Performance improvement: More than just bettering the here‐and‐now     

Ryan Watkins  Doug Leigh 《Performance Improvement》2001,40(8):10-15

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The Changing Corporate Mind: Organizations,Vision, Missions,Purposes, and Indicators on the Move Toward Societal Payoffs     

Roger Kaufman  Ryan Watkins  Melvin Stith  Don Triner 《Performance Improvement Quarterly》1998,11(3):32-44

Where are the world's organizations headed? What do they see as their primary destination and contribution? What do they commit to deliver and to whom? How rigorous are they in defining their destinations? What label do they use to describe statements of their intended future? To find the answers to these and other questions, we examined 26 of the leading organizations internationally as well as 60 leading organizations in the United States. Based on this sample of world organizations, we found indications that many organizations see some aspect of societal good as basic to their future, while many others regard their own organization's well-being as what is most important. We find no clear favorite for what organizations label their statements of purpose: most use “mission” while some use “vision,” and some use “values” or “philosophy.” Few of the organizations in our sample state their intended destination in measurable performance terms. From these data, we discuss the implications in terms of an increasing emphasis in the literature on organizations having to deliver outputs that contribute to external clients and society. We also note that purpose statements must be accompanied by appropriate actions to achieve those intentions. In addition, we discuss how this move toward socially-responsive organizations is impacting the role of the performance technologist.  相似文献   

Needs assessment—a digest,review, and comparison of needs assessment literature     

Ryan Watkins  Douglas Leigh  William Platt  Roger Kaufman 《Performance Improvement》1998,37(7):40-53

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A process for aligning performance improvement resources and strategies     

Ryan Watkins  John Wedman 《Performance Improvement》2003,42(7):9-17

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Eloges: David Charles Gooding, 1947-2009     

Tweney RD 《Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences》2010,101(3):607-609

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Topological and non-topological solitons of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations by He's semi-inverse variational principle     

Ryan Sassaman  Anjan Biswas 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2010,347(7):1148-7047

This paper studies the topological as well as the non-topological solitons due to the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations, in presence of perturbation terms. There are five forms of nonlinearity that will be considered. The He's semi-inverse variational principle will be used to carry out the integration.  相似文献   

一位难以忘怀的女子     

Ryan Sundin  李起 《海外英语》2009,(5):36-38

那是一个充满忧伤的清晨。准备的各种食物的香味通常将标志着某个欢庆的节日或者是亲属的聚会,那时才赶着做这些东西,但这天清晨完全是另一回事。我从床上爬起来,尽最大努力只为面对这一天时,全身强烈地感到一阵未曾有过的寒冷。那是我宁愿很快忘却的一天,但不幸的是,我无法忘却。  相似文献   

It's not all about school: Ways of disrupting pre-service teachers' perceptions of pedagogy and communication     

Mary Ryan  Annah Healy 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2009

Many pre-service teachers enter teacher education with problematic or unexamined assumptions about learners and teaching. This article reports on an authentic learning opportunity offered to 22 pre-service teachers in their first year at university, which attempts to disrupt these perceptions about learning and pedagogy. Using a new application of Butin's conceptual framework we show that during the project these participants developed more complex notions of learners and ways of making meaning. We argue that these ‘real-world’ experiences, when offered before pre-service teachers begin practicum in schools, provide more ‘resources’ to problematise the practices and institutional discourses encountered in schools.  相似文献   

Faculty Hiring at Top-Ranked Higher Education Administration Programs: An Examination Using Social Network Analysis     

David DiRamio  Ryan Theroux  Anthony J. Guarino 《Innovative Higher Education》2009,34(3):149-159

Using network analysis we investigated faculty hiring at 21 U. S. News top-ranked programs in higher education administration. Our research questions were as follows. Do top programs hire from each other? Are faculty from the “outside” finding positions at top programs? Mixed results hint at implications for the “health” of the hiring network. Closed systems in higher education may produce unintended consequences as graduate programs look to expand into new global markets.  相似文献   

Childhood abuse and the content of delusions     

Oliver J. Mason  Emma Brett  Miriam Collinge  Helen Curr  John Rhodes 《Child abuse & neglect》2009,33(4):205-208

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