385 research outputs found
Whyte-Out: How the Creator of Groupthink Became Unseen by Management's History
No full textIrving Janis’ (1971) concept of ‘groupthink’, the idea that the desire for consensus overrides the realistic appraisals of alternatives and leads to poor decision making, is a staple of management and organizational behavior textbooks. Despite gaining little support in empirical studies, Janis’ eight symptoms of groupthink remains a popular framework taught to budding managers. What has been forgotten, however, is that nearly 20 years before Janis’ supposed invention, groupthink was created by William H Whyte, author of one of the 1950s’ most influential and popular books on management. We investigate how Whyte’s link to groupthink became invisible to management’s history, why this matters, and how recovering Whyte’s ideas can provide fresh, critical insights into people dynamics in contemporary organizations.
Edmund Burke, John Whyte and Themes in Canadian Constitutional Culture
No full textJohn Whyte, the author observes, is committed to the idea that there are moral foundations to Canada\u27s constitutional order and that these foundations are derived from liberal principles. This paper compares Whyte\u27s liberal and organicist constitutionalism to that of the eighteenth century British political thinker, Edmund Burke. Three themes are predominant in Whyte\u27s work: those of liberty and security, unity and diversity, and constitutional change. Drawing out these themes in both Whyte\u27s and Burke\u27s constitutional thought, the author argues that Whyte has a sound historical basis for deriving Canadian constitutional practices from liberal principles ordinarily associated with Burke. The author concludes by asking this question: if Canadian constitutionalism can be reduced to liberalism, what distinguishes Canada from the United States, and more critically, what will prevent Canada from being absorbed into a larger North American political unit
Bruno Alfieri, “The United States at the 24th Biennale”; Introduction to Carla Lonzi, “An Operative Category”; Introduction to Mario Diacono, “Matter-Destructure: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauan, Joseph Kosuth”; Introduction to Tommaso Trini, “Art thet is More Realistic than Reality”
No full textLa pubblicazione Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, a cura di C. Hopkins, I.B. Whyte, include testi di critici di varie nazioni europee dedicati all’arte statunitense dal 1945 al 1990, che non erano mai stati tradotti in inglese, commentati da brevi introduzioni. L’autore dei testi introduttivi ai saggi ha selezionati anche i saggi.
Il testo The United States at the 24th Biennale (Gli Stati Uniti alla XXIV Biennale) di Bruno Alfieri pubblicato in “Arte Contemporanea”, ottobre 1948, è dedicato al Padiglione americano alla Biennale di Venezia del 1948; il testo An Operative Category (Una categoria operativa) di Carla Lonzi pubblicato in “Marcatrè”, n. 8-9-10, luglio-agosto-settembre 1964, è dedicato al new dada e alla pop art presentati alla Biennale di Venezia del 1964; il testo Matter-Destructure: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth (Materia – Destruttura: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth), di Mario Diacono pubblicato in “Collage, n. 9 dicembre 1970, è dedicato a tre importanti artisti americani di tendenza concettuale e processuale; il testo Art that is More Realistic than Reality” (Un’arte più realista della realtà) di Tommaso Trini pubblicato in “Corriere della Sera”, 19 settembre 1974, è una recensione della mostra tenutasi alla Rotonda della Besana e dedicata all’iperrealismo americano ed europeo.Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, edited by C. Hopkins, I.B. Whyte, included text by art critics from several European Nations dedicated to the art in US since 1945 to 1990, never translated in English, analized in brief introductions. The author the introductions to the essays, has previously selected them.
The text The United States at the 24th Biennale by Bruno Alfieri, pubblished in “Arte Contemporanea”, October 1948, is dedicated to the American Pavillion at Venice Biennial 1948; the text An Operative Category by Carla Lonzi, pubblished in “Marcatrè”, no. 8-9-10, July-August-September 1964, is dedicated to new dada and to pop art, showed at Venice Biennial in 1964; the text Matter-Destructure: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth by Mario Diacono, pubblished in “Collage, no. 9 dicembre 1970, is dedicated to three important American conceptual and processual artists; the text Art that is More Realistic than Reality”, by Tommaso Trini, pubblished in “Corriere della Sera”, September 19 ,1974, is a review of the exhivtion at Rotonda della Besana, Milan, dedicated to American and European hyperrealism
Edmund Burke, John Whyte, and Themes in Canadian Constitutional Culture
No full textThis is the version of record of an article authored by David Schneiderman and published in the Queen's Law Journal.John Whyte, the author observes, is committed to the idea that there are moral foundations to Canada’s constitutional order and that these foundations are derived from liberal principles. This paper compares Whyte’s liberal and organicist constitutionalism to that of the eighteenth century British political thinker, Edmund Burke. Three themes are predominant in Whyte’s work: those of liberty and security, unity and diversity, and constitutional change. Drawing out these themes in both Whyte’s and Burke’s constitutional thought, the author argues that Whyte has a sound historical basis for deriving Canadian constitutional practices from liberal principles ordinarily associated with Burke. The author concludes by asking this question: if Canadian constitutionalism can be reduced to liberalism, what distinguishes Canada from the United States, and more critically, what will prevent Canada from being absorbed into a larger North American political unit?This article was sponsored by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Summer Assistantship Programme and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council
Airborne particle counting with an LSAPC
