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Community Standards Organisation - Last Tango in Paris
No full textCommunity Standards Organisation - Last Tango in Pari
Organisation multimedial: Zum polyphonen Programm der nächsten Organisation
No full textDie Zeiten, in denen Computer nur eine Funktion hatten, sind vorbei: Heutige Computer sind Kommunikationsmittel, Zeitnehmer, Kalender, Musikinstrument und -abspielgerät, Notizblock, Ablagesystem, Spielzeug, Wettervorhersage und Visitenkarte in einem. Die Organisation der Computergesellschaft scheint diese Entwicklung bislang verschlafen zu haben, kultiviert sie doch unbeirrt das Selbstverständnis der monofunktionalen Expertenorganisation: Bank? Wirtschaft! Partei? Politik! Schule? Bildung! An der Schwelle zur nächsten Gesellschaft entlarvt sich dieses Denken endgültig als alltagstheoretischer Kurzschluss: Die Bank ist längst auch Kunstmäzen, die Kirche Machtfaktor, die politische Verwaltung muss sich wirtschaftlich rechnen, und die Universität bekommt in aller Öffentlichkeit ihre „third mission“ übertragen. So zeigen die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes: Auch die Organisation der nächsten Gesellschaft ist multimedial. Und sie fragen, was das für ihre Identität bedeutet
Community Standards Organisation - Community standards news no 28 Spring 1974
No full textCommunity Standards Organisation - Community standards news no 28 Spring 197
A Theory of Meta-Organisation: An Analysis of Steering Processes in European Commission-Funded R&D ‘Network of Excellence’ Consortia
Full text linkOrganisations collaborate with one another. And they appear to do so more and more frequently in the recent decades. At the same time many of these efforts fail to deliver what the collaboration was set up for. This combination creates the basis for the fascinating and stimulating research field of inter-organisational relations – a field which is still very much in development.
In this thesis the focus is on meta-organisations, associations in which organisations are members. The steering of such inter-organisational structures appears to need a novel approach, a collective, multi-level engagement which I set out to examine. The thesis is structured to foreground the process of the research and the development of my thinking. The study is conducted on R&D consortia funded as Networks of Excellence by the European Commission under Framework Programme 6. The study is based primarily on five case studies, by way of documentation and interviews. In addition, the study draws on data collected on 101 consortia and consortium agreements from 50 consortia.
The thesis develops the theoretical understanding of meta-organisations and their organisational conditions and implications. Meta-organisation theory, thus far, has focused mainly on the implications following from having organisations as members. This thesis suggests adding to this theory the implications created by constitutional membership, that is, members that constitute the organisation. Constitutional membership makes a difference in three ways: it creates a clear boundary of the meta-organisation; it assumes collective ownership of the meta-organisation; and it makes possible the utilising of indirect resources – the resources of the member organisations, and most importantly their personnel – by the meta-organisation.
In addition, the thesis develops a conceptual framework of steering processes, combining governance, management and administration. This framework shows how both decisions and mutual adjustment in top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal directions steer meta-organisations. The framework may, however, be fruitfully used to study other organisations as well.
The findings from the analysis of the steering processes show that the utilisation of indirect resources decentralises the governance, management and administration of activities to the participants of member organisations who are undertaking these activities. The results also demonstrate that the governance, management and administration of undivided tasks centralises to those with formal management responsibility. In addition, the analysis shows how control and granting are avoided, externalised or formalised to deal with lack of hierarchical authority. These and other findings of the study seek to refine and extend the hypothesised conditions of meta-organisation theory.ei tietoa saavutettavuudest
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
Full text linkThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
Community Standards Organisation - Letter to Minister for Culture, National Parks and Recreation re culture in a Christian pluralist society
No full textCommunity Standards Organisation - Letter to Minister for Culture, National Parks and Recreation re culture in a Christian pluralist societ
Adapting to a new role: a study designed to help senior managers adapt to new positions after organisation restructuring
Full text linkThe work on which this thesis is based, studies the implementation phase of the total organisation restructure of the National Health Service in 1974 as experienced by a large group of Senior Pharmaceutical Managers who found it difficult to establish themselves in their new positions. The study starts in 1976 and researches to identify the nature and cause of the difficulties facing the managers. It is concluded that the probable cause is rooted in the sudden destruction of mechanisms developed before 1974 to assist new managers establish themselves in their positions. A solution is designed and tested before being implemented with the Senior Pharmaceutical Managers, By 1977 it had become clear that a similar situation faced other large groups of Senior Managers belonging to the Nursing and Works professions of the Health Service. As a result the project and study is continued to help these two other professions and with apparent equal success until 1985.A number of objectives are met during this study. A system is developed for facilitating role identification and implementation during a period of organisation restructuring as a means to help new managers adapt and become established in equally new positions. In addition this project is an example of the use of collaboration as a method to assist large numbers of senior managers belonging to Health Service professions meet radically new demands of role
Dialectical Philosophy and Self-Organisation
No full textThe aim of this paper is to show that the theory of self-organisation in some respect proves the topicality of dialectical materialism and that an alternative concept of substance makes sense within the framework of dialectical materialism. The first part of the paper shows that Marx and Engels opposed the notion of substance because for them this notion was connected with the assumption of mechanical materialism that there is an eternal, unchanging stuff in the world to which all existence can be reduced. An alternative concept of substance is implicitly present in Engels’ works because he says that the eternal aspect of the world is that matter is permanently changing and moving and producing new organisational forms of matter. Ernst Bloch has explicitly formulated this concept of process-substance within the framework of dialectical materialism and in opposition to mechanical materialism. Such an alternative conception of substance can as the second part of this paper shows also be expressed as the permanent and eternal self-organisation of matter. Concepts from self-organisation theory such as control parameters, critical values, bifurcation points, phase transitions, non-linearity, selection, fluctuation and intensification in self-organisation theory correspond to the dialectical principle of transition from quantity to quality. What is called emergence of order, production of information or symmetry breaking in self-organisation theory corresponds to Hegel’s notions of sublation (Aufhebung) and negation of the negation. Self-organisation theory shows that Engels’ Dialectics of Nature is still very topical and that dialectical materialism contrary to mechanical materialism and idealism hasn’t been invalidated, it rather seems to be confirmed that dialectics is the general principle of nature and society
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
Full text linkThis 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
Records of the Charity Organisation Society
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/64526Newspaper article "Charity Organisation Society" documenting case referrals and the quarterly meeting of the council. Source: "The Age", May 1890.111606
Acquisition: [1974.0023] "Records of the Charity Organisation Society
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