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Publication date: 1 February 1988

BRUCE S. COOPER, JOHN W. SIEVERDING and RODNEY MUTH

Data from sophisticated portable heart‐rate monitors and “work diaries” were used to relate in Mintzberg's “nature of managerial work” to physiological stress in a small sample of…

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Data from sophisticated portable heart‐rate monitors and “work diaries” were used to relate in Mintzberg's “nature of managerial work” to physiological stress in a small sample of working principals. Subjects were categorised by years of experience, Type A and Type B personality, and were “shadowed” for three complete work days in their schools doing regular activities to learn what management functions were stressful. Principals were found to be working under extreme stress (a few at catastrophically high levels), for long hours, and that certain managerial activities were more physiologically stressful than others. Implications for training, deployment and the use of bio‐feedback techniques are discussed.

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Journal of Educational Administration, vol. 26 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0957-8234

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Publication date: 1 August 1964

V. AHIER

Bruce Cooper's article highlights an important problem and an attempt was made last year locally to tackle this by having a Youth Employment Officer on duty at evening institute…

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Bruce Cooper's article highlights an important problem and an attempt was made last year locally to tackle this by having a Youth Employment Officer on duty at evening institute and College of Technology enrolment nights. The experiment was only a partial success but worth repeating as it was felt that the attempt was justified. It is important, however, that such information and advice is accurate but if Bruce Cooper is going to advise people with no GCE passes to take the examinations of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, he will run into considerable trouble.

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Education + Training, vol. 6 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 October 1997

Richard Wiesenthal, Bruce S. Cooper, Ruth Greenblatt and Sheldon Marcus

Research on homework has typically focused on students’ beliefs, commitment to, and benefits of doing homework, but what about the influence of school policies and teachers’…

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Research on homework has typically focused on students’ beliefs, commitment to, and benefits of doing homework, but what about the influence of school policies and teachers’ beliefs and attitudes on the topic? Do schools with stricter rules and a clearer focus have teachers giving more homework? Are teachers who believe in the virtues of homework as a learning device and a convenient means for communicating with the home more likely to give, collect, mark, and return homework to students than teachers who see no benefits? This study developed a valid, reliable instrument, the homework attitude and behaviour inventory for teachers (HABIT), and administered it to 120 teachers in two schools with a clear, focused homework policy, and two without. Findings were that schools with a well‐defined homework policy had teachers who: gave, collected, marked, and returned homework significantly more often; and believed in the usefulness of these assignments. Multiple regressions showed a significant relationship between beliefs about homework, the homework behaviours, and the types of assignments made (repeat classwork, introduce new materials, explore new ideas, pursue imaginative topics at home). Regressing homework attitudes and school policies against teacher homework behaviours produced an adjusted R‐square of 49.5 (p < 0.001).

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Journal of Educational Administration, vol. 35 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0957-8234

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Publication date: 1 January 1992

Thomas A. Mulkeen and Bruce S. Cooper

Based on a university department of educational administration′sinitiative to reconceptualize its doctoral degree programme, thereconstructed model is based on four innovations…

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Based on a university department of educational administration′s initiative to reconceptualize its doctoral degree programme, the reconstructed model is based on four innovations: (1) an intellectual reconceptualization of the purpose of preparation away from the traditional manager in training perspective, towards a model that views school leadership as a shared, reflective, moral, intellectual activity; (2) a clinical, field‐based research experience that applies theory to practice; (3) an instructional programme, modelling active problem‐solving models of enquiry; (4) some new structural elements, such as a cohort of highly stationed, mid‐career administrators, each scheduled to complete the degree in three years. Focuses on the programme′s philosophy, curriculum, instructional design and research agenda.

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Journal of Educational Administration, vol. 30 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0957-8234

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Publication date: 1 August 1964

P.E. YAXLEY

A recent statement by the Rt. Hon. Joseph Godber, that he is ‘greatly concerned with the small number of qualified training officers’, has led me to question whether the reason…

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A recent statement by the Rt. Hon. Joseph Godber, that he is ‘greatly concerned with the small number of qualified training officers’, has led me to question whether the reason for this is that many are sharing my experiences.

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Education + Training, vol. 6 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 February 1969

JOHN WELLENS, ALEC M HUGHES and MYRON L BROUN

THE NEED FOR GOOD MANAGEMENT TRAINING FILMS THE IMMEDIATE ROAD AHEAD IN THE TRAINING FIELD is becoming very clearly defined. There is great satisfaction with the progress made…

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THE NEED FOR GOOD MANAGEMENT TRAINING FILMS THE IMMEDIATE ROAD AHEAD IN THE TRAINING FIELD is becoming very clearly defined. There is great satisfaction with the progress made over the past four years or so with operator training and manual skills training generally. Now well on the way, this training activity will continue, becoming in the process both more widespread and more refined.

