6 research outputs found
Gerald Bubis interview, 1994
No full textBubis, Gerald - Audio Oral History Interview - CSWA ❧ Interviewed by Ben Cohen in January, 1994. An interview with Gerald Bubis as he discusses his entrance into the field of social work; overview of his positions held; work with Jewish social service; relationship between synagogues and social work; different phases of his career in social work; the establishment of the School of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College; his double master's degree program in social work with USC; tension between assimilated and Orthodox Jews; application of values (Jewish, for example) to social work; methodologies of social work; his professors; social movements; his personal philosophy; the influence of social workers on programs and policies; his reflections on professional studies and methodologies. ❧ Gerald Bubis obtained an MSW from the University of Minnesota, after experiences from childhood on working as club leader and later for Hillel. Following his graduate study, he was a full time assistant director of Hillel at the University of Minnesota, then sequentially with the Jewish Community Center in Minneapolis, in Oakland, in Long Beach, and in Los Angeles. In 1968, until his retirement 23 years later, he was with the Jewish Communal Service of the Hebrew University Adjacent to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. There he established that program and, also, a joint degree with the USC School of Social Work leading to an MSW and a master's degree in communal service. This interview describes the establishing of that program and some of the philosophy and views that governed his participation in that program as well as his general professional activities. ❧ Gerald Bubis. Interviewed by Ben Cohen. Date of interview 1-94. Length of interview: 40 minutes. 1 cassette tape (1 duplicate tape). Transcript of interview: 16 pp. ❧ INTERVIEW TOPICS: Entrance into the field of social work; overview of his positions held; work with Jewish social service; relationship between synagogues and social work; different phases of his career in social work; the establishment of the School of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College; his double master's degree program in social work with USC; tension between assimilated and Orthodox Jews; application of values (Jewish, for example) to social work; methodologies of social work; his professors; social movements; his personal philosophy; the influence of social workers on programs and policies; his reflections on professional studies and methodologies
Methodological aspects of the SAVE data set
No full textThis paper describes the general design of the SAVE survey: the design of the questionnaire, inter-viewer and interviewee motivation, and the sampling designs of the various subsamples collected in 2001 and 2003. It discusses the representativeness of the data, explains the construction of weights, and provides probit regressions to analyse potential selectivity problems. The paper finishes by discussing implications for the use of the SAVE data in various estimation procedures.
Reviewing Performance or Changing Routines? An Analysis of the Experience of Participants in Performance Management Review Meetings
No full textThe problem examined in this thesis falls under the broad question of the nature of
effect of performance measurement and management (PMM) on organizational
performance. Responding to the unsuccessful attempts of the current literature to
produce conclusive evidence of the effect of PMM on performance and building on the
recent studies documenting the effect of PMM on organizational processes, the work
reported in this thesis employs the organizational routines perspective as an analytical
lens for examining the way in which a particular PMM practice – a performance
management review meeting – affects organizational processes that generate
performance. More specifically, the study uses Feldman and Pentland’s (2003) model of
routines in order to explore the ways in which organizational actors experience the
ostensive aspect of organizational routines in the context of a performance management
review meeting.
Based on two case studies conducted in the UK in 2009, the thesis develops a model
suggesting that performance management review meetings influence the dynamics of
organizational routines by affecting a number of specific processes that constitute the
engagement of the participants at the meeting with the ostensive aspect of the routine.
The results highlight the critical role of attention in these processes and suggest a
number of ways in which the attention of the participants may be influenced. As such,
the study explicates the micro dynamics of the link between a PMM intervention in the
form of the performance management review meeting and the organizational processes
that generate performance, thus making a step towards increasing the understanding of
the direct impact of PMM on performance
Firm innovations from voluntary dyadic engagement with nonprofit organisations: an exploratory UK study
No full textThis dissertation presents the findings of an exploratory collective case-study examining
corporate innovations arising from voluntary dyadic engagement between UK firms and
nonprofit organisations (NPOs) focused on social issues.
Whilst the extant literature demonstrates that pro-active engagement with NPOs can
assist firms innovate, there has been no empirical work which explores the relationship
between the engagement and the innovation outcome: a gap which this research
addresses. In doing so, it illustrates how concepts and constructs from the innovation
management literature can be applied usefully to the stakeholder and cross-sector
collaboration field. To date, empirical studies addressing firm-NPO engagements have
concentrated overwhelmingly on partnerships to address environmental issues. This
study provides insights into cross-sector engagements focused on addressing social
issues.
