model of experiential education through community engagement. Its potential to contribute to multiple stakeholders, including students, community partners, faculty, and university, is well recognized. While research has focused on elements of this teaching model that contribute to the realization of student-related benefits, there has been less emphasis on what aspects enable the creation of shared value to other stakeholders. We describe a postgraduate, elective management consulting course based on service-learning pedagogy, which has been running for 10 years at the University of Technology Sydney Business School leading to the completion of 75 community projects to date, and evaluate how it creates shared value to multiple stakeholders. We identify four main elements of the course that enable it to deliver value to multiple stakeholders: a dedicated role of client engagement coordinator, a coaching program involving industry experts, student autonomy, and authentic assessments. The main challenges in continuously providing value to all involved parties are developing focused and realistic project briefs, managing students’ commitment and differences in students’ skills, and recruiting industry coaches

DIAGNOSIS OF THYROTOXICOSIS IN PATIENTS AGED OVER SIXTY

Fifty patients aged over 60 years (average age of 64,04 years) were studied. The thyrotoxicosis was proved in a clinical, laboratory, and in some cases histologic way. As a result of our investigation we established that the thyrotoxicosis in the elderly patients posed considerable diagnostic difficulties because of the atypical and olygosymptomatic clinical picture. The disease could be manifested by one symptom only which was tachycardia in most cases. One common symptom in our patients was atrial fibrillation. The presence of ischemic heart disease did not exclude thyrotoxicosis. Most often a depressive but not irritative syndrome was observed. The skin was soft and gentle but often cold and dry. The structure of the thyroid gland was established with ultrasonography and sometimes  radioiodine scanning. The TRH-test was of a significant diagnostic value and good acceptability in elderly patients which allowed to ignore the usage of Werner's test

T3-THYROTOXICOSIS

Twenty-five patients with T3-thyrotoxicosis were studied. The diagnosis was based on clinical observation, biochemical values, total T3 and T4, and ultrasound tests of the thyroid gland. A conservative treatment was carried out and where necessary a surgical one, too. The authors observed this form of the thyrotoxicosis in male as well as in female patients, the average age of the patients was young, and the duration of the disease from its beginning until diagnosing was longer than that of the common form. A bigger size of the thyroid was observed which was denser and often pseudonodular. In the clinical picture the cardio-vascular and neurological symptoms prevailed. Only in two cases light forms of thyrotoxic ophthalmopatia developed. The disease showed tendency towards relapses. Four patients were operated on because of difficulties in achieving a compensation of the euthyroid state and frequent relapses

CHANGES IN FREE ADENOSINE TRI-, DI AND MONOPHOSPHATE CONCENTRATIONS IN THE BRAIN OF WHITE RATS, FED NORMAL AND RICH IN PROTEINS DIETS IN EXPERIMENTAL MANGANESE TREATMENT

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Human Service Nonprofits and Government Collaboration: Findings from the 2010 National Survey of Nonprofit Government Contracting and Grants

Presents nonprofit survey results on government contracts; their share of revenue; problems, including late or partial payments, complex application and reporting processes, and changes to contract terms; how nonprofits cope with them; and the results

SIDE EFFECTS OF TREATMENT WITH THYROSTATICS

The authors report their results from the study of 118 patients with thyrotoxicosis treated in Clinic of Endocrinology, Department of Endocrinology and Gastroenterology in 1996-1997. The treatment with thyrostatics has a number of side effects, most common of which are leukopenia, allergic reactions, and liver disorders. The complications depend on the dose of the drug, the duration of its application, the preliminary leukocyte count, and the state of the liver. The treatment with Propycil shows less frequent side effects than that with Metizol. With L-Thyroxin included in the therapy the goitrogenic effects and drug-induced hypothyroidism are prevented. Propycil (Solvay Pharma) is preferable because of its quicker initial and clinical effect in the treatment of thyrotoxic crisis, in pregnancy, and preoperative preparation

Innovative construction and the role of boundary objects: a Gehry case study

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Physical objects have long been used in addressing the challenges involved in constructing innovative buildings, yet their significance for collaborative problem solving in inter-organizational projects is rarely acknowledged. The aim of this research is to investigate what happens when a project team has to collaboratively innovate to address radical design challenges in a construction setting. We focus on the role of a full-scale mock-up of a façade in transforming the design intent for a building by Frank Gehry into design realization. The concept of boundary objects is used as an analytical lens via a case study methodology utilizing non-participant observation of weekly meetings and workshops over a period of 10 months covering client, consultant and contractor involvement. The research shows the role of mock-ups in radical construction settings is in tension along three delivery dimensions: performance, aesthetic and technical construction. Task completion competed with the requirements for experimentation around innovative problem solving with the how to construct it problem left unresolved. The findings suggest that co-location and synchronicity are critical conditions for collaborative and innovative problem solving in radical construction contexts. Project teams need to create open-ended ‘moments’ for iterating critical objects and the interactions that take place around them

COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF TETRACYCLINE AND TETRAOLEANE ON CULTIVATED HUMAN LYMPHOCYTES

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CHANGES IN THE CONTENT OF CERTAIN AMINO ACIDS IN THE BLOOD AND LIVER OF WHITE ALBINO RATS, FED ON PROTEIN RATION DURING EXPERIMENTAL LEAD INTOXICATION : Communication II - histidine, arginine and valine

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SCREENING OF THE THYROID PATHOLOGY IN THE POPULATION OVER 60 YEARS

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