Internal Marketing Implications of Workplace Bullying: The Integration of Multiple Perspectives

This special session will highlight marketing, behavioral, leadership, and legal perspectives of workplace bullying behavior and how such behavior can negatively affect an individual’s wellbeing and adversely impact an organization’s welfare. The discussion will be couched within an internal marketing framework with special emphasis on strategic implications. Behavioral aspects of those who bully and the impact that their behavior can have on their targets will be given special consideration. Also, various leadership issues that arise in workplace environments with respect to workplace bullying will be explored. Further, an overview of the legal ramifications of workplace bullying will be integrated into the discussion. Additionally, theory advancement and applied research development will be discussed as a means to stimulate additional study of the bullying phenomena. It was during the 1970s that the internal marketing concept emerged. Over time various firms gradually acknowledged the value of internal marketing programs. This adoption of internal marketing initiatives was possible because many firms recognized that internal marketing strategies were a complementary prerequisite for many external marketing efforts. The application of the IM philosophy embraced the marketing concept as it applied to employees within an organization. Under this philosophy, firms sought to recruit and retain talented people who would aspire to build and sustain relationships with customers. Although well-planned visions, missions, products, processes, and procedures were critical to such initiatives, these managerial tools have not necessarily sufficient in assuring an IM-driven environment. The panel members submit that it is also imperative to consider the impact that specific types of personal and organizational behaviors can have on internal marketing outcomes. In so doing, there is a need to recognize and acknowledge negative behaviors that can hamper, or worse yet, sabotage potential individual and group accomplishments that are in keeping with marketing goals. Many times organizations have explicitly stated the adoption of the internal marketing philosophy, The reality is, however, that workplace bullying is one form of negative behavior that may simultaneously exist even in light of noble mission statements, employee appreciation proclamations, and IM programs that declare the adherence to civil actions in a supportive work environment. In the extreme, the disconnections between explicit messages of communications and implicit messages of actions can be flagrant. The severing of organizational communications from organizational actions may manifest itself as transparent duplicity, inherent dishonesty, and disruptive affronts. In severe cases, malfeasance may thrive. The panel members will encourage audience discussion for the purposes of identifying theoretical and applied research issues and for suggesting potential research directions. Further, the SMA audience will be specifically invited to share their insights relative to IM leadership issues and bullying in the workplace. Also, panelists will encourage discussions of workplace bullying within academic settings with an emphasis on structural solutions. Questions and perceptions concerning behavioral issues will be welcomed

The identification of unique serum proteins of HIV-1 latently infected long-term non-progressor patients

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The search for disease biomarkers within human peripheral fluids has become a favorable approach to preventative therapeutics throughout the past few years. The comparison of normal versus disease states can identify an overexpression or a suppression of critical proteins where illness has directly altered a patient's cellular homeostasis. In particular, the analysis of HIV-1 infected serum is an attractive medium with which to identify altered protein expression due to the ease and non-invasive methods of collecting samples as well as the corresponding insight into the <it>in vivo </it>interaction of the virus with infected cells/tissue. The utilization of proteomic techniques to globally identify differentially expressed serum proteins in response to HIV-1 infection is a significant undertaking that is complicated due to the innate protein profile of human serum.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Here, the depletion of 12 of the most abundant serum proteins, followed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis coupled with identification of these proteins using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry, has allowed for the identification of differentially expressed, low abundant serum proteins. We have analyzed and compared serum samples from HIV-1 infected subjects who are being treated using highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to those who are latently infected but have not progressed to AIDS despite the absence of treatment, i.e. long term non-progressors (LTNPs). Here we have identified unique serum proteins that are differentially expressed in LTNP HIV-1 patients and may contribute to the ability of these patients to combat HIV-1 infection in the absence of HAART. We focused on the cdk4/6 cell cycle inhibitor p16^INK4Aand found that the treatment of HIV-1 latently infected cell lines with p16^INK4Adecreases viral production despite it not being expressed endogenously in these cells.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Identification of these unique proteins may serve as an indication of altered viral states in response to infection as well as a natural phenotypic variability in response to HIV-1 infection in a given population.</p

