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Publication date: 26 July 2023

Heather A. Ranson, Christian D. Van Buskirk and Richard D. Cotton

Team teaching in higher education requires a great deal of coordination and commitment from both the professors teaching together, as well as administrators coordinating courses…

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Team teaching in higher education requires a great deal of coordination and commitment from both the professors teaching together, as well as administrators coordinating courses. Given the difficulties in logistics, it is not surprising that many teams give up on team teaching after only one or two semesters. The literature and lived experience by the authors verify the benefits that come from team teaching: multiple perspectives on the course material, more than one-course delivery method, greater attention from students used to just one instructor, and a greater level of energy in the room and on-line when more than one presenter shares the lecture time. Team teaching (or co-teaching as it is also referred to), in the Service Management Specialization at the Gustavson School of Business in Victoria, Canada, is sharing a cohort of students across three classes, and while each professor is responsible for separate course topics, each makes the time to integrate topics and share time in the classroom together multiple times during the semester.

The authors have been part of a team delivering curriculum this way for over 20 years, and this chapter examines how the material is organized and delivered to team teaching success. Critical elements include funding to support team teaching, commitment from professors to coordinate together, willingness to share materials, and building bridges from class to class to enable students to follow and integrate learnings. Team teaching has resulted in greater cohesiveness among faculty teaching in the program, higher teaching evaluations than professors experienced in solo teaching, and students who feel better prepared to tackle complex business problems that cross the interdisciplinary boundaries of marketing, operations, and talent management.

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Publication date: 11 April 2016

John H. Humphreys, Milorad M. Novicevic, Mario Hayek, Jane Whitney Gibson, Stephanie S. Pane Haden and Wallace A. Williams, Jr

The purpose of this study is to narratively explore the influence of leader narcissism on leader/follower social exchange. Moreover, while researchers acknowledge that…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to narratively explore the influence of leader narcissism on leader/follower social exchange. Moreover, while researchers acknowledge that narcissistic personality is a dimensional construct, the preponderance of extant literature approaches the concept of narcissistic leadership categorically by focusing on the reactive or constructive narcissistic extremes. This bimodal emphasis ignores self-deceptive forms of narcissistic leadership, where vision orientation and communication could differ from leaders with more reactive or constructive narcissistic personalities.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors argue that they encountered a compelling example of a communal, self-deceiving narcissist during archival research of Robert Owen’s collective experiment at New Harmony, Indiana. To explore Owen’s narcissistic leadership, they utilize an analytically structured history approach to interpret his leadership, as he conveyed his vision of social reform in America.

Findings

Approaching data from a ‘history to theory’ perspective and via a communicative lens, the authors use insights from their abductive analysis to advance a cross-paradigm, communication-centered process model of narcissistic leadership that accounts for the full dimensional nature of leader narcissism and the relational aspects of narcissistic leadership.

Research limitations/implications

Scholars maintaining a positivist stance might consider this method a limitation, as historical case-based research places greater emphasis on reflexivity than replication. However, from a constructionist perspective, a focus on generalization might be considered inappropriate or premature, potentially hampering the revelation of insights.

Originality/value

Through a multi-paradigmatic analysis of the historical case of Robert Owen and his visionary communal experiment at New Harmony, the authors contribute to the extant literature by elaborating a comprehensive, dimensional and relational process framework of narcissistic leadership. In doing so, the authors have heeded calls to better delineate leader narcissism, embrace process and relational aspects of leadership and consider leader communication as constitutive of leadership.

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Journal of Management History, vol. 22 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1751-1348

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Publication date: 1 April 2001

DAYNE MAY, OWEN WILSON and MARTIN SKITMORE

The nature, status and role of bid cutting in construction bidding are examined from economic, legal, ethical and management perspectives. Some possible means of countering its…

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The nature, status and role of bid cutting in construction bidding are examined from economic, legal, ethical and management perspectives. Some possible means of countering its negative effects are considered including prohibition by legislation, the use of bid depositories, earlier formalization of subcontracts, withdrawal of subcontract prices and through alternative procurement methods. An empirical survey of bid cutting practice is described involving a sample of main contractors (MCs) and subcontractors (SCs) in Southeast Queensland. The practice of bid cutting was found to be widespread. All the MCs considered the practice to be ethical and all the SCs considered it to be unethical. In some cases, MCs awarded contracts elsewhere, even after telling SCs they had the job. Most of the SCs had tried individually to counteract bid cutting but were unable to continue this while others were complying with MC bid cutting attempts. SC bid withdrawals are very rare and litigation is never applied by either MCs or SCs. Mainly as a result of incomplete project documentation, MCs disliked the idea of making the subcontract binding at the time of main contract bid subject to its success, although it was generally recognized that it would reduce bid cutting by the MC‐a view that was also shared by half the SCs. Most respondents thought the construction management procurement option might reduce bid cutting but none had sufficient direct experience to be sure.

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Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, vol. 8 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0969-9988

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Publication date: 2 January 2009

Adnan Ibrahimbegovic, Guillaume Hervé and Pierre Villon

The purpose of this paper is to provide the methodology for structural design of complex massive structures under impact by a large airplane.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide the methodology for structural design of complex massive structures under impact by a large airplane.

