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An investigation into the role resilience plays in the performance of managers
Get PDF‘An investigation into the role resilience plays in the performance of managers’
This DBA dissertation, comprising a series of four papers, uses an exploratory, mixed
methods design to examine the relationship between psychological resilience and
performance within a cohort of thirty two (32) male and female managers. The study
adopted a cross-disciplinary perspective and recognises that whilst there is an extensive
body of research on resilience in the clinical and developmental fields, workplace
resilience remains relatively unexplored territory among researchers of business
management and management practitioners alike.
In this study ‘performance’ is understood to be individual and separate from the concepts
of productivity and effectiveness either in a job context or as an indicator of career
success. The study assesses self-reported manager ‘performance’ on an individual level
and in the context of the ‘behaviours’ that may increase or limit performance together
with the manager’s learning experience and the development of resilience qualities
within the critical incident process.
The primary aims of the study are to improve understanding of the importance of
resilience and resilient behaviour in the context of workplace performance and as a
consequence advance the introduction of the concept of workplace resilience into
business management research and everyday practice.
Data collection consisted of the completion of a ‘point in time’ individual resilience
assessment measure together with a Critical Incident Technique (CIT) based survey
questionnaire which was designed specifically to explicate the significance of the
recounted critical incidents and to facilitate the respondents’ demonstration (or
otherwise) of resilient behaviour. Both instruments were administered via a single, online
survey. Survey responses were assessed for resilience using a specially designed and
compiled typology of the dimensions of resilient behaviour with numerical values
attributed using a ‘Likert’ type scale. This typology represents one of the unique aspects
and contributions of this research.
Data analysis revealed thematic content related to personal and professional growth,
successful and unsuccessful management of challenges or adversity, lessons learned and
positive or negative outcomes. Whilst male participant resilience levels were found to be
average for the general population with a mean value of 79.52, female resilience levels
were found to be significantly higher at 86.57. No significant relationships were found in
either gender between resilience levels and years of practice or educational level.
Overall the study supported the inclusion of resilience and resilient behaviour as
important components of increased performance in managers. The results demonstrate
that higher levels of resilient behaviour are strongly associated with better management
of challenges and adversity (critical incidents) whereas lower levels of resilient behaviour
are associated with poor management of critical incidents; and that the degree of success
with which a participant managed their respective critical incidents directly impacted
their performance in the workplace.
This new contextual approach, now grounded in participant data, advances a relatively
new perspective to conventional management theories regarding performance in the
workplace. The study also makes a novel and timely contribution by introducing the
construct of workplace resilience into a specific management context
Considerations for Modelling Firm-Level Innovation Processes in Privacy and Cyber Security Organisations
Get PDFRapid changes in technology infrastructure, the
explosion of data, always-on-always-connected world, the
emergence of “multiple internets” and escalating regulation and standards have and continue to offer fertile ground for the development of products and services to increase ICT and personal security. A prevalent challenge however, facing the privacy and cybersecurity (PACS) community is transitioning
technical R&D outputs into commercial and marketplace-ready products and services. Compounding this, the PACS domain is
deeply influenced from various themes driven by technical,
human, societal, organizational, economic, legal, and regulatory concerns among others; these factors combine to create marketplace and innovation ecosystem with complex value chain relationships. In response, this paper seeks to address the innovation phenomenon at the firm-level by delineating innovation ecosystems and identifying key components for consideration in terms of assessing and in turn, (re)modelling innovation processes
IPACSO: Towards Developing an Innovation Framework for ICT Innovators in the Privacy and CyberSecurity Markets
Get PDFA pressing challenge facing the cybersecurity and privacy research community is transitioning technical R&D into commercial and marketplace ready products and services. Responding to the need to develop a better understanding of how Privacy and CyberSecurity (PACS) market needs and overall technology innovation best-practice can be harmonized more effectively the contribution of this paper is centred upon the development of a set of innovation guiding principles to inform the overarching IPACSO (Innovation Framework for Privacy and CyberSecurity Opportunities) innovation framework to be developed. These guiding principles have been developed from ongoing market and economic analyses and innovation modelling research in an effort to explore the identification of PACS specific deltas with respect to innovation. The development of the innovation guiding principles represent a pivotal component in meeting IPACSO’s overall goals of supporting increased awareness of and engagement in innovation practices, in addition to supporting greater knowledge of market dynamics, barriers and solution potential for increased innovation activity in the domain
Predicting Carotid Artery Disease and Plaque Instability from Cell-derived Microparticles
No full textDer Soundscape-Ansatz als ”Common Ground” für Akustiker und Architekten. DAGA Oldenburg (Germany) 2014
Get PDFDieser Beitrag untersucht den Soundscape-Ansatz als Design-Werkzeug für Architekten im Dialog mit Akustikern. In diesem Zusammenhang formuliert er zunächst drei Prämissen für die Akustik und die Architektur bzw. Raumplanung. Im folgenden wird die Relevanz des Soundscape-Ansatzes für den architektonischen Entwurfsprozess untersucht. Abschliessend werden die übergeordneten Ziele der Raumplanung erörtert und Schlussfolgerungen für die Implementierung von Soundscape-Szenarios und Soundscape-Methoden diskutiert. Schlagworte: Soundscape, Design- Werkzeug, Ressourcenmanagement, Architektur, Raumplanung, Entwurfsprozess
Developing an appropriate research methodology to investigate market oriented organisational culture
Get PDFDevelops an appropriate research methodology which can be used to investigate Market Oriented Organisational Culture: The Traditional Cultural Approach to Market Orientation is of the belief that culture drives behaviour(s) in organisations. However, the literature identifies an emerging Behaviours-Create-Culture approach which challenges this perspective (Gainer and Padanyi, 2005, p. 856). The relationships between Market Oriented Behaviours and the layers of an Organisation’s Culture, however, remain unexplored from this emerging approach (Gainer and Padanyi, 2005). Using the aid of Grix’s (2002, p. 180) “building blocks of research” framework, the researcher develops an appropriate research methodology aimed at addressing this gap. Consequently, this paper offers practical step by step guidance to researchers in demonstrating how to go about developing an appropriate research methodology, which can be used to investigate Market Oriented Organisational Culture
Einstein's steady-state cosmology
Get PDFLast year, a team of Irish scientists discovered an unpublished manuscript by Einstein in which he
attempted to construct a “steady-state” model of the universe. Cormac O’Raifeartaigh describes the
excitement of finding this previously unknown wor
