Communicating in the 21st Century Workplace: A Theory of Communication Nexus

The workplace is evolving into the communication nexus; a central connection point for messages among workers. Naturalistic observations of 69 workers in four U.S. high-tech firms identified three themes: (1) frequency of communication, (2) availability and use of multiple communication channels, and (3) need for instantaneous communication. A new theory of the organizational workplace as a communication nexus is presented here to explain new organizational communication phenomena and predict organizational communication in the contemporary workplace

The Changing Communication Patterns of Engineers

In the 21st-century workplace, communicating information effectively is essential for organizational success. It is only with a proper understanding of the power of communication-and the multiple channels through which information is sent-that problem solving, creativity and innovation are fostered. As workers face increasing demands on their time, they are finding new and unique ways to use technology in order to communicate. Further, for the communication to be effective, workers must understand cultural differences and overcome cultural barriers, as for many in the high-tech industry, the workplace is now global. In the global environment, meetings are common, but due to distance, actual face-to-face interactions between and among colleagues are becoming less frequent

Abundant Exotics and Cavalier Crafting: Obsidian Use and Emerging Complexity in the Northern Lake Titicaca Basin

Book Abstract: Using case studies from around the globe—including Mesoamerica, North and South America, Africa, China, and the Greco-Roman world—and across multiple time periods, the authors in this volume make the case that abundance provides an essential explanatory perspective on ancient peoples’ choices and activities. Economists frequently focus on scarcity as a driving principle in the development of social and economic hierarchies, yet focusing on plenitude enables the understanding of a range of cohesive behaviors that were equally important for the development of social complexity. Our earliest human ancestors were highly mobile hunter-gatherers who sought out places that provided ample food, water, and raw materials. Over time, humans accumulated and displayed an increasing quantity and variety of goods. In households, shrines, tombs, caches, and dumps, archaeologists have discovered large masses of materials that were deliberately gathered, curated, distributed, and discarded by ancient peoples. The volume’s authors draw upon new economic theories to consider the social, ideological, and political implications of human engagement with abundant quantities of resources and physical objects and consider how individual and household engagements with material culture were conditioned by the quest for abundance. Abundance shows that the human propensity for mass consumption is not just the result of modern production capacities but fulfills a longstanding focus on plenitude as both the assurance of well-being and a buffer against uncertainty. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in economics, anthropology, and cultural studies. Contributors: Traci Ardren, Amy Bogaard, Elizabeth Klarich, Abigail Levine, Christopher R. Moore, Tito E. Naranjo, Stacey Pierson, James M. Potter, François G. Richard, Christopher W. Schmidt, Carol Schultze, Payson Sheets, Monica L. Smith, Katheryn C. Twiss, Mark D. Varien, Justin St. P. Walsh, María Nieves Zedeño Source: Publisherhttps://scholarworks.smith.edu/ant_books/1001/thumbnail.jp

HIV Antibody Screening: An Ethical Framework for Evaluating Proposed Programs

The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) poses a compelling ethical challenge to medicine, science, public health, the legal system, and our political democracy. This report focuses on one aspect of that challenge: the use of blood tests to identify individuals who have been infected with the retrovirus human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In this article, we follow the terminology recently proposed by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses; that is, we use the term human immunodeficiency virus. This replaces the more cumbersome dual terminology of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus (HTLV-III/LAV). The issue is urgent: the tests are already in use and plans to implement them much more broadly are being proposed. The issue is also complex: at stake is a potential conflict between the community\u27s interests in stopping the spread of a devastating disease and in preserving important values of individual liberty and equal rights

Social-Emotional Keys to the Division of Power

Social organizers concerned with facilitating the reallocation of power must not overlook psychological issues. Within groups, power hierarchies are a function of individual methods of coping with social-emotional interactions. Clinical insights suggest that both empowered and disempowered people participate in the process of establishing and maintaining this hierarchial structure

The Ursinus Weekly, March 21, 1960

Lesher, Mackey, Holl to star in The Heiress • WRUC to begin broadcasting on Monday, April 4 • Committees listed for annual May Day Pageant May 7 • To crown queen at prom; Mardi gras theme planned • Ursinus mourns the passing of Dr. Alfred Wilcox • Campus Chest surpasses goal; Many attend show • Scholarship for St. Andrew\u27s is announced • Cathy Nicolai is named as new Weekly editor • Bell, book and candle try-outs on March 21, 23 • Y to hold forum on social work • Five U.C. alumni named to Who\u27s who in America • Editorial: Tribute; Open letter • Letters to the editor • Education • Sonnet on an editorial • Meandering: Part two • Bluffing game • Three Ursinus cagers are honored by Who\u27s who • Ursinus girls defeat Beaver by 67-31 score • Swimming team in good form at Penn and Temple • Knock at any dorm • MSGA holds meeting; Two freshmen charged • Beardwood Two is volleyball champ of intramuralshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1359/thumbnail.jp

Naturalistic observation for understanding users: How technology professionals use and communicate information

This study examines how design engineers and technical professionals (hereafter referred to as engineers) in innovative high‐tech firms in the U.S. and India communicate and use information in their daily work activities including research, development, and management. By observing engineers in the workplace, it extends our understanding of the engineering workplace, and the information environment in the workplace. This study will provide information useful for improving communication and information methods for accessing information and communicating in the workplace, which will ultimately lead to better job performance, facilitate innovation, and encourage economic growth. This poster focuses on the methodology the researchers used to gather data for the study. Researchers conducted a series of daylong workplace observations with 108 engineers engaged in product design and testing in four U.S. and two India based firms. Using naturalistic observation provided researchers with the ability to see engineers in their workplace carrying out their daily work rather than depending on self‐reported data which may be incomplete. The poster focuses on the naturalistic observation method, how it was employed, and lessons learned in conducting the work in the U.S. and India

Minority Women in the Healthcare Workforce in New England

Research on health disparities affecting people of color typically focuses on their health status, health treatment and health outcomes with a particular emphasis on the relatively high rates of morbidity and mortality from selected diseases for ethnic and racial minority groups. This fact sheet offers a different but related focus on gender and race/ethnicity in the health care workforce. Our rationale is that the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce concluded that the lack of minority doctors, nurses and dentists is a significant cause of racial/ethnic health disparities and that the ability to recruit, train and retain minority health care professionals is critical in any effort to reduce health disparities in the future

Mutations of phage P22 affecting phage DNA synthesis and lysogenization

Two temperature-sensitive mutants of phage P22, ts18.1 and ts12.1, are described which have recessive DNA-negative phenotypes. At high temperature they fail to synthesize phage DNA. In mixed infection with the two mutants or either mutant and wild-type phage, DNA synthesis and phage production are normal. In addition, under non-permissive conditions, these mutants fail to lysogenize and show dominant integration-negative phenotypes. They do not complement for lysogenization in mixed infection and each of these mutants interferes with lysogenization by wild type. At low temperature each mutant shows normal phage production and normal frequencies of lysogenization. These mutant lysogens are stable at high temperature. The data suggest the requirement for common functions for genome replication and prophage integration. The mutations are closely linked and map just to the right of the c region in map positions analogous to genes O and P of phage [lambda].Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/33527/1/0000025.pd