This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb045047. When citing the article, please…
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This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb045047. When citing the article, please cite: Katherine R. Porter, (1991), “SuperCard: scripting tool for Macintosh”, The Electronic Library, Vol. 9 Iss: 2, pp. 95 - 96.
Spencer Lessans, Kristijan Bogdanovski, Katherine R. Porter, Katie Ballantyne and Magdalena Pasarica
As the need for effective physician leaders caring for underserved populations grows, it is important to initiate interventions for medical professionals early in their education…
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Purpose
As the need for effective physician leaders caring for underserved populations grows, it is important to initiate interventions for medical professionals early in their education. Board experience on a student-run free clinic serving vulnerable populations within the community has the potential to educate medical students in a hands-on environment. This paper aims to determine if serving as a leader of a student-run free clinic impacts leadership skills and future leadership goals of medical students.
Design/methodology/approach
Medical students leading a student-run free clinic completed an anonymous electronic survey to determine how this experience affected their teamwork skills, interprofessional leadership skills and future leadership career goals. The survey consisted of 12 items to which students responded with how closely they agreed via a five-point Likert scale with 1 = strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree. Descriptive statistics are reported.
Findings
From the 46 students (42.2% response rate) responding to the survey, 95.45% had a previous leadership experience and 89.2% expressed previous interest in a leadership position. Students scored on average 4.36 (out of 5) for improvement in teamwork skills, 4.34 (out of 5) for improvement in interprofessional skills and 3.88 (out of 5) for impact on future leadership career goals.
Originality/value
This study suggests that service on a student-run free clinic improves teamwork and interprofessional leadership skills as well as future leadership plans of medical students in an underserved vulnerable population environment. Other institutions could use student-run free clinics for early development of effective leaders in medical health care for the vulnerable population.
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SuperCard is a scripting tool for creating new Macintosh applications from scratch,for assembling new applications from other Macintosh applications, from HyperCard stacks, or…
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SuperCard is a scripting tool for creating new Macintosh applications from scratch,for assembling new applications from other Macintosh applications, from HyperCard stacks, or from external commands or functions. SuperCard runs on the Macintosh Plus, SE, SE/30, Macintosh II or IIx using the 6.02 System and Finder 6.1 (or later). It requires 1 Mb of RAM memory to run, or 2 Mb to run in color. The program sells for $199 and is produced by Silicon Beach Software, Inc., 9770 Carroll Center Road, Suite J, San Diego, CA 92126, USA. Tel: +1 (619) 695‐6956.
Aim of the present monograph is the economic analysis of the role of MNEs regarding globalisation and digital economy and in parallel there is a reference and examination of some…
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Aim of the present monograph is the economic analysis of the role of MNEs regarding globalisation and digital economy and in parallel there is a reference and examination of some legal aspects concerning MNEs, cyberspace and e‐commerce as the means of expression of the digital economy. The whole effort of the author is focused on the examination of various aspects of MNEs and their impact upon globalisation and vice versa and how and if we are moving towards a global digital economy.
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Life studies are a rich source for further research on the role of the Afro‐American woman in society. They are especially useful to gain a better understanding of the…
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Life studies are a rich source for further research on the role of the Afro‐American woman in society. They are especially useful to gain a better understanding of the Afro‐American experience and to show the joys, sorrows, needs, and ideals of the Afro‐American woman as she struggles from day to day.
Charles R. Emery and Katherine J. Barker
This study seeks to examine customer satisfaction (CS), productivity, and profitability in terms of the organizational commitment (OC) and job involvement (JI) of company customer…
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Purpose
This study seeks to examine customer satisfaction (CS), productivity, and profitability in terms of the organizational commitment (OC) and job involvement (JI) of company customer contact personnel. Additionally, the study aims to investigate the relationship between the OC and JI of customer contact personnel in team and non‐team structures.
Design/methodology/approach
A field design is used for testing the study's four hypotheses and for examining the relationships between the independent variables and organizational profit and productivity. The study uses the service departments of 40 geographically diverse franchised automobile dealerships from one original equipment manufacturer.
Findings
The OC of customer contact personnel was significantly correlated with CS but not profit and productivity. On the other hand, the JI of customer contact personnel was significantly correlated with CS, profit and productivity. There was a significant difference between the team and non‐team structures for JI, but not for the OC of customer contact personnel.
Research limitations/implications
Future studies need to focus on the potential effect of compensations schemes on the relationships between OC, JI and CS within team and non‐team structures.
Practical implications
This study offers some insight to whether teams provide any motivational benefit in terms of commitment and job involvement. Further, there is clear evidence that team structures increase productivity and net profit. It is hoped that this research will offer more support for the need to shift some of an organization's strategic service vision inward onto the employees.
Originality/value
This is one of the few studies that examine the dependent variables of profit, productivity and customer satisfaction across 40 different service organizations.
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Kristian F. Braekkan and Katherine A. Tunheim
Psychological contracts are subjective perceptions about exchange agreements between employees and employers. Through surveys of 256 graduating college seniors with recently…
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Psychological contracts are subjective perceptions about exchange agreements between employees and employers. Through surveys of 256 graduating college seniors with recently accepted job offers, beliefs regarding employment obligations were investigated. Consistent with findings by Rousseau (1990), new hires’ perceptions of employee and employer obligations were interrelated and consistent with either transactional or relational contracts. Further, while expected tenure with the first employer was related to relational contracts, “careerism” was negatively related to new hires’ beliefs in a relational contract and positively related to a transactional contract with an employer. The results also revealed that goal orientations moderate the relationship between relational contracts and careerism. Specifically, the results indicate that the relationship was more strongly negative in individuals with high mastery orientation. The findings in this study therefore indicate that new hires' attitudes are shaped by both explicit and implicit promises and by individual characteristics such as goal orientations.
At the seventeenth ordinary meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, on Wednesday, April 17, 1912, DR. RUDOLF MESSEL, President of the Society of Chemical Industry, in the chair, a…
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At the seventeenth ordinary meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, on Wednesday, April 17, 1912, DR. RUDOLF MESSEL, President of the Society of Chemical Industry, in the chair, a paper on “Municipal Chemistry” was read by MR. J. H. COSTE, F.I.C. The following résumé of the points of interest to readers of the BRITISH FOOD JOURNAL is published by kind permission of the author and of the Royal Society of Arts:—