Mind the differences between mission statements, vision statements

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (S2) ◽  
pp. 2-2
Keyword(s):  
Mission Statements ◽  
Vision Statements

scholarly journals Learning from Ontario’s municipal drug strategies: an implementation framework for reducing harm through coordinated prevention, enforcement, treatment, and housing

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Anthony Piscitelli
Keyword(s):  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Canadian Province ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Vision Statements

Since 2001, when Vancouver completed its integrated drug strategy, other Canadian municipalities have begun to explore their role in addressing addictions issues. This article reviews reports from ten municipal drug strategies written in the Canadian province of Ontario to develop recommendations for practitioners wishing to implement their own drug strategy. Note that this paper’s focus is on implementation, and it does not seek to evaluate the underlying clinical practices involved in such strategies. All published reports from 10 municipal drug strategies in Ontario released between 2005 and 2015 were read and analyzed using thematic analysis. Similarities are found between the different strategies approaches to data gathering, the vision statements, the mission statements, and the principles of service. Each municipality was also found to focus on four pillars: prevention, treatment, enforcement, and harm reduction. Some municipalities added an additional pillar: integration, sustaining relationships, or housing. These pillars were used to frame the strategies recommendations. Ten questions for municipalities to consider in their own drug strategy consultations are recommended.

Understanding the Priorities of Australian Secondary Schools Through an Analysis of Their Mission and Vision Statements

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly-Ann Allen ◽  
Margaret L. Kern ◽  
Dianne Vella-Brodrick ◽  
Lea Waters
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Belonging ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Stratified Sample

Purpose: The vision or mission statement of a school outlines the school’s purpose and defines the context, goals, and aspirations that govern the institution. Using vision and mission statements, the present descriptive research study investigated trends in Australian secondary schools’ priorities. Research Methods: A stratified sample of secondary school vision and mission statements across 308 schools from government, independent, and Catholic sectors in Victoria, Australia, was analyzed using qualitative and quantitative approaches. Findings: Academic achievement was the most common theme, with school belonging and mental health promotion themes cited by over half of the schools. School belonging was emphasized more often by Catholic schools compared with independent and government schools, and by rural schools compared with urban schools. Implications: Australian schools are seemingly adopting a dual purpose: to be academic institutions and well-being enhancing institutions. Understanding the priorities of schools using vision and mission statements may guide researchers, administrators, and teachers about how to better meet the academic and psychological needs of the students. The priorities of schools also have implications for how research in this area is communicated to schools, and this study provides a method for capturing these priorities.

The Power of Language in Defining and Developing Teams

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Tony Whitley
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Church Leadership ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Christian Leadership ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Performance Research ◽  
Insight Into

Christian leadership resources focus on the alignment of individual efforts toward shared goals, attempting to capitalize on the proven benefits of “team” performance. Research in social psychology highlights the emotional impact of language in the crafting of mission and vision statements, which could lead to the success or failure of alignment efforts. This article assimilates research from social psychologists with existing team and organizational theory and distills the principles into usable material for church leadership. The review and assimilation of new data validate the known values of “team,” while offering insight into the development of goals and the crafting of vision and mission statements.

Analysis of the Vision and Mission Statements in the Websites

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Muammer Bezirgan
Keyword(s):  
Mission Statement ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Market Area ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Vision Statement ◽  
The Future

The purpose of the present study is to analyze the website-declared vision and mission statements of 149 five-star hotels in the largest cities of Turkey, Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, based on certain criteria. The outcomes of the research indicated that only 24% of the hotels had a mission statement and 21% had a vision statement. Hotels with the least number of statements were those in Istanbul (17%). It was determined that hotels provided highly limited information on the product/market area component in their mission statements (19%). Moreover, it was determined that although hotels fully reflected their basic ideology in vision statements, almost half of them (48%) failed to place an emphasis on the future in their statements.

scholarly journals Focus of societal responsibility in the vision and mission statements of the United States pharmacy schools/ colleges

2021 ◽  
pp. 477-486
Author(s):  
Mohammed A. Islam ◽  
Suhui Yang ◽  
Radhika V. Kumar ◽  
Arjun Dutta ◽  
Rahmat M. Talukder
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Societal Responsibility

Objective: To assess the prevalence of societal responsibility languages and themes on education, research, and professional service in pharmacy programmes’ vision and mission statements. Methods: The authors collected the vision and mission statements of 142 pharmacy programmes by visiting each programme’s website. The statements were compiled and uploaded in NVivo 12. Deductive qualitative analysis and a topic extraction method with embedded principal component analysis (WordStat 8) were used to identify thematic dimensions of the statements. The number of programmes citing the respective themes were recorded. A Chi-square test was used to statistically analyse the prevalence of themes between the programme categories. Results: Education, research, professional practice, and societal service emerged as prominent themes. The prevalence of research, professional practice, and leadership themes was significantly higher in the vision statements of public programmes than private programmes. In the mission statements, the citation of a research theme was significantly higher in public programmes than private programmes. The citations of serving the diverse population and underserved population were very limited in the vision (6% and 5%) and mission statements (11% and 6%). Topic analysis conformed to the identified prominent themes and lack of societal responsibility theme in the mission statements. Conclusions: The prominent themes included education, research, and professional service to society at large. There is a distinctive lack of citations of societal responsibility towards underserved populations in the vision and mission statements.

scholarly journals The Study of Generic Patterns of Mission and Vision Statements of the Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Naveed Nawaz Ahmad ◽  
Farzana Masroor
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
University Websites ◽  
Rhetorical Patterns ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The World ◽  
Rhetorical Structures ◽  
The University

Due to the significance of mission and vision statements (MS and VS) in academia across the world, this study aims at analysing generic patterns of MS and VS of universities from four different countries:  two belonging to the native users of English language (UK and US) and the other two from non-native contexts (Pakistan and India). The purpose of the study is to investigate the rhetorical patterns in vision and mission statements to uncover structures used to establish universities’ global outreach and competitiveness in research and teaching. The data was collected from university websites and analysed through genre-based approach of Move Analysis introduced by Swales (2004) and applied on promotional genres by Bhatia (2004). The overall rhetorical structures of vision and Mission statements comprised of three moves with each move realized through further steps. The findings revealed that text of MS and VS provides the information about the university with an intended purpose of attracting the students by declaring the values, aims, obligations and strategic plans alongside establishing the aspects of global outreach and status in education and research as well as enriching the society and facilitating the individuals with the provision of best resources.

scholarly journals Debunking the Myths of Vision and Mission Statements: A Content Analysis of FT Ranked Top 100 Business Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 03015
Author(s):  
Kamran Ahmed Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The World ◽  
Major Data

The purpose of this paper is to answer seven famous myths about vision and mission statements by analysing the vision and mission statements of FT Ranked Top 100 Business Schools in the world. First myth states that all business schools have both vision and mission statements. Second myth says both mission and vision statements are equal in length. Third myth states that all nine components must be present in all mission statements. Fourth myth assumes faculty is the hallmark of business school’s mission. Fifth myth states technology is at the centre stage of business school’s mission. Sixth myth assumes research is not part of business school’s mission. Finally, seventh myth says leadership is no more part of business school’s mission. FT ranking for Top 100 Business Schools was selected for this study and business school’s vision and mission statements were collected from their official websites. Content analysis was used as the major data analysis technique. Data analyses using descriptive statistics proved all seven myths wrong.

Unknown and Under-Researched: The Anatomy of Drinking Under Control Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-288
Author(s):  
Harald Klingemann ◽  
Justyna Klingemann
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Admission Criteria ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Institutional Order

Abstract. Introduction: While alcohol treatment predominantly focuses on abstinence, drug treatment objectives include a variety of outcomes related to consumption and quality of life. Consequently harm reduction programs tackling psychoactive substances are well documented and accepted by practitioners, whereas harm reduction programs tackling alcohol are under-researched and met with resistance. Method: The paper is mainly based on key-person interviews with eight program providers conducted in Switzerland in 2009 and up-dated in 2015, and the analysis of reports and mission statements to establish an inventory and description of drinking under control programs (DUCPs). A recent twin program in Amsterdam and Essen was included to exemplify conditions impeding their implementation. Firstly, a typology based on the type of alcohol management, the provided support and admission criteria is developed, complemented by a detailed description of their functioning in practice. Secondly, the case studies are analyzed in terms of factors promoting and impeding the implementation of DUCPs and efforts of legitimize them and assess their success. Results: Residential and non-residential DUCPs show high diversity and pursue individualized approaches as the detailed case descriptions exemplify. Different modalities of proactively providing and including alcohol consumption are conceptualized in a wider framework of program objectives, including among others, quality of life and harm reduction. Typically DUCPs represent an effort to achieve public or institutional order. Their implementation and success are contingent upon their location, media response, type of alcohol management and the response of other substance-oriented stake holders in the treatment system. The legitimization of DUCPs is hampered by the lack of evaluation studies. DUCPs rely mostly – also because of limited resources – on rudimentary self-evaluations and attribute little importance to data collection exercises. Conclusions: Challenges for participants are underestimated and standard evaluation methodologies tend to be incompatible with the rationale and operational objectives of DUCPs. Program-sensitive multimethod approaches enabled by sufficient financing for monitoring and accompanying research is needed to improve the practice-oriented implementation of DUCPs. Barriers for these programs include assumptions that ‘alcohol-assisted’ help abandons hope for recovery and community response to DUCPs as locally unwanted institutions (‘not in my backyard’) fuelled by stigmatization.

A Unifying Principle for a Researcher Learning Safety: Reduce Uncertainty!

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Kao ◽  
Russell Furr
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Physical And Chemical

Conveying safety information to researchers is challenging. A list of rules and best practices often is not remembered thoroughly even by individuals who want to remember everything. Researchers in science thinking according to principles: mathematical, physical, and chemical laws; biological paradigms. They use frameworks and logic, rather than memorization, to achieve the bulk of their work. Can safety be taught to researchers in a manner that matches with how they are trained to think? Is there a principle more defined than "Think safety!" that can help researchers make good decisions in situations that are complex, new, and demanding?<div><br></div><div>Effective trainings in other professions can arise from the use of a mission statement that participants internalize as a mental framework or model for future decision-making. We propose that mission statements incorporating the concept of <b>reducing uncertainty</b> could provide such a framework for learning safety. This essay briefly explains the definition of <b>uncertainty</b> in the context of health and safety, discusses the need for an individual to <b>personalize</b> a mission statement in order to internalize it, and connects the idea of <b>greater control</b> over a situation with less uncertainty with respect to safety. The principle of reducing uncertainty might also help <b>non-researchers</b> think about safety. People from all walks of life should be able to understand that more control over their situations provides more protection for them, their colleagues, and the environment.</div>

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