Purpose – To examine how a manager’s strategic philosophy is influenced by his or her management level in the organization. Design/methodology/approach – Scales are developed to measure managers’ philosophical perspectives along three key dimensions and tested with 289 managers in the United States. Refined scales are administered to 237 managers. Findings – A manager’s level in the organizatio...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate rates of medical adherence, responsibility, and independence skills across late childhood and adolescence in youth with spina bifida (SB) and to explore associations among these disease self-management variables. METHOD 111 youth with SB, their parents, and a health professional participated at two time points. Informants completed questionnaires regardi...

Governing boards of healthcare organizations in Canada are accountable for the performance of their organization and provide oversight on their decisions. Traditionally, many healthcare boards have focused on finances and community relations and have deferred responsibility for quality of care to the medical or professional staff. This deferral reflects not only recognition of the expertise of ...

The construction, demolition and excavation waste arising in England was estimated at 91 million tonnes in 2003. The current thinking on construction waste minimisation is heavily focussed on several issues relating to physical construction waste and recycling guides. Indeed, much had been published on ways to improve on-site waste management and recycling activities but very few attempts made ...

There is a strong belief among technology educators that technology constitutes a type of formal knowledge that can be reduced to curricular elements. It is suggested that since technology has its own knowledge and structure, its study is similar to how one would organize the study of any other discipline in the school, such as algebra or physics (DeVore, 1968; 1992; Erekson, 1992; Savage and S...

This study examined the experiences of nursing assistants (NAs), who have worked with older people in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) who are in pain, to ascertain the role that NAs play in the pain management process. A descriptive, exploratory qualitative approach was used to examine NAs' experiences. Six NAs employed in three RACFs in regional Western Australia participated in the s...

Introduction: Communicating about environmental health is an important commitment for the scientific community involved in studying contaminated sites. In the last decade, international and national organizations in the WHO European Region have proposed theoretical approaches and practices for adopting effective communication strategies in contaminated areas. Methods: The aim of this paper is t...

Amenity migration to attractive and accessible non-metropolitan areas changes social and environmental relations with consequences for natural resource management and landscape composition and trajectories. Lifestyler oriented rural landholders are often cast as a problem for land management and extension. Managers and some researchers see them as a cause of landscape and social fragmentation a...

R. M. Needham mentioned a Personal Identification Number (PIN) management scheme for Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) transactions which provides enhanced privacy and the responsibility separation [10]. This scheme was described as a rough example which supports his idea on security research under the changing computing environment. Though it shows a new approach to the role separation between a ...

An innovative approach is proposed for aligning the different layers of the enterprise architecture of a European institution. The main objective of the alignment targets the definition and the assignment of the access rights needed by the employees according to business specifications. This alignment is realized by considering the responsibility and the accountabilities (doing, deciding and ad...