Acknowledging the “untidiness of knowledge work”, we agree that organizational learning calls for flexible and adaptable IT support. However, recurring situations which generate experience or information needs require appropriate functionality. In this paper we suggest an approach to designing KM applications that complies with situated learning and situated information needs without restrainin...

works for quality management and process improvement, statistical thinking is an intrinsic part of building organizational capability. In all of these frameworks there is a degree of flexibility in how the statistical thinking concepts are implemented, because these frameworks apply to many different contexts. Flexibility, however, also leads to ambiguity and inconsistency. The purpose of this ...

This study aimed to explore non-verbal executive processes in simultaneous interpreters. Simultaneous interpreters, bilinguals without any training in simultaneous interpreting, and control monolinguals performed the Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST; Experiment 1) and the Simon task (Experiment 2). Performance on WCST was thought to index cognitive flexibility while Simon task performance was ...

Hospital-based emergency departments (EDs), given their high cost and major role in allocating care resources, are at the center of the debate about how to maximize value in delivering health care in the United States. To operate effectively and create value, EDs must be flexible, having the ability to rapidly adapt to the highly variable needs of patients. The concept of flexibility has not be...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melakukan pengujian tentang pengaruh fleksibilitas tempat kerja dan stress terhadap kepuasan karir yang dimoderasi oleh goal-orientation serta organization based self esteem organizational citizenship behaviour. menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan kuesioner. Kuesioner diberikan kepada 80 responden merupakan pegawai Kantor Wilayah Kementerian Agama Se Provins...

An important new stream of thought stressing the importance of organizational fluidity has emerged in recent years. It represents a reaction to the increasing complexity and environmental turbulence that organizations have to master. The solutions proposed are highly flexible and fluid organizational forms, based on relentlessly changing templates, quick improvisation, and ad hoc responses. Thi...

Organizational Agility has been discussed during SAS-065 NATO NEC Command and Control Maturity Model development, the Exploratory Team on C2 Agility, and other similar research efforts. In these contexts, agility is being defined as the ability to recognize changes in situation complexity and move quickly to the most appropriate C2 approach (edge, collaborative, coordinated, or de-conflicted). ...

As more and more companies are deploying, or plan to deploy, information systems, the organizational capabilities to effectively deploy information technologies to support and shape businesses become increasingly important. While many studies have focused on how to acquire state-of-the-art information technologies and on how to effectively utilize implemented information technologies, more stud...

Preliminary Draft Please do not quote without permission. of Central Florida for their valuable feedback on earlier versions of this manuscript. We also thank Randy Kuhn for his research assistance. Abstract Since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the U.S., the business press has consistently reported on companies' and business consortiums' proclamations of the negative effect of new int...