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How Does Elite Consulting Transform Participants?
No full textA small group of prominent organizations have cultivated a long-standing reputation for producing an inordinate number of CEOs and senior leaders, which raises questions about the skills, practices, and dispositions that have been inculcated into these individuals. What do these elite organizations instill in their participants and how? A variety of literatures provides relevant conceptualizations and partial answers, including research on human development, research on organizational influence and organizational socialization, and research within elite professional service firms. While contemporary frameworks analyze development and change within organizational contexts, they primarily analyze cognitive change, which does not provide a fully comprehensive understanding of the individual. In addition to cognitive change, the literature reveals that a highly consequential element of socialization is noncognitive, or embodied. Embodied dispositions and practices exist at an unconscious level and are therefore largely resistant to reflection and modification. Because most organizational research has studied development from a cognitivist perspective, less is known about how organizations shape an individual’s habitus, a set of deeply ingrained, embodied skills, practices, and dispositions acquired during one’s life experiences that incline agents to act and react in certain ways. Recent research opines that there is importance and utility in the observation of executive leaders’ embodied dispositions as complementary to contemporary understandings of managerial learnings as solely cognitive. This qualitative research study explored detailed accounts of how an elite management consulting firm developed its participants. In addition to identifying consulting skills and competencies that were developed during the firm experience, the study analyzed the ways that consultants embodied firm practices and firm culture into their habitus. The study found an enduring professional habitus, the embodiment of specific organizational practices and durable dispositions, as evidenced through the lived experiences of 20 current and former management consultants. Ultimately, the consultants’ professional habitus acted as a mediating disposition that informed, but did not necessarily determine, how the consultants approached their work. In summary, the consultants carried an embodied professional habitus that influenced their career progression and continues to influence their daily practices as CEOs and executive leaders
The Relationship between the Components of the Spiritual Leadership Model with Productivity and Organizational Commitment when Leading through a Crisis
No full textThe COVID‐19 global pandemic has been more than a health crisis; it has also caused massive disruption for companies, bringing on the deepest worldwide economic recession since World War II. Leaders have had to respond to the global crisis with existing personal and organizational resources available to them. Leaders have faced a situation of unforeseen dimensions, with the challenge of continuing to lead their organizations to achieve results amid uncertainty and human loss. Despite the situation, leaders have had to take on the responsibility of sustaining the organization during crisis and obtaining results to move forward. The focus of this research was to investigate how components of the spiritual leadership model may help leaders achieve productivity and organizational commitment during a crisis. The focus of the spiritual leadership model goes beyond behaviors. In previous studies, various leadership styles in crisis were explored from the behavioral perspective; however, previous studies did not include crisis conditions on the scale of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The conditions of the pandemic allowed for the exploration of the five spiritual leadership components of the spiritual leadership model: vision, mission, altruistic love, calling, and membership. The study’s objective was to examine whether, from the leader’s perspective, any of these components influenced their management during the crisis and allowed leaders to achieve productivity and organizational commitment. Two methods were used in carrying out this study: (a) a quantitative approach employed the Organizational Spiritual Leadership Survey with randomly selected leaders who agreed to participate (Fry et al., 2005, 2010, 2011; Slocum & Fry, 2008) and (b) a qualitative approach using in-depth interviews with five top-level executives in leadership roles in organizations that did not stop operations during the pandemic. These two methods provided information used to draw conclusions. The private sector continues to present barriers to accepting the term spirituality because it is considered religious and somewhat challenging to understand in organizational dynamics. Nonetheless, findings demonstrated how spiritual leadership can respond in a crisis environment with positive economic results and employee well-being
A New Spanish Translation of the Commedia and Dante’s Renaissance Readers (1491-1550 ca)
