Corporate Values from a Personal Perspective

Purpose: The paper aims to analyse organisational values from a personal perspective. The purpose was to explore how employees learn about corporate values and how they relate to these values. The motivation has been one of discovery of current practices in businesses, with a strong focus on corporate values and their effects on employees. Design/methodology: The authors offer a review of the key definitions and main theoretical frameworks of values. Four case studies provide empirical data to establish some understanding of how values are identified and the extent to which they are translated into behaviours and attitudes in the workplace. The paper combines an overview of literature on values and semi-constructed telephone interviews with 26 interviewees from four organisations about corporate and individual values. Findings: Values are positively related to, and central to the concept of the self, and are distinct from norms. Both the literature review and the multiple case studies’ empirical findings suggest that values are worth striving for and successful embedding of them requires a “culture of sharing”. Without the culture of sharing corporate values will not penetrate the organisation or have any meaningful impact on behaviour. Originality: The paper highlights the importance of considering corporate values from a personal perspective. Organisations wanting to strengthen corporate values need to engage in conversations about values regularly across the organisation. Leaders need to be part of these discussions without dominating or forcefully influencing them

Values and Leadership Development

Purpose: The paper aims to analyse organisational values from a personal perspective. The purpose was to explore how employees learn about corporate values and how they relate to these values. The motivation has been one of discovery of current practices in businesses, with a strong focus on corporate values and their effects on employees. Design/methodology: The authors offer a review of the key definitions and main theoretical frameworks of values. Four case studies provide empirical data to establish some understanding of how values are identified and the extent to which they are translated into behaviours and attitudes in the workplace. The paper combines an overview of literature on values and semi-constructed telephone interviews with 26 interviewees from four organisations about corporate and individual values. Findings: Values are positively related to, and central to the concept of the self, and are distinct from norms. Both the literature review and the multiple case studies’ empirical findings suggest that values are worth striving for and successful embedding of them requires a “culture of sharing”. Without the culture of sharing corporate values will not penetrate the organisation or have any meaningful impact on behaviour. Originality: The paper highlights the importance of considering corporate values from a personal perspective. Organisations wanting to strengthen corporate values need to engage in conversations about values regularly across the organisation. Leaders need to be part of these discussions without dominating or forcefully influencing them

The Lived Experiences Of Clinical Adjunct Dental Hygiene Faculty

Clinical education is an integral part of a dental hygiene student’s education. Clinical adjunct dental hygiene faculty primarily teach in the clinical setting. Clinical adjunct dental hygiene faculty are often hired for their clinical expertise and may lack teaching experience. The transition from clinical practice to academia raises concern about the adequacy of support and preparation clinical adjunct faculty receive as they begin their new role as educators. The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological analysis was to explore clinical adjunct dental hygiene faculty members’ experiences of preparedness as they transitioned from clinical expert to novice educator. Six clinical adjunct dental hygiene faculty who participated in this study were interviewed. Interviews were audio-taped and transcribed. Transformative learning and identity theories were the conceptual frameworks utilized for this study. The data were analyzed and resulted in four key themes. These themes were support and mentorship, orientation, teaching facilitators, and educational methodology development. The recommendations are to provide novice adjunct faculty members with a formal mentorship, extensive support, a formal orientation to the college and the department, and additional professional development opportunities related to teaching methodologies. Establishing a more supportive environment for new adjunct members can help increase belongingness, connection, and create professional identities as educators

The Dualizing Spectrum, II

To an inclusion topological groups H->G, we associate a naive G-spectrum. The special case when H=G gives the dualizing spectrum D_G introduced by the author in the first paper of this series. The main application will be to give a purely homotopy theoretic construction of Poincare embeddings in stable codimension.Comment: Fixed an array of typo

Long Distance Coupling of a Quantum Mechanical Oscillator to the Internal States of an Atomic Ensemble

We propose and investigate a hybrid optomechanical system consisting of a micro-mechanical oscillator coupled to the internal states of a distant ensemble of atoms. The interaction between the systems is mediated by a light field which allows to couple the two systems in a modular way over long distances. Coupling to internal degrees of freedom of atoms opens up the possibility to employ high-frequency mechanical resonators in the MHz to GHz regime, such as optomechanical crystal structures, and to benefit from the rich toolbox of quantum control over internal atomic states. Previous schemes involving atomic motional states are rather limited in both of these aspects. We derive a full quantum model for the effective coupling including the main sources of decoherence. As an application we show that sympathetic ground-state cooling and strong coupling between the two systems is possible.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure

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The "fundamental theorem" for the algebraic K-theory of spaces. II: The canonical involution

Hüttemann T, Klein JR, Vogell W, Waldhausen F, Williams B. The "fundamental theorem" for the algebraic K-theory of spaces. II: The canonical involution. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 2002;167(1):53-82.Let X --> A(X) denote the algebraic K-theory of spaces functor. In the first paper of this series, we showed A(X x S-1) decomposes into a product of a copy of A(X), a delooped copy of A(X) and two homeomorphic nil terms. The primary goal of this paper is to determine how the "canonical involution" acts on this splitting. A consequence of the main result is that the involution acts so as to transpose the nil terms. From a technical point of view, however, our purpose will be to give another description of the involution on A(X) which arises as a (suitably modified) P.-construction. The main result is proved using this alternative discription. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved

The "fundamental theorem" for the algebraic K-theory of spaces. I

Hüttemann T, Klein JR, Vogell W, Waldhausen F, Williams B. The "fundamental theorem" for the algebraic K-theory of spaces. I. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 2001;160(1):21-52.Let X H A(X) denote the algebraic K-theory of spaces functor. The main objective of this paper is to show that A(X x S-1) admits a functorial splitting. The splitting has four factors: a copy of A(X), a delooped copy of A(X) and two homeomorphic nil terms. One should view the decomposition as the algebraic K-theory of spaces version of the Bass-Heller-Swan theorem. In deducing this splitting, we introduce a new tool: a "non-linear" analogue of the projective line. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved