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Collaborative strategic and business planning at the micro level: The Murdoch Business School
No full textThis paper analyses and critiques the traditional top-down strategic planning process that prevails in organisations. It investigates the argument(s) for a shift from the traditional to an emergent approach to planning issues. It argues, however, for a planning approach that has active staff/employee involvement and ownership of the process to nurture real engagement with the outcome(s) and to enhance authorship of, and commitment to, the final results. The empirical component is a case study of the planning process used by the Murdoch Business School within Murdoch University in Western Australia. It concludes that although the planning process was an effective example of participative decision-making it remained a limited form of empowerment. The University can publicly proclaim that it has implemented a ‘best practice’ planning process. The reality is that it has been no more than an organisational act of game playing unlikely to be repeated in future
Murdoch University’s submission to the Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Reference Committee's inquiry on 'all aspects of higher education and skills training to support future demand in agriculture and agribusiness in Australia
No full textMurdoch University is a recognised leader in agricultural-related research as evidenced by the excellent results attained in the 2010 ERA ratings (e.g. an ERA rating 5 for Crops and Pastures).
Murdoch University’s national and international research strengths include plant and animal virology, immunology, plant nematology and animal parasitology, phytoplasmas, fungi, microbiology, bacteria, etc., and a strong focus on crop pre-breeding research, molecular diagnostics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics, transgenic plants and crop biosecurity, animal and veterinary science (among others). Within the Plant Biotechnology Research Group (PBRG) Murdoch hosts the largest team of plant nematologists in Australia, the only nematology group focussing at the molecular level. The PBRG also specialises in plant viruses and phytoplasmas (plant bacteria). Murdoch also has multi-million dollar internationally collaborative crop and pasture RD&E projects involving ACIAR and the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, among others, and hosts associated agricultural biotechnology companies such as Saturn Biotech, Xytogen and NemGenix. Murdoch’s collaborative projects encompass R&D on crop pest and disease resistance, soil fertility improvement, crop diversification, abiotic stress, pre-breeding research for crop biosecurity, and biological nitrogen fixation (etc.), located predominantly in the Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Europe. Furthermore, Murdoch also has a strong focus on immune-mediated disorders, animal breeding, fish biology and diseases, pathogen therapeutics, autonomic and sensory neurobiology, veterinary bacteriology, viral immunology, ecology, and environmental management
1951 Jay-Cee-An BJC - Page 57
No full textDrawing of psychology teacher Eldred D. Murdoch; photograph of classroomEldre. d D Murdoch.
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Full-fee paying international students at Murdoch University 1985-1991: a policy case study
No full textIn 1985 the Australian Government announced a momentous policy initiative allowing Australian universities to enrol full-fee paying international students for the first time. This case study is an analysis of the policy development that ensued at Murdoch University between 1985 and 1991 as it responded to this opportunity to alleviate problems, with finance and low student numbers, that were threatening its very existence as an independent university. In particular, it examines the factors that had placed Murdoch in such a parlous situation, and the reasons why it was able to respond quickly and effectively so as to implement a highly successful and comprehensive program for the recruitment, enrolment and support of full-fee paying international students.
The case study format allowed for the use of a wide range of data sources. Sources of documentary evidence included: formal written works about the events and concepts under investigation, newspapers and other media items, letters, memoranda, agendas and minutes of meetings, and other internal Murdoch University documents. In addition, archival materials such as annual reports, budgets and financial records were consulted. Verification and extension of the documentary and archival evidence was gained from interviews with past and present staff and students of Murdoch University who had been involved with the program.
The study found that organisational changes initiated by successive Vice-Chancellors in the 1980s had replaced a slow and unresponsive, collegial style of decision-making, based on very wide consultation, with a more centralised, bureaucratic and market-oriented system. New, streamlined procedures, and the devolution of policy-development to small, semi-autonomous committees, enabled the University to rapidly develop policies and procedures for the inauguration of a program for full-fee paying international students in 1987. The continued success of the program, both in terms of enrolment numbers and financial returns, was found to be based on the creation and development of an almost independent, and entrepreneurial, International Office for the organisation of most aspects of the program, including the marketing and recruitment process
Murdoch, R D, 418545
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/406802Surname: MURDOCH. Given Name(s) or Initials: R D. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 418545. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 53353.239062
Item: [2016.0049.39079] "Murdoch, R D, 418545
Development of the Murdoch Chiropractic Graduate Pledge
No full textPurpose:
This paper reviews the origins of the learned professions, the foundational concepts of professionalism, and the common elements within various healer's oaths. It then reveals the development of the Murdoch Chiropractic Graduate Pledge.
