Creating Individual Behavior Change Through 360-Degree Feedback: A Development Pipeline Perspective

Ensuring that individuals develop new and more productive behaviors on the job is a challenge for many organizations and a focus of time, effort, and energy spent on programs to facilitate this change. This research was an effort to validate and utilize a framework for understanding how efforts toward individual development are restricted. To do this, I used a new 360-degree feedback instrument called “Time 2 Change” that measures self, manager, direct report, and peer/colleague perceptions of change in the individual. This instrument also measures the individual\u27s perceptions of development enablers, in a framework called a Development Pipeline. As a result of analyses, it is clear that while the scale being used to measure development enablers is intended to be multidimensional, it consists of one dimension. However, there are several opportunities to build on this research to improve the pipeline tool and to gain a better understanding of individual development

Does Personality Indicate a Proclivity Toward Negative Job Behaviors?

This study endeavored to show that negative job behaviors can be predicted from measures of personality. It was hypothesized that the measures of extroversion and neuroticism would be positively correlated with negative job behaviors. It was further hypothesized that the measures of agreeableness and conscientiousness would be negatively correlated with negative job behaviors. Participants responded to anonymous surveys. These surveys consisted of measures of personality, job behaviors and attitudes, a social desirability scale, and demographic questions. It was found that agreeableness and conscientiousness were both negatively related to negative job behaviors and that neuroticism was positively related to some negative job behaviors. Regression analyses revealed that personality variables accounted for between 6 and 15 percent of the variance in these negative behaviors

Donald Trump talks very differently about the Jewish people compared to past presidents.

Over the last two years, President Trump has repeatedly questioned the loyalty of Jewish people in America, claiming that voting for a Democrat would be a “great disloyalty”. In new research which looks at nearly 150 years of presidential communications, Shyam K. Sriram, Victoria Combs and Cole McNamara look at how presidents have talked about the Jewish people over the years, and find that Trump’s rhetoric is a significant departure from what has gone before

Aplicación de la pedagogía operatoria al aprendizaje del contenido de sistema de numeración en la Educación General Básica

Trabajo final de graduación compuesto de 188 páginas en formato PDF.Esta investigación es el fruto de una serie de inquietudes que han surgido a lo largo del desarrollo de nuestra labor pedagógica realizada en las aulas escolares. Nos ha inquietado conocer las diferencias en el desempeño académico de los niños desde una práctica de la pedagogía operatoria fundamentada en la acción del sujeto sobre el objeto versus una práctica tradicional llena de actividades de repetición y de asociación entre un estímulo y una respuesta. Visualizamos esta práctica pedagógica aplicada a los contenidos del sistema de numeración que el Ministerio de Educación Pública tiene definidos para I y II Ciclo de Educación General Básica. Es por ello que esta investigación tiene como propósito exponer al estudiante de Educación General Básica a los contenidos del sistema de numeración utilizando prácticas, actividades y manipulación de las acciones de aprendizaje donde se ejerciten innumerables destrezas que permitan construir las estructuras mentales para la adquisición de una enseñanza significativa en el tema del sistema de numeración.Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Ric

The Essential Characteristics of Advocacy Associated with the Nurse-Client Relationship: The Client\u27s Perspective

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe clients\u27 lived experiences of advocacy associated with the nurse-client relationship. The sample consisted of ten non-hospitalized adults, 19 to 72 years of age, who had a hospitalization or ambulatory relationship with a registered nurse within the previous six months. Data were gathered via interviews initiated with the same open-ended question. Georgi\u27s five step method was used for data analysis. Four essential characteristics of advocacy associated with the nurse-client relationship were identified. Described by clients as nurse attributes, behaviors, and actions, they were labelled: Competent Knower, Competent Doer, Humanizer, and Communicator. Clients perceived the Competent Knower to be knowledgeable about client conditions and needs, experienced in nursing practice, and capable. The Competent Doer acted on behalf of clients, either by own initiative or at clients\u27 requests, solved problems, served as intermediary, followed through on the clients\u27 needs and desires, demonstrated competence in technical and supportive skills, and exhibited leadership, including taking responsibility for care given by others under supervision. In relationships with client, family, and professional colleagues, the Humanizer was perceived as a personable, caring team member/leader who intervened on clients\u27 behalf, supported their decisions, treated them as valued individuals, encouraged clients, went the extra mile and made self available to clients by being there in presence. The Communicator transmitted and exchanged information with client, family, physician, and other health care professionals, served as liaison between them, provided explanations and education, and kept clients informed by disclosing pertinent information voluntarily and by request. Clients perceived that advocacy was not demonstrated by all nurses and was integrated with other roles within the whole of the nurse-client relationship. Comparisons are made between clients\u27 positive experiences (nurses demonstrated characteristics of advocacy) and negative experiences (which lacked advocacy), and between clients\u27 and nurses\u27 perspectives of advocacy. Implications and research recommendations for clinical practice, education, and administration are addressed, including the development of further validation studies to determine generalizability, and dissemination of the new description to other nurses and disciplines

