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Performance Feedback Strategies: Driving Successful Behavior Change
No full textProviding performance feedback is one of the most challenging tasks leaders face. Feedback often sparks frustration and fear for both leaders and their teams. Why? Because there is a disconnect between what leaders think they are communicating and what employees receive. In this essential book, leadership experts Sandra Mashihi and Ken Nowack offer leaders their four-part Performance Feedback Coaching Model, which is designed to bridge this gap. After more than a decade spent developing, testing, and refining their model with leaders around the world, the authors present this powerful framework based on research in neuroscience and psychology. The book equips leaders at all levels with practical strategies and tools to deliver tailored feedback that aligns with each employee\u27s unique skills and interpersonal strengths. By personalizing feedback, leaders can inspire significant improvements in employee behavior, creating a workplace where leaders achieve their goals and employees thrive--a true win-win situation. The authors share powerful stories, real-life examples, and user-friendly tips, as well as questionnaires, worksheets, and other tools leaders can use immediately. With this book as your road map, you will have the guidance you need to improve your employees\u27 development, performance, motivation, satisfaction, and retention -- Back cover
Article Title: Deconstructing Power and Gender: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Biopolitics, Necropolitics, and Sexual Scripts in Feminicide in Puerto Rico.
No full textFeminicide and gender violence cases in the last several decades in Puerto Rico have continuously increased, suggesting that this problem becomes worse as time passes. This study, therefore, focuses on identifying actionable insights that paint a picture of the impact it has on women over the age of 18 in Puerto Rico. In order to achieve this objective, the study relies on a strong theoretical framework that is made up of Foucauldian discourse analysis, necropolitics, and sexual scripts theories. One of the core findings of this research is that Puerto Rico’s colonial history and cultural norms sustain a cycle of gender-based violence that, unfortunately, in severe cases, ends in death. Furthermore, based on the research information, it is clear that structural, cultural, and institutional dynamics within the island largely influence how the public and government respond to cases of feminicide. Apart from understanding the underlying causes of the problem, the study also proposes the use of transformative justice as an alternative solution, considering punitive measures have been pushed as the cure, yet the problem persists and even worsens
Historical Perspectives in Volatility Forecasting Methods with Machine Learning
Full text linkVolatility forecasting for financial institutions plays a pivotal role across a wide range of domains, such as risk management, option pricing, and market making. For instance, banks can incorporate volatility forecasts into stress testing frameworks to ensure they are holding sufficient capital during extreme market conditions. However, volatility forecasting is challenging because volatility can only be estimated, and different factors influence volatility, ranging from macroeconomic indicators to investor sentiments. While recent works show promising advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence for volatility forecasting, a comprehensive assessment of current statistical and learning-based methods is lacking. Thus, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the historical evolution of volatility forecasting with a comparative benchmark of key landmark models, such as implied volatility, GARCH, LSTM, and Transformer. We open-source our benchmark code to further research in learning-based methods for volatility forecasting
Refining Albert O. Hirschman’s model: high-performance employee covert behavior toward organizational identity change
Full text linkThis explanatory single case study revisited economist and philosopher Albert O. Hirschman’s (1970) exit, voice, and loyalty (EVL) model to explore two covert scenarios, which included how and why a high-performance employee stays silent and turns to apathy and neglect amid organizational identity change. A case study focused on Elon Musk’s Twitter, Inc. takeover was selected with a cross-case analysis procedure for validation and reliability. The unit of analysis was one high-performance employee and one organization that both served as an archetype for each unit. The study focused on occurrences before and during the takeover from June 2019 through July 23, 2023. The study was conducted from a systems psychodynamic theoretical perspective that integrated a covert behavior process into its framework. Both systems psychodynamics and covert behavior processes are interpretive paradigms that are proficient in identifying the psychological underpinnings of how the phenomenon of human behavior occurs that is not overtly expressed, as well as providing explanations as to why they happen. The study is considered an instrumental single case study with temporal variation, defined as cause and effect, and diachronic, described as an event that takes place over time. The case study results were organized by composite themes and interpretations based on systems psychodynamics and categorized as organizational identity threats, employee response stages, and leadership implications. The study’s outcome determined that developing an EVL playbook would contribute to the Hirschman scholarship and can assist organizations as a supplement to a standard operating procedure manual. The contribution would enhance Hirschman’s model for adaptability to contemporary organizations, political arenas, and the social sciences
Collective Judo: Ethics and Access to Justice in Mass Arbitration Companies
