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What's the "Take Home" from Research on Dementia Trends?
No full textEric Larson and Kenneth Langa discuss whether the risk of dementia is increasing or decreasing over time
Mindfulness: A practice for improved middle manager decision making
No full textThe field of management’s growing interest in mindfulness appears to stem from the increasing need for new ways to deal with the complexities of ambiguous and uncertain environments. This dissertation examined the context of middle managers faced with the heavy burden of making an increasing number of decisions under difficult conditions and the intervention of mindfulness for improved decision outcomes. By means of a systematic review, with a realist synthesis approach, evidence-based research was carried out to address the research question: How does mindfulness affect middle managers for improved decision making? The findings identified the middle manager context as one characterized by a lack of knowledge, involvement, and understanding of the firm strategy. They are expected to act with strategic agency without awareness of strategic plans. This leads not only to frustration but a reliance on intuition rather than reasoning for decision making. The mindfulness findings showed increased cognitive [mindful] awareness and increased cognitive flexibility enabling a highbred mindful rationality, where increased strategic awareness and reduced negative affect improved decision making. The implications from this research suggest mindfulness may provide both the cognitive and emotional states necessary for middle managers to improve their decision making.Running head: MINDFULNESS AND DECISION MAKING 1
Mindfulness:
A Practice for Improved Middle Manager Decision Making Carolynn Larson-Garcia
A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty
University of Maryland University College In Partial Fulfillment of
The Requirement for the Degree of
Doctorate of Management Eric B. Dent Ph.D. Deborah M. Wharff DM. MINDFULNESS AND DECISION MAKING 2
Abstract
The field of management’s growing interest in mindfulness appears to stem from the increasing need for new ways to deal with the complexities of ambiguous and uncertain environments. This dissertation examined the context of middle managers faced with the heavy burden of making an increasing number of decisions under difficult conditions and the intervention of mindfulness for improved decision outcomes. By means of a systematic review, with a realist synthesis approach, evidence-based research was carried out to address the research question: How does mindfulness affect middle managers for improved decision making? The findings identified the middle manager context as one characterized by a lack of knowledge, involvement, and understanding of the firm strategy. They are expected to act with strategic agency without awareness of strategic plans. This leads not only to frustration but a reliance on intuition rather than reasoning for decision making. The mindfulness findings showed increased cognitive [mindful] awareness and increased cognitive flexibility enabling a highbred mindful rationality, where increased strategic awareness and reduced negative affect improved decision making. The implications from this research suggest mindfulness may provide both the cognitive and emotional states necessary for middle managers to improve their decision making.
Keywords: cognitive flexibility, decision making, middle managers, mindful awareness, mindfulness, systematic review MINDFULNESS AND DECISION MAKING 3
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank: G-d, my wife (Helen), my sisters (Cindy and Gina), my family, my dissertation advisors (Dr. Dent and Dr. Wharff) and academic advisor Marina Caminis. Additionally, I would like to thank my friends for their support: Liz, Sonja and Meg. Finally, a special note of gratitude to Dr. Jessica Evers Killebrew for her support in my mindfulness inquiry. MINDFULNESS AND DECISION MAKING 4
Table of Contents
Abstract .......................................................................................................................................... 2
Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................................... 3
List of Tables .................................................................................................................................. 7
List of Figures ................................................................................................................................ 8
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview of Relevant Literature ................................................. 9
Significance of the Problem .................................................................................................... 11
Importance to Management .................................................................................................... 11
Study Purpose .......................................................................................................................... 13
Research Question ................................................................................................................... 13
Study Scope .............................................................................................................................. 13
Discussion of Terms and Theories .......................................................................................... 13
Middle manager ..................................................................................................................... 13
Decision making .................................................................................................................... 14
Mindfulness ........................................................................................................................... 16
Chapter Summary and Dissertation Structure ..................................................................... 18
Chapter 2: Literature Review .................................................................................................... 20
Review of Study Background .................................................................................................. 21
Discussion of Theoretical Framework .................................................................................... 21
Bounded rationality theory .................................................................................................... 22
Dual processing theory .......................................................................................................... 23
Literature Review .................................................................................................................... 24
Middle Managers and Decision Making ................................................................................ 25
Wooldridge and Floyd (1990)................................................................................................ 25
Torres, Drago, and Aqueveque (2015) .................................................................................. 28
Jaaskelainen and Luukkanen (2016) ...................................................................................... 29
Mantere (2008) ...................................................................................................................... 31
Glaser, Stam, and Takeuchi (2016) ....................................................................................... 33
Nooraie (2008) ....................................................................................................................... 34
Caza (2008) ........................................................................................................................... 36
Osterman (2009) .................................................................................................................... 37
McKenzie, Woolf, van Winkelen, and Morgan (2008) ......................................................... 38
Curseu and Schruijer (2012) .................................................................................................. 39
Reeves, Walsh, Tuller, and Magley (2012) ........................................................................... 40
Konito, Lundgren-Laine, Kontio, Korvenranta, and Salantera (2013) .................................. 41
Al Saifi, Dillion, and McQueen (2016) ................................................................................. 42