Using a form of analytic induction to evaluate qualitative case-data from ten dyadic
engagements, this dissertation addresses the question: “how do firms innovate through
engagement with social issues nonprofit organisations?” The research found that
product and service innovations resulted from engagements where the firm had an
external stakeholder orientation and was focused on delivering tangible demonstrations
of corporate responsibility. Process innovations, by contrast, were produced from
engagements where firms had an internal stakeholder orientation. Two distinctions
were noted in the innovation process, too. Firstly, a more exploratory approach to
dyadic engagement activities, which resulted in an emergent innovation process; and
secondly, a focused and pre-determined search activity to exploit the resources of the
nonprofit partner which demonstrated a more planned innovation process. In addition,
two distinct boundary spanning roles were identified: in dyads with no direct
management involvement in the engagement, the role was associated with formal
responsibilities from senior management to „manage‟ innovation opportunities and
outcomes. In dyads where senior management were involved, there was no such
formality; the boundary spanner acted to „facilitate‟ search and exploration to locate
opportunities for innovation through idea exchange.
The application of innovation constructs to the business and society field has enabled
firm engagement with nonprofit stakeholders to be examined through a new lens and
demonstrated how firms innovate from such relationships. In particular it has
highlighted the key role played by the firm boundary spanner (relationship manager)
and how this role alters depending on senior management involvement: a distinction
which has not been made in the extant literature and would benefit from further
examination
Pulse
No full textVolume5/1995_November13PULSE November 13, 1995 Utah Teens Participate in Annual Women in Medicine Day More than 800 Utah how to gain experience young women, grades through volunteering. In seven through 10, addition, students had the recently attended the opportunity to interact second annual " A Day for with female faculty Women in Medicine," members, residents and held on the Health medical students. Sciences Center campus. Lucy M. Osborn, Sponsored by the U M. D., associate vice School of Medicine with president for health support from the Utah sciences for clinical State Board of Education programs and professor Math and/ or Science of pediatrics at the U, Teachers, students was the keynote speaker, participated in several In her presentation, " The workshops, including Joy of Being a Doctor," how to read X- rays, she discussed the impor-basics in bandaging, tance of balance in blood typing, how to professional and personal take blood pressure, life for women who enter research opportunities, the field of medicine. • delivering babies and Pedersen to Chair Licensing Board Donald M. Pedersen, PA- C, Ph. D., associate professor of family and preventive medicine and director of the Utah Physician Assistant Program CUPAP) at the University of Utah School of Medicine, has been elected to serve a second term as chair of the Physician Assistant Licensing Board in the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing at the Utah State Department of Commerce. The board is comprised of physicians and physi-cian assistants from throughout Utah and deals with the regulation of physician assistants as licensed professionals. The board\u27s mission, Pedersen said, is to protect the public health, safety and welfare while promoting the professional practice of physician assistants and their supervising physicians. During its 27- year history, UPAP, in the Depart-ment of Family and Preventive Medicine, has gradu-ated nearly 450 physician assistants, the majority of whom practice primary care throughout the Inter-mountain West. • UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER John M. Matsen Matsen Elected to National Board John M. Matsen, M. D., University of Utah vice president for health sciences and professor of pathology and pediatrics at the U medical school, has been elected to the board of directors of the American Clinical Laboratory Associa-tion ( ACLA). ACLA, founded in 1971, is comprised of member companies which include the leading providers of independent laboratory services in the United States. Independent laboratories are those not located in a hospital or medical office that provide testing and related services to the medical community. David N. Sundwall, M. D., ACLA president, said Matsen\u27s election to the board complements the membership, adds a level of stature and could establish an academic link. Currently chair of the board of directors of Associated Regional and University Pathologists Inc. ( ARUP), Matsen was president and chief executive officer of the University-controlled corporation from 1984- 93. Matsen joined the U faculty in 1974 as professor of pathology and pediatrics and as director of the U clinical microbiology laboratories and the pathology department clinical laboratories. The health sciences administrator is past president of both the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists and the National Association of Pathology Chair-men. Author of more than 200 published scientific articles, Matsen recently received a Distinguished Service Award from the Utah Medical Associatiop. He was the recipient of the 1993 Commission on Continuing Education Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Patholo-gists, and the 1993 Sonnenwirth Memorial Award of the American Society for Microbiology. He also has received the Becton- Dickinson Award of the American Society for Micro-biology and the Gerald T. Evans Award of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists. • ^ ^ Printed n Recycled Paper NBICU Organizes Mother Focus Groups to Improve Quality of Care Staff in the Hospital\u27s Newborn Intensive Care Unit ( NBICU) found discharge surveys and phone inter-views did not get to the heart of patient/ family experiences during a hospital stay. So, they organized focus groups with mothers who recently had babies in the unit. Mothers who, in the past year had infants in the unit more than 14 days, were contacted and separated into three groups: mothers age 20 or older at time of delivery with the infant discharged with minimal or no medication or medical