Interorganizational Systems Partnership Effectiveness

Interorganizational systems (IOS) have become a required business practice for many companies with the partner relationship being an important factor in the effectiveness of the IOS. Theestablishment of trust between the partners of an IOS is often mentioned, yet, never examined when IOS research is reported. Using organizational theory as a foundation, this paper takes a macro approach in exploring the nature of the various IOS roles and discusses the significance of uncertainty, trust and communication on these roles. A model of the relationships between IOS role, uncertainty, trust and the choice of communication media is proposed

Retaining IT Professionals: The Influence of Work/Family Issues

Companies face opportunity losses from projects they cannot take on due to a shortage of people resources (Goff, 2000a). Given the effect a shortage of qualified IT workers has on a company, many employers are giving increased attention to managing turnover. Turnover (individuals leaving employers) research has consistently examined the relationship of organizational commitment, job satisfaction and stress/ burnout to turnover. However, little empirical work has been done from the perspective of employee retention. The purpose of this research proposal is to identify what factors beyond job satisfaction, organizational commitment and stress have the strongest relationship to an IT professional’s intention to stay with their current employer

Online Collaboration of Groups with Varying Tasks and Goals

This research assesses factors leading to satisfaction and productivity in team collaboration. A longitudinal design is used in analyzing predictive relationships between team communication, social process factors (group feedback and interpersonal trust), and productivity and satisfaction. Virtual and face-to-face teams pursuing varying tasks and goals are paired to provide information and collaborative support. Data collection continues

The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Diagnostic Criteria for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Objective: To develop new diagnostic criteria for mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) that are appropriate for use across the lifespan and in sports, civilian trauma, and military settings. Design: Rapid evidence reviews on 12 clinical questions and Delphi method for expert consensus. Participants: The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Task Force of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Brain Injury Special Interest Group convened a Working Group of 17 members and an external interdisciplinary expert panel of 32 clinician-scientists. Public stakeholder feedback was analyzed from 68 individuals and 23 organizations. Results: The first 2 Delphi votes asked the expert panel to rate their agreement with both the diagnostic criteria for mild TBI and the supporting evidence statements. In the first round, 10 of 12 evidence statements reached consensus agreement. Revised evidence statements underwent a second round of expert panel voting, where consensus was achieved for all. For the diagnostic criteria, the final agreement rate, after the third vote, was 90.7%. Public stakeholder feedback was incorporated into the diagnostic criteria revision prior to the third expert panel vote. A terminology question was added to the third round of Delphi voting, where 30 of 32 (93.8%) expert panel members agreed that ‘the diagnostic label ‘concussion’ may be used interchangeably with ‘mild TBI’ when neuroimaging is normal or not clinically indicated.’ Conclusions: New diagnostic criteria for mild TBI were developed through an evidence review and expert consensus process. Having unified diagnostic criteria for mild TBI can improve the quality and consistency of mild TBI research and clinical care.</p

The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Diagnostic Criteria for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Objective: To develop new diagnostic criteria for mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) that are appropriate for use across the lifespan and in sports, civilian trauma, and military settings. Design: Rapid evidence reviews on 12 clinical questions and Delphi method for expert consensus. Participants: The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Task Force of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Brain Injury Special Interest Group convened a Working Group of 17 members and an external interdisciplinary expert panel of 32 clinician-scientists. Public stakeholder feedback was analyzed from 68 individuals and 23 organizations. Results: The first 2 Delphi votes asked the expert panel to rate their agreement with both the diagnostic criteria for mild TBI and the supporting evidence statements. In the first round, 10 of 12 evidence statements reached consensus agreement. Revised evidence statements underwent a second round of expert panel voting, where consensus was achieved for all. For the diagnostic criteria, the final agreement rate, after the third vote, was 90.7%. Public stakeholder feedback was incorporated into the diagnostic criteria revision prior to the third expert panel vote. A terminology question was added to the third round of Delphi voting, where 30 of 32 (93.8%) expert panel members agreed that ‘the diagnostic label ‘concussion’ may be used interchangeably with ‘mild TBI’ when neuroimaging is normal or not clinically indicated.’ Conclusions: New diagnostic criteria for mild TBI were developed through an evidence review and expert consensus process. Having unified diagnostic criteria for mild TBI can improve the quality and consistency of mild TBI research and clinical care.</p

Cross-cutting principles for planetary health education

Since the 2015 launch of the Rockefeller Foundation Lancet Commission on planetary health,1 an enormous groundswell of interest in planetary health education has emerged across many disciplines, institutions, and geographical regions. Advancing these global efforts in planetary health education will equip the next generation of scholars to address crucial questions in this emerging field and support the development of a community of practice. To provide a foundation for the growing interest and efforts in this field, the Planetary Health Alliance has facilitated the first attempt to create a set of principles for planetary health education that intersect education at all levels, across all scales, and in all regions of the world—ie, a set of cross-cutting principles

From Sympathy to Synergy: Humane Activism in the Modern Environmental Movement

287 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.Animal welfare activists contributed both substance and style to the environmental movement that emerged in the years following the Second World War. Women tended to take a more active role than men in humane politics. A loose network of women activists led campaigns to save marine mammals from hunters, predators from traps and poisons, primates from laboratories and birds from pesticides, among many other issues. They explicitly recognized a place for human uses of other animals, but denied that cruelty and outright extirpation was an inescapable and acceptable side effect of such uses. These women relied upon personal connections as well as organizational ones to coordinate programs designed to optimize paths to animal protection, whether through legislative, regulatory or social and cultural changes. Humane workers increasingly turned to science to support their values and their politics, and they were rewarded with new understandings of human/animal relationships through advances in science in every field from ecology and ethology to genetics. Animal welfare activists capitalized on the widespread sympathy for other animals that Americans exhibited during the post-war years to lobby for legislation to protect animals from systematic cruelties, including those affecting wild animals. They recognized that cruelties to wildlife such as traps and poisons, pesticides, oil spills and other habitat despoliation were also threats to nature more generally and to human quality of life. The combination of science and compassion proved to be a fruitful one for environmentalists because Americans reacted strongly to issues affecting' animals. Sympathy for animals supported and extended ecological arguments, while increased ecological understanding supported arguments in favor of avoiding cruel exploitation of animals. The environmental movement that exploded in the 1960s and 1970s benefited greatly from access to the political strategies and issues developed by humane workers starting in the 1950s. Compassion for other animals thus claimed an important place in the constellation of environmental ethics and politics.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD