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Reinventing identity in transition from principal to professor: a collaborative autoethnography
Get PDFSchool leadership is a fast-paced job where stakeholder feedback is frequent, and decision-making requires quick thinking and strong organization. When school leaders transition from practitioner to scholar, they face a dramatic change in pace and responsibility. Unlike their peers who come from academia, practitioner-scholars experience a unique context and career shift that requires navigating unfamiliar organizational structures and translating existing skills into new contexts. This collaborative autoethnography explores the lived experiences of two junior faculty who recently transitioned from the campus principalship to the tenure track professoriate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a process of individual writing, group reflection, and shared analysis, common themes emerged from the data, including expectations, relationships, and identity. The research discusses processing unfamiliar experiences in academia, negotiating the re-identification of self, and developing new attachments during the shift from doing the work to supporting and advancing the field
Multiple Path Particle Dosimetry Modeling Employability to Complement in-vitro Ultrafine Particle Toxicity Study
No full textThis paper demonstrates how computationally prediction can be done on inhaled ultrafine aerosol particles that are transported, disseminated, and deposited in the respiratory tracts of laboratory mice. Poyldisperse ultrafine particles (UFP) range between 1 nm and 100 nm in diameter. Multiple Path Particle Dosimetry (MPPD), a probabilistic computational simulation software was used to mimic in-vitro experimental conditions. In this work, the physical, mechanical and electrical properties of the UFPs were used as input parameters in MPPD. Additionally, pulmonary physiologic and morphometry input variables for BALB/c mice strain were applied to the simulation. Finally, the UFP deposition results of the computational simulation study were compared with in-vitro UFP deposition trends published in scholarly journals, and fitting agreements were found. Mutually both in-silico (computational modeling) and in-vitro studies complemented each other in determining the UFP toxicity burdens in fetal mice
Tyler, Texas: Becoming More Military & Veteran Friendly
Get PDFTyler is becoming increasingly friendly to our Veterans with continuous community support. On this Independence Day, we thank all who have served our country. Studies show the importance of community engagement as Veterans transition into civilian life. This special Hibbs Brief discusses just some of the support systems, employment and education opportunities, health care, and Veteranspecific activities in Tyler, Texas
Broadband Access: Assessing the Digital Divide in East Texas
Get PDFIt is widely known that different individuals have different access to broadband and technology based on their geographic location, which is frequently called “the digital divide”. Broadband is the access to high-speed internet that is alwayson and faster than dial-up access; this can include fiber, wireless, digital subscriber line (DSL), satellite or cable.1 Broadband access does not mean that the homes have completely adopted a broadband service program, but that if they were looking to adopt or purchase a program, it would be available to them. Whereas a household who has a subscription has access to broadband technology, decided to adopt it, and can pay to use it. This said, there is significant variance in the number of households that have access and the strength to broadband of that broadband technology
1862 Minutes of the Commissioners Court
Get PDFTranscription of the 1862 minutes of the Smith County Commissioners Court, including safety concerns, county currency, provisions to allow encamped soldiers to vote, and assistance to soldiers’ families
Dedicated Vascular Access Team Benchmark Study
Get PDFHospitals see a rise in the critically ill population. These patients present with multiple comorbidities resulting in frequent emergency department trips. Unfortunately, with each visit, these patients require a vascular access device. Over time their veins will no longer be easily accessible. Patients with veins that are no longer visible, palpable, or require special techniques to obtain access are considered to be difficult intravenous access (DIVA) patients. They will likely experience multiple attempts with each admission to the hospital, resulting in physical and emotional pain, not to mention being costly. The purpose of this paper is to compare the advantages and disadvantages of using a vascular access team versus a generalist model, mainly focusing on the efficiency and effectiveness of the line placement for DIVA patients. A rapid critical appraisal was performed on multiple studies to gather evidence to support this project. The data retrieved included success rate, complication rate, dwell time, time to insertion, patient satisfaction, and cost. In addition to reviewing statistical results, a qualitative study provided feedback from patient interviews. After extensive research on this topic, gathering conclusive data was the most challenging. There are many moving parts to a patient admitted to a hospital, and they will often pass through so many hands that collecting data and evaluating it can be challenging. However, the information is still valuable
PREPARE FOR THE WORST, HOPE FOR THE BEST: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON WORKPLACE VIOLENCE IN THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY
No full textThe purpose of this dissertation is to explore how health care employees process and cope with workplace violence in an effort to improve employee and organizational performance. The participants gave accounts of verbal, physical, and psychological acts of violence perpetrated by patients, family members, and colleagues. The goal of this research study is to understand these experiences and provide insight not currently available in human resource development (HRD) literature.
