scholarly journals Middle level principals' perceptions of the adolescent literacy crisis : a qualitative study

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doretta K. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Adolescent Literacy ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Literacy Crisis ◽  
Principals Perceptions

Qualitative study of challenges and strategies of Indian IT organizations toward global branding

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 708-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keshab Ray ◽  
Meenakshi Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Brand Strength ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Branding ◽  
It Organizations ◽  
The Impact

Purpose There is a lacuna in research work in terms of understanding how Indian IT organizations can become global brands. Benchmarking has not received much attention in marketing literature due to lack of benchmarking framework, and IT organizations are yet to make progress in benchmarking. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of brand strength on global branding by developing a conceptual benchmarking framework for Indian IT organizations. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured in-depth interviews are conducted with thirty middle-level managers from two Indian IT organizations, two US-based global IT organizations and one UK-based leading bank, which is a customer of these IT organizations. Findings Results show a positive relationship between brand strength and global branding, between customer loyalty and global branding, between brand loyalty and competitive advantage and between global branding and competitive advantage. Indian IT organizations can benchmark global IT organizations to improve delivering brand promise, positioning, awareness building and authenticity toward making Indian IT organizations future ready to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud and digital. Practical implications This research helps managers with a brand strength-based benchmarking framework toward global branding of Indian IT organizations. Social implications IT is instrumental for rapid growth of Indian’s economy. India should optimally utilize its greatest wealth, its human potential, with the latent global demand in IT through building global IT brands. Originality/value The originality of the study lies in conducting a qualitative study on global branding of Indian IT organizations and also proposing a conceptual benchmarking framework. The study further validates the model using qualitative analysis.

Adolescent Literacy: Putting the Crisis in Context

2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
VICKI JACOBS
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Adolescent Literacy ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Primary Grade ◽  
Reading Specialists ◽  
Literacy Achievement ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Literacy Crisis ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Continuum

In this article, Vicki Jacobs argues that as the nation strives to improve the literacy achievement of U.S. adolescents, educators must reframe the current "crisis" as a critical point on a continuum of historical efforts to address the particular challenges of postprimary-grade reading. Specifically, Jacobs examines the definition of adolescent literacy in the context of reading stages, which explain the contiguous and continuous relationship between primary-grade and later reading. She also discusses how historical relationships between skill and process instruction and between reading specialists and content-area faculty have contributed to the issues we face at this particular point on the continuum. Jacobs concludes by highlighting the opportunities ahead for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who are positioned to respond to the adolescent literacy crisis and improve adolescent literacy achievement.

scholarly journals Utøvelse av ledelse i kommunale sykehjem – handlingsrommets betydning

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-153
Author(s):  
Bente Lilljan Lind Kassah ◽  
Hilde Nordahl-Pedersen ◽  
Wivi-Ann Tingvoll1
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Worker Attitudes ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Leaders of municipal nursing homes face challenges when they seek to secure a balance between the quality demands of authorities and the services they provide. In this chapter, we present a qualitative study on the leadership challenges in the municipal nursing homes. The aim is to develop knowledge on leadership challenges and the managerial discretions leaders employ to address the challenges. We interviewed seven middle-level leaders in five nursing homes in three medium-sized Norwegian municipalities using semi-structured interviews. The study revealed challenges connected to temporal nursing home placements made permanent, the time-consuming nature of the search for substitute workers, and the need to improve worker attitudes towards substitute workers’ experience-based knowledge. Attitude change is necessary because different forms of knowledge have different statuses in the nursing homes. The study shows that the leaders seek to meet the challenges connected to nursing home placements by establishing teams of professionals, while they try to persuade the Specialist Health Services to take over the responsibilities for the patients in transition. To meet the substitute worker challenge, the leaders use subjective managerial discretions to develop different strategies, including establishing substitute worker bases, substitute worker lists and delegation of substitute worker search. The leaders promote attitude change by stressing the importance of the substitute workers’ experience-based knowledge in both formal and informal contexts and implementing concrete competence measures. The study indicates that leaders who use subjective managerial discretions save time that they employ to create a balance between different leadership functions. The use of managerial discretions by leaders may affect the learning and organizational changes in nursing homes.

