Strategies for Employee Turnover of Southeastern Wisconsin Manufacturing Workers

Voluntary employee turnover is a challenging problem for manufacturing leaders. Leaders today are challenged to find and retain human capital to remain competitive. The lack of strategies to reduce voluntary turnover among manufacturing leaders has contributed to high turnover rates and increased costs for manufacturing firms. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies that some southeastern Wisconsin manufacturing leaders used to reduce voluntary turnover. The conceptual framework supporting the study was Herzberg\u27s 2-factor theory. Results for the study were derived from the analysis of semistructured interviews of 6 manufacturing leaders across 4 manufacturing locations, as well as company documents. Data analysis followed Yin\u27s 5-step process and included coded results, themes derived from interview transcripts, and company documents. Credibility was ensured through member checking and triangulation of both interviews and company documents. The main themes that emerged were professional growth, salary competitiveness, and working environment. The implication for positive social change include healthy working communities through decreased voluntary turnover and greater productivity and profitability of organizations

Sharing “the flesh of the world”: alterity, animality, and radical community in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy

In this dissertation, I closely examine Maurice Merleau-Ponty\u27s treatment of non-human ( animal ) subjectivities and his later conception of the relationship - or what he calls the strange kinship\u27\u27 - between \u27the human and the animal. I argue that Merleau-­Ponty\u27s philosophy - especially the relational ontology of flesh that he develops in his later writings - provides powerful resources for dismantling anthropocentric or human-­exceptionalist philosophical commitments, as well as a positive basis for deveiopi.ng a genuinely non-anthropocentric or anti-speciesist understanding of moral and political community (one that would be a better alternative to traditional anti-speciesist moral and political theories)

Noodling Changes: The Development of Xylophone Improvisation in New York City (1916-1942)

Red Norvo is cited as the xylophonist who took the instrument from the vaudeville stage to jazz. However, many xylophonists preceding Norvo were avid improvisers. There is an untapped history of xylophone improvisation on record and in pedagogical materials from a generation before Norvo’s appearance on the scene. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine evidence and the development of improvisation and improvisation-oriented music by xylophonists in New York City, the epicenter of recording and radio from the period of 1916-1942. This study includes xylophonists George Hamilton Green, Joseph Green, Harry Breuer, Sammy Herman, and Billy Gladstone, as well as Norvo’s own xylophone performance during the first two decades of his career

Mothers seeking mental health services for their children: A qualitative analysis of pathways to care

Approximately 20% of youth meet criteria for a psychiatric disorder. Despite the availability of effective community-based psychosocial treatments, nearly 80% of youth with a psychiatric disorder do not receive treatment. In the United States, parents (typically mothers) are primarily responsible for accessing mental health services for their child. Consequently, researchers have suggested that one of the most promising ways to close the gap between unmet need and service use for youth is to improve our understanding parental help-seeking. However, our understanding of parental help-seeking has been limited by the dominance of atheoretical studies that focus on the characteristics of help-seekers, problem-types, and service locations, that are useful in establishing public health policy but have limited application to front line service delivery. Consequently, almost no research has examined the process that mothers go through - the how and why - to seek mental health services for their children.This dissertation sought to describe and characterize the perceptions and experiences of mothers who accessed mental health services for their child. This study is a qualitative secondary analysis of a random selection of 60 of 127 interviews gathered from mothers 3 months after accessing mental health services. Grounded theory analysis was used to code the interviews and identify themes and patterns. The analysis suggested that mothers went through four stages of help-seeking: 1) recognizing a problem: mothers became concerned about their child's behaviors and then tried to identify the cause of the behaviors; 2) responding to the problem: mothers identified six coping strategies they used to try and resolve their child's problem(s). 3) using mental health services (MHS): mothers identified the type and modality of treatment they received, their mode of entry into services, and their reasons for seeking services; 4) evaluating services: mothers determined if the pathway had terminated, deviated, or changed. The current research suggests that existing models of help-seeking have utility in understanding the experience of mothers seeking mental health services for their child. A four-stage model was identified: 1) recognizing a problem; 2) responding to the problem; 3) using mental health services; and 4) evaluating services. Implications for research and practice are discussed

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergencies: Mobile Crisis Response

This chapter describes the application of Roberts\u27s (2005) seven-stage crisis intervention model (R-SSCIM) and Myer\u27s (2001) triage assessment model to youth experiencing a psychiatric crisis, defined as a suicidal, homicidal, or actively psychotic episode. Although most children have their first contact with mental health services during a crisis (Burns, Hoagwood, & Mrazek, 1999), there is relatively little research on crisis intervention, and almost nothing written on mobile crisis response for children and adolescents (Singer, 2006). This chapter is an effort to bridge that gap by presenting three case studies of youth experiencing suicidal, homicidal, or psychosis-driven crises. This chapter provides a realistic description of crisis intervention over the phone, in schools, at home, in the hospital, and in a youth homeless shelter. The chapter includes a review diagnostic criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) for three disorders that are commonly found in youth experiencing psychiatric crises: depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Throughout the chapter, dialogue is used to illustrate crisis assessment and behavioral and solution-focused intervention techniques

THE EFFECT OF FUNCTIONAL KNEE BRACE MIGRATION ON THE KNEE JOINT MOMENT AND POWER PATTERNS DURING WALKING

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the differences in joint moment and power patterns during walking with and without a functional knee brace and when the brace was deliberately misaligned with the knee axis of rotation. Five participants were asked to walk over a force platform with and without the brace as well as during a condition where the axis of rotation of the brace had been deliberately shifted 1 cm down the leg. Inverse dynamics were used to calculate changes in joint moments and powers at the knee joint. Initial findings indicate that the extensor moment during push-off and ils corresponding eccentric power were greatest in the braced and misaligned brace conditions, though the differences in peak joint moments and powers between these two conditions was not large enough to implicate brace migration as an injury mechanism

Active Control of Convection

It is demonstrated theoretically that active (feedback) control can be used to alter the characteristics of thermal convection in a toroidal, vertical loop heated from below and cooled from above. As the temperature difference between the heated and cooled sections of the loop increases,t he flow in the uncontrolled loop changes from no motion to steady; time independent motion to temporally oscillatory, chaotic motion. With the use of a feedback controller effecting small perturbations in the boundary conditions, one can maintain the no-motion state at significantly higher temperature differences than the critical one corresponding to the onset of convection in the uncontrolled system. Alternatively, one can maintain steady, time-independent flow under conditions in which the flow would otherwise be chaotic. That is, the controller can be used to suppress chaos. Likewise, it is possible to stabilize periodic nonstable orbits that exist in the chaotic regime of the uncontrolled system. Finally, the controller also can be used to induce chaos in otherwise laminar (fully predictable), nonchaotic flow