This is a phenomenological case study based on two theoretical foundations: the theory of cognitive adaptation and social exchange theory. Research and interview questions were developed from these theories to uncover how health care workers process and cope with the trauma of workplace violence. While there is much research on WPV, few studies examine how health care workers make sense of and cope with such traumatic experiences. The researcher conducted interviews with each participant, allowing them to express their experiences, feelings, reactions, and how the incidents impacted them personally and professionally. Interviews were transcribed and coded to reveal categories in the data. A summary of the findings, including implications for theory and practice, is provided. In conclusion, limitations of the study are discussed, and future research opportunities are provided
TESTING THE PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF A MANAGERIAL COACHING SCALE USING A CROSS-LAGGED PANEL DESIGN
Get PDFManagerial coaching remains a widespread and popular organizational development tool applied across numerous industries to enhance critical workplace outcomes and employee attitudes. Research discoveries have linked managerial coaching to three important human resource development (HRD) workplace outcomes: role clarity, job satisfaction, and organization commitment, yet no studies to date have evaluated the temporal precedence within these relationships. This study sought to assess the predictive validity of the Employee Perceptions of Supervisor/Line Manager Coaching Behavior Measure managerial coaching scale (CBI; Ellinger et al., 2003), using a longitudinal design and following the testing of the causal hypothesized relationships framework proposed by Kenny (1975). Four hypotheses were evaluated across three dependent variable models (role clarity, job satisfaction, and organization commitment), using longitudinal data collected over two waves from full-time U.S. employees (n = 313). Time-lagged associations confirmed a statistically significant relationship between managerial coaching and all three dependent variables over time. Results also detected statistically significant cross-lagged effects in the role clarity and organization commitment models, highlighting a reciprocal relationship between managerial coaching behaviors and the two variables. However, only the reciprocal cross-lagged effect was statistically significant in the job satisfaction model. Findings suggest the predictive validity of the CBI scale for role clarity and organization commitment. Moreover, results indicate employee attitudes influenced managerial coaching behaviors over time across all three models, emphasizing the potential impact of employee attitudes on leadership effectiveness
Examining the Gay Panic Defense with an Experimental Design
Get PDFThe gay panic defense (GPD) is a type of provocation defense used in criminal trials for the purpose of mitigating a defendant’s culpability to a jury. The current study utilized chi-square tests and logistic regression to investigate the effects of the GPD on jury decision-making and to assess potential associations of personal characteristics of jurors on verdict selection. Contrary to hypotheses, testing resulted in null findings. Limitations, as well as study strengths, are discussed. Findings suggest that methodology and case details may be pertinent in the empirical investigation of the GPD
WORKPLACE FUN FOR EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: A FUNCTION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE?
Get PDFWorkplace fun is an organizational phenomenon intended to bring cheerfulness and joviality to employees’ daily work-related interactions. Because of its uplifting nature, workplace fun is prevalent in numerous organizations. A great number of employees have experienced some aspect of having fun at work. This actuality makes the concept of having fun at work familiar to most employees. HRD practitioners use workplace fun to engage employees. However, research has associated workplace fun with employee disengagement as well. Organizational culture potentially explains the different effects of workplace fun on employee engagement. Organizations with clan cultures have a family-like feel. Contrastingly, hierarchy cultures have a more stringent and rigid structure. Because little is known about influencers of workplace fun engagement outcomes, it was crucial and significant to explore how these HRD constructs all work together to advance organizational performance. I explored the following research questions: To what extent is workplace fun associated with employee engagement? How does organizational culture type influence the relationship between workplace fun and employee engagement? I drew on the affective events theory (AET) and the temporal appraisal of fun framework (TAFF) to examine the relationship between workplace fun and employee engagement. A cross-sectional survey design was utilized to examine the relationship between workplace fun, employee engagement, and two dimensions of organizational culture (clan and hierarchy), while controlling for personality types (as measured by the big five traits in neuroticism, open-mindedness, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness) and five generational cohorts (silent, baby boomer, Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z). This study used participants solicited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to test if the organizational clan and organizational hierarchy culture moderates the relationship between workplace fun and employee engagement. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to assess the measurement instruments of the study. Hierarchical linear regression (HLR) was adopted to test the hypotheses and examine the relationships between the variables of interest. The results indicated that workplace fun does significantly increase employee engagement. However, neither the clan nor the hierarchy culture had a practically significant moderating effect on the relationship between fun and engagement. Interpretations of the findings, in relation to significant workplace fun literature are presented. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed