Imagine the problems involved in feeding two dozen very active people for almost two months on a tropical island, the nearest source of water for drinking and cooking half a mile…
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Imagine the problems involved in feeding two dozen very active people for almost two months on a tropical island, the nearest source of water for drinking and cooking half a mile away and all the cooking to be done on open fires for which wood had to be collected. Add to these problems the difficulties in storing food in a very hot, humid and salty climate. Fortunately the Roatan '84 team managed to overcome all these obstacles and considered themselves very well fed as Terry Hoyle, chief cook on the expedition, reports.
SIMON FRANCIS, P BRADLEY, KENNETH VERNON, TERRY HOUGHTON, TOM FEATHERSTONE, SUE WINKLEY, DON REVILL, DONALD DAVINSON, JOHN HOYLE and RJP CAREY
THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE of the British Library was set up in June 1971 following the acceptance in April 1970 by the government of the recommendations of the Dainton Report on…
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THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE of the British Library was set up in June 1971 following the acceptance in April 1970 by the government of the recommendations of the Dainton Report on the national libraries and the consequent White Paper (Cmnd 4572) in January 1971. The committee is to plan the organisation of the library and develop and co‐ordinate its policy, and is clearly of the greatest importance, not only to the national libraries but to all libraries through the bibliographic and research services the British Library will undertake. What do we know of the work of this committee, which has now been in existence for a year?
Kerry Clamp and Craig Paterson
This chapter explores the role of leadership in restorative policing in England and Wales and the impact of the external criminal justice policy environment on attempts to embed…
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This chapter explores the role of leadership in restorative policing in England and Wales and the impact of the external criminal justice policy environment on attempts to embed restorative approaches into police practice. It is clear that certain aspects of restorative justice chime with long-standing values in police culture, not least the emphasis on common-sense decision-making and the removal of unnecessary bureaucracy advocated by a focus on informal resolution. Yet, we argue that restorative policing cannot work where these ideas are placed solely in individual programmes. Instead, a clear vision needs to be articulated by police leaders with subsequent programmes being built around this overarching philosophy of ‘restorative policing’ that encourages leadership to ‘bubble up’ from below.
PROPORTIONATELY, that is to say by percentage, salaries for managers are showing what the British Institute of Management describes as a “disquieting” trend when compared to…
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PROPORTIONATELY, that is to say by percentage, salaries for managers are showing what the British Institute of Management describes as a “disquieting” trend when compared to earnings by production workers. While last year pay for the latter rose by 7.7 per cent, that of managers went up by only 7.2 per cent.
Dmitriy Nesterkin and Tobin Porterfield
This research aims to investigate how team support and cohesion channel the effects of relationship conflict and its management on team productivity.
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Purpose
This research aims to investigate how team support and cohesion channel the effects of relationship conflict and its management on team productivity.
Design/methodology/approach
Questionnaire data were sampled from students working in groups to design software systems for companies. Structural equation methodology was used to estimate the proposed model.
Findings
The results indicate that the mediators (team support and cohesion) positively affect each other and team performance. The results support that the effects of conflict and conflict management on team performance are mediated by team support first and then indirectly through team cohesion.
Research limitations/implications
This paper empirically establishes the mechanisms through which conflict and its management affect team performance. The following limitations should be considered when generalizing the results of the study: team-level phenomena were assessed using perceived measures of individual team members and an academic setting was used for data collection.
Practical implications
The findings indicate that team support plays an important role in protecting the team from the negative effects of conflict and that team support contributes to the development of team cohesion.
Originality/value
This work is one of the first to evaluate the mechanisms of team support and cohesion through which team conflict and its management affect team performance.
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This article reviews the state of the art in automatic indexing, that is, automatic techniques for analysing and characterising documents, for manipulating their descriptions in…
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This article reviews the state of the art in automatic indexing, that is, automatic techniques for analysing and characterising documents, for manipulating their descriptions in searching, and for generating the index language used for these purposes. It concentrates on the literature from 1968 to 1973. Section I defines the topic and its context. Sections II and III consider work in syntax and semantics respectively in detail. Section IV comments on ‘indirect’ indexing. Section V briefly surveys operating mechanized systems. In Section VI major experiments in automatic indexing are reviewed, and Section VII attempts an overall conclusion on the current state of automatic indexing techniques.