Methods:
A committee comprised of three Murdoch academics performed literature searches on the topic of professionalism and healer's oaths and utilized the Quaker consensus process to develop the Murdoch Chiropractic Graduate Pledge.
Results:
The committee in its deliberations utilized over 200 relevant papers and textbooks to formulate the Murdoch Chiropractic Graduate Pledge that was administered to the 2010 Murdoch School of Chiropractic and Sports Science graduates. The School of Chiropractic and Sports Science included professionalism as one of its strategic goals and began the process of curriculum review to align it with the goal of providing a curriculum that recognizes and emphasizes the development of professionalism.
Conclusions:
The reciting of a healer's oath such as the Hippocratic Oath is widely considered to be the first step in a new doctor's career. It is seen as the affirmation that a newly trained health care provider will use his or her newfound knowledge and skill exclusively for the benefit of mankind in an ethical manner. Born from the very meaning of the word profession, the tradition of recitation of a healer's oath is resurgent in health care. It is important for health care instructors to understand that the curriculum must be such that it contributes positively to the students' professional development
Letter, Joseph Murdoch to James Rodgers, Hillsborough County Erosion Filling, September 25, 1979
No full textA letter from Joseph Murdoch to James Rodgers about Hillsborough County Erosion Fillinghttps://digitalcommons.usf.edu/audubon_coastal_islands_records/1068/thumbnail.jp
MANOVA modelling of a chiropractic longitudinal study using multiple imputation
No full textThe purpose of this report is to present the detailed statistical analysis of a randomised, placebo-controlled trial comparing two different treatment modalities to an intervention of no known benefit for people with acute or subacute thoracic spine pain.
The therapy arms consist of Spinal Manipulative Therapy (SMT) and Graston Technique (GT) and the placebo is a non-functional ultrasound. A placebo group was utilised because at present there are no proven treatments for non-specific thoracic pain. This trial is registered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry. Ethics approval has been granted by Murdoch University Human Research and Ethics Committee, number 2007/274.
The aim of this three arm trial was to test the efficacy of SMT and GT as independent modalities compared to detuned ultrasound for the outcomes of pain and disability. The latter were measured using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and a modified Oswestry Back Pain Disability Index. The study was conducted at the Murdoch University Chiropractic student clinic in Perth, Australia, and the protocol published in Crothers et al (2008).
In this report, Section 2 provides an initial exploratory analysis of the data, Section 3 outlines the statistical models used in the final analysis, Section 4 defines these models in mathematical terms, Section 5 discusses the management of missing values via multiple imputation and Section 6 presents the results of the statistical modelling and hypothesis tests. The clinical study will be published in full elsewhere
THE HUMAN, LOVE, AND THE INNER LIFE: ETHICS AFTER MURDOCH
No full textMoral philosophy, it is often pointed out, can easily end up demolishing rather than advancing our ethical self-understanding. I offer an interpretation of Iris Murdoch’s analysis of this phenomenon that bears on questions about the moral status of human beings, the proper objects of moral assessment, and the relation between morality and love. According to the view I develop, moral philosophy is today, as it was at the time Murdoch was writing, largely unable to countenance the importance that the concept of a human being, inner life, and the capacity for love have in our ethical self-understanding. This is because of the enduring prevalence of the two assumptions Murdoch identified as the sources of this inability. These assumptions are (1) that volition and cognition are sharply separated powers, and (2) that empirical sciences set the standards for factuality. I argue that recognizing that these assumptions are not rationally compulsory, thereby freeing moral thought of their influence, makes possible a better understanding of the humanities and of their relation with the sciences
A photovoltaic training facility on the Murdoch University engineering and energy building's north east roof
No full textMurdoch University’s School of Engineering and Energy is expanding its facilities to include a, total of 8.2kWp, Photovoltaic (PV) Training Facility. This facility has incorporated four types of PV modules and equipment, including mono-crystalline, poly-crystalline, amorphous, and copper indium gallium selenide thin film modules; isolated, high frequency isolated, and transformerless inverters; AC and DC test points; emergency stop button system and other safety devices; a battery bank, and power meters.
These facilities will provide a versatile educational resource for students to analyse the behaviours of a wide variety of PV technologies.
This project has examined the process of writing an Invitation To Offer (ITO), reviewing the ITO with recommendations for future engineering projects, and detailing changes in the design of the systems as the project developed.
A recommendation has been detailed in this project for the inclusion of a PV monitoring station, which should monitor environmental parameters at the PV site.
A manual and simulated performance ratio (PR) of all PV systems has been examined in this project. The manual estimate calculated a PR of 0.739 over the period of a year. For the simulated PR, PVSYST software was programmed and calculated a yearly PR of 0.745. This modelling indicates that the system performance would be comparable to similar systems in Perth
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