BACKGROUND Academic emergency physicians are driven to become master clinicians while honing their skills in mission areas such as education, research and administration. Many faculty members try to pursue the triple threat of education, service and research; however, excellence in all three areas is difficult to achieve. The first step to excelling in the education domain is to clearly define ...

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has initiated the Small Science Satellite (SCISAT) Program as a part of their ongoing space science program. The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) Mission from the University of Waterloo has been selected as the first SCISAT Mission, and will be launched in Q1, 2002 on board a Pegasus XL vehicle. The ACE spacecraft will be co-manifested on the Pegasus vehicl...

Many organizations have been using teams as a means of achieving organizational outcomes (such as productivity and safety). Research has indicated that teams, especially those operating in complex environments, are not always effective. There is a subset of organizations in which teams operate that are able to balance effectiveness and safety despite the complexities of the environment (for exa...

Many organizations have been using teams as a means of achieving organizational outcomes (such as productivity and safety). Research has indicated that teams, especially those operating in complex environments, are not always effective. There is a subset of organizations in which teams operate that are able to balance effectiveness and safety despite the complexities of the environment (for exa...

As a new type of organization, non-profit organizations have proposed new requirements on leadership practice and development of theory. There are three inadaptations existing in the traditional organization and leadership pattern to the internal leadership of non-profit organization, namely, inadaptation to changes of relationship between leaders and followers, inadaptation to uncertainty of d...

Healthcare organizations are under siege by cybercriminals with the intent to do harm and extort money from their victims. The profile of cybercriminals has evolved from "script kiddies" and rogue individuals who wanted to see how far they can infiltrate a company's IT infrastructure to a more sophisticated, well-funded, and organized effort backed by syndicated crime rings and nation-states mo...

In dealing with ethical issues, non-profit managers are often faced with dilemmas that defy a simple choice between right and wrong. When there is no obvious way of prioritizing responsibility, and no precedent to emulate, resolution of such dilemmas demands careful consideration of stakeholder expectations when looking at the ethical options, so that decisions satisfy not only the immediate pr...

The events of September 11, 2001, have raised troubling questions regarding the reliability and security of American commercial air travel. This article applies the concepts and logic of highreliability organizations to airport security operations. Contemporary decision theory is built on the logic of limited or buffered rationability and is based on the study of error-tolerant organizations. T...