Non-Diversifiable Volatility Risk and Risk Premiums at Earnings Announcements

This study seeks to determine whether earnings announcements pose non-diversifiable volatility risk that commands a risk premium. We find that investors anticipate some earnings announcements to convey news that increases market return volatility and pay a premium to hedge this non-diversifiable risk. In particular, we find evidence of risk premiums embedded in prices of firms' traded options that are significantly positively associated with the extent to which the firms' earnings announcements pose non-diversifiable volatility risk. In addition, we find that volatility risk premiums are concentrated among bellwether firms and result in predictable variation in option straddle returns around earnings announcements. Taken together, our findings show that some earnings announcements pose non-diversifiable volatility risk that commands a risk premium

The Faculty Recruitment-Retention Connection: A Strategic Linkage Approach

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is clear about the worsening shortage of doctoral qualified faculty. It is the proposition of this paper that business schools should consider evaluating and perhaps reinvigorating recruitment strategies in both the short- and intermediate-term, as well as developing marketing management strategies that will help alleviate business faculty shortages in the long-term. Strategic marketing guidance is set forth in this paper with a focus on the development and institutionalization of managerial linkages between recruitment-retention connections. Our major premise is that leadership robustness is needed relative to the construction and implementation of strategic linkages of the recruitment-retention process. This conjoined effort should aid in effectively managing business faculty talent. Both internal marketing issues along with external marketing forces should be analyzed to clearly answer the directional questions that will be the foundation for decision making. Adherence to the processes of well-crafted plans is needed

Tidal Echoes 2004

Tidal Echoes 2004 features the work of the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Alaska Southeast.Chancellor John PughHomeward / Green, Charity -- Welcome / Editors -- Introduction to Poetry / Editors -- Belfast: Summer 1984 / Bausler, Katie -- Fish Pitcher with Sprayed Glazes / Weckel, Steve -- Female Figure / Hemmings, Chris -- Donegal / Doran, Tom -- Pilgrimage / Summer, Amy -- Salmon for Turkey / Grifin, Danél -- An Elegy for Alysha / Sotomayor, Ryan Adam -- Gene Puddle / Rosen, Amoeba -- untitled / Ouellette, Lisa -- You Are My Brother / Galeana, Sandra -- Dying / Ristau, Alicia -- Wash Away / Hamilton, Kaci -- Teapot / Weaver, Diana -- La Rive Meurt / Carter, Sarah -- Blue / Wargi, Stephanie -- Time of a Lifeline / Bausler, Katie -- Veil / McLean, Emily -- Northern Skies / Doran, Tom -- Draught / Sumner, Amy -- Confessions of a Future Drag Queen / Hamilton, Kaci -- Brasilliance / Weishahn, Clara -- Introduction to Non-Fiction / Editors -- The Little Bird / Olsen, Nellie -- Fireweed and Cowparsnip / Greening, Barbara -- Rhythm of the Reds / Burket, Rebekah -- Fisherman’s Boots / Green, Charity -- A Friendship That Lives On / Ashraf, Amina -- Harbor View / Eastaugh, Heather -- My Friend Mop / Branlund, William -- untitled / Grant, Ian -- Life’s Funny Little Curve Balls / Mauck, Ronda -- The Valid One / Carrillo, Karla- - Film As Art: The Target / Griffin, Danél -- Frog Pot / Brown, Tom -- Introduction to Fiction / Editors -- Bear Miss / Jones, Edward -- Vase with Cedar Bark / Steward, Marge -- Where Classics Collide / Weber, Rob -- untitled / Berner, Logan -- Going North? / Reed, Melan*e -- New Age Love / Mitchell, Holly -- Tri Lily / Hegel, Crystal -- My Grandpa and I / McLean, Emily -- Eagle-Raven Regalia Blanket / Branlund, William -- Contributor