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Op-ed piece by Ed King describing the author\u27s visit to a University of Maine co
No full textOp-ed piece by Ed King describing the author\u27s visit to a University of Maine conference called Reading Stephen King: Issues of Choice, Censorship, and the Place of Popular Literature in the Canon. Ed King\u27s fellow attendees stopped talking to him after he admitted that he had never read any of Stephen King\u27s books and was only planning to write about how much money Stephen King makes
Author Ed McBain Book Signing
No full textAuthor Ed McBain hosts a book signing at the Bradenton Area Convention Cente
Ethical Leadership in Italy - a preliminary study
No full textA recent review paper of leadership (Avolio, Walumbwa, & Weber, 2009) formulates ethical leadership as the "demonstration of normatively appropriate conduct through personal actions and interpersonal relationships, and the promotion of such conduct to followers" (page 424). In line with this definition, emerging research suggest that ethical leaders are characterized as honest, caring, and principled individuals who make fair and balanced decisions (Brown & Treviño, 2006). Given prominent ethical scandals in virtually every type of organization, the importance of an ethical dimension of leadership seems obvious. There is an increasing realization today that business leaders need to become more responsible, not just to their stockholders but also to their other stakeholders - consumers, employees, suppliers, the government, and local communities. Prentice-Hall conducted a survey in 1990, of which it was revealed that 68 % of the employees believed that executives' unethical behaviour resulted in decline of business standards, productivity and success (Bass & Bass, 2008). Most employees justified their own malingering as a consequence of their perception of executives' unethical behaviour. It is no reason to believe that this association should be different now, 22 years later. Although no one will deny that a business must be profitable, the sole preoccupation with profit to the exclusion or neglect of other considerations is no longer acceptable (Mendonca & Kanungo, 2007). Thus, without a consideration of ethics, understanding of leadership is incomplete. The 4 presentations of this symposium about ethical leadership represent different perspectives or challenges to the understanding of the phenomenon. In paper no. 1, entitled “The two faces of ethical leadership regarding employee deviance and OCB”, Jeroen Stouten presents 3 studies, using different methodologies and within 3 nations, to demonstrate that deviance is lower at higher level of ethical leadership. The first challenge in the symposium concerns the issue that high levels of ethical leadership may constitute some kind of drawback. Stouten reveals in his paper that ethical leadership may have a curvilinear relationship with voluntarily cooperative behaviors. Stouten suggest that organizations face a dilemma between rooting out unethical behavior and promoting positive, cooperative behaviors. Another challenge that can be linked to ethical leadership concerns the issue of courage. In paper no. 2, Wim Vandekerckhove and Suzan Langenberg, with their paper “Ethical leadership: Courage and procedures for speaking and hearing critique”, links ethical leadership to organizational critique and whistleblowing. The paper pays attention to the procedural aspect of providing necessary organizational critique. The authors argue that whereas procedures can lower the required level of courage for the speaker of concern, they do not lower the required level of courage of the listener of concern, those in leadership positions. Parrhesia or “fearless speech” is a term borrowed from the French philosopher Foucault (Langenberg, 2010; Mansbach, 2011), and is applied to build an interpretative model of courage required for both speaker and listener of courage. Three cases are presented, applying the “fearless speech” paradigm. Whistleblowing procedures in line makes organizational critique expected and intended, whereas courage is required for the unexpected and unintended, anticipating the groundlessness of the organization, Vandekerckhove and Langenberg argue. The third challenge to be presented in the symposium is to illuminate some of the work processes that seem to be associated with ethical leadership. In paper no. 3, with the title “Ethical leadership within a demand resource model framework”, Stig Berge Matthiesen and Lars Glasø investigate ethical leadership from a stress perspective, conducting a survey study. The Job demands- job resources model of Bakker and Demerouti (2007), with its flexible suggestions of possible job demands and job resources, was applied, with job engagement as the outcome variable. Job demands were e.g. job pace and role conflict, whereas some of the job resources were job variation and skill utilization. It is argued that also ethical leadership may constitute a job resource. In the paper no. 3 study it was found that ethical leadership may mediate the relationship between job demands, job resources, and job engagement. Thus, ethical leadership may constitute a difference within a job context pertaining widespread work stress. This type of leader conduct may however also facilitate positive job resources. The fourth challenge that we in our symposium can link to ethical leadership covers the cultural issue. The last presentation, entitled “Ethical leadership in Italy: A preliminary study”, by Andrea Bobbio, Cecilia Venezia and Stig Berge Matthiesen, presents Italian survey data on the ethical leadership subject. Italy is perhaps amongst the countries most people would not immediately associate with ethical leadership, as many leadership scandals in this country have recently gained widespread media coverage, also internationally. The paper refers to the GLOBE leadership project, with its finding about the Latin Europe leadership cultural cluster, which seems to be characterized by a comparatively lower value placed on the humane orientation (e.g. being fair, altruistic and supportive to others), also with a low score on the societal collective orientation (institutional collectivism). Therefore, the paper highlights the fact that the ethical leadership model indicates a standard for leadership that appears to be distant from the ideal one within this cluster and, consequently, addresses the question if this model may be useful or not in order to properly interpret leadership dynamics within Latin Europe. In this preliminary study, Italian data were compared with Norwegian findings, applying the same scale on ethical leadership. The Italian employees evaluated their immediate superiors more negatively than did the Norwegian counterparts, in terms of ethical leadership, and this gave support to the hypothesis of cultural differences in the display and perception of ethical leadership behaviors. However, the study also demonstrated a link between ethical leadership and some outcome measures (e.g. trust, commitment and job engagement), underlining the importance of ethical leadership within the Italian framework, and leaving several options open both for research and management development programs. REFERENCES Avolio, B. J., Walumbwa, F. O., & Weber, T. J. (2009). Leadership: Current theories, research and future directions. