Kenneth J. Barnes and John Hoffmire
This case study aims to explore the efforts of a small start-up company, whose unique solutions are being deployed in the fight against COVID-19, with encouraging results. Using…
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Purpose
This case study aims to explore the efforts of a small start-up company, whose unique solutions are being deployed in the fight against COVID-19, with encouraging results. Using innovative technology and local volunteer networks, they have set out to identify the medical needs of local care providers, while reducing the effects of fraud, corruption and mis-management.
Design/methodology/approach
This case study involved the interrogation of data made available by the company and an interview with the chief executive officer.
Findings
The research suggests that small enterprises can have a positive impact, far beyond what either the state or the market might assume. By properly equipping and empowering people at the grassroots level, they can identify and solve local resourcing issues and root-out fraud, corruption and mismanagement before they happen.
Originality/value
This is a unique approach to the problem of resource management in the non-profit sector, with implications for grant projects beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
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IFSSEC, the International Fire, Security & Safety Exhibition & Conference, was first held in 1972. In the decade since then the event has helped to elevate Britain to a world…
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IFSSEC, the International Fire, Security & Safety Exhibition & Conference, was first held in 1972. In the decade since then the event has helped to elevate Britain to a world leader on all matters relating to security, fire prevention and health and safety at work, by providing manufacturers from all over the world with a platform to launch many hundreds of new products and services in the constant battle to reduce escalating losses.
Microchip technology is advancing so rapidly that it is difficult to realise how widely and deeply it has become woven into the pattern of everyday life. There can be few homes in…
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Microchip technology is advancing so rapidly that it is difficult to realise how widely and deeply it has become woven into the pattern of everyday life. There can be few homes in the country without one or more machines or instruments dependent for their efficiency on microchip or solid state technology, and office equipment based on microchips has become commonplace. Equally, exhibits at IFSSEC '82 — The International Fire, Security and Safety Exhibition and Conference, Olympia, London, 19–23 April, illustrate how important this new technology is in the security, fire prevention and safety industries.
In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of…
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In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.
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The Editor sums up the implications of Information Technology Year 1982
World Economy Forecast for 1982. A slight improvement in the world economy is forecast by Bank of America's World Economic Outlook 1982. Western Europe will recover slowly from…
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World Economy Forecast for 1982. A slight improvement in the world economy is forecast by Bank of America's World Economic Outlook 1982. Western Europe will recover slowly from recession in the second half of the year, according to the bank's economists, while economies of countries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East will be sluggish. A global economic growth rate of 2.4 per cent, compared with 2.0 per cent in 1981, is forecast. With key governments maintaining anti‐inflation, moderate growth policies, economic expansion will be relatively slow at first; however, there will be improvement in real growth after mid‐year as inflation eases. Global inflation will decline from approximately 14 per cent projected for 1981 to about 12 per cent in 1982. World trade is expected to increase by 2.5 per cent.
Clive Bingley, Allan Bunch and Edwin Fleming
TRY THIS for starters in 1982: ‘The concept of the electronic journal is one which involves using a computer to aid the normal procedures whereby an article is written, refereed…
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TRY THIS for starters in 1982: ‘The concept of the electronic journal is one which involves using a computer to aid the normal procedures whereby an article is written, refereed, accepted and published. With the help of suitable software an author may enter a text into a system, and the editor, referees, and ultimately the users, as well as himself, can have access to the text at their computer terminals.’
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the evolution of discerning compassion and how it was used in the Ingrebourne Therapeutic Community.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the evolution of discerning compassion and how it was used in the Ingrebourne Therapeutic Community.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is derived from a PhD thesis which was researched through interviews and archival research. The fundamental finding was that the therapeutic community approach was almost unique in providing a structured approach to implementing discerning compassion.
Practical implication
The therapeutic community approach for discerning compassion, in which the response to distress aims to promote flourishing.
Social implications
This paper offers a model that has implications on how care is delivered in other settings.
Originality/value
There is little literature that explores the role of compassion in therapeutic communities or in care environments of any form. The approach taken here places compassion in a historical and philosophical setting and contrasts it with the kindness expressed in traditional psychiatric care that promoted “tranquility”.
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Clive Bingley, Allan Bunch and Edwin Fleming
STORIES circulating in July that copies of the Touche Ross report into the affairs of the Library Association—distribution of which was initially restricted to members of LA…
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STORIES circulating in July that copies of the Touche Ross report into the affairs of the Library Association—distribution of which was initially restricted to members of LA Council—were to be had in the Charing Cross Road at thirty quid a go proved unfounded when I spent a morning poking about the bookshops there. True, one LA councillor told me that for a fiver he would wave his copy briefly in front of my face so that I could claim to have ‘seen’ it, but I declined on the ground that an aesthetic visual experience would butter no parsnips in this column.