Working Alone: What Ever Happened to the Idea of Organizations as Communities

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Keyword(s):  
Working Alone

Education for What?

1973 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
J. McMaster
Keyword(s):  
Small Schools ◽  
Small School ◽  
Special Situation ◽  
The People ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Multiple Cultures ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Working Alone ◽  
Successes And Failures

Let me first explain my situation. All the people in Duchess are involved in some way or another with the Queensland Railways. Duchess is a railway town, supported by the Queensland Railways and existing only because of them. The majority of settlers are Islanders, with a few Aboriginals. These people live harmoniously side by side. All the fathers have jobs. The children thus have the necessary monetary backing to encourage development. These people are not poor, though their conditions may indicate otherwise. All the children are clothed reasonably well, and fed reasonably well. Most of the children are scrupulously clean.It is wise to keep in mind the fact that regardless of what my successes and failures are, each one of us has a special situation, which differs vastly from everyone else’s. It is therefore necessary for us to be continually trying, adapting, and changing, in order to achieve any measure of success.In the small school, the teacher is faced with a number of problems which perhaps appear unique or magnified by virtue of the fact that he is on his own. Multiple grades, voluminous workloads multiple cultures, remoteness and lack of finance are amongst the greatest problems facing me personally, and no doubt many of you at present. But the small school also offers unique opportunities to teachers to experiment and implement new ideas and methods. The relative freedom of working alone offers unlimited scope for development in every field. Numbers are fewer, and parental contact is more practical and rewarding. In every field our freedom to work is limited only by our capacity. I believe that the small schools are more effective amongst these people, simply by virtue of the fact that contact and discussions with both parents and children are more intimate, and therefore more successful. Of course, initially they are shy, but eventually we can reach them, and once their confidence is gained, they will make every attempt to help us. This is a big advantage to have, and very necessary if any program is to achieve success.

Personal safety when working alone

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 15-15
Author(s):  
Erin Dean
Keyword(s):  
Personal Safety ◽  
Working Alone

Redundant Automation Monitoring: Four Eyes Don’t See More Than Two, if Everyone Turns a Blind Eye

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (7) ◽  
pp. 902-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietlind Helene Cymek
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Failure Detection ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Social Loafing ◽  
Expected Gain ◽  
Individual Feedback ◽  
Monitoring Behavior ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Working Alone

Background: In safety-critical and highly automated environments, more than one person typically monitors the system in order to increase reliability. Objective: We investigate whether the anticipated advantage of redundant automation monitoring is lost due to social loafing and whether individual performance feedback can mitigate this effect. Method: In two experiments, participants worked on a multitasking paradigm in which one task was the monitoring and cross-checking of an automation. Participants worked either alone or with a team partner on this task. The redundant group was further subdivided. One subgroup was instructed that only team performance would be evaluated, whereas the other subgroup expected to receive individual performance feedback after the experiment. Results: Compared to participants working alone, those who worked collectively but did not expect individual feedback performed significantly less cross-checks and found 25% fewer automation failures. Due to this social loafing effect, even the combined team performance did not surpass the performance of participants working alone. However, when participants expected individual performance feedback, their monitoring behavior and failure detection performance was similar to participants working alone and a team advantage became apparent. Conclusion: Social loafing in redundant automation monitoring can negate the expected gain, if individual performance feedback is not provided. Application: These findings may motivate safety experts to evaluate whether their implementation of human redundancy is vulnerable to social loafing effects.

scholarly journals Supervision for work with overdose and deliberate self harm patients — a psychodynamic approach

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 681-682
Author(s):  
Emily Finch ◽  
Rosalind Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Psychodynamic Approach ◽  
Deliberate Self Harm ◽  
The Face ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Working Alone

The anxiety of staff working alone with overdose and deliberate self harm patients can be high, and demands more recognition. In assessing and treating such patients, staff often feel that they are being required to take responsibility for someone's future in the face of an enactment of extreme despair. This article looks at one way to deal with such anxiety.

Working alone and working with others: implications for the malthusian era

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kartik Ahuja ◽  
Mihaela van der Schaar ◽  
William R. Zame
Keyword(s):  
Working Alone

Personal safety when working alone

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 10-10
Author(s):  
Erin Dean
Keyword(s):  
Personal Safety ◽  
Working Alone

A STUDY ON RESEARCH PERFORMANCE IN JAPANESE UNIVERSITIES: WHICH IS MORE EFFICIENT — A PROFESSOR WHO IS LEADING HIS RESEARCH GROUP OR ONE WHO IS WORKING ALONE? THE MULTI-AGENT SIMULATION KNOWS

2003 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 375-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUN TANIMOTO ◽  
HARUYUKI FUJII
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Coupling Model ◽  
Simulation Technique ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Artificial Society ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Agent Simulation ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Working Alone

In recent years, we have been interested in the up-and-down prospects of academic societies, including both universities and academies. We have developed a University-Academy Coupling Model, which is built on the multi-agent simulation technique. In the artificial society, there exist both funding and "research seeds" that are requisite simultaneously for researchers to survive. The "seed" means a clue, source or new topic for his research activity. This paper focuses on how different efficiencies are observed in different types of organizing processes or personnel systems for research activity in universities.

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