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 1 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0019-7858

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Publication date: 8 June 2015

Diana K. Wakimoto and Christine Susan Bruce

This paper aims to explore the varying ways in which academic archivists in the USA experience archives, how these experiences compare to those of academic librarians and how we…

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Purpose

This paper aims to explore the varying ways in which academic archivists in the USA experience archives, how these experiences compare to those of academic librarians and how we can use these findings to improve communication and collaboration.

Design/methodology/approach

Using a phenomenographic research approach, academic archivists were interviewed and the transcripts were examined to develop categories reflecting varying experiences.

Findings

There are three different ways of experiencing archives: as organizational records, as archival enterprise and as connection. The connection category is a more complex way of experiencing archives as it incorporates the aspects of the other two categories as well as the awareness of archives connecting people to their histories.

Research limitations/implications

This study is limited to academic archivists in the USA.

Practical implications

Understanding that there are different ways of experiencing archives means that information professionals should clarify their definitions of before beginning collaborative projects. Also, by understanding these varying experiences, information professions should be able to communicate and engage more fully with each other and their users in projects and programs that leverage archival collections.

Originality/value

This is the first study to use phenomenography to investigate archivists’ experiences of archives. This understanding of the lived experience of archivists, combined with understanding how librarians experience archives, should enable better communication and ultimately collaboration between the two professions.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 43 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 7 February 2017

Diana K. Wakimoto

The purpose of this paper is to describe different collective ways that archivists, librarians and those with dual-roles experience archives.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to describe different collective ways that archivists, librarians and those with dual-roles experience archives.

Design/methodology/approach

Using a phenomenographic approach, a total of 24 librarians, archivists and dual-role individuals were interviewed, and interview transcripts were analyzed to create categories that described the varying ways in which archives are experienced.

Findings

Librarians experienced archives in four ways: historical resources, preserving history, preserved access and political. Archivists experienced archives in four ways: accessible collections, connection, collaboration and stewardship. Dual-role individuals experienced archives in five ways: collections, preserved access, progress, connection and knowledge creators. There are variations among and within each group on how archives are experienced. However, there is a significant overlap in many categories in terms of access, preservation, use and collections.

Practical implications

Understanding each other’s different perspectives could lead to stronger partnerships among librarians, archivists and dual-role individuals. These partnerships have the potential to increase the visibility of archives, providing greater access and engagement for community members.

Originality/value

The study supports previous phenomenographic research on experiences of archives and provides a more nuanced understanding of information professionals’ varying collective experiences of archives.

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Library Review, vol. 66 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 12 August 2014

Rachel Boba Santos and Bruce Taylor

The purpose of this paper is to examine national survey data of police agencies in the USA to explore the current state of crime analysis integration to patrol crime reduction…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine national survey data of police agencies in the USA to explore the current state of crime analysis integration to patrol crime reduction work.

Design/methodology/approach

The data examined in this paper are from a national quantitative survey which sought to understand how crime analysis results are used by officers as well as higher ranking personnel in the patrol division and what types of strategies are implemented using crime analysis.

Findings

The findings show that the routine use of crime analysis is not well integrated. Despite the low integration, however, some differences were found. Management uses crime analysis the most overall, but officers and first-line supervisors use tactical crime analysis more routinely than management, where management personnel use evaluation most routinely. Tactical crime analysis is used most often for directed patrol, strategic for both directed patrol and general information, and evaluation for both general information and crime prevention. Analysis of using analysis proactively shows that agencies use tactical crime analysis most proactively, followed by the strategic crime analysis, then evaluation.

Research limitations/implications

The study relies on self-report surveys, so the results may suffer from some of the general limitations of self-reports. Also, the study resulted in a lower response rate than surveys of police agencies typically achieve. Although responding and non-responding agencies were comparable in terms of population size, number of officers, and region of the country, the response rate was about 55 percent. However, it is a possibility based on the analysis results that non-responses may reflect a disinterest in the topic or the lack of integration of crime analysis.

Originality/value

This is the first national survey that focussed specifically on crime analysis integration in patrol work for crime reduction. The value of the results presented here are in the description of the current state of crime analysis integration in the USA which has not been investigated in such depth before and the identifications of gaps in both research in practice.

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Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, vol. 37 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1363-951X

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Publication date: 11 August 2005

David E. Adelman

The burgeoning interest over the last decade in technology transfer at universities in the United States has driven contentious debates over patent policy. In this context…

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The burgeoning interest over the last decade in technology transfer at universities in the United States has driven contentious debates over patent policy. In this context, biotech patenting has become the poster-child for claims that the proliferation of patenting by universities, and in the private sector, is undermining scientific norms and threatening innovation. Commentators have expressed particular fears about the negative effects of biotech patenting on the public information commons and concerns about emerging “patent anticommons.” This chapter argues that the standard (finite) commons model is being misapplied in the biotech arena because, owing to the complexity of biological processes and the power of existing biotech methods to produce genetic data, biomedical science is, in crucial respects, an unbounded, uncongested common resource. These findings imply that strategic biotech patenting of problem-specific research tools (i.e., single-nucleotide polymorphisms, drug targets) is not economically justified and therefore is irrational.

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University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-84950-359-4

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