Design/methodology/approach

Using case studies, the issues related to multi‐scale modelling of inelastic damage mechanisms for massive structures are discussed, as well as the issues pertaining to the time integration schemes in presence of different scales in time variation of different sub‐problems, brought by a particular nature of loading with a very short duration) and finally the issues related to model reduction seeking to provide an efficient and yet sufficiently reliable basis for parametric studies which are an indispensable part of a design procedure.

Findings

Several numerical simulations are presented in order to further illustrate the approaches proposed herein. Concluding remarks are stated regarding the current and future research in this domain.

Originality/value

Proposed design procedure for complex massive engineering structures under impact by a large airplane provides on one side a very reliable representation of inelastic damage mechanisms and external loading represented by the solution of the corresponding contact/impact problem, and on the other side a very efficient basis obtained by model reduction for performing the parametric design studies.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 26 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Publication date: 19 January 2022

Kushal Sharma, Sanjay Kumar and Neha Vijay

In this paper the effects of viscous dissipation and ohmic heating on the fluid flow and resulting heat and mass transfer caused by vertically moving rotating disk are explored…

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In this paper the effects of viscous dissipation and ohmic heating on the fluid flow and resulting heat and mass transfer caused by vertically moving rotating disk are explored with magnetic field acting perpendicular to disk rotation. The flow regime is also under the influence of Dufour and Soret effects.

Design/methodology/approach

An approach of similarity transformation is used to transform the governing set of equations into non-linear ordinary differential equations. Numerical simulations are carried out in Maple software to study the influence of incorporated non-dimensional parameters viz. disk movement parameter (−0.3 < S < 0.2), magnetic parameter (0.1 < M < 0.4), Eckert number (0.1 < Ec < 1), Schmidt number (0.1 < Sc < 1), Soret parameter (0.1 < Sr < 1) and Dufour number (0.1 < Du < 1) on velocity, temperature and concentration profiles.

Findings

The upward/downward motion of the disk along with rotation set up a three-dimensional flow over the disk surface and exerts the same effects as injection/suction through the wall. It is also observed that incorporated parameters along with disk movement greatly affect the flow regime and associated heat and mass transfer.

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The present study examines the heat and mass transfer characteristics of incompressible Newtonian fluid over an impermeable rotating disk moving vertically. The effect of viscous dissipation and ohmic heating is considered. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, such consideration is yet to be published in the literature.

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Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures, vol. 18 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1573-6105

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Publication date: 1 April 1967

EUROCONTROL Mr J. P. W. Mallalicu, M.P., who succeeded Mr Roy Mason, M.P., as Minister of State, Board of Trade, has assumed the office of President of the Permanent Commission of…

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EUROCONTROL Mr J. P. W. Mallalicu, M.P., who succeeded Mr Roy Mason, M.P., as Minister of State, Board of Trade, has assumed the office of President of the Permanent Commission of Ministers of the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL) previously held by Mr Mason.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 39 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 30 December 2004

Peter J. Hutchings

The Siege opens with news footage of the bombing of military dormitory barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (on June 25, 1996). Whatever the genesis of the screenplay may have been…

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The Siege opens with news footage of the bombing of military dormitory barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (on June 25, 1996). Whatever the genesis of the screenplay may have been, the release of a film some two years after the actual event which inspired some of its story is remarkably quick by Hollywood standards (where the average development time of any project is three years). An interesting film on its initial release, it now screens like a premonition, or a blueprint. The fictional alleged perpetrator of the bombing – which was actually the work of Al Qaeda – Ahmed bin Talal is secretly kidnapped by U.S. forces, and taken to the U.S. The drama which then unfolds involves the operations of a network of terrorist cells – all trained by the CIA to destabilize Saddam Hussein – demanding bin Talal’s release through an escalating series of bombings in New York City culminating in the destruction of One Federal Plaza, the imposition of martial law in Brooklyn, and the detention of all Arab-American adult males in makeshift camps set up in sports stadiums.

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Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-84950-304-4

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Publication date: 25 January 2023

David Lester

The purpose of this study is to examine why an attempt at suicide does not always indicate the beginning of a life with poor mental health.

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to examine why an attempt at suicide does not always indicate the beginning of a life with poor mental health.

Design/methodology/approach

Case studies, supplemented by follow-up studies of attempted suicides.

Findings

One of the strongest predictors of a healthy life after the suicide attempt was found to be improvement in the appropriateness of behavior toward others and improved adult functioning.

Originality/value

The results suggest that behavioral coaching, in addition to traditional psychiatric treatment, could help attempted suicides move on with their lives productively.

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Mental Health and Social Inclusion, vol. 28 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2042-8308

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Publication date: 12 November 2018

Rebecca J. Morris

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The CASE Journal, vol. 14 no. 6
Type: Case Study
ISSN: 1544-9106

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Publication date: 26 April 2013

Accart Jean-Philippe

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 30 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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