Scott McGregor is President and CEO of Philips Semiconductors, one of the five divisions of Royal Philips Electronics. Philips Semiconductors, based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands…
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Scott McGregor is President and CEO of Philips Semiconductors, one of the five divisions of Royal Philips Electronics. Philips Semiconductors, based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has over 34,000 employees in more than 50 countries. With sales of around €4.6 billion in 2002, Philips Semiconductors is one of the world’s top ten semiconductor suppliers. The division is focused on becoming the leading provider of semiconductor‐based solutions for connected consumer applications. Additionally, it is a volume manufacturer of semiconductors for multi‐market products. In this interview, Mr. McGregor discusses the need for leaders to practice transparent communication, develop their flexibility and take an informed approach to outsourcing.
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Outlines the aims, purposes and contents of the various reference guides to the manuscripts, poems and novels of Sir Walter Scott, to the dramatizations of the novels, to…
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Outlines the aims, purposes and contents of the various reference guides to the manuscripts, poems and novels of Sir Walter Scott, to the dramatizations of the novels, to contemporary and subsequent reviews and critiques of his literary work, and to bibliographical studies.
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Bernard Scott and Abhinav Bansal
The purpose of this paper is to explain some phenomena observed in the acquisition of motor skills: the loss of conscious access to knowledge of the structure of a skill and the…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explain some phenomena observed in the acquisition of motor skills: the loss of conscious access to knowledge of the structure of a skill and the awareness that an error has been made prior to the receipt of knowledge of results. Although there are rich descriptive accounts of skill acquisition in the literature, there are no satisfactory explanatory models of the cognitive processes involved. The paper provides such a model.
Design/methodology/approach
In the 1970s, the first author implemented a computer program model of the cognitive processes involved in learning and skill acquisition, based on a series of empirical investigations. Recently, with assistance from the second author, the model has been reviewed, updated and re-implemented. The paper sets this work in the broader context of a theory of learning and teaching, conversation theory.
Findings
The model provides a constructivist account of skill acquisition and associated phenomena. The model provides theoretical foundations for conversation theory.
Practical implications
The model adds to the understanding of motor skill acquisition and to the understanding of processes of learning and teaching in general.
Originality/value
The model and its interpretation are an original contribution to the skills acquisition literature.
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Philip Scott, Penny Ross and Deborah Prytherch
The objective of this review is to address two research questions: What is evidence‐based best practice for intra‐hospital inpatient handovers? What areas need further research…
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The objective of this review is to address two research questions: What is evidence‐based best practice for intra‐hospital inpatient handovers? What areas need further research? The paper aims to take a particular interest in the interpersonal skills involved in successful handover, theoretically‐based approaches to implementing improvements in handovers, and whether there is sufficient data to construct an evaluation methodology.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper takes the form of a narrative synthesis based on search of PubMed, CINAHL and the Cochrane Library.
Findings
A total of 82 papers, comprising 29 implementation studies, 13 conceptual models or improvement methods, five subject reviews and 35 background papers were identified. None of the studies met the normal parameters of evidence‐based medicine, but this is unsurprising for a complex healthcare service intervention.
Research limitations/implications
Those papers published in English between 2000 and July 2010 that were indexed in CINAHL, Medline or the Cochrane Library or found opportunistically were the only ones to be reviewed. The authors did not search any grey literature or hand‐search any journals.
Practical implications
The evidence is sufficient to justify widespread adoption of the guiding principles for inpatient handover best practice, provided that concurrent evaluation is also undertaken.
Originality/value
This is the first comprehensive review published in the peer‐reviewed literature that examines the evidence base for the practice of inpatient handovers across healthcare professions and specialties.
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PAT SCOTT, ROBERT NORTON and PHILIP WHITEMAN
A while ago The Observer newspaper ran a six week long superquiz, winners to take a trip on the Orient Express. The clues were myriad, infernal and drawn from all disciplines. In…
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A while ago The Observer newspaper ran a six week long superquiz, winners to take a trip on the Orient Express. The clues were myriad, infernal and drawn from all disciplines. In a mad moment I wrote them a letter, which they published, pointing out the reverberations that such competitions have in libraries. No bad thing to publicise the fact that when memory and home reference books fail people resort to us. The letter seemed to strike a chord with many, including NLW who asked for an enlargement on the theme.
Philip Bromiley and Scott Johnson
Good research goes beyond testing the aggregate predictions of a theory to test the theory's underlying mechanism. A mechanism is a plausible account of the process that causes a…
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Good research goes beyond testing the aggregate predictions of a theory to test the theory's underlying mechanism. A mechanism is a plausible account of the process that causes a systematic relationship between variables. Strategy researchers particularly need to understand the mechanisms that drive firm behavior and outcomes because we seek both to explain and offer prescriptions. We recommend that theories clearly specify their mechanisms and that empirical research test such mechanisms. Such tests will help differentiate among theories with similar aggregate predictions.
Melody L. Wollan, Mary F. Sully de Luque and Marko Grunhagen
This paper suggests that motives for engaging in affiliative‐promotive “helping” extra‐role behavior is related to cross‐cultural differences. The cultural dimensions of in‐group…
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This paper suggests that motives for engaging in affiliative‐promotive “helping” extra‐role behavior is related to cross‐cultural differences. The cultural dimensions of in‐group collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, performance orientation, and humane orientation, and their differential effect on helping extra‐role behavior in a diverse workforce are examined. Theoretical implications provide guidance for future empirical research in this area, and provide managers with more realistic expectations of employee performance in the workplace.
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I wish to dispose of an Antiquarian size drawing board with set‐square, for which I have no further use. The board is in good condition, has, of course, pin‐holes, and would be of…
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I wish to dispose of an Antiquarian size drawing board with set‐square, for which I have no further use. The board is in good condition, has, of course, pin‐holes, and would be of great use to architects or engineers, whether practising or studying.
Wai Cheong Shum and Karen H.Y. Wong
Using Japan REITs stock data, this paper examines the risk‐return relations conditional on up and down markets periods. The results show that beta is significantly and positively…
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Using Japan REITs stock data, this paper examines the risk‐return relations conditional on up and down markets periods. The results show that beta is significantly and positively (negatively) related to realized returns in up (down) markets before and after controlling for extra risk factors. The same conditional results are found for unsystematic risk and total risk, providing evidence that investors do not hold well‐diversified portfolios. Though skewness is significantly priced, the coefficients are unexpectedly positive (negative) in up (down) markets, indicating that investors dislike positively skewed portfolios and would ask for compensation if they are required to hold them during up markets. One possible reason is that the investors have a poor concept of skewness and/or they are too aggressive during bullish markets and so they ignore the benefit of positive skewness. Subsidiary results highlight that there is no seasonal effect in the conditional relation between beta/unsystematic risk/total risk/skewness and returns. This study is the first comprehensive study of the risk‐return relations in Japan REITs market, which provides out‐of‐sample evidence relative to earlier tests on Asian and international stock markets. The findings give important insights and provide useful guidance on investing in Japan REITs market.