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Facilitating a Culture of Sustainable Innovation: A Cooperative Advantage Perspective
No full textPurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide advice on how organizations can facilitate a culture of sustainable innovation from a cooperative advantage perspective.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is written for practitioners and academics focused on sustainable innovation. It includes specific advice for production & operations and accounting & finance functions and how they can contribute to sustainable innovation from a cooperative advantage perspective.FindingsBy emphasizing the importance of stakeholder wellbeing, creating opportunities for collaboration and empowering employees, human resources (HR) departments can help organizations cultivate a culture of sustainable innovation and navigate the complex challenges of addressing environmental concerns to build a more sustainable future.Originality/valueThis paper offers HR practitioners a unique approach to encourage a culture that promotes care and community, intentional dialogue and action-oriented consensus-building among employees in different departments to facilitate sustainable innovation from a cooperative advantage perspective within their respective organizations
International goals of working women: a pilot study
No full textGlobal business requires attention to relationships and communication. Historically, women have placed a higher value on building and maintaining relationships, but American women comprise only a small percentage of the top management positions overseas. Failure rates of United States’ expatriates are very high with conservative estimates of up to forty percent. For every failure, U.S. companies can lose up to $250,000 in relocation costs and other expenses. So, if women are so successful in these assignments, why are they not hired? In this study, 25 women were surveyed about their career goals, perceptions, and attitudes related to international assignments.
Keywords: women, international, career, business, leadership
Garfield & Co. #7: Home for the Holidays
No full textCan this flabby tabby Scrooge find the true meaning of Christmas? To Garfield, there’s not much more to the Christmas holidays than food and presents. This becomes the center of an argument between him and his girlfriend Arlene, who decides that Garfield is too self-centered for her if he can’t truly understand Christmas. Garfield must do some soul searching and discover the meaning of Christmas in order to win back his girlfriend. But can this flabby tabby ever look past the material pleasures of the holidays and actually find something of greater meaning
A Cross-Disciplinary Framework to Measure Workplace Wellness Program Success
No full textConsistent with the safety and health function of human resources, HR departments have spearheaded healthy living and wellness programs and campaigns, such as fun runs, 5Ks, biggest loser contests, biometric testing, health risk screenings, smoking cessation, and time off for wellness visits (Kaspin, Gorman, & Miller, 2013; Madison, 2016; Mississippi College Health Care Summit, 2016, 2017). Wellness in the Workplace "A workplace wellness program is an employment-based activity or employer sponsored benefit aimed at promoting health-related behaviors (primary prevention or health promotion) and disease management (secondary prevention)" (Mattke et. al., 2013) Historically workplace wellness programs have been characterized as on or off-site organizational sponsored services which attempt to promote good health or to identify and correct potential health related problems (Parks and Steelman, 2008). Examples from research include lifestyle and disease management options such as, providing employees with incentives for completing health risk assessments, and offering self-help education materials, individual counseling, classes, seminars, group activities, online nutritional webinars, healthy cooking demonstrations, in-house fitness centers and classes, building central stairwells, altering physical workspaces, adding healthy cafeteria food options, and weight loss challenges (Baicker et al., 2010; Jamison and Kleiner, 2015; Kaspin, Gorman, & Miller, 2013; Parks and Steelman, 2008; Pomeranz, 2015; Madison, 2016; Mattke et. al., 2013; Wein, 2015). Information systems and workplace wellness programs share some important similarities: both depend on accurate and timely information to employees and other stakeholders; both depend on overall quality of the system; they both require excellent customer service from the employer to implement and maintain; organizations need to determine the overall usage and user satisfaction; and both require large investments from organizations and continued investments require some knowledge of ROI and VOI to pinpoint the overall benefits
Developing culturally competent pre-service teachers
No full textDeveloping culturally competent pre-service teacher
Dance Class #6: A Merry Olde Christmas
No full textWhat could be better than Christmas? Christmas in London, that's what! Julie, Lucie, and Alia are excited to get a letter from their friend Prune, inviting them to visit her in England. This is going to be the vacation of a lifetime! The only problem is that Prune doesn't exactly have time off in mind; she wants the girls to help her pull off a Christmas musical, which wouldn't be too bad if rival Carla hadn't come along for the occasion, as well. The competition will be stiff, and the girls will have to use all their dance skills to make this a yuletide memory for the ages
The Health Insurance Risk Game: A Simulation for Meaningful Learning
No full textOne of the most effective and successful pedagogical strategies for health administration education utilizes self-discovery simulations to illustrate and explain complex concepts. This paper describes a simple classroom simulation that provides students an opportunity to better understand the purposes, challenges, and problems associated with healthcare insurance and risk. The results of using the game with an undergraduate class of 47 healthcare economics and finance students are provided. Follow-up discussion questions focus on the social contract to provide universal healthcare insurance, the pressures on insurers to change rules for specific individuals and conditions, and the alternatives to traditional insurance
Blueprint for Innovation: Encouraging Computerized Medical Device Invention
No full textPolicies for supporting the development of computerized medical devices,based upon the Israeli grant mode