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Good Practice in Parenting support: A joint education and service improvement project
No full textA growing number of people with learning disabilities are becoming parents, and many of them risk having their children removed from their care.
It is difficult to establish how many parents have a learning disability because definitions are hard to apply and many people do not have this label attributed to them until they access health and social services. People with learning disabilities often find that becoming a parent exposes them to services where their disability is presumed to be an automatic barrier to parenting. This article sets out the design, delivery and results of a joint education and practice project that took place from November 2012 to November 2013 between De Montfort University and the Leicestershire Partnership Trust.
The project focused on assessing and supporting parents with learning disabilities, and finding, disseminating and publishing good practice examples locally and nationally. It inspired collaboration between a number of organisations and highlighted the importance of a multidisciplinary approach
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Structural change in the music industry: the evolving role of the musician
No full textThe recording industry is little more than one hundred years old. In its short history there have been many changes that have redefined roles, enabled fortunes to be built and caused some to be dissipated. Recording and delivery formats have gone through fundamental conceptual developments and each technological transformation has generated both positive and negative effects. Over the past fifteen years technology has triggered yet another large-scale and protracted revision of the business model, and this adjustment has been exacerbated by two serious economic downturns. This dissertation references the author’s career to provide context and corroboration for the arguments herein. It synthesizes salient constants from more than forty years’ empirical evidence, addresses industry rhetoric and offers methodologies for musicians with examples, analyses, and codifications of relevant elements of the business. The economic asymmetry of the system that exploits musicians’ work can now be rebalanced. Ironically, the technologies that triggered the industry downturn now provide creative entities with mechanisms for redress. This is a propitious time for ontologically reexamining music business realities to determine what is axiological as opposed to simply historical axiom. The primary objective herein is to contribute to the understanding of applied fundamentals, the rules of engagement that enable aspirants and professionals alike to survive and thrive in this dynamic and capricious vocation. The secondary goal is to empower creative practitioners to circumvent systemic injustices that have been perpetrated and perpetuated by the oligopolistic market conditions that have prevailed for most of the century of recorded sound
Measuring Outsourcing Efficacy: An Examination of Performance in the Aerospace Sector1
No full textOn-site outsourcing can be an effective strategy for organizations but operational performance may be temporarily hindered and recovery from this can take many months
From Kerouac to the Hippy Trail: Some Notes on the Attraction of On the Road to British Hippies
No full textInter-organisational green packaging design: a case study of influencing factors and constraints in the automotive supply chain
No full textGreen packaging is playing an increasingly important role in greening the supply chain. However, the issues that companies
face when developing green packaging solutions for the transportation of products within supply chains are poorly
understood. A case study of an automotive component manufacturer is presented that explores the complexity of the
decisions that surround the decision of inter-organisational packaging design. Drawing upon the literature, legislation and
the expert evaluation provided by the case organisation, it identifies the important criteria that influence packaging design
and comprise customer requirements, legislation, operational and environmental concerns. This research finds that even
though the company makes significant efforts to improve its environmental performance, operational concerns are most
influential factors in the design of packaging. Initiatives that aim to improve the environmental performance of
packaging are also constrained by external influences in the supply chain, such as customer pressur
Fairtrade and Halal Food Certification and Labeling: Commercial Lessons and Religious Limitations
No full textDrawing upon the successes and criticisms of Fairtrade certification and labeling systems, this article considers how such successes
may be replicated within Halal food supply chains. While the advantages of a trusted labeling system are evident, the highly
complicated nature of Halal food production, driven by the heterogeneous religious requirements of its consumers, conspires to
make the development of such a system both costly and impractical. Adopting Hunt’s (1981) concept of macromarketing and
Layton’s (2007) definition of a marketing system, the article builds a conceptual model of the Halal food labeling marketing system.
It presents a comparative analysis of the Fairtrade and Halal systems that can be viewed as push- and pull- driven respectively, and
proffers suggestions for future research around the influence of consumer religiosity upon food production systems
The Strategic Impact of Information Technology Deployment, Part I
No full textThe implementation of information technologies can cause disruption to the very fabric of the organizations in which they are employed, but they can also underpin initiatives to improve society at large