Get PDFThis essay focuses on two early copies of Dante’s vernacular poetry with idiosyncratic interventions by Renaissance readers: a 1491 Venetian incunable of the Commedia with an extensive translation of the poem into Spanish and copious annotations in Spanish and Latin (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. 2Q inf. 1.43); and an early Venetian printed edition of Dante’s lyric poetry (1518) with notes, substantial marks, and underlinings, bound together ab antiquo with a copy of Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina and a vernacularization of Petrarch’s Secretum (London, British Library, C.20.a.13). These books show Dante’s success among Spanish (or hispanophile) readers both as a moral and didactic poet, and as a linguistic and stylistic model. Through an analysis of these two early copies of Dante\u27s vernacular poetry, this essay looks at readers of Dante’s works in order to reveal the transnational quality of their publics and, in so doing, invite us to reorient our view of Dante’s role as a function of discourse
Scemare, or Approaching “Virgillessness”
Get PDFAny examination of the phenomenon of absence in the Commedia must account for a crucial linguistic issue: though they are amply attested in the Commedia’s sources, the words assenza, assente, and their derivatives are themselves conspicuously absent from the poem’s lexicon. Absence experiences are expressed in the poem partly through imagery and circumlocution, but also through a constellation of individual words which invoke experiences of absence without naming absence as such. One particularly suggestive word operating within this language of omission is the verb scemare. With a focus on Purgatorio 30, in this paper, I discuss the importance of scemare to Dante’s lexicon of exclusion, and the ways in which it shapes our experience and understanding of absence in the Commedia more broadly
Presence: A Mechanism for Developing Rapport in Physician Interprofessional Engagement
Get PDFInspired by my work as a coach in an academic medical center, this paper explores the mechanisms of presence and mindfulness as axioms to developing rapport within physician interprofessional engagement. Away from the physician-patient relationship, the focus here is on faculty, physicians, residents, and other clinical providers and how they relate to one another. Transpersonal experiences foster a connectedness of rapport that allows for deeper connection and mutuality. Participation in the mindfulness mechanisms of intention and attention can mitigate negative affective behavior in relationship with oneself and others. Mindful awareness encourages curiosity, presence, and rapport, which support healthy relationships. My coaching engagements with physicians focus on shifting their awareness to conscious choice with intention. It is not about how they practice medicine but how they practice presence and rapport toward developing healthy interprofessional relationships
Paying for Performance in Public Pension Plans
Get PDFWe examine the relation between public pension plan Chief Investment Officer (CIO) compensation and plans’ investment performance. Higher paid CIOs outperform their counterparts by 47 – 60 bps per year, largely through increased and superior investment in private equity and real estate. This outperformance generates an additional 95.63 million in economic value. Plans offering higher compensation hire better educated CIOs and are more likely to retain their CIOs. Higher CIO compensation is positively correlated with the use of incentive compensation, but incentive compensation does not directly affect performance. Demand- and supply-side frictions help explain the variation in CIO pay and the persistent low compensation paid by some plans despite the positive relation between compensation and performance
Penn Library\u27s Ms. Codex 1648 - Del esta[tu]to Toledano, i çierta apologia (Video Orientation)
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The Legacy of Sectarianism in the Imagination and Self-formation of the Rabbis
Get PDFPrior to the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE, Jewish social organization and ritual leadership in ancient Palestine was defined by sectarianism, in which coherent Jewish groups maintained competing beliefs about theology and practice. The centuries following the destruction saw the rise of the rabbinic movement, which produced extensive literary corpuses that occasionally make reference to the rabbis’ sectarian predecessors. This thesis explores the historical nature of the relationship between the rabbis and sects as well as the rabbinic literary construction of the sects and sectarian past. In the first chapter, I argue that the sects largely faded from the Judean landscape before the rabbinic movement emerged, even as Jewish sectarianism lived on in rabbinic memory. The subsequent chapters investigate the evolving rabbinic literary portrayal of the sects. I suggest that the rabbis’ depiction of the sectarian past shifted in response to the rabbis’ growing authority and relationship to emerging Christianity. Seeking to chart a new approach in a world in which they were largely unknown, the early rabbis (c. 70-220 CE) displayed little tolerance for both past and present outsiders and therefore avoided identification with the sects. However, as the rabbinic project grew increasingly established and distinct from competing movements, the later rabbis (c. 220-700 CE) began to link themselves to certain sects in order to bolster their historical legitimacy. This analysis seeks to capture fundamental aspects of the process of rabbinic identity-formation, shedding light on the self-definition and origination of the movement that remains the basis of Jewish practice to this day
