Teaching information literacy and critical thinking to freshmenundergraduate students can be more successful if these concepts are demonstrated to be meaningful and valuable in…
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Teaching information literacy and critical thinking to freshmenundergraduate students can be more successful if these concepts are demonstrated to be meaningful and valuable in the context of students’ daily lives. A proper context can help freshmen acknowledge the need for, develop, and value information literacy and critical thinking. As values, both can help counter the effects of the consumerism, superficiality, and knowledge fragmentation characterizing the postmodern condition. A case study of how a lifelong values‐based syllabus for teaching information literacy and critical thinking was incorporated into a university orientation course for first semester freshmen is presented.
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Bruce Harley, Megan Dreger and Patricia Knobloch
More than ever before, academic librarians are re‐evaluating reference and bibliographic instruction services. A framework for this re‐evaluation is proposed that focuses…
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More than ever before, academic librarians are re‐evaluating reference and bibliographic instruction services. A framework for this re‐evaluation is proposed that focuses attention on two significant variables affecting these services: student attitudes and the World Wide Web. These variables exemplify the postmodern condition, characterized by consumerism, superficiality, and knowledge fragmentation. Within this framework, academic librarians can devote more attention to facilitating student critical thinking than to training students in the use of library resources to find information. They can choose from a suite of recommended strategies in reference and instructional settings in and outside the library, their primary goal being to enhance librarian‐student interaction.
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As a new century approaches, the evolving global village becomes difficult to ignore. More than ever before, the United Nations will act as both universal meeting hall and…
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As a new century approaches, the evolving global village becomes difficult to ignore. More than ever before, the United Nations will act as both universal meeting hall and clearinghouse. Consequently, information from and about the United Nations has potential instructional and research value to a wide variety of information professionals and their patrons. For many research topics, an international perspective will enhance the information‐gathering process. Reference librarians should take advantage of this perspective whenever possible, using or referring patrons to intergovernmental organization (IGO) information. This article is intended to serve as a collection development guide to sources of United Nations information and thus help librarians attempting to cope with the lack of bibliographical control over United Nations materials.
The ACRL Competency Standards related to learners' values and value systems has not been interrogated in relation to information literacy theory or practice. This paper aims to…
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The ACRL Competency Standards related to learners' values and value systems has not been interrogated in relation to information literacy theory or practice. This paper aims to analyze the inclusion of values in these and other guidelines and seeks evidence of the development of this topic in the literature.
Design/methodology/approach
A comparative review of information literacy standards related to values/value systems was conducted. An analysis of the literature engaging issues related to personal or community values related to information was completed. Suggestions for continued work were based on these findings.
Findings
Competency standards related to values/value systems are out of place in guidelines designed to assist in the assessment of information literacy instruction. Instead, it is more likely that information literacy development is a form of values education.
Research limitations/implications
Further research is needed to locate specific personal and community values related to information literacy. This research should begin with information‐related values of student communities, professional organizations and other groups.
Practical implications
Readers will develop a greater understanding of professional and personal values in relation to information literacy and the standards designed to help librarians and others.
Originality/value
This paper establishes a basis for a comparative analysis of information literacy standards drafted by different groups. The discussion on the place and purpose of values‐related objectives in the 2000 ACRL Competency Standards and a review of the literature on this topic are unique to this paper.
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Peter Armstrong and Anne Tomes
To hard‐pressed managements in competitive product markets, the aesthetic design of products appears to offer an attractive means of creating competitive advantage. In this…
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To hard‐pressed managements in competitive product markets, the aesthetic design of products appears to offer an attractive means of creating competitive advantage. In this situation, researchers on design management are beginning to construct forms of accountability for design so as to guarantee its impact on the market in advance. There are parallels between this initiative and the encroachment of audit controls in the public services. Drawing on theoretical resources developed in the body of research on this ‘audit explosion’, this paper argues that these attempts to subject the design process to audit involve a redefinition of the ‘language’ through which it communicates. Insofar as the result is to subordinate design’s languages of form texture and colour to audit’s languages of words and number, the result is likely to be a self‐defeating reduction of design to rehearsals of the banal, the clichéd and the bland.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological capital, employee voice behavior and innovative work behavior. The employee voice behavior was…
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological capital, employee voice behavior and innovative work behavior. The employee voice behavior was studied as a mediator. The study also studied high-performance work system (HPWS) as a moderator between psychological capital and voice behavior.
