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Utilizing ISO 10018:2012, Quality Management - Guidelines on People Involvement and Competence principles to enhance quality in a clinical laboratory setting
No full textThe author evaluated employee involvement in decision making at an organization where employee turnover is high and employee morale is low. The goal was to persuade senior management to implement ISO 10018:2012, Quality Management – Guidelines on People Involvement and Competence. A voluntary survey was utilized to obtain information from employees throughout the organization. Results from data analysis supported the need for implementation of ISO 10018:2012. The author learned that, while some employee involvement was already in place, the organization would benefit from employee involvement programs. The author recommended that the organization continue to improve collaborative communication, employee involvement in decision making, and leadership. The author contributed to employee involvement in decision-making literature by addressing 1) what employee involvement, empowering, and engagement are for employees in a large organization, 2) how the level of employee involvement can be assessed, and 3) employee involvement benefits for employees and the organization
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Iso 10018:2012: a framework for designing performance appraisals
Get PDFAs companies continue to adopt quality management principles, attaining employee commitment towards quality goals remains difficult. Researchers have
identified a correlation between employee involvement and an organization’s prospects for achieving quality goals. Performance appraisal is predominantly used by
organizations to assess employee engagement and commitment towards quality initiatives. Researchers highlight the shortcomings of performance appraisals. The propensity of the practice in some cases deters employees from furthering organizational performance, for this practice can negatively impede employee development and commitment. Performance appraisals are fundamental to organizational success. The
purpose of this paper is to examine closely performance appraisal practices and identify elements necessary for quality. Furthermore, this paper introduces the quality
management standard ISO 10018:2012 Quality Management Guidelines on People Involvement and Competence as a framework for designing performance appraisal inclusive of quality elements. This framework provides support for performance appraisal practices in capturing and sustaining employee commitment to quality initiatives
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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