Middle Managers and Mindfulness ........................................................................................ 43
Roche, Haar, and Luthans (2014) .......................................................................................... 43
Frizzel, Hoon, and Banner (2016) ......................................................................................... 44
Shonin, Van Gordon, Dunn, Singh, and Griffiths (2014) ...................................................... 46
Ly, Asplund, and Andersson (2014) ...................................................................................... 47
Żołnierczyk-Zreda, Sanderson, and Bedyńska (2016) .......................................................... 48
Han and Zhang (2011) ........................................................................................................... 49
King and Haar (2017) ............................................................................................................ 50
REB, Narayanan, and Chaturvedi (2014) .............................................................................. 52
Hulsheger, Alberts, Feinholdt, and Lang (2012) ................................................................... 53
Mindfulness and Decision Making ......................................................................................... 55
Hafenbrack, Kinias, and Barsade (2014) ............................................................................... 55 MINDFULNESS AND DECISION MAKING 5
Ruedy and Schweitzer (2010)................................................................................................ 59
EnginDeniz, Ari, Akdeniz, and Ozteke (2015) ..................................................................... 61
Greenberg, Reiner, and Meriran (2012) ................................................................................ 63
Donovan, Guss, and Nasland (2015) ..................................................................................... 65
Van Vugt and Jha (2011) ....................................................................................................... 67
Shapiro, Jazaieri, and Goldin (2012) ..................................................................................... 68
Kiken and Shook (2011) ........................................................................................................ 70
Ostafin and Kassman (2012).................................................................................................. 71
Kirk, Gu, Sharp, Hula, Fonagy, and Montague (2011) ......................................................... 73
Kalafatoglu and Turgut (2017) .............................................................................................. 74
Laureiro-Martinez (2014) ...................................................................................................... 75
Jo, Hinterberger, Wittmann, and Schmidt (2015) ................................................................. 76
Middle Manager, Mindfulness and Decision Making........................................................... 77
Wilson, Talsma, and Martyn (2011) ...................................................................................... 78
Wasylkiw, Holton, Azar, and Cook (2015) ........................................................................... 79
Kier, McMullen, and Kuratko (2015) .................................................................................... 80
Marsh (2013) ......................................................................................................................... 82
Raney (2014) ......................................................................................................................... 84
Herring, Roche, and Masters (2016) ..................................................................................... 86
Lewis and Ebbeck (2014) ...................................................................................................... 88
Hutzschenreuter, Kleindienst, and Schmitt (2014) ................................................................ 88
Discussion of Literature Interpretive Model ......................................................................... 90
Summary.................................................................................................................................. 91
Chapter 3: Methodology ............................................................................................................. 93
Rationale for Methodology ..................................................................................................... 93
Evidence-Based Management ................................................................................................. 94
Systematic Review.................................................................................................................... 95
Quality Appraisal of Literature .............................................................................................. 97
Relevance .............................................................................................................................. 98
Quality and Rigor .................................................................................................................. 98
Synthesis Methodology ............................................................................................................ 99
Expert Panel Review .............................................................................................................. 100
Chapter Summary ................................................................................................................. 102
Chapter 4: Findings: Analysis and Discussion ....................................................................... 103
Overview of Purpose and Significance ................................................................................. 103
Finding 1 .............................................................................................................................. 103
Cognitive awareness ............................................................................................................ 103
Cognitive flexibility ............................................................................................................. 104
Discussion........................................................................................................................... 106
Finding 2 .............................................................................................................................. 106
Cognitive awareness ............................................................................................................ 106
Cognitive Flexibility ............................................................................................................ 107
Discussion........................................................................................................................... 108
Finding 3 .............................................................................................................................. 110
Strategic Awareness ............................................................................................................ 110
Negative Affect ................................................................................................................... 111
Discussion........................................................................................................................... 112
Finding 4 .............................................................................................................................. 113
Training ............................................................................................................................... 113
Discussion........................................................................................................................... 114 MINDFULNESS AND DECISION MAKING 6
Conclusion for answering the RQ ....................................................................................... 114
Conceptual Model .................................................................................................................. 115
Synthesis of the Findings ....................................................................................................... 116
Theoretical View .................................................................................................................... 119