Gender in the Water Industry One Man of Transgender Experience’s Story
Get PDFis a complex topic Most people often confuse gender and sex; Most folks don’t realize that there are at least 57 genders and gender is a spectrum Some people within our workplace and the water industry don’t identify as a man or a woman, and/or their gender is more fluid (gender-expansive. In our day-to-day interactions with others, we often assume someone’s gender based on their appearance, mannerisms, and other social cues that vary depending on the culture Additionally, assuming everyone fits into the gender binary (just men and women is often-times a barrier to being inclusive and making people feel safe and valued People who don’t fit into the gender binary are often referred to as transgender. The term “transgender” is an umbrella term that includes a lot of people who are binary but feel their gender is not in alignment with the sex they were assigned at birth; It also includes folks who do not identify as a man or woman or their gender is fluid (often called gender-expansive or gender non-binary. Some trans people do medical transition while others do not. Trans is a Latin prefix that means “across,” and Cis means “same ” Someone whose gender aligns with their gender and sex assigned at birth would be referred to as cisgender For example, I am a man of transgender experience (also a transgender man or transman). I was assigned female at birth but transitioned to male during the course of my life I have spent a little more than half my career being perceived as male People often assume I am a cisgender man, go by male pronouns, and am straight because of my appearance, I have a long beard and stocky build – very masculine appearance. My gender identity is male; however, I have many interests and behaviors that do not align with the norm of what people assume are male. I don’t enjoy sports, and I often talk with inflection in my voice (my voice goes up and down when I talk – largely because women are taught to speak in that fashion. Based on what I look like, people often assume I am straight. A lot of people often wonder why does this matter in the workplace This article will discuss my past and current experience working in the water industry, as well as some information to help readers foster inclusive behavior
Where There Are No Sewers: The Toilet Cleaners of Lucknow
Get PDFEnormous progress has been made in the global effort to provide safe and affordable toilets for the world’s poorest citizens since World Toilet Day was first declared in 2001. Significant strides have been made in “reinventing” toilet designs for low-income, water-short, un-sewered urban zones; celebrities such as Bill Gates and Matt Damon have brought this once-taboo topic into the open; and the Prime Minister of India – the country with the highest number of people still practicing open defecation – has publicly declared that his country needs toilets over temples.
Well over 2 billion people today lack access to basic sanitation facilities, according to the World Health Organization; about 760 million of them live in India. The goal of this Day is to make the global community aware of their right to safe and dignified sanitation, and to support public action and public policy to bring this right closer to those who do not enjoy it today. In this story, we focus on the back-end of the sanitation chain, on those who clean out latrines where there is no flush or sewer to carry away the waste. When this work is done without mechanical equipment and without protective clothing, scooping out feces from ‘dry’ latrines and overflowing pits, it is called “manual scavenging”.
It’s an ancient profession, and India, which made the practice illegal in 1993, still has over 1 million such cleaners (the exact number is unknown and declining). They service low-income urban households and railway tracks and army barracks; they come from the lowest strata of the Hindu caste system; and about 90% of them are women. Despite valiant civil society (and several government) efforts to train them for other professions, breaking out of this denigrated castebased profession remains very difficult. Many mehters live in the shadows of society, invisible yet reviled, taunted yet essential, trapped in an unconstitutional practice without viable alternatives.
In a real sense, seventy years after Indian independence, this is a community still waiting for its freedom. In this photo-essay we explore the daily lives of the toilet-cleaners: their homes, their hopes, their work, and their determination to get their children out of it. If World Toilet Day is about expanding access to clean toilets, it must also be about those who have to clean the toilets