scholarly journals Response to the Bam Earthquake: A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of the Top and Middle Level Health Managers in Kerman, Iran

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Moosazadeh ◽  
Farzaneh Zolala ◽  
Khodadad Sheikhzadeh ◽  
Saeid Safiri ◽  
Mohammadreza Amiresmaili
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Bam Earthquake ◽  
Interview Methodology ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Health Managers

AbstractIntroductionThe 2003 Bam, Iran earthquake resulted in high casualties and required international and national assistance. This study explored local top and middle level managers’ disaster relief experiences in the aftermath of the Bam earthquake.MethodsUsing qualitative interview methodology, top and middle level health managers employed during the Bam earthquake were identified. Data were collected via in-depth interviews with participants. Data were analysed using thematic analysis.ResultsResults showed that the managers interviewed experienced two main problems. First, inadequacy of preparation of local health organisations, which was due to lack of familiarity of the needs, unavailability of essential needs, and also increasing demands, which were above the participants’ expectations. Second, inappropriateness of delivered donations was perceived as a problem; for example, foods and sanitary materials were either poor quality or expired by date recommended for use. Participants also found international teams to be more well-equipped and organised.ConclusionsDuring the disaster relief period of the response to the Bam earthquake, local health organizations were ill prepared for the event. In addition, donations delivered for relief were often poor quality or expired beyond a usable date.MoosazadehM,ZolalaF,SheikhzadehK,SafiriS,AmiresmailiM.Response to the Bam earthquake: a qualitative study on the experiences of the top and middle level health managers in Kerman, Iran.Prehosp Disaster Med.2014;29(4):1-4.

The Ontario Quandary: Principals’ Perceptions of Accountability Policy and Social Justice

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mixed Emotions ◽  
Accountability Policy ◽  
Principals Perceptions

This qualitative study examines how accountability policies impact school principals’ social justice commitment. The study involved semi-structured interviews with twenty-two Ontario principals. Findings show that principals responded to the accountability policies with strikingly mixed emotions. Some grudgingly accepted the mandates and reluctantly sought to accommodate directives in their agenda. Some critiqued the reforms by highlighting the inequities and drawbacks in the performance-based tests. Others showed significant resistance to the reform and strategically used their power to navigate toward what they felt was best for their students. Such mixed sentiments among principals revealed a deeper struggle among them in navigating the system.

Qualitative study on “hydropic degeneration” of The hepatocytes in viral hepatitis

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 568-569
Author(s):  
Le Meizhao ◽  
Ye Ming ◽  
Song Xiaoming ◽  
Xu Jiazhang
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Viral Hepatitis ◽  
Chronic Active Hepatitis ◽  
Microscopic Observation ◽  
Hydropic Degeneration ◽  
Light Microscopic Observation ◽  
Biopsy Specimens ◽  
Endoplasm Reticulum ◽  
Mixed Fluid ◽  
Peripheral Cytoplasm

“Hydropic degeneration” of the hepatocytes are often found in biopsy of the liver of some kinds of viral hepatitis. Light microscopic observation, compareted with the normal hepatocytes, they are enlarged, sometimes to a marked degree when the term “balloning” degeneration is used. Their cytoplasm rarefied, and show some clearness in the peripheral cytoplasm, so, it causes a hydropic appearance, the cytoplasm around the nuclei is granulated. Up to the present, many studies belive that main ultrastructural chenges of hydropic degeneration of the hepatocytes are results of the RER cristae dilatation with degranulation and disappearance of glycogen granules.The specimens of this study are fixed with the mixed fluid of the osmium acidpotassium of ferricyanide, Epon-812 embed. We have observed 21 cases of biopsy specimens with chronic severe hepatitis and severe chronic active hepatitis, and found that the clear fields in the cytoplasm actually are a accumulating place of massive glycogen. The granules around the nuclei are converging mitochondria, endoplasm reticulum and other organelles.

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