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Unlocking the value of artificial intelligence in human resource management through AI capability framework
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Polite impoliteness? How power, gender and language background shape request strategies in English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF) in corporate email exchanges
Get PDFInternational business is increasingly conducted through the medium of
English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF). Yet, little is known about interactional
strategies in BELF, specifically in internal written business communications. Our
study turns to this hitherto less explored area and investigates one of the most
important speech acts in the context of workplace communication, i.e. requests.
The data under study come from a unique corpus of 398 authentic internal emails
produced by the multilingual employees of an international insurance corporation.
Using a combination of corpus-linguistic and discourse-analytical methods, we
identify and classify request strategies formulated by BELF users with ten diverse
first-language (L1) backgrounds, and assess how their choice of pragmatic strate�gies might be influenced by their lingua-cultural background as well as extralin�guistic factors, notably the email senders’ power position within the corporate
hierarchy and their gender. Across the corpus, the level of directness in request
strategies was high, suggesting that most BELF users prioritised ‘getting the job
done’. Yet, the directness of email senders’ request strategies was modulated by a
complex interaction between lingua-cultural factors, power position and gender. The most crucial observation was that high-power employees chose more direct strategies than low-power employees, but this pattern was modulated by their
lingua-cultural background and by gender. Keywords: Business English; English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF); English as a Lingua Franca; intercultural communication; politeness; request strategie
Upholding Digital Rights and Media Plurality: Does Self-regulation by Social Media Platforms Contravene Freedom of Expression?
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Are small medium enterprises cyber aware?: International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3)
No full textTechnology has become a pivotal point in our society, this de-pendency is becoming increasingly more critical on a daily basis.. This rang-es from people to businesses and on a larger scale government organisations who are now increasingly focusing on becoming more cyber resilient. This paper intends to provide an overview as to why a comprehensive knowledge management framework is necessity for SMEs on tackling cyber and cyber-enabled crimes. The paper explores new sources of data to reliably under-stand the importance as to why such a framework is required. This type of system can pave the way for SME’s to devise their cyber strategy and to be able to respond efficiently to cyber-related incidents. One of the cyber weak-ness and vulnerabilities for the SME’s are through their interactivity and or engagement with their suppliers and customers. Namely the interactions which take place via their respective internet sites, email communications, ports (using external devices, USB, CD drive, SD cards etc...) or the router (The use of their WIFI systems). The benefits of this framework model will be primarily to educate SME’s in becoming more cyber resilient and provide them with the knowledge, awareness and techniques to identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities in their computer networks, devices and internet usage
Media and Entertainment Law 5ed
Get PDFUrsula Smartt Media & Entertainment Law 5th ed (2023) has been fully updated, analysing some of the most recent judgments in media law from across the United Kingdom, such as Cliff Richard v the BBC, Max Schrems v Facebook and the Irish Information Commissioner, developments on the ‘right to be forgotten’ (NT1 and NT2) and ABC v Daily Telegraph (Sir Philip Green). The book’s two main themes are freedom of expression and an individual’s right to privacy. Regulation of the communication industries is covered extensively, including discussion of the print press and its online editions following Leveson, traditional broadcasting regulations for terrestrial TV and radio as well as media activities on converged devices such as tablets, iPads, mobile phone devices and ‘on demand’ services. Intellectual property law (specifically copyright) in the music and entertainment industries is also explored in the book’s later chapters.
Also new to this edition are sections on:
• A focus on freedom of expression: its philosophical foundations; the struggles of those who have fought for it; and the varied ways in which the courts interpret freedom of expression regarding the taking and publishing of photographs.
• The ‘right to be forgotten’, data breaches, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• The media’s increasing access to the courts, particularly when considering the privacy of those who are suspected of sexual offences.
• Press regulators, broadcasting and advertising regulations, and film and video regulations.
• Election and party-political broadcast regulations, with a focus on social media and recent election fraud.
• The emergence of online music distribution services, internet radio and free digital streaming music services, and their effect on the music industry
Navigating the labyrinth of RI through a practical application — A case study in a cross-disciplinary research project
Get PDFResponsible Innovation (RI) aims to enable research and innovation to take a more systematic approach to anticipating potential risks and consequences of planned research/innovative outputs. The Anticipation, Reflection, Engagement and Action (AREA) framework provides a flexible mechanism for organisations and researchers to align research and innovation with societal values, needs and challenges. However, its actual application may prove challenging for practitioners. In this paper, we describe how the AREA framework has been embedded in an interdisciplinary research project in the UK over the period of 2019–2021 through dedicated monthly RI workshops. To gain insights from this practice, we have collected qualitative data from discussions throughout the project and performed a systematic analysis of the logging practice itself. We discuss benefits and challenges associated with embedding an RI framework within an interdisciplinary research team, and present recommendations for future adoption of the AREA framework in a cross-disciplinary research setting