Discussion of Conceptual Framework.................................................................................. 120
Summary................................................................................................................................ 121
Chapter 5: Conclusions and Implications ............................................................................... 122
Management Problem ........................................................................................................... 122
Research Question ................................................................................................................. 123
Overall Study Conclusions .................................................................................................... 123
Implications for Management............................................................................................... 124
Innovation ............................................................................................................................ 124
Technology (Technostress).................................................................................................. 125
Mindfulness Training .......................................................................................................... 126
MBSR training ..................................................................................................................... 126
MAPs Classes ...................................................................................................................... 126
Implications for the Future ................................................................................................... 127
Technology .......................................................................................................................... 127
Globalization ....................................................................................................................... 127
Sociocultural ........................................................................................................................ 127
Limitation ............................................................................................................................... 128
Future Research ..................................................................................................................... 129
Summary................................................................................................................................ 130
References .................................................................................................................................. 132
Appendix A ................................................................................................................................ 157
Appendix B ................................................................................................................................. 158
Appendix C ................................................................................................................................ 176
Appendix D ................................................................................................................................ 178
Appendix E................................................................................................................................. 179
Appendix F ................................................................................................................................. 180
Appendix G ................................................................................................................................ 181
Appendix H ................................................................................................................................ 183
Appendix I .................................................................................................................................. 186
Appendix J ................................................................................................................................. 189
Appendix K ................................................................................................................................ 191 MINDFULNESS AND DECISION MAKING 7
List of Tables
Table 1. Database Search Strings ............................................................................97
Table 2. Subject Matter Expert Panel Members ................................................... 101
Table B1. Weight of Evidence/TAPAPUS ..............................................................158
Table B2. Evidence for Synthesis (total of 26) ........................................................ 175
Table C1. Mindfulness and Decision Making ........................................................ 176
Table D1. Rationality and Decision Making ..................................
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Georgia Law professor Edward Larson to present UGA Charter Lecture
No full textPulitzer Prize-winning author and former Georgia Law professor Edward Larson to present UGA Charter Lecture Thursday, April 2, 2015
Writer: Camie Williams, 706-583-0728, [email protected] Contact: Meg Amstutz, 706-542-0383, [email protected]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Larson to present UGA Charter Lecture
Athens, Ga. – Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and legal scholar Edward Larson will return to the University of Georgia to deliver a Charter Lecture titled “George Washington and America\u27s Second Revolution.”
The lecture, open free to the public, will be held April 23 at 11 a.m. in the Chapel.
Larson is University Professor of History and Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. Focusing on the issues of law, science and politics from a historical perspective, he is the author of more than 100 articles and nine books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion.” His latest book, “The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789,” has reached The New York Times best-sellers list.
Larson taught at UGA for two decades, serving as chair of the history department as well as the Richard B. Russell Professor of American History and holder of the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law. In 1992, he received the Richard B. Russell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, the university’s highest early career teaching honor.
“Dr. Larson joins a long and distinguished line of Charter lecturers, and we are delighted to have him back on campus to share his insights on a pivotal moment in our nation’s history,” said Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.
Larson has lectured on four continents and has served as a visiting professor of law at Stanford University and as a visiting professor teaching American constitutional law at the University of Melbourne. He has delivered endowed or named lectures at more than 40 colleges or universities and is interviewed frequently by broadcast and print media.
Larson was a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center in 1996; held the Fulbright Program’s John Adams Chair in American Studies for 2001; delivered the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Sarton Award Lecture in 2000; participated in the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Writers and Artists program in 2003 and 2004; served as an inaugural Fellow at the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon in 2013 and 2014; and received an honorary doctorate from Ohio State University in 2004. From 2006 to 2009, he was a panelist on the National Institutes of Health’s Study Section for Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of the Human Genome Project.
UGA’s Charter Lecture Series was established in 1988 to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 charter that created UGA as the first chartered state university in America. The series, sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, brings to campus speakers who discuss ideas of general importance to a free society. Previous speakers have included James R. Clapper, U.S. director of national intelligence; award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault; as well as poet laureates, scientists, medical experts, leading attorneys and religious leaders. For a list of past Charter lecturers, seehttp://provost.uga.edu/documents/charter_lecture_history-rev2014.pdf.
