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Leadership and the LGBT community: an exploration of how competing identities lead to fluctuations in concept of ability.
Full text linkThis research investigates identity development among LGBT individuals and its impact on the formation of leadership identity. Navigating the complexities of sexual orientation can often be challenging, intensified by societal expectations. During adolescence, victimisation experiences contribute to a complex interplay between sexual and leadership identity development, influencing career aspirations.The methodology used in this research is grounded in a narrative and phenomenological inquiry, aligning with a constructivist qualitative paradigm. A subjectivist approach, driven by social constructivism, forms the core of the study, with seventeen participants selected from the LGBT community through a non-probability sampling strategy. Face-to-face interviews provide a rich narrative that captures the many challenges faced by individuals struggling with their sexual and leadership identity development.Data analysis reveals issues such as bullying, stigma, and violence against the LGBT community, leading to mental health concerns. The absence of role models in various areas of life challenges the recognition of achievable success, hindering leadership identity growth. Authenticity issues at work, fear of discrimination, and the adoption of heterosexual personas for safety further add to the challenges faced by LGBT individuals.Participants' narratives clarify the isolation, rejection, and anxiety experienced while struggling with their sexual minority status, hindering authentic self-expression. Lack of safe spaces and support contributes to the internalisation of sexuality and mental health issues, creating a divide between sexual and leadership development. The impact of the absence of LGBT role models, both personally and in the media, potentially reflects continual homophobia. Negative workplace experiences are prevalent, with fear of colleagues' perceptions affecting openness about sexuality, leading to conflicts, prejudice, and discrimination. Socioeconomic backgrounds play a vital role in shaping both sexual and leadership development, as participants use these challenges as motivational drivers.Recommendations stemming from this research emphasise the importance of safe spaces, health and wellbeing support, and training programs in educational and workplace settings. A focus on leadership opportunities, inclusive policies, and allyship programs is proposed to foster supportive environments, educating both LGBT and non-LGBT individuals and potentially alleviating challenges faced by LGBT individuals in their journey towards becoming future leaders.In conclusion, this research uncovers the intricate intersection of minority sexuality and leadership identity development among the LGBT community, shedding light on the influences of childhood experiences, parental impact, socioeconomic status, and role models. Despite the study's limitations, it highlights the urgent need for more focused research on LGBT leadership and role models to inform interventions that promote a more inclusive and supportive future for the development of LGBT individuals as leaders
Leadership and the LGBT community: an exploration of how competing identities lead to fluctuations in concept of ability.
Full text linkThis research investigates identity development among LGBT individuals and its impact on the formation of leadership identity. Navigating the complexities of sexual orientation can often be challenging, intensified by societal expectations. During adolescence, victimisation experiences contribute to a complex interplay between sexual and leadership identity development, influencing career aspirations.The methodology used in this research is grounded in a narrative and phenomenological inquiry, aligning with a constructivist qualitative paradigm. A subjectivist approach, driven by social constructivism, forms the core of the study, with seventeen participants selected from the LGBT community through a non-probability sampling strategy. Face-to-face interviews provide a rich narrative that captures the many challenges faced by individuals struggling with their sexual and leadership identity development.Data analysis reveals issues such as bullying, stigma, and violence against the LGBT community, leading to mental health concerns. The absence of role models in various areas of life challenges the recognition of achievable success, hindering leadership identity growth. Authenticity issues at work, fear of discrimination, and the adoption of heterosexual personas for safety further add to the challenges faced by LGBT individuals.Participants' narratives clarify the isolation, rejection, and anxiety experienced while struggling with their sexual minority status, hindering authentic self-expression. Lack of safe spaces and support contributes to the internalisation of sexuality and mental health issues, creating a divide between sexual and leadership development. The impact of the absence of LGBT role models, both personally and in the media, potentially reflects continual homophobia. Negative workplace experiences are prevalent, with fear of colleagues' perceptions affecting openness about sexuality, leading to conflicts, prejudice, and discrimination. Socioeconomic backgrounds play a vital role in shaping both sexual and leadership development, as participants use these challenges as motivational drivers.Recommendations stemming from this research emphasise the importance of safe spaces, health and wellbeing support, and training programs in educational and workplace settings. A focus on leadership opportunities, inclusive policies, and allyship programs is proposed to foster supportive environments, educating both LGBT and non-LGBT individuals and potentially alleviating challenges faced by LGBT individuals in their journey towards becoming future leaders.In conclusion, this research uncovers the intricate intersection of minority sexuality and leadership identity development among the LGBT community, shedding light on the influences of childhood experiences, parental impact, socioeconomic status, and role models. Despite the study's limitations, it highlights the urgent need for more focused research on LGBT leadership and role models to inform interventions that promote a more inclusive and supportive future for the development of LGBT individuals as leaders
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
An analysis of the influence of environment, process and factors in organisational learning : a qualitative study of a firm in the Middle East
No full textThis thesis explores the operation of organisational learning (OL) in the Middle Eastern context in order to provide a deep understanding of the significance of a supportive environment, a productive learning process and appropriate workplace conditions. Empirical data were collected from employees of SAFORG, a large firm with multiple specialisations. The primary focus of this research is to investigate the perceptions of senior and middle managers and bottom-line employees in five SAFORG departments with a range of specialisations, namely: the Training, IT, Security, State Service and Logistics departments.The research adopts a qualitative stance and takes a social constructivist approach, using two main methods to collect the empirical data, namely semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Twelve individual interviews and one focus group session were held in each of the five departments, involving a total of 88 participants. Although it was difficult to maintain an equal number of participants in each category by rank (senior and middle management and bottom-line employees), a sufficient representation from each category in each department was achieved.This research contributes to the body of knowledge by highlighting the required environment, process and workplace conditions to deliver productive OL in a unique context. The findings show that the OL occurring at SAFORG was a representation of single-loop learning. Practitioners can benefit from this research by gaining an improved understanding the roles of culture, leadership and organisational context in either enhancing or hindering the functioning of OL
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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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