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Motivoivan ohjauksen ja terveyssuunnitelman vaikutus työkykyyn ja työkyvyn lukutaitoon
Full text linkTutkimuksessa selvitettiin motivoivan ohjauksen ja terveys-suunnitelman vaikutusta työntekijöiden ja työterveyshoitajien työkykyyn ja työkyvyn lukutaitoon. Työntekijöiden työkyvyssä ei tapahtunut vuoden seuranta-aikana muutosta, mutta em. me-netelmät edistivät työntekijän terveyttä ja työkykyä tukevien toimien totuttamista. Työkyvyn lukutaito laajeni huomioimaan useamman työkykyyn vaikuttavan näkökulman. Työterveyshoi-tajien työote muuttui kohti työntekijän oman ymmärryksen li-sääjää ja tavoitteiden mukaisen muutoksen ja toiminnan tuki-jaa. Motivoivassa ohjauksessa asiakkaan tiedon haastaminen edisti neuvonnan hyväksymistä ja synnytti lisää keskustelua asiasta. Terveyssuunnitelman laadinta jäi liian usein irralliseksi tapahtumaksi sen sijaan, että se olisi ollut luonteva osa terveys-tarkastusta ja yhteistyön väline työntekijän terveyden, työky-vyn ja toimenpiteiden seurannassa. Tutkimuksesta on suoraa hyötyä työterveyshoitajien työn kehittämisessä. Toivomme sen edistävän työterveyshuollossa tehtävien terveystarkastusten laatua ja vaikuttavuutta
Conceptual modeling - an epistemological foundation
Full text linkThe success of contemporary organizations depends on their ability to make appropriate decisions. Making appropriate decisions is inevitably bound to the availability and provision of relevant information. Information systems should be able to provide information in an efficient way. Thus, within information systems development a detailed analysis of information supply and information demands has to prevail. Based on Syperski’s information set and subset-model we will give an epistemological foundation of information modeling in general and show, why conceptual modeling in particular is capable of specifying effective and efficient information systems. Furthermore, we derive conceptual modeling requirements based on our findings. A short example illustrates the usefulness of a conceptual data modeling technique for the specification of information systems
Framework and Research Agenda for Master Data Management in Distributed Environments
No full textMaster data is the foundation for relating business transactions with business entities such as customers,
products, locations etc. These entities are also referred to as domains in master data literature. The integrity,
availability and timeliness of master data in single-, and growingly in multi-domain combinations is crucial in
eBusiness transactions over the Internet, or in the cloud for multiple stakeholders. Distributed environments set
additional challenges for the management of master data. In this idea paper, we first describe master data,
management processes, responsibilities and other contemporary master data management practices aiming to ensure
master data quality in different domains. Even though these practical means are of help in improving master data
quality and managing master data, they are insufficient to capture the underlying root cause of master data problems.
We then look into master data management from the IS theoretical viewpoint and finally propose a research agenda
for most critical issues in master data management. We suggest that holistic approaches such as enterprise
architecting, stakeholder analysis, or business modeling could serve as coherent frameworks in identifying common
and specific master data management research themes for global businesses with networked IT environments.peerReviewe
Technology or Process First?:A Call for Mediation between ESM and BPM Approaches in Organizations
No full textEnterprise Systems Management (ESM) and Business Process Management (BPM), although highly correlated, have evolved as alternative and mutually exclusive approaches to corporate infrastructure. As a result, companies struggle to nd the right balance between technology and process factors in infrastructure implementation projects. The purpose of this paper is articulate a need and a direction to mediate between the process-driven and the technology-driven approaches. Using a cross-case analysis, we gain insight into two examples of systems and process implementation. We highlight the dierences between them using strategic alignment, Enterprise Systems and Business Process Management theories. We argue that the insights from these cases can lead to a better alignment between process and technology. Implications for practice include the direction towards a closer integration of process and technology factors in organizations. Theoretical implications call for a design-oriented view of technology and process alignment
Web 2.0 for social learning in higher education
Full text linkThe use of Web 2.0 in higher education provides for a number of different possibilities. In this paper we look into the use of Web 2.0 as a platform for social learning supplementing traditional teaching methods such as lectures and on place group work. The findings are astonishing revealing challenges such as the unknown genre of Web 2.0 for learning and changed behaviors with relevance for the identity creation and perception of others. The insight points to a number of issues of relevance when Web 2.0 is integrated in design for learning
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
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
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