No full textThis article is the fourth of a short series of extracts from Bill Whyte’s new book Cleanroom Testing and Monitoring. Chapter 11, Airborne particle counting with an LSAPC, is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author, Bill Whyte, the publisher, Euromed Communications, and the owner of the copyright, the Cleanroom Testing and Certification Board - International (CTCB-I). The objective in publishing these extracts is to give readers a flavour of the content and depth of the book which is recommended as a comprehensive textbook and an essential reference for cleanroom managers, cleanroom test engineers, cleanroom service engineers, cleanroom designers and specifiers and anybody who is concerned with cleanrooms
Operating a cleanroom: risk management and control of contamination
No full textThis article is a reproduction of Chapter 18 of the Third Edition of Cleanroom Technology, Fundamentals of Design, Testing and Operation by Bill Whyte by kind permission of the author. The Third Edition of Cleanroom Technology, which was published independently by the author in 2023, was reviewed by the editor in CACR49. The main sections in the reproduced chapter explain how to identify sources and routes of contamination, how to carry out a risk assessment of sources of contamination with examples, how to control and reduce the risk of contamination, how to establish a monitoring programme, how to verify and reappraise the CCC (cleanroom contamination control) system, and what the basic requirements are for documentation and staff training
The forgotten ‘immortalizer’: Recovering William H Whyte as the founder and future of groupthink research
No full textIrving Janis’s concept of ‘groupthink’, the idea that a collective desire for consensus overrides the realistic appraisals of alternatives and leads to poor group decision making, is a staple of social science textbooks. Despite gaining little support in empirical studies, Janis’s eight symptoms of groupthink remains a popular framework. What has been forgotten, however, is that nearly 20 years before Janis’s supposed invention, groupthink was coined by social critic William H Whyte, author of one of the 1950s, most influential books on management. Adding to the growing interest in a historical turn in Management and Organization Studies, we investigate how and why Whyte’s groupthink was over-written by a history that found Janis’s ideas more useful, and outline how recovering Whyte can add value to our thinking now
Self-made Sorcerer: the Modernization of Merlyn in Jack Whyte\u27s the Camuhod Chronicles
No full textWhen Geoffrey of Monmouth put his pen to paper to record the King Arthur legend as a part of his The History of the of Kings of Britain, he brought to life for the first time since the old Welsh Legends the character of Merlin. But Merlin\u27s development did not stop there. In version after version of the Arthurian legend he continued to appear, taking on many roles, from tutor to madman, but always maintaining an essential Merlin character of magic, wisdom, and power. One modern author who uses Merlin as a significant character in his re telling of the Arthurian story is Jack Whyte in his The Camulod Chronicles. It is no surprise that Whyte\u27s Merlyn differs from the Merlin of medieval texts, because Whyte intends to suggest to his audience the possibility of truth in his Arthurian tale, which means not placing as much weight on Merlyn as magical since that is not accepted as feasible today as it was by medieval audiences
Classification of air cleanliness by particle concentration according to ISO 14644-1
No full textThis article is the fifth of a short series of extracts from Bill Whyte's new book Cleanroom Testing and Monitoring. Chapter 12, Classification of air cleanliness by particle concentration according to ISO 14644-1, is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author, Bill Whyte, the publisher, Euromed Communications, and the owner of the copyright, the Cleanroom Testing and Certification Board – International (CTCB-I). The previous chapter, Chapter 11, Airborne particle counting with an LSAPC, was published in CACR49. The objective in publishing these extracts is to give readers a flavour of the content and depth of the book which is recommended as a comprehensive textbook and an essential reference for cleanroom managers, cleanroom test engineers, cleanroom service engineers, cleanroom designers and specifiers and anybody who is concerned with cleanrooms
What’s in a Name? Exploring identity in the field of library journal publishing
No full textINTRODUCTION This paper explores the variability in self-identifying practices of academic libraries engaged in journal publishing and hosting activities. We were interested in how libraries characterized their efforts in this area and looked at whether there is an unspoken threshold for differentiation with respect to publishing-support naming conventions. METHODS Using the Library Publishing Directory, in-depth interviews, and a more widely circulated follow-up survey, the research team examined service offerings, divisions of responsibility, funding, terminology, and semantic associations within publishing, both as an active practice and as an advertised service. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION We aimed to tease out whether there was any sort of tipping point, or inferred rules, around when an institution chose to call the activity either publishing or hosting. We found no particular service, set of services, funding structure, or division of labor that obviously influenced the use of a particular term. Rather than noting a divide between publishing and hosting, participants spoke of both a spectrum and a tiering of work and support, though all emphasized that these models did not describe the quality of the work produced. This paper also discusses how use of the term library publishing creates additional ambiguity in naming practices, and considers some implications for library staff newly immersed in scholarly publishing work.Peer reviewedOriginal citation: Whyte Appleby, J., Hatherill, J., Kosavic, A. and Meijer-Kline, K., 2018. What’s in a Name? Exploring identity in the field of library journal publishing. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 6(1), p.eP2209. DOI: http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2209library publishingjournal hostingjournal publishin
- …