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The human resource department of organizations was approached for data collection facilitation. The sample consisted of full-time employees at the managerial and supervisory level of India's manufacturing and services organizations. 321 managers and 193 supervisors responded to the questionnaire. Standard questionnaires were used to collect data. Moderated mediation analysis was used to study the relationships among variables.
Findings
Findings indicated significant direct and indirect relationships. The presence of HPWS acted as a catalyst for relationship between psychological capital and employee voice behavior. The moderated mediation analysis findings showed the variation in outcome variable, innovative work behavior, when HPWS was low versus when HPWS was high.
Originality/value
Employee voice behavior has not yet been studied extensively in Indian context. Researcher examined the effect of employee voice behavior under high and low HPWS.
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John Burnett and R. Bruce Hutton
The value of branding as an effective part of a company's marketing strategy is changing as the needs of the consumer has changed. The purpose of this paper is to identify these…
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The value of branding as an effective part of a company's marketing strategy is changing as the needs of the consumer has changed. The purpose of this paper is to identify these changes and to prescribe specific modifications that should be made to the brand and its implementation.
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To better understand the evolving consumer a anthropological approach was employed. A variety of recent studies were considered and it was determined that today's consumer has three prominent needs: knowledge, authenticity, and personal experiences. The paper posits that creating positive experiences, via knowledge and authenticity, represents the next evolutionary phase of brand success.
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Based on this new perspective on branding, the paper offers the following recommendations to brand managers and CMOs: discern the nature of the relationship customers want with the brand; position brand managers as spiritual leaders; speak to the end‐user through experiences and metaphors; create a master narrative that reflects the company's core value and is operationalized through the brand; apply the paradox of transparency; build your brand from the inside out, by encouraging employees to be advocates; and examine your current and desired brand personality.
Practical implications
The recommendations and examples of implementation offer the brand manager a roadmap to success. Although these changes would require the support of top management, the benefits are apparent.
Originality/value
It is critical that brand managers both understand and embrace the changes that are occurring within the consumer sector of society. More importantly, these managers must develop strategic and sound principles and practices that respond to these changes. This paper identifies these changes and offers solutions.
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Robert Chapman Wood, Daniel S. Levine, Gerald A. Cory and Daniel R. Wilson
This chapter introduces evolutionary neuroscience and its organizational applications, especially its usefulness for motivation analysis in macrolevel disciplines such as…
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This chapter introduces evolutionary neuroscience and its organizational applications, especially its usefulness for motivation analysis in macrolevel disciplines such as strategic management. Macrolevel organizational disciplines have mostly lacked a theory of motivation beyond self-interest assumptions, which fail to explain many important macrolevel organizational phenomena. Evolutionary neuroscience provides an empirically grounded, parsimonious perspective on the human brain and brain evolution which helps clarify the profound complexities of motivation. Evolutionary neuroscience’s theory of the physiological causes of self- and other-interested motivation can support better macrolevel motivation analysis and unify disparate, potentially conflicting motivation theories. Examples are offered of how neuroscience-based motivation theory can support more comprehensive strategic management analysis of competences and competitive advantage.
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M. Birasnav, S. Rangnekar and A. Dalpati
In order to achieve sustained competitive advantage through developing human capital, organizations, apart from human resource management practices, concentrate on developing…
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In order to achieve sustained competitive advantage through developing human capital, organizations, apart from human resource management practices, concentrate on developing transformational leaders and implementing knowledge management (KM). To take part in their efforts, this paper intends to explore leadership and KM literatures to examine the interrelationship between transformational leadership, KM, and employee‐perceived human capital creation or benefits.
Design/methodology/approach
A systematic literature review is carried out of traditional and contemporary theoretical and empirical research studies to support the nexus of interrelationship between transformational leadership, KM, and human capital. This review is mainly integrated using a model and propositions that relate transformational leadership and KM with human capital benefits.
Findings
Transformational leaders have potential to affect their employees' perceptions of human capital benefits. They also have the greatest potential to augment these benefits through involving them in the KM process, establishing organizational culture, and encouraging communication among employees.
Research limitations/implications
This model suggests that human resource managers should provide training to managers with regard to developing transformational leadership behavior, since this behavior contributes to human capital creation by which an organization achieves competitive advantage. Furthermore, this study mainly focuses on leaders as transformational leaders, since these leaders are highly capable of stimulating their followers' creativity. Therefore, this study only considered the components described by Bass and Avolio.
Originality/value
This paper contributes to leadership literature by adding the notion of transformational leadership as an antecedent of human capital creation.