equipment; mothers 19 or younger at time of delivery; and mothers 20 or older at time of delivery whose babies were discharged with medications or medical equipment. The mothers in each group were asked a series of questions. According to Stacey McLean, B. S. N., R. N., staff nurse in NBICU, the staff thought they would hear comments regarding the process of care. Instead, they heard emotional experiences about relationships between mother, baby and Hospital staff, and the importance of communication between the staff and the mothers. Black and White Photographs in Hallside Diane McLeod, a native of Greenwich, Connecticut, who became interested in photography at 19 while working as a model, brings her collec-tion of black and white photographs to the Hallside Gallery ( AC1113) through November. McLeod, who has studied photography at the U of U, the Salt Lake Art Center, the Kimball Art Center and the Anderson Ranch, has traveled throughout the U. S. and Europe gathering architectural photographs for her collection. Her work has been exhibited at the Park Cafe, the Rio Grande Cafe, Peter Anthony Studio, the Myra Powell Gallery and the offices of 15 architects in Park City. • Diane McLeod It\u27s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year The 1995 University Hospital/ School of Medicine Holiday Social is coming Thursday, Dec. 14. This year\u27s theme is " Centennial Celebrations: 100 Years of Holidays." The committee is busy planning and promises the same great events as last year. Julie Hoepfner, chair of the committee, has been busy gathering some fantastic prizes for this year\u27s drawing. Watch Pulse for more details! " The mothers didn\u27t say what we had predicted they would, and the fact that we were wrong was the most important part of our focus groups," says McLean. " The mothers wanted us to tell them how their baby smiled or that he/ she was happy, instead of telling them what the last blood gases were. It helped us realize that they need to be mothers when they take their new babies home, not nurses." The results of the focus groups recently were presented to the Hospital\u27s Quality Council. Staff learned that mothers want to be involved in their babies\u27 care and taught how they can. Also, they expect to be listened to and given important informa-tion at all times. Mothers also did not expect the attending physi-cians to change as frequently as they did, and moth-ers were unprepared for their babies\u27 hospital stays. They stressed that they would like more assistance from staff in the future. According to Sandy McAtee, B. S. N., R. N., nurse manager of NBICU, suggestions from the groups are now being implemented on the unit as part of its quality improvement program. • Public Notice from JCAHO This notice is published in accordance with the Joint Commission\u27s requirements. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will conduct an accreditation survey of University Hospital Dec. 11- 15. The purpose of the survey is to evaluate the organization\u27s compliance with nationally established Joint Commission standards. Survey results will be used to determine whether, and the conditions under which, accreditation should be awarded. Joint Commission standards deal with organizational quality of care issues and the safety of the environment in which care is provided. Anyone believing that he or she has pertinent and valid information about such matters may request a public information interview with the Joint Commission\u27s field representatives at the time of the survey. Information presented at the interview will be carefully evaluated for relevance to the accreditation process. Requests for a public information interview must be made in writing and should be sent to the Joint Commission no later than five working days before the survey begins. The request must also indicate the nature of the information to be provided at the interview. Such requests should be addressed to: Survey Operations and Support Department, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organiza-tions, One Renaissance Boulevard, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, 60181. The Joint Commission will acknowledge such requests in writing or by telephone and will inform the Hospital of the request for an interview. The Hospital will, in turn, notify the interviewee of the date, time and place of the meeting.
Crime, community, context & fear : influences on informal social control in an affluent English suburb
No full textBased on ethnographic research, involving observations, participant
observation and in-depth interviews, this thesis explores the impact of crime
and the influences on informal social control in an affluent, middle class
suburb. The research focused on the interaction between estate design, the
environment, social and community life, and fear of crime, and their effects on
residents in the neighbourhood. Despite low recorded crime rates, crime was
perceived to be a problem. This situation arose from a paradox of community
dynamics which, on the one hand, increased fear of crime, but on the other,
contained crime. Apart from small-scale and extremely localised solidarities, a
socially fragmented community existed in which limited and loose-knit local
social networks, strong desires for privacy, and atomisation prevailed. These
factors, coupled with busy lifestyles and features of the suburban environment,
resulted in isolation and enhanced fear of crime.
However, fear arose more from concerns about crime in wider society together
with general anxieties rooted in change in late-modernity, than actual risk of
victimisation. Crime control was rarely based on conm-iunity action, instead
being individualistic and reliant on sophisticated target hardening. Low crime,
therefore, was less attributable to the pursuits of 'active citizens' envisaged by
community crime prevention policies and more to structural processes of
affluence, status and property ownership which created an exclusive and
exclusionary community of vested interest, common identity and shared values.
As a study of affluent suburban life, the research contributes to the community
studies tradition. However, the main importance of the research is its
implications for community crime prevention. By highlighting the complex and
contextual nature of informal social control and the influences which impact on
it, the necessity to tailor crime prevention more to local needs is emphasised