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Eaten up by boredom: consuming food to escape awareness of the bored self
No full textResearch indicates that being bored affectively marks an appraised lack of meaning in the present situation and in life. We propose that state boredom increases eating in an attempt to distract from this experience, especially among people high in objective self-awareness. Three studies were conducted to investigate boredom’s effects on eating, both naturally occurring in a diary study and manipulated in two experiments. In Study 1, a week-long diary study showed that state boredom positively predicted calorie, fat, carbohydrate, and protein consumption. In Study 2, a high (vs. low) boredom task increased the desire to snack as opposed to eating something healthy, especially amongst those participants high in objective self-awareness. In addition, Study 3 demonstrated that among people high in objective self-awareness, high (vs. low) boredom increased the consumption of less healthy foods and the consumption of more exciting, healthy foods. However, this did not extend to unexciting, healthy food. Collectively, these novel findings signify the role of boredom in predicting maladaptive and adaptive eating behaviors as a function of the need to distant from the experience of boredom. Further, our results suggest that more exciting, healthy food serves as alternative to maladaptive consumption following boredom
Textural and Harmonic Density in Selected Choral Works (1992--2003) by Eric Whitacre
No full text127 p.Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.This document is an objective analysis of thirteen works composed between 1992 and 2003 by Eric Whitacre (b.1970). The author's experience in performing these choral works led him to believe that the composer's process had produced consistent stylistic traits between each composition. Published scholarly resources on this choral repertoire are non-existent; hence, the author developed his own system of analyzing Whitacre's choral music. Traditional, Roman-numeral analysis of this repertoire is only possible in a few segments throughout these works; a linear analysis was much more elucidating. The author created a system for mapping textural density variation on linear graphs. These graphs, combined with the author's explanation of Whitacre's voice-leading process, provide a clear understanding of Whitacre's compositional process. The author has concluded that in the works studied, Whitacre uses traditional melodies and triadic chord structures; he then creates harmonic and motion by adding or removing tones from the choral texture through specific voice leading techniques.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
Catalog Of The Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection Of Musical Instruments.
No full textI t is the purpose o f th is d issertation to present the resu lts of a detailed examination made by th is author of fo rty -th re e nineteenthcentury B ritish brass instruments from the C ollection — s lid e trumpets, a hand horn, keyed bugles, an ophicleide, an a l t horn, cornopeans, cornets, a trumpet, a flugelhorn, a French horn, a lto horns, tenor horns, trombones, and tubas — made by the leading nineteenth-century B ritis h makers: Besson, B ilto n , Boosey, G a rre tt, Grayson, Higham, Kohler, M e tzle r, Pace, and R iviere & Hawkes
Textural and Harmonic Density in Selected Choral Works (1992--2003) by Eric Whitacre
No full textThis document is an objective analysis of thirteen works composed between 1992 and 2003 by Eric Whitacre (b.1970). The author's experience in performing these choral works led him to believe that the composer's process had produced consistent stylistic traits between each composition. Published scholarly resources on this choral repertoire are non-existent; hence, the author developed his own system of analyzing Whitacre's choral music. Traditional, Roman-numeral analysis of this repertoire is only possible in a few segments throughout these works; a linear analysis was much more elucidating. The author created a system for mapping textural density variation on linear graphs. These graphs, combined with the author's explanation of Whitacre's voice-leading process, provide a clear understanding of Whitacre's compositional process. The author has concluded that in the works studied, Whitacre uses traditional melodies and triadic chord structures; he then creates harmonic and motion by adding or removing tones from the choral texture through specific voice leading techniques.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:53:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit : the case of Morocco
No full textThis paper tries to uncover the reasons underlying the performance of the Moroccan economy. The author argues that wage moderation and judicious monetary policies were instrumental in restraining inflation. With one brief exception in 1983, monetary authorities remained firmly committed to eschew any inflationary financing of the budget deficit. This strategy could only succeed however because of the wide ranging system of credit and monetary regulations which worked to channel domestic funds toward the Treasury at relatively low costs. The prospects for the continuation of such a strategy are not favourable however. As far as the growth performance is concerned, it appears that it can be attributed to an outstanding export response to the new trade regime on the one hand and a set of favourable supply shocks, including a string of recordagricultural harvests and the collapse of real oil prices, on the other. The paper studies the evolution of the budget and its different components and argues that the reluctance by Morocco's policy makers to monetize existing budget deficits is well explained by the sharply unfavourable trade-offs between higher monetization and inflation existing in Morocco. It analyzes the implications that continuing budgetary disequilibria has on investment and saving decisions and finds that such implications may be substantial, even though they may not work their way exclusively through traditional interest rates channels.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Financial Intermediation
Multimedia informed consent tool for a low literacy African research population: development and pilot-testing
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