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 421-449. Bakker, A. B., & demerouti, E. (2007). The job demands- resources model: State of the art. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 22. Bass, B. M., & Bass, R. (2008). Handbook of leadership: Theory, research & management applications (4th ed.). New York: Free Press. Brown, M. E., & Treviño, L. K. (2006). Ethical leadership: A review and future directions. The Leadership Quarterly, 17(6), 595-616. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2006.10.004. Langenberg, S. (2010). The model of critique in business. In Nandram, S. & Borden, M.E., eds. Spirituality in business, 219-232. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. Mansbach, A. (2011). Whistleblowing as fearless speech: The radical democratic effects of late modern Parrhesia. In D. Lewis & W. Vandekerckhove (Eds.), Whistleblowing and democratic values (pp. 12-26). London: International Whistleblowing Research Network. Mendonca, M., & Kanungo, R. N. (2007). Ethical leadership. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press
Gen Ed /
No full text"Gen Ed locates serious discussion of general education in the context of some of the day-to-day realities encountered in putting it into practice and promoting efforts at reform at Metropolitan Atlantic University (aka the Metro). This dual focus is found in the often-pugnacious policy debate among the faculty and a more light-hearted discussion of related questions carried on by Professor Kelly as he models Socratic teaching in his upper-level class for prospective teachers. Reforming general education at the Metro is not free of the vanities and vulgarities of ambitious men and women and self-serving politicians, of course, nor those who poke fun at them. Arnie Smatter, the irrepressible and nosey chat show host of Radio YOY ensures that this does not go unnoticed. The overall humorous tone of Gen Ed does not detract from Mulcahy's thoughtful treatment of substantive issues that will be of interest to serious scholars, students, and a general readership. It is the behaviour of those involved, the broader media and political contexts in which events take place, which mainly becomes the object of humorous treatment"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Appendix: Questions for Discussion, Suggested Topics for Term Papers and Research Projects -- References -- About the Author."Gen Ed locates serious discussion of general education in the context of some of the day-to-day realities encountered in putting it into practice and promoting efforts at reform at Metropolitan Atlantic University (aka the Metro). This dual focus is found in the often-pugnacious policy debate among the faculty and a more light-hearted discussion of related questions carried on by Professor Kelly as he models Socratic teaching in his upper-level class for prospective teachers. Reforming general education at the Metro is not free of the vanities and vulgarities of ambitious men and women and self-serving politicians, of course, nor those who poke fun at them. Arnie Smatter, the irrepressible and nosey chat show host of Radio YOY ensures that this does not go unnoticed. The overall humorous tone of Gen Ed does not detract from Mulcahy's thoughtful treatment of substantive issues that will be of interest to serious scholars, students, and a general readership. It is the behaviour of those involved, the broader media and political contexts in which events take place, which mainly becomes the object of humorous treatment"--Description based on print version record
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
Strategies to detect endogenous ubiquitination of a target mammalian protein
No full textDifferent biochemical techniques are well established to investigate target’s ubiquitination in mammals without overexpressing a tagged version of ubiquitin (Ub). The simplest and more direct approach is to immunoprecipitate (IP) your target protein from cell lysate (stimulated and/or properly treated), followed by western blot analysis utilizing specifi c antibodies against Ub (see Subheading 3.1). This approach requires a good antibody against the target working in IP; alternatively, one could express a tagged version of the protein, possibly at the endogenous level. Another approach consists in IP ubiquitinated proteins from total cell lysate followed by detection with the antibody against the protein of interest. This second method relies on the availability of specifi c and very effi cient antibodies against Ub (see Subheading 3.2). A more quantitative approach is the DELFIA assay (Perkin Elmer), an ELISA-based assay, which allows comparing more samples and conditions (see Subheading 3.3). Cross-validation with more than one approach is usually recommended in order to prove that your protein is modifi ed by ubiquitin. Here we will use the EGFR as model system but protocols can be easily modifi ed according to the protein of interest
Ed Cray, July 3, 1933 - October 8, 2019
No full textEd Cray, a prolific author of non-fiction whose work included biographies of folk singer Woody Guthrie and Chief Justice Earl Warren, died Oct. 8 in Palo Alto, CA. He was 86
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Letter from Carl Hayden to Ed Hamilton
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Ed Hamilton informing him that Superintendent Tillotson will submit a report on the conditions of the road between Grand Canyon Village and Rowe's Well
A Concise Introduction to Molière : Guide
No full textThis comprehensive guide to Molière includes a specially commissioned essay by Ed Madden, a handpicked selection of supporting filmed and written content, and discussion questions to inspire further research.This comprehensive guide to Molière includes a specially commissioned essay by Ed Madden, a handpicked selection of supporting filmed and written content, and discussion questions to inspire further research.Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Digital Theatre+, viewed May 11, 2022
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