Full text linkOver the past five years, several law firms have engaged in “mass arbitration.” This strategy involves aggregating hundreds or thousands of arbitrations and filing them all at once against a company, sometimes forcing the company to either pay huge sums to defend all the claims or settle with all the claimants. This Article discusses how mass arbitration coordinated by nonlawyers and companies should be legally protected by courts and regulators, provided that companies in this space erect specific ethical safeguards. Most notably, mass arbitration companies should implement better procedures to obtain informed consent from their customers, using technology to lower the costs of this education. This Article then details several ethical issues faced by mass arbitration (MA) companies with reference to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct including the unauthorized practice of law, attorney engagement and discharge, attorney performance, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, and litigation finance. Throughout, the Article proposes several solutions for MA companies to minimize and avoid ethical problems. Some emerging scholarship on mass arbitrations exists, most notably by Professor J. Maria Glover. But this Article is the first to analyze mass arbitration and MA companies primarily through an ethical lens, detailing the various ethical quagmires presented by mass arbitration from an individual lawyer and consumer perspective
R&D efficiency of drug development at universities
Full text linkResearch and development (R&D) efficiency in the pharmaceutical industry is a measure of the relative value of new and novel products cast against the costs required to make them. For six decades, the R&D efficiency of large pharmaceutical companies has declined to critical levels. Most recently, nearly half of the companies studied were experiencing negative R&D efficiency, or products whose costs to bring to market outweigh the value they offer both commercially as well as to the health and well-being of society (Schuhmacher et al., 2023). One of the most prominent consequences of the inefficiencies plaguing the drug development industry is rapidly increasing prescription drug prices. Large pharmaceutical companies are increasingly outsourcing R&D or engaging in strategic merger and acquisition (M&A) activities to buttress their pipelines and increase their commercial value. Many of the targets for big pharma acquisition are spinoffs from publicly funded university research programs. Notwithstanding the relationship between academic research institutions, their spinoffs, and pharmaceutical companies, little is known about how the R&D efficiency at the university level compares with the published results of big pharma. This study cures that gap through a systematic review of the publicly available literature and websites that correspond with the various measures of R&D efficiency. The findings of that analysis suggest that R&D efficiency for drug development at universities is consistent with the literature coming from large pharmaceutical companies. The works-in-progress (WIP), trial success rates, and length of clinical trials are all consistent with their pharmaceutical analogs and share their difficulties. There is a difference in trial duration where academia performs more slowly than the literature. These findings also show that the out-of-pocket costs of clinical trials are a relatively negligible portion of the overall price of generating a new drug (2%). Finally, this study reveals certain top and bottom performers in clinical trial research in academic research institutions
Creative Expression Over Rigid Protection: Why the Ninth Circuit Is Correct to Permit De Minimis Sampling
Full text linkThe legal world is at a crossroads following the Ninth Circuit’s decision to uphold de minimis sampling as a valid practice in VMG Salsoul, LLC v. Ciccone. On the one hand, the Ninth Circuit’s affirmation of de minimis sampling fosters creativity and gives aspiring artists greater access to resources they would not otherwise be able to afford. On the other hand, the Sixth Circuit’s earlier decision in Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films that held de minimis sampling to be categorically illegal bolsters copyright protection and facilitates more predictable outcomes in copyright lawsuits. This Note analyzes both cases and ultimately concludes that the Ninth Circuit was correct because its analysis of de minimis sampling under the Copyright Act of 1976 is more faithful to the Act’s statutory language and animating intent. This Note will further show that the Ninth Circuit’s affirmation of de minimis sampling as a legitimate practice enables Congress to strike a proper balance between its constitutional duties to protect copyright holders’ interests while simultaneously championing the progress of the arts and sciences
Autism Spectrum Disorder Comorbidities and Antecedent Strategies
No full textThis paper explores antecedent strategies that may decrease the impact of mood disorders and anxiety disorders within ASD individuals. I examine the ways emotion identification and emotional regulation prepare at-risk individuals for symptoms of mood disorders and anxiety disorders, and the importance of implementation in a classroom setting
The Use of Humor in Mental Health Care
No full textThis project is a systematic review that examines the use of humor in mental health care. The review synthesizes the existing literature to highlight the settings and contexts in which the use of humor in mental health care has explored while simultaneously providing qualitative analyses on the various humor-based approaches utilized. This review aims to provide guidance for counselors, mental health clinicians, and health care providers to further utilize humor in their work
Multi-generational & Bilingual Approach for Family Impact and Community Transformation
No full textThis presentation highlights the impact of school and organizational partnerships on diverse, bilingual generations. The organization and school approach their work from an evidence and strength-based approach, centering on families and their children