Designing for an Aging Population

Aging starts at birth and continues throughout life. As people age, they need to continue to live a happy life. A designer’s job is to design a facility that will encourage an independent lifestyle while providing the help and community involvement aging requires. The design solution should meet the aging population’s desire to age in place. An assisted living facility allows older adults to live independently while being surrounded by a support group and events that promote an active lifestyle which is conducive to physical and mental wellbeing

Book Review by Edward Hess Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization

The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/TLO-01-2021-260Reviewed: Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization by Edward Hes

Learning to Commit: Examining the Predictive Relationship of Learning Culture Upon Employee Commitment

This quantitative, correlational study investigated if a predictive relationship exists between an organization’s learning culture and organizational commitment. The research design for this quantitative study was three bivariate linear regressions as the statistical tool to test three null hypotheses (p \u3c0.017). The predictor variable for this study were the organization’s learning culture scores, as measured by the Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire-Abbreviated (DLOQ-A), and the criterion variables for this study was the organization’s employee commitment profile, comprising (1) affective commitment scores, (2) normative commitment scores, and (3) continuance commitment scores, as measured by the Revised Version of the Three Component Model (TCM) of the Employee Commitment Survey. The population for this study was a diverse, cross-functional employee workforce at a medium-sized, information technology-centered public-sector organization numbering 430 employees. Data collection occurred through asynchronous virtual interaction through web survey methodology during the Coronavirus/COVID-19 global pandemic. The results demonstrate a positive predictive relationship between learning culture scores and affective and normative commitment, respectively; and a negative predictive relationship between learning culture scores and continuance commitment. More research is needed to investigate other factors that may account for the remaining variability in predicting learning cultures and employee commitment. Furthermore, research needs to be done to explore how the learning organization impacts employee commitment

The Fourth Industrial Revolution’s Wave Crashes Upon the Shores of Accounting: The Value Metric for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Financial Management / Faculty ReportAcquisition Research Program Sponsored Report SeriesSponsored Acquisition Research & Technical ReportsAlmost 30 years ago, Elliott (1992) shared several critical insights about the inadequacies of the field of accounting to account for radical changes in the ways businesses develop and execute strategy based on the fundamental opportunities that had come about due to information age technology. Accounting has remained virtually unchanged for over 500 years and society has now entered what Schwab (2015) referred to as the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” where technology advancements follow an exponential growth curve introduces a reality that combines technology across the physical, digital, and biological domains. The Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to change both public and private sector organizations, and society itself, however, the accounting practices are not positioned to take advantage of these changes. With this phenomenon in mind, this study seeks to address a gap in the literature that the current accounting practices are insufficient to meet the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution as they do not provide a raw, non-monetized common unit of value, that can measure productivity on a ratio scale for non-profit organizations or at the sub-corporate level in for-profit organization. Through a discussion guided by the literature, this study seeks to generate a scholastic dialogue on how to address this problem.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Advanced composites: Design and application. Proceedings of the meeting of the Mechanical Failures Prevention Group

The design and application of advanced composites is discussed with emphasis on aerospace, aircraft, automotive, marine, and industrial applications. Failure modes in advanced composites are also discussed

Detection, Diagnosis and Prognosis: Contribution to the energy challenge: Proceedings of the Meeting of the Mechanical Failures Prevention Group

The contribution of failure detection, diagnosis and prognosis to the energy challenge is discussed. Areas of special emphasis included energy management, techniques for failure detection in energy related systems, improved prognostic techniques for energy related systems and opportunities for detection, diagnosis and prognosis in the energy field

Innovation for maintenance technology improvements

A group of 34 submitted entries (32 papers and 2 abstracts) from the 33rd meeting of the Mechanical Failures Prevention Group whose subject was maintenance technology improvement through innovation. Areas of special emphasis included maintenance concepts, maintenance analysis systems, improved maintenance processes, innovative maintenance diagnostics and maintenance indicators, and technology improvements for power plant applications