Effects of patch-size on populations of intertidal limpets, Siphonaria spp., in a linear landscape

Organisms with different life-histories and abilities to disperse often utilise habitat patches in different ways. We investigated the influence of the size of patches of rock (separated by stretches of sand) on the density of pulmonate limpets (Siphonaria spp.) along 1500 km of the linear landscape of the South African coastline. We compared the influence of patch-size on two congeneric species with different modes of development, S. serrata a direct developer, and S. concinna a planktonic developer. We tested the spatial and temporal consistency of the effects of patch-size by sampling 7 independent regions spanning the distributional range of both species of limpets, and by sampling one region at monthly intervals for 1 year. Within each region or month, 4 small patches (60 m in length) were sampled. Across the entire geographic range and throughout the year, there were more of both species of limpets in large patches than in small patches. In most regions, there was greater variability in large patches than small patches. Variability within patches in a single region was similar throughout the year, with greater variability of both species in large than in small patches. We found little influence of the mode of development on the response of limpets to patch-size. Our findings highlight the importance of understanding patterns of distribution of species with respect to habitat heterogeneity in linear landscapes, and contradict the idea that organism mobility at an early ontogenetic stage directly affects habitat use

Ohio State University's Wetlands Watercolors Eco Art Exhibition Proposal

Course Code: ENR 2367A proposal for the implementation of an environmental art show at the Ohio State University's Wetlands.Academic Major: Agribusiness and Applied EconomicsAcademic Major: Environment, Economy, Development, and SustainabilityAcademic Major: Environmental ScienceAcademic Major: ExplorationAcademic Major: Financ

Quantifying abundance and distribution of native and invasive oysters in an urbanised estuary

© 2016 The Author(s). Journal compilation, 2016 REABIC. Human activities have modified the chemical, physical and biological attributes of many of the world’s estuaries. Natural foreshores have been replaced by artificial habitats and non-indigenous species have been introduced by shipping, aquaculture, and as ornamental pets. In south east Australia, the native Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea glomerata is threatened by pollution, disease and competition from the invasive Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas. This study assessed the abundance (as number m-2), size, and distribution of both invasive and native oyster species at 32 sites in the heavily urbanised Port Jackson Estuary, Australia. We tested the hypotheses that there would be: (1) a difference in the proportion of C. gigas and S. glomerata among locations; (2) a greater proportion of C. gigas on artificial compared to natural substrates; (3) a greater numbers of all oysters, with differing size characteristics, on artificial compared to natural substrates; and (4) that the abundance and size of all oysters would vary among locations along an environmental gradient. Environmental variables included distance from the estuary mouth and salinity. We found the abundance and size of all oysters differed among locations; smaller oysters occurred at greater abundances near the mouth of the estuary. Abundance was also higher on artificial, than on natural substrate. Habitat type, however, had no effect on which species of oyster was present. In contrast, distance from the estuary mouth strongly influenced the relative proportion of the two species. The invasive C. gigas comprised 16% of the oysters sampled, and up to 85% at some of the upper estuary sites. As predicted, C. gigas was more abundant at locations in the bay ends and upper channel of the estuary; it was also larger in size than the native S. glomerata. This is the first assessment of oyster distribution in Port Jackson and provides a solid base for monitoring changes in the estuarine distribution of a globally invasive pest

Senior Recital: Victoria Shrote, trombone

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Music Education. Ms. Shrote studies trombone with Prof. Hollie Lawing Pritchard.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2342/thumbnail.jp