Historical Perspective: Employee/Workplace Services

A publication from 1959 on evaluation of employee services was used as a secondary source and was analyzed to provide information that may be useful to the employee service/workplace service industry. The primary focus of the publication was on the assessment of organizations operation in terms of quality. The primary focus was on the components of program structure as well as the management elements to achieve success in an employee service program. There was a third component that involved communication and marketing because these are the essential elements that are necessary for bringing quality programs to the attention of employees. These evaluation systems were recommended to be modified to update the instruments. There was also a fourth type of information that was presented that had never been presented before by Mel Byers. It was the basic research questions that are needed to develop a quality assessment process related to understanding the nature of employee services

Theory: Employee/Work Place Services

It is important to understand basic ideas or theories behind management/program strategies to be able to fully comprehend how systems work and their impacts. These are the foundational elements that are often overlooked in the development of effective employee/work place strategies. Many times systems are designed based upon operational strategies with little understanding of the underlying concepts. Only when the foundational elements are well understood can one effectively know where and how to apply information effectively

Employee/Work Place Services: The Individual

One of the often forgotten elements in the employee/workplace services is the individual. This does not suggest that there has not been a focus on this topic historically, but the amount of emphasis that it has received and should receive should be far more. The other aspect is that even if the employee has been addressed sometimes there is a very simplistic approach to develop a greater understanding. Employees are very complex subject just as the organization. This subject can be studied from a number of perspectives. The perspective that was adopted for this essay has been one that has been used in a number of settings, a Maslow theory. The primary focus of Maslow’s the individual and this theory was modified to include an extended perspective. Really, Maslow is only beginning to the development of a basic understanding of the individual from their interests to their life’s dreams

Evaluation of Programs A Model: Employee/Workplace Services

A publication from the incentive travel industry on return on investments was used as a secondary source and was analyzed to provide information that may be useful to the employee service/workplace service industry. This publication provided a framework for the development of a conceptual basis to provide a mechanism for thinking about return on investment, especially on intangible benefits. There is a great similarity between incentive travel industry and employee services/workplace services. This similarity provided a new way to think about assessment and the development of a new model that focuses upon a way to approach how intangible benefits can be used to justify and change programs

Homoepitaxial Growth of Single Crystal Diamond Membranes for Quantum Information Processing

Fabrication of devices designed to fully harness the unique properties of quantum mechanics through their coupling to quantum bits (qubits) is a prominent goal in the field of quantum information processing (QIP). Among various qubit candidates, nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have recently emerged as an outstanding platform for room temperature QIP. However, formidable challenges still remain in processing diamond and in the fabrication of thin diamond membranes, which are necessary for planar photonic device engineering. Here we demonstrate epitaxial growth of single crystal diamond membranes using a conventional microwave chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique. The grown membranes, only a few hundred nanometers thick, show bright luminescence, excellent Raman signature and good NV center electronic spin coherence times. Microdisk cavities fabricated from these membranes exhibit quality factors of up to 3000, overlapping with NV center emission. Our methodology offers a scalable approach for diamond device fabrication for photonics, spintronics, optomechanics and sensing applications.Engineering and Applied Science

Secondary Natural Gas Recovery: Targeted Technology Applications for Infield Reserve Growth in Fluvial Reservoirs in the Frio Formation Seeligson Field, South Texas

This report summarizes the results of a 3-year research program, including findings from a project experiment site in fluvial reservoirs within Seeligson field. These reservoirs comprise channel-fill and crevasse-splay sandstones, levee siltstones, and floodplain siltstones and mudstones. Despite Seeligson field's poorly contacted reservoir compartments, its potential for secondary gas recovery in the middle Frio Formation is lower compared to other fields in the FR-4 play. Seeligson field features well-connected fluvial sandstones that have been efficiently drained by a relatively higher number of completions. In contrast, many other fields in the play (such as Stratton and Agua Dulce) contain less intensively completed, isolated fluvial sandstones, representing uncontacted reservoir compartments. Differences in fluvial reservoir architecture and completion practices must be considered as an important aspect of any infield exploration program for fields in the FR-4 play and other gas plays.Bureau of Economic Geolog

Connections: A Journal of Public Education Advocacy - Fall 2004, Vol. 11, No. 1

ContentsPresident's Message: Wendy D. Puriefoy says we need a narrative that informs and inspires a new national movement to support high-quality public education for every child.Linda Darling-Hammond on our Confused Priorities: The Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education at Stanford University questions why our nation does not give education a priority.Bob Edgar on the Faith Community's Role in Education: The head of the National Council of Churches explains why the faith community needs to take a leadership role in education reform.Conversations: David Gergen, editor-at-large for US News and World Report and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, leads a wide-ranging discussion on the need for a national education movement.Making It Happen: Patricia Albjerg Graham thinks it's about time our system of public education catches up to our expectations.ViewpointSarita Brown exposes Hispanic myths and the growing influence of this vital segment of the populationDavid Dodson wants all children to tap into the optimism and success that is America, and to have the tools and opportunities to do soRoger Wilkins talks about the power of education and the insidious impact of racism on the lives of black AmericansEnd Notes: Lee Kravitz reminds us that words have power and that strong messages move people to action