The Interpreters' Guild ; AFL-CIO

The AFL penetrometer study: work in progress.

Five hundred and seventy one matches in the Australian Football League [AFL] had ground hardness measured using a Penetrometer, over the period 1997-2000. The method used was 3 drops at each of 20 locations over the playing field on the morning before games. Anterior Cruciate Ligament [ACL] injuries were recorded using an ongoing injury surveillance system. There was a non-significant trend tow...

Case study: a challenge to the new CEO of a 200 bed hospital--the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO.

Deep and serious budget problems brought on by the Great Recession have prompted some politicians to vow to weaken, or even completely strip state and local public service workers of their right to bargain for fair wages and decent benefits. They claim collective bargaining ties their hands. They claim it harms the economy. They claim it is the cause of their budget problems. They’re wrong on a...

Understanding the CEO/CIO Relationship

The need for top management involvement in the exploitation of IT is a recurring theme of information management Previous research has suggested that this involvement is linked with a two way relationship between CEO and CIO. This paper reports on an exploratory research study which set out to identify the determinants of a successful two way relationship. CEOs and CIOs were interviewed in-dept...

Reflexive Interpreters

The goal of achieving powerful problem solving capabilities leads to the “advice taker” form of program and the associated problem of control. This proposal outlines an approach to this problem based on the construction of problem solvers with advanced self-knowledge and introspection capabilities. 1 The Problem of Control Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead lif...

Clarifying the Ambiguous Role of the CIO