The unwritten organisational rules of engagement

The Rules of Engagement

With the increasing commitment to Patient-Focused Drug Development (PFDD) by FDA and patient engagement in translational research, there is a significant opportunity to improve the clinical trials enterprise and enhance participation by patient groups in the work of trial sponsors. The term PFDD, as used here in the broader sense, refers to the meaningful engagement of patients in the developme...

Organisational Blogging: The Problem of Engagement

This paper investigates the implementation and use of an internal organisational blog by several departments in the HR division in a large public sector financial organisation in the UK. This qualitative study adopts a case study approach and examines the experiences of staff using the blog to explore whether it can facilitate organisational learning. The thinking and decisions that informed th...

Sex, Power and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules

Unwritten rules: virtual bargaining underpins social interaction, culture, and society

Many social interactions require humans to coordinate their behavior across a range of scales. However, aspects of intentional coordination remain puzzling from within several approaches in cognitive science. Sketching a new perspective, we propose that the complex behavioral patterns - or 'unwritten rules' - governing such coordination emerge from an ongoing process of 'virtual bargaining'. So...

Consciousness: The rules of engagement

We examine the role of a conscious observer in a typical quantum mechanical measurement. Four rules are given that govern stochastic choice and state reduction in several cases of continuous and intermittent observation. It is found that consciousness always accompanies a state reduction leading to observation, but its presence is not sufficient to ‘cause’ a reduction. The distinction is clarif...